[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S9652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          HONORING THE HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS OF PAUL H. HENSON

  Mr. ASHCROFT. Mr. President, today I am proud to honor a man who has 
distinguished himself in business, as a civic leader, a caring 
neighbor, and a friend to those in need. Mr. Paul H. Henson will soon 
be awarded the International Humanitarian Award by the CARE Foundation 
at its 50th Anniversary International Humanitarian Award dinner. Mr. 
Henson was nominated for the award for his sustained support of 
humanitarian causes, for his community foresight, and for his business 
ingenuity. It is with much pleasure that I add my voice to the scores 
of others praising Mr. Henson for his efforts to aid the world's poor 
and help them achieve social and economic well-being.
  Mr. Henson began his successful career in the telecommunications 
industry as a groundman for the Lincoln Telephone Co., in his native 
State of Nebraska. After attaining the position of chief engineer, Mr. 
Henson moved to United Telecom--now Sprint--in Kansas City. In 1964, at 
the age of 38, he became president of United and began to implement an 
aggressive leadership and expansion strategy to transform the 
predominantly rural telephone company into an international 
communications force. Henson presided over the construction of the 
first--and still the only--nationwide 100 percent digital, fiber-optic 
network and made it the centerpiece of the company's long-distance 
strategy. After his leadership of Sprint for 25 years, the company now 
claims over 6 million local telephone customers, 97 percent of which 
are digitally switched.
  Mr. Henson currently serves as chairman of the board and chairman of 
the executive committee of Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. He has 
also formed Kansas City Equity Partners, L.C., a venture capital fund 
dedicated to providing seed capital and management assistance for 
entrepreneurial activities.
  Paul H. Henson's distinguished business career and his reinvestment 
in the community through support of the humanitarian initiatives 
championed by the CARE Foundation have rightly earned him the 
distinction of being awarded the Foundation's International 
Humanitarian Award.


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