[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 29996]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           IN RECOGNITION OF THE REV. DR. GEORGE ELIAS MEETZE

 Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize my good 
friend, the Reverend Dr. George Elias Meetze, who was recently named 
Pastor Emeritus of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Columbia, South 
Carolina.
  Dr. Meetze has been serving the South Carolina community for over 
sixty years. He led the congregation at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church in 
Charleston, SC from 1934 to 1937, at Grace Lutheran Church in 
Prosperity, SC from 1937 to 1942 and at Incarnation Lutheran Church 
from 1942 to 1974. In addition, Dr. George Meetze has been the chaplain 
of the South Carolina Senate for fifty years.
  His honors and affiliations are too numerous to list, but include 
leadership positions within the Lutheran Church and involvement with 
such organizations as the Salvation Army, The American Cancer Society, 
and The Rotary Club, which named him a Paul Harris Fellow in 1979. He 
is, as you would imagine, an active supporter of the Lutheran 
Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC and Newberry College in 
Newberry, SC. A fixture in the Columbia, SC community and across the 
state of South Carolina, Dr. George Meetze knows many people, but is 
known by even more for his friendliness and genuine interest in every 
individual he meets.
  My wife, Peatsy, and I, whom Dr. George Meetze joined in marriage 
twenty-eight years ago, commend Incarnation Lutheran Church for 
conferring the title of Pastor Emeritus on Dr. George Meetze and we 
send our warmest congratulations to George and his family on this happy 
occasion.

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