[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 179 (Tuesday, November 13, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1509]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               RETIREMENT OF DR. FRANCIS J. BONNER, Ph.D.

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                           HON. ANN M. KUSTER

                            of new hampshire

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 13, 2018

  Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank Dr. 
Francis Bonner of Nashua, New Hampshire, for his forty-six years in 
education and enriching the minds of his students. Dr. Bonner has 
served as a professor and advisor for the last thirty-one years at the 
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he begins an emeritus 
faculty position this month.
  Dr. Bonner was born in Wilmington, Delaware and received his 
education from the city's Catholic schools. He remains an active 
alumnus of the Salesianum School, from which he graduated in 1951. He 
earned a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1955 from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master's of Science in 
Chemical Engineering Practice in 1956. He went on to earn a Doctorate 
in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1964. He 
then moved to Uppsala, Sweden with the intention of completing a post-
doc, but stayed on, completing a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the 
University of Uppsala in 1967.
  Dr. Bonner began his teaching career at the Swiss Federal Institute 
of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, where he taught from 1972 until 
1981. He and his family then moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he 
joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University. He remained there until 
1987, when he relocated to New England to teach at what was then the 
University of Lowell, which later became a part of the University of 
Massachusetts system.
  Dr. Bonner is an expert in his field, holds a number of intellectual 
properties, and has been published in several technical journals. In 
addition, he is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and 
grants.
  As Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori observed, ``We 
discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but 
that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human 
being.''
  As a lifelong student, himself, Dr. Bonner knows this best. I know my 
colleagues join me in extending our deep gratitude and appreciation to 
Dr. Bonner for his exemplary service in education. We wish him well the 
best for his well-deserved retirement.

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