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78R8773 JNC-D
By: Jones of Dallas H.R. No. 517
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Students, faculty, and staff of Paul Quinn College
are honoring the rich history of their school on March 20, 2003, as
they hold the annual Founder's Day Convocation; and
WHEREAS, Participating in the festivities will be keynote
speaker the Right Reverend John Hurst Adams, who served as the 22nd
president of the college, and his wife, Dr. Dolly Desselle Adams,
who also played a significant role in the lives of countless
students during her distinguished tenure as a professor at the
college; and
WHEREAS, Paul Quinn College was founded on April 4, 1872, as a
trade school where newly freed slaves could learn the skills of
blacksmithing, carpentry, tanning, and saddle work; originally
located in Austin, the college moved to Waco in 1877 and has spent
the past 13 years in its new home of Dallas; and
WHEREAS, The college was chartered by the State of Texas in
1881 and was renamed from Waco College to Paul Quinn College in
honor of Bishop William Paul Quinn, who greatly expanded the land
ownership of the school and helped to expand the curriculum to
include subjects such as mathematics, Latin, English, music, and
theology; and
WHEREAS, For 131 years, Paul Quinn College has been a
resource for education and enlightenment, and countless lives have
been enriched beyond measure by this historic institution of higher
learning; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas
Legislature hereby honor Paul Quinn College on the occasion of the
school's Founder's Day and extend sincere best wishes to its
students, faculty, staff, and board of trustees; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for Paul Quinn College as an expression of high regard by
the Texas House of Representatives.