[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 26, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1209]
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       A TRIBUTE TO JOEL BUCKWALD, NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 
                             ADMINISTRATION

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                          HON. JERROLD NADLER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 26, 2001

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Joel 
Buckwald, a Senior Archivist in the New York office of the National 
Archives and Records Administration whose service to this country spans 
the past sixty years. Mr. Buckwald began working for the National 
Archives on June 3, 1941 after two weeks with the Public Buildings 
Administration. Hired under the first Archivist of the United States as 
a Junior Professional Assistant, he quickly rose to the rank of Junior 
Archivist before enlisting in the Navy at the end of 1942. During World 
War II, Mr. Buckwald was assigned to the United Nations Central 
Training Film Committee. Afterwards he studied at the City College of 
New York and in 1947 returned to the National Archives, where he has 
worked for the past fifty-four years.
  In 1950 Mr. Buckwald moved backed to the New York area to help 
establish the agency's first regional records center. Thirteen years 
later he was a consultant to the Organization of American States in 
archives and records management, spending three months advising the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lima, Peru. In 1970 he became the first 
head of the archives branch for New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and 
the U.S. Virgin Islands, a post he held for seventeen years before 
becoming Senior Archivist in what is now the Northeast Region of the 
National Archives and Records Administration.
  Today the National Archives and Records Administration will honor Mr. 
Buckwald's distinguished career, and tomorrow Mr. Buckwald will 
celebrate his 84th birthday. For his many years of exceptional 
leadership and dedication, I congratulate and thank Mr. Buckwald, and I 
wish him many happy and rewarding years to come.

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