H0835B3192A09381 MSP:EJH 06/30/16 #90 A09381
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 835
Sponsor: SENATOR RAFFERTY
Printer's No. 3192
Amend Bill, page 1, line 2, by striking out the period after
"Highway" and inserting
; designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 4010 over
Sugar Creek, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango County, as the
Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial Bridge; designating a
portion of State Route 220 in Lycoming and Sullivan Counties
as the Lieutenant Commander John J. Peterman Memorial
Highway; designating a portion of State Route 220 in Lycoming
County as the Thomas A. Paternostro Memorial Highway;
designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 74 over
the Sherman's Creek, Spring Township, Perry County, as the
PFC William Oscar Stambaugh Memorial Bridge; designating a
portion of State Route 309 in Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh
County, as the Officer David M. Petzold Memorial Highway;
designating the pedestrian walkways on the Matsonford Bridge,
located on State Route 3016 over the Schuylkill River,
connecting the Boroughs of West Conshohocken and
Conshohocken, Montgomery County, as the Clay-Doc Walk in
memory of West Conshohocken Borough Police Chief Joseph G.
Clayborne III and Conshohocken Borough Police Chief James H.
Dougherty, Sr.; and designating a portion of State Route 1030
in the Borough of Donora, Washington County, as the Ken
Griffey Sr. & Jr. Drive.
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting after line 30
Section 2. Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Lieutenant Andrew J. White was a 12-year veteran of
the fire service. He came from a family of firefighters,
starting his career in the fire service at 14 years of age
when he was inducted into the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire
Department as a junior firefighter. At 16 years of age he
became an active firefighter and regular member of the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(2) Lt. White participated in training and progressed
through the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire Department. He later
became an emergency medical technician and served as
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Lieutenant of Rocky Grove's Station #2 from 1999 to 2001.
(3) Lt. White was killed in the line of duty on January
11, 2001, while fighting a structure fire with the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(4) Lt. White lived in the Sugarcreek area his entire
life. The Sugarcreek Bridge is within one-half mile of where
he resided, and he had traversed this bridge countless times
when responding to calls during his service with the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of
State Route 4010 over Sugar Creek, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango
County, commonly known as the Sugarcreek Bridge or Twin Bridges,
is hereby designated the Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial
Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 3. Lieutenant Commander John J. Peterman Memorial
Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Lieutenant Commander John J. Peterman was born in
Nordmont, Sullivan County, on January 19, 1923, and in 1941,
graduated from Sullivan Highlands School, Sonestown. He
enlisted in the United States Navy 11 days after graduation.
(2) Lieutenant Commander Peterman spent the early years
of his service in the Navy assigned to submarines. Lieutenant
Commander Peterman was initially assigned to the USS Flying
Fish (SS229). While abroad, Lieutenant Commander Peterman
made nine war patrols, having a part in the Battle of Midway,
patrolling the Truk Lagoon off the Caroline Islands and
patrolling in the Sea of Japan.
(3) After serving aboard submarines for 11 years,
Lieutenant Commander Peterman served as a torpedo instructor.
In 1955, Lieutenant Commander Peterman became a commissioned
officer, serving at ammunition depots in New Jersey and
California. He also spent time on the USS Henrico (APA45) as
a gunnery officer and then on the USS Sperry (AS12) as a
weapons repair officer. He served the last five years of his
Navy career as an underwater weapons officer in Newport,
Rhode Island. Upon retiring in 1972 as a lieutenant
commander, he returned home to his native Sullivan County,
where he served a term as county sheriff, and as a Laporte
Township Supervisor.
(4) Lieutenant Commander Peterman was active in his
community where, as a member of the Williamsport Base of the
United States Submarine Veterans, Inc., he participated in
visits to the Janet Weis Children's Hospital, visiting with
pediatric patients while making them "honorary submariners."
Lieutenant Commander Peterman would wear his uniform for
these visits, often giving the children a living history
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lesson. Lieutenant Commander Peterman was also an active
member of the Sonestown American Legion Post #601.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 220 from State
Route 405 in Hughesville Borough, Lycoming County, to State
Route 42 in Laporte Township, Sullivan County, is hereby
designated as the Lieutenant Commander John J. Peterman Memorial
Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 4. Thomas A. Paternostro Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds as follows:
(1) Thomas A. Paternostro was born in Williamsport on
August 9, 1939. He was married to Marthalie Ryan Paternostro
for over 48 years. He was a 1957 graduate of the former St.
Mary's High School in Williamsport. He was a 1964 graduate of
Lycoming College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree
in political science. In 1975, he received his Masters of
Public Administration from St. Lawrence University in Canton,
New York.
(2) Mr. Paternostro was a lifelong educator. He was both
an elementary and secondary school teacher before serving as
an elementary principal in Prattsburgh, New York. He then
served as superintendent of schools in the Clifton-Fine
School District in Star Lake, New York and the Oneonta City
School District in Oneonta, New York. In 1981, he became
superintendent of schools at the East Lycoming School
District in Hughesville, where he served admirably for 11
years.
(3) Following his retirement from public schools in
1992, Mr. Paternostro went to work for the Industrial
Modernization Center in Montoursville. There he was a driving
force behind the Pennsylvania School-to-Work initiative, a
project that ultimately became a national model for youth
apprenticeship. He testified about this initiative in front
of a United States Senate committee. His testimony and the
initiative were later featured on the ABC News American
Agenda and in Smithsonian Magazine.
(4) Continuing his dedicated service to public education
and children, Mr. Paternostro served as the director of the
Children's Advocacy Initiative for Lycoming County in the
early 2000s. In 2004, he received the Child Advocate Award
for Leadership on Children's Issues.
(5) Mr. Paternostro spent time supervising student
teachers at Bloomsburg University. He also spent three years
as a consultant for the American Board for the Certification
of Teacher Excellence in Washington, DC.
(6) From 2005 to 2011, following an appointment by the
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, Mr. Paternostro served
as one of the Commonwealth's first Distinguished Educators,
individuals serving to help struggling districts throughout
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the State improve student achievement.
(7) Mr. Paternostro was an active member of his
community. He was a charter board member of the Northcentral
Pennsylvania Conservancy, past president of the Lycoming
Audubon Society, chairman of the capital campaign of the
Hughesville Library Building Committee, past president of the
Hughesville Rotary, past chairman of the Literacy Board at
the James V. Brown Library, former member of the Lycoming
County Historical Society Museum board, former member of the
Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
and a Leadership Lycoming volunteer.
(8) Mr. Paternostro also served on the State Legislative
Joint Commission Task Force on Children, Lycoming County's
Child Death Review Team, Lycoming County's School Safety
Committee on Homeland Security, and most recently, as a
member of the Lycoming County Heroin Drug Task Force. He was
also a proud former member of the Picture Rocks Volunteer
Fire Department fire police.
(9) Until his passing, Mr. Paternostro was a regular
contributor to Webb Weekly, where he wrote a feature column
on nature.
(10) Mr. Paternostro served his country in the U.S. Navy
from 1957 through 1965, including time spent in the Naval
Reserve. He attended Naval Communications School as well as
Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He
received a special commendation from the Chief of Naval
Operations for his Far East service following his time spent
in Japan.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 220 in Lycoming
County from State Route 2081 in Wolf Township to State Route 42
in Hughesville Borough is hereby designated the Thomas A.
Paternostro Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 5. PFC William Oscar Stambaugh Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--
(1) PFC William Oscar Stambaugh was one of the first
Perry County soldiers killed in World War II.
(2) Born April 25, 1920, PFC Stambaugh graduated from
Landisburg High School.
(3) After joining the Army on November 25, 1941, PFC
Stambaugh trained at Camp Lee, Virginia.
(4) PFC Stambaugh served with Company H 126 Infantry,
2nd Battalion, 32nd Infantry Division (Red Arrowmen).
(5) PFC Stambaugh was killed in combat on November 27,
1942, while serving in the infantry in Buna, New Guinea.
(6) PFC Stambaugh was posthumously awarded the Purple
Heart and the Presidential Citation.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on State Route 74 in
Spring Township, Perry County, over the Sherman's Creek is
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hereby designated the PFC William Oscar Stambaugh Memorial
Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 6. Officer David M. Petzold Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Officer David M. Petzold became an Upper Saucon
Township Police Officer in October 1996. He served as a
patrol officer for the Upper Saucon community and became
Upper Saucon's first detective in 2001. While assigned as a
detective, Officer Petzold earned a bachelor of arts degree
with a major in criminal justice from DeSales University.
(2) In May 2005, Officer Petzold joined the Federal
Bureau of Investigation then returned to the Upper Saucon
Township Police Department in April of the next year.
(3) In the early morning hours of November 9, 2006,
Officer Petzold was struck and killed by oncoming traffic as
he removed a deer causing a traffic hazard on Route 309.
(4) Officer Petzold left behind a wife, two daughters
and a son. He died as he lived, trying to protect and serve
the community.
(b) Designation.-- The portion of State Route 309 between
Passer Road and State Route 378 in Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh
County, is hereby designated the Officer David M. Petzold
Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 7. Clay-Doc Walk.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds as follows:
(1) Joseph G. Clayborne III, "Clay," and James H.
Dougherty, Sr., "Doc," were two long-serving police chiefs
who dedicated their careers to serving their communities.
(2) Chief Clayborne served the Borough of West
Conshohocken as its chief of police for 25 years beginning in
1983, and had a total of 36 years in law enforcement with the
borough.
(3) Chief Dougherty served as chief of police for the
Borough of Conshohocken for 18 years after joining the police
department in 1971 and rising through the ranks over his 38-
year law enforcement career.
(4) Both men served their country in Vietnam. Chief
Dougherty was wounded in action in Vietnam while serving with
the United States Marine Corps. Chief Clayborne was a
helicopter door gunner in the United States Army 101st
Airborne Division.
(5) Chief Clayborne and Chief Dougherty served and
protected their communities with compassion and commitment
and both made meaningful impact on the lives of the people
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they served.
(b) Designation.--The pedestrian walkways of the bridge
located on State Route 3016 connecting the Boroughs of West
Conshohocken and Conshohocken, Montgomery County, over the
Schuylkill River are hereby designated the Clay-Doc Walk in
memory of West Conshohocken Borough Police Joseph G. Clayborne
III and Conshohocken Borough Police Chief James H. Dougherty,
Sr.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the walkway to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 8. Ken Griffey Sr. & Jr. Drive.
(a) Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and
declares as follows:
(1) George Kenneth Griffey, Sr., was born on April 10,
1950, in the Borough of Donora, Pennsylvania, beginning a
great journey for the Griffey family.
(2) Ken Griffey, Sr., commenced his professional
baseball career in 1973 with the Cincinnati Reds.
(3) Ken Griffey, Sr., who returned to Cincinnati in
1988, was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in
2004.
(4) Ken Griffey, Sr., also enjoyed notable seasons with
the Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves.
(5) On November 21, 1969, Ken Griffey, Sr., was blessed
with a son, George Kenneth Griffey, Jr., who shared his
birthplace and who would share his love of baseball.
(6) Ken Griffey, Jr., began and ended his successful
Major League Baseball career with the Seattle Mariners and
experienced highlights with the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago
White Sox as well.
(7) In July 2016, Ken Griffey, Jr., is being inducted
into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New
York.
(8) National Baseball Hall of Fame committee members
elected Ken Griffey, Jr., with the highest voting percentage
in Hall of Fame history, 99.32%.
(9) Ken Griffey, Sr., and Ken Griffey, Jr., attained
distinction as left-handed batters and as the first father-
son duo to play simultaneously in major league history and
the first father-son duo to play in the same major league
game for the same team, the Seattle Mariners.
(10) These native sons of the Borough of Donora have
contributed greatly to professional baseball and to sports
history.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 1030, known as
Segment 10, in the Borough of Donora, Washington County, is
hereby designated as the Ken Griffey Sr. & Jr. Drive.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
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Amend Bill, page 3, line 1, by striking out "2" and inserting
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