House Bill 9055

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9055

        By Representative Chestnut






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing the College of

  3         Journalism and Communications of the University

  4         of Florida and designating March 30 and 31,

  5         2000, as Celebration 2000 Days in Alachua

  6         County.

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  8         WHEREAS, during the year 2000, the College of

  9  Journalism and Communications of the University of Florida

10  will observe both the 75th anniversary of a formal curriculum

11  in journalism and communications and the 50th anniversary of

12  the arrival at the university of Rae O. Weimer to found the

13  School of Journalism and Communications, serving as the

14  school's first director, and

15         WHEREAS, the university's College of Journalism and

16  Communications has consistently been ranked by academics and

17  professional publications and organizations among the top 10

18  in the nation in its field, and

19         WHEREAS, there have been more than 18,000 graduates

20  from the program since its inception and, in the years since

21  enrollment and degree awards have been measured, the College

22  of Journalism and Communications of the University of Florida

23  is reported in a recent year to have had the third largest

24  undergraduate enrollment among all such colleges in the nation

25  and to have granted more undergraduate degrees in the field

26  than has any other college, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

29  Florida:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9055

    52-177A-00






  1         That the House of Representatives designates March 30

  2  and 31, 2000, as Celebration 2000 Days in Alachua County and

  3  joins with the students, faculty, and staff of the University

  4  of Florida and the citizens of the county in honoring the

  5  College of Journalism and Communications and extending

  6  heartiest congratulations on the occasion of the observance of

  7  two very significant anniversaries in the history of the

  8  college.

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