[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    IN HONOR OF MS. JEANETTE ECKMAN

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                         HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE

                              of delaware

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 22, 2010

  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise 
today to pay tribute to Jeanette Eckman, a remarkable woman who is to 
be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women. 
Jeanette is truly deserving of this high distinction for her 
contributions to our State and the valuable legacies she left for 
historians.
  Ms. Eckman was an educator, political activist, historian, and 
author. Her works, endorsed by our State, are considered official 
historical documents which have preserved vital aspects of Delaware's 
past. She served as director and historian for the 300th anniversary of 
the settlement of New Castle by the Dutch colonials in 1950-55, and 
received an honorary award from the Queen of the Netherlands for her 
devotion to Dutch colonial history in the Delaware Valley.
  In 1915, Ms. Eckman became the first women in the First State to be 
appointed to an executive position with the Republican State Committee, 
organizing women voters in the State soon after the women's suffrage 
amendment was ratified. She served as secretary for women's affairs for 
U.S. Senator T. Coleman du Pont in the 1920s.
  As a champion of women's rights and preserving American history in 
the State of Delaware, Jeanette is the epitome of what this Hall of 
Fame represents. Her contributions to the State of Delaware are 
remarkable, irrespective of her gender. She was an amazing woman, and 
her legacy continues with this accolade.

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