[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16216]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   TRIBUTE TO DELORIS CARTER HAMPTON

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                          HON. JAMES P. MORAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, August 2, 2001

  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Ms. Deloris Carter Hampton, a resident of Northern Virginia, who passed 
away on July 15, 2001, while attending a family gathering in Bethlehem, 
Pennsylvania. I first met Deloris over ten years ago and was 
immediately impressed by her generosity of spirit, boundless energy, 
sense of humor, and devotion to her family and friends. As a young 
student, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a dancer by dancing for 
Martha Graham. She graduated from Tuskegee Institute and received her 
master's degree from New York University before beginning her teaching 
career in Huntsville, Alabama and in Englewood, New Jersey. Deloris was 
a caring wife, mother, friend and teacher. She was dedicated to 
children and teaching, and spent 27 years as a physical education 
instructor before retiring in 1996 from the public schools in Prince 
William County, Virginia. Deloris was an activist in her community, in 
the State of Virginia and in civil rights. In Prince William County, 
she was a member of the Service Authority, the National Association for 
the Advancement of Colored People, the Committee of 100, the Court 
Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), and a founding member of Women in 
Community Action (WICA). She was active in the National, Virginia and 
Prince William County Education Associations, the American Association 
of University Women (AAUW), the Fairfax County Retired Educators 
Association as immediate past President, in the Virginia Education 
Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, in 
Carrousels, Inc., and in Celebrate Children. She was a hard working 
member of her church, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. Deloris 
leaves a loving family, her husband, George M. Hampton, Sr., a retired 
Army officer, her father, George L. Carter, Sr., a son George M. 
Hampton, Jr., a daughter Sydni T. Hampton, and a granddaughter, Desiree 
D. Hampton. Deloris will always be missed by those who knew her but her 
selfless, giving spirit lives on in her community, and with her family 
and her friends.

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