[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 133 (Tuesday, October 5, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2031]
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                        HONORING LARRY PISTORESI

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 5, 1999

  Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Larry Pistoresi, 
Sr. for 50 years of perfect attendance at the Chowchilla Rotary Club.
  Larry Pistoresi, Sr. has been a member of the Chowchilla Rotary Club 
since the day it was chartered in 1946. Pistoresi is an active auto 
retail salesman, but has been able to keep perfect attendance for 50 
years. Perfect attendance did not mean that you had to attend all the 
local Rotary meetings. It you had to miss a local meeting, you could 
make that meeting up at another Rotary club in a different town. 
Through the years, Larry Pistoresi has attended Rotary meetings in 20 
different states. In fact, planning a vacation for the Pistoresi's was 
quite an ordeal. Vacations were planned around Rotary meetings. Larry 
would get the Rotary director out to see where and when the Rotary 
meetings were to be held.
  Pistoresi also has a family history of perfect attendance in the 
Rotary. His dad, Pete Pistoresi, a charter member of the Chowchilla 
Rotary Club, also received the perfect attendance award. Pistoresi said 
when he first joined, his dad kept after him to have perfect 
attendance. After the first two years of perfect attendance he was 
challenged to keep on going. The father and son team are the only tow 
in the local club to receive the award. The former president of the 
Chowchilla club said his goal is to keep his perfect attendance to the 
day he is forced to quit.
  Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to honor Larry Pistoresi for his 
perfect attendance at the Chowchilla Rotary Club. I urge my colleagues 
to join me in wishing Larry many more years of continued success.

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