On the recordJanuary 26, 1994
last night the President addressed the country in the State of the Union Address, and made many excellent points. But perhaps the most compelling point that I recall came at the end of the speech when he talked about the breakdown of the family, the breakdown of our community, and, in fact, the breakdown of our work force. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memoriam and in tribute to a young man who just last week was here in Washington, DC, on the way to meet the President of the United States, and unfortunately had an untimely demise, a heart attack. This young man is known to many as Coach. His name is Fred Snowden. He was the first African-American coach to coach at a major university in the United States of America, the University of Arizona at Tucson. Fred Snowden in my mind typifies all of those things that the President was talking about last night. He was a family man, a dedicated family man. He was an entrepreneur. Fred Snowden embodied many of the things that the President talked about in terms of education. He went on to get his higher education, but then he gave back to his community. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I hope that Fred Snowden will live on forever in the hearts of all of us as a role model for our young people, to not only go into athletics, but to achieve higher education and to give back to their community.
