[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 46 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E699-E700]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO RICHARD HENDRICKSON

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                         HON. MICHAEL P. FORBES

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 17, 1997

  Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Richard 
Hendrickson of Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, an esteemed and 
accomplished meteorologist who has been bestowed the 1997 Albert J. 
Myer

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Award for a career of dedicated service to the National Weather 
Service.
  Mr. Hendrickson is an exceptional and worthy recipient of this honor, 
named for Brigadier General Myer who founded the National Weather 
Service in 1870. For 67 years, Mr. Hendrickson has provided an unbroken 
tenure to the National Weather Service, which operates a forecast 
facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island.
  During his highly distinguished career, Mr. Hendrickson has been 
awarded numerous honors by the National Weather Service for his 
accomplishments as weather forecaster. These prestigious awards include 
the Helmut E. Landsberg Award, named for the father of modern 
climatology; the Thomas Jefferson Award, named for America's third 
President who, among his many talents, was an accomplished weather 
observer; and the Edward H. Stoll Award, given to weather observers 
with 50 years of service.
  Mr. Hendrickson is so clearly worthy of the many professional honors 
and recognitions bestowed upon him. He is also deserving of the 
personal gratitude of all Americans for a lifetime of superior service 
to the study of weather observation. Mr. Hendrickson's efforts have 
broadened our understanding of the science of weather observation, and 
has contributed greatly to the ability of all meteorologists to 
forecast the force of powerful weather systems. Thanks to the efforts 
of Mr. Hendrickson and weather observers like him, many lives have been 
saved because our neighbors have been able to take precautionary 
actions before destructive hurricanes or blizzards have struck their 
communities.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the U.S House of Representatives 
to join me in offering our collective praise and gratitude to Richard 
Hendrickson for his 67 years of dedicated, accomplished service to the 
National Weather Service.

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