[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E429]
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            TRIBUTE TO TEXAN WHO WILL OFFICIATE AT OLYMPICS

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                       HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 22, 1996

  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues 
to join me today in a tribute to a great citizen of Texas, Mr. Herbert 
Allen, Sr., who has been selected as one of the track officials for the 
Summer Olympics Games in Atlanta, this coming summer.
  Mr. Allen is very deserving of this opportunity and responsibility. 
He has officiated the Texas State High School Track and Field 
Championships and the Texas Relays at the University of Texas at Austin 
for the past 6 years and served as referee of the State High School 
Track and Field Championships. He also officiated the Olympic Trials in 
1992, the NCAA Track and Field Championships in 1992 and 1993, the 
Mobil Track and Field Championships from 1989 through 1995, the Youth 
National Track and Field Championships from 1992 through 1995, and the 
Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships last year.
  Mr. Allen also coached at Klein High School, taking the Bearkats to 
the State final-four baseball tournament in Austin in 1983. He was the 
first African-American baseball coach to take a team to the Class 5A 
Final Four and was named the Houston Post High School Baseball Coach of 
the Year in 1983. Later that same year, Mr. Allen coached the North 
All-Stars to a 5-3 victory in the Astrodome in the Texas High School 
All-Star Baseball Game. In 1986, Mr. Allen was honored with induction 
into the Texas High School Coaches Hall of Honor.
  Mr. Allen's job this summer will be on the field officiating the long 
jump and triple jump events, during the Olympic Games, July 22 through 
August 4. He will also work the Olympic Trials in June.
  Congratulations to a great Texan, Herbert Allen, Sr.

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