[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REVEREND FRANCIS H. WADE

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, it is a wonderful privilege for me to 
introduce to our colleagues Rev. Frank Wade, who most recently is the 
rector at St. Alban's Church. I want to say upfront that this great 
pastor married me and my wife Jeanne some 2 years ago. It was a real 
experience. It was so magnificent in that we counseled with him--even 
though both of us are well into adulthood--and received his guidance 
for some weeks prior to that beautiful ceremony, which was held in the 
Washington Cathedral. That is a site--St. Alban's and the Washington 
Cathedral--where I have spent so much of my life. Preceding Dr. Wade 
was my uncle, Charles Tinsley Warner, rector of St. Alban's Church for 
almost 40 years, from the late 1920s and 1930s all through World War 
II.
  Our colleagues might recall that one of our dearest Members of the 
Senate, the former Senator from Missouri, Mr. Danforth, was an ordained 
Episcopal minister and he also preached occasionally at St. Alban's 
Church. Dr. Wade went to the Citadel, and from there he went to the 
Virginia Episcopal Seminary, where my uncle also graduated. For 17 
years, he tended to the ministry of those in the great State of West 
Virginia. What a privilege for Dr. Wade and me this morning to have a 
few moments with our highly esteemed colleague, the senior Senator from 
West Virginia, Mr. Byrd.
  I thank my colleagues and I thank Senator Lautenberg and Mr. Maxwell 
of his staff, who worked to make this memorable occasion for so many 
possible today.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.

                          ____________________