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THE AMERUS FOUNDATION FOR While the humanitarian aid of food and underutilized weapons scientists who might RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT medical supplies is necessary to address im­ otherwise consider emigration to countries ACT OF 1992 mediate problems, this assistance will not, in where they could continue working on ad­ and of itself, foster the capabilities needed for vanced military systems. HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. long-term economic and political stability. Hu­ Third, allow United States firms access to OF CALIFORNIA manitarian aid will do nothing in the way of the many novel technologies that have been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES helping the newly independent states help developed in former Soviet laboratories. Busi­ themselves toward a prosperous, self-suffi­ nesses from Japan, Germany, and other coun­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 cient future. tries, with the support of their governments, Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, today I am Today, there is universal recognition that a aggressively are searching out commercial tar­ joined by my good colleagues-Representa­ strong science and technology base is fun­ gets. Stronger United States Government en­ tives ASPIN, BoUCHER, MCCURDY, LLOYD, SEN­ damental to the strength of an industrial econ­ couragement of business alliances with the SENBRENNER, SCHEUER, and SPRATT-in intro­ omy. The Soviet Union once maintained the former Soviet Republics promises both short­ ducing the AmeRus Foundation for Research largest scientific establishment in the world. and long-term boosts to our technology base and Development Act of 1992. This bill will es­ Fully one-quarter of the scientific workers on and our competitiveness. tablish an independent, endowed foundation the planet now reside in the Republics of the To this end, the AmeRus Foundation for Re­ which will identify and fund cooperative re­ former Soviet Union, and more than half the search and Development Act of 1992 author­ search and development ventures between world's engineers work there. Engineers and izes the Director of the National Science engineers and scientists working in industry, scientists in the newly independent states will Foundation to establish a foundation for re­ academia, and defense in the United States play a key role in determining whether the search and development which will make and the former Soviet Union. This legislation transition to an open and market-driven soci­ grants for joint research projects in basic and will help lay the foundation for a new civilian ety will succeed, or whether economic distress applied research between engineers and sci­ economic infrastructure in the newly independ­ will invite a return to repressive governance entists in the United States and the new Re­ ent states of the former Soviet Union. and military confrontation. publics. These projects would be carried out The changes that have been provoked by Today, however, Russia, Ukraine, and within academic institutions, government lab­ the break-up of the Soviet Empire requires a Belarus face the imminent dissolution of their oratories, and nonprofit research institutes. major adjustment in United States thought and science and technology infrastructure, within Representatives of both countries would es­ action. We must support emerging democratic their Academies of Science and within their tablish priority research areas that are mutu­ institutions wherever they take root, while en­ numerous educational institutions. In my re­ ally beneficial. In addition, the foundation couraging the rebuilding of economic infra­ cent discussions with Boris Saltykov, Minister would support industrial research develop­ structures based on free-market systems. The of Science, Higher Education, and Technology ment. The foundation would provide partial period of transition during which these Policy of the Russian Federation; and with support to high-technology ventures-from changes take place, as we have seen has Yuriy Osipov, President of the Russian Acad­ laboratory bench to the marketplace. It would been one of despair and holds the potential emy of Science; both reiterated their belief link Russian entrepreneurs in high-technology for international instability. In the case of the that world-class research is being suspended sectors with interested United States business Republics of the former Soviet Union, eco­ or terminated because of insufficient budg­ partners. This framework would assist United nomic hardship, ethnic divisiveness, and so­ etary support. They emphasized that even States businesses in developing new markets, phisticated weaponry combine to suggest the modest cooperative efforts could maintain re­ and would give them access to first-rate re­ potential for particularly dangerous con­ search efforts of potential significance to the searchers. For the newly independent states, sequences. The United States has an unprec­ entire world. World-class scientific facilities in this type of cooperation will help them learn edented opportunity to influence the evolution the former Soviet Union must be preserved; if Western-style business practices while utilizing of these formerly Communist States into sta­ they are not, the loss will be not just to the their own scientists and engineers. Not only ble democracies with free-market economies. new republics, but to all humanity. will such a program assist these states in re­ Our inaction-or inappropriate action-could In the United States we ourselves are faced taining their cadre of highly skilled workers, I invite negative long-term consequences. with a serious economic downturn, com­ envision that it also will provide an impetus for The .establishment of binational foundations plicated by economic readjustment to a mili­ defense-conversion projects. Highly skilled to support cooperative scientific and techno­ tary draw-down that will change the nature of personnel will have a financial incentive to de­ logical work is not a novel idea. In the mid- our economy. Thus, it is difficult to justify in­ velop alternative uses for their knowledge and 1970's, the United States and Israel estab­ creased foreign assistance programs that do technologies. lished three nongovernmental foundations to not offer tangible domestic benefits. I believe I want to emphasize that this legislation dif­ support various types of scientific and techno­ that the only rational approach to helping the fers in four significant ways from Secretary logical cooperation between United States and states of the former Soviet Union will be one Baker's proposal to establish an International Israeli engineers and scientists. These founda­ based on mutual cooperation, collaboration, Science and Technology Center in Moscow. tions have proved to be very successful and and benefit. Technological and scientific co­ First, it addresses the crisis in the civilian sci­ have provided substantial benefits to both the operation with the newly independent states, if entific community, as well as in .the defense United States and Israel. structured correctly, could utilize our mutual sector. Second, it provides funds only for joint Nor is the concept of scientific and techno­ expertise to help rebuild their economic infra­ research projects evaluated on scientific merit. logical assistance to Russia a new one. How­ structure. Scientific and technological coopera­ Third, it limits bureaucratic redtape by estab­ ever, the approach I outline today is a signifi­ tion can: lishing an independent, nongovernment entity. cant departure from other legislative proposals First, assist all of the new states in applying And fourth, the bill establishes a foundation introduced in the last few months. Unlike other technological capabilities to the task of eco­ which will look beyond the immediate crisis to schemes, this approach has been endorsed nomic growth. foster the development of a new commercial by the National Academy of Sciences in its re­ Second, provide new civilian research op­ high-technology sector that will absorb the tal­ cent report: "Reorientation of the Research portunities which could divert technological tal­ ents of both civilian and defense research Capabilities of the Former Soviet Union-A ent away from military pursuits and contribute communities. Report to the Assistant to the President for to the urgent U.S. goal of redirecting military This is not a foreign aid bill. This legislation Science and Technology." efforts and providing alternative challenges for establishes a framework for cooperative re-

• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6703 search which will ensure that benefits flow operation of the Foundation, and the fields A TRIBUTE TO SUPER TEACHER, equally to all partners. of cooperative research supported by the SARA GELTNER I realize that in order for substantive re­ Foundation. Membership of the Board shall search and development collaboration to be equally divided between representatives HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN occur, U.S. technology-transfer laws must be of the United States and representatives of other participants in the Foundation. Board OF FLORIDA reevaluated. While there has been some re­ membership is limited to a minimum of six IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES laxation of technology-transfer restrictions, the and a maximum of 12 voting members. The United States must keep pace with events if Directors of NSF and NIST will serve as ad­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 we want to reap the benefits of genuine co­ ditional nonvoting members of the Board, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to operation. I should further point out that if we and the U.S. representatives will be ap­ congratulate Ms. Sara Geitner for being ac­ don't act soon to harvest these benefits, our pointed by the Director of NSF, in consulta­ knowledged by the members of our commu­ economic competitors will beat us to it. I urge tion with the Directors of NIST and the Of­ nity for her outstanding contribution to their fice of Science and Technology Policy my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring this (OSTP). schools. Ms. Geitner has dedicated 40 years legislation. to our educational system, and in those 40 Mr. Speaker, a section-by-section descrip­ The Board will adopt a charter to define years she has bestowed our children with tion of the bill follows: the policies and the range of activities of the kindness and self-esteem as well as a good Foundation, and will appoint an Executive THE AMERUS FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND Director who will be responsible for manag­ education. She has worked hard and dedi­ DEVELOPMENT ACT ing the Foundation. cated much time to making children under­ SUMMARY OF THE BILL stand that they are important and that they Funding (Sec. 5): The Foundation may ac­ Short Title (Sec. 1): This Act may be cited matter to us. The difference Ms. Geitner as the "AmeRus Foundation for Research cept funding from direct governmental ap­ propriations, private donations, debt conver­ makes in our young students is overwhelming and Development Act of 1992." and is evident in their response to her. The Findings (Sec. 2): The general theme of the sions, and local foreign currencies generated findings is that the dissolution of the Soviet by U.S. assistance programs, as available. children just love her and her classroom. Union and its accompanying economic anar­ Funds for government-to-government debt In an article titled "Teacher Wants Kids to chy has adversely affected the health of the conversions must be specifically provided for Learn Right From the Start," John O'Neill of scientific and technological infrastructure In in advance ·by appropriations acts, and local the Miami Herald reports: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, currencies generated by U.S. assistance pro­ Sara Geitner believes kids today face a and other former Soviet republics. This in­ grams are authorized to be made available to tough world. Her job is to help them get frastructure, which is vital to a sound mar­ the Foundation. ready to face it, and that means starting ket economy, is threatened by loss of eco­ The Foundation is authorized to invest and early. nomic support and consequent brain drain. retain any earnings on revenue provided to it Geitner is a kindergarten teacher at River­ Modest external resources can be leveraged through government assistance. An amount side Elementary, 221 SW 12th Ave., and al­ to provide a significant source of support for equal to five percent of royalty revenues on though she has seen a lot of changes in the both civilian and defense scientists and engi­ any patents resulting from Foundation as­ 40 years she has been working with the wee neers engaged in collaborative research sistance must be turned over to the Founda­ ones, her basic theme remains the same. projects for peaceful purposes. In addition, tion, to be added to the endowment or used "It's important for them to have good self­ resources targeted at collaborative research to fund research projects. Contributions images," said Geitner. "That's where it and development projects involving U.S. in­ made to the endowment in U.S. dollars must starts. I want to make them feel important dustrial participants can help develop an un­ be retained in dollars, and not less than 20 and beautiful. A lot of my students have al­ derstanding of commercial business practice percent of the Foundation's financial re­ ready had very hard lives, and they're only 5 among Russian scientists and entrepreneurs, sources must be retained in dollars. years old." in addition to linking U.S. researchers and In class, her 35 kids seem to hang on business to highly trained personnel and so­ The Board is required to set a minimum Geitner's every word. They scramble to help phisticated new technologies and manufac­ contribution to the endowment for any coun­ her erase the board or pick up something turing processes. try seeking to participate in the Foundation. that has dropped on the floor. And they Definitions (Sec. 3): The bill defines the That contribution should reflect the coun­ smile a lot. term "Director" to mean the Director of the try's ability to make a financial contribu­ "She gives me homework," said Diana Her­ National Science Foundation (NSF); and tion and its expected level of participation in nandez, 6. "I like homework." "debt conversion" to mean an agreement Foundation programs. "She gives the students a wonderful start," whereby a country's external debt burden Participation in the Foundation (Sec. 6): said Carol LeBlanc, a lead teacher. "And (either government-to-government or com­ Foundation activities will be conditioned on that's important because we have so many mercial) is exchanged by the holder for local a waiver, by participating countries of nor­ immigrant children here. She insists they currencies, policy commitments, other eco­ mal customs, duties and other taxes on per­ learn English well. It's funny, because at the nomic activities or assets, or for an equity sonal travel or importation of goods in con­ end of the year most of the kids talk just interest in an enterprise owned by the debtor nection with Foundation projects. like her." government. Geitner works especially hard on English, Establishment of the Foundation (Sec. 4): Participation in the Foundation may be helping the kids translate their native words The bill authorizes the Director of the Na­ extended to any republic formerly within the and phrases. She teaches them about Amer­ tional Science Foundation, in consultation Soviet Union. ica and the American way of life. with the Director of the National Institute If the Foundation does not adequately She also gives them things they can get of Standards and Technology (NIST), to es­ carry out the purposes of this Act, the Direc­ their hands on. The class does a lot of tablish an AmeRus Foundation for Research tor of NSF may withdraw from the endow­ "hands-on" things, like growing plants. and Development. The Foundation is an en­ ment that portion which represents the con­ "They're so curious and thrilled, I want to dowed, nongovernmental, nonprofit entity. tribution of the U.S. Government. This must give them things they can touch," Geitner The functions of the Foundation are: (1) to be done, however, in consultation with the said. "They want very much to be involved, promote and support joint research projects Directors of NIST and OSTP, and not less because it makes them feel like human for peaceful purposes between scientists and than 30 days after notification to the Con­ beings.'' engineers in the United States and former gress. Born in Chicago, Gel tner moved to Miami Soviet states on subjects of mutual interest; with her family in 1934 and graduated from and (2) to establish joint nondefense indus­ Audit and Report (Sec. 7): The Foundation Miami High. She got a degree in elementary is required to engage an independent auditor education from the University of Miami and trial research and development activities to perform an annual organization-wide through private sector linkages which may has since gotten a master's in administra­ also involve participation by academic sci­ audit, and to publish a biennial report of its tion and supervision from Florida Inter­ entists and engineers. The resources of the activities and the results of the independent national University. Foundation must be equally distributed to audits. She went to work at Riverside in 1952. support these two Foundation functions, and Authorization of Appropriations (Sec. 8): Since then, the building has been rebuilt projects involving industrial participation There are authorized to be appropriated, and three times and the school has seen every so­ must include some industrial contribution. made available to the Director of NSF, toes­ cial upheaval Miami has been through, The governing body of the Foundation is a tablish the endowment and otherwise for Geitner said. Board of Governors which has sole respon­ carrying out this Act, $50,000,000 for each of She vividly remembers her first class: sibility for determining the structure and the fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995. Thirty-nine kids, all non-Hispanic whites. 6704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 Today, her class is 100 percent Hispanic and years that I have served in Congress is that native power sources must be explored. Teen­ includes youngsters from Nicarag·ua, Hon­ faced by Syrian Jews. This small, vulnerable agers need to inform industries to take re­ duras and South America. community has been subjected to deprivation sponsibility for their waste byproducts and "It is a challenge, but I look forward to and hardship. The Syrian Government has re­ to invest in cleaning up their manufacturing being with them," she said. "They keep me processes. young." fused to allow Syrian Jews to be reunited with Drug and alcohol abuse are one of the most family outside Syria despite being a signatory Mr. Speaker, I applaud Ms. Geitner for her challenging dilemmas facing American teen­ to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. terrific success in the classroom and with her agers today. The loss in human resource due During my last visit to Syria, I again raised to drug and alcohol abuse is staggering. Cost students. Her commitment to better education issues relating to Syrian Jewry with Syrian offi­ to social services run into the millions of is evident in her work, and we appreciate her. cials. Like other Members of Congress, I dollars. Increased education and public She is an example to teachers everywhere. handed lists to high officials and pleaded spe­ awareness are helping to teach the youth that drugs are wrong. Mandatory drug test­ cific cases. The Syrians never deviated from ing will deter the casual user. We teenagers TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR R. TAYLOR, their position that Syrian Jews are treated no must send a clear message to the dealers by M.D. different from other Syrian citizens. Yet, the informing the police of the dealers activities. Swed brothers have still not been released The challenge to youth is to withstand peer HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS from prison after 4 years of confinement for pressure and "just say no". trying to exercise their right to emigration. If the teenagers are willing to accept the OF PENNSYLVANIA Syrian Jews live under the difficult condition challenges, they must be met by the con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of close surveillance and onerous prohibitions. tributions of our parents, American society, Tuesday, March 24,1992 and its government. The government should The Syrian Government has shown very little put more emphasis on solving the problems Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to if any sign of liberalization of human rights to­ at home. We cannot continue to bailout pay tribute to Arthur R. Taylor, M.D., of Wil­ ward the Jewish community. bankrupt foreign governments and maintain liamsport, PA, on the occasion of his retire­ I urge human rights organizations to press a stable economy. We must stimulate our ment after 42 years of practice as a physician. for human rights for Syrian Jews and to in­ economy to increase job opportunities and Dr. Taylor is considered by some to be the crease the awareness of those inside and out­ reduce the number of people on welfare and father of primary care and family practice side Government to urge Syria to improve its unemployment. Those who continue to stay overall human rights record toward . its Jewish on welfare should work for their benefits. We medicine in Lycoming County. Through his must start running this country like a cor­ tireless work and dedication over the years, citizens. poration and stop wasteful spending. countless area residents have benefited from People of my parents and grandparents age the high-quality medical care that he has pro­ feel that teenagers lack motivation and val­ vided. TRIBUTE TO JAIME D. ues. They fear we will not meet the chal­ In the late 1960's, several physicians, in­ HEFFINGTON lenges of the future. I submit that adults cluding Dr. Taylor, formed the American Acad­ should remember their youth and realize emy of Family Physicians, and the American HON. BUD CRAMER that those fears were once shared by their parents. When called upon to lead, we will do board of Family Practice. Taking a substantial OF ALABAMA so. I, like many of my peers, am motivated. risk, he then developed the Family Practice IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We have firm goals and values. We do accept Residency Program at the Williamsport Hos­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the challenges as opportunities. The youth of pital. Dr. Taylor donated his private practice so today are tomorrow's leaders and we will other physicians could receive training in a Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to meet America's challenge. pay a most fitting tribute to Jaime D. specialty that was just beginning to develop. Jaime is 15 years old and is a sophomore Heffington of Florence, AL. Jaime is the State Under Dr. Taylor's tutelage, 102 physicians at Bradshaw High School in Florence, AL. She winner of the 1992 VFW Voice of Democracy have graduated from the Family Practice Resi­ is an extraordinary student who plans to pur­ Scholarship Program. I would like to insert dency Program of the Williamsport Hospital sue a career in corporate law. I would like to Jaime's winning speech entitled "Meeting and Medical Center. Of that number, 30 have extend my best wishes to her as she sets out America's Challenge" into the CONGRESSIONAL stayed in practice in Lycoming county, adding on the journey of adulthood. Jaime and the RECORD. significantly to the quality of medical care in many youngsters like her are indeed our hope the region. These doctors have served at hos­ MEETING AMERICA'S CHALLENGE for the future. pitals throughout the county and at area nurs­ (By Jaime D. Heffington) ing homes as well. Many indigent patients I believe today's teenagers have tremen­ would have gone without needed medical care dous challenges ahead of them. Employment, THE ABRAVANEL FAMILY CELE- had it not been for the physicians trained environmental pollution, drug and alcohol BRATES FIVE REMARKABLE under Dr. Taylor. abuse, and poverty are just a few. If we are CENTURIES to meet America's challenge, we must elimi­ Mr. Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues to nate those forces which threaten us. join me in honoring Dr. Arthur Taylor for his A more highly skilled work force will be HON. LES AuCOIN many outstanding accomplishments over the required to meet the demands of advanced OF OREGON years, including his professorships at the Uni­ technology. By the year 2000, 85 percent of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the work force will need additional training. versity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Temple University School of Medicine, and the Many positions will require a masters degree College of Medicine at the Pennsylvania State where a bachelors degree once sufficed. Indi­ Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to University, Hershey Medical Center. Most of viduals who are not properly trained will call attention to an extraordinary family re­ find it increasingly difficult to find employ­ all, we want to thank Dr. Taylor for his hard union that took place this past weekend in ment. New York City. Over 130 descendants of Don work and devotion to the practice of medicine. That is why we must work toward improv­ May his future years be rewarding and joyful. ing our educational system in order to fur­ Isaac Abravanel-1437-1508-the noted phi­ nish tomorrow's work force. America's chil­ losopher and statesman, gathered together in dren is its most valuable asset. More empha­ a joyful celebration of the human spirit. HUMAN RIGHTS FOR SYRIAN JEWS sis on education can only enhance their pro­ Don Isaac Abravanel is best remembered ductivity and achievement. Only through for his theological and philosophical works, es­ better education and teachers will the teen­ pecially his commentaries on the Old Testa­ HON. WIWAM LEHMAN agers be able to meet the demands of ad­ OF FLORIDA ment. He also served as treasurer to Kings Al­ vanced technology. fonso V and John II of Portugal, and later to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Environmental pollution threatens our Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. In 1492, Fer­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 very existence. With Ozone depletion, acid rain and industrial waste, we are killing our­ dinand and Isabella expelled the Jews from Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, one selves. Our nonrenewable resources are being Spain as demanded by T orquemada, the head of the most intractable human rights situations depleted. We cannot continue to be a throw of the Inquisition. Don Isaac tried to convince that I have encountered over the nearly 20 away society. We must recycle, and alter- Ferdinand and Isabella to revoke the decree March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6705 of expulsion, but without success. He then chestra, who could not make the gathering house. Even though no funds would be trans­ went into exile rather than give up his Jewish but sent a taped greeting that brought a roar ferred or withdrawn from his account, as long faith. of approval from the audience. as his loan is in good standing, Mr. Wilkerson "We cannot be humble with a name like Since then, the Abravanel family has flour­ would still be subject to penalties for withdraw­ that," Maurice Abravanel said. "That's im~ ished in many countries. Last weekend's re­ possible. The best we can do is try to live in ing his hard earned money. union included visitors from Argentina, Brazil, a way that the grand old man would be proud Today, I am introducing a bill to amend the France, Israel, and all over the United States. of us." Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit IRA Some family members spell the name Allan R. Abravanel, a lawyer from Port­ accounts to be used as security for loans with­ "Abarbanel," "Barbanel," or "Barbanell," but land, Ore., and the mastermind behind the out tax penalties. all are justifiably proud of the family's accom­ family reunion, said that the extended fam­ Many people throughout our Nation have plishments. ily had both Mediterannean and Northern worked hard for many years to save money My friend and constituent Allan R. European branches-Sephardic and Askenazic. But no one is sure how, when or for the future. This legislation will permit peo­ Abravanel of Portland, OR, helped to organize even if the migration north occurred. ple to use the funds which they have accrued this reunion. To Allen, his wife Susan, and Like other Askenazic family members, over the years and to which they are entitled. their many relatives throughout the world, I ex­ Jonathan Abarbanel, a freelance theater It is time that we allow this money to be used tend my congratulations and my best wishes critic from Chicago, said that his paternal by them for improving their current quality of for the next 500 years. grandfather came from Ukraine at the turn life and investing in their futures. [From the New York Times, Mar. 23, 1992] of the century, the descendant of poor Rus­ 130 ABRAVANELS HONOR HEROIC NAME sian peasant Jews. "But I've always felt en­ nobled by the name," he said. (By Ari L. Goldman) A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF ISRAEL'S Others said that ennobling or not, the GIANTS: MENACHEM BEGIN Five hundred years ago Don Isaac name was sometimes a burden. Howard Abravanel, a Jew who was finance minister Barbanel, who grew up on Long Island and to Queen Isabella of Spain, was given a attended Jewish day schools, said he was HON. DANfE B. FASCEU choice: Convert to Christianity or be exiled greeted· by more than one rabbi with: "Do OF FLORIDA forever from Spain. Together with thousands you know who are are? Do you know where of other Jews, Abravanel chose exile, and in you come from?" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the words of one scholar, became the classic TRADING SPELLING STORIES Tuesday, March 24, 1992 wandering Jew, journeying to Naples, Sicily, As they gathered for a family photograph Corfu and Venice. Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, I consider it an Over the weekend, 130 of his descendants at the Sephardic Jewish Center of Forest honor to pay tribute to former Prime Minister gathered in Queens to pay tribute to the Hills, where a reunion dinner was held, fam­ Menachem Begin and to acknowledge with courage of Abravanel and to bask in his ily members traded stories. "I spend half my sadness the passing of this man who through­ time as a lawyer spelling my name," said name. There were Abravanels, Abarbanels, out his long and active life exemplified the in­ Barbanels and Barbanells, among other vari­ Allan Abravanel. One parlor game was to de­ scribe the corruptions of the name by well­ domitable spirit of the people of Israel. ations, and they brought with them ancient Mr. Begin will be remembered by some pri­ books and documents and stories and family meaning listeners: Barbarelli, Barnell, trees going back eight generations and more. Barbaro, Barbarillio. And more than a few marily for his implacable determination to as­ None could trace their heritage directly to admitted to checking phone directories for sure the survival of his country. This, despite Don Isaac, a Renaissance man on the eve of long-lost family members whenever they opposition to his sometimes blunt methods the Renaissance, a statesman, philosopher, visit a new city. and despite the arrows of public opinion, even Bible commentator and mystic. The stand­ Members of the clan also talked about fa­ mous relatives that they have yet to track in Israel. ard for being accepted into the extended He will be remembered by others as a family could best be summed up by the fam­ down. There was talk of Oded Abarbanel of Tel Aviv, who, according to the family news­ forceful leader who was willing to go the extra ily motto, "Basta mi nombre que es mile to make peace-despite a highly vocal Abravanel!" or "It is enough that my name letter, holds the distinction of being the only is Abravanel!" El Al pilot whose aircraft was ever hijacked. level of opposition from many of his own peo­ The family gathering Saturday night, and And there was Mickey Abarbanel, a baseball ple. an academic conference on the works of pitcher who played for an Indianapolis farm Mr. Begin rose to the status of statesman Abravanel held yesterday at Queens College, team, was featured on a White Sox baseball the day in 1978 when he shook hands with an are among dozens of events around the world card as a "rookie star" and then dropped old foe, Anwar Sadat, at Camp David and recalling the 500th anniversary of the expul­ from view without playing in the major leagues. agreed to hand back the Sinai Peninsula to sion of the Jews from Spain. On March 31, Egypt-all in the name of giving peace a the precise anniversary of the decree, King Perhaps the most unusual story came from Juan Carlos of Spain is expected to formally Maurice Abravanel, who said that even the chance. rescind the order in a ceremony in a Madrid sound of the Abravanel name inspired great­ Mr. Begin was not a native Israeli and he synagogue. ness. "When Beethoven did not know how to was early-on considered a political outsider for The expulsion came in the same year as start his Fifth Symphony, he heard the name his fundamentalist beliefs. Born in Poland and Columbus's voyage of discovery. There are Abravanel," the conductor said, singing his imprisoned by the Communists, he found his those who maintain that Abravanel and name with an emphasis on each syllable but especially the last: ah-brah-vah-NEL. way to Israel and was known as a terrorist other Jews helped finance the voyage, either while fighting for his country's independence. voluntarily or through forced appropriation For a man who was born in obscurity, of their wealth, and still others who contend that Columbus himself was a Jew. INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION shaped in conflict and scorned as an idealistic But little was made of the Columbus con­ TO PERMIT IRA ACCOUNTS TO firebrand, Mr. Begin eventually took his place nection. The weekend belonged to Don Isaac BE USED AS SECURITY FOR in history as the first Israeli leader to arrange Abravanel. People bearing his name came for LOANS WITHOUT TAX PEN­ a peace accord with a neighboring Arab State. the occasion from Florida, California, Or­ ALTIES A pact which earned him the Nobel Prize, egon, illinois, Texas, the Carolinas and all along with his copeacemaker, Anwar Sadat. over the Northeast. Alain Abravanel came Mr. Begin has been called a man of con­ from Brazil; David Abravanel came from Is­ HON. NEWf GINGRICH rael; Dr. Roberto Senor Abravanel came OF GEORGIA trasts and contradictions. A man who was an outsider and a fierce parliamentary debater for from Argentina, and Christian Abravanel IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES came with his two children from France. three decades of his political life. A man who, "I've been hearing stories about Don Isaac Tuesday, March 24, 1992 particularly in his early years, would rather since I was this little," said Christian Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, recently one fight than negotiate. For these traits he was Abravanel, dipping his hand to half the size of my constituents, Mr. Thomas Wilkerson, of often condemned by world opinion. Through it of his 12-year-old son, David. Mr. Abravanel, McDonough, GA, telephoned my office to re­ all, however, he was always respected as a who owns a limousine company in Cannes, leader who put the survival of his adopted Is­ said that his mother was Roman Catholic port that although he was financially secure and his father a Jew from Salonika, Greece. and had planned for the future, he was unable rael above all else. He is a nephew of Maurice Abravanel, con­ to use his individual retirement account as col­ There came a time, particularly after his wife ductor emeritus of the Utah Symphony Or- lateral in order to obtain a loan to build his Aliza's death in 1983, that Mr. Begin seemed 6706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 to lose heart. He resigned his leadership posi­ FRANCES J AKOVLJEVIC TO BE educational trip. I am confident that she will tion and retired from public life. EXCHANGE STUDENT TO RUSSIA learn much about Russia during this time of "Whoever has followed my story knows that monumental historical change and bring this fate has not pampered me," he wrote. "From HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN understanding back to south Florida. my earliest youth, I have known hunger and OF FLORIDA been acquainted with sorrow. And often death IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has brooded over me • • • But for such TRIBUTE TO BETHANY PRES­ things I have never wept." Tuesday, March 24, 1992 BYTERIAN CHURCH OF BLOOM­ At his passing, Israel loses one of the last Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, Ms. FIELD, NJ, ON ITS 50TH ANNI­ of its well-known freedom fighters whose lives Frances Jakovljevic of Miami, FL endeavors to VERSARY CELEBRATION encompassed the Jewish national movement travel to Russia, the homeland of her grand­ and the leadership of the tiny nation's first four father, to learn about that country and its peo­ HON. ROBERT A. ROE decades. ple. Currently a senior at the Greater Miami OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Begin will be remembered as a man Academy in West Dade County, Ms. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who wisely made peace when he deemed that Jakovljevic was chosen as one of 33 students Tuesday, March 24, 1992 to be the correct path, but was determined from Florida to participate in Initiative for Un­ Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, it is with the deepest enough to stand up and be counted when he derstanding, an exchange program between reverence and the greatest sense of pride that considered the security of his nation at stake. Russian and American kids. The Miami Herald I rise today to salute an outstanding house of ran a story about Ms. Jakovljevic and her ef­ worship in my Eighth Congressional District of forts to raise money for this spectacular learn­ SALUTE TO DR. JERRY MILLER New Jersey which, for half a century, has ing experience. That article follows: been a spiritual focal point and a beacon of Frances Jakovljevic hopes to sink her feet faith for countless numbers of worshipers in HON. ELTON GALLEGLY into Russian soil this summer. She wants to the greater northern New Jersey area. OF CALIFORNIA see Moscow and visit St. Petersburg, the city I am speaking of Bethany Presbyterian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES where her grandfather was born. Church of Bloomfield, NJ, which will be cele­ Frances is about 5,500 miles and $3,000 from brating its 50th anniversary on Sunday, March Tuesday; March 24, 1992 her goal. But the 17-year-old senior from Greater Miami Academy in West Dade isn't 29, by hosting a celebration service that morn­ Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ing and a dinner the evening before for the honor Dr. Jerry Miller for his 11 years of lead­ daunted, even though she has to raise the money for the trip herself. congregation. I know the observance of this ership and accomplishment as president of "I'll go no matter what," she said. "This is historic occasion will be an especially proud California Lutheran University in Thousand very important to me." event for Rev. James D. Henkel, the pastor of Oaks, CA. Frances was one of the 33 students from Bethany Presbyterian Church and its guiding Both in terms of bricks and mortar and, Florida chosen to be part of the Initiative for force for these past 9 years. more importantly, in terms of academic excel­ Understanding, an exchange between Amer­ Mr. Speaker, the history of Bethany Pres­ ican and Russian kids. It's part of the People lence, Cal Lutheran owes a tremendous debt byterian Church is a rich one, beginning on to Jerry, who has left the school a better place to People program, a Washington-based group that organizes educational trips November 30, 1941, when the first service of than he found it. abroad for students and adults. worship was held in a storeroom at 395 West Jerry became the fourth president of what "The kids work hard when they travel," Passaic Avenue in Bloomfield, NJ. The deci­ was then called California Lutheran College on said Paul Chapin, director of Initiative for sion to open this storefront church resulted March 15, 1981. Under his leadership, the uni­ Understanding. "When they get there, from interest and survey work done by Hud­ versity began an active fund raising campaign they're 'on' all the time because people want son Presbytery. Discovering that there existed and expanded the campus facilities, including to know what life in America is like." "considerable interest in a church of the Pres­ The trip is set for July and will last 23 the Pearson Library, the Ahmanson Science byterian faith in the community," this Pres­ Center, and the magnificent Samuelson Chap­ days. The kids who go will first attend a se­ ries of orientation meetings to learn about bytery "applied to the Board of American Mis­ el. the culture and a few basic survival phrases. sions of the United Presbyterian Church of As I mentioned, the curriculum also under­ "That's in case you get lost," Frances said. North America for aid in the calling of a mis­ went changes under Jerry's leadership. He es­ People to People has been around for more sionary to serve in the new field and establish tablished a major faculty development pro­ than 30 years and the exchange with Russia a church." gram during the 1980's and led the way for a started in 1986. One student who took the The appointment to serve this church plan­ new core curriculum effective this year termed trip is now working as an intern at the ning missionary was accepted by the Rev­ "Core 21 ," designed to lead students into the American Embassy in Moscow, Chapin said. erend William H. Neebe, who arrived to as­ 21st century. And in 1986, the college became This year's student delegation which will include about 1,000 kids from around the sume the post on October 20, 1941. After a a university to reflect the growth of its grad­ country, will travel first to Moscow, then go month's remodeling and redecorating of the uate programs. on to St. Petersburg and three other cities. mission's storefront home, 35 people attended Jerry's outstanding leadership has been rec­ They spend time with Russian kids and visit the first morning worship service on November ognized many times, but I would like to share government offices, churches, farms and fac­ 30, 19 children and adults attended Bible with this House the words of Creed Black, tories. school. president of the Knight Foundation in Miami, Given what's happened in the former So­ Regular services were held in the storeroom FL, which gave CLU a $100,000 grant to viet Union during the past year, Frances be­ church each Sunday morning and Tuesday lieves there will be a lot to look at. serve as a presidential discretionary fund. In "I want to see what kind of changes have evening. In March 1942, applications for mem­ his letter, Mr. Black stated, "The grant, by its taken place," she said. "I want to see what bership were received and the congregation nature, acknowledges the quality of your presi­ the kids are like there and how they think." was officially organized on Palm Sunday, dential leadership and is intended to provide Frances has spent some time abroad. Born March 29, with 65 charter members. Officers special opportunity for the university to benefit in California, she lived for two years in were elected at the first congregational meet­ from your experience and judgment." Spain and lived in Orlando before coming to ing of the church on April 12, 1942, and a On July 1, Jerry Miller will formally resign Miami four years ago. But Russia is some­ name was selected for the newly organized the presidency and will become the univer­ thing else. "It's a place I've always wanted to go," she fellowship, "The Bethany United Presbyterian sity's first chancellor. As such, he will lead and said. Church." direct the university's development and fund­ She's already been turned down in her In January 1943, a constitution was adopted raising activities. fund-raising quest by the Rotary and Lions and a building committee established to plan Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me clubs, but she remains optimistic. the structure to be built on the corner lot at in saluting Dr. Jerry Miller for his service to "I believe people will help me, because I'll High Street and West Passaic Avenue. The lot California Lutheran University and to higher be representing Miami there," she said. had been purchased for the congregation by education, and to wish him well as he em­ Mr. Speaker, I wish Ms. Jakovljevic much the Board of American Missions on a $20,000 barks on his new challenge. success in her efforts to raise funds for this grant/loan arrangement. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6707 The official congregational record recalls, and assist them in their time of need. CON­ TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN "These were the war years. The world was at TACT reaches out to the lonely and the de­ THE PERFORMING ARTS war in the most destructive battles this earth pressed, to the abused and the abusers. They has ever experienced. Amid these days of provide suicide-prevention services, and will HON. NEWf GINGRICH horrible destruction, our community was con­ refer people who are in need of counseling to OF GEORGIA structing a place of worship to almighty God." the appropriate assistance organizations. Continuing to honor God in service to the The fact that this organization is celebrating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES community, Bethany currently houses a pre­ its 25th anniversary is amazing, considering Tuesday, March 24, 1992 school and both Gamblers Anonymous and the fact that most hotlines usually last no more Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Gamanon Chapters. The congregation directly than 3 years. The hard work, long hours, and call my colleague's attention to an article sent sponsors Troop and Club Pack 23 of the Boy extreme dedication of the staff and volunteers to me by Samuel C. Welch of Cincinnati, OH. Scouts, a Senior Citizen's "Up and Doing" of CONTACT USA from across the Nation de­ The article is entitled, "Total Quality Manage­ Club, and a mature singles group in addition serve our thanks and appreciation for all they ment in the Performing Arts." to their regular worship, Christian education, have done to help those in need. I would commend it to my colleagues as an and fellowship activities. Mr. Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues to example of what is possible through total qual­ Bethany provides supplies and volunteer join me in congratulating CONTACT USA on ity management: staff to a local food pantry and supports a va­ its silver anniversary, and to wish them the best in the next 25 years as they continue TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE riety of local mission concerns including Essex PERFORMING ARTS their mission to help those who are just look­ County Hospitality Network, Montclair Chap­ (By Samuel C. Welch) laincy Council, Montclair Hospice, Newark ing for someone to listen. "It seems like only yesterday we realized Habitat for Humanity, and Newark World Im­ there was a crisis in the arts. It seems like pact. TRIBUTE TO AUGUSTINE RAMffiEZ only yesterday we started to hear warnings As Bethany marks this 50th anniversary, the against complacency and mismanagement in congregation is preparing an outreach which the business of the arts, found ourselves will offer prayer support for all who sense a HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. charting the erosion of public and private need for God's grace to touch their lives. OF CALIFORNIA support for the arts and began to get Over the years, two denominational mergers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alarmed at the growth of insincerity, antip­ have resulted in Bethany's present affiliation Tuesday, March 24, 1992 athy, and potentially worse, just plain medi­ ocrity among the participants on all sides of with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as a Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the cultural debate. It seems like only yes­ member congregation of the Presbytery of pay a tribute to Augustine Ramirez, Ed.D, who terday, but it has been going on for years." Newark. is retiring after 39 years of service in public These sobering words, written by Theodore Bethany's membership stands at 130, with education. W. Libby, Jr. opened the keynote article in an average Sunday worship attendance of 60 Dr. Ramirez has served with great effective­ the 1991 Musical America, International Art­ persons. The congregation is currently served ness to improve the education system for ists Directory. by the Reverend James D. Henkel. many children. Beginning as a teacher in the PERFORMING ARTS AND THE G.N.P. Mr. Speaker, these are just a few of the early 1950's, he then moved on to serve as di­ In 1970, the overall U.S. Amusement and many dates that hold a great significance in rector of student activities of Fontana Unified Recreation Industry comprised about 1 per­ the long and historic past of Bethany Pres­ School District, assistant principal at Corona cent of the G.N.P., with the combined sym­ byterian Church, and give a brief glimpse of Senior High School, principal of Norco Junior phony and opera component occupying about the road it has traveled to its status as the High School, superintendent of schools at Co­ one fourth of that, or approximately S2.1 bil­ lion dollars. spiritual and civic hub of its great community. rona-Norco Unified School District and ending By 1988, the U.S. Amusement and Recre­ Mr. Speaker, I appreciate this opportunity to with his role as assistant superintendent in ation industry had dropped to about half of present a portion of the history of this distin­ San Bernardino. 1 percent of the GNP, with the symphony guished parish that has remained dedicated to Dr. Ramirez assisted in two reorganizations and opera component sliding to approxi­ helping others and guiding them spiritually. As of the San Bernardino County superintendent mately 15 percent of that amount, or about Bethany Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, of schools, the coordination of the Inland Em­ $2.8 billion. With such a small and dwindling NJ, celebrates its 50th anniversary, I know pire proeducation rally, and worked with the portion of the nation's 5 trillion dollar econ­ that you and all our colleagues here in Con­ county committee in four unifications. Through omy effected, why would any one be particu­ gress will want to join me in extending our his involvement with the county committee, he larly concerned? warmest greetings and felicitations for both the helped to identify the need for bylaws and a WHY SHOULD PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN THE service and guidance it has provided for its code of ethnics. The booklet covering this in­ ARTS? community, State, and Nation. formation, written under the direction of Dr. "About a century ago Sir John Lubbock, Ramirez, is now used by the State and held Lord Avebury, declared that Art is unques­ tionably one of the purest and highest ele­ by every county in California as a model and TRffiUTE TO CONTACT USA ON ITS ments in human happiness. It trains the reference for their efforts. mind through the eye, and the eye through 25TH ANNIVERSARY In addition to his tremendous work in edu­ the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does cation, he has donated countless hours to art color life." HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS community activities. He has served as com­ "As Sir John Lubbock so aptly observed, OF PENNSYLVANIA munity director of the Corona Community Hos­ art is one of the great pleasures of life, as well as a practical necessity. Others have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pital; team chairman of the United Fund Build­ ing Fund Campaign. He has also served on made more extravagant claims. Charles Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the honorary board for the Corona Chamber of Fairbanks believed 'Art is the surest and safest civilizer.... Open your galleries of Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Commerce; citizen's advisory council of West­ art to the people, and you confer on them a pay tribute to CONTACT USA on its 25th an­ ern Community Bank and been a member of greater benefit than mere book education; niversary. This outstanding organization, various task forces in Riverside County. you give them a refinement to which they based in my hometown of Harrisburg, PA, has Dr. Ramirez will be leaving public service, would otherwise be strangers.' Fairbanks established a network of telephone helpline but is not truly retiring. He will continue with was convinced that mere exposure to art and crisis intervention centers nationwide that the San Bernardino County superintendent of would have lifelong effects." · have helped millions of people over the last schools as a consultant working with the coun­ The brilliant 19th century art critic John quarter century. ty committee on school district organization, Ruskin wrote: "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts-the CONTACT USA's 75 help centers across planning conferences, and assisting with spe­ book of their deeds, the book of their words, the Nation use intensively trained volunteers, cial projects. I am sure that Dr. Ramirez will and the book of their arts. Not one of these who answer telephones 24 hours a day, 365 continue his involvement with a variety of pro­ books can be understood unless we read the days a year, to help those who are reaching grams and know that our community will bene­ other two, but of the three, the only trust­ out for someone to listen to their problems fit from his work. worthy one is the last." 6708 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, ··1992 WHO ATTENDS AND WHO STAYS AWAY? support for the arts is actually shrinking, Dr. Scherkenbach writes: "The business "Americans spent over S2.8 billion attend­ and so is the percentage of charitable con­ process starts with the customer. In fact, if ing arts events in 1988, according to U.S. gov­ tributions going to the arts as a whole. One it is not started with the customer, it all too ernment statistics. That's almost as much as pf the reasons that American corporations many times abruptly ends with the cus­ Americans spent attending sports events. and donors have begun redirecting their tomer." Dr. Deming has said for decades But taking part in the arts still pales in money toward more visible, less "elitist" thatr- comparison with other leisure activities. needs such as education and welfare, is in re­ "Consumer research is an integral part of While 40 percent of Americans may attend sponse to cuts in federal spending in these production .... Without consumer research, some arts events in a year, 65 percent play areas." the product has little chance of being maxi­ cards or other games, 62 percent attend mov­ "In America, the arts are a business, not a mally useful, or made in the most economi­ ies, 59 percent repair their home or car, 59 ward of the state. But to say that an opera cal way. In fact, a concern can hardly hope percent garden, 53 percent exercise, 49 per­ company or an orchestra is run as a business to stay in business today without vigorous cent attend sports events, and 48 percent is not to imply that it makes a profit; not consumer research." visit amusement parks. None of these activi­ one of them does. It would be more accurate "It is a mistake to suppose that efficient ties comes close, however, to the most popu­ to say that to survive, orchestras and opera production of product and service can, with lar leisure pursuitr-watching television." companies must be run efficiently, though certainty, keep an organization solvent and Summarizes Professor John P. Robinson of even efficient operations presently fail to ahead of its competition. It is possible and, the University of Maryland, writing in balance costs and revenues."the tradit in fact; fairly easy for an organization to go American Demographics. THE TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT VIEW downhill and out of business making the HOW MANY ARE REALLY INTERESTED? Traditional Arts management wisdom is wrong product or offering the wrong type of service, even though everyone in the organi­ A recent (1001) report by Professor Alan R. fond of saying that American orchestras and arts institutions in general are in the busi­ zation performs with devotion, employing Andreasen of the University of Connecticut statistical methods and every other aid that reveals that about 53 percent, or nearly 135 ness of losing money wisely. And that is why the managements and can boost efficiency." million, of the adult U.S. population has an "In the olden days, before the industrial interest in Fine Arts performance attend­ boards of our cultural institutions continue to desperately seek short term, large scale, era, the tailor, the carpenter, the shoe­ ance. His study reflects this interest dis­ maker, the milkman, the blacksmith knew tribution among Americans: support from the shrinking base of well-to-do citizens who just happen to love the arts. his customers by name. He knew whether Interest level: they were satisfied, and what he should do to Percent WHY NOT DO IT DIFFERENTLY improve appreciation for his product. With Disinterest: Has not attended any There is an alternative to these traditional the expansion of industry, this personal of the performing arts forms in Arts management methods, concepts and touch was lost. But sampling, a new science, the last twelve months and is not consequences. steps in and provides that personal touch. interested in attending ...... 47.0 This article is written to share an applica­ Modern statistical techniques, such as sam­ Interest: Has not attended any of tion of Total Quality Management for there­ pling and design of experiment, combined the performing arts forms in the framing of Performing Arts organization with the arts of questioning and interview­ last twelve months but is inter- management concepts into a paradigm simi­ ing, provide information on consumer reac­ ested in attending ...... 22.2 lar to those of many successful manufactur­ tions with economy and reliability." Trial: Has attended one perform­ ing and service organizations throughout the "Communication between the producer and ance of one or more of the per­ world. the user and the potential user, gives the forming arts forms in the last This article makes a relevant connection public a chance. It gives the user a better twelve months and is not inter- between the needs of Performing Arts and service, better suited to his needs and cheap­ ested in attending more often ..... 6.6 other cultural organizations, foundations er. Consumer research is a continuous proc­ Positive evaluation: Has attended and other donor agencies, and the robust ess by which the service is continually im­ one performance of one or more management teachings of Dr. W. Edwards proved and modified to meet changing re­ of the performing arts forms in Deming. This application equally supports quirements of the consumer." the last twelve months and is in- symphony orchestras, ballet, opera, theater "It is this customer-driven, team-fueled, terested in attending more often 11.8 companies, and many other cultural organi­ and even-keel approach to business that Adoption: Has attended two or zations. It provides a source of new knowl­ forms the basis for the organizational con­ more performances of one or edge and a robust mechanism for success and stancy that Dr. Deming is urging. Until re­ more of the performing arts growth in the 1990's and beyond. cently, the customer has been the forgotten forms in the last twelve months The key to this success and growth lies in half of the equation. Marketing and sales but is not interested in attending changing the "product orientation" of tradi­ people must first determine the customers' more often ...... 3.8 tional Arts management to a functional needs and then pass this usable information Confirmation: Has attended two or "process orientation" which optimizes the on to design and management for translation more performances of one or relationship between Arts organizations and into something that can be produced." more of the performing arts their existing and potential audiences. In our forms in the last twelve months overall shrinking economy, with many com­ WHO REALLY DOES THIS? and is interested in attending peting entertainment forms and rapidly Mr. Donald Petersen, President and Chair­ more often ...... 8. 7 changing audiences tastes, the success and man of Ford, has said that in Ford's new phi­ Professor Andreasen suggests that the survival of not-for-profit classical arts orga­ losophy of never-ending improvement, one of ideal task for Arts management is to facili­ nizations lies in their understanding of and the basic operating principles is customer tate the progress of the 44.4 percent of U.S. responsiveness to their audience members. focus, which means "redefining quality in population who responded "interest" The greatest aid to Performing Arts orga­ the organization in customer terms, improv­ through "Adoption" in their progress to nizations can, indeed, come as a gift from ing product feedback mechanisms, and devel­ higher stages of Arts attendance. He sug­ the business community, but not in the form oping innovative products and services that gests this can be accomplished only by the of money. The most potent help will come in meet new customer needs." Performing Arts presenters' increased the form of shared market study expertise General Motors and the U.A.W. have joint­ knowledge of the values inherent in these in­ and in Total Quality Management instruc­ ly published a booklet entitled "Beliefs and terested segments of society. tion which will lead to a focus on value and Values". In the chapter titled "Customer quality as defined by the audience.some Satisfaction Through Continuous Improve­ WHO PAYS FOR THE ARTS? basic ment" is found this paragraph: Theodore W. Libby writes: "American SOME BASIC NEW KNOWLEDGE "All of us are suppliers to those who re­ opera companies, like American orchestras, ceive the results of our work. We need to receive little support from government. The management theory which is trans­ continually ask who our customers are, what When subsidies from federal, state, and local forming the world's largest corporations ap­ their need and wants are, and how those can authorities are totaled, public money usu­ plies equally to comparatively tiny organiza­ be best fulfilled. Our internal customer chain ally accounts for only 5 to 10 percent of most tions such as symphony, opera, or classical should be driven by the expectations of our companies' annual budgets. performing companies. external customer.'' As a rule, between 50 and 65 percent of op­ In order to understand how this might be erating expenses are met with earned in­ possible, we need to first review some HOW DOES ANYONE MANAGE THIS? come-generated from ticket sales, record­ thoughts from the world's leaders in man­ Dr. Scherkenbach suggests: "Constancy of ings, concessions, and the like-and what­ agement theory; Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. purpose is a necessary condition for business ever remains is offset by contributions from William Scherkenbach of General Motors, success. But it is not sufficient. The wishes the private sector." Dr. Nancy Mann, Dr. Donald Petersen of and hopes of top management for the future "Finding money in the private sector is Ford Motor Company and Mr. William might be very noble, and in fact be on a hard work. and getting harder. Corporate Conway of Nashua Corporation. course that could effectively meet customer March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6709 needs and expectations except for one thing: ists, if measurement tools are provided, and WHO BENEFITS AND HOW? the rest of the company is off somewhere if diligence is applied. Once a process capa­ Patrons and funding agencies will benefit else doing their best." bility is defined and measured, it can be un­ by focusing their evaluations on knowledge Dr. Deming says, "Do you know that doing derstood, controlled, and improved. These based, benefits oriented criteria for support. your best is not good enough? You have to principles apply to any enterprise, including Trustees benefit through being obliged know what to do. Then do your best. the production of the lyric and classical arts. only to raise money for activities which are Dr. Nancy R. Mann writes: "Too many U.S. This application of Total Quality Manage­ of value to the audience and the community. companies do not understand that they are ment to the Arts differs from traditional Professional arts management, which usu­ experiencing a profound threat. William management practice in several fundamental ally is criticized from all sides for failure to Conway, President of Nashua Corporation respects. anticipate the unknowable, will hear more cautions that unless businesses in this coun­ It focuses all organization activity on un­ praise for their community leadership and try embrace the Deming philosophies, they derstanding and producing customer satis­ responsiveness. will be left behind. faction. Artists, technicians and designers will be Mr. Conway is credited with designing a It emphasizes knowledge of system capa­ able to focus on finding artistic success technique he calls "imagineering." It con­ bility. based on knowledge of what works best. sists of thinking of what a system would be It advocates a management culture which Volunteers will have a new, vital role to were it working perfectly and then compar­ relies on leadership, persuasion, and influ­ play in dealing with knowledge based sup­ ing this concept of perfection with reality. ence rather than on traditional control and port activity. The major points of difference show both hierarchal management. Audience will re-evaluate their own com­ problem areas and areas of opportunity for It relies heavily on employee mitment to the organization, through being change. empowerment and collaboration between "incorporated" in the work of an Arts orga­ Mr. Conway designed imagineering after peers as an operative quality focused man­ nization committed to improvement of qual­ much interaction with Dr. Deming. It is a agement system. ity. useful technique, especially for people who This new management culture brings to SOME FUNDAMENTAL ADVICE do not see that they have problems. This can the Arts an "ultimate maturity" as it facili­ To supporting organizations be a small step toward the commitment to tates improving performance systems capa­ Grantwriting and solicitation have become never ending progress that must be central bility. It empowers individual artists or a high art; sometimes the art of justifying to a company's goal." groups with an organizational system which the actions and rationalizations of boards of HOW EASY IS ALL THIS? leads to optimal performance based on trustees of Arts and cultural organizations. Dt. Deming cautions: "The central prob­ bonafide knowledge of quality as defined by Funding organizations, corporate and pri­ lem in management, leadership, and produc­ the audience. vate donors should clearly recognize this, tion is failure to understand the nature and THE AlMS OF THIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and be unpersuaded by eloquent sales interpretation of variation." The system has four basic aims: pitches. They must determine first, whether "Efforts and methods for improvement of (1) To build loyalty and commitment be­ the applicant Arts organization has suffi­ quality and productivity are, in most compa­ tween the audience and the Performing Arts ciently studied and understood what services nies fragmented, with no overaU competent Organization. are of value to the community being served. guidance, no integrated system for continual As part of grant proposal criteria, support­ (2) To create an Arts management vision ers should require results of market/con­ improvement.'' and an organizational Mission Statement "In a climate of fragmentation, people go stituent studies which reflect the values of which is focused on systematically improved the community served and a specific func­ off in different directions, unaware of what quality of service, continued employee learn­ other people are doing. They have no chance tional organization plan which demonstrates ing and audience satisfaction. clearly the goal congruency of the cultural to work to the best advantage of the com­ (3) To create and respond to a quality eval­ pany nor for themselves, and have little organization with the needs of its internal uation mechanism designed to record audi­ and external constituency. chance to develop. Everyone, regardless of ence satisfaction and to supply specific his job, needs ·a chance to learn and de­ measurements of satisfaction directly to the For performing arts of cultural organizations velop." administrator/technician/artist who is re­ Have your house in order before asking for HOW DOES MANAGEMENT LEARN TO CHANGE sponsible for each observed facet of the per­ supplemental resources. Base your organiza­ THIS? forming company. tion on bonafide knowledge of the needs of (4) To facilitate a learning system for all your internal and external community. Ford's dramatic changes in attitude and Impress patrons and supporting agencies outlook since exposure to the Deming doc­ organizational personnel, based on statis­ tical data from the quality evaluation mech­ with your understanding of and commitment trine are reflected in these remarks by Mr. to quality service as defined by the commu­ Donald Petersen to Ford senior manage­ anism, which leads to planned and continual quality improvement experimentation. nity. ment. Boldly enter teaching and outreach pro­ "It can be very difficult to make signifi­ HOW DOES THIS WORK? grams to share your cultural vision with the cant changes, especially when you have been The key to arts attendance and support de­ community, but base your efforts on knowl­ in the habit of doing things differently for velopment lies in first understanding the edge of the background and values of the per­ decades, and especially when the very suc­ values of the active audience already served. sons being served. cess that brought you to the positions you Based on this knowledge, Arts management now hold was rooted in doing some things, TO BOTH TYPES OF ORGANIZATION can begin to reach and transform the large, In all circumstances, avoid allocating frankly, the wrong way. It is going to be inactive but interested, community audience hard for you to accept that you were pro­ human and fiscal resources to any effort into active performing arts attenders. which produces services that lack goal con­ moted for the wrong reasons a time or two." This proposed management model is based Dr. Deming writes: "We rely on our experi­ gruence with the community and its defini­ on the application of market knowledge, tion of value and quality. ence," is the answer that came from the gained from present audiences, to facilitate manager of quality in a large company re­ product and service development which will WHO CAN HELP MOST? cently. attract an increasing audience base. The transformation of Performing Arts "This answer is self-incriminating-a guar­ Secondly, as existing audience members Management to a maximally functional rela­ antee that your company will continue to refine their perception of performance qual­ tionship with its internal and external cli­ have about the same amount of trouble. ity, and see the improvements which result ents can be achieved only by an infusion of There is a better way, now. Experience can from their contributions, they will reward new knowledge. This knowledge already ex­ be cataloged and put to use rationally only such responsive behavior with increased lev­ ists, and can be acquired, in any community, by application of statistical theory. One els of support and loyalty. through the enlistment of experienced qual­ function of statistical methods is to design This new method accomplishes many desir­ ity and statistical consultants or industry experiments and to make use of relevant ex­ able benefits by optimizing utilization of the professionals. These persons are well along perience in a way that is effective. Any existing ·season ticket holder and others, as the path of transforming much larger por­ claim to make use of relevant experience an operative mechanism to reflect and qual­ tions of our economy, and they may find the without a plan based on theory is a disguise ify their satisfaction of performance and Performing Arts a splendid venue to benefit for rationalization of a decision that has al­ services in a controlled statistical format. the community in which they reside. They ready been made." The statistical measurement of satisfaction can and will help. Ask them. HOW CAN THE ARTS USE THIS KNOWLEDGE? from the client/audience provides a basis for BEYOND SATISFIED? Performing Arts production is a series of immediate and systematic quality improve­ Dr. Deming has summarized all of these processes. Any process can be measured if ment, for the efforts of all persons involved benefits to U.S. cultural organizations and the desire to do so and a guiding theory ex- in the Arts presentation. to their future. 6710 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 "It will not suffice to have customers that towards improvement through the multiple deal to try and help Ukraine both politically are merely satisfied. Satisfied customers variable experiments designed by Dr. Gen­ and economically. I submit a copy of the front switch, for no good reason, just to try some­ ichi Taguchi. page article which appeared in the Wall Street thing else. Why not? Artistic Performance Occurs: Success and growth come from customers Task 7: The "Quality Study Committee" Journal about some of the Fedoriw's efforts at that boast about your product or service-the records the specific data during each per­ restoring lvov's Grand Hotel to its former loyal customer. He requires no advertising or formance. This data is provided to the indi­ splendor: other persuasion, and he brings a friend along viduals in the professional or volunteer orga­ IF IT'S BAROQUE, LET'S FIX IT, SAYS with him." nization who are responsible for the produc­ UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN THE ACTION PLAN tion of the observed and evaluated specific (By John J. Fialka) areas of performance or service. The following thirteen general tasks are Task 8: Organization performing personnel Lvov, UKRAINE-People here thumb their based on the writings of Dr. Deming, Dr. (professional or volunteers) chart certain noses at everything Lenin held sacred. The Gen-ichi Taguchi and others. These steps areas of the data for immediate study prior Catholic Church holds press conferences in would facilitate a functional management to the next performance, and, in collabora­ the former "Museum of Atheism." Old men culture change in an Arts organization. tion with peers, plan an experiment design, hold forth in the town square, shouting po­ These tasks occur before, during and follow­ based on Dr. Taguchi's teaching, of specific litical opinions at one another. Visiting cap­ ing an artistic performance event. Following improvements to the quality of the produc­ italists are put up in the old Communist the initial performance of a particular work, tion or service over which they have control. Party headquarters. tasks 6 through 9 are repeated to facilitate This audience satisfaction study process is But none of the current heresies quite quality improvements for each subsequent repeated, each performance, and employees match the feat of Martha Fedoriw, the 46- performance of the work. continue to measure and study the con­ year-old owner of an Allentown, Pa., travel sequences of the planned improvement agency. She is restoring Lvov's 62-room PROCEDURAL PLAN TO INITIATE AND UTILIZE changes. Grand Hotel to its pre-Communist Austro­ TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN PERFORM­ Task 9: Senior management participates Hungarian Empire splendor ING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS with the administrator/technician/artists in Lvov (pronounced "le view" In Ukrainian) Task 1: Meeting of the Arts organization interpretation of the study data and the re­ is a city of 700,000 near the Polish border. It Board of Trustees and professional chief ex­ sults of the experiment designs for each ob­ is a classy place, with four universities and ecutives with a Deming master, to review served performance or service facet and com­ an opera that presents a different production Total Quality Management and to outline pare the consequences and results with the practically every night. But Lvov's hotels steps for a transformation to a system im­ intended plan. are decidedly declasse. provement culture within the organization. Task 10: Technician/artists return to Task THIN GRUEL Task 2: Engagement of a Deming master to 6 prior to each subsequent performance of The best of them, run by Intourist, is sev­ assist Board and the Executives in develop­ the work with a specific improvement exper­ eral notches below Western luxury-hotel ing a Mission Statement which encompasses iment plan and repeat tasks 6 through 9 in a standards. Rooms are cramped, plumbing the vision for a functional Total Quality Taguchi experiment to achieve continuous ranges from inadequate to amusing, meals Management culture within the organiza­ performance quality improvements. Other are dull. Phones, television sets and fluffy tion. members of the organization continue to towels are unheard-of. Task 3: Meeting with the Board, Execu­ chart and study system capability over a The five-story Grand, built in 1898 to cater tives, and all functional participants in the longer period. to visiting Viennese nobles and merchants, is organization to share the Mission Statement Task 11: Senior management and the Board another matter. Restored, it will have ceil­ and to identify the proposed technical tools of Trustees study the overall system capabil­ ings with elaborately carved moldings, mu­ and skills which will be most beneficial to ity and the consequences of improvement ef­ rals with rural themes and lots of stained each member of the organization. forts, with a view to budget modifications, glass. Rooms will have modern heating, 20th­ Task 4: Skills and tools training, conducted and assignment of assets to the most needy century bathrooms, telephones, television by a Deming master, for statistical process areas of improvement. sets and baroque flourishes. control general concepts and specific appli­ Task 12: Senior management is presented a Expatriate Ukrainians visiting from the cation development for all members of the plan of cost reduction initiatives by the ad­ U.S. and interested in their roots should feel organization. ministrator/technician/artist which are like­ quite at home at the Grand. Mrs. Fedoriw As each employee Is empowered with per­ ly to allow production cost efficiency bene­ (pronounced "Fedorie") herself studied formance criteria and a method of measuring fits without loss of audience satisfaction and Ukrainian as a child. Her father, a music and understanding his or her success in a list of initiatives which will increase audi­ teacher, last saw Lvov in 1944 when his fam­ terms of audience satisfaction, systematic ence enjoyment without an increase in pro­ ily fled the approaching Red Army. They performance improvement, based on knowl­ duction costs. eventually came to the U.S. from a dis­ edge of the system, will become an oper­ Task 13: The "Quality Study Committee" placed-persons camp in Germany. ational path to achieve the mission state­ of audience members are informed of the Mrs. Fedoriw thinks pride of place needs to ment of the organization. quality improvement initiatives and system be restored here. Which is why she makes a Task 5: Identification and creation of an knowledge which resulted from their con­ point of strolling around this sooty city in audience-based "Quality Study Committee," tributions. her sable coat. "It used to be the only way consisting of a statistically adequate per­ you get one of these here was to be the wife centage of season ticket holding audience of party official or the KGB," she says, "I persons who are adequately proficient in the UKRAINIAN-AMERICANS SHOW want them to know there is another way to individual technical areas of the Arts organi­ EFFORT TO HELP UKRAINE do it." zational service activities. The areas for If the old building could talk, it would tell quality study concentration will range wide­ HON. DON RITIER a sad story. In 1913, with World War I loom­ ly from advance season advertising, market­ OF PENNSYLVANIA ing, the owner turned the upstairs into a ing efforts, ticket sales, subscriber commu­ brothel and rented out parts of the lobby to nications; concert attendance issues such as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an appliance store and a grocer. In 1937, when automobile and pedestrian traffic patterns, Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Lvov was part of Poland, an inept architect parking efficiency and costs, lobby conges­ Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, as ranking House botched a restoration attempt and the place tion, box office efficiency; specific technical ended up with sagging walls and warped performance quality issues such as make-up, Member on the Commission for Security and floors. costumes, stage properties, scenery, lighting, Cooperation in Europe [CSCE], and the co­ In 1939, after the Soviets invaded Lvov, the stage direction, conducting, orchestra sec­ chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Nazis bombed the city and the concussion tions, ballet/choreography and individual Baltic States and Ukraine, I have long fought from a near-miss cracked a wall. After the solo performances. for human rights and the independence of the Nazis chased out the Soviets, the hotel was Task 6: Development by employees and vol­ Ukraine. host to recuperating German soldiers. In 1944 unteers of specific quality criteria for obser­ Dr. lhor and Martha Fedoriw, from my dis­ the Soviets returned, looted the building and vation by the audience "Quality Study Com­ trict in Pennsylvania, have also been at the turned it, temporarily, into a sewing factory. mittee", and development of data collection But nothing was quite as debilitating for systems and procedures under the guidance forefront of the effort to help Ukraine achieve the hotel and Lvov generally as the arrival of a Deming master. its independence and have been doing impor­ of the Communist bureaucracy after the war, Some capability studies will require data tant work there. which meant the nationalization of busi­ from longer time periods than others. Some Mr. Speaker, Ukrainian-Americans like the nesses and the end of most normal building studies of performance issues will be directed Fedoriws have done, and are doing, a great maintenance. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6711 Anatolij F. Ryborak, the vice mayor of top." he says. "Under the new system, a Bowen, Little River Elementary School, Lvov, explains what has happened to his bribe may be given, but there is no assurance intergenerational volunteer; Velma Ricci, Cy­ city: "Look, I take care of my car because that the deal will be done." press Elementary School, special education it's mine. I take care of my dacha because Josef Bandyrsky, a stocky, stone-faced 60- volunteer; Maryon Freifelder, lntergenerational it's mine and my flat because it belongs to year-old, coordinates the construction crews me. But the building is not mine. It belongs and cares about quality and on-time per­ Law Advocacy Project, volunteer program or­ to the people, which means nobody takes formance. He used to run "Building Organi­ ganizer; Betty Martin, George W. Carver Mid­ care of it." zation No. 584," which put up lavish Com­ dle School, adult secondary school volunteer; Before Mrs. Fedoriw arrived, the Grand munist Party buildings on schedule. Roger Carlton, WOM Enterprises, business Hotel was a mess. The Communists had con­ When the Grand Hotel opens, he will be its partnership volunteer; Zoila Ballester, Charles verted it back to a hotel in 1948. It started manager. He has no experience running a Hadley Elementary School, adult elementary out as a fleabag and went downhill from hotel but says it makes no difference, be­ school volunteer. there. cause he knows how to organize people. I applaud the commitment of these wonder­ Two years ago, Mrs. Fedoriw complained It is a capitalist axiom that risk takers get to a former mayor of Lvov that his city had the rewards, if they don't lose their shirts. fully dedicated people, and I wish them much no decent accommodations for Ukrainian­ Bonnie Burnham, head of the World Monu­ continued success. For it is their enthusiasm American tourists. "We have some old ho­ ment Fund in New York, has been studying and their efforts that will make a difference in tels," she recalls him saying. "Why don't restoration problems in Eastern Europe for our young people-in the way they learn and you take one and fix it up?" She took him up the Samuel H. Kress Fund. "The people who interact with others, in the way they carry out on the offer made possible by perestroika. go in now have a potential opportunity tore­ their daily lives. She signed a 15-year lease on the hotel with alize a very handsome profit," she says. I acknowledge each volunteer who, in this an option to buy should private property be­ "Labor costs are low throughout the re­ own way, has changed the life of a young come legal. gion." Mrs. Fedoriw has put more than $480,000 Restoration projects that create new ho­ child, and has provided for a better future. In into the hotel. She plans to open it in late tels, she says, may be "almost a guaranteed addition, I would like to congratulate the mem­ spring as living commercial proof that formula" for success if one is patient. Inves­ bers of the advisory board, who have made Ukrainian construction workers and staff tors, Ms. Burnham says, may have to think this organization a tremendous success: John can build and run a first-class business that in terms of getting their money out in, say, W. Salmon, chairman; Carol Renick, executive also turns a profit. 20 years. director; linda Brown, supervisor; Eugenia It might just. Among the things the Grand Thomas, past president; and coordinators, Ra­ Hotel has going for it apart from Old World mona Frischman, Yvonne Peterson, Clay Fos­ charm and modern plumbing is the competi­ DADE COUNTY CELEBRATES 20 tion: the sterile, modern In-tourist Hotel. ter, and Zandra Albury; as well as Beba Sosa, YEARS OF SCHOOL VOLUNTEER Paul M. Rashkind, Steve Leitman, Frank While the hotel serves dinner from the old PROGRAM Soviet menu, Mrs. Fedoriw has her res­ Thompson, Anita Rafky, Robert Gropper, Lisa taurant staff combing cookbooks for old Thurber, Wendy Unger, Sherrie Avery, Doro­ Ukrainian recipes and creating dishes from HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN thy Fields, Steve Eckardt, Vincent Lopez, Jr., German menus construction workers found OF FLORIDA Pat Pollard, Patti Lanthier, Tina Warfield, John stuffed in a wall. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Salmon, Mindy Welch, Vivianne Garcia-Suazo, Getting to the point where she has an obvi­ Lee Osiason, Claudia Perker, Barbara Epes, ous competitive advantage hasn't been easy. Tuesday, March 24,1992 Mark Ford, Josefina Randal, and Dorothy Rousting three city-owned stores from the Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to hotel took six months because Lvov has no Freites. legal eviction process. Mrs. Fedoriw spent acknowledge the members of the School Vol­ weeks trying to explain to her unwelcome unteer Program of Dade County Public tenants that she was the landlord and they Schools on their 20-year anniversary. SALUTE TO CARL HERMAN had to go. For the last 20 years, the volunteers in this Landlord? "You mean you are trying to be program have dedicated their time and effort HON. ELTON GALLEGLY like Stalin was with us?" she recalls some­ into making a difference in the classrooms OF CALIFORNIA one asking. throughout our community. These trained vol­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In a city where construction projects unteers come into the classroom and provide sometimes take decades, the rebuilding of Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the Grand Hotel took a little more than two assistance to the teachers and the students. years. Mrs. Fedoriw is no expert in any of Many times they are able to contribute to the Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to this. The only other construction job she had lesson plans with new and creative perspec­ honor a true leader of the business community ever supervised was remodeling her house. tives. Volunteers also help to raise funds for in my hometown of Simi Valley, CA, as he But what Ukraine seemed to lack until she learning materials. Last year, volunteers of the ends his term as president of the Simi Valley came along was a manager who made work School Volunteer Program served 2,882,490 Chamber of Commerce. conform to a schedule and a balance sheet. hours. Carl Herman, the chamber's outgoing presi­ "I'm known here as the impatient one," she The 25,000-plus volunteers are also in­ dent, has done an outstanding job steering the says. Judgments depend on perspective. Some­ volved in additional programs for the assist­ business community through difficult economic times Semen Lepsky, Mrs. Fedoriw's sharp­ ance of both students and teachers as well as times. Despite the recession, which has seri­ faced Ukrainian construction engineer, other school personnel. These programs in­ ously affected Simi Valley and the rest of stands in front of the hotel on Freedom Pros­ clude: "Listen to Children,'' "Oyentes,'' "Am­ southern California, Carl has many achieve­ pect and puzzles over the contradictions: bassadors for Public Education," "I'm ments to be congratulated for. "People come by and they say, 'Oh, this is Thumbody,'' "Superstars,'' "Networks," "Sen­ Among his many accomplishments, Carl in­ beautiful, and you have done it so quickly. •" ior Mentors,'' "Adopt a Grandparent," "Law creased member participation, expanded dia­ Then, he says an American engineer hired as Advocacy,'' "Project MOVE,'' "One-to-One logue with chamber members and the commu­ an adviser came by. "He says to me, 'Why is this taking so long? ' " Volunteer Tutors," and "Corporate Volun­ nity, strengthened the links between business Mycailo P. Zagrebelny, Mrs. Fedoriw's teers." and education, helped recognize and publicize business consultant in Kiev, says that buy­ The School Volunteer Program of the Dade the companies and business people who are ing materials for the hotel reconstruction County Schools is certainly working to make doers in the community, enhanced the variety was quite an adventure. The ruble gyrated some changes in the value of our educational and content of chamber programs, and estab­ from eight to the dollar a couple of years ago system. These are individuals who have con­ lished the foundation for a joint relationship to 140 and back to 100 or so. "Prices are idi­ cerned themselves enough about the prob­ between the chamber and the city to enhance otic," he says. Some materials still sell as if lems in our schools to become directly in­ economic development. the ruble's buying power were undiminished, volved in making the necessary changes. Currently senior vice president for adminis­ he says. Also, old tools such as bribery don't work I would like to congratulate this year's nomi­ tration for the bank card division of First Inter­ as well as they once did. "Under the com­ nees of the Dade County Public Schools: state Bank of California, Carl is also executive mand system, the bribe was paid and the Stephanie Goodman, Miami Killian Senior vice president and a member of the board of deal was done with one phone call from the High School, youth volunteer/peer tutor; Libby directors of First Interstate Bancard Co. De- 6712 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 spite the great demands on his time, serving longer than us, who have achieved more who use their jobs as a front for deviant be­ as chamber president is only the latest in a goals, dealt with more disappointments. and havior. The National Child Protection Act of long history of community involvement. survived more of life's crises. 1992 is the tool we can use to filter out child Most recently, he was vice chairman of the It is easy to respect Morris Pravitz on the molesters from true child care providers. Los Angeles County Private Industry Council, occasion of his 1OOth birthday, and not just The National Child Protection Act was initi­ and past chairman of the Parents Fund and because he has lived for a full century. He is ated by television personality and child sexual Parents Council of the University of California, a truly remarkable man who has been and re­ abuse survivor Oprah Winfrey. Ms. Winfrey Santa Barbara. He also serves on the boards mains an important asset to our community. knows too well the scars forever left on child of directors of the Moorpark College Founda­ Morris Pravitz arrived in New York from abuse victims. She calls on society to protect tion and the Ventura County United Way. Russia in 1907 without a penny in his pocket children before they are victimized. Her re­ Mr. Speaker, the Simi Valley Chamber of and worked for a dressmaker for $7 a week, quest is simple: Keep track of the child abuser Commerce will honor Carl this Saturday for his 6 days a week. He continued his career as a and prevent the abuser from entering child outstanding service as president. I ask my col­ tailor until he retired almost 30 years ago with care centers. leagues to join me in honoring him, and in a fine reputation for quality work. The National Child Protection Act estab­ wishing him well. About 15 years ago, Mr. Pravitz decided to lishes procedures for national criminal back­ become a volunteer-the oldest volunteer-at groond checks for child care providers. This South Miami Hospital. That decision changed Federal policy will help ensure the safety of MEMOIRS OF A RIVER his life, and the life of everyone he met. our schools and child care agencies. Can we Mr. Pravitz became the wardrobe master of take any more chances with our children? I HON. JAMFS H. SCHEUER the hospital, making Christmas stockings for think not. We must protect this country's next OF NEW YORK newborns, altering shirts to accommodate generation. We must adopt the National Child IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pacemakers for heart patients, and designing Protection Act of 1992. special pillows to ease the sleep of people Tuesday, March 24, 1992 suffering back pain. He even made bunny suit INTRODUCTION OF THE YOUTH Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to bring receiving blankets for babies born around Eas­ DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1992 to the attention of this House an important tertime. project that deserves mention. Morris Pravitz has brought joy into the life of Two film executives, Julian Schlossberg and everyone he has met. We wish him much hap­ HON. LF.S AuCOIN Myer Ackerman, have put aside consider­ piness as he begins his next· hundred years. OF OREGON ations of profit and have brought to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES screen, at their own financial risk, a film that Tuesday, March 24, 1992 THE NATIONAL CHILD documents the historical trials the Jewish peo­ Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I'm concerned PROTECTION ACT OF 1992 ple of Eastern Europe endured through the about the future of America's 20 million young ages. adolescents. These 10- to 15-year-olds need "Memoirs of a River" delves into the history HON. BUD CRAMER help and support to make constructive choices of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, exploring OF ALABAMA about education, health, and family relation­ the growth of such hatred from the trumped­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ships. Yet there is no Federal policy or plan up blood libel trials to the Holocaust. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 targeted at positive youth development. In­ Mr. Schlossberg and Mr. Ackerman have stead, we fund programs for teens after they dedicated this film to the Jewish people of Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on get into trouble or fail in school. America. The filmmakers intend to distribute behalf of the millions of children in America We need only look at the facts to know that the film to schools, organizations, and other who are victims of child abuse. more must be done. These young people are interested groups in order to ensure that his­ Our Nation faces a state of emergency. This at the age where they either make it or they tory be kept alive. deploring sickness known as child abuse is just don't. As many as 25 percent have suici­ Mr. Speaker, I applaud their vision and their plaguing the country and quietly undermining dal thoughts, and another 20 percent suffer determination to make us all better understand America's future. The U.S. Advisory Board on ·from moderate depression. the travails of the Jewish people of Eastern Child Abuse and Neglect states that 2112 mil­ I care about these young people because Europe through the ages, and to make sure lion cases of child maltreatment are reported they are our future. They are the workers of that we do not forget the virulence of anti­ each year. tomorrow and the parents of tomorrow. Semitism and racial hatred. The time has come for us to take action It's time for this House to make a real com­ Films such as "Memoirs of a River" not only against the molesters who prey upon our chil­ mitment to our 10- to 15-year-olds. Our invest­ promote better understanding, but also send dren. The traditional message, "Don't take ment today will save us countless dollars later an important historical message: history must candy from strangers," is not enough. Re­ on. Investing now means less spent on sub­ be kept alive, so that we may remain vigilant search on the child sexual offender shows that stance abuse programs, teen parent pro­ to the threat of such hatreds and so that those these criminals victimize vast numbers of chil­ grams, and school dropout programs. who would prefer to forget the past will never dren. They are serial offenders, often dan­ What are the messages we're sending to be able to deny what happened. gerous and violent. They seek legitimate ac­ youth now? "Just say no." We say no to I salute Julian Schlossberg and Myer Acker­ cess to children, often finding employment at smoking, no to drugs, no to sex, no to riding man for their effort on behalf of people the schools and child care facilities. skateboards. I think it's time we say yes to world over who are exposed to or are the vic­ As the former district attorney in Huntsville, sports, yes to art activities, yes to community tims of anti-Semitism and racial hatred. AL, I prosecuted hundreds of child abusers. service, yes to youth leadership programs. Re­ The majority were repeat offenders. One child search shows that approximately 40 percent of sexual offender incarcerated in the Alabama adolescents' time is at their own disposal. TRIBUTE TO MORRIS "POP" prison system admits to abusing more than They often get into trouble because they are PRAVITZ; 100 YEARS YOUNG 300 children in five States. He is a career bored and don't have anything better to do. child molester with a master in manipulation. Clearly, shopping malls are the largest pro­ HON. WIWAM LEHMAN Like most child abusers, he would seek out vider of child care to middle-school-age youth. OF FLORIDA jobs with access to children. He would be­ I've been to the malls after 3 p.m. and they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES friend his prey, gain their trust, then violate are teeming with adolescents. In fact, I've their innocence. heard that shopping malls are now hiring older Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Our society unknowingly welcomes child teens to kick the younger ones out. Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the abusers, like this man, into our schools and I recently heard that a convenience store phrase respect your elders was and is a famil­ child care centers. While most employees and was piping classical music into the parking lot iar one in many households. The idea is that volunteers at these facilities are well-meaning to keep the kids from hanging out. That's a we should defer to those who have lived people, we must be ready for those individuals scene straight from "Wayne's World." March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6713 I've spent the last year visiting with adoles­ legislation sends an important message to TREASURE ISLAND ELEMENTARY cents asking them what they want and expect adolescents, parents, teachers, and commu­ STUDENTS IMPROVE WRITING from adults. I've gone to their schools and nity leaders: It's time the Federal Government SKILLS BY PLAYING "POST OF­ community-based programs. These kids want make prevention a priority. These experts are: FICE" leadership from us. The universal response I Jane Quinn, from the Carnegie Council on Ad­ got from them was, thanks for asking. Thanks olescent Development; Karen Johnson Pitt­ for taking the time to get involved. Thanks for man, from the Center for Youth Development HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN and Policy Research, the Academy for Edu­ listening. I think if we involve young people in OF FLORIDA developing programs we're going to find they cational Development; Dale Lestina, from the have a lot to offer. National Education Association; Gordon Raley, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES What do teens want? from the National Collaboration for Youth; Cliff They want choices. They don't want to go to Johnson, from the Children's Defense Fund; Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the same program every day and do the same and Bob Boisture, from the YMCA of the Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am thing. They want a variety-and despite occa­ U.S.A. pleased to recognize the students and teach­ sional excesses-they want balance. They Mr. Speaker, this bill transcends partisan ers of Treasure Island Elementary School in want to do well in school. They want opportu­ politics. It's a bill that is good for children, North Bay Village, FL, who were recently fea­ nities to release their boundless energy good for families, good for schools, and good tured in the Miami Herald. The article "Stu­ through sports and fitness programs. for communities. I invite my colleagues to co­ dents Are Delivering at Their Own Post Office" They want respect. They want to know that sponsor this bill and urge its passage. by Aaron S. Rubin tells how the school has adults value them and their opinion. started their own post office to encourage stu­ They want to connect to real adults who dents to practice writing. care. My life was changed because two teach­ ers took the time to show me that I could TRIBUTE TO PETER ZAKREWSKI At first glance, 10-year-old Mandy Olique write, that I could think. I'm a real life example seems an unlikely postal worker. that when adults take the time to reach out to HON. DON RITfER But Mandy and her classmates at Treasury Island Elementary School in North Bay Vil­ kids, they respond positively. OF PENNSYLVANIA Finally, kids are nervous about their future. lage have crafted a postal system that in They want to know that we're worrying about IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES some ways rivals the U.S. Postal Service­ it too. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 and inspires the kids to write. Today, I'm introducing the Youth Develop­ Mr. AlTIER. Mr. Speaker, the Lehigh Valley Treasury Island inaugurated the post office last month and will remain in operation for ment Act of 1992. It's the first legislation ever has lost a great friend and patriot-Peter introduced to target this critical age group. The at least several months more, said fourth­ Zakrewski. Peter was a leader in the Military grade teacher Mary Martin, whose class bill authorizes four competitive grant programs Order of the Purple Heart, Chapter 190. His designed to improve adolescents' educational takes turns sorting the letters. Martin devel­ recent death has been deeply felt by the Le­ oped the idea as a fun way to encourage stu­ performance, health and fitness, life skills, and high Valley's veterans and many in the com­ dents to practice writing. family relationships. The bill authorizes $100 munity. million, $25 million for each program. Schools, All Treasure Island Elementary students I would like to submit a copy of the letter participate. Mailing letters is free. And de­ community-based organizations, service that I asked to be read on my behalf at Peter livery sometimes takes place the same day­ groups, government agencies, and libraries Zakrewski's memorial service by Mr. Gene at no extra charge. are some of the groups that would be eligible Salay, the Director of the Lehigh County Office for grants of up to $500,000. But sometimes student postal workers of Veterans Affairs. take more liberties than their professional My bill provides the seed money to encour­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, counterparts. Take the case of an improperly age good ideas at the local level and get them Washington, DC, March 19, 1992. addressed envelope: going. Peter A. Zakrewski Memorial Service, "When they don't put the right address, we What kinds of programs could be funded? St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, send it back. Either that, or we throw it Peer-to-peer counseling programs that help Allentown, P A. away," said Mandy, a fourth grader. elementary school students make the transi­ DEAR DOROTHY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF Each classroom has been assigned an ad­ tion to middle school and middle-school stu­ PETER ZAKREWSKI, AND MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: dress using street names drawn from a list of dents make the transition to high school. Florida birds. So learning the streets-such Tutoring programs at libraries to help ado­ Today we say goodbye to a dear friend and dedicated man who lived his life with convic­ as Mockingbird Lane-helps students learn lescents do better in school. the birds, Principal Beverly Karrenbauer Community sports programs, such as those tion and enthusiasm. Pete's death came as shock to all of us, but said. sponsored by YMCA's and YWCA's, where he died with his boots on-and that is prob­ The United States Postal Service doesn't teens learn more than how to play games. ably the way he would have wanted it. feel threatened by the Treasure Island Ele­ They learn how to get along with their peers, Peter was a real patriot. He understood the mentary School effort, said Cesta Ayers, how to lose and how to win, and how to work crucial contribution of America's armed manager of communications for the Miami as a team. services in bringing the 20th Century out of division. In fact, it encourages such school Leadership programs like the mock political the darkness of totalitarianism and into the programs to help students improve their convention that's held in Portland every 4 light of freedom and democracy. writing skills. years and sponsored by the Beaverton School The credo of the Military Order of the Pur­ More than 10,000 schools nationwide have District. This huge event teaches students ple Heart, which Peter so dedicated himself signed up with the Post Office's Wee Deliver to, was also his personal credo. He devoted campaign to encourage letter-writing and about the political process; at the same time his life to personal sacrifice for others. If it it helps them develop leadership skills. learn more about postal operations, Ayers would not have been for Peter Zakrewski's said. Kensington Park Elementary, 771 NW Family support programs that involve par­ effort through the years, the Lehigh Valley ents and their adolescents, programs that help 30th Ave.. was the first of seven schools in Chapter 190 of the Military Order of the Pur­ Dade County to implement the program in parents better understand what their teens are ple Heart would not have attracted the proud January 199L experiencing and those that help the teens recognition it so richly deserves. better understand their parents. As a parent of Peter Zakrewski was a tireless and kind­ "There's nothing in the world like receiv­ hearted man and our memory of him will ing a letter." Ayers said. "The younger you two, I know that they didn't come with a hand­ learn, the longer it will stay with you." book and I know that parenting is not an in­ long outlast the days he was with us. As we part now, may we ever remember his I am happy to pay tribute to the U.S. Postal mate skill; it's learned. Even the best parents dedication and love for his family, commu­ know they need support. nity and nation. Service and the Dade County School System Yesterday, I held a briefing on this bill in­ Most Sincerely. for participating in this new and innovative way volving national experts in the area of youth DON RITTER, to encourage letterwriting and learn more development. These experts agreed that this Member of Congr~ss. about postal operations. 6714 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 SALUTE TO OFFICER JERRY areas with horse farms and u-pick-fields, and ment and the Nation mourned his passing in DEROSA is on the edge of the Everglades-one of our 1979. national treasures. The institute, while giving meaning to the HON. ELTON GAUEGLY The residents of Kendall have taken an ac­ importance of this Nation's 3 million black OF CALIFORNIA tive role in the political life of Dade County, trade unionists, has worked for a program in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with numerous associations. The umbrella or­ the interest of all working people: full employ­ ganization, the Kendall Federation of Home­ ment, adequate wages, job safety and secu­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 owner Associations, represents them on is­ rity, pensions, job training, quality public edu­ Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased sues of concern at the local, State and Fed­ cation, and livable communities. to rise today to salute an outstanding police eral levels of government. Their influence is In addition, the APRI has supported a wide officer as he is honored for 25 years of service important and it is felt. They have had a sig­ range of human rights issues around the to the residents of Los Angeles. nificant impact on the kind of community Ken­ globe, including the valiant struggle for free­ Police Officer II Jerry DeRosa joined the dall has become. dom in South Africa and the Solidarity Trade Los Angeles Police Department [LAPD] in It is a pleasure to bring to the attention of Union movement in Poland. 1966. After graduating from the police acad­ our colleagues this unique and very special Since 1986, the APRI has been in the fore­ emy, he was assigned to the Van Nuys area community and to congratulate it during this front of voter registration drives and get-out­ as a patrol officer, and a year later was trans­ upcoming month of festivities and observance. the-vote efforts in its ongoing campaign to en­ ferred to duty at the central jail. While serving Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I want to advise ev­ courage greater black participation in the polit­ as a jailer, he met and married his wife, eryone that April 4-26 should be known as ical process. Much of this important work is Penny, and I'm pleased to say they recently Kendall Awareness Month. done with the cooperation of local APRI affili­ celebrated their 23d anniversary. All citizens in the 19th Congressional District ates, like the affiliate in my own congressional In 1971, Officer DeRosa was assigned to of Florida, which I am honored to represent, district led by Mr. Albert Casey. the Rampart area, where he served as a pa­ are requested to join in celebrating and com­ APRI also assists its nationwide affiliates in trol officer, vice officer, and then a youth serv­ memorating this joyous event in Kendall, a organizing drives, consumer boycotts, and ices officer. Showing his selfless nature, Offi­ great place to live. And, if any of our col­ strikes, especially when they impact on the cer DeRosa gave up his recent promotion to leagues are in Florida, they are especially in­ black community, and provides guidance and police officer Ill status in order to take on the vited to join in the festivities, as are all folks service to the affiliate chapters to enable them youth position, but in doing so he began a ca­ who care to participate. to be effective local civil rights-oriented com­ reer-long dedication to the Explorer Scouts. munity organizations. The affiliates are helped While serving as Explorer adviser at Rampart, to work in areas of community development membership in the group doubled. TRIBUTE TO A. PHILIP RANDOLPH such as housing for the homeless, food banks, In May 1982, he was assigned to juvenile INSTITUTE and skills centers. division, where his primary responsibilities in­ In 1966, Bayard Rustin discussed the estab­ cluded coordination of the Explorer program, HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. lishment of an APRI affiliate chapter in San the Explorer Academy, citywide events in OF CALIFORNIA Bernardino with William Wilson. Wilson met which Explorers participate as volunteers, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with members of Laborers Local 783 about the Devil Pups Program. Officer DeRosa can such an affiliate, and the San Bernardino Tuesday, March 24, 1992 be particularly proud that his dedication to the chapter subsequently received its charter in Explorer program encouraged numerous op­ Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker. The weekend of 1967, with Wilson as its first president. portunities for community service and positive March 27 to 29, the 36th Congressional Dis­ Freedom, Mr. Randolph believed, is only role models. trict of California is proud to host the California possible in an environment of political, social, Mr. Speaker, law enforcement officers daily State A. Philip Randolph Institute [APRI], and economic security. Mr. Randolph's legacy risk their lives to protect and serve the public, Chapter's Eleventh Annual Conference. As the to this nation, the APRI, continues this impor­ but far too often the good they do goes unno­ Representative from the 36th District, I wanted tant quest. ticed. That's why I am proud to ask my col­ my colleagues to join me in welcoming the in­ leagues to join me in saluting Officer Jerry stitute to my district and in recognizing its sig­ DeRosa.for making a difference in the lives of nificant contributions to the empowerment and COMMENTS MADE AT A MEETING so many young people and for representing inclusion of black Americans in this country's OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BIO­ the caliber of the vast majority of officers in political process. MEDICAL RESEARCH CAUCUS LAPD and in thousands of police agencies The A. Philip Randolph Institute was found­ around the country. We wish him well in his ed in 1965 at a pivotal time in the history of retirement. HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS the civil rights movement. The institute would OF PENNSYLVANIA further the civil rights movement's expanded IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES KENDALL AWARENESS MONTH goals of gaining political power and economic stability. The institute would continue the dy­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 HON. DANTE B. FASCELL namic unity between black Americans and the Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trade union movement and other groups that share with my colleagues some comments OF FLORIDA advocated sociat progress. which were made at a recent meeting of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A. Philip Randolph, the veteran black labor congressional biomedical research caucus. On Tuesday, March 24, 1992 activist, and Bayard Rustin, civil rights pioneer, March 16, 1992, Dr. David Housman ad­ Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, from April 4 to were among the first to recognize the vital dressed the caucus on his work with unstable 26, the Kendall neighborhood of Dade County, need for a labor-black alliance. They realized genes. Below is the text of his speech: FL, will be celebrating Kendall Awareness that most black Americans were working peo­ SPEECH OF DR. DAVID HOUSMAN Month. ple, and they emphasized the central role of Good morning. It is a great privilege to This neighborhood, which has been my the black trade unionist as a valuable conduit have the opportunity to present to you this home for the last 37 years, has seen tremen­ between the black community and the multi­ morning a report from the research labora­ dous growth since 1985 and has evolved into faceted labor movement. APRI is a direct out­ tory and the clinic on recent discoveries a cohesive, definable community with its own growth of Mr. Randolph's vision. which lead to an understanding of instability flag, song, and newspaper. It has become the Mr. Randolph was born in Florida in 1889, in the transmission of genes from one gen­ community of choice for young families and is and organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping eration to the next which forms the basis of at least two significant illnesses in our popu­ equally attractive to singles and senior citi­ Car Porters Union in 1925. In 1937, the Pull­ lation myotonic dystrophy the most fre­ zens. Its schools and other community institu­ man Co. signed an agreement with the broth­ quent adult form of muscular dystrophy and tions are among the best in the county. erhood. Mr. Randolph went on to election to the fragile X syndrome, an important cause While Kendall has a predominantly subur­ The AFL-CIO's executive council in 1957 and of mental retardation. It is important to re­ ban ambiance, it also encompasses rural as its vice president in 1957. The labor move- alize that in these early days of research on March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6715 this problem, we do not yet know the full ex­ that motivated us in the laboratory to at­ differences in the target region of chro­ tent of the prevalence of this mechanism and tempt to track down the myotonic dys­ mosome 19, which are found only in affected its possible impact on other problems of trophy gene. Let's stop for a minute to talk individuals. At this point I want to turn to a human health. strategy. How do you track down a gene like concept which has drawn so much attention To tell you the story this morning I would the myotonic dystrophy gene? The first part to myotonic dystrophy and fragile X syn­ like to focus on myotonic dystrophy. To­ of our story shares a common theme with drome, the concept of rapid and explosive gether with my colleague Dr. Hilary the hunt for all other genes which cause seri­ change in DNA sequence. Every time before Worthen, I would like to tell you the story of ous illness such as the genes for cystic fibro­ a cell in the body divides, a complete copy of the discovery of genetic expansion in sis, Duchenne type muscular dystrophy, fa­ each DNA molecule of the cell must be made. myotonic dystrophy from my personal per­ milial cardiac myopathy, neurofibromatosis, This process is accomplished with remark­ spective. I would like to note in advance that Huntington's disease as well as cancers such able accuracy, but occasionally mistakes are inevitably I will not name all the individuals as retinoblastoma, familial colon cancer, made. The technical term for such errors is in research groups around this country and childhood kidney cancer (Wilms termor) and mutation. Many mutations are benign and around the world whose dedication and skill breast cancer. The strategy has been to es­ have led to our current state of understand­ have no effects on the cell and its descend­ ing of this important problem. However, as tablish the pattern of transmission of the ill­ ants, but others can cause problems. In Con­ my talk progresses, I hope the contributions ness in families and then to locate the chro­ gress, you may be familiar with this problem of this group will be brought home to you. I mosomal position at' which the target gene from a regulatory point of view. Some want to begin by giving you an overview of resides. This strategy, termed positional chemicals are particularly effective in caus­ where we are headed this morning. The story cloning, has been successful in almost all of ing such changes. You know these chemicals of myotonic dystrophy is from my perspec­ the cases listed as well as quite a number of as carcinogens. When changes occur in genes tive the story of what I call a "gene hunt". other cases. The strategy depends on the which regulate cell growth in just one cell of The characteristics of a gene hunt are the ability to trace segments of chromosomes the body, the consequence of these genetic original observation by physicians in clinical from one generation to the next using dif­ changes can be the formation of a tumor. practice that an illness or predisposition to ferences in DNA structure which distinguish For body cells, mutations may occur once illness "runs in families". each chromosome. Let me show you what I per million cells or less. The presence of car­ The observation that illness runs in fami­ mean. The DNA differences occur at many cinogens can increase this frequency to a lies means to geneticists that it is likely sites on each chromosome. Most of these dif­ rate perhaps ten times higher. For one cell that there are one or more genes which are ferences (known as polymorphisms) are not in 10,000 to have mutations in a particular present in the effected members of these significant to health or other characteris­ gene would be considered a very high muta­ families in a form which carries or contrib­ tics. However, they serve as markers to dis­ tion rate. Errors in transmission of the DNA utes to the 1llness. The challenge to the ge­ tinguish one chromosome from the next and in germ cells which give rise to sperm or egg neticist is to use the clues provided by the trace their transmission from one generation also can cause serious health problems when clinical investigators and the tools of molec­ to the next. In the laboratory, we trace the transmitted to the next generation. For ular biology to track down the gene involved inheritance of these marker DNA segments most genes this rate is also perhaps 1 in a and figure out what that gene does and what from one generation to the next and compare million. For a few very large and vulnerable has gone wrong in the affected individuals. that pattern to the pattern of inheritance of genes, the rate of mutation may be 1 in sev­ The motivation for carrying out this often the illlness whose gene we are trying to bat­ eral thousand transmissions. But for arduous process is usually the same regard­ tle. In most cases, the target gene and the myotonic dystrophy and fragile X syndrome, less of the target. Often, the illness in ques­ marker are on different chromosomes or are we now know that the gene can be transmit­ tion presents a confusing pattern of symp­ far apart on the same chromosome. However, ted in a form which is completely mutable. toms. Sorting out the root cause of pathol­ if the marker and the target are close to­ The chance that the gene wm change in se­ ogy can be key to developing effective modes gether on the same chromosome, then they quence when transmitted from one genera­ of therapeutic intervention. Indeed, we are will travel together from one generation to tion to the next in an altered form is not 1 today witnessing an overall revolution in the the next. When we observe such an associa­ in a million or even 1 in a thousand, it is strategies used to develop such therapeutic tion between target and marker we are able closer to 1. i.e. It is almost certain that the intervention based on clear understanding of to focus our search in the DNA segment gene will be transmitted in an altered form the underlying molecular basis of which we know contains the target and the to the next generation. It is this inherent in­ pathophysiology but the intrigue of the increasingly powerful arsenal of tools of mo­ stability of the gene in transmission from myotonic dystrophy and the fragile X stories lecular biology to identify the target gene. one generation to the next which is respon­ goes a step beyond this inherently exciting For myotonic dystrophy, the chromosomal sible for the disease getting worse from one process. To understand the issue more clear­ location for the gene was first determined generation to the next. ly, we must return to the meeting place of ten years ago. Despite the potential worsen­ What did we find when we scanned the re­ the clinicians and the geneticists and realize ing of illness as the gene is passed on, the in­ gion of chromosome 19 in which the that for quite a long time there has been a heritance pattern for myotonic dystrophy myotonic dystrophy gene was known to re­ gulf between the day to day observations of has always been clear-on average 50% of the side? For most of the 250,000 base genes, we the clinicians and the framework of knowl­ children of those affected with myotonic dys­ saw nothing unusual; but when we scanned edge built by geneticists. The key observa­ trophy will show symptoms of the disease. one particular stretch of DNA, the results tion that startled the geneticists and left Myotonic dystrophy thus fits an autosomal were striking. (Slide). This is an example of them skeptical was the clinicians' clear in­ dominant pattern of inheritance. what we saw. Each affected individual had a sistence that when transmitted from one Comparing the inheritance pattern of ge­ DNA fragment that was different in size generation to the next symptoms of netic markers to the inheritance pattern of from the normal, but even within families myotonic dystrophy became significantly myotonic dystrophy, the location of the the fragment was often different in size from worse. As you will hear directly in Dr. myotonic dystrophy gene on chromosome 19 one generation to the next. I will show you Worthen's presentation, this was a clear was established about ten years ago. It was an example of this in more detail in a mo­ view which clinicians communicated to their also established that every myotonic dys­ ment. patients as far back as 20 years ago. How­ trophy family studied showed association be­ But first we wanted to know what caused ever, when the geneticists were asked to ex­ tween the transmission of myotonic dys­ this apparent genetic instab1lity, so we plain this observation, there were no models trophy and genetic markers on chromosome turned up the level of resolution one notch available to explain it. In fact, it was sug­ 19. The location of the myotonic dystrophy higher and examined this stretch of DNA gested, by the geneticists, perhaps the situa­ gene on chromosome 19 was well established base pair by base pair. What we saw looked tion only appears this way to you clinicians but exactly where the gene was to be found like this. (Slide). What you see here is a DNA because only the most severe cases come to was the focus of the next ten years of work. sequence of the unstable region of DNA from your attention leading to a "ascertainment The effort involved the development and use a myotonic dystrophy patient. What is strik­ bias." The issue has swirled back and forth of techniques and strategies which have now ing there is that the same three base pairs, between the groups over the past decade. become the province of the Human Genome CTG, are repeated over and over again. The Now that we can visualize the DNA se­ Initiative. Gradually the interval in which number of times the three base pairs are re­ quences which are responsible for causing the gene might reside was narrowed from 10 peated is what varies from individual to indi­ myotonic dystrophy the resolution of the million pairs to 5 million to 1 million to vidual within each family. Every normal in­ issue becomes clear. Before I tell you about 250,000. But now I must pose a question to dividual has some member of these repeats the scientific side of this question, I would you: "How do you know when you have fi­ (Slide), but no normal individual has more like Dr. Worthen to introduce the problem to nally found the gene you are tracking?" The than 28 CTG repeats. you in a very direct way. key to answering this question is that we In myotonic dystrophy fam111es every indi­ Thank you very much Hilary and H * * *, will be sure that we have found the myotonic vidual who carries the myotonic dystrophy I think you can see quite clearly the issues dystrophy gene when we find DNA sequence gene has more than 50 copies of the CTG re- 6716 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 peat. In the family shown here, the symp­ such as Europeans and Japanese. How could Finally, as the ability to make the connec­ toms of myotonic dystrophy are worst in the this be? What we believe may have happened tion between the world of molecular genetics last two generations. In these generations is that very long ago on human history, a and the world of clinical medicine becomes the number of repeats has increased from 50 chromosome 19 having perhaps 25 or more increasingly possible, the development of in­ to over 500. The expansion of the number of CTG repeats, doubled the number of repeats. novative programs to bridge that gap has be­ repeats in conjunction with the worsening of A population of chromosome 19 with 50 or so come a vi tal part of the overall picture. In myotonic dystrophy symptoms was seen over repeats was created which could them be the case of myotonic dystrophy, the support and over again in the families we studied as passed on without major expansion most of of an innovative program of the National well as the families studied by other groups. the time from one generation to the next. In­ Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Nlli. The cause of the worsening of myotonic dys­ dividuals carrying this chromosome would The "Program of Excellence," designed by trophy symptoms appears to be the increase have minimal symptoms such as cataracts. Dr. Claude L'Enfant and Dr. Steven Mockrin, in the size of the CTG repeat sequence. But However, in some families the expansion of has been particularly effective. This program learning this much about myotonic dys­ the CTG repeat over a threshold number has ·among other things brought an experi­ trophy raises many new important ques­ triggered further expansion in future genera­ enced physician and diagnostician such as tions: tions. When this happens, the family picture Dr. Worthen into our laboratory to bring How does the expansion of the repeat cause you see here and described so clearly by more focus into our research efforts. the disease symptoms to worsen? H. . . . . has begun. If this picture is correct, There is one last topic I must comment What are the reasons why the repeat se­ then there are many more families at risk to upon in conclusion and that is education. quence becomes unstable as it becomes larg­ become myotonic dystrophy families in our The revolution in medical genetics has posed er? population. How should we as a society ap­ the world of medical education with a set of How can the knowledge gained so far lead proach this problem? For today, I leave this important challenges. Today, the medical to improvements in treatment and care for as a conundrum for all of us to ponder. But, students that I teach learn about clinically myotonic dystrophy patients? I do not wish to point out that this type of relevant principles and ideas which were Let us look first at the last question. Over problem is encountered frequently along the simply unknown five or certainly ten years the past 20 years many posslble primary road to the endpoint to which we are all fer­ ago. As we scramble to keep our medical causes of myotonic dystrophy have been sug­ vently committed, providing a treatment or school curricula up to date, we also face a gested. Now, the location of the expanding a cure for devastating diseases like myotonic challenge in communicating vital informa­ sequence gives us a clue which we and others dystrophy. tion to our physicians already in practice. in the field can pursue because the CTG re­ Finally, I would like to give you a brief Without this development our work in the peat is embedded in a gene. What we have al­ perspective on the way in which the work research lab will not be effectively used. ready learned a bit about this gene by decod­ you have heard about is funded. The perspec­ This is an important challenge which we ing its sequence. (Slide) The gene in which tive is my own and I want to be quite sure to must meet effectively. the CTG repeat is embedded encodes a pro­ be clear that the inputs to this work have Thank you very much for your attention. I come from many institutions and individ­ would now like to return the floor to Dr. tein which is a member of a large gene fam­ uals, and in each case you will encounter ily. The members of this gene family, the Worthen so that she may comment further somewhat different mixes of funding inputs, on the transition between the laboratory and protein kinase gene family, are involved in but I believe the same bottom line. . signalling within and between cells. The First, in my case, it is essential to describe the clinic . challenge ahead of us will be to see if we can the role of the Muscular Dystrophy Associa­ make sense out of all of the symptoms of tion (MDA). The MDA supported the work of myotonic dystrophy through changes in the Dr. David Brook, the postdoctoral fellow who HONORING BETTY AND BEN ZION activity of the gene. If that turns out to be led the team in my laboratory and our close KRIEGER true, then we can begin to think about de­ collaborators in the U.K., Drs. Duncan Shaw, signing specific drugs which can alter the ac­ Peter Harper, and Helen Harley of the Medi­ HON. JAMFS H. SCHEUER tion of thus gene and help to alleviate the cal College of Wales, and Dr. Keith Johnson debiiitating effects of myotonic dystrophy. in London. The MDA works tirelessly, effec­ OF NEW YORK What causes the CTG repeat to expand out tively and creatively to raise funds to sup­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of control? This is a question we must under­ port research towards the cures to the mus­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 stand better as soon as possible but one clue cular dystrophies. But like many of the which is already clear is that there are great other health voluntary organizations, the Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I rise at this similar! ties between fragile X syndrome and MDA would be the first to tell you that it is time to honor two constituents of mine who myotonic dystrophy. In fragile X the work of tough to do the job alone. They would com­ have dedicated themselves to the advance­ Dr. Tom Caskey and Dr. David Nelson at pliment you in Congress for your foresight ment of Jewish education in my district. Betty Baylor University and Dr. Steven Warren at and effectiveness in creating programs to and Ben Zion Krieger are active members in Emory University and their colleagues have complement their own. Let me show you how shown that a CGG triplet is expanded in an that worked in my case. My laboratory is lo­ their synagogues and devotedly involved in uncontrolled way just as the CTG repeat is cated in the Center for Career Research at the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens. expanded in myotonic dystrophy. The longer M.I.T. The NCI Initiative which created the Betty, herself an alumna of Bais Yaakov the repeat gets the more difficulty the cell Cancer Institutes program 20 years ago has Academy, went on to graduate magna cum appears to have in replicating it accurately. provided a stable base and a research envi­ laude from Queens College and is now a cer­ This question may be particularly pressing if ronment for work of this type to proceed. tified public accountant. Ben Zion, a native of additional situations are discovered in which But why is muscular dystrophy work been Israel, graduated from the Bologna Medical this mechanism contributes to or is respon­ carried out in a cancer research institute, School and trained at Tel Aviv University Med­ sible for a serious illness. you may ask. Please recall that earlier in But perhaps the most immediate issue my talk, I told you that the problem in can­ ical School before coming to America. Once which must be addressed is the prevalence of cer is one of mutation. In fact, in the same here, he and colleagues at the Albert Einstein families in which the severe effects of laboratory at the benches near Dr. Brook are College of Medicine began pioneering work in myotonic dystrophy have not yet been expe­ fellows and students studying the mutations researching the terrible scourge of pediatric rienced because the gene has not yet ex­ responsible for childhood kidney cancer, ma­ AIDS. panded in size to a point where the effects of lignant melanoma, ovarian cancer, breast Mr. Speaker, Betty and Ben Zion Krieger gene expansion are severe. cancer and adult kidney cancer. NCI created are model members of the local community, If we look at the upper generations of this environment at a time when the tools to remaining actively involved in community af­ myotonic families such as this one, we see address gene mutation in other diseases were the gene passed from one generation to the primitive and ineffective. fairs. Betty is deeply involved in Tomchei next with little or no expansion of the CTG But a second source of funding in my lab­ Shabbos of Queens, a remarkable project that repeat and few, if any, severe symptoms. It is oratory is the human genome program. In has been delivering food to indigent Jewish only because of the severely affected individ­ 1980, I submitted my first grant to carry out families for more than 15 years. uals in the later generation that we diagnose research of the type I described to you today. The Kreigers also see to it that their chil­ this family as severely affected. We already For the next seven years, this research was dren-Yitzchak, Elazar, Chani, and Nurit-as have evidence that the chromosomes carry­ funded by the General Medical Institute, but well as those of others receive a full and ing the myotonic dystrophy in most, if not the development and application of the tools all, of the myotonic dystrophy families we required to carry out this research now has meaningful education in the elementary years. have studied are related to a single ancestral a very specific home, the Office of Human Their work in supporting the Bais Yaakov central chromosome 19. This is true even for Genome Research. NlliGR has made a dif­ Academy of Queens deserves the warmest of families of very diverse ethnic backgrounds ference in this work. tributes. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6717 A TRIBUTE TO THE ASSOCIATION erature department members are Dr. Jose E. President Georg·e Bush and Democratic OF CRITICS AND COMMENTA­ Puente and Olga Gonzalez del Pica. Technical candidate Bill Clinton support the North TORS OF THE ARTS [ACCA] . assistance members are musical director Pro­ American Free Trade Agreement, which leaders of Mexico and the United States have fessor Olga Martinez; theatre director, Sergio crafted. Paul Tsongas, who dropped out of HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN Dare; director of literature and director of pho­ the presidential race Thursday, also supports OF FLORIDA tography, Asela Torres; director of literature, the pact. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Leonardo Fernandez Marcane. Our community Republican Pat Buchanan and Democrat has gained a new and much needed apprecia­ Jerry Brown oppose the deal. Pandering to Tuesday, March 24, 1992 tion toward the arts and I would like to extend voters' fears about lost jobs-a tactic espe­ Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I would to all members my very best and warmest cially effective among Michigan and Illinois like to take this opportunity to recognize the wishes for continued success in all future en­ auto workers-Buchanan and Brown talk not achievements of one of our community's most of the pact's benefits, but of its costs to cer­ deavors they undertake. tain segments of the economy. reputable and respected cultural institutions, It is true that removing current trade bar­ the Association of Critics and Commentators riers with Mexico likely would hurt auto of the Arts. TRADE DEAL A GOOD DEAL workers in the United States. That's the Since its founding in 1975 by a group of dis­ scare Brown and Buchanan wanted to put tinguished journalists and writers dedicated to HON. ELTON GAUEGLY into the minds of Michigan and lllinois vot­ the nurturing and development of all art forms OF CALIFORNIA ers before they went to the polls on Tuesday. within our ever growing Hispanic community, What they didn't say is that the potential IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for new jobs outweighs the cost to American the association has become a haven for artists Tuesday, March 24, 1992 workers. Independent studies show that as everywhere who yearn for an opportunity to many as 100,000 jobs could be lost because of further and enrich their individual talents. Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, many Ameri­ cans are deeply divided over the benefits of the agreement, but that at least 130,000 Our State of Florida, situated at the gateway would be created. to the Americas, has always welcomed the the proposed North American Free Trade The growth is expected to be strongest in proud heritage and cherished traditions of nu­ Agreement. Protectionists and "America industries dealing with computers, commu­ merous cultures from all over Latin America, Firsters" argue that a treaty with Mexico will nications technology, pharmaceuticals and only help Mexico, will result in the loss of Unit­ agriculture. Those are areas that would be giving many renowned and aspiring artists particular benefit to California. from these areas of the world the opportunity ed States jobs, and will weaken our environ­ mental and other health and safety laws. Free At the same time, the trade agreement is to cultivate their respective abilities. a constructive means of supporting economic To promote artistic growth and recognize traders contend that a pact with Mexico will reforms now taking place in Mexico. outstanding individual achievement, the asso­ promote trade and cooperation across our bor­ Mexico's leaders are trying to unleash ciation sponsors many events and programs ders, will help both economies, and will lead to their economy from the inefficiencies and throughout the year designed to introduce employment opportunities in both countries. corruption of its government bureaucracy. I have maintained for some time that a Assurances from the United States that these aspiring artists to the appreciation of the Mexican companies will have access to U.S. general public. properly negotiated free-trade agreement should prove economically beneficial to both markets will aid the effort. In their efforts to help cultivate the arts in And for the "America First" types who our ever growing society, the association is the United States and our neighbors. Most sig­ can't understand why the United States currently embarking on their most ambitious nificantly, by promoting economic growth and should care about Mexico's economy: Nur­ project yet, the establishing of an international creating jobs in Mexico, it will remove one of turing economic growth in Mexico is the cultural center, where permanent exhibitions, the major incentives for illegal immigration into only effective way to address illegal immi­ cultural and musical pageants can take place, this country. That, in itself, is sufficient reason gration into the United States. Until Mexi­ cans are able to support themselves and doubling as a recreation center for artists visit­ to support a treaty. Such an agreement is no cure-all. If we can their families in Mexico, illegal immigration ing or residing in our community. end the payment of attractive welfare benefits will continue to plague the United States, Mr. Speaker, throughout its 16-year history, and especially states such as California. under the careful direction of president Ora. and services to illegal aliens at the expense of The danger is that election-year pandering Josefina Rubio, vice president Mannix De our poor and needy citizens and their families, to people's fears could derail the free-trade Leon, as well as the rest of the dedicated eliminate widespread document fraud, agreement. members of the Association of Critics and · strengthen the Border Patrol, increase Federal In Illinois and Michigan, the voters' mood resources for borper control, stop the hiring of and Jerry Brown's exploitation of their fears Commentators of the Arts including: generai persuaded Tsongas and Clinton to weaken director Ivan Guitierrez; public relations direc­ illegals and the transportation of illegals to and from jobs which they are taking from taxpaying their support of the deal with Mexico. tors Maria Antonia Bode and Fabiola Naya; And the nation has seen how Buchanan can secretary general Dr. Nelson Hernandez; vice citizens, while encouraging Mexico to inaugu­ push Bush around on the issues; it's possible secretary general Laura Curbelo; secretary of rate programs to stop the smuggling of illegals the president could backtrack on trade. organization Ubaldo Henriquez; vice secretary across the border-as I have proposed in my Political candidates do need to recognize package of seven bills-then we can finally the needs of specific segments of the econ­ of the association Hall Estrada; treasurer omy, and attempt to offset significant losses Elvira Paches; vice treasurer Alsela Torres; stop the flood of illegal immigration into the United States and the social and economic with funds for retraining and assistance. But and executive assistants Hilda Alvarez and they should not let the fevered pitch for pro­ Maria Ofelia Garcia. Among the permanent costs that this problem brings to our country. I am pleased that the Camarillo Daily News, tectionism overshadow the benefits of a free­ members of the association are past members trade agreement. The pact with Mexico in an editorial, agrees with my contention. I and former executives, Jose Camacho Lagos, would hurt some U.S. workers, but for a far quote: Pedro R. Herrera, Roberto Minagorri, and larger number of Americans, the advantages Adelfa Cantell. Nurturing economic growth in Mexico is are clearly greater than the costs. the only effective way to address illegal im­ Benefactor members are: Manny Herrera of migration into the United States. Until Manny's Buffet, Humberto Rodriguez of Mexicans are able to support themselves and TRIBUTE TO ANTHONY J. FUSCO, Humberto Florist and Caroline Weiss of Royal their families in Mexico, illegal immigration JR., ESQ., THE AMERICAN CAN­ Tower. Honorary members are: director of cul­ will continue to plague the United States, CER SOCIETY'S SECOND ANNUAL tural relations Manny Soto; director of special and especially states such as California. "MAN OF THE YEAR" events, Mirta Lopez Polacek; Celia Touzet of Mr. Speaker, I submit the complete text of the commission on special events; and direc­ "Trade Deal A Good Deal" to be printed in the HON. ROBERT A. ROE tor of the commission on historical research, RECORD as it appeared in the Camarillo Daily Dr. Armando Cobelo. Music department mem­ OF NEW JERSEY News, March 20, 1992: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bers are Solange Lasarte and Yolanda del TRADE DEAL A GoOD DEAL Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Castillo Cobelo. Visual arts department mem­ Voters' frustration with the sagging econ­ bers are Berta Randin, Orlando Acosta, Delio omy threatens the pending free-trade agree­ Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, it is with the greatest Liebrez and Carlos Rafael Gonzalez. Lit- ment with Mexico. pride and admiration that I rise today to salute 6718 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 a truly outstanding citizen from my eighth con­ he has received. I wish him success in the fu­ promise, but that it continually strives to­ gressional district whose dedication and com­ ture as he pursues his goal of becoming a ward that promise. That is American ge­ mitment to the goals of the American Cancer professor of mathematics. nius." This, then, is America's challenge to: Society and his community have truly merited I am including Don's impressive essay as it to provide world leadership by striving to­ him this great honor as the second annual attests to the exceptional ability this young ward the ultimate goal: a society of free, educated people. "Man of the Year." man has. I am speaking of Anthony J. Fusco, Jr., of MEETING AMERICA'S CHALLENGE Passaic, NJ. His deep involvement in his com­ (By Donald Barkauskas) GET SMART WITH WATER munity for several years has earned him the In the last few years, the world as we know honor of "Man of the Year" by the American it has been drastically changed. National Cancer Society of Passaic County. For all he boundaries have been drawn and redrawn al­ HON. GEORGE MIUER has done, Anthony will be honored by the most daily, and more and more people have OF CALIFORNIA American Cancer Society at the Loews been crying for freedom. As recently as three IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Glenpointe Hotel in Teaneck on March 28, years ago, it seemed the Iron Curtain would Tuesday, March 24, 1992 1992. never lift from Eastern Europe. However, since the removal of the Berlin wall, Com­ Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, Cali­ Mr. Speaker, I know that this event will be munist leaders have watched helplessly as a source of great pride for Anthony, his de­ the Soviet bloc has rapidly disintegrated. fornians continue to confront two droughts that voted wife Patricia, and their children A.J. and With the decline of the Soviet Union's pres­ endanger the future of our State. Allyson. In addition, Anthony's many friends tige among these newly independent nations, One is a drought caused by a lack of pre­ and colleagues will be on hand to honor him there is a vacuum of leadership which must cipitation combined with antiquated irrigation on this most special occasion. be filled. America's challenge is to serve as policies, costly subsidies, and archaic alloca­ Mr. Speaker, Anthony J. Fusco, Jr., has an an example for these countries as they re­ tion formulas. extensive and praiseworthy record of inspiring build their governments. Now is the time for The other is a drought of sound legislative America to lead the way into the future. remedies to bring California's water policies and effective leadership, for which he has But before America can serve as an exam­ earned the deepest respect and admiration of ple for these countries, it must insure that into the modern era. the citizenry of his community. This includes a its own democracy is solidly based. Democ­ The legislation that I have developed, to­ distinguished tenure as a member of the racy is the ultimate belief in freedom; it is gether with Senators BENNETT JOHNSTON and Essex County prosecutor's office, trustee of based on the tenet that every member of so­ BILL BRADLEY, would end the wasteful, costly, the Passaic County Bar Association and cur­ ciety should have the chance to participate and harmful practices that have forced tax­ rent chairmanship of the American Cancer So­ in government. The entire country consists payers to subsidize unconscionable irrigation of a government, and every person in the na­ ciety Board of Passaic County Unit. practices and have destroyed much of our tion must be capable of making good deci­ State's wetlands and fish and wildlife habitat. Through his efforts in behalf of the city of sions. Therefore, for any democracy to be Passaic, Passaic County, and New Jersey, truly successful, there is one basic require­ For years, we have made diligent efforts to Anthony J. Fusco, Jr. has inspired a new com­ ment: an educated populace. Without edu­ end the widely documented, flagrant abuses mitment to volunteer service within his com­ cated voters, a democracy degenerates to that pervade the Western water program. We munity and has instilled a spirit of unity and near-anarchy, with chance as the ruling have had some success. This House contin­ optimism amongst all those who share this force. Thus, America's challenge can best be ually votes to end the abuses and to defer ap­ commitment. met by improving our educational system to proval of additional projects, or improvements, meet today's needs. until the program is environmentally and fis­ Mr. Speaker, it is citizens such as Anthony To improve our educational system, there J. Fusco, Jr., who contribute so much to the are several goals that need to be accom­ cally sound. business and social fabric of our communities. plished. First, we must attract more people Unfortunately, we have had less success in I appreciate the opportunity to present a brief to teaching. Many people who would be ex­ having the laws implemented. Tne intervention profile of a man who has given so much to his cellent teachers do not pursue careers in of financially and politically connected forces community, State, and Nation, and who has education because salaries are too low. on behalf of a small agricultural lobby have ef­ immeasurably improved his world through his Teachers are the foundation of our edu­ fectively stonewalled against reform. They innumerable contributions-Anthony J. Fusco, cational system, and as such, they should be have the ear of the Interior Department and among the highest paid workers in America. White House. Indeed, they boast about their Jr., the recipient of the second annual Amer­ We cannot afford to have our students ican Cancer Society, Passaic County Chapter, taught by anyone other than the best. Sec­ political muscle to block measures designed to "Man of the Year". ondly, we must adjust the curricula in our assure that our water policies serve all Califor­ schools to de-emphasize rote learning and nians and all Americans not simply the greedy memorization and encourage independent few. CONGRATULATIONS TO WISCON­ thinking. An education cannot merely con­ Tragically, last week, the latest act in the SIN'S "VOICE OF DEMOCRACY" sist of facts; it must also involve putting drama of subsidized growers versus the WINNER those facts together, forming conclusions, public's best interest was played out in the and expressing those conclusions both orally Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Re­ and in writing. To be valuable members of a HON. STEVE GUNDERSON democracy, people must have the ability to sources. Once again, despite the leadership of OF WISCONSIN think, not just memorize. Senators JOHNSTON and BRADLEY, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Finally, we must be certain that everyone irrigators blocked our reform measure and has an equal opportunity to a good edu­ substituted instead a grower-crafted alternative Tuesday, March 24, 1992 cation. Many students, especially the poor, that would perpetuate subsidies-as-usual, and Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with receive sub-standard educations due to the send the bill to millions of water-short/cash­ great pleasure that I rise to congratulate Don­ lack of proper materials and good teachers. short taxpayers in Los Angeles, San Jose, ald Barkauskas, the Wisconsin winner of the If a democracy is to work, every person in it San Diego, and scores of other cities. must have the opportunity to be a valuable Voice of Democracy Broadcast Scriptwriting participant; that is, the entire population Over the past year, the press of California Program. must have an opportunity to be educated, has recognized the huge stakes involved in The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United contributing citizens. this debate, and have rightly condemned States and its Ladies Auxiliary sponsor the With better education to improve our own those who act solely in the interests of a small program each year in which over 147,000 stu­ system, the United States can serve as an ex­ cabal of self-interested irrigators. A forceful dents from around the country compete for ample of w}:tat goals a democratic society and accurate statement was published in the $76,500 in scholarships. The topic of this can accomplish. Admittedly, other nations San Jose Mercury News this past weekend, could serve as examples for democracy, but years contest was "Meeting America's Chal­ the United States must be an example, be­ and I wish to share it with my colleagues, who lenge". cause in the eyes of the world, it is democ­ will hopefully soon have the opportunity to I would also like to commend Don, a senior racy. The United States' system is not per­ vote again in support of meaningful reform of at Logan High School in La Crosse, WI, on fect, but as Natwar Ghandi said, "What mat­ the Central Valley project. the many academic awards and recognitions ters is not that America falls short of its The article follows. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6719 [From The San Jose (CA) Mercury News, Californians should hope the strategy will sounds of rain and winds . . . Mar. 22, 1992] work. Seymour's ideas for water policy won't they depart, charging the water GET SMART WITH WATER help California's environment or economy. and the land with names." Seymour would help the environment if So Walt Whitman heard the music of In­ The fishing season for salmon off Califor­ there is water and money left after farmers nia may be canceled. Some Central Valley dian names that dot the land by the tens of are taken care of. Mostly his bill would just thousands. Half our states take their names farmers canceled the cotton-growing season tinker with the distribution facilities, such last year. Many homeowners in the Bay Area from Indian words. The following deriva­ as a new temperature control device at Shas­ tions, with meanings where known, are based have canceled lawn-watering for a couple ta Dam. But there's no promise of additional summers. on contemporary scholarship water for rivers or wetlands. Alabama-from the Muskogee tribe name These cancellations have a common cause The contrast between Bradley-Johnston in California's two systems of dams, res­ and Seymour illustrates which bill protects alipama; the state motto, "Here we rest," is ervoirs and canals-the State Water Project which interests. a legendary interpretation. Alaska-from and the federal Central Valley Projectr--that Unlike Bradley and Johnston's conditions alakhskhakh, Aleut name for the Alaska Pe­ provide water to Central Valley farmers and on contract renewals, Seymour's bill men­ ninsula. Arizona-a Spanish mining camp, cities from San Jose to Los Angeles. They tions nothing. from the Papago for "little spring." Arkan­ have been taxed by the drought. As with a Bradley and Johnston propose a surcharge sas-from akansea, the Illinois name for the drained lake that reveals the skeletons of on the customers of CVP water and power to Quapaw. Connecticutr--from the Mohegan for sunken ships, two water problems now stand raise $30 million a year. Seymour limits "long river." illinois-French tribal name in stark outline, one environmental, one eco­ what CVP customers have to pay and sticks from Algonquian iliniwak-men. Iowa-tribal nomic. taxpayers with the rest of the bills. name, via French, from the Fox Environmentally, the diversion of water to Bradley and Johnston would require con­ aayahooweewa, perhaps ultimately Dakota agriculture is killing fisheries and wetlands. servation. Seymour would study it. ayuhba, interpreted as "sleepy." Kansas­ Salmon, which used to be counted in the Seymour claims his bill will let Califor­ from the Kaw name for themselves, via Illi­ hundreds of thousands, are down to tens of nia's water policy be set by Californians. But nois and French. Kentucky-first recorded as thousands. One subspecies is listed as endan­ it is Bradley and Johnston who would study a river name, but perhaps from an Iroquois gered. transferring the Central Valley Project to word for "planted field." Massachusetts-ad­ The delta smelt is a candidate for the en­ California. Seymour's bill says nothing. aptation of a tribal name derived from the dangered list. Migrating waterfowl, which Bradley and Johnston would free farmers name for Blue Hill south of Boston; literally numbered 10 million in the Central Valley in to resell water. Seymour would make sales "big hill." Michigan-perhaps Ottawa for 1970, now number about 3.5 million. subject to the veto of irrigation districts, "big lake." Minnesota-from mnisota­ Economically, agriculture, which accounts which block them now. "cloudy water," a Dakota river name. Mis­ for 3.5 percent of the total state economy, re­ Johnston has proposed tiered pricing so sissippi-illinois for "big river." Missouri­ ceives 80 percent of the developed water, that the last 20 percent of a farmer's con­ French adaptation of an illinois name mean­ which is the water that is captured and dis­ tract would cost him full price, another in­ ing "those with dugout canoes." tributed. As California's population contin­ ducement to conserve. Seymour doesn't ad­ Nebraska-from nibdhathka-"flat river," ues to grow, the need for water in cities-and dress pricing. the Omaha name for the Platte. New Mex­ the businesses in them that drive the econ­ Had Bradley and Joh,nston's plan been in ico-from the Aztec name of Mexico City, be­ omy-will grow as well. place during the drought, fish and waterfowl lieved by some scholars to mean "place of The federal system costs the nation's tax­ would have received better protection; rising the god Mexitli." North and South Dakota­ payers about $135 million annually, because prices would have encouraged conservation, from dakhota-"friendly ones," the Dakota the recipients of water don't pay the full by farmers and suburbanites, from the name for themselves. Ohio-French form of cost of the water they get. drought's beginning; farmers could have the Seneca name for the Allegheny-Ohio; A rational water distribution system profited by selling water to cities; businesses means "beautiful river." Oklahoma-Choc­ would set aside a reliable supply for fisheries could have been more confident of their taw for "red men"; the name "Oklahoma water supply. and wildlife refuges. It would price and dis­ Seymour's plan, instead, benefits a frac­ Territory" was coined by a Choctaw leader tribute water to encourage conservation, to tion of California's population and economy as a translation of "Indian Territory." Ten­ use it for the greatest economic benefit and at the expense of the environment and the nessee-from tanasi, a Cherokee name for the to save the taxpayers some money. majority. Little Tennessee River. Texas-see page 154. A market in water will not devastate agri­ Utah-from yuuttaa, the Ute name for them­ culture. Farmers use 80 of every 100 gallons selves. Wisconsin-an Algonquian river of developed water; cities, 20. Drop farmers INDIAN DERIVATION OF STATE name. Wyoming-Delaware for "big river­ to 70, a 12.5 percent cut, and the cities' sup­ flats," the name of a Pennsylvania valley ply increases 50 percent, plenty for the near NAMES widely popularized in a romantic tale of the future. 19th century. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., with Democratic HON. ENI F.H. FALEOMA VAEGA California Sen. Alan Cranston, has intro­ OF AMERICAN SAMOA duced a bill to turn the Central Valley IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RACHEL SAPOZNIK HONORED Project toward those goals. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 AMONG DADE'S TOP BUSINESS­ When long-term water contracts with WOMEN farmers expire, as they are doing now, the Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, bill would block renewal unless water is set through Public Law 102-188 (S.J. Res 217, aside for fisheries and wetlands. And it H.J. Res. 342), Congress and the President HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN would allow farmers to sell water to anyone, designated 1992 as the Year of the American OF FLORIDA as long as the farmers pay, either in money IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or water, into a conservation fund. Indian. This law pays tribute to the people who This gives farmers an incentive to con­ first inhabited the land now known as the con­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 serve, because, unlike now, they will be able tinental United States. Although only symbolic, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, it is an to sell the water they save. this gesture is important because it shows honor to acknowledge Ms. Rachel Sapoznik Bradley's bill was stopped in the Senate there is sympathy in the eyes of a majority of Energy and Natural Resources Committee for her success as president of Sapoznik In­ both Houses of the Congress for those Indian surance. Ms. Sapoznik was honored at a last week by California's other senator, Re­ issues which we as a Congress have been publican John Seymour. He has introduced luncheon sponsored by the National Associa­ his own bill, in an attempt to maintain busi­ struggling with for over 200 years. In support tion of Women Business Owners at the Miami ness as usual, with farmers receiving sub­ of the Year of the American Indian, and as Airport Hilton. During Women's History Month, sidized water through long-term contracts. part of my ongoing series this year, I am pro­ in a celebration titled "Recognition '92," the Despite Democratic control of the commit­ viding for the consideration of my colleagues luncheon honored five of Dade's top women tee, Seymour's bill passed the committee as a short article from the National Geographic business owners. The women were honored part of an omnibus water bill dealing with Society written by Wallace L. Chafe entitled "A for having excelled in their businesses as well water projects in several states. Committee Richness of Words, A Babel of Tongues." chairman J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., who as for their community involvement. Susana has proposed a bill very similar to Bradley's, A RICHNESS OF WORDS, A BABEL OF TONGUES Barciela of the Miami Herald reports: adopted a strategy of waiting until the bill (Wallace L. Chafe) When Rachel Sapoznik couldn't meet sales reaches a House-Senate conference commit­ WHAT'S IN A NAME? quotas after her first child was born, she was tee to fix it. "Leaving natural breaths, fired. So she started her own insurance com- 6720 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 pany.out of her home, changing diapers with ing the Ventura County Youth Symphony. In age of amendments that would effectuate one hand and handling phone calls with the 1956, he founded the Ventura College Com­ long-delayed reform of the USFSPA, restor­ other. munity Orchestra, and then 6 years later ing fairness and equity to the military di­ "Sometimes, if you can't work within the founded the Ventura County Symphony Or­ vorce process. confines of corporate America, you have to The amendments have been introduced by go out and start something of your own," chestra, of which he remains musical director Rep. Robert K. Dornan as H.R. 2200. They said Sapoznlk, 31. and conductor. were developed in close coordination with At the time she left the big insurance firm Mr. Salazar's honors are many, but I would the Department of Defense. Background in­ in 1985, there was no maternity leave for in­ like to share a few of them with my col­ formation is provided. herewith. surance agents. Though she initially feared leagues. He received the first annual Latino The proposed legislation, called the "Uni­ it would be impossible to run a business and Achievement Award from Gente magazine in formed Services Former Spouses Protection take care of a newborn, Sapoznik grew her 1983 for devoted service to the community, he Act Fairness Amendments", would: firm, selling even more policies through two 1) Terminate payments of retired pay upon additional pregnancies. was named Ventura's Citizen of the Year in remarriage of former spouses, placing Today, her firm handles $4 million in an­ 1986 and in 1985 he was named by the Ven­ USFSPA in conformance with other federal nual premiums and doesn't apply monthly tura County Star-Free Press as one of the retirement programs. sales quotes. "I feel people work a lot better area's 10 most influential residents of the past 2) Restrict awards of retired pay to an that way. The incentive is theirs," she said, 50 years. amount of percentage based on pay grade "I use the same tactic I would want used on Mr. Speaker, I once again ask my col­ . and length of service at time of divorce, not me." Of the eight people who work in her leagues to join me in saluting Frank Salazar at retirement. firm, three are insurance agents. as he is honored this weekend by Interface 3) Set a statute of limitations giving Antonia Gary, one of the awards judges, former spouses two years from the date of said Sapoznik showed impressive drive. Children, Family Services for his valued con­ final divorce to file for a division of retired "She took something that could have been tributions to Ventura County. pay. a very negative and inhibiting experience 4) Make more specific the current prohibi­ and turned it into a successful venture," tion on division of veteran's disability com­ Gary said. "She's a very smart cookie." SUPPORT FOR H.R. 2200 pensation. Those smarts led Sapoznik to specialize in 5) prohibit courts from ordering any pay­ selling group health plans, primarily to HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN ments under the act from active duty pay. small businesses. Her sales approach: She OF CALIFORNIA We strongly feel that military members­ shows companies how they may save money active and retired, women and men-have down the road. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been treated unfairly by the act since its A south Florida native, Sapoznik lives in Tuesday, March 24, 1992 passage in 1982. Although congress two years North Miami Beach and works across from ago passed a much-needed prohibition on John F. Kennedy Middle School, which she Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, I certain retroactive reopenings of divorces, a attended. Supporting her community not would like to include for the RECORD a letter comprehensive set of amendments continues just with money but with time, she attends signed by representatives of 17 different veter­ to be required to make the act more equi­ school and Jewish Federation events and is ans groups expressing support for my bill, table and curb judicial misinterpretation. active in Hadassah, a social service group. H.R. 2200, which would amend the Uniformed The legislation we advocate is designed to do "You have to show your support for any­ Services Former Spouses Protection Act. both. thing you believe in," Sapoznik said. "I feel All of these groups, including the American We believe that reform of USFSPA will be people are beginning to care more now, and Retirees Association, the Commissioned Offi­ a perennial issue on Capitol Hill unless Con­ I hope my generation makes a difference." gress, once and for all, passes amendments cers Association of USPHS, the Air Force Ser­ similar to those we are advocating. We hope I wish to congratulate Ms. Sapoznik for her geants Association, Catholic War Veterans, outstanding leadership in our community, as 1992 will be the year that happens. AMVETS, Jewish War Veterans of the United Thank you for your consideration on this well as her dedication and perseverance to States, Association of the U.S. Army, Fleet very important issue. succeed in her business. Ms. Sapoznik is a Reserve Association, Marine Corps League, Sincerely, model and a source of inspiration for our com­ the Retired Enlisted Association, Military Order munity's young adults and inspiring entre­ of the Purple Heart, Coast Guard Chief Petty preneurs. Officers and Enlisted Associations, Naval Re­ TRIDUTE TO LONNIE McCOLLOUGH serve Association, Veterans of the Vietnam SALUTE TO FRANK SALAZAR War, the Navy League, National Association for Uniformed Services, and the Naval En­ HON. JIM SAXTON listed Reserve Association, have called upon OF NEW JERSEY HON. ELTON GALLEGLY this body to restore fairness and equity to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA military divorce process by passing H.R. 2200. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This legislation would not prevent former Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, all of us who sit Tuesday, March 24, 1992 spouses from collecting military retirement pay in Congress appreciate the hard work put in Mr. GALLEGL Y. Mr. Speaker, this coming in divorce proceedings. It would only place eq­ by legislative liaisons. These people-the con­ Friday, the man whose name is synonymous uity back in the process and put the Former duits through which Congressmen and their with the cultural resources of Ventura County, Spouse Protection Act in conformance with staffs get necessary and vital information CA, will be honored for more than 30 years of other Federal retirement programs. Please join about Government agencies-are invaluable me in restoring fairness for our military mem­ service to his community, and I ask my col­ to us and the people we serve. leagues to join me in saluting him as well. bers by becoming a cosponsor of H.R. 2200. Today, I would like to honor the legislative Frank Salazar has been and remains the AMERICAN RETIREES ASSOCIATION, liason from Fort Dix in my home State of New driving force behind symphonic music in the March 16, 1992. Jersey. Hon. LES ASPIN, county, and his efforts have truly enriched the Since June of 1970, Lonnie McCollough has House of Representatives, Washington, DC. lives of thousands of people. DEAR CONGRESSMAN ASPIN: The Uniformed fielded congressional inquiries with genuine A native of Albuquerque, NM, Frank Salazar Services Former Spouses Protection Act dedication. He has given each inquiry the ut­ was educated at the University of New Mex­ (USFSPA), Public Law 97-252, was a well-in­ most attention, no matter how trivial or difficult. ico, the Juilliard School of Music in New York, tentioned piece of legislation, enacted in My staff and I owe Lonnie a great deal of and the University of Southern California, September 1982 to protect deserving, di­ thanks for the help he has given us over the where he earned his master's degree with em­ vorced spouses of military members. But it years. phasis on the establishment of community or­ has created an even larger class of victims Lonnie has announced his retirement and than the spouses it was designed to assist: chestras. the military retiree and his or her second now will give his attention to the one person He began his educational career in 1950 at family. who truly deserves it: his wife, Hedy. Oxnard High School. Over the course of 6 The undersigned representatives of veter­ I am sure I am joined by my colleagues who years, he established two bands, an orchestra ans and military service organizations re­ have worked with Lonnie through the years in and chamber ensembles, as well as cofound- spectfully request your support for a pack- wishing him and his family the best of luck. March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6721 Lonnie, thanks for a job well .done. TRIBUTE TO ELKIN C. McCALLUM him was not only his longevity-he lived to the age of 101-but the life he lived, a life that HON. CHESTER G. ATKINS embodied the pioneer spirit of the old West. His grandparents immigrated to America SUMMARY OF CONGRESSMAN OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from England and Denmark, settling in Utah SLATTERY'S AMENDMENT TO with the earliest Mormon settlers. H.R. 3553 Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Traveling by covered wagon westward to Mr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great re­ Wyoming, his family settled in the 1890's. spect that I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. From pioneer beginnings, Mr. Dalley's biog­ HON. JIM SLATTERY Elkin C. McCallum of Tyngsborogh, MA who raphy is a threat through the American cen­ OF KANSAS has recently been selected as the recipient of tury, waving through the sparsely populated the An Wang Award and the Northern Middle­ Rocky Mountain West, World War I, and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sex Chamber of Commerce Businessman of great migration to the Golden State of Califor­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the Year. nia, from the Industrial Revolution to the Elkin McCallum is truly remarkable individ­ Space Age. Mr. SLATIERY. Mr. Speaker, currently, the ual, a man who has come to symbolize the After completing grade school in Alta, Mr. interest rate accruing on guaranteed student belief that commitment to hard work, edu­ Dalley continued his education at the Ricks loans is a fixed rate set at 8 percent. This rate cation, and family is still the key to success. Academy in Rexburg, ID, then the Teton Val­ is calculated by adding the 91-day Treasury Upon his graduation from Lowell High ley High School in Driggs, ID. He dropped out bill rate to a special allowance for lenders set School, Elkin began working in the fabric de­ in his third year of high school in 1911 to work at 3.25 percent. During the loan period, the velopment area of Joan Fabrics in Lowell, MA in the print shop of the Teton Valley News. Federal Government subsidizes the student's at the age of 18. His dedication to his work Mr. Dalley termed this a spur of the moment loan by paying the interest on it while the stu­ during the day and night classes at Bentley decision, and his tenure at the News was dent is in school. College, where he earned his degree, enabled short. Barely a week after quitting school, Mr. Because the T-bill rate is currently very low, Elkin to reach a tremendous level of achieve­ Dalley was called to fill a mission for the the actual interest accruing on student loans, ment. Just 27 years later he had worked this Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints. T-bill rate + 3.25 percent special allowance, is way to become the president, CEO, and sole Being that his Teton Valley High School prin­ less than the 8 percent being charged. This owner of the company, one of the leading cipal was also the L.D.S. Church's stake clerk, excess interest can be used for cost savings manufacturers of car seats and furniture up­ Mr. Dalley felt that the principal must have had by the Government. holstery. a hand in his mission. Mr. McCallum is also a dedicated family Mr. Dalley was ordained an Elder in the H.R. 4471, the substitute for the higher edu­ man. Together with Donna, his wife of 28 church in April 1911, and sent to the Central cation reauthorization, uses the excess inter­ years, Elkin has raised a daughter, Kerry, who States Mission, then headquartered in Inde­ est to reduce the loan principal of the borrow­ has chosen to follow in her father's footsteps pendence, MO. His initial homesickness was ing student while he or she is repaying their with a career at Joan Fabrics. overcome as he preached in L.D.S. chapels, loan. In addition to his numerous achievements in on street corners, and in the homes of friends The Slattery amendment would benefit the the business world, Elkin McCallum has con­ and prospective church members, gaining skill Government in a similar way. While the Gov­ tributed a great deal to his community. He is and reputation as an accomplished public ernment is paying interest on a student's loan currently chairman of the board of St. John's speaker. Mr. Dalley figured he walked over during his or her in-school period, any excess Medical Center and a member of the Bentley half of Missouri in the 27 months he spent interest would be credited to the Government. College Board of Trustees. He was a member there. This measure alone could save the Treasury of the board of directors for the Northern Mid­ On one of his journeys, in the spring of millions of dollars. dlesex Chamber of Commerce, the Merrimack 1913, he was distributing pamphlets in a resi­ Even conservative estimates point to large Valley United Way, and treasurer of the dential district of St. Louis when he heard a savings. If one estimates an annual loan vol­ Centralville United Methodist Church. Perhaps woman scream. He looked and saw a man ume of $6.75 billion, only half of the 1991 loan his greatest contribution to the community, chasing her with a raised hatchet, striking a volume, times 1 percent excess interest, the one that illustrates his strong commitment to glancing blow to her head before Mr. Dalley estimated cost savings for a single year would education, was his creation of the McCallum could get to them. He prevented another blow be $67.5 million. Foundation Scholarship Fund which helps pro­ by grabbing the man's arm. A crowd gathered, vide funding to less fortunate students who the police arrived, and the man was arrested. The Slattery amendment would not affect wish to pursue higher education. Mr. Dalley stayed over in St. Louis as a wit­ the banks special allowance, a rate calculated So, Mr. Speaker, I ask that you join me ness in the case. to protect the financial interests of the lending today in congratulating Mr. McCallum for re­ His selfessness marked his whole life. community. At the same time substantial cost ceiving both the An Wang and Businessman Mr. Dalley finished his mission in the winter savings can be realized by the Government of the Year awards. While at this time it is sat­ of 1915, in Jackson Hole, WY, where he re­ during this time of fiscal austerity. isfying to look back at Elkin's achievements, it turned to work at the Teton Valley News. In AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3553, AS REPORTED is even more gratifying to look forward to his 1916, he was hired to manage and edit the continued involvement in the community as a Jackson Hole Courier. Two years later, the (Offered By Mr. Slattery) role model to the importance of hard work, Army drafted him. Page 163, strike line 20 and all that follows education, and family. Mr. Dalley received his basic training at through line 3 on page 164 and insert the fol­ Camp Lewis, WA, where he learned Army life lowing: and became a squad leader. His company an adjustment shall be made- TRIBUTE TO ROBERT SYLVANUS then moved to Camp Kearny in Fresno, CA, DALLEY, PIONEER AND VET­ "(A) by calculating excess interest in the where the company continued drilling and rifle amount computed under paragraph (4) of this ERAN OF WORLD WAR I practice in preparation for action in the war in subsection; and Europe. "(B)(i) during any period in which a stu­ HON. RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM They crossed the country and the Atlantic dent is eligible to have interest payments OF CALIFORNIA and arrived in Liverpool, England, marching to paid on his or her behalf by the Government IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a rest camp where they stayed until August pursuant to section 428(a), by crediting the 22. excess interest to the Government; or Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Packed like sardines, with only standing "(ii) during any other period, by crediting Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, on No­ room, the troops left England for Cherbourg, such excess interest to the reduction of prin­ vember 12, 1991 , California lost a beloved citi­ France, where their march to the German cipal to the extent provided in paragraph (5) zen and valued witness to American history, frontier, with its battlefront in the Argonne For­ of this subsection. Robert Sylvanus Dalley. What distinguished est, began. For 3 weeks the troops marched, 6722 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 fortified by a meager diet of corned beef slum tion, where his wound was bandaged. He trav­ A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE SHAW and hard tack crackers. Mr. Dalley's company eled rearward to Allerey, France, to recuperate HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL TEAM had outrun the supply trains, and the officers for a month in a hospital. didn't wait. The company finally stopped for a On November 11, 1918, while Mr. Dalley HON. LOUIS STOKFS week or two in the French town of San Surgis, where the men came down with the flu, inter­ was preparing to return to the front, the armi- OF OHIO Stice was signed with Germany, ending the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rupting their usual schedule of drill and range fire. Great War. "That was a particularly happy day Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Around September 15, 1918, the company for those of us who were booked to go back Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, 1 would like to boarded cattle cars headed for the front. Mr. to the front at once," Mr. Dalley recalled, with congratulate the Shaw High School Mock Trial Dalley was attached to Company E of the characteristic understatement. Tearn for placing in the Cleveland-Marshall 305th Infantry, 77th Division, New York's Own. Returning to the United States as a soldier Seventeenth Annual Areawide Mock Trial From a high, wooded hill, Mr. Dalley had his in the 77th Division, New York's own, Mr. Competition earlier this month. first view of the trench warfare of World War The mock trial brings together high school I. On September 23, 1918, Company E's extra Dalley marched in a parade down New York's students and social studies teachers and pre- equipment, including personal effects, was 5th Avenue, then spent much of the spring of sents them with a fictitious case to argue or taken from the troops, leaving them with only 1919 seeing the sights in and around New defend. The College of Law's Street Law Pro­ battle dress and a rain slicker. They were is­ York City. He returned to Wyoming, where he gram, the Cleveland Bar Association, the Ohio sued fresh ammunition and grenades and was discharged on May 19, 1919. Center for Law-Related Education are spon- marched to the front, where they replaced the Ordinarily, a soldier is awarded the Purple sors of the mock trial competition. French in the Argonne. Heart for wounds suffered in combat. But a Shaw High School, which is located in the They waited for an all night allied artillery clerk's error on Mr. Dalley's discharge papers East Cleveland section of my district, is recog­ barrage to abate, then the company was or­ meant that he did not receive his decoration nized throughout the State of Ohio as an dered over the top and into the German de­ eight-time winner of the mock trial competition. fenses. There were no Germans in the first set until 66 years later, in 1984, when the mistake Mr. Speaker, the competition provides Shaw of trenches, and in the second set of trenches, was discovered and corrected. High students with valuable experience and Mr. Dalley and Company E surprised the Mr. Dalley settled in Driggs, ID, where he knowledge, allowing them to view everyday enemy completely. They captured hundreds of left off before he left for the war. He was en- experiences from a more mature perspective. Germans with scarcely a casualty among the gaged to Reva M. Goodrick of Wilson, WY, This year students argued an AIDS case. In American troops-a rare achievement in a war having met in the winter of 1917. On October the case, a student tests HIV positive and known for its high cost in human lives. 2, 1919, they were married in the Salt Lake sues a medical provider. The media inter- Having cleared the second set of trenches, S venes asking the court to allow media access the company advanced over rolling, sparsely City L.D. ·temple. to the court proceedings. The students had to timbered country and met their first resistance. In the years following their marriage, Mr. decide which is more important. The right to Machinegun and artillery fire fell in their midst. Dalley worked in a Teton Valley hydro-electric privacy or the public's right to know. The high The American troops were flanked, taking plant as a construction worker on the Snake · school students performed as witnesses and heavy fire. Favorable cover kept Mr. Dalley River Bridge, in a sawmill, and was elected attorneys as they argued their case before a protected, while several nearby soldiers were county assessor of Jackson County, WY, on panel of actual judges. The students worked killed and wounded. the Republican ticket. After finishing his asses- extra hard in order to prepare for the trial by From the opening of the Argonne drive, Mr. sor's work for the summer, in September researching months in advance. Dalley describes how the Americans pres­ 1923, Mr. Dalley edited the Jackson Hole Mr. Speaker, I am honored to pay tribute to sured the Germans to grudgingly give ground. Courier. But the owner died on a hunting trip, the Shaw High School mock trial team mem­ The company advanced by night under cover and Mr. Dalley found himself running a news- bers Gayle Williams, Harlynn Goolfby, Aquil of darkness, with the balance of the night Wynn Bey, Sharell Brooks, Terry Ballard, Kim- spent lying prone on the ground with guns paper alone. berly Floyd, James Walker, and Honey Bell- loaded and out in front of us, as Mr. Dalley He noticed an advertisement for prospective Bey. I would like to commend Shaw High described the scene. Company E had orders forest rangers. He took the exam, passed it, School principal Stephen J. Lloyd and his staff to shoot anything that moved, and they did and was offered an appointment in the Forest for assisting the students in this important en­ some shooting. Service, which he accepted. He ran several deavor. I wish him and the Shaw High School The men scarcely had a night's rest. Sev­ forest districts in Wyoming before being sent mock trial team much continued success. eral times, the company was ordered to stay to Kansas in 1936--the Great Dust Bowl-to awake all night, ready to move out at a mo­ ment's notice. Mr. Dalley described the situa­ work on soil and range improvement. PERTINENT POINTS ABOUT THE tion thus: "It was not enough thaf we starve After 28 years in the Forest Service, Mr. STATE OF THE NATION AND ITS and work, and freeze, and fight; that we wal­ Dalley retired and settled in Lemon Grove, FUTURE low in mud and endure enemy fire, but we CA, with Reva. He didn't slow down. He also were subjected to severe bombardment worked in an aircraft plant, then as a book­ HON. WIWAM E. DANNEMEYER by our own artillery and ordered over the top keeper for two moving companies, actively OF CALIFORNIA into enemy fire when it was well known that paricipating in the L.D.S. church until his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the enemy had been heavily reinforced, were death last fall. well entrenched, and ready for us." Tuesday, March 24, 1992 After a night of retrieving Americans wound­ Mr. Dalley is survived by two daughters, Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Bob ed in the daylight assaults, then carrying them lwana Baranov of Ramona, and Viora Shirk, a constituent from my home district, had a half mile behind the line to the aid station, Woempner of Lemon Grove; a son, Dennis some thoughtful and pertinent points to make Mr. Dalley arrived back at the line as the Ger­ Dalley of Sandy, UT; a brother, Milo H. Dalley about the state of the Nation and its future. I mans were continuing a moderately heavy of Rexburg, ID; five grandchildren; twelve bring his comments to your attention: bombardment, using proximity-fuzed rounds great-grandchildren; and one great-great­ I am 70, twice retired, and work part-time that exploded directly overhead. Before grandchild. His beloved bride Reva preceded driving for an auto auction, with many other WWTI retirees. During lunch, we often have digging in, he aided a man who had been shot him in death, having passed in June 1991. through the kneecap the previous afternoon. round table discussions about World and Do­ mestic affairs. Yesterday, of seven partici­ As he dug his own bivouac, a round exploded May this tribute to Robert Sylvanus Dalley, today entered into the permanent RECORD of pants, surprisingly six of us declared inten­ directly overhead. Shrapnel pierced his hel­ tions of not voting for any incumbent now in met, wounded his head, and knocked him out; the Congress of the United States, serve to office. This is a disturbing indication of the he awoke with blood streaming down his face. give honor to the values he exemplified and extreme dissatisfaction which most people in Mr. Dalley made his way back to an aid sta- valued during his long and fruitful life. the U.S. have, with the incompetence and in- March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6723 difference of our Congress (and our Presi­ He worked his way through the University of its responsibilities in these days looking to the dent) to balancing the Budget, and resolu­ Alabama Law School and practiced law in future. It cautions against foolhardy and too tion of the many domestic problems which Jasper. After serving in the Alabama State deep cuts which may cost us in lives and confront us. We are so tightly bound with the umbilical cords of every other Nation on Legislature, Carter moved to Washington in money in the future. Earth, which we are contributing support, 1933 to work for House Speaker William B. After victory in World War II, the world that we have neglected to maintain a Bankhead. seemed safe. America demobilized its mili­ healthy economy at home. (I am anxious to I imagine that Carter and his cigar contrib­ tary forces with a vengeance. learn how soon California flood victims will uted to more than a few smoke-filled back Peace was in hand and the world expected be flooded with disaster relief funds and con­ rooms, in those days. As Speaker Bankhead's it would remain so. Defense plants closed, tributions from Israel, Egypt, England, right-hand man, he certainly learned the ways soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines came France, et cetera, et cetera, due to the Red of Washington. And, he made some long-last­ home as fast as bulging troop ships could sail Cross Director's recent announcement that across the oceans. they are $25 million in debt). ing friendships in the press galleries which he visited on a regular basis. In 1945, while the allies were mopping up One of our group, a Mexican man, with an the Germans and finishing off the Japanese, 11th grade education, posed this question: After Speaker Bankhead died, his nephew, the United States had 12 million citizens "How did I raise a family of four children, on Walter Will Bankhead, served briefly in the a minimal income, balance my budget, pay under arms. seat before returning home to Jasper. When In 1946, it had less than 3 million. my taxes, with only minimal education, the next general election came around in when those high salaried, well-educated Con­ That number dwindled until, in 1950, it was gressmen (mostly lawyers-nothing personal 1940, Carter's friends talked him into running. 1.4 million. intended) cannot balance the Federal Budg­ He was elected to represent what was then In June 1950, North Korea-under the direc­ et?" The very simple and basic solution is to Alabama's Seventh District and served in Con­ tion of its patron, the Soviet Union- at­ restrict your spending to less than your in­ gress from 1941 to 1949. tached South Korea. come, setting aside a small portion for emer­ Carter was a very conservative Congress­ The United Nations stood up to defend the gencies. man. In fact, he was frequently at odds with tiny country from the communist invasion, His question would be an appropriate one the Democratic leadership and with then­ and the United States was back at war. to present to your fellow Congressmen. Mr. President Harry Truman. As chairman of what The problem was that in the previous five Bush has stated that "We Won the Cold years, the nation had decimated its military War!" Oh, Really? Russia defeated itself. He is now the Government Operations Commit­ tee, he bottled up the full employment bill and force, using the "peace dividend" to balance also takes credit for a victory in the Gulf the federal budget and to get the economy in War, yet Hussein still retains his liberty and got quite a bit of national attention. order. license to continue in practice, despite the Knowing Carter, he wasn't letting anyone Fighting raged during that time in South­ millions the American taxpayers spent over tell him what to do. Carter kept his own coun­ east Asia, Greece and the Mideast but the there, and the disastrous damage he caused sel throughout his life and I never heard any­ United States was at work rebuilding Europe to Kuwait and to the ecology. Mr. Bush's ref­ one question his integrity and judgment. He and trying to devise a policy to deal with the erence to the ostrich in his speech was right­ Soviet Union's ambitions. fully included, but misdirected. Perhaps he was a pretty good poker player and I'm sure should have mentioned the chicken, instead he knew "when to hold 'em and when to fold By 1947, the United States had little mili­ of the eagle, with respect to our status in 'em." tary force at all. Manpower was minimal. It world affairs. When he left Congress, Carter went to work had no ready atomic bombs and there was Bill, you are my one, and only, favorite as a lobbyist for the National Coal Association great doubt that the Strategic Air Command Congressman, and the only one, for whom I could hit any targets anyway. When Presi­ and became a well-known figure on Capitol dent Harry Truman told Secretary of State will cast a vote for re-election. Hill. Voting incumbents out of office, in mass, George C. Marshall that he would like to may be a dangerous approach, but retaining As a former Member of the House, he had "give the Russians hell" Marshall tactfully them in office, seems even more dangerous. floor privileges and access to Member suggested that one American division in Eu­ I am becoming more and more convinced lounges. Carter kept up his friendships with rope was not an adequate instrument for that a limit of two terms with no pensions or the Members, the congressional staff, and the even the threat of hell. perks, may be the one and only way to at­ press. I don't think anyone knew more people Much later, nuclear deterrence would be­ tract truly dedicated men to restore this in Washington than Carter did. come the policy, but when the shooting Country to the stature it had before World Even after his retirement in 1985, Carter started in Korea, the United States found it­ War II. self little better off militarily than it had The only conclusion which we have drawn came to the Capitol every day, visiting the been eight years earlier when the shooting in our discussions is that the majority of press galleries and the offices of the Alabama started in Pearl Harbor, and almost as sur­ Congressmen are self-serving, selfish, and congressional delegation. prised. dedicated only to their own interests, serv­ He would come to my office, visit with the When the shooting stopped in Korea, the ing those who can return their favors, and staff and catch up on our hometown news­ United States had tripled the size of its don't give a damn about the future of our paper. Then he'd make the rounds on the armed forces and quadrupled the size of its Country and future generations. Senate side. If Carter didn't show up, we'd be defense budget. calling around to find out where he was. Fast forward to 1992. The Cold War is over and the U.S. House of Representatives is pro­ TRIBUTE TO CARTER MANASCO That's how much we thought of him. We're all going to miss Carter. He was such posing to slash the military budget by twice as much as the president recommended. HON. TOM BEVILL a unique individual. Everybody who knew him, loved him. And, just about everybody knew Jacksonville area Representatives Charles OF ALABAMA Bennett and Craig James voted against the him. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $1.5 trillion budget containing those drastic There won't be any way to replace him and Tuesday, March 24, 1992 cuts. we surely won't forget him. Over a period of five years, the House budg­ Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay et would trim $88 billion from the defense tribute to my good friend Carter Manasco, the spending. The Pentagon calls that excessive. former Alabama Congressman and long-time DEFENSE CUTS SHOW HOW LITTLE Certainly, the collapse of the Soviet Union lobbyist for the National Coal Association who WE HAVE LEARNED IN 50 YEARS calls for defense budget reductions of reason­ passed away recently. able size. But the former superpower's nu­ Carter was a special friend to many of us on HON. CHARLFS E. BENNEIT clear warheads still exist and there are still formidable threats in the world from other Capitol Hill-Congressmen, journalists, and OF FLORIDA staff members. We enjoyed his wry sense of quarters, as we learned 18 months ago in Ku­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wait. humor, his pearls of wisdom and his frequent Tuesday, March 24, 1992 There is a difference between paring de­ visits. fense down to reasonable size and stripping Carter was from my hometown of Townley, Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, the Florida our defenses to get money to ensure liberal which is located in Walker County, AL. It's Times-Union of Jacksonville, FL, recently ran officeholders sufficient votes to remain in of­ coal mining country and Carter actually the following editorial on the defenses of the fice. Congress needs to learn that difference worked in the mines during his younger years. United States and how Congress is reacting to and act accordingly.

59-059 0-96 Vol. 138 (Pt. 5) 27 6724 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 NUMBER 1 PROPERTY CRIME­ the old State, the thief has already sold the MY MAN: CLIFTON W. SKEEN, AUTO THEFT stolen car to an unsuspecting purchaser. Our WILY STATEHOUSE VETERAN bill would create an electronic clearinghouse HON. CHARLFS E. SCHUMER that would permit States to instantaneously HON. lHOMAS C. SAWYER OF NEW YORK check the validity of a purported out-of-State OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES title. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, March 24, 1992 A third, increasingly popular, method for Tuesday, March 24, 1992 profiting from auto theft is to export the stolen Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, automobile vehicle for sale abroad. The stolen automobile Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to theft has become the Nation's No. 1 property is simply hidden in a shipping container and pay tribute to a most remarkable man, State crime problem. Auto crime accounts for more put on an outgoing boat. Our bill would tighten Representative Cliff Skeen, who, after an out­ than half of the value of property lost to the Customs Service's supervision of exported standing career dedicated to serving the peo­ crime-some $8 to $9 billion each year. Auto automobiles, and would direct Customs to ple of the 69th House District of the State of theft touched 1 in every 50 American house­ spot check containers destined for overseas. Ohio, will be retiring at the end of this year. holds last year, with more than 1.6 million Cliff Skeen celebrated his 69th birthday on motor vehicles reported stolen. The Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992 is a critically March 17, 1992, but he began a long and out­ To address the growing crisis, I and the needed step toward reducing the overwhelm­ standing career of representing the interests of gentleman from Wisconsin, the chairman and ing cost that auto theft is now exacting. I urge his community in 1949 when he hired on as a ranking Republican member of the Sub­ my colleagues to cosponsor this bill. spray painter at Goodyear Aerospace Corp. committee on Crime and Criminal Justice, join Cliff quickly became active in the United Auto together today to introduce the Anti-Car Theft Workers Local 856 where he held leadership Act of 1992. This bill would significantly tough­ A TRIBUTE .TO FRANCES JEAN positions of steward, chief steward, plant com­ en the Federal penalties for auto theft. It NICHOLS mitteeman, and financial secretary-treasurer. would create a new offense for armed After 20 years at Goodyear and two earlier carjacking-this is the most recent innovation races for State representative, Cliff Skeen in auto theft, in which the criminal brazenly HON. JERRY LEWIS continued his commitment to serving the com­ walks up to a car waiting at a traffic light, munity as labor participation director for the points a gun at the driver, and demands that OF CALIFORNIA Summit County United Way. In 1975, Summit the car be turned over. Our bill would make IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES County Democrats elected Cliff to complete armed carjacking punishable by up to 20 Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the term of office of retiring State Representa­ years in prison. It would also double the pen­ tive Ron Weyandt, when Weyandt became the alties for existing auto theft offenses. Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I county sheriff. The bill also includes a program for assist­ would like to bring to your attention today the Since his appointment in 1975, Cliff Skeen ing State law enforcement efforts. Several fine work and outstanding public service of has served eight additional consecutive terms States are now taking creative and resourceful Deputy Frances Jean Nichols. She is retiring in the Ohio State House of Representatives. approaches to the problem. Michigan, for ex­ after dedicating 26 years of service to the Los Over the years, he has served on every house ample, has set up an Auto Theft Prevention Angeles County Sheriff's Department and will committee, including his current seats on the Authority, funded by a $1 per car surcharge be recognized at a dinner in her honor on joint committee on agency review, finance and collected by insurance companies, that is de­ March 27. development subcommittee, rules, ethics and voted exclusively to fighting auto crime. This Frances Jean was born on January 2, 1941, standards, and children and youth. Skeen also program has been astonishingly successful. in Los Angeles where she grew up and at­ serves on the advisory committees of the bu­ Since its establishment, as national auto theft tended public schools. From an early age, she reau of unemployment compensation and the rates have skyrocketed, Michigan's has actu­ had her sights on a career in law enforcement bureau of worker's compensation. ally declined by more than 13 percent. Our bill and joined the L.A. County Sheriff's Depart­ In addition to his numerous professional re­ would authorize $10 million in assistance to ment in June 1965. sponsibilities, Cliff Skeen has devoted a sig­ nificant amount of time and effort to commu­ States following the Michigan example. Frances Jean graduated from the Sheriff's In addition to tougher penalties and en­ nity-oriented projects. He led in the struggle to Academy in 1965 as a member of Class 107 hanced enforcement, the bill contains three attain State status for the University of Akron; and began her law enforcement career at the new and inventive programs aimed at deter­ he was a founding member of the Summit­ Sybil Brand Institute for Women. During this ring auto theft Portage Comprehensive Health Planning by taking the profit out of stolen time, she formulated a waitress training pro­ cars. The most prevalent method for making Agency, the Greater Akron Area Council on gram for inmates in an effort to provide them money from auto theft is with so-called "chop Alcoholism, and the Ellet Amateur Athletic As­ with a marketable skill. shops," which dismantle the stolen car and sociation. Cliff was also a trustee of the Salva­ sell it in parts to shady auto repairers. Broken In 1968, she was transferred to the West tion Army, Edwin Shaw Hospital, and the up, an automobile's parts can fetch up to four Hollywood Patrol Station and began assisting Summit Community Action Council. times the value of the whole car. Our bill in the production of departmental training In recognition of his involvement and dedi­ would require that an automobile's major parts films. Ten years later, she was assigned to the cation to the community, Cliff has received be marked with the car's vehicle identification San Dimas Station Detective Bureau where many honors. They included the Good Neigh­ number. This would allow police officers raid­ she investigated crimes against children and bor Award, the · Goodyear Employee Honor ing a suspected chop shop to quickly and defi­ also coordinated the station's Juvenile Diver­ Award, the AFL-CIO Community Service nitely determine whether the establishment is sion Program. Her additional duties included Award, Northeast Ohio University College of indeed trafficking in stolen parts. The bill lectures to various civic organizations on rape Medicine President's Award, several Legislator would also provide for repair shops who sell prevention and training station personnel in of the Year Awards, and the Distinguished used parts to check the ID numbers of the first aid and CPR. In 1982, Frances Jean was Service to Veterans Award, to name a few. parts they sell against the FBI database of transferred to the preemployment bureau I am honored to have served in the Ohio stolen car ID numbers, to ensure that the where she conducted background investiga­ House of Representatives with Cliff Skeen and parts they are selling are not stolen. tions on Sheriff's Department applicants. to call him my friend. There are few of us who Some auto thieves simply resell the car Mr. Speaker, in over 26 years of service, truly make a difference-Cliff is one of those. whole, by obtaining an apparently valid Frances Jean Nichols has served honorably He is a man of the highest integrity and sin­ washed title document. A thief washes a title and made extraordinary contributions to our cerity who truly cares about his neighbors, his by going to a State's department of motor ve­ community. I ask that you join me, our col­ community and his country. hicles, presenting a fraudulent out-of-State leagues, and friends in recognizing her self­ Cliff has always urged his colleagues, in his title, and saying that he or she has just pur­ less dedication. Her many years of public words, to remember from whence they came. chased the car and wants to title it in the new service is certainly worthy of recognition by He has always followed his own advice. And State. By the time the new State checks with the House today. as a result, he remains as close and true to March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6725 those he serves as anyone I've ever known in THE VATICAN SHOULD RECOGNIZE Whereas the National Conference on public life. He is a model to us all. ISRAEL Catholic Bishops' statement, entitled "The Pursuit of Peace with Justice," supports the 1 am proud to ask you to join me today in "rights of Israel to existence as a sovereign paying tribute to this exceptional man whose HON. EDWARD F. FEIGHAN state with secure and recognized bound­ dedication and many years of service are cer­ OF OHIO aries"; tainly worthy of recognition. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas the National Christian Leadership Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Conference has urged Pope John Paul II to formally recognize the State of Israel; Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ Whereas the Vatican has demonstrated troducing a resolution calling on the Vatican to constructive support for the Egypt-Israel CONGRATULATIONS TO THE recognize Israel. Today, 100 countries have peace treaty; and FINDLAY FALCONS full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel. Whereas the establishment of formal diplo­ Over the last 2 years, the former Soviet Union, matic relations between the Vatican and the State of Israel would be a positive step to­ HON. GLENN POSHARD along with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, ward peace and stability in the Middle East and Poland have restored relations with Israel. and would promote increased harmony be­ OF ILLINOIS In January, China and India joined the list. tween Christians and Jews throughout the This growing trend toward global recognition IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES world: Now, therefore, be it of Israel makes the Vatican's position that Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Tuesday, March 24, 1992 much more anomalous. The Vatican has spe­ Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the cial concerns when it comes to the Middle Congress that the Vatican should grant offi­ Mr. POSHARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to East: for Christian minorities throughout the cial recognition to the State of Israel and pay tribute to a team that made Illinois High should establish diplomatic relations with region; for preservation of and free access to that country. School history earlier this month by winning the holy places; and for the constructive role SEC. 2. The Clerk of the House of Rep­ the Class A basketball State championship it can play as a force for reconciliation and resentatives shall transmit copies of this res­ tournament. The Findlay Falcons, led by peace among those of differing faiths. Its role olution to the President with a request that coach Mike Reynolds, became the smallest in each of these areas can only be enhanced the President transmit those copies to the team to ever win this championship on March through the establishment of full diplomatic re­ Vatican and to the Government of Israel. 15, 1992 when they beat the Normal-Univer­ lations with the State of Israel. sity High School. Historically, the Vatican has held informal TRIBUTE TO RALPH LIBERATO Located in central Illinois, neither the com­ diplomatic exchanges and consultations with munity of Findlay, population 868, or its high Israeli officials. On January 5, John Cardinal HON. SANDER M. LEVIN school with 96 students, is known for its size. O'Connor, in an act that would have been OF MICHIGAN But Findlay is known for its ba~ketball teams. highly controversial 5 years ago, met with Is­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For the past 2 years, the Falcons have pro­ raeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir in his Je­ gressed to the supersectionals. The third time rusalem office. This meeting was the culmina­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 was a charm which gave the Falcons its first tion of a warming trend in Catholic-Jewish re­ Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise ever State championship. lations that began with the papal publication of today to pay tribute to Ralph Liberato, a dedi­ "Nostra Aetate" following Vatican II. This land­ cated public servant, a good friend and a good The Findlay Falcons had an impressive reg­ mark document deplored anti-Semitism and ular season record of 31-2. During the re­ Democrat with a great spaghetti recipe, who is rejected the belief that Jews were collectively gional championship tournament, the Falcons retiring as director of governmental affairs at responsible for the death of Christ. the American Federation of State, County and put away the Lovington, Arcola, and Chrisman In recognizing Israel, the Vatican could truly teams. The Falcons proceeded to the Municipal Employees, Council_ 25. . . . culminate this warming trend and at the same Mr. Liberato has served w1th d1stmct1on as sectionals where they proved themselves time make a powerful contribution to the again over the Maroa-Forsyth High School. chair of the Macomb County Democratic Party search for peace in the Middle East-a peace from 1964 through 1991. An outstanding and They kept up the momentum when they beat that can only occur when countries are willing the Springfield Calvary High School, 62-55, at respected labor leader, Mr. Liberato served as to recognize the reality and the legitimacy of secretary-treasurer of the Metro Detroit AFL­ the supersectionals. The final test was when the State of Israel. It's time for the Vatican to the Falcons emerged victorious over the Nor­ CIO. For many years his spaghetti dinners, join the rest of Europe and the international which he cooks and serves at Democratic and mal-University High school with a score of 61- community and change its current policy. 45. labor functions, have been legendary. Today, along with 37 of my colleagues, I am In addition to his service with the labor · Mr. Speaker, I salute the Findlay Falcons introducing a resolution expressing the sense movement and the Democratic Party, Mr. and ask that the following names be included of the Congress that the Vatican should recog­ Liberato has served his country. He was in the in the RECORD so that the Falcons can be rec­ nize the State of Israel and establish full diplo­ Marines during World War II, fought at Gua­ ognized as the champions they are. I wish matic relations with that country. I ask that a dalcanal, Guam, the Solomon Islands, and them all the success in the future. copy of the resolution be printed following this Okinawa. When he finished his tour of duty, statement. FINDLAY HIGH SCHOOL he returned home to Michigan to get his bach­ H. CON. RES. 298 elor's degree at Wayne State University. In Superintendent: Ron Hash; Principal: Whereas 100 governments of every political 1952 he went to work at the GM Tech Center Larry Bradford; Head Coach: Mike Reynolds; form maintain full and formal diplomatic re­ Assistant Coach: Brett Chaney; Cheerleading in Warren, Ml, and became the first president lations with the State of Israel; of Local of the United Auto Workers. Sponsor: Chris Tippit. Whereas the Vatican and the State of Is­ 160 rael have maintained formal channels of Mr. Liberato has made an outstanding con­ PLAYERS communication; tribution to his community and should be com­ Clayton Stivers; Eric Smith; Jim Allen; Whereas the Vatican and the State of Is­ mended for his years of service. Tony Sparks; Joey Howell; Jeremy Chaney; rael participate in ongoing consultations and Jason Tucker; Michael Been; Greg Mitchell; informal diplomatic exchanges; Tyler Bradford; Cameron Lawrence; John Whereas the end of the Cold War facili­ TRIBUTE TO ERNEST NESPECA, Cruit; and Dustin Cruit. tated the re-establishment of diplomatic re­ JR. lations between Israel and the nations of Student Managers: John Knieram and Eastern Europe and between Israel and the David Heinz. former Soviet Union; HON. JAMES A. TRAFlCANf, JR. OF OHIO CHEERLEADERS Whereas the 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council all now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Marc! McClain; Shanna Buechele; Rayna maintain full diplomatic relations with Is­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 Aper; Chastity McLain; Sarah Been; Christy rael; Cloyd; Chastity Rodman; Decka Carroll; Whereas the "Nostra Aetate" calls for Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise Tanya Park; and Stephanie Lebo. Catholic-Jewish dialogue and understanding; to pay tribute to Ernest Nespeca, Jr., who will 6726 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 retire from the Youngstown Board of Health million worth of property saved and $321 mil­ has one son, Dr. Chandler Gibbs, a retired Department on April 1, 1992. For over 25 lion worth of property assisted. As an Inte­ physician in Poughkeepsie, NY. Dr. Gibbs is years Ernest has served the community of gral part of our Nation's narcotics interdic­ loved by many and respected by everyone. Youngstown in my 17th Congressional District tion operations, they have been responsible for keeping over 209.9K tons of marijuana, The world, and the State of North Carolina in Ohio. 29.1 K tons of cocaine and 5.5 K tons of other have benefited immeasurably from his long Ernest, born in 1929, has been a lifelong illegal narcotics with a total value of over life. Happy birthday, Dr. Gibbs, and may you resident of my great hometown of Youngs­ $3.2 billion off our streets. Over 370 arrests continue to reap the sweet fruits of long life. town. Ernest fought strong and brave in Korea were made in conjunction with these sei­ with the U.S. Army on behalf of the people of zures. Ohio. After his service Ernest returned to Recently, these cutters have received TRffiUTE TO FLOYD McCREE Youngstown to begin a career with the Board tasking from another quarter and are meet­ ing the challenge of the human tragedy cur­ of Health Department as a food and meat in­ rently being played out in the Caribbean. As HON. DALE E. KILDEE spector. After a long and dedicated tenure he part of our ongoing alien migrant interdic­ OF MICHIGAN was appointed milk inspector in the dairy de­ tion operations they are providing humani­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partment in 1983. There he worked to ensure tarian relief and saving the lives of countless Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the quality and safety of milk for thousands people who would in all likelihood have oth­ upon thousands in his community. erwise perished at sea. Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is with pleasure Now after a career of hard, dedicated work Again to all involved in the Inception, and great pride that I rise today to pay tribute Ernest is leaving to enjoy a long-deserved re­ planning, building, and manning of these to Mr. Floyd Joel McCree, who was honored cutters, and the training of their crews, well on February 16, 1992, in my hometown of tirement with his wife, Donna, his children, done. Beth Ann and Ernest, and with his friends. Flint, Ml where he served as an outstanding Well said, Admiral Leahy. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to pay tribute to public official for over 40 years. Sadly, Floyd the unheralded service long work that Ernest passed away in 1988, but he will long be re­ has performed with the Youngstown Board of TRIBUTE TO DR. WARMOTH T. membered for his years of dedicated service Health Department. Too many times workers GffiBS and the significant contributions he made on like Ernest, who make up the backbone of behalf of the citizens of Flint. America, are ignored and so it is my great Although much of Floyd's public work was HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS accomplished while living in Flint, he was born pleasure to honor Ernest as he embarks on OF NEW YORK his well-earned retirement. in Webster, MO. It was there that Floyd began IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES distinguishing himself at an early age. An all­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 state baseball player in high school, Floyd DELIVERY OF THE 49TH ISLAND Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, every once in a also participated on the track and tennis CLASS PATROL BOAT while the human race is gifted with a unique teams and won numerous awards as an orator individual who is multitalented and leaves an on the debate team. He later played basket­ HON. WJ. (BillY) TAUZIN indelible impression upon everyone with whom ball at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. OF LOUISIANA they come in contact. Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs is Floyd was still very young when he got his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that type of person. Today, it is my very spe­ first exposure to politics. It was through his fa­ cial pleasure to acknowledge the 1OOth birth­ ther, who was a precinct captain in his home­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 day of Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs on April 5, and town, that Floyd attended political meetings Mr. TAUZIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to to highlight the achievements and contribu­ and helped in various campaigns. In 1943, his commemorate the delivery of the U.S. Coast tions of this outstanding individual. political career was put on hold when he was Guard Cutter Galveston Island. The Galveston Dr. Gibbs is an institution in the State of drafted into wartime service. Not surprisingly, Island is the 49th and final island class patrol North Carolina and at North Carolina A& T Uni­ while serving in the South Pacific as a platoon boat currently scheduled to be delivered by versity where he served as president from sergeant for 2 years, he received numerous Bollinger Machine & Shipyard of Lockport, LA. 1955 to1960. He is known for being a man of awards for his leadership and training. The 11 Q-foot island class patrol boat has independent thought and action, qualities In 1946, Floyd arrived in Flint and began to been a true success story. The hard-working which he attempted to instill in the university work at the Chevrolet plant. Later, Floyd trans­ men and women of Bollinger Shipyard can be student body. Dr. Gibbs is best known during ferred to Buick, where he worked in the found­ proud of their contribution to saving lives at his tenure as president for getting the univer­ ry and resumed his political career when he sea, protecting the environment, securing our sity accredited by the Southern Association, was elected a committeeman. Over the years, national defense, and fighting the war on and for his response to student demonstrators he served on various union committees at the drugs. I would like to share with the House a during the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins. During UAW Local 599. In addition to these duties, March 10, 1992, message honoring the island that period when there were efforts to get Floyd also became active in numerous com­ class patrol boats sent by Adm. W.P. Leahy, President Gibbs to disband the demonstration munity groups including the NAACP and the Chief of the Office of Law Enforcement and activities by the students, he is reported to Flint Urban League. It was during this period Defense Operations, to every command in the have said, "We teach our student how to that he married Leeberta Townsend with Coast Guard: think, not what to think." His defense of the whom he had four children, Anita, Byron, Mar­ With the delivery of the USCGC Galveston students' rights to protest was one of the sha, and Melvin. With his family, Floyd wor­ Island (WPB 1349) we have closed the latest many pivotal efforts to dismantle segregation shipped at Metropolitan Baptist Church. chapter in the modernization of the Coast in Greensboro, NC. In 1956, Floyd was appointed to the board Guard cutter fleet. I would like to take this Dr. Gibbs has resided in Greensboro for 66 of county supervisors. Two years later, he be­ opportunity to thank all concerned. years. He moved to North Carolina from Lou­ came the first black person elected to the Flint In the seven years since the commissioning City Council. In 1966, Floyd was appointed of USCGC Farallon (WPB 1301) these state-of­ isiana. During his years at A& T he served as the-art 110' Island Class WPB's and their president, dean of men, instructor of military mayor, making him the first .black mayor in crews continue to establish new standards in science, professor of history and government, Michigan and the first black mayor of a city service to the American public. These cut­ and dean of the School of Education and Gen­ over 100,000 in the United States. ters now serve In varied locations from Alas­ eral Studies. Possibly his most notable accomplishment ka to Guam and from Maine to Puerto Rico Former President Gibbs received liberal arts in public service is the drive he spearheaded in climates that run the gamut from subarc­ and honorary doctorate degrees from Wiley in 1968 that resulted in Flint becoming the first tic to tropical. They have operated as far College in Marshall, TX. and a master's de­ city in the Nation to pass an open housing ref­ away as Panama. erendum. When the city council initially re­ During underway operations, amounting to gree from Harvard University in Boston, MA, over 280,000 hours (equivalent of over 32 where he met his late wife Marece Jones fused to pass the ordinance, Floyd threatened years) these cutters have prosecuted over Gibbs. to resign. This resulted in a rally and a sleep­ 2,070 search and rescue cases In which 1,219 Since his retirement, Dr. Gibbs has lived in, which eventually persuaded the city council lives were saved, 7,591 persons assisted, $67 with his daughter, Elizabeth Gibbs Moore. He to reverse its position. In 1971, Floyd was ap- March 24, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6727 pointed Genesee county register of deeds and part D, to develop procedures to ensure that they must close the door on their country's was later elected and re-elected to that office, vocational courses meet core academic past racial divisions. This victory is long over­ where he served until his death in 1988. course standards for purposes of college ad­ due. Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to honor some­ missions requirements. The articulation part­ The system known as apartheid was first one who has done so much to improve the nership is an agreement between 2- and 4- established more than 40 years ago. The pol­ quality of life for the residents of the Flint com­ year institutions that seeks to ease the transi­ icy of dictating where blacks could live, work, munity. Floyd McCree had an enormously suc­ tion between secondary and postsecondary go to school, and even whom they were al­ cessful career and upheld the highest tradition schools. lowed to marry caused untold suffering before of public service. While we miss his physical Two- and four-year institutions that are the walls of apartheid began to crumble. We presence, we celebrate the life and legacy of members of a consortium under this part of should not forget that Nelson Mandela was im­ the man we knew to be courageous, kind, and this act would be able to enter into an agree­ prisoned for 27 years before he was released gentle. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a privilege to ment with a local education agency to develop in February 1990. Now he is engaged in nego­ pay tribute to this highly regarded individual. equivalency approval procedures for voca­ tiations with President de Klerk for a new con­ tional courses. Once these procedures are es­ stitution. tablished, vocational courses meeting such However, this is not the time to dwell on the BRIAN FUJIMOTO, GREG KIMBALL, core academic standards would then be con­ injustices of South Africa's past, but rather to AND DARRON YOUNG EARN sidered as equivalent for the purposes of sat­ encourage its peoples to continue their RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT isfying entrance requirements to college. progress toward a more promising future. This amendment is an important educational Above all, we should take heart in the human­ HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI reform effort, being led all across the country ity of the people of South Africa and their abil­ OF CALIFORNIA through the restructuring of vocational-tech­ ity to rise above a lifetime of bitterness and di­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nical education. My amendment will increase vision to support the goals of justice and free­ Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the coordinated effort to integrate academic dom for all. Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, on May 31, and vocational instruction by providing for 1992, an Eagle Award ceremony will be held equivalency between vocational and academic curricula. If vocational courses can be struc­ HONORING JAMES M. PATRONITE at the Oneonta Congregational Church for ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RE­ Brian Fujimoto, Greg Kimball, and Darron tured to meet core academic requirements which are used as the basis for college admis­ TIREMENT FROM THE PICO RI­ Young. This group of young men has shown VERA CITY COUNCIL outstanding dedication to their troop, their fam­ sions, then more vocational students would ilies, their school, and their community which have the option of entering college and con­ has helped them achieve the rank of Eagle tinuing their education. HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRFS Scout, the highest rank possible in Scouting. I It is important to note that my amendment OF CALIFORNIA requires no additional authorization of funds. It rise today to ask that you join with me in rec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES creates an allowable use of funds from within ognizing these truly remarkable individuals. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 the $50 million authorization for part D of title It is important that we take a moment to rec­ Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ognize the true significance of their accom­ I. Recently in my home State of Washington, recognize my good friend, the Honorable plishment. In recent years, discussions of James M. Patronite, councilman for the city of American youth have tended to focus on their legislation was passed to begin this project at the local level. I want to thank State represent­ Pico Rivera. Jim is retiring from the city coun­ involvement in the problems facing the United cil after 18 years of dedicated service and will States; drug and alcohol abuse, violent crime, ative Randy Dorn, who championed this legis­ lation along with Tom and Kathleen Lopp of be honored at a special ceremony on April 3, and a declining commitment to education and 1992. career. Theirs is an example of what the youth the Washington Vocational Association and the American Vocational Association. Since Born and educated in Cleveland, OH, Jim in America are capable of and an example of moved to California in 1945. He attended the kind of leadership this country will need if the impetus for this restructuring must come from the higher education community, a new classes at California State University and the we are to effectively address the problems University of Southern California, where he that face the Nation and the world. atmosphere of cooperation between the sec­ ondary and postsecondary systems should majored in accounting. He is a veteran of These young men not only have completed World War II, having served most of his tour a list of required tasks to achieve this honor, evolve-and that is exactly what is now hap­ pening in Washington State. This legislation of duty in North Africa, as a chief cryptog­ they have enriched the lives of all those who rapher for the U.S. Air Force. In 1948, Jim have had the pleasure of knowing them. It is allows another path to higher education for students while meeting all entrance require­ married his lovely wife and partner, Jane reassuring to know that there continues to Hallinan. After getting married, they moved to exist individuals like Brian, Greg, and Darron ments. The result will be more students seek­ ing advancement through higher education. Pico Rivera. They have four children and three who place value in service to others. While the grandchildren. rank of Eagle Scout is the ultimate in Scout­ Jim began his tenure serving the people of ing, I trust it is only the beginning of their A NEW DAY FOR SOUTH AFRICA Pico Rivera in 1956 as chairman of the Incor­ achievements. poration Committee. In 1958, he was elected Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join to the first Pico Rivera City Council. From April me in saluting these inspirational young men. HON. DICK SWETT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 1971 to October 1974, Jim was a member of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Planning Commission. He was appointed AN AMENDMENT TO THE HIGHER again to serve on the city council in 1974 to Tuesday, March 24, 1992 EDUCATION ACT fill an unexpired term. He was then elected to Mr. SWETI. Mr. Speaker, last week the the city council in March 1976 and he has HON. NORMAN D. DICKS voice of freedom and democracy was heard in been reelected every 4 years since. Jim has South Africa. In this historic vote, South Afri­ served as mayor for the terms 1976-77, OF WASHINGTON ca's white minority gave President F.W. de 1979-80, 1983-84, and 1988-89. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Klerk an overwhelming vote of confidence to While maintaining an active role in civic Tuesday, March 24,1992 continue his power-sharing negotiations with service, Jim also has been a member of the Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, when the House the nation's black majority. Furthermore, 85 Pico Rivera Rotary Club, Society of California considers the Higher Education Act Amend­ percent of registered voters cast ballots, a Accountants, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post ments of 1992 this week, I will offer an turnout figure that we can only dream of in this 7734, American Legion Post 411, Pico Rivera . amendment to title I, part D, the Articulation country. History and Heritage Society, and the Rio Agreement section of that bill. I join with the rest of the world in praising Hondo Symphony. In 1986, he was named My amendment would allow the members of South Africa's white population for their politi­ Scout of the Year, by the Rio Hondo Boy an articulation partnership created under title I, cal wisdom and maturity in understanding that Scout Area Council and in 1987 was ap- 6728 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1992 pointed to the Presbyterian Intercommunity HONORING RABBI MENACHEM employee-owners, the cost of that insurance Hospital Foundation Board, where he currently SCHNEERSON must be included in the partner's or sharehold­ serves as vice chairman. er's income. This is true even though every Mr. Speaker, it is with pride that I rise to HON. DICK ZIMMER other employee in America is able to exclude the value of employer-provided health insur­ recognize my friend, adviser, and one of Pica OF NEW JERSEY ance from their income. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rivera's esteemed residents, James M. Pat­ Mr. Speaker, for many small and family­ ronite, on the occasion of his retirement from Tuesday, March 24, 1992 owned businesses, this is not a major bureau­ the Pico Rivera City Council and I ask my col­ Mr. ZIMMER. Mr. Speaker, on April 14, cratic issue. A constituent in Dracut, MA is just leagues to join me in saluting him for his out­ 1992, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi one who has been detrimentally impacted by standing record of service to the residents and Menachem Mendel Schneerson will reach the this IRS ruling. His business, a family-run community of Pica Rivera. 90th year of an extraordinary life that has dairy farm, has been providing health insur­ been devoted to educating world Jewry and ance for his four full-time employees for a society in general as to the importance of the number of years. But because of this IRS rul­ moral and ethical values contained in the ing, he is now unable to provide insurance CONGRATULATIONS TO THE Seven Noanide Laws given to Moses on Mt. coverage for himself and his father, who is LACKAWANNA JUNIOR COLLEGE Sinai. also a partner in the business. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM Since assuming his position of leadership in Although the IRS ruling was a liberalization 1950, Rabbi Schneerson has been the inspira­ of prior law the policy still puts small busi­ tion and the motivating force behind the un­ nesses in an unfair position. There is no ques­ HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE precedented growth of the Lubavitcher move­ tion that if a large corporation provides health insurance to its corporate officers, the value of OF PENNSYLVANIA ment worldwide. The movement has had great success in unifying the disparate communities that insurance is excludible from income. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES within Judaism by encouraging knowledge of IRS policy discriminates against small busi­ the Torah and all its precepts. From advising ness owners. Even worse, · it could lead some Tuesday, March 24, 1992 heads of state to facilitating ethical instruction small business-owners to stop providing health Mr. McDADE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to in the public classroom, the Rabbi has had an insurance to their employees. That's exactly congratulate the Lady Falcons of Lackawanna impact on the awareness by the world at large the opposite of what we should be doing. Junior College in my district in Scranton, who of the importance of humankind living by a di­ Mr. Speaker, I urge the Committee on Ways and Means to act expeditiously on this legisla­ have captured the region 10 National Junior vinely inspired system of values. tion. I am told that the committee plans to con­ College Athletic Association basketball cham­ Rabbi Schneerson has led the Lubavitcher organization in an outreach of love, kindness, sider health insurance legislation later this pionship. and compassion. His work to improve the lives year, and I hope that my legislation will be The success of the Lady Falcons is an in­ of the persecuted, the homeless, the innocent, considered in that debate. spiring example for their fellow students and the addicted, the imprisoned, and the elderly the community. These young women play for has affected millions of people. His unique vi­ the pure love of athletic competition, and sac­ sion, together with encyclopedic knowledge TRIBUTE TO JUDGE JOAN rifice individual desires in order to contribute to and wisdom, have brought him the respect O'DWYER the success of the team. They exemplify the arid admiration he so richly deserves. true spirit of collegiate athletics, making a Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me HON. THOMASJ.MANTON commitment to succeeding in the classroom and the many whose lives have been touched OF NEW YORK by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in as well as on the court. They have earned the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES saluting him for his contribution to the better­ respect of rival teams through their ability and ment of the world. Tuesday, March 24, 1992 their duty to fair play. Mr. MANTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to The Lady Falcons of Lackawanna Junior honor Judge Joan O'Dwyer for her outstand­ College have achieved a record of 25 wins GIVING FAMILY BUSINESSES A ing service and contribution to Queens Coun­ and only 2 losses this season, and won the BREAK ty. On Tuesday, March 31, 1992, the Queens region 10 championship for the fifth time in the Borough Lodge will pay special tribute to past 9 years. The attributes displayed by HON. CHESTER G. ATKINS Judge O'Dwyer for her dedication to the judici­ these athletes-discipline, teamwork, dedica­ OF MASSACHUSETTS ary system of Queens County. Judge Joan O'Dwyer was born in Bronx tion, and the desire to be the best they can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES County. She attended Beaver College and Co­ be--are attributes which will carry them far Tuesday, March 24, 1992 lumbia Law School. After obtaining her law de­ after their playing days are over. Coach Tim Mr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ gree she became an associate in the firm of Dempsey and his assistant Jim Dempsey are ducing legislation to overturn an Internal Reve­ O'Dwyer and Bernstein. Judge O'Dwyer re­ teachers not only of basketball skills and strat­ nue Service policy which detrimentally affects mained there for 10 years until she was ap­ egy, but also of lessons that will remain with small and family-owned businesses. The cur­ pointed to the magistrate's court in 1959 by the players for the rest of their lives. rent IRS policy, I believe, will have the effect Mayor Robert Wagner. She was reappointed I join Lackawanna Junior College and the of preventing many small businesses from to the criminal court by Mayor John Lindsay entire community in saluting the Lady Falcons providing health insurance to their employees. and Mayor Edward Koch. In 1985 Judge for their significant achievements, and in wish­ At a time when Congress should be creating O'Dwyer was appointed to the court of claims ing them continued success in the upcoming incentives for employers to provide health in­ by Gov. Mario Cuomo and was re-appointed surance, and at a time when 35 million of our in 1991. Judge O'Dwyer is married to the Hon. national tournament in Bismarck, NO. I hope fellow citizens lack access to health insurance, Anthony P. Savarese, a retired acting Su­ my colleagues will join me in commending the the current IRS policy should be overturned by preme Court Justice. They have three chil­ determination and spirit of the Lady Falcons, Congress immediately. dren, Shane, Liam and Kelly O'Neill. who are: Jen Ambrose, Nicole Bridgeforth, Last year, in a little-noticed revenue ruling, Mr. Speaker, Judge O'Dwyer deserves this Erin Fitzsimmons, Kammy Gaston, Lisa the Internal Revenue Service took the position special recognition for her allegiance to the ju­ Gumble, Jill Korman, Sue Littman, Beth that if a partnership provides health insurance diciary system of New York. I know my col­ McGowan, Krissy Refice, Stephanie Wilson, to its employee-partners, or if a subchapter S leagues join me in saluting Judge Joan Karen Woronko, and Candida Zielinski. corporation provides health insurance to its O'Dwyer for her outstanding achievements.