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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Dr. Dorothy McClellan of Texas A&M |
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University--Corpus Christi has been named a recipient of a 2015 |
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Platinum Remi Award by the 48th Annual WorldFest-Houston |
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International Film Festival, held in Houston April 10-18, 2015; and |
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WHEREAS, The university's Regents Professor of Criminal |
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Justice, Dr. McClellan shared the award with her husband, |
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Croatian-American filmmaker Nikola Knez, for their documentary |
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Sunny's Story: Rape as an Instrument of Terror in the Balkan War; |
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the film includes interviews with victims whose testimony has also |
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been preserved by the Hague Tribunal and the National Archives of |
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Croatia; and |
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WHEREAS, Dr. McClellan worked in Croatia from 2002 to 2004 as |
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a scholar in the Fulbright Program of the United States Department |
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of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; she taught |
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criminal justice at the University of Zagreb to a generation of |
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students whose lives had been marked by the horrors of war, and she |
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interviewed soldiers and survivors of concentration camps; and |
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WHEREAS, In 2010, Dr. McClellan traveled to Croatia to |
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organize an international conference for the Alliance of |
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Universities for Democracy, and in 2012, she returned to the |
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University of Zagreb as a Fulbright Specialist, conducting research |
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and teaching about women and criminal justice; she and Mr. Knez |
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recorded the interviews for their film in 2013, and in that year, |
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she organized a second international conference for AUDEM; and |
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WHEREAS, Dorothy McClellan has distinguished herself through |
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her professional endeavors, and she may indeed take pride in the |
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recognition accorded her documentary on an important issue in the |
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field of international justice; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas |
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Legislature hereby congratulate Dr. Dorothy McClellan on her |
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receipt of a 2015 Platinum Remi Award from the 48th Annual |
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WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and extend to her |
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sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for Dr. McClellan as an expression of high regard by the |
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Texas House of Representatives. |
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Herrero |
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______________________________ |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2895 was adopted by the House on May |
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30, 2015, by a non-record vote. |
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______________________________ |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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