[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 21906]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNIZING HANS GEISSLER OF DADE CITY, FLORIDA

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                         HON. GINNY BROWN-WAITE

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 13, 2006

  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Hans 
Geissler, the founder of Morning Star Fishermen. Mr. Geissler was 
recently selected from a group of volunteer and service organization 
workers aged 60 and older who were nominated to participate in a 
symposium at Stanford University. This symposium highlights community 
service and the use of business experience in the volunteer service 
field.
  Since leaving the French Foreign Legion and retiring from a career as 
a plumbing contractor, Mr. Geissler has worked tirelessly to help solve 
one of the world's biggest problems--world hunger. Based out of his 11-
acre facility in Dade City, Florida, Mr. Geissler teaches aquaculture 
classes to people from around the world. Morning Star Fishermen also 
works to help establish tilapia-breeding tanks in foreign nations. 
Students who travel to the Dade City facility learn how to raise 
tilapia as a high-protein food source back home in their own 
communities around the world.
  Civic Ventures, a think tank based in San Francisco, noted Mr. 
Geissler's work. Civic Ventures asked for nominations of people over 
the age of 60 who are using their experience to solve social problems. 
The think tank received 1,200 nominations, and named 71 Purpose Prize 
Fellows.
  Mr. Geissler will attend the symposium in September and hopes to work 
with other participants to gather new ideas on how best to grow Morning 
Star Fishermen into the future.
  Mr. Speaker, civic-minded individuals like Hans Geissler help make 
our cities and municipalities better places to live and work. The motto 
of Morning Star Fishermen is ``Give a man a fish, he eats for one day. 
Teach a man to raise fish, the whole community eats.'' People like Hans 
Geissler prove that one person can indeed make a positive difference 
throughout the world.

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