[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO MR. NICHOLAS MORABITO

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                        HON. THOMAS M. REYNOLDS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 5, 2006

  Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, with great pride and delight I rise today 
to honor a dedicated and respected community member, family man and 
veteran upon his 50th anniversary of exceptional service in the East 
Rochester School District.
  Mr. Nicholas Morabito has led a life deeply connected and committed 
to his hometown of East Rochester, New York. Through his distinguished 
professional career and his spirit to make his community a better 
place, Mr. Morabito has left a lasting mark since graduating from East 
Rochester High School in 1943. Ten years later, Mr. Morabito would 
become the first graduate of East Rochester to be admitted to the New 
York bar, and in 1956 he would start his tenure as school attorney to 
the East Rochester School District, the position he still holds today. 
In this role for more than a half-century now, Mr. Morabito's priority 
and personal charge has been to serve educators and students, providing 
incomparable expertise and counsel to his Alma Mater.
  That sense of dedication and service has defined Mr. Morabito his 
whole life, in East Rochester and beyond. In 1943, in the midst of 
WorId War II, Mr. Morabito joined the Navy after graduating from high 
school. Serving at Pearl Harbor and the Midway Islands through 1946, 
Mr. Morabito would return home a proud yet humble veteran who fulfilled 
his duty with honor and defended his country in the neediest of times.
  After the war, Mr. Morabito began his distinguished legal career, 
which would be marked by his service in the New York State Assembly and 
Senate. From 1955 to 1960, Mr. Morabito served as counsel to the 
Military Affairs Committee in the state assembly, and from 1960 to 1963 
served as counsel to the Labor and Industry Committee in the state 
senate. His civil service continued as Village Justice in East 
Rochester from 1960 to 1967, all the while fulfilling the position he 
so dutifully serves to this day as school attorney in East Rochester.
  Mr. Morabito, through it all, has first and foremost been a devoted 
family man: husband to wife Patricia Ann for well over 50 years, father 
to 7 sons, and grandfather to 23 grandchildren. Born to parents Antonio 
and Angeline who emigrated from Italy, Mr. Morabito was instilled with 
the belief that family comes first. For Mr. Morabito, it does, and it 
always will.
  Thus, Mr. Speaker, in recognition of his 50 years of tremendous 
service to the East Rochester School District and his courageous 
service to his country, and for his sense of community and his sense of 
family, I ask that this honorable body join me in honoring Mr. Nicholas 
Morabito.

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