[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 33 (Thursday, March 7, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF DR. LEWIS DRUFFNER, THE JOSEPH SAPORITO LIFETIME OF 
                          SERVICE AWARD WINNER

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                          HON. MATT CARTWRIGHT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 7, 2013

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize Dr. Lewis Druffner 
and congratulate him on earning the Joseph Saporito Lifetime of Service 
Award Winner.
  For his volunteer work and for decades of work as a legendary family 
physician in Avoca, Dr. Lewis Druffner is the Sunday Dispatch Joseph A. 
Saporito Lifetime of Service Award selection for 2012.
  Dr. Druffner grew up in Avoca, graduated from Scranton Prep in 1951, 
The University of Scranton in 1955 and Jefferson Medical College in 
Philadelphia. He was the primary physician for three ships while 
serving with the U.S. Navy.
  After his Navy hitch, he took over his father's family medical 
practice in Avoca, where Druffner is a legendry name in family medicine 
as Dr. Lewis Druffner and his father birthed generations of families in 
Avoca and surrounding towns. In a way, Dr. Druffner is different than 
past Saporito recipients in that he is being honored not just for 
volunteer work, but for his career as a family doctor which was, like 
his father's, as much about service to the community as it was work.
  Dr. Druffner recently signed on to become a volunteer at the Care and 
Concern Health Clinic where he continues his lifetime work of helping 
patients as they recover from various ailments.
  Dr. Druffner and his wife, Catherine, have six children: Elizabeth, 
of Avoca; Kathleen and Carl, both of Harrisburg; Michael, of Dayton, 
Ohio; Tommy, of Michigan; and Edward, of Downingtown. They also have 
five grandchildren.

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