[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 29, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    IN HONOR OF DR. ROSS J. SIMPSON

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                          HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 29, 2003

  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and acknowledge Dr. 
Ross J. Simpson. Dr. Simpson who was honored on Saturday, January 18, 
2003, by the Richard A. Rutkowski Association at a gala dinner-dance at 
the Hi-Hat Caterers.
  A captain in the U.S. Army, Dr. Simpson served our country as the 
chief of chest surgery at the Osaka Army hospital in Japan during the 
Korean War, and was honored with the United Nations and Korean Service 
medals for his service. Upon his return from the war, in 1952, he 
started his surgical practice in Bayonne. His medical career was 
extensive, and Dr. Simpson worked as a chief of surgery at Bayonne 
Hospital and the Pollack Hospital, and as an attending surgeon at St. 
Francis Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Morristown General, and the 
French Hospital in New York City.
  Dr. Simpson has held leadership positions ever since his service in 
the Army. At Bayonne Hospital, he served as president of the medical 
staff, president of the Board of Trustees, and chairman of the Board of 
Trustees.
  He has not only been a surgeon, but also a professor of surgery at 
the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. He is published in 
the Annals of Surgery and in the AMA journal for his nationally 
renowned work on foreign bodies of the chest and heart. Dr. Simpson is 
a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International 
College of Surgeons, and a diplomat of the American Board of Thoracic 
Surgery.
  A founding member of the Simpson Barber Foundation for the Autistic, 
Dr. Simpson will serve as the Chairman of the 1st Annual Regatta of the 
Foundation. He is a communicant of St. Henry's Church, and in 1995, he 
received the Brotherhood Award from the Bayonne Chapter of Christians 
and Jews.
  Dr. Simpson is married to Marguerite O'Reilly, the proud father of 
five, Ross Jr., Thomas, Christopher, Mary Anne, and Marguerite, and 
proud grandfather of fifteen.
  Dr. Simpson earned his B.A. from St. Peter's College, and his medical 
degree from NYU Medical School.
  Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Dr. Ross J. Simpson 
for his outstanding contributions to the medical community, for 
treating the injured and the sick, and for saving countless lives in 
times of war and peace.

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