[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 27306]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  RECOGNIZING HUGH C. BAILEY OF VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, FOR HIS RETIREMENT 
                     FROM VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY

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                          HON. SAXBY CHAMBLISS

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, December 15, 2000

  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to honor Dr. Hugh C. Bailey 
an exceptional citizen from Valdosta, Georgia, on his retirement as 
President of Valdosta State University.
  Dr. Hugh Bailey was first appointed president of Valdosta State 
University in 1978 and has served admirably for twenty-two years. As a 
long time educator, Dr. Bailey is currently a member of the American 
History Association, American Red Cross, the South Georgia Chamber of 
Commerce, the Georgia Council on Economic Education and has served as 
the national president of Pi Gamma Nu.
  Dr. Bailey was born in Berry, Alabama, and earned his master's and 
doctoral degrees from the University of Alabama. Furthermore, Dr. 
Bailey presided over the transformation of Valdosta State College into 
Valdosta State University and he oversaw the growing of Valdosta State 
University to be one of Georgia's two regional universities. I am very 
proud that my daughter, Lia, was in the second of Dr. Bailey's Valdosta 
State Universities graduating classes.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize Dr. Bailey for his dedication to 
the future of our young people. He is an extraordinary citizen, and I 
am proud of his achievements and accomplishments, which have done so 
much to improve the lives of so many people in the


Valdosta community and throughout Georgia. Dr. Bailey is a very good 
personal friend and I salute him for his dedicated service to the field 
of public education in our great state.

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