27986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM WELSH During his career in the former Processing and his wife Maureen are the parents of the Department, Mr. Welsh led in development of Welshes' one granddaughter, Christine. HON. DAVID R. OBEY the national program for acquisitions and cata­ Beyond the strictly professional dimensions loging [NPAC], creation of the Technical Proc­ of his long career and running through it like a OF WISCONSIN esses Research Office, and oversight and golden thread has been his determination to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES completion of publication of the Pre-1956 Na­ humanize the face of management. His gift for Monday, October 3, 1988 tional Union Catalog. He was active in launch­ recalling names and faces, together with a ing the cataloging-in-publication effort. With concern for the well-being of other people, Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the retirement of Larry Livingston of the Council on Library Re­ has given a unique character to his public the Deputy Librarian of Congress, William J. sources, he brought the Conser [conversion of service, enabling him to know as individuals Welsh, on October 3 marks the completion of serials] program into being. While employed in the multitude of persons at all levels and de­ nearly half a century in public service to the the former Administrative Department, he partments who constitute the Library's staff. Library and to this Nation. Mr. Welsh, whose played a major part in the 1962 renovation of Warm-hearted and compassionate, outspoken career in the Library began in 1947, was the present Jefferson Building. Similarly, as in his convictions, dedicated and hard-work­ named to the Library's second-ranking post in Deputy Librarian, he helped Librarian Daniel ing, he has exemplified in his life as in his 1976. Having served under four Librarians of Boorstin in the project to renovate and restore work the virtues and ideals of civility, livened Congress, he has played a major role in the the Jefferson and Adams buildings. by a ready wit and tempered by a gracious innumerable events and programs that have Over the decades of his public service, Mr. spirit. In his evident concern with results, with expanded and enhanced the Library's continu­ Welsh has received a great number of .honors finding ways to get a necessary job done, he ing mission. Significantly enough, his Library and awards. In 1983 he was presented the Li­ kept the human element clearly in mind, mar­ service spans almost a quarter of the Library's brary's Distinguished Service Award, its high­ shaling every resource to further his goals. In history. working his way up from the ranks, he pre­ During this time, Congress greatly expanded est honor, in recognition of his courageous and imaginative leadership. In 1984 his alma served that touch of distinction that made him the role of the Congressional Research Serv­ both accessible and respected. He looks back ice [CAS], a Department of the Library, in as­ mater, the University of Notre Dame, con­ ferred upon him an honorary doctorate of today upon a lifetime of service-to the Li­ sisting Members and committees in our legis­ brary and to the Congress, institutions whose lative work. This development was greatly en­ laws. In this year of his retirement the Special Libraries Association presented him with hon­ destinies have always been closely associat­ hanced by Mr. Welsh's support of CAS in ful­ ed; to the Nation as a whole; and, above all, filling the intention of the 1970 Legislative Re­ orary membership, as did the Alumni Society of the University of Michigan's School of Infor­ to that larger realm of learning and the hu­ organization Act. manities that knows no boundaries save those His leadership in the evolution of the Library mation and Library Studies. A member of the American Library Associa­ that light the path of civilization through the during the past four decades is reflected in corridors of history. It may be said of him as the remarkable growth of the collection, which tion, the Commission on Preservation and Access, and the Foundations Group Library was said of old, "Such as the workman is, numbered some 23 million items in 1947, such also is the work."-11 Esdras 9:17. compared with over 87 million today. His con­ Committee, he has served· as the Library's cern has been not only to strengthen the col­ representative to the Association of Research lections but to make them ever more accessi­ Libraries, on the National Commission on Li­ H.R. 5247 ble to libraries and to people generally braries and Information Science, and on the through improved organization and mainte­ Board of Regents of the National Library of HON. JERRY LEWIS nance. Throughout his career, Mr. Welsh has Medicine. Mr. Welsh has chaired the Ameri­ can Library Association's John Ames OF CALIFORNIA been a vigorous advocate for automation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES within the Library. Humphry/Forest Press Award jury for the past Programs that have benefited from his initia­ 2 years, as well as earlier services as an ALA Monday, October 3, 1988 tive and support over the years include the councilor. As a Library representative to the Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, Friday optical disk pilot project; the Library's intern International Federation of Library Associa­ the House considered and passed H.R. 5247, progam; and the automation and filming of the tions and Institutions, he has served as chair the Water Resources Development Act. A Library's catalogs. He has helped focus atten­ of the Conference of Directors of National Li­ committee amendment was adopted which tion in this country and in the world at large braries since 1984. In 1979, he headed the addressed, in part, the issue of an exchange on the crisis in preservation that confronts li­ first official delegation of American Librarians of property for GSA credits for certain private braries and archival collections everywhere. to China following the resumption of official individuals having economic interests in the Mr. Welsh's knowledge of German helped diplomatic exchanges. reservoir of Prado Basin, CA. him in 1947 to obtain his first position at the A native of Weatherly, PA, Mr. Welsh Section 27 of the amendment, as adopted Library as a searcher in a postwar project for earned his undergraduate degree in philoso­ by voice vote, provides that to further enable cooperative acquisitions. He subsequently phy from the University of Notre Dame in the Santa Ana River mainstem flood control served as head of the Order Unit and Order 1940. While pursuing studies in that universi­ project to proceed, the holder of the existing Section of the Order Division, head of the ty's law school the following year, Mr. Welsh producing leasehold mineral interests and the East European accessions index project, ex­ served as a library assistant in the law school nonpublic owners of override and royalty inter­ ecutive officer of the Processing Department, library and thereby began his career in librar­ ests and other nonpublic entities with rights to associate director of the Administrative De­ ianship. From 1941 to 194 7 he served with the minerals, hereinafter referred to as the partment, and associate director of the Proc­ the U.S. Air Force, including a stint as librarian nonpublic owners, in the reservoir of Prado essing Department. In 1968 Mr. Welsh was for the Alaskan division headquarters of the Basin, Riverside County, CA, shall surrender named director of the Processing Department, Air Transport Command. He was discharged to the United States of all such interests and the largest of the Library's departments. For from the Armed Forces in January 1947 with rights. his achievement in that area he received the the rank of major. For purposes of the above, the holder is American Library Association's Melvil Dewey Mr. Welsh and his wife, Winifred, will contin­ Prado Petroleum Co., a small business. Its Award in 1971, citing his imaginative and ue to make their home in Bethesda, MD. They leasehold interests in Prado Basin include a wide-ranging contributions to libraries. have two sons, Douglas and James. Douglas lease from the United States and a private e 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. October 3, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27987 lease from the Santa Ana River Development grounds either authorized and/or approved by was the linchpin both for the covert war Co. The nonpublic owners are those who own matters legislated by the Committee on Public against the Soviets in Afghanistan waged by the mineral rights and attendant royalties in Works and Transportation. It is not intended the U.S., China, and Saudi Arabia, and for the reservoir of Prado Basin. The interests of to cover excess Federal property held, for ex­ the successful campaign to isolate the Soviet-backed Afghan regime in the interna­ both leaseholder and nonpublic owners shall ample, by the Department of the Interior or by tional community. For he understood that be surrendered to, and all title shall vest with­ the GSA originating from some other source­ Pakistan's choice was to fight the Soviets on out reservation in, the United States. that is, defense installations. the outskirts of Kabul, or on the outskirts In return, this section further provides that, of Islamabad by agreement, the Administrator of the Gener­ Zia steered a steady course and waited for al Services Administration shall issue to the DEATH OF A FRIEND others to get on board.