[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 16467-16468]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IN HONOR OF LENORE GOLDEN SHACKELFORD

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 19, 2007

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Ms. 
Lenore Golden Shackelford of Quitman, GA. In recognition of her 60 plus 
years of service to her community in south Georgia and her nomination 
by the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women as a ``Woman Who 
Inspires.''
  Ms. Shackelford, a native of Quitman, GA, has spent the greater 
balance of her life in service to the community there. In 1950 she 
started her professional career as a Social studies teacher and Girls' 
Basketball Coach at Morven Rosenwald High School in Brooks County. She 
went on to teach the fourth and fifth grades at New Empress Elementary 
School in Brooks County before returning to school and receiving her 
Certification in Guidance and Counseling from Florida A & M University 
in 1959.
  She returned to service in education as a Social Studies Teacher and 
School Counselor at Washington Street High School in Quitman, GA. Ms. 
Shackelford was one of the first certified school counselors in the 
state of Georgia and the first school counselor in Brooks County.
  Ms. Shackelford was a devoted teacher and counselor, who made it her 
mission to have direct interaction with each of her students in order 
to help them have productive futures. During her 30 years as a school 
counselor, Ms. Shackelford was also very active in her community. She 
coordinated community committees to address personnel issues in the

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Brooks County School System, organized Human Rights Committees, and 
played an instrumental role in establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 
in Brooks County Public Schools.
  So, on this the 19th day of June, 2007, I with great honor commend 
Ms. Lenore Golden Shackelford, for her many years of unheralded service 
to the people of Brooks County. She is truly a credit to the Second 
Congressional District of Georgia, the State of Georgia, and the United 
States as a whole.

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