Bill Text: TX HR1256 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commending Robert Price and Dr. Charmaine H. Price for their contributions to the Dallas community.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-04-26 - Reported enrolled [HR1256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR1256-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1256 |
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WHEREAS, Longtime community leaders Robert and Charmaine | ||
Price are being honored by Seniors Actively Guiding Education | ||
(SAGE) at Glendale Presbyterian Church in Dallas on May 8, 2019; and | ||
WHEREAS, A native of Illinois, Robert Price enjoyed a | ||
successful 30-year career with Golden State Mutual Life Insurance | ||
Company, rising to the level of district manager; since moving to | ||
Dallas in 1968, he has served on the Dallas Independent School | ||
District Board of Trustees, as co-executive director of the Dallas | ||
regional affiliate of the National Alliance of Black School | ||
Educators, and as cofounder and chair of the Black Coalition to | ||
Maximize Education, which played a vital role in the desegregation | ||
of Dallas ISD; he has also been a board member of Dallas Area Rapid | ||
Transit, serving as secretary and chair of the Mobility Impaired | ||
Committee; and | ||
WHEREAS, Dr. Charmaine H. Price earned her bachelor's degree | ||
from Chicago State University, her master's degree from Columbia | ||
University, and her Ph.D. in education from Texas Woman's | ||
University; she taught at schools in Chicago, and after moving with | ||
Mr. Price to Dallas, she served Dallas ISD as an administrator for | ||
many years; after retiring in 1993, she taught education courses at | ||
Paul Quinn College, and she has served on several committees of the | ||
Texas Education Agency and as judge for the WFAA/Dallas Morning | ||
News Spelling Bee; in 1995, she founded SAGE, which provides | ||
personal libraries for students, sponsors scholarships, and | ||
mentors teachers; and | ||
WHEREAS, In addition to their participation in a number of | ||
civil rights organizations, the Prices are keen students of African | ||
and African American history, and they have traveled extensively in | ||
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana; they regularly make presentations about | ||
their travels to neighborhood and church groups, and they are | ||
stalwarts of the African American Museum Book Club and the | ||
Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney branch of the Association for the Study of | ||
African American Life and History; and | ||
WHEREAS, Joined in matrimony for 64 years, this distinguished | ||
couple are the proud parents of two accomplished children, | ||
Charmaine Price Kwesi and Robert Harper Price, and they are further | ||
blessed with a grandson, Brian D. Terry, and a great-granddaughter, | ||
Jaelynn Terry; they are leading members of St. Luke Presbyterian | ||
Church, where Dr. Price has been a Christian education teacher and | ||
Mr. Price has served as an elder and Sunday school teacher; and | ||
WHEREAS, For half a century, Robert and Charmaine Price have | ||
been champions for education, social justice, and the promotion and | ||
preservation of African and African American history and culture, | ||
and they are truly deserving of special recognition for their | ||
legacy of leadership in Dallas; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby commend Robert Price and Dr. Charmaine H. Price | ||
for their contributions to the Dallas community and extend to them | ||
sincere best wishes for continued success and happiness; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for the couple as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. | ||
Davis of Dallas | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1256 was adopted by the House on April | ||
26, 2019, by a non-record vote. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||