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House Bill 9157




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9157

        By Representative Spratt






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution commemorating the life of Wendell

  3         N. Rollason.

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  5         WHEREAS, Wendell N. Rollason served as Executive

  6  Director of Redlands Christian Migrant Association for over 25

  7  years, ensuring and expanding child-care services for migrant

  8  and poor children in Florida, and

  9         WHEREAS, Redlands Christian Migrant Association now

10  provides child-care services to over 6,000 migrant and poor

11  children per day with a staff of over 1,000, most of whom are

12  wives of farmworkers, making it the largest private nonprofit

13  child-care provider in the nation, and

14         WHEREAS, Mr. Rollason created partnerships with

15  government, businesses, and agriculture for increasing and

16  ensuring child-care services for migrant children,

17  partnerships which are unique in the state and the nation, and

18         WHEREAS, Mr. Rollason, under Governors Graham, Mixon,

19  Martinez, and Chiles, served as the only chairman of the

20  Governor's Advisory Council on Farmworker Affairs since its

21  inception in 1979, and served on several other state and

22  national committees and councils as a spokesperson for

23  farmworkers and the rural poor, and

24         WHEREAS, Mr. Rollason measured his success, never in

25  terms of personal or monetary reward, but in contributions

26  made to others, growth in people he worked with and for, and

27  protections and opportunities afforded the less fortunate in

28  our society, and

29         WHEREAS, the life and contributions of Mr. Rollason

30  resulted in a better Florida for all of its citizens,

31  regardless of status or occupation, but especially for poor

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  1  and rural children, and serve as a reminder that our children

  2  are our future, their welfare our obligation and challenge,

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  4         WHEREAS, it is fitting that the life and service of

  5  Wendell N. Rollason be commended as an example of what one

  6  committed person can accomplish, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  8  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  9  Florida:

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11         That the House of Representatives pauses in its

12  deliberations to pay tribute to Wendell N. Rollason.

13         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution

14  be presented to Redlands Christian Migrant Association as a

15  tangible token of the sentiments expressed herein.

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