House Bill 9081
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Florida House of Representatives - 2000 HR 9081
By Representatives Melvin and J. Miller
1 House Resolution
2 A resolution honoring Katharine Tillman.
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4 WHEREAS, Katharine Tillman, a junior at Gulf Breeze
5 High School, was one of three young women to receive this
6 year's prestigious National Spirit of Women Award, and
7 WHEREAS, Katharine Tillman, nominated by Sacred Heart
8 Women's Hospital of Gulf Breeze, was chosen from among a field
9 of 50 remarkable young women nationwide to be recognized by
10 the Spirit of Women Foundation, an organization established in
11 1998 in an effort to improve the state of women's health by
12 involving and motivating women across the country, and
13 WHEREAS, as evidence of the generosity of spirit
14 grounded in her faith in God, Katharine Tillman is active not
15 only in her church, where she teaches a Bible study class and
16 serves on the administrative board, but as a member of the
17 Pensacola Teen Board and of the Awareness Team sponsored by
18 the Camp Fire Boys and Girls as a ministry to middle-school
19 students, and has formed a small group in Santa Rosa County
20 which meets weekly to help girls cope with the social
21 pressures of high school, and
22 WHEREAS, with the $1,000 awarded each winner with which
23 to benefit her favorite charity, Katharine Tillman has chosen
24 to purchase supplies for the children she will be teaching for
25 two weeks this summer in a Bible school in Costa Rica, a
26 service typical of those she has rendered during previous
27 church mission trips to Venezuela and Mexico, and
28 WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that Katharine
29 Tillman be recognized for the generosity of spirit which so
30 defines the life of this outstanding young woman, NOW,
31 THEREFORE,
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Florida House of Representatives - 2000 HR 9081
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1 Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
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4 That the House of Representatives pauses in its
5 deliberations to pay tribute to Katharine Tillman, to
6 congratulate her as a recipient of the prestigious National
7 Spirit of Women Award, and to wish her unlimited success in
8 her future endeavors.
9 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution
10 be presented to Katharine Tillman as a tangible token of the
11 sentiments expressed herein.
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