[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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                  THE REVEREND DR. LAWRENCE R. VEATCH

  (Mr. SKELTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to tell this body 
of the guest chaplain who is with us today, the Reverend Dr. Lawrence 
R. Veatch, who is the minister of the First Christian Church Disciples 
of Christ, located in the Missouri State Capital of Jefferson City.
  A native of Dayton, WA, Reverend Veatch received his undergraduate 
degree in sociology from the University of Oregon. He then attended the 
Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN, and was ordained in 
1969 at the Oxford Christian Church in Oxford, IN.
  His first service was in the First Christian Church in the hometown 
of another famous Missourian, Samuel Clemens, in Hannibal, MO. He 
faithfully served that congregation in that community as preacher, 
mentor and friend. On May 11, 1991, he was given a doctor of humane 
letters citation from Culver-Stockton College in Canton, MO, in 
recognition of his outstanding contributions to Hannibal and the 
surrounding communities.
  The Reverend Veatch gave his first sermon at the First Christian 
Church in Jefferson City on October 4, 1992. In the time that he has 
served there, Reverend Veatch has shown his dedication to his 
congregation and to the community.
  Mr. Speaker, this incidentally is the same church that my 
grandfather, the late John T. Boone, served as pastor some 90 years 
ago.
  Reverend Veatch is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce in 
Jefferson City and the Rotary Club, and highly respected as a leader in 
the Christian community.
  I am truly proud to have such a distinguished leader of my church 
give the opening prayer to my colleagues here in the House. He has 
given joy to people from his hometown of Dayton, WA, to Missouri, the 
heartland, and now to the Nation's Capitol.

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