H.R. No. 388R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, Bernyce Crownover, a longtime Ellis County resident, has been named the 2002 Waxahachie Citizen of the Year, and this award is a fitting tribute to a Texan who over the years has made countless contributions to many worthy local civic, business, and charitable organizations; and WHEREAS, Mrs. Crownover has generously contributed to planning, organizing, and coordinating such local events as the Crape Myrtle Festival, Cotton Patch Chili Cookoff, Candlelight Christmas Home Tour, Gingerbread Trail and Historic Home Tour, and Bob Phillips Texas Country Reporter Festival; in addition, she has been a valued member of the Ellis County Business Women's Board who has long demonstrated great interest in helping Texas firms, as evidenced through her work with the Business Expo and the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce, on which she served as chair in 1998; and WHEREAS, This dynamic woman is also a tireless advocate for our state's most vulnerable citizens, and her work in behalf of abused and neglected children has been vital to associations that include the Gingerbread House, Ellis County's children's advocacy center, and the Texas Council of Child Welfare Board; her many accomplishments have been recognized throughout the Ellis County community, which last year proclaimed February 11 to be Bernyce Crownover Day, and she was honored as the Volunteer of the Year in 2000 and the First Lady of Waxahachie in 1992; and WHEREAS, Over the course of her life, this exemplary individual has dedicated herself to the betterment of her community and state, and it is through efforts such as hers that Waxahachie retains the high quality of life its residents enjoy today; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas Legislature hereby congratulate Bernyce Crownover on being named the 2002 Waxahachie Citizen of the Year and extend to her warmest best wishes for continued happiness and success in her future endeavors; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for Mrs. Crownover as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Pitts Craddick Giddings Merritt Allen Goodman Miller Alonzo Goolsby Moreno of Harris Bailey Griggs Moreno of El Paso Baxter Grusendorf Morrison Berman Guillen Mowery Bohac Gutierrez Naishtat Bonnen Haggerty Nixon Branch Hamilton Noriega Brown of Kaufman Hamric Oliveira Brown of Brazos Hardcastle Olivo Burnam Harper-Brown Paxton Callegari Hartnett Pena Campbell Heflin Phillips Canales Hegar Pickett Capelo Hilderbran Pitts Casteel Hill Puente Castro Hochberg Quintanilla Chavez Hodge Rangel Chisum Homer Raymond Christian Hope Reyna Coleman Hopson Riddle Cook of Navarro Howard Ritter Cook of Colorado Hughes Rodriguez Corte Hunter Rose Crabb Hupp Seaman Crownover Isett Smith of Tarrant Davis of Harris Jones of Lubbock Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Jones of Bexar Smithee Dawson Jones of Dallas Solis Delisi Keel Solomons Denny Keffer of Dallas Stick Deshotel Keffer of Eastland Swinford Driver King Talton Dukes Kolkhorst Taylor Dunnam Krusee Telford Dutton Kuempel Thompson Edwards Laney Truitt Eiland Laubenberg Turner Eissler Lewis Uresti Elkins Luna Van Arsdale Ellis Mabry Villarreal Farabee Madden West Farrar Marchant Wilson Flores Martinez Fischer Wise Flynn McCall Wohlgemuth Gallego McClendon Wolens Garza McReynolds Wong Gattis Menendez Woolley Geren Mercer Zedler ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 388 was adopted by the House on March 4, 2003, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House