[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 14, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO MR. L. ROBERT KIMBALL

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 14, 2008

  Mr. MURTHA. Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity on 
the occasion of the 55th anniversary of L. Robert Kimball & Associates 
to recognize the service and work of L. Robert Kimball, founder and 
chairman of the board. As a military veteran and respected businessman, 
Mr. Kimball is the epitome of the American entrepreneur. His original 
two- person civil engineering company, founded in 1953, has grown to a 
full-service architecture, engineering, technology, and consulting firm 
of over 600 staff serving a wide variety of clients, including the 
Federal Government.
  Mr. Kimball served as a U.S. Army Air Corps Captain in World War II 
and as a Major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Korean 
conflict. Among his World War II military decorations are the 
Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, 
and the French Croix de Guerre. He is also a recipient of the Chapel of 
the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award.
  Following his military service, Mr. Kimball returned to his hometown 
of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, and established the company known as ``L. 
Robert Kimball, Civil Engineer.'' In the 1960s, the firm began 
providing service to branches of the United States military. Today, 
Kimball provides professional services to, among others, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of 
Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States 
Army Corps of Engineers. Those services include cutting-edge building, 
innovative modeling, laser terrain scanning, and telecommunication 
system modernization.
  The firm's reputation for consistent delivery of high-caliber 
services is a direct result of the discipline and integrity that L. 
Robert Kimball instilled throughout the company. The example he sets of 
leadership and teamwork can be traced back to his military service to 
the United States of America as a lead navigator for the 100th Bomb 
Group, where he set the flight course. It was a matter of life and 
death to make the right decisions and to work as a team to look out for 
the others in the squadron. Those principles apply to the course he 
sets for staff. He encourages every employee to be a good professional 
and a good citizen.
  With that, Madam Speaker, I recognize and congratulate Mr. L. Robert 
Kimball.

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