[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                    TRIBUTE TO THE LATE FRED SNOWDEN

  (Mr. TUCKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TUCKER. Mr. Speaker, last night the President addressed the 
country in the State of the Union Address, and made many excellent 
points. But perhaps the most compelling point that I recall came at the 
end of the speech when he talked about the breakdown of the family, the 
breakdown of our community, and, in fact, the breakdown of our work 
force.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memoriam and in tribute to a young man 
who just last week was here in Washington, DC, on the way to meet the 
President of the United States, and unfortunately had an untimely 
demise, a heart attack. This young man is known to many as Coach. His 
name is Fred Snowden. He was the first African-American coach to coach 
at a major university in the United States of America, the University 
of Arizona at Tucson.
  Fred Snowden in my mind typifies all of those things that the 
President was talking about last night. He was a family man, a 
dedicated family man. He was an entrepreneur. Fred Snowden embodied 
many of the things that the President talked about in terms of 
education. He went on to get his higher education, but then he gave 
back to his community.
  In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I hope that Fred Snowden will live on 
forever in the hearts of all of us as a role model for our young 
people, to not only go into athletics, but to achieve higher education 
and to give back to their community. And then when the President or any 
future President addresses this body about how we can become more 
responsible leaders of our society, they can know that we have all 
taken a part to do just that.

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