[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 40 (Thursday, April 14, 1994)]
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                     WELCOMING REV. DENNIS L. TROUT

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to welcome the Reverend 
Dennis L. Trout to the Chamber today. He delivered the prayer this 
morning, and he comes to us from the Swamp Church in Reinholds, PA.
  Mr. Speaker, Reverend Trout was educated at the Capitol Page School 
and later received degrees from Albright College and Lutheran 
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, PA, from where he has a master of 
divinity degree. His family includes his wife, Bonnie Myers Trout and 
five children. Mrs. Trout is with us here in the Chamber today.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a rather unique occasion because, as I 
mentioned, Reverend Trout is a graduate of our Page School and, in 
fact, graduated with several of our distinguished colleagues from that 
Page School. The gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Kolbe], my colleague, was 
a classmate of Reverend Trout's, as was the Clerk of the House, Donn 
Anderson, and one of the most respected of our minority staffers, Ron 
Lasch.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased at this moment to yield to the gentleman 
from Arizona [Mr. Kolbe] on this rather unique occasion.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
[Mr. Walker] yielding to me under his 1-minute, and it is a great 
privilege for me to join with my colleague from Pennsylvania who 
represents Reverend Trout and his family, to join with him in welcoming 
him to the House of Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, it was 34 years ago, all too many years for all of us in 
that class to remember, that we graduated from the Page School here in 
Washington, DC. Three of us are still in service here in the House of 
Representatives; two, I should say, have remained here, and in 
distinguished service: Donn Anderson, our beloved Clerk of the House; 
and Ron Lasch, the Republican floor assistant who all of us know and 
respect so much; and I who left many years ago, but returned a few 
years back.
  I suspect it would have been more likely for all of us to have 
imagined that Ron Lasch, or Donn Anderson, or I might have, indeed, 
been here on the floor of the House of Representatives, but I think, 
when we graduated from Page School, none of us would have imagined that 
we would see Dennis Trout standing here at the podium delivering the 
prayer, the guest prayer, this morning.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to Reverend Trout, ``We are very privileged to 
have you here this morning, and we welcome you, and we respect you for 
the service that you give to your people and to our country, and we 
thank you for being with us this morning.''
  I appreciate the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] for having 
yielded to me.
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. 
Kolbe].

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