[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2683]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO GORDON M. SHERMAN

 Mr. CLELAND. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Gordon 
Sherman, of Dunwoody, Georgia, who after more than four decades of 
dedicated service to the Social Security Administration retired on 
December 31, 1998. He is an outstanding example to his family and 
friends, and has been an asset to the many communities that he has 
touched over the years.
  Gordon has more than 40 years of combined military and civilian 
federal service. He began working for the Social Security 
Administration in 1958 and has served as the Southeast Regional 
Commissioner to the Social Security Administration (SSA) since October 
1975. In this role, he has been responsible for supervision, 
coordination, executive leadership, and effective and efficient 
administration of the Social Security program in the eight southeastern 
states.
  As a career senior governmental executive, he has received many 
awards in honor of his noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding 
leadership over the years. Several of Gordon's most prestigious awards 
are the U.S. Army Legion of Merit medal, two Presidential Meritorious 
Executive Rank Awards, the National Public Service Award from the 
American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) and the National 
Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the coveted Ewell T. Bartlett 
National Award for Humanity in Government, and the national ``Making 
the King Holiday Award'' from the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal 
Holiday Commission for his assistance in making this holiday a reality.
  As a native of Alabama, he graduated from Auburn University with a 
B.S. degree and received J.D. and LL.M degrees, as well as an honorary 
LL.D from Woodrow Wilson College of Law and completed the Senior 
Managers in Government (SMG) program at the John F. Kennedy School of 
Government at Harvard University. Gordon and his wife Miriam are also 
associated with several business, educational, professional, civic, 
service and volunteer organizations in the Dunwoody area.
  Mr. President, I would like to honor and commend Gordon Sherman for 
his outstanding and innumerable contributions over the years to the 
State of Georgia and to our entire Nation, and ask you and my 
colleagues to join me in saluting and congratulating Gordon on his 
retirement. Gordon, you truly are a great American, and I wish you many 
more joyous years in the future.

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