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HR 489 - Elmore, Charles; commend

Pelote, Dorothy B (149th)	Bordeaux, Tom (151st)	Mueller, Anne O'Quin (152nd)

Status Summary	HC:		SC:		FR:	03/08/99	LA:	03/08/99	H - Passed/Adopted

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A RESOLUTION commending Mr. Charles Elmore; and for other purposes.

HR 489                                             LC 21 5494 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             A RESOLUTION 
 
  1- 1  Commending Mr. Charles Elmore; and for other purposes. 
 
  1- 2  WHEREAS, on February 25, 1999, Mr. Charles Elmore, upon a 
  1- 3  nomination by retired educator Mozelle Clemmons, was one of 
  1- 4  six Georgians to receive the Governor's Award in Humanities, 
  1- 5  which honors contributions to building community, character, 
  1- 6  and citizenship in the state through humanities education; 
  1- 7  and 
 
  1- 8  WHEREAS, Mr. Elmore attended St. Pius X School in Savannah 
  1- 9  and received undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry 
  1-10  from Savannah State University, and he has since obtained a 
  1-11  master's degree in print and broadcast journalism and a 
  1-12  doctorate in higher education administration from the 
  1-13  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and 
 
  1-14  WHEREAS, his interests are encyclopedic, and he spent two 
  1-15  years researching and writing a biography of Richard Wright, 
  1-16  Sr., the first president of Savannah State University; his 
  1-17  interest in jazz (he has over 300 jazz recordings in his 
  1-18  library) led him to research and write a book entitled All 
  1-19  That Savannah Jazz; and 
 
  1-20  WHEREAS, while he is a Catholic, his interest in the Baptist 
  1-21  faith because of its ties to  early African Americans 
  1-22  resulted in his being commissioned to write a history of 
  1-23  Savannah's First Bryan Baptist Church, one of the oldest 
  1-24  Baptist churches in North America; and 
 
  1-25  WHEREAS, his research in that project led him to visit the 
  1-26  grave of an early chronicler of the church's history, James 
  1-27  Merilus Simms, and, while visiting Simms's grave, Mr. Elmore 
  1-28  was moved to write a book about the cemetery, An Historical 
  1-29  Guide to Laurel Grove Cemetery South, for which he charted 
  1-30  all of the graves in the cemetery and wrote commentaries on 
  1-31  the lives of 80 persons buried there; and 
 
  1-32  WHEREAS, Mr. Elmore, who teaches journalism, freshman 
  1-33  composition, world literature, and African-American oral 
  1-34  tradition, fiction, and nonfiction at Savannah State 
  1-35  University, will be remembered as a chronicler of the 
  1-36  African-American experience, especially in Savannah. 
 
 
 
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  2- 1  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF 
  2- 2  REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend Mr. 
  2- 3  Charles Elmore for his many accomplishments and especially 
  2- 4  for his having received the Governor's Award in Humanities. 
 
  2- 5  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of 
  2- 6  Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an 
  2- 7  appropriate copy of this resolution to Mr. Charles Elmore. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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