[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 130 (Friday, August 1, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1700-E1701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO STAN SMOYER

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                           HON. RUSH D. HOLT

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, August 1, 2008

  Mr. HOLT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Stanley C. Smoyer 
for his years of extraordinary leadership in the family planning 
movement in the United States, his devoted service to Planned 
Parenthood Association of the Mercer Area in New Jersey, and for his 
extraordinary generosity to his community.
  For over 50 years, Stan Smoyer has been a champion of women's 
reproductive rights. As former assistant general counsel for Johnson & 
Johnson, he was involved in reproductive rights litigation in the 
1960s. Of particular note was his involvement in Griswold v 
Connecticut, the 1965 landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the 
United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy 
and that access to contraception could not be prohibited. In 1995, he 
and his late wife, Barbara, were awarded Planned Parenthood's highest 
honor, the Sanger Circle Award, in recognition of their outstanding 
service and loyalty to Planned Parenthood and to the cause of 
reproductive rights.
  As a board member of Planned Parenthood I am particularly grateful to 
him for his years of participation. As Vice Chairman for Principal 
Gifts of Planned Parenthood's 1991 capital campaign, Stan Smoyer 
demonstrated his commitment to the issues by helping the agency raise 
millions of dollars. In 2006, Stan Smoyer was recruited once again to 
help Planned Parenthood, this time as Honorary Co-Chair of Stand with 
Us: The Campaign for Responsible Choices. Thanks to his generosity, the 
capital campaign is well on its way to reaching its goal.
  Stan Smoyer has also been a benefactor of both Phillips Academy in 
Andover, Massachusetts and Dartmouth University in New Hampshire. His 
most recent gift to Phillips Academy renovated and improved the soccer 
field, where his sons used to play. The field, now known as Smoyer 
Family Field, is named in honor of Mr. Smoyer's sons, David, class of 
'59 and William, class of '63, who was killed in Vietnam in 1968.
  A 1934 graduate of Dartmouth, Stan Smoyer has made a commitment to 
his alma mater for a new intercollegiate soccer facility. He has also 
been a donor to the school's History Department programs and to other 
scholarship and athletic endeavors.
  Stanley C. Smoyer's devotion to the causes and initiatives that he 
believes in makes him an outstanding friend, neighbor and community 
benefactor. He is worthy of our admiration and gratitude and continues 
to serve as a

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model for other philanthropists and volunteers who think of others and 
care about where our society is headed.
  It is with pride and pleasure I recognize Stanley C. Smoyer here 
today and ask my colleagues to join me in thanking him for his 
dedicated and generous service to Planned Parenthood, his community of 
Princeton, the schools he has chosen to support, and for teaching us 
all the lesson of giving and caring.

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