[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 70 (Friday, May 23, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5147]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   TRIBUTE TO DONALD HALL FOR RECEIVING THE PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE'S 
                ROBERT FROST CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AWARD

 Mr. Smith of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I rise today to 
congratulate Donald Hall, poet, essayist, and playwright, for being the 
16th recipient of Plymouth State College Robert Frost Contemporary 
American Award. I commend his outstanding achievement and compliment 
him on this well-deserved honor.
  Donald is internationally known for his poetry and prose. He and his 
wife Jane, a late poet, too, moved to Wilmot in 1975. Their family 
homestead, Eagle Pond Farm, has provided him much inspiration for many 
of his works.
  Donald was a Guggenheim fellow in 1963-1964 and 1972-1973, and poet 
laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. He was elected to the 
National Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 
1989. His book of poetry, ``The One Day,'' won the National Book 
Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award the same 
year. In 1994, Donald received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
  His first book of poems, ``Exiles and Marriages,'' was written in 
1955. Among other prose works are ``String Too Short To Be Saved,'' 
``Henry Moore,'' ``Writing Well,'' ``Their Ancient Glittering Eyes,'' 
and ``Ox Cart Man.'' His recent works include ``Old and New Poems'', 
which was published in 1990 and ``The Old Life'' published in 1996.
  The Frost award is given in honor of Robert Frost, a late poet 
laureate who taught at Plymouth Normal School in 1911-1912. The 
Plymouth State Alumni Association inaugurated the award in 1970 to 
recognize northern New Englanders who exemplified Frost's traits of 
individuality, hard work, humanitarianism, and devotion to the Granite 
State.
  Mr. President, I want to congratulate Donald for his outstanding 
accomplishment. I am proud to represent him in the U.S. Senate.

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