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March 15, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5399 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FOSTER FURCOLO'S EDUCATION [Seal of the University of Massachusetts Education is not just the best hope of men RECORD WHILE GOVERNOR 0863)] and women today; it is their only hope. Pov THE HoNoRABLE FosTER FuRcoLo erty has many roots, but it's tap root is ig CITED BY FORMER HEW SEC norance. Education opens the way to RETARY JOSEPH CALIFANO Distinguished son of the Connecticut progress in the struggle against want and in DURING DEDICATION OF Valley; lawyer and teacher; Congressman justice. Education is the path to a society FOSTER FURCOLO HALL, 0949-1952); State Treasurer and Receiver that is not only free but civilized; and most General 0952-1955); Governor of the Com SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, UNI monwealth 0957-1961). importantly, it is the path to peace. For it is VERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, The Horace Mann of the twentieth centu education that elevates reason above force. AMHERST Foster Furcolo understands this. He has a ry: prime sponsor of expanded public and special faith in the importance of education private loan and scholarship program for as an investment in the future of our nation HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND needy students; father of an expanded Uni and in the future of our people as individ versity of Massachusetts; creator of the uals. OF MASSACHUSETTS Community College System, Southeastern Massachusetts University, Lowell Universi I speak this morning of university educa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion not in a narrow sense. It is the responsi ty, and the improved state college system. bility of a university to provide its students Tuesday, March 15, 1983 with the capacity to look beyond the narrow THE DEDICATION OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCA horizons of their major and minor subjects, e Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, former TION BUILDING IN HONOR OF THE HONORA to develop in students the creative imagina Gov. Foster Furcolo of Massachusetts BLE FOSTER FuRCOLO tion that spawns new ideas, to stir in stu was honored recently by the Universi <Keynote address by Joseph Califano, dents a curiosity that will enrich their lives ty of Massachusetts which named its former Secretary of Health, Education, and enrich our nation for years to come, School of Education Building the and Welfare) and to nourish in students a better under- Foster Furcolo Hall. Chairman Quinn, I have to tell you that it standing of the human condition and how Former Secretary of Health, Educa was not personal ability ... like Foster Fur- to improve it. Years before President colo, my mother is Irish, although it's irrele- Lyndon Johnson's Great Society heralded a tion and Welfare Joseph Califano, vant in Massachusetts today, I realize that. new era of Federal support for education, who was the keynote speaker, de Governor and Chancellor Duffey, other Governor Foster Furcolo argued, persuaded, scribed Foster Furcolo as having been distinguished guests here, I have to confess prayed, cajoled, shoved, pulled and pushed "our Nation's foremost Governor com one other thing. The last time I talked at an the resources of this State into public edu mitted to education. He pushed, educational institution was at Stoneridge cation at all levels, until Massachusetts pulled, and cajoled funds from the School. It's a little school outside of Wash- became a citadel where every young citizen ington where my daughter Claudia is in the could get all the education he or she could State until higher education in Massa seventh grade. I talked to the girls in her absorb. chusetts became the citadel of learn class just a few weeks ago, and after I spoke Governor Furcolo often spoke of the im ing we know today." each one of them, about 22 of them, came portance of excellence personal achieve In presenting the dedication certifi up to shake hands. I bent over and I said to ment in public service and of the key role of cate of Foster Furcolo Hall to the one of the little girls, "How did you like it?" education in all three. Universities should former Governor, Robert Quinn, She said, "It was boring." My daughter train students not just for a future as a Claudia was standing next to me, she lawyer or an engineer or computer expert or chairman of the board of regents of grabbed my jacket and said, "Daddy, Daddy, chemist, they should prepare them for a the University of Massachusetts, said, don't pay any attention to her. She's a future in which professional specialties "You hac;l a vision, you made the right smart aleck. The only thing she ever does is · change as rapidly as new discoveries appear decisions, and future generations of repeat what everybody else in the class on the scene. Facing such a future, the uni students will be in your debt." says." versity has a special responsibility to imbue Foster Furcolo served two terms as It is truly a privilege to be part of the its students with fundamental human and ceremony today, dedicating this building to spiritual values that endure long after Governor of Massachusetts, from 1957 Foster Furcolo. This event brings together changes in occupation. to 1961, and two terms as my predeces the finest of both parties to this transac- I tried to think of some way to convey the sor in the Congress from the Second tion, this great University and this great level and depth of Foster Furcolo's commit Massachusetts District. He was also Governor and public servant. The Universi- ment to education and the role of the uni Massachusetts State Treasurer, 1953- ty of Massachusetts here at Amherst and in- versity in public service. So, I went back and 54, and is currently U.S. administra Boston and Worcester has served the people I read the speeches that Foster Furcolo of this great Commonwealth by providing gave to my alma mater, Holy Cross, when tive law judge in Boston and a member especially high-quality education and pro- he was Governor. Each spring as Governor of the board of regents of Massachu ducing very well-trained citizens, and 80 per- of Massachusetts he would travel to Worces setts higher education. cent of this University's graduates work and ter to deliver the commencement address. During his two terms as Governor, live in this great State. In Computer Sci- Now let me quote in some of those address Foster Furcolo was credited with fa ences and International Studies and in Pa- es. thering an expanded University of leomar Sciences, that's chemistry, the Uni- In June of 1957, to the graduating class at Massachusetts, including the Universi versity of Massachusetts ranks among the Holy Cross College, Foster Furcolo said, top ten institutions in all the United States. "What must be enlarged, however, is the ty Medical School at Worcester; creat This University has served the people of creative and moral vision of those whom we ing the Massachusetts community col this State with excellence, integrity and must educate so that their creative capac lege system, Southeastern Massachu energy, and so too, has Foster Furcolo ities can be more effectively applied to the setts University, Lowell University, served the people of Massachusetts. He is problems pressing upon the world today." and the improved State college worthy of the honor you do him today. His And the following year, 1958, after Sputnik system. is the perfect name with which to christen at the dawn of the Space Age, I quote, "Sci this School of Education Building. For, ence has abolished frontiers by annihilating Mr. Speaker, I include with my re Foster Furcolo, as no Governor of his time, space, yet our minds have not yet stretched marks the inscription on the Foster conducted his public life with the firm con- to keep pace. It has given us the power to Furcolo ·Hall dedication certificate and viction that education is the master key abolish poverty, yet we use it to impoverish the text of former Secretary Cali that opens all the doors of opportunity in men and destroy life. We have suddenly fano's address of November 13, 1982: America. come into a vast fortune," said Foster Fur- e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 5400 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1983 colo, "but are uneducated to spend it wisely. belt-tightening for Americans, a time when vember 10, 1982, Andropov was consecrated For science alone is not enough, it is charac we must navigate the treacherous straits as the new General Secretary. Since then, ter even more than intellect that moves the from affluence to austerity. There is simply he has been able to move some of his own world. Science unchecked by moral and spir less money available to us, and we have to men into key positions, aided considerably itual values is a positive menace to mankind. choose among pressing and deserving public by the advanced years and ailing health of Knowledge and power in the hands of evil needs. There have to be some cuts in the many of the men in the Politburo and the and unprincipled men threatens our surviv Federal budget, at least until the economy Central Committee. al today. The corruption of the best is the is well again. We all have our disagreements In fact, there are indications that a bitter worst of all." And in that same address in about the wisdom, the fairness, even the struggle for the succession was being waged 1958, "The need is for more than intellectu harshness of some of those cuts.