March 10, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 46 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Extensions of Remarks]
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                      TRIBUTE TO KATHY ARNOLD TAFT

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                         HON. GREGORY F. MURPHY

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 10, 2020

  Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute in 
memoriam to Kathy Arnold Taft in honor of the opening of the Kathy Taft 
Center for Excellence and Leadership in Education in Greenville, North 
Carolina. Kathy was raised in eastern North Carolina and was a 
passionate educator, taken from us too soon on March 9, 2010. Kathy 
graduated cum laude in 1981 from East Carolina University with a 
Bachelor of Science degree in Education.
  She spent many years as a public health instructor in both Raleigh 
and Greenville. She served as vice chair of the Pitt County Board of 
Education in Greenville and was a founding member of the Pitt County 
Communities in Schools program. Kathy served on the Board of Governors 
for the Governor's School of North Carolina from 1986 to 1992 and in 
1995, was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt to the state Board of 
Education. She also devoted her time as a guardian ad litem volunteer, 
was a member of the East Carolina University Women's Roundtable, an 
Educator's Hall of Fame Inductee, and was honored by the Order of the 
Cupola.
  Madam Speaker, please join me in honoring the legacy of this 
incredible woman; she was a wonderful educator and dedicated public 
servant who served as an example to us all.

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