[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 144 (Thursday, September 11, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING THE 95TH BIRTHDAY OF ROBERT SIDNEY CLOTFELTER

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                           HON. PHIL GINGREY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 11, 2008

  Mr. GINGREY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Robert Sidney 
Clotfelter, who is celebrating his 95th birthday this week. Sidney 
Clotfelter is a life-long Georgian who has spent the majority of his 95 
years enriching lives of citizens in the heart of my district--
Marietta, Georgia. Born in Fulton County, Georgia on September 14, 
1913, Sidney was one of five children to Charles Thomas and Era 
Northcutt Clotfelter.
  Growing up in Marietta during the Great Depression, Sidney sold 
vegetables from the back of a Model T Ford to help make ends meet for 
his family.
  Sidney attended Marietta High School and graduated in 1932, where he 
was voted Best All-Around Senior. After high school, he attended a 
local business college, and then studied two years at Georgia Tech. 
During World War II, he served his country as an officer in the Army 
with the Corps of Engineers.
  Sidney has been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church 
since 1928, where he has served as Deacon and has been on the Property 
Committee for twenty years.
  He has owned and operated a number of businesses, including a 
contracting company for commercial and industrial construction. He 
built schools, churches and various commercial buildings around 
Marietta, and did construction work for Southern Bell and AT&T in every 
state in the Southeast. For several years he worked for Lockheed Martin 
in maintenance and construction.
  In 1992, he was honored with the Marietta High School Distinguished 
Alumni Award. Sidney Clotfelter has been a member of the Marietta 
Rotary Club since 1946 and served as the Club's president from 1962 to 
1963.
  Sidney Clotfelter has contributed much to the communities of 
Marietta, Cobb County, and the entire state of Georgia during his 95 
years. His donations of time, work and money to a wide variety of 
organizations and causes have been substantial, continual and 
selfless--often giving anonymously. He is a dedicated family man who is 
blessed to have all four of his children living near him on the 
property where he was raised. Sidney has spent thirty-two wonderful 
years married to Barbara Porter Clotfelter and, along with his four 
children, has eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in wishing Robert 
Sidney Clotfelter a happy and healthy 95th birthday and thanking him 
for a lifetime of service to his community.

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