[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14767]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   REMEMBERING CARL W. KNOBLOCH, JR.

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I wish to pay tribute to a great American 
and a great Georgian who passed away last week in Atlanta, GA. The 
cities of Wilson, WY, and Atlanta, GA, lost a great citizen last week, 
America lost a great patriot, and philanthropy lost one of its greatest 
contributors.
  Carl Knobloch passed away last Friday. Carl was a personal friend of 
mine and a unique individual and a unique inspiration to me and many 
others. He was a gentleman who went to the Hill School, then went to 
Harvard, and then went to Yale. He was a leading intercollegiate fencer 
and won an international medal for his intercollegiate fencing ability.
  He went into business using everything he learned as a Baker Scholar 
at Yale University. He went into business. His first business was a 
drive-in theater in Zimbabwe. His second business was an oil and gas 
business in Africa. He then went on to build businesses all over the 
United States of America dealing with natural resources, dealing with 
gas and oil. He was a specialist in taking companies that were failing 
and turning them around and making them profitable. Do you know how he 
did it? He believed that everybody who had helped him succeed ought to 
have equity in the projects he succeeded in, so he made people who 
owned failing companies that he took over equity partners so that when 
he turned the company around, they profited from the work they put in 
to save the company. That is a great leader of business.
  He also was a great subscriber to Theodore Roosevelt's great 
statement, which he made as President of the United States, which I 
want to read verbatim:

       The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources 
     as assets, which it must turn over to the next generation.

  Therefore, a great American businessman, Carl Knobloch, formed the 
Knobloch Family Foundation to take much of his wealth and much of the 
wealth he gained and direct it toward saving the natural resources of 
the United States of America. Whether it was our wildlife, whether it 
was our land, whether it was our oceans, whether it was our plains, or 
whether it was our beach fronts, whatever it was, where he could save 
and conserve our assets, he did. He put most of his lifelong earnings 
into that.
  He and his beautiful wife Emily were great friends of my family. 
Emily will miss him dearly, as I will miss him.
  I know America is a better country today because of Carl Knobloch. 
The environment is safer in America because of Carl Knobloch. The 
United States of America has lost a great patriot and a great friend.
  I pay tribute to my friend Carl Knobloch of Wilson, WY, and Atlanta, 
GA.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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