[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 A TRIBUTE TO CONSTANCE V. HAY-ALLEYNE

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 13, 2009

  Mr. TOWNS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Constance V. 
Hay-Alleyne.
  Constance has lived life as a goal oriented and knowledgeable 
Registered Nurse with ambitious and humanitarian social motivations. 
Constance is well known in the Panamanian and Caribbean communities. 
Her delightful intellectual curiosity has served her professional 
growth well. She holds a BSN and MSN degrees from Medgar Evers College 
in Brooklyn, New York and Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C, 
respectively. She has distinguished herself as a competent Nurse 
Manager and Administrator for over three decades, in the Brooklyn, 
Manhattan, and Washington D.C areas. In 1981, she joined the United 
States Army Nurses Corps, served as a Captain, active duty and in 
reserve.
  At home, Constance has raised her four children to love and respect 
everyone especially their elders. She encouraged them to have positive 
outlooks in life and motivation to do ``as much as they can'' with care 
and dignity. It could not be otherwise since this has been an 
inheritance from her parents: John who died at the age of 114 and 
Imogene, at age 82. Faithful to that motto, she has been involved in 
many other activities such as a mediator at the Safe Horizon Brooklyn 
Mediation Center, as a Board Member of the Community Board 5 and as the 
Chair for Education and Training for Tashia's Life, a lupus foundation.
  She was miraculously rescued from the September 11, 2001 disaster at 
World Trade Center. This encounter made her redefine her mission on 
earth, realizing that God had saved her life for some special purpose. 
She serves the Lord at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Canarsie, 
Brooklyn, where she functions as a Lay Ecumenical Minister, as well as 
a Vestry.
  Throughout her career, Mrs. Hay-Alleyne has received numerous awards 
and recognitions including: being featured in ``Who's Who?'' in Nursing 
in Cambridge.

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