[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 19 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1412-S1413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ROGERS H. CLARK

  Mr. FAIRCLOTH. Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate Mr. Rogers 
H. Clark, the president of Sampson-Bladen Oil Co., Inc., on his recent 
election as president of the Petroleum Marketers Association of

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America [PMAA]. Rogers is a true leader who will bring decades of 
experience and insight to this important position, all to the benefit 
of our Nation's independent petroleum marketers, whose interests the 
PMAA represent.
  Rogers graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in 
business education. He joined the U.S. Army National Guard, 
contributing his spare time to our community and State until he 
retired. He was a Sunday school-teacher and was a chairman of the Board 
of Deacons in the First Baptist Church. He is also a past president of 
the Clinton [NC] Rotary Club, and a recipient of the Silver Beaver 
Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He served on the advisory boards 
of several local financial institutions, and he presently serves on the 
board of trustees for Meredith College in Raleigh.
  In addition to running the Sampson-Bladen Oil Co. in Clinton, Rogers 
is the president and CEO of Waccamaw Transport, which brings petroleum 
products to the people of Virginia and the Carolinas.
  Rogers is not new to PMAA. He has just completed a term as the 
association's senior vice president. He also served as president of the 
North Carolina Petroleum Marketers Association and received that 
group's esteemed Will Parker Memorial Award.
  I am pleased to offer this tribute to my friend and fellow citizen of 
Clinton. I am sure that his family is very proud of this latest of so 
many accomplishments.

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