[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 132 (Tuesday, October 18, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S11474]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          TRIBUTE TO IOWA'S 2005 ``PRIME TIME AWARDS'' WINNERS

 Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, Experience Works is a national 
nonprofit organization dedicated to helping seniors get the training 
and assistance they need to find good jobs in their communities. Each 
year, Experience Works uses its Prime Time Awards program to recognize 
exemplary older workers. This year, two Iowans have been honored. 
Dwight Hauff of Sioux City, who is 100 years old, has been selected for 
a national award as America's Oldest Worker. And Milt Roth of Waterloo, 
who is 87, has been selected as Iowa's Outstanding Older Worker.
  Mr. Hauff is the owner of a chain of sporting goods stores that 
includes Hauff Mid-America Sports, Dakota Sports, Inc., and the Iowa 
Sports Supply Company. He opened his first sporting goods store in 
Sioux City in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. For 73 years, 
Mr. Hauff has supplied schools, athletic leagues, and businesses with 
quality sports equipment and apparel. In the 1960s, Dwight served as 
president of the National Sporting Goods Association. He is a past 
president of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic 
Equipment, and is a current member of the Iowa High School Girls and 
Boys Athletic Association. At age 100, Mr. Hauff is still going strong. 
He spends 6 days a week at his sporting goods store in downtown Sioux 
City, where he is a much respected and beloved member of the community.
  Mr. Roth is the owner and operator of Roth Jewelers, which his father 
founded in 1931, and which is now the second oldest retail business in 
downtown Waterloo. During the Second World War, Mr. Roth served in the 
U.S. Army and was initially assigned to the Armored Cavalry Unit at 
Fort Riley, KS. He attended Officers Candidate School, was commissioned 
as a lieutenant, and served with an ordnance unit in the European 
Theater. After the war he returned to Waterloo, and took over ownership 
of Roth Jewelers from his father. These days, well into his ninth 
decade, Mr. Roth still regularly puts in 40 or more hours a week at his 
store. He remains very much engaged in his community, where he has 
served on the Allen Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, and has been 
an active member of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis 
Club. He has been a generous supporter of scholarships, local colleges, 
and the performing arts.
  Someone once said that we make a living by what we get, but we make a 
life by what we give. Dwight Hauff and Milt Roth have been blessed with 
work that they love, and, in return, they have given so much to their 
communities. I congratulate them on their richly deserved honors from 
Experience Works. And I wish them many more years of continued 
service.

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