Haley Stevens: “I rise in tribute to COL Norm Vaughan who accompanied ADM Richard Byrd to Antarctica. He celebrates his 100th birthday…”

“I rise in tribute to COL Norm Vaughan who accompanied ADM Richard Byrd to Antarctica. He celebrates his 100th birthday today. The Anchorage Daily News has printed an article by Carol Phillips talking about Vaughan as a great man and good friend. I ask unanimous consent to print the article in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 19, 2005] Vaughan is a Great Man, Good Friend (By Carol A. Phillips) On a February day in 1964, I hurried down to the main street of my little town where the annual sled dog race was about to start. Excited about this sporing event that had always intrigued me, I lingered near the starting line as the racers made last-minute preparations and the dogs leaped and yelped their impatience to hit the trail. Suddenly I head a voice in an accent that was music to my ears--a Bostonian here in Interior Alaska. Having emigrated recently from Maine, I was compelled to trace the source of that unmistakable accent. That was the day I met Col. Norman Vaughan, then a young 58, who was working as a handler for a New Hampshire racer. That meeting was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The achievements of Vaughan's extraordinary career are familiar to his legion of friends. He returned in the mid- 1970s to make his home here and became such a legend in his own time that it's hard to realize he has not always been an Alaskan.…”