[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 055 (Monday, April 7, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E695]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING LEE GILES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT

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                           HON. JULIA CARSON

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 7, 2003

  Ms. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the end of 
the era for Indianapolis, with the end of the long and exciting career 
of an Indianapolis broadcasting giant, Lee Giles.
  These are times of trial for our nation. As is our country's custom, 
in circumstances like these we turn our faces steadily toward 
television, our window on the world, watching the events of far away, 
days of desperation and long nights of noise on parade through our 
living rooms. In those hours as we celebrate the devotion and the valor 
of our armed forces, we celebrate again the tremendous service 
television does to inform and link the people.
  And Lee Giles, retiring next month as News Director of WISH TV, 
Channel 8, in Indianapolis and central Indiana, after forty years at 
the station, has witnessed history's march, at home in our city and the 
world around. 1963, his first year of service in Indianapolis, was 
marked by the loss of John F. Kennedy. Then came the war in Vietnam. 
1968, the year he became news director at WISH, we lost Dr. Martin 
Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy, too. Other tragedies and other wars, 
intermixed with events of excitement and celebration, followed in full 
flow.
  Many have been the events--happy and sad--that he witnessed and 
helped to distill and project to our community during this full career. 
And, throughout those years his work has been underscored by extra 
service to the profession: on the Society of Professional Journalists/
Jane Pauley Task Force on Mass Communication Education and the 
faculties of Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis and 
Butler University. At the same time, his life has been punctuated by 
professional honor: induction into The Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame 
and receipt of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation's 
First Amendment Service Award.
  Mr. Speaker, it is ever vital that we recognize, celebrate and honor 
those whose accomplishments are an inspiration to all. Lee Giles' long 
and steadfast service to broadcasting, to the vital news center of that 
art and to his community, has been a life of true professional 
distinction. Let us render Lee Giles a special salute on the occasion 
of his retirement.

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