HR 9063

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution honoring Hillsborough County's 2005 Award
3	Winners of the Florida Migrant Interstate Program.
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5	WHEREAS, the Florida Migrant Interstate Program, an entity
6	of the Florida Department of Education that annually recognizes
7	certain individuals for their achievements as scholars or as
8	recruiters, teachers, or administrators, has recognized five of
9	the 2005 award winners as being from Hillsborough County, and
10	WHEREAS, the female Exemplary Migrant Scholar of the Year,
11	Erica Reynoso, graduated 65th in a class of 512 at Durant High
12	School, while taking 29 honor classes, 2 advanced placement
13	classes, and 2 dual enrollment courses with Hillsborough
14	Community College while tutoring middle school students and
15	while working in the strawberry fields and the local
16	supermarket, and
17	WHEREAS, the male Exemplary Migrant Scholar of the Year,
18	Emanuel Lucas, also a Durant graduate, has worked in the fields
19	since the age of 10; was the first migrant student at Durant to
20	be President of the French Club; was the first to make the
21	varsity football team while also volunteering in the community;
22	and now attends the University of South Florida, and
23	WHEREAS, the Migrant Recruiter of the Year, Rogelio
24	Villanueva, of Plant City, is active with the Redlands Christian
25	Migrant Association and on several related committees while
26	collecting and making accessible to migrant families information
27	as to available housing, medical, educational, and job
28	resources, and
29	WHEREAS, the Migrant Teacher/Educator of the Year is
30	Juanita Cannon, who has spent the past 27 years helping migrant
31	children and families gain access to medical, health, social,
32	and academic services provided by the School District of
33	Hillsborough County Migrant Program, and
34	WHEREAS, the Migrant Administrator of the Year, Dr. Ann
35	Cranston, oversees the College Assistance Migrant Program at the
36	University of South Florida, which provides to migratory
37	children financial assistance toward the completion of college,
38	NOW, THEREFORE,
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40	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
41	Florida:
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43	That the House of Representatives commends Erica Reynoso,
44	Emanuel Lucas, Rogelio Villanueva, Juanita Cannon, and Dr. Ann
45	Cranston for their outstanding accomplishments and
46	enthusiastically endorses the recognition by the Florida Migrant
47	Interstate Program of these five extraordinary people.
48	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
49	presented to each award recipient as a tangible token of the
50	sentiments expressed herein.

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