[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12376]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO MARY COLLINS

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 28, 2017

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Mary Collins of Shenandoah, Iowa on the occasion of her 
103rd birthday. Mary was born on July 30, 1914.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Mary's life. 
Since her birth, we have revolutionized air travel and walked on the 
moon. We have invented the television, cellular phones and the 
internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism and witnessed the birth of new democracies. Mary has 
lived through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-six 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Mary in the United States 
Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 103rd birthday. 
I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of Representatives 
join me in congratulating Mary on reaching this incredible milestone 
and wishing her even more health and happiness in the years to come.

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