[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 100 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1246-E1247]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          CONGRATULATIONS PROFESSOR JEFFERSON DAVIS FUTCH, III

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 17, 2008

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, for 46 years, Dr. 
Jefferson Davis Futch, - III has been a member of the faculty at 
Washington and Lee University, my alma mater, in Lexington, Virginia. 
At the end of this school year, Professor Futch retired from his post. 
While he may no longer be teaching, his legacy of scholarship and 
dedication to the W&L community will never be forgotten.
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1932, J.D, Futch earned an Associate 
Bachelors degree in humanities and a Ph.D. in history from Johns 
Hopkins University. He spent three years in the United States Army from 
1957 to 1960, and joined the Washington and Lee faculty in September of 
1962.
  Throughout his life and career, Dr. Futch has been honored as a 
member in Phi Beta Kappa and as a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson 
Fellowship from 1955-1956. He contributed to articles in the widely 
respected magazine National Review from 1958-1976. And, in 1987, he was 
recipient of the W.W. Pusey Award which recognizes outstanding and 
dedicated service to Washington and Lee University.

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  Dr. Futch specializes in the history of the papacy, Renaissance and 
modem European history.
  From the many lives he has touched to the University he helped grow 
and strengthen throughout his tenure at Washington and Lee, Dr. Futch 
is an icon in the Washington and Lee community and someone who will be 
missed by students, faculty, and friends alike. No professor had a more 
profound impact on my love of history and interest in public service 
than Dr. Futch. I will always be deeply grateful for his guidance in my 
life. I know I speak on behalf of the alumni who have had the honor to 
know and learn from Dr. Futch when I say that we wish him many years of 
happy retirement.

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