[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 5 (Thursday, January 10, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                        REMEMBERING DICK BARCLAY

 Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, today I wish to remember and pay 
tribute to Dick Barclay. Dick was a friend and civic leader from 
Rogers, AR, who passed away from complications due to Alzheimer's last 
week at the age of 81.
  Born in Oberlin, KS, Dick attended Kansas State University before his 
honeymoon brought him to Arkansas. Dick and Jan eventually moved to 
Rogers where Dick, along with his brother Charles, opened a successful 
public accounting firm that served the area for decades. When I first 
moved to Rogers in the 1970s, naturally, Dick was one of the first 
people I met and someone I quickly grew to lean on and turn to for his 
consistently sound advice.
  In addition to his successful career as a trusted accountant in 
northwest Arkansas, Dick put his belief in community service into 
practice throughout his entire life. He served in the Arkansas House of 
Representatives from 1976 until 1992. In 1996, he joined Governor Mike 
Huckabee's administration, where he put his financial expertise to use 
as executive director of budget, legislative affairs, and policy. He 
went on to become Arkansas's chief fiscal officer and directed the 
Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration in 1999.
  Dick didn't believe that holding public office alone was where his 
call to service ended, though. He was active among many different 
groups and organizations that worked to improve life in Rogers and in 
greater northwest Arkansas. A few such roles included serving on the 
board of the Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation, as 
president and board member of the Rogers Little Theater, chairman of 
the Rogers-Lowell Chamber of Commerce, commissioner of the Arkansas 
Economic Development Commission, member and president of the Northwest 
Arkansas Council, and chairman of the Arkansas State Chamber of 
Commerce. He also led the Benton County Republican Party for a time.
  A man of strong faith, Dick was a board chair and elder at First 
Christian Church in Rogers. One of his sons went on to lead services at 
Fellowship Bible Church, and Dick, along with his wife, was proud to 
attend services there to show his support. He has already been 
remembered by others as being a devoted family man and a person of 
principle and integrity with the highest ethics. He was all these 
things and more, including a talented musician who played in a 
bluegrass band with friends and also performed with a barbershop 
quartet.
  As a former colleague described him, Dick Barclay was a 
``quintessential public servant.'' He had a tremendous impact across 
northwest Arkansas. His example of leadership and dedication are truly 
worthy of emulation by anyone who wishes to do the important work 
required to better their own town, community, and entire state.
  I greatly admired and respected Dick and will feel his loss keenly, 
as will so many others in Rogers and throughout Benton County and 
northwest Arkansas. My thoughts and prayers are with Jan and the entire 
Barclay family at this difficult time. Dick's legacy of service, his 
ever-present positivity, and the difference he made in countless lives 
will be remembered for years to come.

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