[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 3263-3264]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING THE REV. BERNARD R. McILHENNY, S.J., THE RECIPIENT OF 
    THE PRESIDENT'S AWARD FROM THE FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK OF 
                           LACKAWANNA COUNTY

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 11, 2010

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Madam Speaker, I rise today to ask you and my esteemed 
colleagues in the House of Representatives to pay tribute to the Rev. 
Bernard R. McIlhenny, S. J., who is being honored by the Friendly Sons 
of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, with their 2010 
President's Award.
  Currently the Dean of Admissions Emeritus at the University of 
Scranton and minister of the Jesuit Community at Scranton, Father 
McIlhenny was ordained a priest at Woodstock College on June 17, 1956. 
He spent the last year of his training at Auriesville, New York.
  On July 1, 1958, he was named fourth headmaster at Scranton 
Preparatory School where he spent the next eight years. In 1966, he was 
assigned as Dean of Admissions at the University of Scranton where he 
remained for the next 31 years.
  On June 1, 1997, Father McIlhenny retired as Dean of Admissions to 
become Administrator of the Scranton Jesuit Community.
  He received an honorary degree from the University of Scranton on May 
26, 1998, and, on September 13, 2009, the University recognized Father 
McIlhenny's years of dedicated service by naming the Rev. Bernard R. 
McIlhenny Ballroom in his honor.
  Born in Philadelphia on March 27th, 1926, Father McIlhenny is the son 
of Bernard and Marie Seiberlich McIlhenny. He graduated from St. 
Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia. He entered St. Joseph's 
University in 1943 and entered the Novitiate of the Society

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of Jesus in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, in February, 1944.
  Father McIlhenny attended his first Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 
dinner in 1959 and has been enjoying the event ever since.
  Father McIlhenny has distinguished himself throughout northeastern 
Pennsylvania over the years for his extraordinary service to his 
Church, to his community and to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of 
Lackawanna County.
  Madam Speaker, please join me in congratulating Father McIlhenny on 
this auspicious occasion. His personal example has been an inspiration 
to many and he has contributed greatly to the improvement of the 
quality of life throughout the region.

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