[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 209 (Thursday, December 21, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1754]
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                        HONORING DR. ROBERT GUNN

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                           HON. BETO O'ROURKE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 21, 2017

  Mr. O'ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to congratulate my friend, 
Dr. Robert Gunn, for being awarded a National Endowment for the 
Humanities Award for Faculty for his work on American Horologics. 
Literature, Timekeeping, and the Production of Space in Early Western 
North America.
  Though it will be above my level of comprehension, given Dr. Gunn's 
past work and the success it has achieved, I am confident that this 
will be an important addition to the study of North America and the 
indigenous cultures of the American West.
  Dr. Gunn's work at the University of Texas at El Paso has helped to 
distinguish UTEP and the larger El Paso-Juarez community. It has helped 
to deepen and expand our insight of the people of North America, and it 
has contributed to a richer understanding of America and the American 
West.
  I am extraordinarily fortunate to represent Dr. Gunn in Congress and 
to have the opportunity to congratulate him for this high achievement. 
Even better, I have the pleasure of calling him a friend and personally 
bearing witness to his kindness, wit, wisdom and the inspiration he 
takes from, and love he gives to, his beautiful children, Frances and 
Henry, and his wife Jonna, incredibly accomplished in her own right as 
the Director of the English Education Program at UTEP.
  We are lucky to have Dr. Gunn in El Paso, lucky to count him and his 
family as friends, lucky that he has contributed his outsized talent 
and drive to a better understanding of who we are.
  Congratulations Robert.

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