[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5338]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            IRENE LANCASTER

  (Mr. NUNNELEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor of Ms. Irene Lancaster of 
Columbus, Mississippi, and to wish her a happy birthday tomorrow.
  In fact, I stand in this body today because of the encouragement of 
teachers like Ms. Lancaster. Her passion and enthusiasm for American 
history was contagious. As an eighth-grade student at Joe Cook Middle 
School in Columbus, Mississippi, she instilled in me a love of American 
history that I carry today. I can still hear in my mind her voice as 
she talked about the forcefulness of President Andrew Jackson.
  She thought she was teaching names and dates and places, but what Ms. 
Lancaster was really doing was preparing leaders--business leaders, 
community leaders, leaders in medicine and in energy--and even a United 
States Congressman.
  So happy birthday, Ms. Lancaster.
  In saluting her, I salute all of those teachers every day who are 
preparing the next generation of American leaders.

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