[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 153 (Wednesday, October 10, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2102-E2103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    ROFEH INTERNATIONAL--NEW ENGLAND CHASSIDIC CENTER ANNUAL DINNER

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 10, 2007

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, for many years I have had 
the honor of sharing with our colleagues information about a very 
important event not just in greater Boston, but from a national 
perspective. It is the annual dinner of ROFEH International--New 
England Chassidic Center. Under the leadership of Grand Rabbi Levi Y. 
Horowitz of the New England Chassidic Center, ROFEH International does 
extraordinarily important work in the medical field. Rabbi Horowitz is 
himself a distinguished authority on medical ethics, and plays an 
important role in helping medical professionals in Boston deal with the 
ethical issues that modern science encounters. Project ROFEH also plays 
a very important role in helping provide access to the medical care 
that is available in Boston to people around the world.
  Annually, under the leadership of Rabbi Horowitz, these organizations 
have a dinner in which leading citizens who have contributed to the 
work that they do are honored. Without exception they are men and women 
of great distinction and generosity. This year the awardees are Dr. 
Kenneth C. Anderson, who receives the ROFEH International Distinguished 
Service Award, and Keevin Geller, who receives the Man of the Year 
Award.
  Madam Speaker, I was pleased to receive biographies of these two 
distinguished leaders and I ask that they be printed here along with my 
congratulations to the people who do the important work of ROFEH 
International and the New England Chassidic Center, under Rabbi 
Horowitz's leadership.

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  Kenneth C. Anderson, MD ``ROFEH International Distinguished Service 
                                Award''

       Dr. Anderson graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School, 
     trained in internal medicine at John's Hopkins Hospital, and 
     completed hematology, medical oncology, and tumor immunology 
     training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is the Kraft 
     Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and 
     serves as Chief of the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, 
     Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and 
     Vice Chair of the Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine at 
     Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
       He serves as chair of the NCCN Multiple Myeloma Clinical 
     Practice Guidelines Committee; as a Cancer and Leukemia Group 
     B Principal Investigator; on the Board of Scientific Advisors 
     of the International Myeloma Foundation; on the Board of 
     Directors and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the 
     Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; as well as on the Board 
     of Directors and Chair of the Leadership Committee of the 
     Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. He is a Doris Duke 
     Distinguished Clinical Research Scientist and has had long 
     term RO-1, PO-I, and SPORE NIH funding.
       His numerous awards including the 2001 Charles C. Lund 
     Award of the American Red Cross Blood Services, the 2003 
     Waldenstrom's award for research in plasma cell dyscrasias, 
     the 2004 Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving Award for Setting 
     New Directions in Science and Technology, the 2005 Third 
     Annual International Myeloma Foundation Robert A. Kyle 
     Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2007 Joseph A. Burchenal 
     Award for Clinical Research from the American Association for 
     Cancer Research. His paradigm for identifying and validating 
     targets in the myeloma cell and its bone marrow milieu has 
     already provided novel therapies, and offers great promise to 
     improve patient outcome in hematologic malignancies and solid 
     tumors as well.

Keevin Geller, ROFEH International New England Chassidic Center Man of 
                             the Year Award

       Keevin Geller, has been proud to call the Bostoner Rebbe, 
     his friend for over thirty years. Mr. Geller is the owner of 
     Barney and Carey Lumber Company since 1978.
       In addition to his lumber business, Keevin is a real estate 
     developer and owner. He was one of the first property owners 
     to convert a Back Bay townhouse into condominiums, and went 
     on to complete over twenty-five such projects there and on 
     Beacon Hill. He built and restored many homes in Milton, also 
     creating that town's first condominium complex in the 
     buildings of a former estate. A serious conservationist, he 
     has specialized in the redevelopment of existing structures, 
     while protecting the surrounding land. He was honored with 
     the Commonwealth Award for land preservation.
       Keevin was one of the founding members of the Simon 
     Wiesenthal Center. He is a thirty-year member of the Hundred 
     Club, and a life member of many conservation organizations. 
     He is a graduate of Boston University, with a major in Latin. 
     His wife, Cynthia, also a BU alumna, is the granddaughter of 
     the late Max Oransky, one of the Rebbe's father's Chassidim. 
     Cynthia and Keeven reside in Sharon, Massachusetts, where he 
     serves on various town committees.

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