Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor Pearl Schenkler. a rare and special woman on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Pearl was bom in 1915 in New York City to immigrant parents. The second of four daughters in a family that truly lived the American dream. Pearl learned from the example of her parents. Her father. a steelworker. and her mother. a homemaker. unique in their commitment to education. insisted on sending each of their four daughters to college. Inspired by her two younger sisters. Pearl graduated college and became a teacher in the New York Public School System.
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