Senate Bill sb2100

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2100

    By Senator Dockery





    15-1780-04                                              See HR

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution honoring Ms. Hazel Haley.

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  4         WHEREAS, Ms. Hazel Haley, Florida's longest-serving

  5  active teacher, has spent nearly 63 of her 65 remarkable years

  6  as an educator teaching English at Lakeland High School, and

  7         WHEREAS, Ms. Haley, 86, earned a Bachelor of Arts

  8  degree in English from Florida Southern College and, after

  9  teaching briefly at Oviedo and Moore Haven High Schools,

10  returned to her alma mater in Lakeland from which she had

11  graduated in 1933, and

12         WHEREAS, indicative of the esteem in which she is held

13  as one of the state's truly outstanding teachers, Ms. Haley is

14  an inductee into the Polk County Schools' Hall of Fame and a

15  recipient of the Hollis Award for Community Service; there are

16  scholarships in her honor at both Florida Southern College and

17  Polk Community College; and a building on the Lakeland Senior

18  High School campus proudly bears her name, and

19         WHEREAS, in addition to her being dearly cherished by

20  the citizens of Polk County as their very own unique treasure,

21  Ms. Haley has gained renown far beyond the borders of her

22  local community and of her state, as evidenced by a recent

23  two-day classroom visit and interview by a reporter from the

24  Times of London in preparation for a feature story to appear

25  in the paper's weekly educational supplement on May 23, NOW,

26  THEREFORE,

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

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30         That the Senate is truly honored to recognize and

31  extend its sincere gratitude to Ms. Hazel Haley, whose

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2100
    15-1780-04                                              See HR




 1  influence as a truly committed teacher has touched thousands

 2  of lives in ways and numbers that cannot be reckoned.

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

 4  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Ms. Hazel

 5  Haley as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida

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