[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 27 (Thursday, February 13, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E213]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        HONORING CHARLES SCRIPPS AS A GREAT LIVING CINCINNATIAN

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                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 12, 2003

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Charles Scripps, who 
will be formally honored on February 26, 2003 by the Greater Cincinnati 
Chamber of Commerce as a Great Living Cincinnatian. The recipients of 
this prestigious award are selected on the basis of special 
professional achievement; an awareness of the needs of others; civic 
service; leadership; and distinctive accomplishments.
  Mr. Scripps is a grandson of E.W. Scripps, who founded the newspapers 
that began the Cincinnati-based media group that now includes the 
Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post newspapers, broadcast television 
stations, and national cable television networks. Although he retired 
as the company's Chairman in 1994, Mr. Scripps remains on the Board of 
Directors and also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
E.W. Scripps Trust.
  After attending the College of William & Mary and later Pomona 
College in California, Mr. Scripps began his career with his father's 
newspaper, the Cleveland Press, as a police reporter before World War 
II. After service with the Coast Guard during the war, he returned to 
the family's business.
  During the 1980s, Mr. Scripps became an advocate for literacy. The 
Scripps Howard Foundation created an annual award, named for him, to 
encourage literacy outreach by the media. His civic associations do not 
end there. He serves on advisory boards for the Greater Cincinnati 
Salvation Army and the Hamilton County Juvenile Court. He is past 
president of the Inter-American Press Association, and he received an 
honorary degree in 1983 from Ohio University for his ``championship of 
press freedom worldwide.''
  Mr. Scripps and his late wife, Lois Anne McKay, have four children. 
He married Mary Elizabeth Breslin in 1993.
  All of us in Cincinnati thank Mr. Scripps for his service to our 
community, and congratulate him for being named a Great Living 
Cincinnatian.

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