[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 142 (Saturday, October 10, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 IN RECOGNITION OF JAMES F. McCONNELL UPON HIS RETIREMENT AS PRESIDENT 
                  AND CEO OF THE FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK

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                         HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 9, 1998

  Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with my constituents 
of the Fifth Congressional District of the State of New York and the 
staff of the Flushing Savings Bank as they honor James F. McConnell 
upon his retirement as the bank's president and CEO.
  Mr. McConnell's background is both diverse and effective. Prior to 
his election as president of the Flushing Savings Bank he held 
prominent management positions with AMBAC Industries of Garden City, 
New York and the EDO Corporation of College Point. He joined the 
Flushing Savings Bank in 1974 as Vice-president and Treasurer. 
Realizing his keen sense of leadership and a most effective approach to 
getting things done, the bank appointed him president in 1981, 
appointed him to its board of directors in 1983 and elected him Chief 
Executive Officer in 1990.
  Mr. McConnell's multiple leadership talents reach far beyond the 
Flushing Savings Bank. He has served on the Board of Directors of the 
Community Bankers Association of New York State from 1987 to 1997 and 
served as the Association's Chairman from 1990-1991. He was highly 
instrumental in negotiations which led to the successful merger of the 
Savings Bank Association of New York State with the New York League of 
Savings Institutions, thereby creating the Community Bankers 
Association.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the House of Representatives to 
join with me and rise in honor of James F. McConnell, who has imparted 
a sense of professionalism, leadership and community responsibility. 
His record is one of dynamism and productivity which readily emerges as 
a yardstick by which all such future efforts are measured.

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