[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10965]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNIZING THE 103RD BIRTHDAY OF CLEONE HODGES

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ms. Cleone Hodges 
of Boone on the occasion of her 103rd birthday.
  A teaching position in Appalachian State University's Health Sciences 
department brought Ms. Hodges to Boone in 1938. Immediately, she was 
active in our community, serving 23 years as secretary for the parks 
department, teaching Sunday school at the First Baptist Church, and 
becoming active in community garden clubs.
  A scholarship in her name exists to support the work of students in 
her former department.
  Ms. Hodges' natural athletic talent helped her take the golf world by 
storm following retirement. On top of numerous regional wins, Hodges 
won three gold and two silver medals in national senior golf 
competitions. She scored the third of her career holes in one at the 
age of 93.
  Ms. Hodges, a 2005 inductee to the Watauga County Sports Hall of 
Fame, is a mother to her son, J.B., a grandmother to two, and a great-
grandmother to three.
  With the rest of the Boone community, I wish her the happiest of 
birthdays and hope for many, many more.

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