[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12008]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         ATTORNEY RICHARD BISHOP HONORED WITH AMERICANISM AWARD

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 15, 2003

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, today I call the attention of the House 
of Representatives to the honoring of Attorney Richard S. Bishop with 
the Americanism Award by B'nai B'rith Amos Lodge No. 136 of Scranton. 
Attorney Bishop will be presented with the award at a dinner on May 18, 
2003.
  Attorney Bishop, a Hazleton native, is a graduate of Penn State 
University and Temple University School of Law, where he received his 
juris doctorate in 1971. He was a major in military intelligence in the 
Army Reserves, where he served from 1971 to 1986.
  Attorney Bishop is now a partner in the prominent Northeastern 
Pennsylvania law firm of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C., where his 
emphasis and expertise is in the areas of commercial law, real estate 
and estate planning. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, American and 
Lackawanna Bar Associations, a member of the Exceptional Children 
Lawyer Referral Network of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and a 
mediator in the Pennsylvania Bar Association Lawyers Dispute Resolution 
Program.
  Throughout his professional career, he has served as an officer and a 
director of many charitable, civic and religious organizations. Over 
the past three decades, he has served as president of a variety of 
community organizations including Temple Israel of Scranton, Jewish 
Family Services of Lackawanna County, the Scranton Counseling Center, 
St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen, the Eastern Pennsylvania Council of 
B'nai B'rith, the Eastern Pennsylvania Region of the United Synagogue 
of Conservative Judaism and Amos Lodge No. 136 of B'nai B'rith.
  He currently serves as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the 
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and president of Glen Oak 
Country Club. He also now serves as vice president of the Association 
for Retarded Citizens of Lackawanna County and the Greater Scranton 
Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the boards of directors of no 
less than eight additional organizations.
  In recognition of his service to the community, Attorney Bishop has 
received the Jewish Community Center Man of the Year Award in 1996 and 
the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Scranton Counseling Center in 
1997.
  Attorney Bishop and his wife Faye reside in Scranton and have three 
children, David, Stefanie, and Craig.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to congratulate Attorney Richard S. Bishop 
on receiving the Americanism Award from B'nai B'rith Amos Lodge No. 
136, and I extend my best wishes to him and his family.

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