[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 2 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E43]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 ALAN EMORY ASSUMES GRIDIRON PRESIDENCY

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                          HON. JOHN M. McHUGH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, January 4, 1995
  Mr. McHUGH. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the achievements of a 
distinguished journalist who has been covering Washington since the 
days of President Truman. This week, as we seek a new direction for 
Congress and the country, so too will a new voice guide the well known 
Gridiron Club. Alan S. Emory, Washington correspondent for the 
Watertown (New York) Daily Times, assumed the presidency of the Club 
January 1. He has been that newspaper's Washington correspondent since 
1951.
  Gridiron is an organization of 60 journalists covering the Nation's 
Capital. They are well recognized for their annual gala dinner and 
musical spoof of politics, over which Mr. Emory will preside on March 
25.
  Mr. Speaker, Alan Emory has crossed many notable milestones in his 
career--recipient of the Thomas L. Stokes prize for conservation 
reporting, election to the Society of Professional Journalists, 
President of its Washington Professional Chapter and member of the 
Chapter's Hall of Fame--but he is probably most gratified at his 
elevation to the presidency of Gridiron. He has twice been music 
chairman of their spring show, a producer ten times and always one of 
the Club's most prolific writer of lyrics. As a member since 1976 and 
most recently its vice president, he will be a most capable leader.
  Covering Washington politics for more than four decades, Mr. Emory is 
know as a journalist with the highest of standards. He can be tough on 
newsmakers but is as fair as they come. What public official could ask 
for more? And who better to be chief lampooner at the Gridiron?
  Mr. Speaker, I join his fourth estate colleagues, his family, 
particularly his beloved wife, Nancy, and his Capitol Hill friends in 
congratulating Mr. Emory on his assumption of the Gridiron Club 
presidency and look forward to his continuing successes through the new 
year.


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