[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 27613]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO MARY WELLS, L.C.S.W.

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                            HON. JIM SAXTON

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 6, 2005

  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my good 
friend, Mary Wells, President and CEO of Family Service of Burlington 
County as she retires after 35 years of faithful service to the 
citizens of this great county.
  Mary earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew University in 1964, 
and her Masters in Social Work at the Rutgers School of Social Work in 
1967. She became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 1994.
  Mrs. Wells was the first chair of the New Jersey Department of Human 
Services Children's Coordinating Committee, and chaired the New Jersey 
State Human Services Advisory Council and Executive Committee. She was 
a 2004 Gubernatorial appointee to the New Jersey Advisory Commission on 
the Status of Women, a Trustee for Virtua Health, and a Director of the 
Farmers and Mechanics Bank.
  She has been recognized by the Alliance for the Mentally Ill as their 
Administrator Recognition Award recipient, as New Jersey Social Worker 
of the Year, has received the Humanitarian Award from the New Jersey 
Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the 
Martin Luther King Award for her work in the field of public service 
and human relations, among other awards too numerous to mention.
  My staff and I have worked closely with her through the years for the 
betterment of the community, and her knowledge and compassion will be 
sorely missed.
  I wish her a retirement filled with health, happiness and dreams come 
true.

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