[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2514]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        TRIBUTE TO JOYCE RHENEY

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 28, 2001

  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues to join 
me in paying tribute to Joyce Rheney who on February 14, 2001 was 
honored as South Carolina Mother of the Year 2001. The Mother of the 
Year Committee recognizes the dignity of motherhood and the influence 
that mothers have on their families, professions, communities and 
churches.
  Along with her duties as mother and wife, Mrs. Rheney manages to find 
time to donate her talents to her community in several capacities. She 
is a member of Orangeburg City Council, serving her 12th year in 
office. She is an active representative of the Downtown Orangeburg 
Revitalization Association board and served as co-chair on the 
committee to renovate Steyenson Auditorium. She volunteered to serve on 
the Foundation Board of TRMC and was the 1997 co-chair of the fund-
raising gala. The funds raised by this gala are used in the community 
for hospice cancer patient care and Camp Catch-A-Breath. She was 
elected president of the foundation for 2000-2001.
  Mrs. Rheney is a 1949 graduate of Jefferson-Hillman School of Nursing 
in Birmingham, Alabama. Her first job was as director of nursing at a 
tuberculosis sanitarium in Decatur, Georgia. After her move to South 
Carolina, she accepted positions in the surgical unit of Roper Hospital 
and later as pediatric head nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in 
Charleston, South Carolina.
  Upon moving to Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1954, Mrs. Rheney 
immediately became active in the community. She held memberships in the 
Junior Service League, the Medical Alliance, and the Salvation Army 
Advisory Board. In the 1960's and 1970's she was an active supporter 
and volunteer for many activities at Wade Hampton Academy, where her 
children were students. Mrs. Rheney and her husband, Dr. John Rheney, 
Jr. are the parents of four children: John III, a local dentist; Betsy, 
a human resources representative in Aiken; Bruce, a local bank vice-
president; and David, a Greenville attorney. The Rheneys raised their 
children in a loving, Christian home, encouraging them to love God, one 
another, and themselves.
  As South Carolina's Mother of the Year, Mrs. Rheney will represent 
the state in Portland, Oregon in April at the national convention of 
American Mothers, Inc., a non-profit, interfaith organization founded 
for the purpose of developing and strengthening the moral and spiritual 
foundation of America's families. I am privileged to serve parts of 
Orangeburg county in this august body, a county which has seen three 
other of its outstanding women attain the state's Mother of the Year 
honor. Mr. Speaker, please join me in honoring Mrs. Joyce Rheney, for 
her outstanding work as an exemplary mother and unselfish community 
servant.

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