[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 144 (Thursday, September 11, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RECOGNIZING MR. NORMAN L. MEBANE, JR.

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                         HON. G.K. BUTTERFIELD

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 11, 2008

  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Madam Speaker, Mr. Norman L. Mebane Jr., was born in 
Merry Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from high school in Bertie 
County before earning an associate's degree from Pitt Community 
College. After 2 years of honorable service in the U.S. Army, Mr. 
Mebane returned home and worked at the Newport News Shipbuilding and 
Dry Dock Company.
  He attended Thomas Nelson Community College, and then earned a 
bachelor of science degree from St. Augustine's College where he was 
also inducted into Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society and received special 
recognition as a Presidential Scholar.
  Mr. Mebane then worked as a crop and livestock farmer before moving 
on to the trucking business. He founded N.L. Mebane Trucking Company, 
Inc. and later founded Mebane Rural Initiative Institute, Inc. and 
Mebane Investment Properties LLC. His entrepreneurial successes were 
recognized by North Carolina Department of Transportation with the 
Minority Business Enterprise Award of the Year.
  Mr. Mebane currently serves on the RBC Centura Bank Region II 
Advisory Board and the Economic Development Council, and he previously 
served as part of the Historical Hope Foundation, Transportation 
Development Council, North Carolina Governor's Conference on Small 
Business and the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Minority 
Business Expansion Council. Mr. Mebane also serves as a board trustee 
for Elizabeth City State University and Martin County Community 
College.
  It is certainly fitting that Elizabeth City State University would 
honor Mr. Mebane because he fully understands the importance of 
community involvement and he truly dedicates himself to serving others. 
He is an outstanding member of our community who deserves our highest 
thanks and praise.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring this great North 
Carolinian and American, Mr. Norman L. Mebane, Jr.

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