[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6237-6238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO PAUL ``BO'' BOLLINGER

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                           HON. HAROLD ROGERS

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 6, 2013

  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Mr. 
Paul ``Bo'' Bollinger, President of the Greater Washington Aviation 
Open (GWAO). As the GWAO celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and 
Mr. Bollinger begins the process of succession to new tournament 
leadership, it is the proper time to recognize his quarter century of 
outstanding leadership.

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  In 1989, Mr. Bollinger conceived and began an aviation charity event 
to raise and donate funds to worthy causes. Mr. Bollinger convinced 
several aviation executives and several aviation associations to hold 
an annual charity golf and auction event for this purpose. Twenty five 
years later, the GWAO has become the largest aviation charity event in 
Washington, DC, raising almost $1.7 million for deserving 
organizations.
  Under Mr. Bollinger's leadership, the charities receiving tournament 
proceeds varied over the first four years, subsequently settling on the 
Corporate Angel Network (CAN) as its major benefactor. The CAN mission 
of flying cancer patients on empty seats of business aircraft to 
treatment facilities was a perfect match with the GWAO mission. In 
2006, Mr. Bollinger led the effort to include funding a four-year 
scholarship for a deserving T.C. Williams High School graduate entering 
a college in an aviation degree program; and in 2011 the Veteran's 
Airlift Command was added as an additional benefactor.
  Mr. Speaker, as a fellow Kentuckian I am honored and proud to commend 
Mr. Bollinger for a quarter century of heroic, selfless and successful 
service to thousands of deserving people. In their names I wish to 
publicly thank you, Bo, on behalf of all the people whose lives you 
have enhanced.

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