[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 76 (Thursday, May 10, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2619]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO CATHERINE TINSLEY PEEL

 Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I commend Catherine Tinsley 
Peel, the Holmes County Teacher of the Year from Ponce de Leon 
Elementary School in Ponce de Leon, FL.
  After Catherine won the Teacher of the Year award, she noted that, 
when new challenges arise daily in the educational field, she 
approaches them with excitement and suspense. She has a passion to help 
students in her hometown to become the best academically and socially.
  Knowing she can help students inspired her to become a teacher, and 
each time she receives a handwritten note, card, or illustration saying 
they appreciate her, she considered it proof that she is doing her job 
correctly. While teaching requires many demands, she would not trade it 
for anything because she gets to make a difference in children's daily 
lives.
  Catherine is a fourth grade teacher at Ponce de Leon Elementary 
school. She is a Ponce de Leon High School alumni who has taught first 
and third grades, but has now found her home teaching fourth grade.
  I congratulate Catherine for her hard work and commitment to teaching 
her students. I express my best wishes to her and look forward to 
hearing of her future endeavors.

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