[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1548]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       IN HONOR OF ANN BALDERSON

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                         HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 7, 2001

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Ann 
Balderson of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. For over 25 years, Mrs. 
Balderson has served the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as 
a devoted schoolteacher, and she will retire on June 30th of this year. 
I commend her for her tireless efforts aimed at educating and molding 
the minds of our greatest resource, our children.
  Mrs. Balderson has spent the majority of her career in the Dartmouth 
school system. After graduating in 1965 from Notre Dame College of 
Maryland in Baltimore, Mrs. Balderson moved to Massachusetts to 
continue her career as an educator, and she has continued to this day 
as a teacher of the 2nd grade. Today, I join with her husband William, 
and her two children Margaret and Robert, and applaud her for her many 
years of distinguished service. Nothing is more important than the 
education of our children, and I commend and thank Ann Balderson for 
devoting 25 years of her time and energy to the youth of Massachusetts.

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