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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2274

    By Senator Hill





    1-1872-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing and commending Curtis

  3         Miranda.

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  5         WHEREAS, Curtis Miranda, a native of Jacksonville,

  6  Florida, and a 1957 graduate of Matthew Gilbert Senior High

  7  School, enjoyed a football career few have known, attending

  8  Florida A & M University and playing for the legendary Jake

  9  Gaither from 1957 to 1961, during which the University won

10  three national championship titles, and also playing

11  professional football for the New York Giants and the Hamilton

12  Tiger Cats, and

13         WHEREAS, a dominant offensive lineman at 6 feet 2

14  inches in height, weighing 221 pounds, and wearing jersey

15  number 53, Curtis was alternated at tackle and tight end in

16  the 1957 and 1958 football seasons before settling in as the

17  starting center for the 1959 football season, following which

18  he earned All-America recognition from the Associated Press,

19  the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the

20  Pittsburgh Courier, and

21         WHEREAS, in 1979, Curtis was among those in the fourth

22  class of former Florida A & M University athletes inducted

23  into the University's Sports Hall of Fame, and on October 25,

24  2003, at halftime of the football game with Norfolk State at

25  Bragg Memorial Stadium, the University honored Curtis Miranda

26  by retiring his football jersey number 53, marking the first

27  occasion for the University to retire the jersey worn by one

28  of its former student athletes, and

29         WHEREAS, in the halftime ceremony, former Acting

30  Athletic Director, J.R.E. Lee, III, recognized Curtis for his

31  invaluable contributions to Florida A & M University, as an

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2274
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 1  excellent student, a tremendous football player, a successful

 2  businessman, an outstanding citizen, and a faithful alumnus

 3  who has led the Jacksonville Chapter of Florida A & M

 4  University's Booster organization to raise more than $300,000

 5  for the University, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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 9         That the Florida Senate recognizes and commends Curtis

10  Miranda for his outstanding achievements as a student athlete

11  while attending Florida A & M University, for his outstanding

12  accomplishments in life since graduating from the University,

13  and for his invaluable support of the University as a faithful

14  alumnus.

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

16  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Curtis

17  Miranda as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida

18  Senate.

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