Senate Bill sb1562

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 1562

    By Senator Miller





    18-1332-05

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing Phyllis Marshall for

  3         34 years of dedicated support to students of

  4         the University of South Florida.

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  6         WHEREAS, Phyllis Marshall, born in Milton, West

  7  Virginia in 1926, was hired by the fledgling University of

  8  South Florida in 1960, "sight unseen," from a small girls

  9  school in Virginia and spent the next 34 years of her life

10  working with USF students, and

11         WHEREAS, in 1960, when the first co-eds moved into the

12  fourth floor of the University Center, USF's original

13  makeshift dorms, Phyllis Marshall was there to welcome them

14  and to ease their transition into university life, and

15         WHEREAS, through her work at the University Center and

16  with student government, Phyllis Marshall devoted decades to

17  fostering a well-rounded university experience for young men

18  and women at USF, organizing intramural sports, social clubs,

19  hospitality committees, bridge clubs, bowling leagues, campus

20  tours, and dances, and producing the first USF yearbook, and

21         WHEREAS, upon her retirement and throughout her long

22  and courageous battle with cancer, Phyllis Marshall remained a

23  reliable resource at the university as a volunteer,

24  supporting, guiding, and inspiring today's Generation X Bulls

25  with the same enthusiasm she gave to the Baby Boomers, and

26         WHEREAS, the students returned her affection by

27  successfully petitioning the Florida Legislature to rename the

28  University Center as the "Phyllis Marshall Center," and

29         WHEREAS, Phyllis Marshall, who passed away in Tampa on

30  February 5, 2005, will be missed by the many thousands of

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 1562
    18-1332-05




 1  students whose lives she improved over the decades, whom she

 2  called "my clients, my loves," NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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 6         That the Senate pauses in its deliberations to pay its

 7  respects to the memory of a great lady who set an example of

 8  service and support that made success in university studies

 9  and in life possible for thousands of young people in Florida.

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

11  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the

12  Phyllis Marshall Center at the University of South Florida as

13  a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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