[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 10, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S9033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GUEST CHAPLAIN

  Mr. FAIRCLOTH. Mr. President, it is, indeed, a special privilege for 
me today to welcome as our guest chaplain, Dr. Clarence Newsome.
  Before I get into the other distinguished things about Dr. Newsome, I 
would like to mention that he is a native North Carolinian, born in 
Ahoskie, NC, and spent 18 years at one of our premier universities, 
Duke University, not only as a professor, but as a football player and 
a great leader of that university.
  He is now dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. Dr. 
Newsome is a distinguished clergyman, an impelling preacher, and a very 
visionary educator. He is known throughout the Nation as one of the 
most insightful and sensitive thinkers on religion, culture, and social 
issues of our time. Dr. Newsome continues to play a major role in the 
strategic development of Howard University.
  His presence with us today is an opportunity for the Senate to affirm 
the crucial and important contribution of Howard University to the city 
of Washington, to the District of Columbia, and to our Nation and world 
as a whole, being one of the leading producers of diplomats throughout 
the world.
  I welcome Dr. Clarence Newsome.

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