House Bill 9465

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9465

        By Representatives Maygarden, Melvin, Ritchie, Peaden and
    Burroughs





  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary

  3         of Pensacola Junior College.

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  5         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College was the first public

  6  community college established under an act of the 1947 Florida

  7  Legislature and signed into law by Governor LeRoy Collins, and

  8         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College established its

  9  operations on the corner of Cervantes and Palafox Streets on

10  September 8, 1948, in the City of Pensacola, and admitted its

11  first students on September 13, 1948, and

12         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College has served all

13  citizens of Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties since that time,

14  with current 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-elect Charles A. Atwell, along with members of the

19  Board of Trustees, Pensacola Junior College has served the

20  community with ever-expanding higher education opportunities,

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22         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College has provided higher

23  education opportunities to thousands of students since 1948

24  and cultural, athletic, and social opportunities to many

25  thousands more during the same period, and

26         WHEREAS, Pensacola Junior College has provided

27  associate in arts degree transfer opportunities, associate in

28  science degree career opportunities, and invaluable assistance

29  to business, industry, and government for fifty years, and

30         WHEREAS, on September 13, 1998, Pensacola Junior

31  College will celebrate its first half-century of service to

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9465

    555-128A-98






  1  Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties and to the State of Florida,

  2  NOW, THEREFORE,

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  4  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  5  Florida:

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  7         That the House of Representatives pauses in its

  8  deliberations to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Pensacola

  9  Junior College and to congratulate and commend the Board of

10  Trustees and the faculty, administration, staff, students, and

11  alumni of Pensacola Junior College on their academic

12  accomplishments and service to the community and the State of

13  Florida, and wish them well in all future endeavors.

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