Committee honors Federal Executive Institute teacher

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted Tuesday for a measure (H.R. 1729) that would name a new annex at the Federal Executive Institute after an FEI employee who died in 1998.

The bill designates the federal facility at 1301 Emmet St. in Charlottesville, Va. as Pamela B. Gwin Hall.

Gwin, who had a Ph.D. from Duke University, came to FEI as a public policy instructor in 1983. She became assistant director of academic programs in 1987.

A letter from the director of the Office of Personnel Management described her as "a most remarkable federal civil servant." It also said that "she gave of herself willingly and her mark has been left not only in her accomplishments and in the lives she touched but in the physical sense of place and space that she achieved at FEI."

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Virgil Goode, I-Va., passed by a unanimous voice vote.