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 1-2                          SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 462
 1-3           WHEREAS, Beth Ann Bryan was born in a humble log cabin prior
 1-4     to 1962 in the hills of Southern Indiana and was self-taught to
 1-5     read by candlelight at the age of three; and
 1-6           WHEREAS, Many years later, a cultured and talented leader in
 1-7     education, Beth Ann has served the State of Texas with distinction
 1-8     as manager of the Governor's Focus on Reading Task Force and
 1-9     Director of the First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for
1-10     Texas; and
1-11           WHEREAS, A distinguished scholar throughout her early years,
1-12     Beth Ann was a model student in English Language Arts and Elocution,
1-13     and as a young schoolgirl was a most gifted reader always to be
1-14     found in the library checking out many books of all kinds but
1-15     chiefly those with great big nondecodable words; and
1-16           WHEREAS, Beth Ann graduated from a well-known college and
1-17     further amazed her friends and confounded scholars in her pursuit
1-18     of graduate studies from which she emerged with a master's degree
1-19     in guidance and counseling from the University of Houston; and
1-20           WHEREAS, Serving children as a public elementary school
1-21     teacher and also neurotic clients for 12 years in a private
 2-1     psychological practice, Beth Ann was active in parent organizations
 2-2     and with business groups involved in education policy; and
 2-3           WHEREAS, Elected mayor pro-tempore, Beth Ann served with
 2-4     meritorious vigor and verisimilitude as a member of the city
 2-5     council in West University Place, Texas; and
 2-6           WHEREAS, She served as education policy director to
 2-7     George W. Bush during his first year as governor and most
 2-8     recently served as an advisor on education issues to the
 2-9     Texas Governor's Business Council; and
2-10           WHEREAS, The trunk of her car served as a mobile library to
2-11     which she would repair, after lunch with various associates in
2-12     education and business, to supply one and all with an endless
2-13     source of books, treatises, policy papers, and other pamphlets
2-14     on phonics and phonemic awareness and, possibly, a telephone book
2-15     right there in the parking lot; and
2-16           WHEREAS, She has so elevated the cause of reading throughout
2-17     the State of Texas that years of mining the annals of legislative
2-18     and executive history in this state will not reveal the full extent
2-19     of her positive influence on the lives and minds of thousands of
2-20     young public school students and future literate citizens of this
2-21     state; now, therefore, be it
2-22           RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
2-23     77th Legislature, hereby express appreciation to Beth Ann Bryan
 3-1     and join her many friends and associates in the State of Texas
 3-2     in extending heartfelt thanks to her for a job well done; and, be
 3-3     it further
 3-4           RESOLVED, That Beth Ann Bryan be hereby honored with a copy
 3-5     of this Resolution in official congratulations on her appointment
 3-6     to the post of Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Education in the
 3-7     far-off lands of federal repose in Washington, D.C., where she will
 3-8     surely straighten out the other 49 states on reading as well as all
 3-9     issues of portent in education policy.
3-10                                                              Barrientos
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3-12                                          President of the Senate
3-13                                       I hereby certify that the above
3-14                                  Resolution was adopted by the Senate
3-15                                  on March 14, 2001.
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3-17                                          Secretary of the Senate
3-18                                  ______________________________________
3-19                                           Member, Texas Senate