[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 165 (Tuesday, October 24, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2004-E2005]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING ARTHUR W. ``NICK'' ARUNDEL

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                          HON. THOMAS M. DAVIS

                              of virginia

                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 24, 1995

  Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that my colleague 
and I honor one of northern Virginia's pioneers, Arthur W. ``Nick'' 
Arundel. Mr. Arundel, has over the last 30 years built the Times 
Community Newspapers into a chain of 16 weekly publications stretching 
from Fairfax County west through the Piedmont. Today we are proud that 
he has received the Suburban Newspapers of America's 1995 Dean S. 
Lecher Award for his decades of contributions to suburban journalism.
  Mr. Arundel's career started when he was hired by famed CBS 
correspondent Edward R. Murrow to be a reporter in the network's 
Washington bureau in 1956. In 1960, having developed an entrepreneurial 
itch, he bought a bankrupt country and western radio station in 
Washington, renamed it WAVA and created the first all-news radio 
station in the country. The station was a phenomenal success.
  In 1965 he started the Times Community Newspapers with his 
acquisition of the 175-

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year-old Loudon Times Mirror. His next acquisition was the fledgling 
Reston Times, which planted the Times Community Newspapers' flag in 
Fairfax County. Today the Fairfax group includes 11 papers.
  Nick Arundel has continued to build his Times Community Newspaper 
chain right through last month, when he acquired the McLean Providence 
Journal and its sister paper, the Great Falls Current, from Dear 
Communications. With those acquisitions, Times Community Newspapers now 
circulates to nearly 200,000 households in northern Virginia.
  In addition to his success as a newspaper mogul, Nick Arundel is a 
graduate of Harvard University. He served 4 years as a decorated and 
twice wounded Marine Corps parachute officer in both the Korean and 
Vietnam wars.
  Nick Arundel and his wife Margaret ``Peggy'' live in The Plains, a 
community he has helped restore, particularly through his creation, in 
the 1980's, of Great Meadow. Through his hard work he has turned it 
into the home of the Virginia Gold Cup steeple chase races.
  Mr. Speaker, we know our colleagues join us in paying tribute to 
Arthur W. ``Nick'' Arundel for his many years of hard work and 
dedication, and for making northern Virginia a better place to live.

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