[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2520]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RECOGNIZING NICK J. MANCE

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                         HON. WILLIAM L. ENYART

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 4, 2014

  Mr. ENYART. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me 
in recognizing the dedicated community service of Mr. Nick J. Mance as 
he marks his 20th anniversary as a Trustee for Southwestern Illinois 
College.
  Mr. Mance was elected to then Belleville Area College's Board of 
Trustees in 1993 and has been continuously re-elected since that time. 
His fellow Board members chose him to serve as the Board's Chair in 
2001 and have re-elected him to this post each year since. In addition 
to his many duties as Board Chair, Mr. Mance works enthusiastically 
with the administration, faculty, and staff on the Facilities and 
Finance and the Planning and Policy Committees and the Strategic 
Planning Council, and has served on all of the Board's standing 
committees. Also, he has served as the Illinois Community College 
Trustee Association's Regional Chair and is an ex-officio member of the 
Southwestern Illinois College Foundation Board of Directors.
  Mr. Mance is a certified public accountant and a partner in The Mance 
Leahy Group accounting firm in Columbia, Illinois. He helped found the 
company in 1991 with his partner, one employee and only one client. 
After 22 years in business, the firm has numerous employees and more 
than 1,000 clients.
  As a Cahokia, Illinois resident, business owner, taxpayer, husband, 
father of three, grandfather of three, and past Chair of the Cahokia 
School District No. 187 Board, Mr. Mance chose to pursue a seat on the 
Southwestern Illinois College Board because he believed he could help 
ensure access to quality education for area residents, contribute to 
the success of the community college, and contribute to the success and 
growth of the Southwestern Illinois region.
  Mr. Mance has consistently and actively helped SWIC maintain its 
longstanding accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission, and 
achieve model-institution recognition from the HLC for its Academic 
Quality Improvement Program initiatives and achievements by insisting 
on the highest academic standards and state-of-the-art classroom 
technology.
  During his longstanding service to the Board of Trustees, Mr. Mance 
has been a proponent of capital development projects, including the 
construction of the Information Sciences Building, Liberal Arts 
Complex, and Schmidt Art Center at the Belleville Campus, and extensive 
expansions and renovations at the Red Bud and Sam Wolf Granite City 
campuses. Mr. Mance was one of the driving forces behind renaming the 
institution Southwestern Illinois College in 2000 to better reflect the 
college's 2,100-square-mile district; and renaming the Granite City 
Campus, the Sam Wolf Granite City Campus, in 2007 in honor of fellow 
SWIC Trustee and longtime legislator Sam Wolf.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in an expression of 
appreciation to Mr. Nick J. Mance for his 20 years of service as a 
Trustee of Southwestern Illinois College and to wish him the very best 
in the future.

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