[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1053-E1054]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        ANTONIO J. PALUMBO RECEIVES DEGREE FROM LaROCHE COLLEGE

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                         HON. WILLIAM J. COYNE

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 11, 1996

  Mr. COYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Antonio J. 
Palumbo, a gentleman from western Pennsylvania who recently was awarded 
the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration by the Board 
of Trustees of LaRoche College. Mr. Palumbo in his 90 years of life has 
been a successful entrepreneur, a generous philanthropist, and an 
important community leader.

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  After beginning his career working in a coal mine, Mr. Palumbo went 
on to become the president, founder, and owner of a number of coal 
mining companies. He has served on the Board of the Central 
Pennsylvania Coal Producers Association.
  Mr. Palumbo has very generously shared the rewards of his business 
success with others. He has been a generous benefactor of a number of 
colleges and hospitals.
  He has also shared his knowledge and experience with others. He has 
given of his time by serving on a number of boards, including the 
boards of the Boy Scouts of America and the municipal authority of St. 
Marys, PA. He has also served as a trustee of the Three Rivers Bank and 
Trust Co. of Pittsburgh and the Mayo Clinic. I am enclosing for the 
Record a resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of LaRoche 
College, which presents in greater detail the reasons for which the 
board conferred this honorary degree on Mr. Palumbo.
  In short, Mr. Palumbo has been an outstanding role model--one that 
young people today would do well to emulate. I want to congratulate 
Antonio J. Palumbo on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of 
Business Administration from LaRoche College, and I want to wish him a 
happy 90th birthday.

    LaRoche College Board of Trustees Commemorates the Outstanding 
           Contributions of Antonio J. Palumbo--May 11, 1996

       ``It is my pleasure to introduce our next honorary degree 
     recipient, Antonio J. Palumbo. Mr. Palumbo began his career 
     working on his knees in the depths of a coal mine. He went on 
     to become the owner of the Nation's largest privately held 
     coal companies. Throughout his entire life, Mr. Palumbo has 
     adhered to four qualities that he believes are most 
     important: hard work, loyalty, integrity, and generosity. He 
     and his wife Janet have done many charitable deeds throughout 
     their lifetimes and have helped many people--from assisting 
     hospitals in caring for seriously ill children, to working 
     with Boy Scouts, to negotiating wages with the United Mine 
     Workers Union. Mr. Palumbo serves as a role model for all 
     people of all ages.''
       Whereas: Antonio J. Palumbo, a national leader of the coal 
     industry, past president and owner of Underhill Coal Mining 
     Company, which he founded in 1932, founder of the New Shawmut 
     Mining Company, and owner of Kersey Mining Company, Shawmut 
     Mining Company, Shawmut Realty Company, and Byrnedale Coal 
     Company; and
       Whereas: Antonio J. Palumbo has demonstrated a lifelong 
     commitment not only to business, but to people of all ages 
     through his work as a board member of the Boy Scouts of 
     America, a member of the municipal authority of St. Marys, 
     PA, a member of the Board of the Central Pennsylvania Coal 
     Producers Association, a trustee of the Three Rivers Bank and 
     Trust Company of Pittsburgh, a trustee of the Mayo Clinic; 
     and
       Whereas: Antonio J. Palumbo, a self-made entrepreneur, is 
     well-known as a very generous benefactor to hospitals and 
     colleges, and has served the community with wisdom and 
     honesty; and, having achieved these things to an 
     extraordinary degree, it is unanimously Resolved That the 
     Board of Trustees of LaRoche College confer upon Antonio J. 
     Palumbo the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business 
     Administration.

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