[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 135 (Tuesday, October 15, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1867-E1868]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING HOLLIS BIDDLE OF WACO, TX

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                           HON. CHET EDWARDS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 15, 2002

  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, we live in a time when Americans change 
jobs as frequently as every five years. The kind of loyalty that used 
to be commonplace between employers and employees, when people more 
often than not spent their entire career with one organization, is rare 
today. That fact makes today's observance of Mr. Hollis Biddle's fifty 
years with the Waco Tribune-Herald indeed remarkable.
  The Waco Tribune-Herald is my hometown daily newspaper in Waco, 
Texas, a member of Cox newspapers and the largest publication in the 
11th Congressional District.
  Following a high school class in journalism, Mr. Biddle, a native of 
Waco, began his career in 1952 as a copy boy with the morning 
newspaper, the News-Tribune, and the afternoon Times-Herald. He worked 
hard and won a Fentress Foundation Scholarship to Baylor University, 
where he majored in Journalism. Biddle worked as a reporter and went to 
school, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism in 1958.
  Hollis Biddle worked his way into the Sports Department, eventually 
becoming Assistant Sports Editor. Traveling to small towns across 
Central Texas, he wrote about the teams, the bands, the cheerleaders. 
In Small Town Texas then and now, youth sports are a major source of 
pride for any community, and Hollis Biddle became very well known 
through his coverage. He wrote about high school and college football, 
baseball, basketball and any other athletic competition.
  He became best known, however, as an advocate and promoter for Little 
League Baseball. As the organization was just beginning to grow, his 
stories excited interest across Central Texas, from youngsters who 
wanted to play, from the parents and from community leaders who learned 
from Biddle's stories about the benefits of such healthy competition.
  Biddle worked to establish the state's Little League headquarters in 
Waco, and the Tribune-Herald was the official ``paper of record'' for 
Little League results for two decades. Grown men stop him on the street 
today to tell him, ``You took pictures of me playing Little League 
Baseball years ago and I still have that newspaper.''
  Hollis finally gave up sports reporting, and is now an integral part 
of the Trib's Marketing Department. He is in charge of special 
newspaper sections and promotions, including weekly publication of the 
Baylor Insider in cooperation with the Baylor Foundation.

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  For half a century today, Hollis Biddle has been involved in making 
the Waco Tribune-Herald a valuable daily record of area 
accomplishments. And, for half a century today, Hollis Biddle has been 
working to make Waco a better community.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the House of Representatives to 
join me in honoring and celebrating Hollis Biddle's fifty years of 
service to his employer and to the people of Central Texas.

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