Mr. Sidney Darrah of Freeport. ME. who retired on August 31. 1990. after 39 years of Federal service. 35 of them in the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Mr. Darrah served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific in World War II. became a border patrol officer in 1955. and an immigration inspector in 1967. He was promoted to Assistant District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1980 in Portland. the post he held until his retirement. Sid Darrah was the ideal civil servant. He never lost sight of the fact that Government agencies should be the helpful servants of people and not their cold or indifferent masters. Whenever an individual problem was brought to his attention. his instinct was always to go to great lengths to see. and usually find. a solution. Because of his generous spirit. and his thorough knowledge of immigration laws and policies. countless relatively powerless travelers and immigrants from foreign lands. as well as our own citizens. have benefited from Mr. Darrahs lifelong exercises of practical humanitarianism. I wish to join them in thanking Sid Darrah for his fine career. and to wish him many happy years of retirement.
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