[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 14638-14639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING ROBERT BOOTH AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED TEACHING 
                            PROFESSOR AWARD

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                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 28, 2005

  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the exemplary 
educational service of Robert Booth, a resident of Chautauqua County, 
Village of Fredonia, upon receiving the title of Distinguished Teaching 
Professor, the highest rank bestowed by the SUNY system on faculty 
members.
  Booth is a Visual Arts and New Media department official at the State 
University of New York College at Fredonia, and is one of only nine 
professors statewide to receive this honor.
  Since 1978 Booth has dedicated much of his time and energy to his 
students, and is committed to them on many levels. He always is willing 
to help and guide them, while still letting them be ultimately 
responsible for his or her education.
  In addition to teaching, Booth is also known in Chautauqua County for 
his art restorations of the Marks Fountain in Fredonia's Barker Commons 
and the King Neptune fountain that resided in Dunkirk's Washington 
Park. Booth

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is a well respected artist whose work is featured all over the eastern 
part of the United States.
  Booth is currently the coordinator of the In Sight/On Site sculpture 
project at SUNY Fredonia and the facilitator of the GWB Visual Arts 
Award Scholarship. He resides in Fredonia, with his wife, and two 
children.

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