[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 106 (Friday, June 16, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E577-E578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      IN APPRECIATION OF MATT HOUT AND HIS COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION

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                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 16, 2023

  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join the 
colleagues and friends of Matt Hout in honoring him for his decades of 
dedicated service as an educator, lifeguard and union leader in Western 
New York on the occasion of his retirement.
  For the past twenty-five years, Mr. Hout has been a member of the 
faculty in the Cheektowaga Central School District. Having taught 
biology, life sciences and chemistry, Mr. Hout helped young people 
better understand and appreciate the wonder and mystery of the natural 
world all around them, and prepared them for careers for which STEM 
skills are no longer optional, but necessary. Prior to his work with 
the Cheektowaga Central School District he taught in various other 
Western New York school districts, as well as at my own alma mater, 
SUNY Buffalo State.
  Mr. Hout's commitment to his students, his colleagues and his 
community did not stop when the dismissal bell rang. Whether coaching 
swimming teams, supervising the weight room or chaperoning functions 
like proms to visits here to our nation's capital, Mr. Hout gave freely 
of his time and commitment to his students. Mr. Hout has also been a 
lifeguard in the New York State Parks for forty years, having made 
possible safe and healthy recreation for thousands of New Yorkers and 
having saved more than a few lives. Mr. Hout has been an effective 
advocate for his profession as an officer of the Cheektowaga Central 
Teachers Association, a unit of the American Federation of Teachers, 
AFL-CIO, and for his fellow lifeguards as regional vice president of 
the New York State Lifeguard Corps Union, another AFT unit.
  Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in wishing Mr. Hout, his wife 
Denise, and his adult children Courtney and Nicholas all the best as he 
begins his well-earned retirement after an extraordinary career in 
which he dedicated himself to his students, his colleagues and his 
community.

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