[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1672-E1673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CLIFFORD MELBERGER HONORED

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, September 9, 1998

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my good 
friend, Mr. Clifford Melberger of my District in Pennsylvania. Cliff 
has been named ``Community Leader of the Year'' by the Eastern 
Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. I am pleased to have 
been asked to participate in honoring him.
  Deborah D. Hannon, Chairperson of the Foundation's Board of 
Directors, describes this prestigious award as ``an award that is given 
throughout each chapter area to a person who epitomizes the word 
`leader` in both his personal and professional life.'' Cliff Melberger 
is certainly a fine example of this criteria. He is the founder and CEO 
of Diversified Information Technologies, Inc., a national information 
management and document imaging company. Cliff has been an innovator in 
the use of computer systems to service the information management 
industry. He received two research grants from Pennsylvania's Ben 
Franklin Partnership to develop electronic vaulting, which is the 
transmission of computerized media via satellite or Telecommunications.
  For the last 16 years, Clifford Melberger has defined Diversifed's 
migration from a traditional records storage and retrieval company to a 
state-of-the-art information management company, providing Fortune 500 
companies with access to their corporate records via multiple media 
platforms.
  Mr. Speaker, Cliff Melberger began his career in banking after 
receiving his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Bucknell 
University. He served as president of the University's Alumni 
Association. He currently serves

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on the Board of Directors for the JPM Corporation, the Greater Scranton 
Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Board of Trustees of Wilkes 
University. He is an Elder in his church. He and his wife Ruth are 
parents of two grown children and have two grandchildren.
  It is with great pleasure that I join with the Arthritis Foundation 
in honoring this distinguished businessman and community leader, Mr. 
Clifford Melberger. I send him and his family my sincere 
congratulations on this honor and best wishes for continued success and 
prosperity.

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