[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 24, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H8297-H8298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     WELCOMING REVEREND GALEN HAHN

  (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize my friend 
Reverend Galen Hahn, who is serving as guest chaplain for the House of 
Representatives today.
  Reverend Hahn is the pastor of the Evangelical United Church of 
Christ, located in my district in Portsmouth, Ohio. Reverend Galen Hahn 
graduated from Frederick High School in Maryland. As a high school 
student, Reverend Hahn led youth in contributing to the building of the 
President John F. Kennedy Library and served as an usher on the 
Presidential Reviewing Stand of Lyndon B. Johnson. After high school 
Reverend Hahn went on to graduate from Yale Divinity School in 
Connecticut and was ordained a minister in the United Church of Christ.
  Reverend Hahn has pastored throughout the country. He has offered 
ordained Christian service to the Moravian Church and the United 
Methodist Church in North Carolina and started a Montessori preschool 
in Illinois, which continues to this day. He has led scouts in worship 
on the battlefields of Monocacy, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and has held 
a memorial service at the

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grave site of President George Washington.
  Galen's wife Sandy has led worship at Camp David for President and 
Mrs. George Herbert Walker Bush. Today Galen and Sandy are celebrating 
their 36th wedding anniversary as well as their oldest daughter 
Whitney's 30th birthday.
  Reverend Hahn has invested his life's energy in service to God and 
country and the oneness of these two entities.
  Madam Speaker, I ask all my colleagues to join me in welcoming 
Reverend Galen Hahn to the House of Representatives as our guest 
chaplain.

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