{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1996-10-21-pt1-PgE1940", "1996-10-21", 104, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO THE LATE THEODORE R. (TEDD) McCANN", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "TRIBUTETO", "E1940", "E1940", "[{\"name\": \"Ralph Regula\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "142 Cong. Rec. E1940", "Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E1940]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n[[Page E1940]]\n\n             TRIBUTE TO THE LATE THEODORE R. (TEDD) McCANN\n\n                                 ______\n\n                           HON. RALPH REGULA\n\n                                of ohio\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                        Monday, October 21, 1996\n\n  Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, on September 12, 1996, a former employee of\nthe National Park Service, Theodore R. (Tedd) McCann passed away.\nTedd's passing is mourned by his many friends and family, but his\nlegacy lives on and is reflected in many of our Nation's National Parks\nacross the country.\n  Tedd was a park planner, but he was also a poet and an artist. His\npark plans were touched with his gift of words and his vision. One park\nthat Tedd helped plan and that Congress subsequently established in\n1974, is the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in northeast\nOhio. He began studying the area in 1971. When Tedd was first given the\nassignment, he was skeptical. The Cuyahoga River was, after all, the\nriver that caught fire in 1969 and was an icon for environmental\npollution. Yet later, in Tedd's report back to Interior Secretary\nRogers C.B. Morton, he called it ``a green shrouded miracle.'' He saw\nin the Cuyahoga Valley the potential of being what it has become today,\na great urban national park that now serves over 3 million people a\nyear who hike its trails and marvel at its scenery and enjoy its rich\nhistory.\n  Tedd also had dreams for a much larger area, one that would extend\nfurther down the Ohio & Erie Canal and serve even more people\nthroughout the region. But good things often need to start with smaller\nsteps and he recognized that fact. Fortunately, at the end of the 104th\nCongress we were able to take that next big step, and establish the\nOhio & Erie Canal Heritage Corridor which encompasses the Cuyahoga\nValley National Recreation Area but extends north and south from\nCleveland to Zoar Ohio and will truly create a ribbon of wilderness in\nurbanized northeast Ohio. The heritage corridor is a relatively new\nconcept, which allows for more flexibility in how the area is managed\nand provides for increased local participation. It is a concept which I\nbelieve Tedd would be proud of and the Ohio and Erie Canal Heritage\nArea will further enhance the ``green-shrouded miracle'' he so aptly\ndescribed more than 2 decades ago.\n  But Tedd's legacy extends beyond northeast Ohio as he had a hand in\nmany other parks across the country. Because of that and especially for\nthe legacy he left us in Ohio I want to share some of the details of\nhis life.\n  Tedd was born on May 29, 1929, in Jeannette, PA to Lawrence Vernon\nMcCann and Lois Mumma McCann. His family later moved to Pontiac, MI. At\nthe age of 18, Tedd caught a train and went to Chicago to study art. He\njoined the Air force during the Korean War and was stationed at Langley\nAir Force Base in Hampton, VA. He later attended the Corcoran Art\nSchool in Washington, D.C. and received a degree in art history and\npainting from George Washington University. He was a graphics designer\nfor the Bureau of Reclamation from 1957 to 1960, and later headed his\nown house restoration business.\n  In 1963, Tedd joined the National Park Service as art director. He\nhelped put together a graphics and cartography unit in the publications\noffice; it received a gold medal from the First Federal Design Assembly\nas the best in government. Many of the maps and brochures he designed\nare still in use. In 1967 Park Service Director George Hartzog set up\nthe Office of Urban Affairs, and Tedd worked on initial plans for the\nthen-proposed Wolf Trap Park, VA; Georgetown Waterfront and Fort\nLincoln, Washington, DC; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Delaware\nWater Gap National Recreation Area; and Jefferson National Expansion\nMemorial, St. Louis, MO.\n  In 1968 in the wake of the riots in Washington, DC, he and designer\nRussell Wright conceived of and developed the ``Summer in the Parks''\nprogram, which provided cultural and recreation activities in parks\nthroughout the region and became the model for similar programs\nthroughout the Nation.\n  Tedd's park planning days began in 1969, when he served on the\nplanning team that came up with the plan and legislation to establish\nthe Gateway National Recreation Area in New York/New Jersey. He\nsubsequently served as head of planning for other new urban national\nparks, including the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San\nFrancisco and of course, the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area\nbetween Akron and Cleveland, OH. He also did the early studies of the\nLowell National Historic Park, MA; Chattahoochee River National\nRecreation Area, Atlanta; Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation\nArea, near Los Angeles; and Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty, NY. He\nconducted a study of President Roosevelt's summer home in Warm Springs,\nGA and a study of the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, NY. He\nalso led a study of potential African-American historic sites\nthroughout the country, several of which including the Maggie Walker\nhome in Richmond, VA, Congress subsequently included in the National\nPark System. As his last project before retiring in 1984, he served on\nthe management planning team for the Women's Rights National Historical\nPark, Seneca Falls, NY.\n  Tedd lived with his wife Loretta Neumann in Washington, DC. Tedd was\none of the founders of Plan Takoma, a neighborhood organization for\nwhich he helped develop a comprehensive plan for the area surrounding\nthe proposed Metrorail station. He was also active in Neighbors Inc. He\nwas one of the founders in the late 1970s of the Takoma Park Folk\nFestival, and for many years was a member of its coordinating\ncommittee. He was for many years treasurer of the Committee of 100 on\nthe Federal City and Takoma Park Horticultural Club.\n  Tedd's first marriage was to Marilyn Hudson, with whom he had three\nchildren: Christopher, Carol Lynn, and Clair (Behrens). He has one\ngrandson, Charles Behrens. He also has a sister, Patricia (Rososky),\nand brother, Lawrence.\n  Just over a week ago, I participated in a ceremony to mark the\nreopening and completion of the renovation of the historic ``Boston\nStore'' in the Cuyahoga Valley. It was a great day and all of us who\nwere present including John Seiberling, the author of the legislation\ncreating the Cuyahoga Valley noted how bi-partisan the creation and\ncontinued operation of the park has been. The ``green-shrouded\nmiracle'' Tedd knew would one day be a park has brought much joy to\nmillions in our region of the country and his vision has left an\nindelible mark throughout the country.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-1996-10-21-pt1-PgE1940"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 6.042239023372531, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}