Mr. Speaker. the State of Indiana lost a giant of the engineering community last month. On Sunday. September 25. Dr. Julius Per passed away in his home country of Hungary where he revolted against a Sovietled communist regime before coming to the United States as a refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Julius Pert and his wife Elizabeth. made Columbus. Indiana their home and found peace from the unrest in Eastern Europe. It was also in Columbus where Julius began a 41year career as a mechanical engineer for Cummins Engine Company. In this time. he distinguished himself by submitting more than 300 patents on engine technology improvements. 80 of which are still in use today.