[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 17537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    CONGRATULATIONS TO ERNEST LOVATO

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                           HON. BEN RAY LUJAN

                             of new mexico

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  Mr. LUJAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Mr. Ernest Lovato, 
a resident of Kewa Pueblo, formerly Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico 
for being awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from 
Bacone College on May 7, 2011.
  Mr. Lovato was nominated by Dr. Robert J. Duncan, Jr., President and 
Professor of Religion, as a 1957 Bacone Alum, 1982-1984 Bacone Trustee 
and for his services as former Governor of Kewa Pueblo. Ernest has been 
outstandingly active in his community and served as Governor of Kewa 
Pueblo in 1989, 1990, and 2002.
  Bacone College is a private four-year liberal arts college in 
Muskogee, Oklahoma and was founded in 1880 as an Indian University by 
Professor Almon C. Bacone, a missionary teacher. With the help of the 
American Baptist Home Mission Society in the Cherokee Baptist Mission 
at the Tahlequah, Indian Territory, Bacone College was established.
  Bacone College has strong historic ties to various tribal nations 
including the Cherokee Nation and the Muscogee Creek Nation. When the 
College started Professor Bacone enrolled three students and was the 
sole faculty member. By the end of the first semester he had twelve 
students, and by the end of the first year the student population was 
fifty-six and the faculty numbered three.
  Bacone College continued to grow, relocated to its present location 
in 1885 and now serves over nine hundred students.
  I want to extend congratulations and recognition to Mr. Ernest 
Lovato, an outstanding New Mexican, on being awarded an Honorary 
Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Bacone College.

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