[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 102 (Friday, July 28, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1581-E1582]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF CARL POHLHAMMER

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 28, 2006

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to praise the work of Carl 
Pohlhammer, one of the pillars of my California Central Coast district. 
Carl is one of those Americans who embodies the meaning of the word 
citizenship; who works from humble circumstances to strengthen the 
quality of our democracy. I am privileged to be able to call Carl a 
friend.
  Carl and I both share a common point of personal history having 
mothers who both chose the San Francisco Bay Area as our port of entry 
into the world. And while my parents had the good sense to move our 
family to the Monterey Peninsula in the late 1940s, Carl left it to the 
U.S. Navy to decide.
  In 1963, Carl arrived at the Naval Postgraduate School as a Navy 
Lieutenant and Assistant Professor where he taught political science. 
That same year, Carl also began teaching political science down the 
road at Monterey Peninsula College, the Monterey Peninsula's community 
college. Carl eventually left the Navy, but has continued to teach to 
this day, despite his nominal retirement in 1995.
  Prior to arriving in Monterey, Carl graduated cum laude from San Jose 
State University followed by the University of California at Berkeley. 
He married Anita Arellano, his college sweetheart, in 1954, and then 
spent a year in France, courtesy of the U.S. Army.
  Since arriving on the Monterey Peninsula, Carl has been active in 
numerous community campaigns and organizations. Perhaps his most 
infamous effort was to chair the 1968 `bourbon renewal' campaign to 
convince his adopted hometown of Pacific Grove to allow the sale of 
alcoholic beverages. Always active Democrats, Carl and Anita attended 
both of the Clinton inaugurals. Anita was a delegate to the 1984 
Democratic Convention in San Francisco. Carl has been a member of the 
Monterey County Democratic Central Committee since 1996, and was Chair 
from 2001 to just this year.
  Mr. Speaker, every member of the House knows from their own district 
the crucially important role that civically involved volunteers play in 
the life of their own communities. Our

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democracy depends on them. Carl is one of those people who deserve the 
Nation's gratitude for his public service as a community activist.

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