[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 195 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2618]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PAUL E. GILLMOR POST OFFICE BUILDING

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                               speech of

                          HON. DAVID L. HOBSON

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, December 17, 2007

  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a dear friend 
and former colleague, Congressman Paul Gillmor, by supporting the 
designation of the U.S. Postal Service Office located at 175 South 
Monroe Street in Tiffin, Ohio, as the ``Paul E. Gillmor Post Office 
Building''.
  While we all miss our friend, this designation will serve to honor 
him for his distinguished career in public service in both the U.S. 
House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate, and for living his life 
as a true gentleman.
  The reference to being a ``true gentleman'' is something that will 
have a special meaning to members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
fraternity, and it's something that I would like to enter into the 
Congressional Record as a tribute to Paul Gillmor.
  Paul and I were both members of the SAE's during our time at Ohio 
Wesleyan University, and our fraternity has a motto that describes what 
it takes to be a true gentleman. I think this passage by John Walter 
Wayland describes Paul Gillmor and how he lived his life. It reads as 
follows:
  ``The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will 
and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all 
emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, 
the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or 
deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble 
another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of 
his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but 
always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who 
thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and 
who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and 
virtue safe.''
  Mr. Speaker, I think that my colleagues would agree that Paul Gillmor 
lived the life of a true gentleman as a father, a husband, a friend and 
a public servant.
  With that said, I appreciate today's effort to move this well-
deserved legislation forward, and I urge everyone to honor and remember 
our friend and colleague, Paul Gillmor.

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