[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 30, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H7332-H7333]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO NICK DONOFRIO

  (Mr. WELCH of Vermont asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Madam Speaker, it is my great pleasure to pay 
tribute to Mr. Nick Donofrio who is retiring after 40 years of serving 
the IBM Corporation.
  Nick has led many of IBM's major development and manufacturing teams, 
semiconductor and storage technologies, microprocessors, and personal 
computer servers. He's led the semiconductor development and 
manufacturing facility in Burlington, where he and his wife, Anita, 
raised two children, Nicole and Michael.
  Throughout his career, Nick has focused sharply on advancing 
education, employment, and career opportunities for underrepresented 
minorities and women.
  He served on boards in Vermont. He's received national awards, well-
deserved, for his leadership. The National Education and Leadership 
Award from the Sons of Italy Foundation; the Mensforth International 
Gold Medal; Industry Week magazine's Technology Leader of the Year; the 
University of

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Arizona's Technical Executive of the Year; and the Rodney D. Chipp 
Memorial Award by the Society of Women Engineers for his outstanding 
contributions to the advancement of women in the engineering field. In 
2005, Nick was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences.
  Please join me in congratulating him on the beginning of his new 
career.

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