[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 42 (Friday, April 3, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S3230]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO KATI SASSERVILLE

 Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I wanted to take this opportunity 
to highlight the many achievements of Kati Sasserville on her 
retirement this week. Kati is ending her eleven years of service at 
Otter Tail Power Company headquartered in Fergus Falls Minnesota, just 
across the border from my home state of North Dakota. Otter Tail also 
serves many customers in my state.
  Kati is a trailblazer and a source of inspiration from many young 
women in the upper Midwest. Her years at Otter Power put her in the 
forefront of the debate on electric utility restructuring. A 1973 law 
school graduate of the University of Minnesota, Kati started her 
distinguished 23 year career as a trial attorney in the Office of 
General Counsel for the U.S. Navy. She served as a Minnesota Public 
Utilities Commissioner from 1975 to 1981.
  Kati has a professional and civic membership roster second to none. 
She won Harper's Bazaar Diamond Superwoman Award back in 1980. The 
Fergus Falls Daily Journal named her one of the City's ``Eight Most 
Influential'' citizens in 1987. In addition, Kati managed to balance 
her active professional career with the needs of her family. She 
managed to raise six wonderful children and now enjoys the company of 
six grandchildren. She is an example of someone who persevered and made 
it on the merits.
  Kati's a formidable advocate, and I will fondly remember debating the 
energy issues of the day. Her sense of fair play was always 
appreciated.
  Kati is the only person I know who would wake up in the morning and 
thank God for the Global Warming phenomenon. Any possibility of 
temperatures warming up in Fergus Falls is something to hope for in the 
future.
  I ask my colleagues to join with me in wishing Kati well in her 
retirement and in fulfilling her life-long dream of running a bed and 
breakfast in Fergus Falls.

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