[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4453-S4454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                         TRIBUTE TO TROY GUGEL

 Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, I congratulate Troy Gugel, who is 
retiring after a remarkable, 40-year career with Micron. Troy's ideas, 
talents, and experience have contributed to the success of this 
pioneering Idaho company and shaped the memory and storage technology 
sector.
  Troy, who started with Micron on February 4, 1985, after graduating 
with a degree in electronics, was part of its transition from a local 
Boise corporation to an international, premier semi-conductor producer. 
He started as an equipment repair technician working his way through a 
series of promotions before going back to school part-time to earn 
another degree in business management as he moved into more project 
management roles in research and development. He is concluding his

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career as a principal engineer specializing in TPG IE Modeling.
  As the company and Troy progressed, he worked under five Micron chief 
executive officers, starting with Joe Parkinson and ending with Sanjay 
Mehrotra. Interestingly, Troy went skydiving with Steve Appleton twice 
when Steve was developing an interest in flying and skydiving. Troy's 
career spanned the downturns as well as the years of company growth 
where economic forecasts exceeded expectations. He has been a member of 
the workforce that has seen the company grow from a computer memory and 
data storage producer to rise as a leader for producing the enhanced 
memory solutions for AI-driven technologies changing our world, homes, 
and lives today.
  Throughout his career, Troy has handled important technical tasks, 
bettered himself through his continuing education, and directly 
contributed that added knowledge to his field. He also personally 
contributes to Idaho's leadership in innovation and our State's 
consistently high ranking in patents held per capita. Troy has a 
remarkable five U.S. patents related to photolithographic metrology 
method; unique photolithographic processing technique; immersion 
photolithographic defect reduction and novel process techniques.
  I thank Troy for his enormous contributions of his time and ideas to 
discovery and development for Idaho and our country. I should also 
mention that Troy's wife Margaret Ballard is a long-time and greatly 
valued member of my staff. Realizing that staff service to our 
constituencies often carries over to family time over the years, I know 
Margaret joins me in thanking Troy for his steady support. 
Congratulations, Troy, on an outstanding career of contributions to an 
essential field of innovation. I wish Troy the best as he embarks on 
his retirement.

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