[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22822]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   JERSEY SHORE HUMANITARIANS HONORED

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                        HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR.

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 12, 2000

  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on September 21, the Jersey Shore Chapter 
of The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) held its 
32nd Anniversary Humanitarian Awards ceremony. NCCJ is a national human 
relations organization with local chapters dedicated to fighting bias, 
bigotry, and racism. It promotes understanding and respect among all 
races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution and 
education.
  So it is with great pride that I congratulate the recipients of this 
year's awards for their outstanding community service to the Jersey 
Shore, much of which I represent in Congress. They include:
  Dr. Frank Arlinghaus, founder of our Congressional Award, chairman 
and president of the N.J. Congressional Award Council, Naval Reserve 
captain and Special Assistant for Reserve Affairs to the Medical 
Officer of the Marine Corps, and a pulmonary and critical care 
physician in Red Bank, N.J.;
  Bahiyyah Abdullah, director of Marketing and Membership for the Ocean 
County Girl Scout Council for the last 12 years and active in numerous 
civic organizations, including the NAACP, Ocean County Human Relations 
Commission and Jack and Jill of America;
  Solomon S. Greenspan, managing partner of Rudolf, Cinnamon & 
Calafato, LLC. He is on the board of the Monmouth County Jewish 
Federation, and the Urban League and is a Councilman for the Township 
of Ocean. He is past president of the Monmouth County Jewish Community 
Center and United Way.
  The following two physicians helped develop the Parker Family Health 
Clinic, a free health center on Red Bank's west side:
  Dr. Eugene F. Cheslock, an internist, is executive vice president of 
Meridian Health System, Riverview Medical Center's Riverview 
Foundation. He is past president of the Monmouth County Cancer Society 
and has received prestigious awards from the Urban League and the 
Salvation Army, among others.
  Dr. Timothy Sullivan, an otolaryngologist, is senior vice president 
for medical affairs at Meridian Health System, Riverview Medical 
Center. He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of Volunteers in 
Medicine and Rio Vista Equipo Medico. He also serves as co-leader of 
medical missions to Guatemala to provide medical care, including cleft 
palate surgery.
  The Women's Center of Monmouth County has, for 24 years, provided 
invaluable services to families affected by domestic violence and 
sexual assault and has received five major awards for its outstanding 
work. Anna M. Diaz-White, executive director and a staff member for 16 
years, accepted the award on behalf of the Center. I congratulate Ms. 
Diaz White and all the staffers and volunteers who make the Center the 
valuable community asset that it is.
  The Jersey Shore Chapter of NCCJ also applauded Anytown, NJ, a week-
long program for high school students in which they break barriers, 
deal with biased behavior and develop an action plan to reduce 
prejudice in their hometowns.
  I have worked with Dr. Arlinghaus for many years on the Congressional 
Award which seeks to encourage strong values and community service. 
Before that, he worked with the late Rep. James J. Howard, the original 
sponsor of the law enacting the Congressional Award program. Because of 
his association with an important Congressional initiative, I wanted to 
share with my colleagues a excerpts from his acceptance speech:
  I submit the following excerpts from Dr. Arlinghaus's September 21 
speech into the Record.

       ``It was many years ago this month that Joe Gouthro and I 
     met the then Congressman Howard to describe to him a dream 
     called the Congressional Award and ten years later it became 
     a Public Law. Since that very humble beginning much has 
     passed into our history. And from that very unique experience 
     of working with Congress, I have observed many unique events 
     and personalities and beg your indulgence to share a thought 
     and a theme with you this evening.
       ``A new millennium has begun and our republic stands as 
     what has been described as the world's indispensable nation. 
     Two thousand years ago the Roman Empire in the western world 
     occupied very much the same position economically, militarily 
     and in the minds of those who lived then. The mythic story of 
     the founding of the Roman Republic by the poet Virgil in the 
     Aeneid emphasized one essential point, one essential virtue, 
     one essential value. Aeneas was pious. He was humble before 
     his `gods' and from that piety flowed his strength and the 
     future moral vibrancy of Rome. When Aeneas lost his piety, 
     when Rome forsake that piety, when individual citizens 
     abandoned that value, Rome was lost.''
       ``. . . Like pious Aeneas we are warned by history how 
     important these values are. Can we be successful in keeping 
     our sense of Community or our sense of Justice without such 
     values? Whether it be through the NCCJ or the Congressional 
     Award or through the works of our fellow citizens: Bahiyyah 
     and Sol, Eugene and Tim, and the Women's Center, these values 
     are self-evident and command our allegiance. Such values are 
     at the heart of the wonderful acts of service of my more-
     than-distinguished co-recipients this evening. As Hans Kung 
     the noted philosopher and moralist wrote ``the will of the 
     almighty is carried out through service to human beings.'' 
     And as our Founding Fathers prayed: ``We have given you a 
     Republic. It is up to you to keep it.''

     

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