[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8355]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           CONGRATULATING THOMAS C. NORRIS ON HIS RETIREMENT

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                        HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 17, 2000

  Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, in September of 1952 I began my teaching, 
coaching and counseling career at Kennard Dale Junior Senior High 
School in Fawn Grove, PA. Besides teaching and counseling, I coached 
basketball, football, and baseball. On my football team was a tall, 
skinny lad from Stewartstown. He was my quarterback on the JV Football 
team that trounced Red Lion 56-6. He was a forward on the basketball 
team and first baseman on the baseball team. He will be always 
considered the all-American boy--a lad every parent could wish was 
their own.
  Of course I expected big things from this young man, because his aunt 
was my wonderful, wonderful teacher in grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 in a one-
room setting where she was the reading, writing, and arithmetic teacher 
as well as the music, art, special education teacher, counselor, 
psychologist and yes, she was also the custodian.
  When I moved into the counseling position, one of the first people I 
helped with their effort to get scholarship money was this same all-
American young man. The scholarship that was available was the first 
P.H. Glatfelter Company scholarship. The winner was this same young, 
all-American lad.
  Now as Paul Harvey would say, ``That was the rest of the story.'' You 
know the story of this lad's adult life. The first P.H. Glatfelter 
scholarship recipient became the CEO of the P.H. Glatfelter Company and 
a very active member of the community.
  This skinny lad, who has now filled-out quite a bit since the tenth 
grade, is none other than the man of the hour you are honoring this 
evening. He was ``Tommy Norris'' who is now reverently known as 
``Thomas C. Norris.'' This remarkable gentleman has come a long, long 
way since his days as a small town boy from Stewartstown, PA.
  I wish only the best for him and his family as he enjoys his 
retirement years.

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