[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12411-12412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING ED MEZEUL FOR 45 YEARS OF SERVICE TO FULLER BRUSH COMPANY 
                           AND ORANGE COUNTY

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to honor Ed Mezeul for 45 
years of service as a top-selling Fuller Brush man. Ed proudly served 
our Nation as a gunner on a ship patrolling the Atlantic coast during 
World War II, damaging his eardrums in the process. He could have 
collected disability, but instead, he wore hearing aids and has worked 
6 days a week since the 1950s.
  At the ripe young age of 55, he moved his family out to Orange 
County, California, to start a new life, and his hard work and 
dedication earned him a spot on the Fuller Brush Company's top sellers 
list each and every month. At a time when the troubles of large 
companies like Enron and WorldCom are causing American workers to feel 
insecure about their futures, it is refreshing to hear stories like 
Ed's that remind us of a time when employees

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dedicated their entire working careers to companies that were loyal to 
them also.

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