[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 8, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E748]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




KLUGERS RECEIVE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SERVICE 
                                 AWARD

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 8, 2002

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call the attention of the 
House of Representatives to the well-deserved recognition that my 
friends Allan M. and Sue Kline Kluger will receive from the Anti-
Defamation League on May 8, 2002, in Plains Township, Luzerne County, 
Pennsylvania. The Klugers will receive the League's 2002 Distinguished 
Community Service Award.
  Allan is the president and founder of the Wilkes-Barre-based law firm 
Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C. He is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary, 
Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
  He is a member of the board of directors of Luzerne National Bank, 
Bertels Can Company, King's College, the Valley Auto Club, Bloomsburg 
University Foundation, F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, 
Northeast Pennsylvania Ethics Commission and the Luzerne Foundation. 
Mr. Kluger is also on the board of directors and executive committee of 
the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry.
  He has received the following honors: B'nai B'rith Outstanding 
Citizen Award, Ethics Award given by Ethics Institute of Northeastern 
Pennsylvania, Wyoming Seminary Distinguished Service Award, Boy Scouts 
Distinguished Citizen Award, and Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy 
Award presented by the Greater Pocono Northeast Chapter of the National 
Society of Fund Raising Executives.
  Sue, a graduate of Goucher College and College Misericordia Graduate 
School, has served as the executive director of Leadership Wilkes-Barre 
for the last 20 years. Leadership Wilkes-Barre brings together existing 
and emerging leaders from throughout Wyoming Valley and exposes them to 
the problems and challenges of their community and motivates and 
encourages them to assume leadership roles in community affairs.
  She has received the following honors: Woman of the Year, Sisters of 
Mercy; Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award, National Society of 
Fund Raising Executives; Preceptor Award, National Association for 
Community Leadership; National Director of Who's Who in Executive and 
Professional Women; United Way of Pennsylvania, Volunteer of the Year 
Award; Alumni Medallion, College Misericordia; B'nai B'rith 
Distinguished Service Award; Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania; 
U.S. Postal Service Honoree for Women's History Month; Northeastern Pa. 
Council of Boy Scouts Honoree, Salute to Northeastern Pennsylvania 
Women; and Athena Award, Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce Award 
for Outstanding Business Women.
  Sue is also on the board of directors of Northeast Regional Cancer 
Institute, the Diversity Institute and the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber 
of Business and Industry. She is a trustee of Wyoming Seminary and a 
member of the Northeastern Regional Advisory Board of PNC Bank.
  Allan and Sue have three children, Attorney Elizabeth Kluger Cooper 
of Great Falls, Va.; Attorney Joseph E. Kluger, Allentown and Wilkes-
Barre; and Lawrence Kluger of Mechanicsburg. The couple also has four 
grandsons.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to call to the attention of the House of 
Representatives the service to the community of Allan and Sue Kluger 
and this well-deserved award, and I wish them all the best.

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