[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E782]
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                          MANNY GORDON HONORED

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 29, 1997

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to an icon 
from my district in northeastern Pennsylvania, Mr. Manny Gordon. This 
month Manny will be honored by the board of the Pennsylvania State 
University Wilkes-Barre campus for his years of service to the 
community and the university. I am pleased to have been asked to 
participate in this tribute to Manny.
  Mr. Speaker, Manny Gordon has had a long and distinguished career. 
His work protecting the environment is legendary in northeastern 
Pennsylvania. He served the State Bureau of forestry for 44 years, 
retiring nearly 20 years ago in 1979. For many of those years he was 
the district forester supervising more than 1.2 million acres of 
Pennsylvania's beautiful forest. His years of dedicated conservation 
and public relations won him many awards during his tenure. Included is 
the coveted Forester of the Year award from the Society of American 
Foresters, and the Merit of Honor from the Daughters of the American 
Revolution. He was also named a distinguished Pennsylvanian by the 
William Penn Chapter of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
  Having served as an Army sergeant in Europe in World War II, Manny 
was in charge of 28 POW forester camps in Argonne and Ardennes France, 
and began his career in forestry. Following the war Manny served as the 
commander of Post 25 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Scranton PA.
  Mr. Speaker, his years of service to northeaster Pennsylvania as a 
forester left Manny with a deep and abiding love of the environment. In 
the 20 years since his retirement, Manny has been highly regarded as an 
outdoors advocate and environmental champion.
  Manny has had a very successful and distinguished career. Of all his 
achievements he is probably best know for his famous public service 
spots on radio and television highlighting Pennsylvania's great 
outdoors. His famous motto of ``Enjoy, Enjoy'' has brought the beauty 
of Pennsylvania's natural resources to thousands of people.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased and proud to join with the board of 
directors of the Wilkes-Barre campus of Penn State University and the 
entire community by paying tribute to this beloved public figure, Mr. 
Manny Gordon.

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