[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S3426]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO DR. RICHARD E. GREENLEAF

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to a distinguished 
scholar and son of New Mexico. This year, Dr. Richard Greenleaf, 
Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Center for 
Latin American Studies at Tulane University, ends a remarkable career 
of more than a half century of research and teaching. Dr. Greenleaf has 
now returned to new Mexico to enjoy his retirement.
  A few weeks ago, Dr. Greenleaf's students and colleagues gathered at 
Tulane University to honor their mentor and friend. One of Dr. 
Greenleaf's former students, Dr. Stanley Hordes of the Latin American 
Institute of the University of New Mexico, wrote an essay to 
commemorate that event. The essay recounts Dr. Greenleaf's 
extraordinary career and warmly expresses the deep affection his 
students hold for him.
  For all his accomplishments, I salute Dr. Greenleaf. I welcome him 
home to New Mexico, and I join all those who are indebted to him for 
his lifetime commitment to scholarship and teaching.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Dr. Hordes' tribute to 
Dr. Greenleaf be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the tribute was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

 Dedication of the Richard E. Greenleaf Conference Room, April 3, 1998

       Dr. Richard Edward Greenleaf, France Vinton Scholes 
     Professor of Colonial Latin American History, and Director of 
     the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University 
     was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on May 6, 1930. He grew up 
     in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and took his Bachelor's, Master's 
     and Doctoral degrees at the University of New Mexico, where 
     he studied under the dean of inquisition scholars, Professor 
     France V. Scholes. Dr. Greenleaf's doctoral dissertation, 
     ``Zumarraga and the Mexican Inquisition 1536-1543,'' served 
     as the basis for his many excellent publications on the 
     history of the Holy Office in Latin America.
       Dr. Greenleaf authored eleven major scholarly books, served 
     as co-author of, or contributor to seventeen others, and 
     published almost four dozen articles in the field of Latin 
     American and Borderlands history. He has served on the 
     editorial boards of several major publications, including the 
     Handbook of Latin American Studies, The Americas and the 
     Hispanic American Historical Review, and was the recipient of 
     many distinguished awards, among them Silver Medal, Sahagun 
     Prize: Mexican National History Award, and the Serra Award of 
     the Academy of American Franciscan History for Distinguished 
     Scholarship in Colonial Latin American History.
       Richard Greenleaf began his teaching career at the 
     University of Albuquerque in 1953. Shortly thereafter, he 
     moved to Mexico City, where he taught at the University of 
     the Americas, later serving as Chair of the Department of 
     History and International Relations, Academic Vice-President 
     and Dean of the Graduate School. In 1969, he accepted a 
     faculty position at Tulane, assuming the directorship of the 
     Center for Latin American Studies the following year, and the 
     chairmanship of the History Department in 1978. In 1982, he 
     was installed in the France Vinton Scholes Chair in Colonial 
     Latin American History. In his long and distinguished 
     teaching career, Dr. Greenleaf has served as mentor to 
     numerous doctoral students, and countless master's and 
     undergraduate students, all of whom are greatly indebted to 
     him for his inspiration and guidance.

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