[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TRIBUTE TO DENNIS AND JANICE BRINKMAN

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 9, 2011

  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to Dennis 
Brinkman, Vietnam War veteran and Alpha Gamma Rho brother from Iowa 
State University, and his wife, Janice Kay Reeder Brinkman, on the 
special occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary. This special day 
will take place on March 27, 2011, but family will be celebrating the 
event in Galena, Illinois, this weekend--March 11-13, 2011.
  Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brinkman were married on March 27, 1971, in West 
Union, Iowa. Together they raised one child, Ann Marie. Dennis has 
farmed near Greene and Charles City, Iowa, since 1972. His operation 
has included beef cattle, farrow-to-finish hog production, soybeans and 
corn. Jan, a graduate from the University of Northern Iowa, started her 
career as an elementary school teacher. When Ann Marie turned two, she 
began working for Greene Limestone Company as a bookkeeper.
  Dennis and Jan currently reside in rural Greene, Iowa. Dennis 
continues to expand his crop business and serves on the AgVantage FS 
Board of Directors. Jan is an office manager at Allied Manatts Group 
L.L.C. in Charles City, Iowa, and an active member of a local mother's 
club that helps support the Coats for Kids program at St. John 
Evangelical Lutheran Church.
  I salute this lovely couple on the 40th year of their life together, 
and I know that my colleagues in the United States Congress join me, 
their friends and family in honoring them on this special occasion.

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