[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 24, 1994]
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               CONGRATULATIONS TO LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE

  (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, March madness is upon us in more ways than 
one. I am here today to congratulate the NCAA winner of college 
basketball, and that may come as a big surprise to rooters for Purdue 
and Missouri and Indiana and Tulsa and others, because I am referring 
to Division 3, where Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, in Buffalo 
last Saturday, won the tournament, having defeated NYU in an overtime 
thriller that is to the credit of Lebanon Valley College.
  Lebanon Valley College is in Annville, PA, in my district, a small 
community. The college itself houses 900 students, no more, and has had 
a wonderful sorts record over the years, to be culminated this year by 
a Division 3 championship.
  Ironically, on that same day, in the afternoon before the 
championship game, their greatest rooter for the last 65 years, ``Hot 
Dog'' Frank, as he was known in that community, who sponsored all kinds 
of events and was beloved of the student body for all those years, died 
and did not see the culmination of his rooting for Lebanon Valley 
College, but the whole valley, the whole district, all of Pennsylvania, 
is proud of the Division 3 NCAA champion, Lebanon Valley College.

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