[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 6856-6857]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CONGRATULATING KEN DUGAN

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise today to honor and recognize the 
career of Ken Dugan, center director of the Sierra Nevada Job Corps. 
Ken is retiring this month after spending 39 years in the Job Corps 
program, 36 of which as a center director. Throughout this time, Ken 
has worked tirelessly to help improve the lives of at-risk teenagers 
and young adults through vocational and academic training.
  When Ken started his first assignment with the San Jose Job Corps in 
1975, he never envisioned that almost 4 decades later he would be 
retiring with the organization. However, Job Corps and its mission soon 
became a way of life for him. After stints as center director at the 
San Jose and Hawaii Job Corps centers, we in Nevada were extremely 
fortunate to have Ken take over as center director for the Sierra 
Nevada Job Corps, the only Job Corps center in the State. During his 19 
years with Sierra Nevada, Ken oversaw the relocation and new 
construction of the center, the third time he had done so with a 
center. The new center, with Ken at its head, has greatly enhanced

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the living and learning environment for thousands of students over the 
years.
  During his unprecedented 36-year tenure as a center director, the Job 
Corps centers Ken has run have been honored with numerous performance 
awards from the U.S. Department of Labor, not to mention Recognition of 
Performance and Community Value awards by the legislatures and 
Congressional delegations of California, Hawaii, and Nevada. On behalf 
of the U.S. Senate, I commend Ken Dugan on a lifetime of public 
service, and wish him the best in all his future endeavors.

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