[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 76 (Thursday, June 9, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   RECOGNIZING PROFESSOR STEFAN KAPSCH'S RETIREMENT FROM REED COLLEGE

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                          HON. DARLENE HOOLEY

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 9, 2005

  Ms. HOOLEY. Mr. Speaker, this month, Stefan Kapsch will retire as a 
professor of political science at Reed College. Professor Kapsch came 
to Reed from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. For thirty years, 
he has inspired Reed students with his passion for American politics, 
empirical methodology, and constitutional law.
  Professor Kapsch's career is distinguished by an impressive record of 
civic engagement. For him, public policy analysis is not just an 
abstract subject for classroom discussion; it is a very real and 
ongoing pursuit. Professor Kapsch has been research director of the 
Oregon Commission on the Judicial Branch, executive director of the 
Oregon Prison Overcrowding Project and research partner in the SACSI 
Initiative of the National Institute of Justice, a project on youth gun 
violence in Portland. By his example, Professor Kapsch has taught 
generations of students that independent academic analysis is a 
necessary component of good policymaking.
  Professor Kapsch has taken a special interest in the former 
Yugoslavia--and Slovenia in particular--where he was a Fulbright Fellow 
to the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in 1994-95. 
He has served as a voter registration supervisor for the Organization 
for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is charged with the 
conduct of elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina under the Dayton Accords. In 
2002, Professor Kapsch was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Amerika 
Institut of Ludvig Maxmillians University in Munich.
  Professor Kapsch will be remembered for his ability to bring even the 
most technical subjects to life through classroom discussions and 
seminars. He has earned a reputation among Reed students as the 
faculty's best storyteller, with an anecdote to illustrate every new 
principle introduced in class.
  In his three decades at Reed, Professor Kapsch was a mentor, a 
confidant, and a friend to countless students and he will certainly be 
missed. But his retirement marks the start of a fresh chapter in his 
life, as he will spend more time brewing homemade beer, relaxing at the 
Oregon coast, restoring his 1952 Ford Pickup, and enjoying the company 
of his loving wife Shirley, his children and grandchildren.

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