HR 107 (LSB 6375HH (3) 88)

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 107

BY  UPMEYER, KAUFMANN, MOORE, A. MEYER, ZUMBACH, DEYOE, BERGAN, ISENHART, FISHER, HALL, OLSON, KRESSIG, B. MEYER, STAED, HAGENOW, MOMMSEN, CARLSON, HUSEMAN, GERHOLD, JENEARY, LUNDGREN, BEARINGER, HEIN, JACOBY, BEST, FRY, LOHSE, SEXTON, MOHR, MAXWELL, SALMON, DOLECHECK, BLOOMINGDALE, THOMPSON, KERR, JACOBSEN, SIECK, LANDON, HINSON, WORTHAN, PAUSTIAN, KLEIN, WILLS, HANUSA, HOLT, GUSTAFSON, BRINK, HITE, GRASSLEY, and GASSMAN

A Resolution honoring and recognizing Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn upon his retirement as president of the World Food Prize Foundation.

   WHEREAS, Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn attended high school in Dubuque, Iowa, and received his undergraduate degree from Loras College; and
   WHEREAS, Ambassador Quinn began his work with the United States Department of State in 1967, where he alerted the world to the dangers of the Khmer Rouge, helped to assist suffering Cambodian refugees through the Iowa SHARES program, personally negotiated the entry of United States personnel into a Vietnamese prison to search for prisoners of war and those missing in action, served as the ambassador to Cambodia, and saved countless lives by developing and implementing methods to defeat the Khmer Rouge; and
   WHEREAS, after retiring from the United States Department of State in 1999, Ambassador Quinn returned to Iowa and assumed the leadership of the World Food Prize Foundation in 2000, where he headed the annual Iowa Hunger Summit, grew the Global Youth Institute, worked to develop the annual $250,000 World Food Prize award into the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture”, and transformed the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium into the premier conference in the world on global agriculture; and
   WHEREAS, in recognition of his many successes, Ambassador Quinn has received numerous awards, including the Iowa Medal, the Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, the White House Meritorious Honor Award, the United States Army Air Medal, the United States Department of State’s Award for Heroism and Valor, the Steven Krulis Champion of Humanity Distinguished Service Award, the George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award, and the American Foreign Service Association Award for Courage in Challenging Policy, an award Ambassador Quinn has won three times; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That the House of Representatives honors Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn and recognizes and expresses its thanks for his many accomplishments and his tireless devotion to bettering the lives of Iowans, Americans, and people everywhere.