[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4166]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       IN MEMORY OF DONALD MINTZ

  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, my home city of New Orleans lost a great 
leader and a good man on Sunday when my friend Donald Mintz died in his 
sleep. Donald was a civic activist who worked unceasingly to improve 
living conditions in his city and a national Jewish lay leader who 
strove mightily to help those of different races and faiths understand 
and work better with each other.
  In New Orleans, Donald had been chairman of the Dock Board, the 
Downtown Development District and the United Way, and president of the 
metropolitan Area Committee, Kingsley House, Touro Synagogue and the 
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, and had served on the board 
of numerous other civic organizations as well--always with an energy, a 
flair, a seriousness and a wisdom which helped each organization reach 
unprecedented achievements. He loved New Orleans, and he sacrificed 
greatly to serve her.
  All of us who knew him, and the all very, very many whose lives were 
bettered by his efforts, have been enriched by his life and are sorry 
for his passing.

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