[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 104 (Friday, June 17, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HONORING THE LIFE OF MARK W. HEMENWAY

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                          HON. JERRY McNERNEY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 17, 2022

  Mr. McNERNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and work 
of Mark W. Hemenway, who passed away on May 8, 2022.
  Mark graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, 
New York in 1973. He was intensely focused on his studies and training, 
while also maintaining perspective and serving as a steady, positive 
influence on his classmates. He worked his way through a challenging 
system with confidence and calmness, never losing sight of his 
priorities. His commitment to academic excellence was apparent to all, 
and he graduated 61st in a class of over 950 cadets.
  Mark received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers upon his graduation and spent seven years as an 
active-duty service member. After leaving the Army in 1980, Mark worked 
for a large manufacturing company before joining a consulting firm 
outside Boston, Massachusetts, conducting logistics, manpower, and 
training analysis for the U.S. Department of Defense.
  Later in life, Mark felt called to enter Seminary and obtain a Master 
of Divinity degree. He and his wife, Kate, met as volunteers while 
doing street ministry in Boston Common, and in subsequent decades, Mark 
worked as a volunteer with those most in need at state prisons, county 
correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and other institutions in 
the Lowell, Massachusetts area. His contributions will long be 
remembered by his brothers and sisters at the Salvation Army Lowell 
Corps Community Center, and by the many people he served throughout the 
community.
  Mark's legacy is best encapsulated by a passage from the United 
States Military Academy Alma Mater, which reads: ``And when our work is 
done, our course on earth is run, may it be said, 'well done.' Be thou 
at peace.''

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