[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 143 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2063-E2064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IN RECOGNITION OF HAROLD NICHOLSON

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 2, 2000

  Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to pay 
tribute to a dedicated and hardworking gentleman on the occasion of his 
retirement. Harold Nicholson devoted thirty-three years of his life to 
the Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., in Somerset, PA. He was 
its manager for the past nineteen years, longer than any other manager 
in the entity's sixty-one year history.
  But Mr. Nicholson not only managed the cooperative, he was in many 
ways its heart, soul and voice. Originally hired to provide member

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services, he started the SREC's monthly newsletter for which he also 
wrote and photographed. It became the precursor of the statewide Penn 
Lines magazine. Mr. Nicholson served on numerous committees within the 
National Rural Electric Association and was chairman of its Marketing 
and Energy Management committee. Additionally, he was active with the 
statewide Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, where he served on 
the Power Supply and Engineering Committee, Transmission Policy, and 
Risk Management Committees and co-chaired its Consumer Choice Marketing 
and Consumer, Employee and Board Education Task Force committees.
  He has been named Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association Man of the 
Year (1992), the organization's highest honor.
  In addition to his many career-related credits and initiatives, he 
has served his community in a variety of other capacities. They include 
Managing Editor of the Meyersdale Republican; board member and past 
president of the Meyersdale Lions Club; on the Economic Development 
Committee of the Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development 
Commission; was a charter member and secretary of the Long Range 
Planning Committee with the Somerset County Vocational Technical 
School; served on the board of the Appalachian Intermediate Unit 8 
serving the area's school districts; served for sixteen years including 
as president on the Meyersdale Area School Board; member of the 
Somerset County Chamber of Commerce; and a member of the Partnership 
for Rural Industrial Development Enterprises (PRIDE) as Secretary.
  Harold Nicholson has been and continues to be an outstanding member 
of his community. I wish him all the best for a fulfilling and happy 
retirement to enjoy with his wife, four children and nine 
grandchildren.

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