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Lt. Governor Knoll Remarks
Gosselin Six Birthday Party
May 12, 2005
There is no need to be coy about this celebration today.
This is far more than a birthday party. It is recognition that the Gosselins have given a whole new meaning to the concept of Mothers Day!
I am a proud, outspoken, no-doubt-about-it fan of the great treasures of Pennsylvania. I can bend anyones ear about Valley Forge National Park or Independence Hall or the Library Hall or the Poconos, or Pennsylvania Dutch Country or the Carnegie Institute, or a hundred other placesbut today, in this place, at this time, the Number 1 Pennsylvania treasure is the Gosselin Six.
Ive been asked often: Who are the best-known people in Pennsylvania?
The temptation is to answer with names like Benjamin Franklin, Marlan Anderson, Arnold Palmer, Grace Kelly, Johnny Unitas, Margaret Meadso many othersbut the short-form response about Pennsylvanias best known people is simply to say: Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah, and Joel, and, of course, their beautiful big sisters, Cara & Madelyn.
My amazement continues. When this hockey team was born a year ago, I instantly recalled the responsibility and workload I experienced in raising four childrenand their arrivals were spread out over a period of time.
To have six show up at the door on the same day, each saying, Feed me. Clothe me. Shelter me. Guide me. well, that is a challenge of staggering dimensions.
But a challenge the Gosselins have energetically accepted.
And so has the village.
By that I mean the It-takes-a-village reference Hilary Clinton made so famous. The way friends and neighbors, and in many instances, the whole state, have rallied around this family is a very special story.
As Don Harold once said, babies are such a nice way to start people!
Ive always believed that a baby is Gods opinion that life should be regarded as precious, and that no child should be starved for food, for education, or for love.
Every year in Pennsylvania we welcome over 140,000 new babies. That the Gosselins chose to escalate that number dramatically in 2004 is an occasion worthy of all the celebration we can bring it.
I try to picture 49 years from now when Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah, and Joel will get together for their 50th birthday party. There will be more candles at that event than there were at the Vatican a few weeks ago. It will look like the runway lights have been turned on at an airport.
Somewhere in between this birthday and that one, there will be a lot of other milestones to celebrate multiplied by six. Six first days of school, six first dates, six drivers licenses, six college tuitions
I know that all parents think about these milestones, especially how they are going to provide their children with a college education. For Kate and Jonathan, Im sure they think about this often.
That is why, for my gift to the Gosselin Family on this very special occasion, I am opening accounts for all eight of the Gosselin children through the Tuition Account Program, which I had a hand in creating when I served as Pennsylvania State Treasurer.
Contributions to these accounts will accrue throughout the childrens lives and be available to them once it comes time to attend college.
If you would like to make a contribution to the Gosselin Familys TAP account, you can do so by making your check payable to TAP 529, writing Gosselin in the memo portion of the check, and sending your contributions to: Gosselin Sextuplets and Twins Accounts, TAP Bureau, 218 Finance Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120. More information on the Tuition Account Program can be obtained by calling 1-800-440-4000 or by visiting the Treasury website and clicking on Tuition Account Program.
Happy Mothers Day, Kate and Jonathan. Pennsylvania is proud of you and this wonderful six-pack whose birthday we honor today. Congratulations, and many blessings for a healthy, happy, and prosperous future for your family!
Your "ranting" is just generating interest in a show you seem to be so morally opposed to. So stop watching!
