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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family, friends, and poetry lovers across the Lone |
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Star State and beyond are mourning the loss of Wendy Dimmette of |
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Dallas, who died on May 8, 2007, at the age of 82; and |
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WHEREAS, Born on a ranch in a bend of the Red River near |
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Dexter, Mrs. Dimmette grew up in Whitesboro; after graduating from |
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high school and studying English at Southern Methodist University, |
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she married and began a family with Jack Lindsey, who died in an |
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automobile accident in 1956; and |
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WHEREAS, In 1960, she married Dr. James Dimmette; returning |
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to SMU, she completed her bachelor's degree in English when her |
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youngest child was 10 years old and went on to earn a master's |
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degree with a creative thesis in poetry at the age of 55; and |
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WHEREAS, Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary |
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magazines and been widely anthologized, earning her accolades from |
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many readers and other poets; several volumes of her short-short |
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stories have also been published and, under her own imprint, |
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Mullulla, she authored seven children's books and five plays for |
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young people, which were based on stories she had told her own kids; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, As generous a teacher as she was a gifted poet, she |
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mentored many Texas writers and taught workshops at Eastfield and |
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Richland Colleges; she was a member of a number of literary |
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associations, including the Writer's Garrett, the Galaxy of Verse |
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Literary Foundation, and the National Federation of State Poetry |
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Societies; she served on the board of directors for the Poetry |
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Society of Texas; and |
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WHEREAS, Hailed by many as a classic Texas poet, Mrs. |
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Dimmette was on a short list of candidates for the position of Texas |
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poet laureate; written with a piercing directness, her poems evoke |
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the simple beauty of the Texas landscape; as she once wrote, "others |
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won't remember/a thousand years from now/how I walked this Texas |
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prairie/gathering words/for their color and perfume . . . But I |
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will know/it was I/who made this prairie bloom/with the scattered |
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seeds/of words that fell/from the edges/of my imagination"; now, |
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therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 80th Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life and art of Wendy Dimmette |
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and extend sincere condolences to her family: to her husband, Dr. |
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James Dimmette; to her sons, Ramsey Lindsey and Tom Lindsey; to her |
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daughters, Hillary Lindsey, Susan Lindsey, and Dr. Wendy Dimmette; |
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to her 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; and to her |
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other relatives and many friends and admirers; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Wendy |
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Dimmette. |
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Vaught |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2546 was unanimously adopted by a |
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rising vote of the House on May 25, 2007. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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