[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 14, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E361]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     A TRIBUTE TO DANIEL R. ENSLEY

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                           HON. BOB ETHERIDGE

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 14, 2001

  Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to one of 
North Carolina's leading citizens and to bring to the attention of my 
colleagues of the 107th Congress his many contributions.
  Daniel R. Ensley, director of the mass communications program at 
Campbell University and a 1993-94 ``Professor of the Year'' at the 
institution, is retiring from Campbell due to health concerns. He will 
be greatly missed by fellow professors, by students in the mass 
communications school, and by the hundreds of alumni who remember the 
courses they took there.
  Ensley, a native of Dover, Delaware, grew up in a military family and 
lived in New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, and Oklahoma as a 
youngster. He is a 1979 magna cum laude graduate of Campbell. He worked 
for the college radio station throughout his college years and became 
station manager during his senior year. After graduation, he managed 
the station until 1984 and also taught courses at the University.
  In 1984, Ensley entered graduate school at the University of South 
Carolina College of Journalism. He earned his Master of Arts degree 
from that institution in 1986 and was accepted for a Ph.D. program at 
the University of Wisconsin. Just before leaving for Madison, 
Wisconsin, Ensley was contacted by the administrators at Campbell and 
offered a position as an instructor in the Department of 
Communications. He accepted and joined the Campbell family.
  Ensley was promoted to assistant professor in 1990 and twice--1989 
and 1999--has won the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. The Student 
Government Association honored him with the first ``Professor of the 
Year'' award in 1993-94, and he was also honored as ``Teacher of the 
Year'' by the Omicron Delta Kappa society in June of 1994. That same 
year, the college yearbook was dedicated to him. In 1987, the college 
of Journalism at the University of South Carolina awarded him its 
Excellence in Research Award for his masters thesis.
  Ensley's most dramatic contribution to the University came in 1991 
when he created the Department of Mass Communications at the 
university. As director of the new department, he designed curriculum, 
taught courses, and established and monitored an internship program.
  Hundreds of former students owe Ensley a debt of gratitude for the 
work he did with them while they were at Campbell. One former student, 
Dallas Woodhouse, a political reporter for NBC-17 in Raleigh, says he 
owes his career to the retiring educator.
  ``Ensley gave his life to his students,'' Woodhouse says. ``Nights. 
Weekends. Overnights. He gave it all and never complained. I have never 
seen someone work so much and so hard. I have never seen someone like 
Dan Ensley. I only hope I can teach my children his work ethic and his 
selflessness.''

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