[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 28, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E220]
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            IN MEMORY OF DR. PHILLIP O'BRYAN MONTGOMERY, JR.

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 28, 2006

  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give tribute to Dr. Phillip 
O'Bryan Montgomery, Jr. from Dallas, Texas in the 26th Congressional 
District of Texas, for his lifelong contributions to his community and 
to medicine. Dr. Montgomery passed away on Saturday, December 17, 2005.
  I would like to recognize and celebrate Dr. Montgomery's life today. 
Dr. Montgomery graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BS 
in engineering in 1942 before attending medical school at Columbia 
University in 1945. Upon completing his internship at the Mary Imogene 
Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY, Dr. Montgomery became a Captain in 
the Army Medical Corps.
  When Dr. Montgomery returned to Dallas, he became a tenured professor 
of pathology in 1961 at UT Southwestern Medical School. From 1962-1963, 
he was President of the Dallas County Hospital District Medical Staff. 
In addition, Dr. Montgomery was the Executive Director of the Cancer 
Center and ultimately named the Ashbel Smith Professor of Pathology in 
1991. During his time as Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the 
University of Texas, he was responsible for planning the campuses of UT 
Dallas, University of Houston Medical School, University of Texas 
Medical Branch at Galveston, and the expansion of UT Southwestern 
Medical School Campus.
  Dr. Montgomery had published over 100 scholarly papers in the course 
of his prolific career. One of these published papers of his evolved 
out of an experiment on NASA's Skylab in which he himself was the 
principal investigator of living cells in zero gravity. Dr. Montgomery 
was an avid traveler who had a very devout love of nature. His magnetic 
and vivacious personality has allowed him to be sorely missed by 
friends and family.
  I respected him as a fellow doctor and was honored to represent him 
here in Congress. I extend my sympathies to his family and friends.

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