[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1908]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          RECOGNIZING LIFELONG EDUCATOR DR. AUBREY W. BONNETT

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                         HON. KATHLEEN M. RICE

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 12, 2016

  Miss RICE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of 
Dr. Aubrey W. Bonnett, a resident of New York's Fourth Congressional 
District and a life-long educator.
  Throughout his 43-year career in higher education, Dr. Bonnett has 
achieved tremendous success as a scholar of immigration, race, 
sociology and diasporic studies, particularly with relation to our 
nation's vibrant African American, West Indian and Caribbean 
communities.
  Dr. Bonnett currently serves as a professor emeritus in the 
department of American Studies at the State University of New York 
(SUNY)--Old Westbury, where he also previously served as the Vice 
President of Academic Affairs and Provost. Dr. Bonnett is also the dean 
emeritus of the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the 
California State University--San Bernardino and was the first black 
Dean hired at the University. Having authored and coauthored four books 
and more than one hundred scholarly articles, Dr. Bonnett is truly one 
of the preeminent sociologists in the state of New York. Dr. Bonnett 
has dedicated his life to exploring and shedding light on the immigrant 
experience in the United States, and as a native of British Guyana, he 
is a testament to the incredible and critical contributions that 
immigrants have made to American academia.
  I'd like to congratulate Dr. Bonnett on his retirement and on an 
incredible career. It is truly an honor to serve as his representative 
in Congress.

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