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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Kay Hopper retired from her post as chief executive |
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officer of the Warren Center in Richardson on January 31, 2013, |
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after nearly three decades of outstanding service to that agency; |
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WHEREAS, The Warren Center is a nonprofit organization |
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focused on early childhood intervention for children with |
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developmental differences and disabilities; the center sees 1,400 |
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children each year, helping them to improve motor, speech, feeding, |
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cognition, and social skills, and also offers professionally led |
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support groups and training sessions for parents; and |
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WHEREAS, Ms. Hopper spent a total of 29 years with the Warren |
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Center, becoming its executive director in 1995; she was |
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instrumental in the growth of the center, increasing enrollment in |
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one program fivefold and adding another program, and she managed |
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capital campaigns that enabled the center to move into a larger |
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location; in addition, she led the agency through acquisitions in |
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2009 and 2011 that tripled its service area and doubled its staff, |
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allowing the center to reach and help families in all of northeast |
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Dallas County, including Garland, north and east Dallas, the Park |
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Cities, and Rowlett; and |
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WHEREAS, Through her deeply caring, committed, and energetic |
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leadership, Kay Hopper has greatly expanded the capacity of the |
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Warren Center to assist special needs children and their families, |
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and she may indeed reflect with pride on a career well spent as she |
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embarks on the next exciting chapter of her life; now, therefore, be |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas |
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Legislature hereby congratulate Kay Hopper on her retirement as CEO |
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of the Warren Center in Richardson and extend to her sincere best |
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wishes for the future; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for Ms. Hopper as an expression of high regard by the Texas |
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House of Representatives. |
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______________________________ |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 713 was adopted by the House on March |
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13, 2013, by a non-record vote. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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