[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 83 (Thursday, June 14, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6362-S6363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SENATE HISTORICAL EDITOR WENDY WOLFF

  Mr. BYRD. Madam President, this week, the attractions of retirement 
will claim another highly valued Senate staff member. With deeply mixed 
feelings, I note the departure of Wendy Wolff.
  Since 1987, Wendy Wolff has served the Senate as Historical Editor in 
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Office of the Secretary. Viewers on C-SPAN will not observe Wendy in 
the Senate chamber or at committee hearings. She fulfills her 
professional responsibilities away from public view in the offices of 
the Senate Historian. Yet, it would be accurate to conclude that she 
has significantly left her mark on Senate history; she has even shaped 
Senate history.
  I first met Wendy as she began to prepare the lengthy and complex 
index to Volume One of my four-volume history, The Senate, 1789-1989. 
Anyone who has consulted that first volume's index is likely to agree 
that it is most user-friendly. In 1989, Wendy assumed editorial 
responsibilities--as well as the indexing chores--for the remaining 
three volumes in that series. Over the next five years, she handled the 
countless tasks--many of them deeply challenging--that fall to editors 
and publishers of encyclopedia-length reference volumes.
  Ten years ago, in the preface to Volume Two, I offered the following 
assessment of Wendy's contributions to that project.

       Her strong editorial hand has skillfully shaped this work 
     from a disparate collection of speeches to what I believe is 
     a carefully balanced and finely coordinated reference book. 
     Tirelessly dedicated to this project from its inception, 
     Wendy Wolff has maintained herein the editorial standards of 
     Volume One and has convincingly guided the author away from 
     tempting side roads. Her indexes to both volumes display a 
     rich and impressively detailed knowledge of the Senate's 
     historical structure.

  Wendy's editorial hand and critical judgment have also shaped other 
Senate historical volumes. Among them are Senator Bob Dole's Historical 
Almanac of the United States Senate (1989); United States Senate 
Election, Expulsion and Censure Cases, 1793-1990 (1995); Senator Mark 
Hatfield's Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993 (1997); 
Minutes of the U.S. Senate Republican Conference, 1911-1964 (1999); and 
Capitol Builder: The Shorthand Journals of Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, 
1853-1861 (2001).
  I know that I speak for Wendy Wolff's colleagues and other admirers 
in wishing Wendy Wolff a most enjoyable retirement. We won't ever 
forget her.
  (Mr. BAYH assumed the chair.)

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