[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 10, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1553]
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           REMARKS ON THE 80TH BIRTHDAY OF STANLEY A. DASHEW

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                            HON. JANE HARMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 10, 1996

  Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Speaker, few at 80 can sail a large boat, take 
professional-caliber photographs, work out at the gym for 2-hour stints 
several times a week, help to build new entrepreneurial ventures, and 
new buildings for UCLA's International Student Center.
  Stan Dashew can.
  In the close to 40 years I've known him--half his life and most of 
mine--he has never disappointed. Always creative. Always caring. Always 
ready to make the most of his day.
  He brought enormous happiness to his late wife, Rita, an 
extraordinary woman whom I called my godmother. When Rita died 
suddenly, Stan's obituary in the Los Angeles Times describing their 
last evening together was as moving a testament about a marriage as 
could ever be written.
  Since Rita's death, Stan has moved on with life--as creative and 
caring as ever. He remains a devoted father, stepfather, and 
grandfather, and now a happy partner to Elizabeth.
  No past-tense is necessary. Stan is living the American dream. The 
son of immigrants who grew up during the Depression, he built Dashew 
Business Machines into a major producer of magnetic entry cards, bank 
credit cards, transmit systems, offshore mooring buoys, and more 
recently, unique bow thrusters for ships.
  Many years ago he sailed to California from Michigan with his young 
family. No doubt he will set out on new voyages in the future.
  Happy Birthday Stan.

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