[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING RICHARD COSGROVE WHO WAS AWARDED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE 
                        DEGREE BY KINGS COLLEGE

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 19, 2006

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask you and my esteemed 
colleagues in the House of Representatives to pay tribute to Richard B. 
Cosgrove, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, who was recently presented with an 
honorary doctorate degree from King's College.
  Mr. Cosgrove enjoys a reputation as the dean of local journalists in 
Northeastern Pennsylvania. After graduating from St. John the 
Evangelist High School in Pittston in 1941, he joined the staff of the 
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader in January, 1943. He later joined he staff of 
the Pittston Dispatch in 1947 in time for the publication of their very 
first edition on February 9.
  Mr. Cosgrove continued his newspaper career with the Pittston 
Dispatch until the summer of 2000 when he joined the staff of the 
Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice as a correspondent, a position he 
continues to hold. He also served for several years as a local 
correspondent for the Scranton Tribune.
  Richard is a son of the late George and Elizabeth Healy Cosgrove. Mr. 
Cosgrove's wife, the former Mary Neary, died in April, 1981. Their 
union was blessed with two sons, George B. Cosgrove, principal of the 
Pittston Area Middle School and Joseph M. Cosgrove, a practicing 
attorney in Luzerne County. His family also includes two 
granddaughters, Jill, a nurse at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital and 
Mary Ann, a drug and alcohol counselor in Scranton.
  Mr. Cosgrove has a long history of community service. He is a member 
and past president of the Wyoming Valley Sierra Club of Wilkes-Barre 
and he is a past district governor of District 80, Sierra 
International.
  Mr. Cosgrove is also a member and past grand knight of President John 
F. Kennedy Council 372 of the Knights of Columbus in Pittston and a 
member of the council's Fourth Degree Assembly.
  He is a member of the parish community of St. Casimir, St. John the 
Evangelist and St. Joseph Churches in Pittston where he serves as a 
Eucharistic Minister, an altar server and a member of the parish 
liturgy committee. He also performs bereavement counseling with those 
who have lost loved ones. He is also a past president of the parish's 
Holy Name society.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratulating Mr. Cosgrove on this 
auspicious occasion. His love for his community, his devotion to the 
pursuit of truth and his faithful service to his church have endeared 
him to many, many people and has earned him widespread respect. Mr. 
Cosgrove's contributions to his community have clearly improved the 
quality of life in the greater Wyoming Valley.

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