[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 163 (Wednesday, November 17, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2424]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  A FOND FAREWELL TO I. MICHAEL HEYMAN

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                        HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 16, 1999

  Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my good friend 
I. Michael Heyman. As his friends and colleagues gather to honor his 
retirement from the Smithsonian Institute and his years of service to 
the University of California Berkeley, I would like to share with the 
House some of the highlights of Secretary Heyman's distinguished 
career.
  I. Michael Heyman became the 10th secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution on Sept. 19, 1994. He heads a complex of 16 museums and 
galleries and the National Zoological Park, as well as scientific and 
cultural research facilities in 10 states and the Republic of Panama.
  Secretary Heyman served as chancellor of the University of California 
at Berkeley from 1980 to 1990. He began his career at Berkeley in 1959 
as an acting professor of law and became a full professor in 1961. His 
distinguished teaching career has included service as a visiting 
professor of law at Yale (1963-1964) and at Stanford (1971-1972).
  A strong leader and active fundraiser, he strengthened Berkeley's 
biosciences departments and successfully promoted ethnic 
diversification of the undergraduate student body while maintaining 
high academic standards. The university maintains several large museums 
and, as chancellor, he actively participated in their supervision.
  His distinguished career includes serving as counselor to Secretary 
of the Interior Bruce Babbit and as deputy assistant secretary for 
policy at the Department of the Interior from 1993 to 1994. He is also 
a member of the state bars of California and New York.
  Born on May 30, 1930, in New York City, I. Michael Heyman was 
educated at Dartmouth College, earning a bachelor's degree in 
government in 1951. After a year in Washington as a legislative 
assistant to Senator Irving M. Ives of New York, he served in the 
United States Marines as a first lieutenant on active duty from 1951 to 
1953, and as a captain in the reserves from 1953 to 1958.
  Secretary Heyman received his juris doctor in 1956 from Yale 
University Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. He 
was an associate with the firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn in New 
York City from 1956 to 1957. He was chief law clerk to Chief Justice 
Earl Warren from 1958 to 1959.
  Over the years, Secretary Heyman has served on and chaired numerous 
boards and commissions, including almost four years as a member of the 
Smithsonian's Board of Regents (1990-1994). He has dedicated more than 
a decade of service to Dartmouth, his alma mater, as a member of its 
board of trustees from 1982 to 1993 and as chairman of the board from 
1991 to 1993. Heyman has also been a member of the board of trustees of 
the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law since 1977.
  He is married to Therese Thau Heyman, senior curator on leave from 
the Oakland Museum in California. Their son, James, is a physicist and 
teacher.
  I join my California colleagues in gratitude and appreciation for 
Secretary Heyman's contributions to education, law, culture, and above 
all, public service. His is a career we can only hope others will 
emulate. We congratulate him on a successful and fulfilling 
professional life, and we wish him well.

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