[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 75 (Thursday, May 12, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        TRIBUTE HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MR. HENRY WILSON

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 12, 2016

  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I met and got to know 
Henry Wilson in January of 1969 when I took a job as the Executive 
Director of Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission where Mr. Henry 
Wilson was a member of the Board of Directors.
  Henry worked for Western Electric at its Hawthorne Plant; which at 
its height, employed 45,000 people in its operations. Henry came off 
the assembly line and ultimately became the Director of Community 
Relations. Western Electric was incorporated in New York in 1915 and 
became the telephone monopoly until 1984 when it split and became AT&T 
Technologies. Henry as a pioneer in corporate community relations used 
his position at Western Electric to assist local community charitable, 
not-for-profit and faith institutions in fund-raising, planning and 
program development activities.
  Mr. Wilson was a great advocate for education and youth programs such 
as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and YMCA activities.
  He loved Chicago, he loved the Englewood community where he lived and 
especially the North Lawndale Community where much of his work was 
centered.

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