[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  SAN DIEGO COUNTY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL 1998 JOHNS 
                           FELLOWSHIP AWARDEE

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                            HON. BOB FILNER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 14, 1998

  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I rise today to recognize 
John Fee as he is honored by the San Diego County Building & 
Construction Trades Council at the September 19, 1998 John S. Lyons 
Memorial Banquet for his contributions to the labor movement, his 
community and to the nation.
  John Fee, a Chicago native, has been an active and involved member of 
his community since early in his life. In high school, he participated 
in the football and cross country athletic programs, and, at age 
seventeen, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Fee's twenty year 
career in the Navy involved operation and maintenance of Naval nuclear 
power plants and service on nuclear submarines, cruisers and aircraft 
carriers. It was during his service in the Navy that he earned an 
undergraduate degree in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and a 
Masters in Business Administration.
  John is an avid traveller and has visited every continent. He planted 
a U.S. flag during a visit to the North Pole and assisted the Russian 
Government with building a nuclear power plant.
  Following his retirement from the Navy in 1984, John went to work at 
the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in San Diego County 
and currently serves as its Maintenance Manager. John is responsible 
for maintenance of the dual reactor plants and supporting systems, and 
in this capacity, has developed a close relationship with members of 
the San Diego Building and Construction Trades by relying on them for 
their skills and expertise.
  John has been instrumental in improving the safe working conditions 
at the SONGS site and has kept the interest of the building trades 
membership balanced with the multitude of challenges as the electric 
utility industry goes through the process of deregulation.
  John Fee exemplifies the high values, standards and principles of the 
work of the late John S. Lyons in community service and it truly 
deserving of the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades 
Council's 1998 Johns Fellowship Award.

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