[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]




                      DR. RICHARD KASTNER TURNS 75

 Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, a milestone will occur on 
Saturday, April 18, while the Senate is in recess, which I do not want 
to go unacknowledged: Dr. Richard Hermann Kastner of Clarksburg, 
Maryland, will celebrate his 75th birthday.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked, ``. . . to leave the world a bit better 
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social 
condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have 
lived. This is to have succeeded.'' I imagine it would be nearly 
impossible to count how many lives have ``breathed easier'' because of 
Richard Kastner. For nearly 45 years, he has helped individuals and 
families cope with drug and alcohol dependency, abuse, discord, illness 
and death, and seemingly inconsolable grief as a psychiatrist and 
therapist, and as a friend. He has devoted his life to helping others 
find meaning in their lives.
  Richard Kastner is a native New Yorker. He received a bachelor's 
degree in psychology and biology from New York University, a master's 
degree in psychology from the City College of New York, his M.D. from 
Jefferson Medical College, and his doctorate in psychology from New 
York University. He then went to the University of Minnesota for post-
graduate medical training and for his psychiatric residency, which he 
then continued at St. Elizabeth's Hospital here in Washington.
  Richard Kastner achieved glittering academic success and then 
embarked on his career to achieve glittering professional success. He 
was a captain in the Medical Corps and served as a military 
psychiatrist at Andrews Air Force Base. He has been a senior 
psychiatric consultant for the National Security Agency, chief 
psychiatrist of the Employees Health Service at the National Institutes 
of Health, and a consulting senior psychiatrist and lecturer at the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He also served as an 
instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University's 
School of Medicine, and is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Medicine. 
He is a pilot, husband, and father of three children.
  Even now, as he turns 75, he maintains a robust private practice, 
undeterred by age, ailment, or surgery. I suppose the animating force 
is an unquenchable desire to help others. I want to take this 
opportunity to congratulate him on his 75th birthday and wish him many 
more.

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