[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 112 (Friday, August 3, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     IN HONOR OF ED AND LYNN HOGAN

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                          HON. ELTON GALLEGLY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, August 2, 2001

  Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor my close friends Ed and 
Lynn Hogan: successful entrepreneurs and philanthropists who have seen 
and changed the world together and who will celebrate their 50th 
wedding anniversary on August 13, 2001.
  Ed's and Lynn's accomplishments are numerous and far-reaching. In 
1959, they opened Pleasant Travel Service in Point Pleasant, New 
Jersey. Three years later, they moved their four children and the 
business to Southern California to better serve clients wishing to 
visit Hawaii.
  The company is now a limited liability corporation with more than 
1,700 employees and revenues exceeding $400 million. Their four 
children--Brian and Christine, and twins Gary and Glenn--are all 
executives in the company. Ed is chairman and chief executive officer 
of Pleasant Holidays, L.L.C., and Lynn serves as vice chairperson. 
Lynn, a graphics artist who did picture cells for Disney's animated 
classic ``Peter Pan,'' oversees the development of major promotions, ad 
campaigns and brochures, and is actively involved with the decoration 
and renovation of the company's hotels.
  The company has expanded to serve Mexico, Tahiti, Japan and other 
destinations in the Orient, in addition to the ownership of several 
hotels in Hawaii.
  In 1987, Ed and Lynn formed the Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays Foundation 
to grant annual scholarships and awards to benefit Hawaiian residents. 
The non-profit Hogan Family Foundation, founded in 1998, is dedicated 
to promoting an understanding of the importance of travel and tourism 
``by creating and operating educational, humanitarian, and civic-minded 
programs that encourage meaningful communication between persons of all 
cultures.''
  With the formation of the Travel and Tourism Institute, the Ed and 
Lynn Hogan Program in Travel and Tourism is funded at Loyola Marymount 
University in Los Angeles to prepare college students for executive 
careers in the travel industry.
  Ed and Lynn volunteer for numerous other non-profit organizations 
focused on health care, child abuse and education, and sit on several 
boards, and have been honored frequently for their efforts.
  Not surprisingly, they also have been honored extensively by the 
tourism industry and the government and people of Hawaii. A few 
highlights: In 1993, Ed and Lynn were inducted into the American 
Society of Travel Agents' ``Hall of Fame,'' the travel industry's 
highest honor. In 1995, Ed served as a delegate to the first White 
House Conference on Travel and Tourism. Lynn has been named to Working 
Woman magazine's top 500 list of female executives in the United States 
for the past five years, number 53 in 1998 and number 34 this year.
  In their spare time, Ed and Lynn train and show their Arabian horses, 
play in travel industry and celebrity golf tournaments, and fawn over 
their two grandchildren, Michael and Shalyn.
  Mr. Speaker, Ed and Lynn Hogan are loving people who are dedicated to 
their profession, their community, their family and each other. I know 
my colleagues will join Janice and me in congratulating them on a 
lifetime of success together in each of those areas as they celebrate 
their 50th wedding anniversary.

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