Senate Bill sb3060

    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                      SR 3060

    By Senator Bennett





    21-2582-07

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing the month of May as

  3         "Early American History Month."

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  5         WHEREAS, descendants of patriots involved in the

  6  American Revolution formed a fraternal and civic society

  7  called the Sons of Revolutionary Sires to salute those men and

  8  women who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in

  9  the struggle for independence from Great Britain, and

10         WHEREAS, out the Sires grew the National Society of the

11  Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), organized on April 30,

12  1899--the 100th anniversary of the Inauguration of George

13  Washington as our nation's first President, and

14         WHEREAS, nearly 165,000 descendants of the men and

15  women patriots of the American Revolution have been admitted

16  to SAR since its founding, and the society currently consists

17  of 26,000 members in more than 500 chapters in the United

18  States, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United

19  Kingdom, and

20         WHEREAS, in 2006, the SAR established the Tom and Betty

21  Lawrence American History Teacher Award to identify,

22  recognize, and commend outstanding social studies teachers who

23  teach children in a middle or high school setting and who

24  actively address the history of the American Revolutionary

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26         WHEREAS, on February 17, 2007, the Saramana Chapter of

27  the SAR presented this award to Mark Pearcy, Venice High

28  School teacher, as the first recipient by this chapter and

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    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                      SR 3060
    21-2582-07




 1         WHEREAS, May 2007 commemorates the establishment of the

 2  first permanent English settlement in America founded in

 3  Jamestown on May 14, 1607, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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 7         That May 2007 is recognized as "Early American History

 8  Month" in Florida, and all residents are urged to observe the

 9  month of May as such by celebrating the contributions made by

10  the founders and patriots of the first 250 years of our

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