[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 100 (Thursday, July 27, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S7825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        ON THE MARRIAGE OF MARK PRESTON AND MEREDITH RAY BONNER

 Mr. L. CHAFEE. Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate 
Mark Preston and Meredith Ray Bonner on their recent wedding, which 
took place on July 8, 2000, at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in 
Atlanta, Georgia. The groom's parents Eugene and Mary Preston were in 
attendance, as was the bride's mother, Mrs. Phillip Ray Bonner.
  Mark proposed on December 28, 1999, in the same parking lot where 
they first kissed, and the couple spent their honeymoon in North 
Carolina.
  As many of you know, Mark is the intrepid Roll Call reporter, famous 
for stalking unwary Members coming off the Senate floor or leaving the 
weekly policy lunches. Over time, Mark has become a fixture at the Ohio 
Clock and on the Hill.
  The bride, now Meredith B. Preston, is also a journalist, and 
recently relocated to Washington from Atlanta. In fact, Mark and 
Meredith met as reporters at the Marietta Daily Journal.
  I hope the entire Senate will join me in wishing Mark and Meredith 
the very best today and throughout the future.

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