[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12369]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                         TRIBUTE TO SUSAN BERRY

 Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, my hometown of Silver City, NM, 
is in the southwestern corner of our State. It is the county seat, and 
the largest town for about a hundred miles around. Right on the edge of 
the Gila Wilderness, it has been called by others, not by just me, 
``One of the 100 Best Small Towns in America.''
  One of the reasons it is so outstanding is because of the tireless, 
thoughtful work of Susan Berry. For 36 years, she has been involved in 
historic preservation work in and around our town, and throughout the 
State of New Mexico. An early force of the MainStreet Project in Silver 
City and a longtime member of the Design Review Committee, she has done 
so much so well, that the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division 
recently gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award which she earned 
during a career of preserving the past for the future.
  On Saturday of this week, she will retire after decades of service as 
director of the Silver City Museum. Her accomplishments in that 
capacity are too numerous to list, but as a result of her vision and 
skill, that museum has been accredited by the American Association of 
Museums, one of only thirteen in New Mexico to be so designated.
  She has helped make Silver City a significant destination for 
travelers to the Southwest, and added to the list of reasons that 
10,000 people like to call it ``home.'' We are so fortunate that she 
chose to make the town the focus of her considerable ability and vision 
for so many years.

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