October 20, 2005 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E2151 become a teacher. In fact, before joining the Kemble, who was one of its most ardent, elo- where he was a small but feisty football Army, he worked one-on-one with special quent, and effective defenders. Although he player in high school. His political activism needs students at the Kennedy Krieger High died at the relatively young age of 64, after a began at the University of Colorado, where he helped establish the Colorado chapter of School Career and Technology Center in Balti- year-long struggle with brain cancer, Penn the Young People’s Socialist League. more. One of his colleagues at the school said was an activist on behalf of social causes for After receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1962, that Spc. Ceo was a thoughtful, introspective more than 40 years. Whether arguing on be- he moved to New York and took a job as a young man who was an excellent employee, half of civil rights, supporting organized labor, copy boy at the New York Times. His jour- and would have made an outstanding teacher. which he considered the ‘‘balance wheel of nalism career ended shortly afterward, when Spc. Ceo joined the Army to help pay for col- democracy,’’ or advocating on behalf of demo- the typesetters went out on strike and he re- lege and alleviate financial strain on his family. cratic movements around the world, Penn fused to cross the picket line. Along with his professional goals, Spc. Ceo brought an unparalleled passion combined He stayed in New York and immersed him- was also making plans to marry his longtime with a hardheaded realism to every cause he self in socialist politics, seeking to resurrect girlfriend, Dajae Overton. The two had been adopted. the youth section of the Socialist Party, fa- together for years, and Spc. Ceo even took on Penn through his close affiliation with Sen- mously led earlier in the century by Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. the responsibility of caring for her two children ators Henry Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moy- Muravchik, who also was part of the move- as if they were his own. This selfless act dem- nihan, worked to move the Democratic Party ment, recalled that Mr. Kemble stood out as onstrated that Spc. Ceo was a man of integrity in the direction of strong and ‘‘muscular’’ inter- a ‘‘good-looking, neatly dressed WASP’’ in and honor. nationalism in its foreign policy. As Deputy Di- what was otherwise ‘‘a scruffy-looking Sergeant Brian Conner of Gwynn Oak was rector—and later Acting Director—of the crowd’’ made up primarily of young Jewish a single father of three daughters. Before join- United States Information Agency under Presi- intellectuals. ing the Army, he worked as a fireman for the dent Clinton, he played a strong role in the He was one of the few whites among the Baltimore City Fire Department for 12 years. creation of an international network on civic leadership of the East River chapter of the His sense of humor and clever banter were education and in the establishment of the Congress of Racial Equality, once staging a admired by all who knew him. His older broth- Community of Democracies. Even as the end sit-in that blocked the eastbound lanes of er, Paul said he was good at everything he did of his life drew near, he was busy working to the Triborough Bridge during rush hour. The develop a transatlantic democracy network, aim was to force commuters to ponder the and that joining the Army was Sergeant plight of Harlem residents before arriving Conner’s mission. collaborating with colleagues at the National back at their comfortable homes in the sub- These tragic deaths and these mourning Endowment for Democracy and Freedom urbs. families are a personal reality that we, as a House, where he served as a senior scholar In 1967, he founded Negotiation Now!, people, must have the humanity to confront. after leaving government service. which demanded an end to the bombing of These deaths remind us that sacrifice is never Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to North Vietnam and a negotiated end to the truly ‘‘shared.’’ place in the RECORD a Washington Post obit- war. There is nothing that any of us can say that uary that chronicles the life of this remarkable In the early 1970s, Mr. Kemble moved to will return these brave young men to their American. Let me take this opportunity to ex- the District and plunged into Democratic families. press my condolences to Penn’s wife Mal and Party politics. After the party’s 1972 presi- the other members of his family. dential debacle, he helped found the Coali- We can only reach out to them—and to all tion for a Democratic Majority. Associated [From the Washington Post, Oct. 19, 2005] who have lost loved ones in Iraq. primarily with Sens. Jackson and Hubert H. We can only stand with these neighbors in POLITICAL ACTIVIST PENN KEMBLE DIES AT 64 Humphrey (D–Minn.), the group sought to their darkest hours—and offer whatever com- (By Joe Holley) move the party back toward the center and fort and support that we can. Penn Kemble, 64, a political activist who refocus its reliance on a traditional blue-col- As the families and loved ones of Samuel considered himself a ‘‘muscular Democrat’’ lar base. Boswell, Bernard Ceo and Brian Conner at- and who kept himself in intellectual fighting Mr. Kemble served as executive director of tempt to endure losses and suffering that no trim by engaging in policy tilts with adver- the group from 1972 to 1976, when he joined saries on both the left and the right, died the New York senatorial campaign of Daniel family should have to confront, we must all re- Oct. 16 of brain cancer at his home in Wash- Patrick Moynihan. He was Moynihan’s spe- commit ourselves to finding a way out of this ington. A former acting director of the U.S. cial assistant and speechwriter until 1979. conflict in Iraq. Information Agency, he was in recent years During the Reagan administration, he We must find a way to bring our troops senior scholar at Freedom House, a non- founded a group called PRODEMCA, or the home on a timetable that is consistent with our partisan, pro-democracy think tank. Committee for Democracy in Central Amer- nation’s commitments to the Iraqi people. Mr. Kemble believed in a robust inter- ica. He caused consternation among many By the end of this year, the Iraqis should nationalism in the tradition of former sen- fellow Democrats by advocating support for have their constitution and government in op- ator Henry M. ‘‘Scoop’’ Jackson (D–Wash.). the anti-communist contra rebels in Nica- He also had an affinity for organized labor, eration. ragua. He sought a democratic middle way which was, in his words, ‘‘the balance wheel between communist Sandinistas and former That is not the reason that we went to of democracy.’’ supporters of rightist dictator Anastasio war—but, nevertheless, it would give some During his career, he helped found or lead Somoza. meaning to our soldiers’ sacrifice. a number of advocacy groups, including the He worked in the Clinton presidential cam- Equally important, the deaths that we mourn Coalition for a Democratic Majority. paign in 1992 and was appointed deputy direc- this week remind us that it is time for a clear A friend and former colleague, Joshua tor of the USIA in 1993. He became USIA’s and reasoned strategy to begin bringing our Muravchik, resident scholar at the American acting director in 1999. Enterprise Institute, noted that Mr. In recent years, Mr. Kemble sought to brave young people home. Kemble’s political and intellectual journey maintain a network of American social Then, perhaps, all of the families who have traversed a path from democratic socialist democrats. From his sickbed, he conceived sacrificed so much because of the war in Iraq to social democrat. It was a journey similar and helped organize a conference dedicated in its rightward arc to that of many promi- can begin to heal the wounds that they have to the thought of philosopher Sydney Hook, nent neoconservatives. Although he occa- been forced to endure. an intellectual model for Mr. Kemble of the sionally took such positions, Mr. Kemble politically engaged social democrat. The f stopped short of leaving the Democratic event took place October, 1. Party and never considered himself a HONORING THE LIFE OF PENN His marriage to Charlotte Rowe ended in KEMBLE neoconservative. He believed, for example, in building a divorce. democratic Iraq but sharply criticized the Survivors include his wife of 22 years, HON. TOM LANTOS Bush administration’s approach on the coun- Marie-Louise ‘‘Mal’’ Caravatti of Wash- try. ‘‘The distinction between liberation and ington; two sisters, Sara Kemble of Columbia OF CALIFORNIA democratization, which requires a strategy and Eugenia Kemble of Washington; and a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and instruments, was an idea never under- brother, Grover Kemble of Morristown, N.J. Thursday, October 20, 2005 stood by the administration,’’ he told the Mr. Kemble was in many ways still a so- New Republic last year. cialist, his wife said. ‘‘He believed in the pub- Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, friends of free- Richard Penn Kemble was born in Worces- lic sector as a civilizing force,’’ she added. dom today are mourning the death of Penn ter, Mass., and grew up in Lancaster, Pa., ‘‘He believed in a role for government.’’ VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:36 Oct 21, 2005 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20OC8.068 E20OCPT1.