I rise today to bring attention to the great accomplishments of one of this Nations most accomplished community activists and physicians. Dr. Muriel Marjorie Petioni. Dr. Petioni has been a role model for all women and is especially beloved in my Congressional District. Bom on January 1. 1914. in Trinidad. young Petioni immigrated to the U.S. in 1919. settfing with her family in New York City. where her father soon became a prominent Harlem physician and activists in the Cambean nationalist movement. She followed her father and other relatives into the medical field. working locally at Hariem Hospital after she graduated from Howard Universitys School of Medicine in 1937. Her community and its residents have never been far from Dr.
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