[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING ERCELLE S. CARTER'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from West 
Virginia (Mr. Mooney) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. 
Ercelle S. Carter of Institute, West Virginia, who is celebrating her 
100th birthday on October 25, 2015.
  Ercelle was born on October 25, 1915, in Fayetteville, West Virginia. 
She is one of two children of John Saunders and Harriet Agee Saunders.
  Growing up, she attended Levi Elementary, Boyd Junior High School, 
and graduated from Garnet High School in 1933. She enrolled at West 
Virginia State College and graduated with degrees in home economics and 
elementary education in 1937.
  On April 27, 1940, she married Ulysses Grant Carter. They were 
married for 53 years, until his death in 1993.
  Ercelle was a homemaker and a stay-at-home mom until 1959, when she 
began her professional career as a teacher at Shawnee Elementary School 
and retired from Mound Elementary in 1979.
  Ercelle has led an outstanding life, highlighted with her love of 
family and service to her community. I wish her many more years of 
health and happiness.


    Congratulating Evans Elementary of Jackson County, West Virginia

  Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to 
congratulate Evans Elementary of Jackson County, West Virginia, for the 
honor of being named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2015.
  The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program was created in 1982 under 
President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell. The 
program was designed to celebrate achievements of both public and 
private elementary, middle, and high schools which have excellent 
performance or have substantially reduced the performance gap for 
disadvantaged student populations.
  This is a tremendous honor given to only two schools in West Virginia 
and only 335 schools nationwide this year. I am proud of the 
hardworking teachers, faculty, and students that achieved this honor. 
Their pursuit of academic excellence is inspiring, and I hope their 
success can be replicated across our State.

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