[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 177 (Thursday, November 20, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM D. WAGONER

 Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I welcome this opportunity to 
commend William D. Wagoner of Royal Oak, MI, who last week retired from 
a long and distinguished career in public service. For the past 35 
years, Dr. Wagoner dedicated his career to the public good, working to 
establish innovative and sustainable practices in urban planning, 
emergency management, and teaching the next generation of planners and 
emergency responders. His extraordinary career spanned the entire 
spectrum of government service, from the local level to the Federal 
level.
  Dr. Wagoner began his career in service by teaching history and 
political science at a public high school in Clarkston, MI. He went on 
to earn his master's degree in urban planning and his doctorate in 
public administration.
  For 18 productive years, he served as assistant city manager in 
Berkley, MI, a large suburb of Detroit, and for the past 16 years has 
been director of planning and community development for Livingston 
County, the fastest growing county in Michigan. Dr. Wagoner has written 
several books on urban planning and emergency response, and has served 
for decades as an instructor for the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency.
  President Kennedy asked a generation of Americans to give of 
themselves for our country and for its future. Dr. Wagoner answered 
President Kennedy's call and has inspired countless others, who have 
worked with him or who have been his students, to do the same. I 
congratulate Dr. Wagoner for his remarkable public service, and I wish 
him a long and healthy and happy retirement. He has served America 
well.

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