[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 154 (Thursday, October 31, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S7690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONGRATULATING CARL FRITTER
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I wish to take a minute to congratulate a
man who has been part of the Senate for a long time. With more than
four decades of service to the Federal Government and some 32 years
here in the Senate, a man by the name of Carl Fritter will retire
today. He began his career at the Government Printing Office and gave
44 years of service to the Federal Government. He is respected by his
colleagues in the Secretary's Office and admired throughout the Senate
community for his craftsmanship. Carl learned the art of bookbinding as
an apprentice in the Government Printing Office. He received special
training in bookbinding from experts across the globe.
In 1977, Carl was detailed to the Senate Library, where he eventually
became Director of the Office of Conservation and Preservation. My son,
during one of the summers, worked in that office, and that was a great
experience. There he got to know Carl.
In addition to binding and repairing books, he has built many
beautiful boxes and other things. He is a modern-day artisan. It is
amazing the things he has built and can build. He has built, for
example, boxes to contain gavels, books, and other works of art. Later
today when we swear in the new junior Senator from New Jersey, the oath
book Vice President Biden will use to swear in Senator-elect Booker was
made by Carl Fritter.
I wish him the very best in his retirement. He is going to go to Key
West, FL, where he wants to spend more time there with his wife Bunny
and his children and grandchildren. I thank Carl for his decades of
dedicated service to this institution and the Federal Government, and
congratulate him on a career of success building and preserving
artifacts here in the U.S. Capitol.
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