[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10998]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNIZING DR. JO ANNE McFARLAND

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Wyoming (Mrs. Lummis) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Speaker, today, I am honored to rise to recognize 
a pillar of the higher education community in Wyoming. Dr. Jo Anne 
McFarland is retiring as the president of Central Wyoming College after 
40 years of service, and 25 years after she was named Wyoming's first 
woman college president.
  Active nationally with the American Association of Community Colleges 
and with the Higher Learning Commission, Dr. McFarland has made great 
contributions to the development of community colleges nationwide.
  Dr. McFarland started as an adjunct faculty member in 1970, shortly 
after the college was founded in Riverton. Under her leadership, 
Central Wyoming College has expanded its academic offerings and 
instituted distance learning programs. It has opened facilities in 
Jackson, Lander, Thermopolis, and on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
  Notably, Dr. McFarland has created an atmosphere of courtesy, 
manners, and respect at Central Wyoming College unlike any I have seen 
on any college campus. The leader sets the tone for such a positive, 
respectful atmosphere. Jo Anne McFarland is in every way imaginable 
leadership personified.
  Madam Speaker, the mascot of Central Wyoming College is the cattle 
rustler. As a cattle rancher, I have a bit of a dislike for rustlers, 
but this is one rustler I will be very sorry to see hang up her spurs. 
She earned those spurs, Madam Speaker.

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