[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S3241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CONNIE SULLIVAN RETIRES

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, Connie Sullivan, who has served as 
Reprographic Manager in the Service Department since 1989, plans to 
retire in June. This will be a significant loss for the Senate. For the 
past decade, she has been responsible for all phases of the 
Reprographics Division--more recently known as Printing, Graphics, and 
Direct Mail--within the Sergeant at Arms office.
  Connie has been with the Senate for 24 years. She came here in 
February, 1975 from the House of Representatives as a Composer 
Technician in the newly created ``Composing Room,'' which was part of 
the Printing Section of our Department. You can imagine the 
technological changes Connie has seen since then, when she was asked to 
assume the duties of Composer with oversight for all the typesetting 
and layout functions of the Composing Room.
  In the restructing of the Service Department in 1984, when the 
Composing Room became the Pre-Press Section, Connie was promoted to 
supervisor. In a subsequent reorganization in 1986, she was again 
promoted to Operations Branch Head. That was a well-deserved 
recognition of her long experience with the growth and integration of 
services and, especially, the development of the Pre-Press section from 
conventional typesetting and layout to desk-top publishing and a full-
color graphics operations.
  In that regard, Connie has been one of the people who have helped the 
Senate enter fully into the information age. We are able to keep in 
closer touch with our constituents, and they with us, and that has a 
positive impact on just about everything we do here.
  So on behalf of the Senate, I want to thank Connie for all her years 
of service and wish her many happy years of time with her family, her 
garden, and the enduring satisfaction of a job well done.

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