[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 21, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1908]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   SIDNEY PEERLESS, M.D., TO RECEIVE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE HONOR

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                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 21, 1999

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, the American Jewish Committee's Cincinnati 
Chapter will soon give special recognition to one of my most 
distinguished constituents and a good friend, Sidney Peerless, M.D. On 
October 9, Dr. Peerless will be presented with the prestigious 
Community Service Award.
  Dr. Peerless, an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon, is well known 
and respected as a physician. He has directed the otolaryngology 
department at both Providence and Jewish Hospitals, and he was 
president of the medical staff at Jewish Hospital. Dr. Peerless is a 
clinical professor at the University of Cincinnati, and was recently 
honored by the University for his contributions to teaching.
  A committed community leader, Dr. Peerless has been a member of the 
boards of the Jewish National Fund; Bonds for Israel; the Cincinnati 
Zoo; Children's Hospital; Shaare Zedek Hospital; and Jewish Hospital. 
Dr. Peerless has received numerous awards, including the Cincinnati 
Academy of Medicine's Daniel Drake Award for service to the Cincinnati 
community and to patients, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
degree from Hebrew Union College.
  Dr. Peerless was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the University 
of Cincinnati. He has five children and fourteen grandchildren.
  All of us in the Cincinnati area congratulate Dr. Peerless on 
receiving this prestigious and well deserved award, and we commend him 
for his lifelong dedication to his patients and his community.

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