H.C.R. No. 22 



HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, The University of North Texas (UNT) is creating the 
Hazel Harvey Peace Professorship in children's library services, 
and this initiative will be a significant benefit to the people of 
Texas; and
	WHEREAS, Currently in the Lone Star State, more than 50 
percent of the positions for children's librarians go unfilled and 
nearly 60 percent of our state's professional librarians will 
retire by 2019, a burgeoning gap that the Hazel Harvey Peace 
Professorship can help to fill; and
	WHEREAS, One of the nation's finest, the UNT School of 
Library and Information Sciences already prepares more librarians 
to work with children than all other programs in Texas combined, and 
the addition of a new professorship will enable the school to 
continue to provide trained and dedicated workers for our public 
libraries; and
	WHEREAS, A strong supporter of libraries, Hazel Harvey Peace 
has sought to broaden life's horizons for her fellowman through 
education; a longtime teacher, dean, and vice principal at I. M. 
Terrell High School in Fort Worth, this remarkable woman has also 
held the positions of director of student affairs at Bishop College 
in Dallas and editor of the Texas Standard; and
	WHEREAS, In addition, she has served her community through 
her participation on the boards of the Executive Service Corps, the 
Fort Worth Library & Library Foundation, Tarrant County Housing 
Partnership, the YWCA, and other organizations too numerous to 
mention; and
	WHEREAS, A respected educator, activist, and humanitarian, 
Hazel Harvey Peace is an ideal honoree for a professorship in 
children's library services at UNT; this project, like its 
namesake, will have an enduring and positive effect on children and 
literacy for generations to come, and it is truly worthy of special 
legislative recognition at this time; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 78th Legislature of the State of Texas, 
3rd Called Session, hereby commend all those associated with the 
creation of the Hazel Harvey Peace Professorship in children's 
library services at the University of North Texas.

                                                                           Lewis




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.C.R. No. 22 was adopted by the House on 
October 10, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.C.R. No. 22 was adopted by the Senate on 
October 10, 2003, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor