[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 114 (Tuesday, September 13, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1827-E1828]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CELEBRATING JOHN D. LEE

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                        HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR.

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 13, 2005

  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, on September 15, John D. Lee, the President 
of the Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley, will be honored for 
35 years of service. He is only the second President in the 
organization's 60-year history.
  John went to work for the Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley 
as a Facility Director on September 16, 1970. He was later promoted to 
Assistant Executive Director and then to President and CEO.

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  The Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley has experienced amazing 
growth under his leadership. When John became President 26 years ago, 
it was operating only two Boys Clubs. Since then, he has led the 
organization through a merger with the Girls Club in 1990 and has 
overseen an expansion that now provides care and supervises activities 
for 7,845 members annually in 19 Club facilities in five East Tennessee 
counties (Knox, Blount, Scott, Loudon, and Fentress). The Boys & Girls 
Club of the Tennessee Valley employees a staff of 275 people and 
provides over 460,000 hot meals annually.
  John's excellent leadership and service has not gone unnoticed 
either. In 1985, he received the Robert M. Sykes Award for Professional 
Excellence. In 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice presented him with 
the Directors Community Leadership Award.
  The parent organization of the Boys & Girls Club is also very 
appreciative of John's work. On May 23, 2000, he received the Boys & 
Girls Clubs of America Service to Youth Award and Service Bar for 30 
years of service to the Boys & Girls Club Movement, and in 2002, he 
received the Boys & Girls Clubs of America National Professional 
Service Award for Service to the National Movement.
  John was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and is a graduate of 
Samford University. He has been a fine husband to his wife, Phyllis, 
and a great father to his three children, Amanda, Maria and Phillip.
  The Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley is a leader in youth 
development and has touched the lives of countless young people 
throughout John's tenure. I have come to know John Lee well over the 
years, and I can assure you that he is a fine human being who has made 
East Tennessee a much better place to live.
  Mr. Speaker, this great Nation owes a debt of gratitude to John D. 
Lee for his outstanding service as President of the Boys & Girls Club 
of the Tennessee Valley.

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