[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 3 (Friday, January 25, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E33-E34]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF BRIAN C. DOHERTY

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                          HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 25, 2002

  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and acknowledge the 
many accomplishments of my good friend, Brian C. Doherty, whose life 
was commemorated and celebrated on Thursday, January 24, at the Boys 
and Girls Club of Hudson County's annual dinner at the Liberty House 
Restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was fitting and appropriate 
that the Boys and Girls Club's gymnasium was named in recognition of 
Mr. Doherty's commitment to the youth of Jersey City.
  Mr. Doherty was the sole sponsor of the Boys and Girls Club's 
Competitive Basketball Program from its inception in 1987 until 1998. 
He also strongly supported St. Anthony's High School Basketball program 
in Jersey City; the Jersey City Recreation Basketball Tournaments; and 
his own Men's League basketball team in the Jersey Shore Basketball 
League in Belmar, New Jersey. Thanks to the guidance of Mr. Doherty, 
many of the participants of these programs went on to play professional 
basketball.
  A veteran of the National Guard, he was Executive Secretary to Mayor 
Paul T. Jordan of Jersey City from 1975 until 1977. In 1995, he became 
partner of the law firm of Schumann, Hanlon, Doherty, McCrossin, and 
Paolino.
  Mr. Doherty, an active member of the American Bar Association and the 
Association of Trial Lawyers of America, graduated from the New School 
for Social Research in Manhattan, New York, and earned his law degree 
from Seton Hall University Law School in 1977.
  Mr. Doherty was a dedicated husband to Rosemary T. McFadden and 
cherished son of Bernice and Eugene Doherty.
  Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Brian C. Doherty 
for his generosity, kind spirit, and work on behalf of the community. I 
am very proud to have called Brian my

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friend. He was a true gentleman, who touched many lives, and will be 
greatly missed by all those who knew him, including myself.

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