Senate Bill 2544

    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2544

    By Senator Childers





    1-1788A-98

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution commending Pensacola Junior

  3         College on the 50th Anniversary of its

  4         founding.

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  6         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College was the first public

  7  community college established by the 1947 Legislature, and

  8         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College established its

  9  operations on the corner of Cervantes and Palafox Streets, on

10  September 8, 1948, and admitted its first students on

11  September 13, 1948, and

12         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College has served the

13  residents of Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties since that time

14  with facilities in Pensacola, Warrington, Milton,

15  NAS/Pensacola, and Downtown Pensacola, and

16         WHEREAS, under the leadership of presidents Henry L.

17  Ashmore, T. Felton Harrison, Horace E. Hartsell and

18  president-designate Charles A. Atwell, along with members of

19  the college's Board of Trustees, Pensacola Junior College has

20  provided higher education to more than 500,000 students since

21  1948, and has offered cultural, athletic, and social

22  opportunities to many thousands more, and

23         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College has provided

24  Associate of Arts transfer opportunities, Associate of Science

25  career opportunities, and invaluable assistance to business,

26  industry, and government for fifty years, and

27         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College will celebrate its

28  50th Anniversary on September 13, 1998, NOW, THEREFORE,

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30  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2544
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  1         That Pensacola Junior College and its Board of

  2  Trustees, faculty, staff, students, and graduates are

  3  congratulated on the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the

  4  Junior College.

  5         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

  6  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to

  7  president-designate Charles A. Atwell and Pensacola Junior

  8  College as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida

  9  Senate.

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