Senate Bill sb2930

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2930

    By Senator Constantine





    22-1783E-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution commending Ericka Dunlap.

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  4         WHEREAS, at age 6, Ericka Dunlap, from Orlando,

  5  Florida, the youngest of five children, began competing in

  6  scholarship pageants and, over the next 15 years, won 1,100

  7  trophies and 60 crowns, and

  8         WHEREAS, as the first African-American woman to become

  9  the Miss Florida pageant winner, Ericka went on to win the

10  ultimate scholarship pageant of all when she was crowned Miss

11  America for 2004, and

12         WHEREAS, as a graduate of William R. Boone High School

13  and a Bright Futures Scholar, Ericka is currently a senior at

14  the University of Central Florida and, while achieving

15  academic honors in pursuit of a Bachelor's Degree in Public

16  Relations, serves on the President's Leadership Council, is a

17  Student Government Senator, and is a member of Delta Sigma

18  Theta Sorority, and

19         WHEREAS, when competing in the Miss America Pageant,

20  Ericka adopted a platform entitled "Celebrating Cultural

21  Diversity and Inclusiveness," advancing the concept "United We

22  Stand, Divided We Fall" to awaken Americans, the media,

23  community leaders, and policymakers in the private and public

24  sectors to the importance of appreciating cultural differences

25  in the people of the world, and

26         WHEREAS, Ericka is putting college on hold while she

27  fulfills her duties as Miss America during the year of her

28  reign, using her crown "as a symbolic propeller to take

29  diversity issues to new heights" of public awareness, but

30  looks forward to resuming her education, with aspirations to

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2930
    22-1783E-04




 1  go to law school and practice sports and entertainment law,

 2  NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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 6         That Ericka Dunlap is commended for winning the 2004

 7  Miss Florida Scholarship Pageant and the 2004 Miss America

 8  Scholarship Pageant, and for choosing to encourage the

 9  "Celebration of Cultural Diversity and Inclusiveness" in her

10  year-long reign as Miss America 2004, bringing great honor to

11  those who reside in Orlando and the State of Florida.

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

13  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Ericka

14  Dunlap as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida

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