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that you need some outside help. As a member of the Anytown Partnership for Families, 

Anytown High’s Human Services Mall hosts 

a broad array of community agencies that 

will assist you and your families with nonacademic problems. Many of these social 

services were available to you throughout 

primary and middle school, so you are familiar with them. You can get information 

about other services from the computer files 

in your academic cluster, in the library or 

the cafeteria. Each of you will also have opportunities to have an adult mentor or 

coach. It may be an employee at your worksite, a community service volunteer or a parent in the community. Here at Anytown 

High, we have almost as many community 

partners as students. Each brings their expertise and their caring into the school and 

the worksite. 

Your teachers have worked hard to design 

the curriculum—in school, at the worksite 

and in your community service experiences—

to support your learning in every way we 

know. Your guidance counselors and job specialists are working with your teachers and 

employers in the community to make sure 

you have access to information about postsecondary schools and careers and that you 

can use it effectively to plan your further 

education and careers. 

The basic message I want to leave with you 

today is this: you are capable and intelligent 

young people in transition to adulthood and 

each adult here is on your side. We are committed to helping you get the skills and 

knowledge you need to be successful learners, workers and citizens. You can do it; we 

are here to help; and you can count on us. 

Welcome to Anytown High!’’

Our opening day assembly is now over. 

Those of you who haven’t been put to sleep 

by the principal’s long oration may open you 

eyes * * * 

It’s true, of course, that most of the students in the auditorium probably did not absorb the full promise of what awaits them at 

Anytown High. Yet, I think few of them will 

fail to grasp the central message: That they 

are important and that they are going to be 

successful in life. 

All of the adults in the community, too, 

should now clearly understand that this description of a radically different kind of 

learning community requires their fullest 

participation. Education at Anytown High is 

a serious full-time partnership of the entire 

community. Its objective is simple and 

straightforward: success in work, success in 

life for each and every young person who enters our schools. 

Undoubtedly, some of you are thinking: 

‘‘What a nice, Utopian dream. Halperin is 

just a dreamer.’’ Yes, I do have a dream! 

However, there is not one element in my 

dream that is not a living reality someplace 

in this country. Everything in this dream is 

being practiced somewhere * * * now, today. 

All that Patricia McNeil and I have done is 

put it all together to meet our personal vision. I hope you will do the same with your 

own ideas about education, youth development and the world of work. 

So, I end where I began. The challenge before the people of Rhode Island is to dream 

your own dream for the State and for your 

own communities. Rethink the essential nature of schooling at the dawn of the 21st Century. Construct a total quality system in 

which all the parts of your dream come together to produce success for all of Rhode Island’s young people. 

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SISTER CAROL MCGOVERN—LET’S 

CELEBRATE HER LIFE 

Mr. PELL. Mr. President, I ask that 

the Senate join in celebrating the life 

of Sister Carol McGovern, RSM. Often 

we find that life gains meaning 

through our service to others, and our 

greatest personal ambition seems 

empty and illusory compared to such 

service. 

Sister Carol McGovern, who died 

Wednesday of breast cancer, was executive director of Amos House, a soup 

kitchen and social service center in the 

poorest neighborhood of Providence, 

Rhode Island’s capital city. To this position she brought tremendous energy 

and great vision. Her vision arose from 

spiritual commitment and was informed by an extraordinarily active 

life. 

Sister Carol was involved: She served 

on many boards of directors, working 

with Sunrise House, the Rhode Island 

Rape Crisis Center, the Campaign To 

Eliminate Childhood Poverty, and the 

Rhode Island Right to Housing Now. 

When one first meets a person such 

as Sister Carol, an initial elation often 

gives way to the question: Where will 

the energy come from to sustain such 

commitment? 

The problems of humanity, even at a 

local level, seem so vast, complex, and 

intractable that they would quickly 

consume one entirely. Yet, year after 

year, on issue after issue, Sister Carol 

was there. 

Her energy never diminished, but 

grew deeper. Service that one would 

have thought to be all consuming, revealed itself to be vitalizing. In the 

end, she was a force. The name Sister 

Carol McGovern resounds with meaning unattainable by pursuit of individual interest. 

In 1959, she joined the Sisters of 

Mercy, in 1967 she took her final vows. 

She earned her bachelor’s degree from 

Salve Regina College and her master’s 

degree from St. Michael’s College. 

She was given awards for her work, 

the John Kiffney Award from the Providence Newspaper Guild, an honorary 

doctorate from Rhode Island College, 

to name two. For anyone this would be 

a record of outstanding accomplishment and well deserved recognition, 

but this record never defined her. 

Her essence was her commitment to 

service, her real presence was to be 

found among those most in need. Her 

life was claimed by an illness that afflicts many women, she faced it bravely, and again she set a fine example. 

My office and I were deeply fortunate 

to be able to work with her over the 

years. Many times she enlightened us 

and gave us courage to address difficult 

issues squarely. 

She didn’t ask for answers, only effort. We shall miss her greatly. I am 

truly saddened by her passing. Yet it is 

her life of service that I ask this body 

to celebrate and commemorate. 

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that an article from the Providence Journal of April 6, 1995, entitled 

‘‘Sister Carol McGovern, 53, Champion 

of the Poor, Dies,’’ be inserted into the 

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD as if read. 

There being no objection, the article 

was ordered to be printed in the 

RECORD, as follows: 

SISTER CAROL MCGOVERN, 53, CHAMPION OF

THE POOR, DIES

(By S. Robert Chiappinelli and Thomas J. 

Morgan) 

PAWTUCKET.—Sister Carol McGovern, 

RSM, executive director of Amos House in 

Providence and one of Rhode Island’s best 

known advocates for the poor, died yesterday 

at her home on Blodgett Avenue. 

Sister Carol, 53, has been ill with breast 

cancer for the past year and a half. The disease had seemed to be in remission, but then 

spread to her liver. 

Experimental treatment allowed her to resume an active outdoor life and to continue 

her 12-hour work days until her health failed 

less than a month ago. 

Henry Shelton, another longtime activist, 

said, ‘‘Carol lived her life to the fullest with 

a smile that signaled joy and love, and faced 

death with more courage than anyone I ever 

knew. 

‘‘My prayer is that her life and death will 

inspire in Rhode Island’s religious and political leaders a commitment similar to hers to 

support the effort of Rhode Island’s powerless to help each other out of poverty.’’

‘‘What does one say about so remarkable a 

woman?’’ said Richard J. Walton, former 

president of the board of Amos House, a soup 

kitchen and social service center in South 

Providence. 

‘‘She was a woman who cared very deeply 

and worked with passion, I guess you could 

say, and with humor. And I’ve never seen 

anyone bear up under what she’s borne up 

under these last few months. She seemed to 

be more concerned about making people feel 

okay about her illness. She kept such a 

brave front that unless you knew she was 

sick, you couldn’t know.’’

Born in Providence, she was a daughter of 

Eleanor V. (Peterson) of Cranston and the 

late James V. McGovern. 

Sister Carol arrived at Amos House along a 

curious path. 

She spent her early years teaching but in 

the 1970s she joined four other Sisters of 

Mercy knocking on doors in Woonsocket and 

meeting struggling residents. 

The nuns taught residents, particularly 

women alone with young children, about 

available resources, and in a few years 

turned their jobs over to neighborhood people they had trained. 

So by 1983, Sister Carol was out of a job 

and decided to take some time to refocus. 

She got a job as manager of the Yarney, one 

of the stores in the then-new Davol Square 

shopping center in Providence. 

Using skills from her early years, she 

taught customers how to knit, and often 

chatted with Sister Eileen Murphy the Amos 

House founder who regularly strolled 

through Davol Square. 

After Sister Eileen died unexpectedly in 

December 1983, Sister Carol decided to apply 

as part of a team at Amos House. Eventually 

she became co-director with Jim Tull. (Tull 

stepped down earlier this year.) 

Despite her illness, Sister Carol continued 

her Amos House work and was showered with 

love and concern by those who used its services. 

‘‘I have a real passion for the people who 

come here,’’ she said. ‘‘They are my family, 

they truly are my family.’’

Despite setbacks inherent in fighting for 

the needy, Sister Carol said, she drew sustenance from the example of her widowed 

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mother and the words of anthropologist Margaret Mead, who said that small groups of 

truly committed people are the only things 

that have ever changed the world. 

She entered the Sisters of Mercy in September 1959 and took her final vows in August 1967. 

She received a bachelor’s degree from 

Salva Regina College in 1964, and a master’s 

in 1974 from St. Michael’s College in 

Vermont. 

Sister Carol was a founder of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, and was 

president of its board. She was a member of 

the board of directors of Sunrise House, a 

member of the board and a counselor-advocate of the Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center, 

a member of the Campaign to Eliminate 

Childhood Poverty and the Rhode Island 

Right to Housing NOW. 

She was a lobbyist for the Sisters of Mercy 

for the last four years, dealing with peace, 

justice and women’s issues. 

In February Sister Carol and Tull received 

the John Kiffney Award of the Providence 

Newspaper Guild. 

She also received the Bronze Key Award 

fro Substance Abuse. She was to receive an 

honorary doctorate in May from Rhode Island College. 

Surviving besides her mother are two 

brothers, Robert F. McGovern of Cranston 

and James V. McGovern of Oxford, Mass., 

and a sister, Marcia E. O’Connor of Providence. 

A concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial 

will be celebrated Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. 

Michael Church, Oxford, Street, Providence. 

Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, 

Cumberland. 

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MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT 

Messages from the President of the 

United States were communicated to 

the Senate by Mr. Thomas, one of his 

secretaries. 

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EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED 

As in executive session the Presiding 

Officer laid before the Senate messages 

from the President of the United 

States submitting sundry nominations 

which were referred to the Committee 

on Armed Services. 

(The nominations received today are 

printed at the end of the Senate proceedings.) 

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MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE 

At 12:18 p.m., a message from the 

House of Representatives, delivered by 

Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the 

following bills, in which it requests the 

concurrence of the Senate: 

H.R. 483. An act to amend title XVIII of the 

Social Security Act to permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, and 

for other purposes; 

H.R. 660. An act to amend the Fair Housing 

Act to modify the exemption from certain 

familial status discrimination prohibitions 

granted to housing for older persons; and 

H.R. 1421. An act to provide that references 

in the statutes of the United States to any 

committee or officer of the House of Representatives the name or jurisdiction of 

which was changed as part of the reorganization of the House of Representatives at the 

beginning of the One Hundred Fourth Congress shall be treated as referring to the currently applicable committee or officer of the 

House of Representatives. 

The message also announced that the 

House agrees to the amendments of the 

Senate to the bill (H.R. 1345) to eliminate budget deficits and management 

inefficiencies in the government of the 

District of Columbia through the establishment of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, and for 

other purposes. 

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MEASURES REFERRED 

The following bill was read the first 

and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: 

H.R. 660. An act to amend the Fair Housing 

Act to modify the exemption from certain 

familial status discrimination prohibitions 

granted to housing for older persons; to the 

Committee on the Judiciary. 

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MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME 

The following measure was read the 

first time: 

H.R. 483. An act to amend title XVIII of the 

Social Security Act to permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, and 

for other purposes. 

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 

The following reports of committees 

were submitted: 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, with an 

amendment: 

S. 115. A bill to authorize the Secretary of 

the Interior to acquire and to convey certain 

lands or interests in lands to improve the 

management, protection, and administration 

of Colonial National Historical Park, and for 

other purposes (Rept. No. 104–30). 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute: 

S. 127. A bill to improve the administration 

of the Women’s Rights National Historical 

Park in the State of New York, and for other 

purposes (Rept. No. 104–31). 

S. 134. A bill to provide for the acquisition 

of certain lands formerly occupied by the 

Franklin D. Roosevelt family, and for other 

purposes (Rept. No. 104–32). 

By MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on 

Energy and Natural Resources, without 

amendment: 

S. 188. A bill to establish the Great Falls 

Historic District in the State of New Jersey, 

and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–33). 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute: 

S. 197. A bill to establish the Carl Garner 

Federal Lands Cleanup Day, and for other 

purposes (Rept. No. 104–34). 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, without 

amendment. 

S. 223. A bill to authorize the Secretary of 

the Interior to provide funds to the Palisades 

Interstate Park Commission for acquisition 

of land in the Sterling Forest area of the 

New York/New Jersey Highlands Region, and 

for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–35). 

S. 357. A bill to amend the National Parks 

and Recreation Act of 1978 to establish the 

Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau, an advisory 

commission for the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–36). 

S. 363. A bill to improve water quality 

within the Rio Puerco watershed, New Mexico, and to help restore the ecological health 

of the Rio Grande through the cooperative 

identification and implementation of best 

management practices that are consistent 

with the ecological, geological, cultural, sociological, and economic conditions in the 

region, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–

37). 

S. 378. A bill to authorize the Secretary of 

the Interior to exchange certain lands of the 

Columbia Basin Federal reclamation project, 

Washington, and for other purposes (Rept. 

No. 104–39). 

S. 392. A bill to amend the Dayton Aviation 

Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 with regard to appointment of members of the Dayton Aviation Heritage Commission, and for 

other purposes (Rept. No. 104–40). 

S. 551. A bill to revise the boundaries of the 

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument 

and the Craters of the Moon National Monument, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–

40). 

S. 587. A bill to amend the National Trails 

System Act to designate the Old Spanish 

Trail and the Northern Branch of the Old 

Spanish Trail for potential inclusion into the 

National Trails System, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–41). 

S. 601. A bill to revise the boundaries of the 

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage 

Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 

and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–42). 

S. 610. A bill to provide for an interpretive 

center at the Civil War Battlefield of Corinth, Mississippi, and for other purposes 

(Rept. No. 104–43). 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

H.R. 400. A bill to provide for the exchange 

of lands within Gates of the Arctic National 

Park and Preserve, and for other purposes 

(Rept. No. 104–44). 

By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources, without 

amendment. 

H.R. 440. A bill to provide for the conveyance of lands to certain individuals in Butte 

County, California (Rept. No. 104–45). 

H.R. 536. A bill to extend indefinitely the 

authority of the Secretary of the Interior to 

collect a commercial operation fee in the 

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation 

Area, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 104–

46). 

H.J. Res. 50. A joint resolution to designate 

the visitors center at the Channel Islands 

National Park, California, as the ‘‘Robert J. 

Lagomarsino Visitors Center’’ (Rept. No. 

104–47). 

By Mr. ROTH, from the Committee on 

Governmental Affairs: 

Special Report prepared by the Permanent 

Subcommittee on Investigations entitled 

‘‘Criminal Aliens in the United States’’

(Rept. No. 104–48). 

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EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF 

COMMITTEES 

The following executive reports of 

committees were submitted: 

By Mr. PRESSLER, from the Committee 

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 

Charles T. Manatt, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1997. 

(The above nomination was reported 

with the recommendation that he be 

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