[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2376]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         REVEREND ED SCHREIBER

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to welcome Reverend Ed Schreiber 
and thank him for delivering our opening prayer this morning. At 96 
years of age, Pastor Schreiber recently became the oldest person ever 
to graduate from Memphis Theological Seminary.
  Although Reverend Schreiber is not from my congressional district, I 
read about him in the Winchester Star, a newspaper from my district, 
and I was extremely impressed by his courage and determination of this 
man to seek a seminary degree in his 90s.
  Reverend Schreiber spent his childhood in Augusta, Georgia, and his 
adult life in Nashville where he worked as a schoolteacher and as 
municipal planner. After more than 20 years into his retirement and 
after a painful death of his wife in 1991, Reverend Schreiber felt 
called to pursue a seminary degree.
  He began his studies at the age of 92 and did not let much of 
anything slow him down. The Reverend was ordained as a pastor in the 
Cumberland Presbyterian denomination last June. He is also the chaplain 
of the Prime Timers, an active senior citizen group based out of his 
own church, Brookhaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
  He attributes love for living, friends, a sense of purpose, a sense 
of humor, faith in God for his continuing energy. He believes that now, 
at his age of 96, at 96, he is being called to be a more credible 
witness for God. His tenacity and heeding to a calling is, quite 
frankly, I think, an inspiration to us all.
  I welcome him to the Chamber today.

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