[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 130 (Friday, August 1, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8025-S8026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                    90TH BIRTHDAY OF MAURY ALBERTSON

 Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, today I honor Colorado State 
University professor Maury Albertson in recognition of his 90th 
birthday on August 30, 2008.
  Dr. Albertson has distinguished himself in countless ways throughout 
his extensive and renowned career. He has been a devout champion of 
civic responsibility, a selfless servant to others, and a man who has 
changed lives worldwide through his compassion and understanding of 
other peoples and cultures.
  As a young professor in 1960, Dr. Albertson and his team of scholars 
and students won a contract to study the option and assess the 
likelihood of creating an International Youth Corps, which laid the 
groundwork for the creation of the Peace Corps. He later went on to 
coauthor ``New Frontiers for American Youth'' that put forth the basic 
design for the Peace Corps.
  Throughout his many years as a consultant for the World Bank, the 
United Nations Development Program, the Agency for International 
Development, and others, Dr. Albertson organized and advanced 
innovative projects involving sanitation, water resource development, 
village development, small industry development, and research and 
education.
  A true believer in the philosophy of local empowerment, Dr. Albertson 
founded and currently serves as president of Village Earth, an 
international organization that has trained villages and NGOs in 15 
countries in the methods of sustainable village development. 
Remarkably, in 1993, Dr. Albertson

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convened an international conference on sustainable village 
development, attended by over 350 people from 34 countries. It was an 
extraordinary success.
  In May, 2006, Colorado State University awarded Dr. Albertson an 
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition of his exceptional 
contributions to industry and developing nations. This was a well-
deserved honorary degree for Dr. Albertson.
  Mr. President, I am proud the Senate has recognized the many 
accomplishments of Dr. Maury Albertson, a distinguished professor and 
true humanitarian.

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