Bill Text: OR SCR209 | 2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Recognizing and honoring achievements of Terri Jean Frohnmayer.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-01 - Filed With Secretary of State. [SCR209 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2012-SCR209-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2012 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                Senate Concurrent Resolution 209

Sponsored by Senator WINTERS; Senators ATKINSON, BATES, BEYER,
  BOQUIST, BURDICK, COURTNEY, DEVLIN, DINGFELDER, EDWARDS,
  FERRIOLI, GEORGE, GIROD, HASS, JOHNSON, KRUSE, MONNES ANDERSON,
  MONROE, MORSE, NELSON, OLSEN, PROZANSKI, ROSENBAUM, SHIELDS,
  STARR, STEINER HAYWARD, TELFER, THOMSEN, VERGER, WHITSETT,
  Representatives BERGER, CAMERON, CLEM

  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer of Salem, Oregon, won the United
States Golf Association's Senior Women's Amateur Championship on
September 15, 2011, defeating heavily favored defending champion
Mina Hardin of Fort Worth, Texas, and bringing the Senior Women's
Amateur golf title to Oregon for the first time in the event's
50-year history; and
  Whereas that victory marks the culmination of a long history of
success playing the game of golf; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer began playing golf when she was
13 years old at the urging of her mother, Shirley Thoreson, who
enjoyed playing golf competitively; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer, while attending Mount Si High
School, played on the boys' golf team because the school did not
have a girls' golf team at that time; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer demonstrated great acumen for
golf, playing in the 1973 United States Girls' Junior tournament,
where she lost in the second round to future World Golf Hall of
Fame member Betsy King, and winning the 1972 Washington State
Women's Public Links tournament and the 1974 Pacific Northwest
Golf Association's Women's Amateur tournament; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer's success playing golf led to her
receiving scholarship offers from the University of Miami,
Arizona State University and Rollins College in Winter Park,
Florida; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer, after choosing to attend Rollins
College for its balanced approach to athletics and academics, was
a top performer for the Rollins College Women's Golf Team, which
competed for the 1978 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics
for Women Golf Championship; and
  Whereas after college, Terri Jean Frohnmayer demonstrated the
same vision and capacity for business and public service that she
had demonstrated for golf; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer at one time owned three car
washes and a mail order company that sold automotive accessories;
and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer has been a successful broker and
real estate investor, contributing to the development of Center
50+ for the City of Salem, among other high-profile projects; and
  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer has served on a variety of boards
and commissions, including as president of the Salem Area Chamber
of Commerce; and
  Whereas after not picking up a golf club for 24 years, Terri
Jean Frohnmayer, at the urging of her mother and her husband,
Bill, returned to golf to see whether she could attain the same
level of expertise she had achieved at college; and

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  Whereas Terri Jean Frohnmayer subsequently played in several
tournaments, including the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Pacific Northwest
Golf Association's Senior Women's Amateur tournaments, winning
the 2010 tournament by nine strokes; and
  Whereas after Terri Jean Frohnmayer won the United States Golf
Association's Senior Women's Amateur Championship, she was named
the 2011 Senior Women's Player of the Year by the Pacific
Northwest Golf Association and the 2011 Golfer of the Year by the
Oregon Golf Association; and
  Whereas the Marion County Board of Commissioners recognized the
accomplishments of Terri Jean Frohnmayer by designating September
28, 2011, 'Terri Frohnmayer Day' in recognition of her
outstanding success as a golfer and generous contributions to
community service; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
recognize and honor the achievements of Terri Jean Frohnmayer;
and be it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this resolution shall be presented to
Terri Jean Frohnmayer.
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                                 Adopted by Senate February 24,
                                              2012

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                                   Robert Taylor, Secretary of
                                             Senate

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

                                  Adopted by House February 28,
                                              2012

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                                  Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                 Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

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