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HR 676 - Thomas Family Reunion; commend

Pelote, Dorothy B (149th)

Status Summary	HC:		SC:		FR:	03/23/99	LA:	03/23/99	H - Passed/Adopted

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A RESOLUTION commending the Thomas Family Reunion; and for other purposes.

HR 676                                             LC 21 5584 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             A RESOLUTION 
 
  1- 1  Commending the Thomas Family Reunion; and for other 
  1- 2  purposes. 
 
  1- 3  WHEREAS, the Thomas Family Reunion began in 1974 in the yard 
  1- 4  of the late Reverend J.W.H. Thomas, Sr., who was 
  1- 5  instrumental in getting the reunion started, as he strongly 
  1- 6  encouraged his family all to get to know their relatives, 
  1- 7  and he worked gently but steadily toward that goal until his 
  1- 8  passing in 1975; and 
 
  1- 9  WHEREAS, the reunion has grown since 1974 into a much larger 
  1-10  event, and the organizers were obliged to locate larger 
  1-11  facilities to accommodate the large crowd of Thomases at 
  1-12  what has been called the largest family reunion in the 
  1-13  world; and 
 
  1-14  WHEREAS, the family's roots began in Screven County and now 
  1-15  consists of several generations, and the sorrow of every 
  1-16  passing is tempered by the joy of new births in the ongoing 
  1-17  plan the Master has devised for us; and 
 
  1-18  WHEREAS, those who complain so loudly and publicly about the 
  1-19  decline of the American family could take a lesson from the 
  1-20  Thomas family, and we can all take heart that this fine 
  1-21  institution is alive and well and thriving, as the Thomas 
  1-22  family so finely exemplifies. 
 
  1-23  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF 
  1-24  REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend the 
  1-25  Thomas Family Reunion and wish them well in the future. 
 
  1-26  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of 
  1-27  Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an 
  1-28  appropriate copy of this resolution to the Thomas Family. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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