[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 19 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E262]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    A SALUTE TO EUGENE P. RUEHLMANN: 1998 GREAT LIVING CINCINNATIAN

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                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 3, 1998

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I recognize a prominent Cincinnatian 
and a friend, Eugene P. Ruehlmann, who was recently honored by the 
Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce as a Great Living Cincinnatian. 
I thank him for the vision and service that he has so generously given 
to our area, and for the model he provides today.
  Mr. Ruehlmann, a native Cincinnatian, graduated from the University 
of Cincinnati in 1948 and Harvard Law School in 1950. He served in the 
Marine Corps and then began a long career in public service. The major 
transformation of Cincinnati's innovative downtown began under Mr. 
Ruehlmann's leadership. As a member of the Cincinnati City Council and 
as Mayor of Cincinnati, he led the effort to keep the Reds in 
Cincinnati, attract a National Football League franchise to the city, 
build Riverfront Stadium (now Cinergy Field) and construct the Albert 
B. Sabin Convention Center.
  Following the race riots in 1967, Mr. Ruehlmann worked to heal the 
city. He reformulated the city's Human Relations Commission, and 
founded the Mayor's Housing Coordinating Committee and the city's 
Project Commitment.
  He has given his time to numerous charitable and community 
organizations, such as Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical 
Center, Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the Work and Rehabilitation 
Center, March of Dimes and the National Conference of Christians and 
Jews. Along the way, he has built a successful law practice with Vorys, 
Sater, Seymour and Pease in Cincinnati, and served on the Board of 
Directors of the Center for Resolution of Disputes. In all these years, 
and with all these accomplishments, he has remained a devoted family 
man. He and his wife, Virginia, have raised eight children and now have 
twenty-three grandchildren.
  All of us in Greater Cincinnati congratulate Gene Ruehlmann on his 
deserved selection as a Great Living Cincinnatian, and thank him for 
his many years of distinguished service to our community.

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