[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9668]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO BOB BASTIAN

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                           HON. BILL SHUSTER

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, April 1, 2009

  Mr. SHUSTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to salute the service of 
Former Pennsylvania State Representative Bob Bastian of Friedens, 
Somerset County, whose meritorious service to the Boy Scouts of America 
has inspired multiple generations to benefit from all that Scouting has 
to offer.
  The Bastian family has a long tradition of service to the community 
through scouting. Bob's father, Fred, his two sons, Scott and Tim and 
four of his grandchildren are all members of the Boy Scouts.
  As an enthusiastic contributor to his community, Representative 
Bastian is active in the Penn Woods Council committee as well as a 
member of the district committee for the Scouts' Forbes Trail District; 
and while many of his efforts to better his community have been 
realized as a product of his tenure as State Representative from 1999 
to 2009, his lifetime commitment to excellence through scouting has and 
will continue to inspire boys throughout Somerset.
  Currently, Bastian is working to recognize the institution of 
scouting by chairing the Penn's Woods Council's Centennial Celebration 
Committee. In looking back nearly one hundred years to the inception of 
the Boy Scouts of America, I am confident that Mr. Bastian's sixty 
years of exemplary performance in scouting and in life are proof of 
what all boys can achieve through scouting.

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