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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Celebrated costume designer and Texas native Van |
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Broughton Ramsey has received the 2008 Costume Designers Guild |
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Honor for Career Achievement in Television; and |
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WHEREAS, Born and raised in Wharton, Mr. Ramsey earned a |
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bachelor's degree in botany and chemistry from Baylor University |
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and a master's degree in restoration architecture from The |
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University of Texas; while working in the latter field, he helped to |
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restore such historic landmarks as the boyhood home of Lyndon |
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Johnson and the Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. Ramsey moved to New York City in 1978 to pursue a |
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new career in theatrical costume design, but a meeting in 1981 with |
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another Wharton native, playwright Horton Foote, led to a |
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successful career in film and television; for his first projects, |
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Mr. Ramsey designed the costumes for two films by Mr. Foote, 1918 |
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and On Valentine's Day, both of them set in a fictional version of |
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their hometown; and |
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WHEREAS, In 1989, Mr. Ramsey received an Emmy Award for his |
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first television project, the miniseries Lonesome Dove, and he went |
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on to win a second Emmy in 1994 for the television film Oldest |
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Living Confederate Widow Tells All; he has been nominated another |
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four times, for Sarah, Plain and Tall, Buffalo Girls, Feast of All |
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Saints, and Comanche Moon; he also won the CDG Award for the |
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television film The Tempest; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. Ramsey has benefited others in his profession |
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through his service on the CDG board of directors and as a governor |
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of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, representing |
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costume design and supervision; and |
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WHEREAS, For nearly a quarter-century, this talented Texan |
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has brought great distinction to his hometown and to the Lone Star |
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State with his many achievements in the entertainment industry, and |
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he may indeed take justifiable pride in his receipt of this |
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well-deserved accolade; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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Legislature hereby congratulate Van Broughton Ramsey on winning the |
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Costume Designers Guild Honor for Career Achievement in Television |
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and extend to him sincere best wishes for continued success and |
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happiness; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for Mr. Ramsey as an expression of high regard by the Texas |
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House of Representatives. |