[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 139 (Friday, September 8, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1748]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       HONORING MILTON S. HERSHEY

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                              HON. JAY KIM

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 8, 1995
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Milton S. 
Hershey, a great American who today is being honored on a new 32-cent 
stamp.
  Milton Hershey was the founder of the Milton Hershey School and what 
has become Hershey Foods Corporation. Hershey's business success 
allowed him to practice an extensive philanthropy. He and his wife, 
Catherine, established among other things, a school for orphan boys 
that today is known as the Milton Hershey School and provides a home 
and no-cost education for more than 1,100 disadvantaged boys and girls.
  The legacy of Milton S. Hershey lives on through the work of some 
7,000 alumni of the Milton Hershey School. These alumni are located 
throughout the world, as well as in my district--California's 41st 
Congressional District, and have gone on to successful careers in law, 
business, sports, and journalism to name but a few. It was these alumni 
who deserve credit for a successful letter writing campaign to the 
Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee for the Milton S. Hershey stamp. The 
Hershey stamp marks the 50th anniversary of Hershey's death and the 
86th anniversary of the Milton Hershey School.
  Hershey joins an elite rank of Americans such as Jack London, 
Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, and former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren 
in being honored with a postal stamp.
  This distinctive occasion stands as a tribute to a truly wonderful 
and philanthropic American, and it is indeed worthy to note this 
achievement.


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