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16 games and struck out a total of 245 batters, a record he would surpass during his 

second year as pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, when he struck out 263 batters. Herb 

would hold this record until 1984 and was the 

American League (AL) Rookie of the Year in 

1955. 

Following an eye injury he sustained during 

a game against the New York Yankees in 

1957, Herb went on to play for the White Sox 

and the Chicago Cubs before retiring at the 

age of 30 and returning to Cleveland as an 

announcer for the Indians. Just as he was 

cherished by fans for his astounding pitching 

abilities, so too was he loved for his unique 

announcing style. He remained a play-by-play 

announcer for the Indians for 34 years and 

was inducted into the Broadcaster Hall of 

Fame in 1998. 

Madam Speaker and colleagues, please join 

me in celebrating the life of Herb Score. He 

will forever hold a place in the hearts of Cleveland Indians fans and in the Greater Cleveland 

Community. 

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IN MEMORY OF WALTER WILLIAM 

HOFFMAN 

HON. ELTON GALLEGLY OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, November 20, 2008 

Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in memory of Walter William Hoffman, who died on 

Veterans Day after 86 years of a fulfilling life. 

Walter and his late wife, Sheila, were longtime personal friends to my wife, Janice, and 

me. 

Walter Hoffman was a native of Ventura 

County, California. His parents raised him on 

Rancho Casitas, where they bred 

thoroughbreds, including Crystal Pennant. He 

attended St. Catherine’s Academy, Thatcher 

School, Villanova, and USC. 

During World War II, Walter served as communications, navigation and executive officer 

aboard the USS Buchanan and was Officer of 

the Deck on the day the Buchanan delivered 

General Douglas McArthur to the USS Missouri for Japan’s surrender. 

Sheila and Walter married after the war and 

settled in Ventura County where he began his 

career in farming, animal husbandry, and petroleum operations. In 1947, he built and operated the Ventura Airpark. In 1956, Walter and 

his late partners Oather Vance and William 

Worthington formed that land management 

firm, Hoffman, Vance and Worthington. 

A Renaissance man, Walter skippered and 

navigated boats in the Transpac Race, the 

Mazatlan Race and the Bermuda Race. He 

held a commercial pilot’s license, was a licensed amateur radio operator and played the 

violin and the accordion. As a young man, he 

traveled around the world with his grandmother. 

Walter also served on multiple boards, including the Bank of A. Levy, Santa Anita Consolidated, American Automobile Association, 

Livingston Memorial Foundation, St. John’s 

Seminary, and Fales Committee at the U.S. 

Naval Academy. 

He was a past chairman of the board of the 

Automobile Club of Southern California and 

was a past president of the Ventura Pacific 

Company, Crestview Water Company, and the 

Oceanographic Associates at USC. He was a 

past Commodore of the Transpacific Yacht 

Club and a founder of the Museum of Ventura 

County. 

Pope John XXIII knighted him with the 

Order of St. Gregory, Knight Commander. 

Walter Hoffman is survived by his two 

daughters, Katherine Russell and Carol 

Hambleton; seven grandchildren; and five 

great-grandchildren. 

Mr. Speaker, I know my colleagues will join 

Janice and me in offering our condolences to 

Walter’s family and all who knew him and 

called him a friend. 

Godspeed, Walter. 

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TRIBUTE TO DAVID TYSON AND 

HIS INDUCTION TO THE GREATER HUNTINGTON WALL OF FAME 

HON. SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO OF WEST VIRGINIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, November 20, 2008 

Mrs. CAPITO. Madam Speaker, I rise today 

to honor a friend and true West Virginian 

David Tyson. 

Mr. Tyson is a lawyer from Huntington, WV 

who continually puts his community and State 

first. On October 2, 2008, David Tyson was inducted into the Greater Huntington Wall of 

Fame by the City of Huntington Foundation. 

David has worked tirelessly for his community 

as well as the State of West Virginia. 

In April 2002, David was appointed by 

President Bush to the national advisory board 

for the Kennedy Center in Washington. He 

continually serves as an ambassador for the 

arts. Since becoming a member of that board, 

David has been interested in restoration; on a 

local level becoming involved with the KeithAlbee Performing Arts Center in Huntington. 

Mr. Tyson is best known for his involvement in 

this project, which culminated in the theater 

serving as the location for the premier of the 

Warner Brothers major motion picture release 

‘‘We Are Marshall.’’ Mr. Tyson was also recognized as the Citizen of the Year in 2007 by the 

Herald-Dispatch, the major news publication in 

Huntington, West Virginia. 

I applaud David Tyson’s unending commitment to civic duty. 

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IN HONOR OF MAYORS FOR PEACE 

HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, November 20, 2008 

Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, I rise 

today in honor of Mayors for Peace and in 

recognition of their 2020 Vision Campaign as 

they continue their efforts to promote the international abolition of nuclear weapons. 

Mayors for Peace is an international organization comprised of over two-thousand cities 

around the world in over one hundred and thirty countries who are dedicated to raising 

awareness on the need to eliminate nuclear 

weapons, affirm international human rights, 

and promote environmental justice and peace. 

The organization supports the proposal of the 

former Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan—Takeshi 

Araki—who in 1982 proposed an international 

solidarity program that would focus on the 

abolition of nuclear weapons during the second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. 

The Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign is an Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons by the year 2020—the 75th 

anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and 

Nagasaki. The campaign continues to affirm 

the need to abolish nuclear weapons and promotes good faith negotiations toward nuclear 

non-proliferation in all states and cities around 

the world. 

Madam Speaker and colleagues, please join 

me in honor of Mayors for Peace, and in recognition of their dedication to promoting true 

peace and international solidarity. May their 

efforts serve as an example and inspiration for 

all of us to follow. 

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IN MEMORY OF STUDS TERKEL 

HON. DANNY K. DAVIS OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, November 20, 2008 

Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, on 

October 31st America lost its unofficial historian laureate: Louis ‘‘Studs’’ Terkel. 

Because he was so modest, Studs would 

deny it, but in fact he created a new genre of 

literature and history—the oral history. 

Studs and his tape recorder probed every 

corner of our collective consciousness with the 

delicacy and certainty of a brain surgeon. 

He interviewed the famous and the infamous, the rich and the poor, the celebrity and 

the common man and woman. 

Invariably he was able to extract something 

very special, a strand of the grand story which 

is America. He recorded those stories in 

books such as Division Street: America, Hard 

Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Working: People Talk About What They 

Do All Day and How They Feel About What 

They Do, The Good War, Race: What Blacks 

and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, Talking to Myself: A Memoir 

of My Times, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for 

Faith, and Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in 

Difficult Times. 

Madam Speaker, we all have conversations 

of all types every day. But Studs was able to 

turn his conversations into oral history because he was not just a passive observer of 

history, he was an active maker of history. 

Studs earned a JD degree from the University of Chicago, but he never practiced law. Instead he apprenticed for his future career with 

a job in a writers project in the Works 

Progress Administration writing plays and 

learning the craft of acting. 

He went on to become one of the founders 

of the Chicago school of TV by creating and 

hosting ‘‘Studs’ Place’’ until he was blacklisted 

during the McCarthy period. 

He spoke out for progressive causes, refusing to compromise his principles. 

He finally found a home at WFMT, Chicago’s classical radio station, where he created his own version of talk radio with great 

conversation and an eclectic selection of 

music, signing off each broadcast with Woody 

Guthrie’s classic line, ‘‘Take it easy, but take 

it.’’ 


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