Bill Text: TX HR149 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of Dorothy Edna Schulte "Dot" McCalpin of Richardson.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-05 - Reported enrolled [HR149 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HR149-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 149 |
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WHEREAS, The city of Richardson lost an admired civic leader | ||
and volunteer in 2011 with the death of Dorothy Edna Schulte | ||
McCalpin at the age of 86; and | ||
WHEREAS, Born on December 20, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri, | ||
to William Bernard Schulte and Edna M. McBride, Dot Schulte | ||
attended Webster College in St. Louis while her sweetheart, George | ||
Ambrose McCalpin, was serving his country in the United States | ||
military during World War II; she earned a bachelor's degree in | ||
English in 1947, and the couple were married the following year; | ||
they then settled in Beaumont, where the couple's six children, | ||
Peggy, Tricia, Jim, Bill, John, and Michael, were born; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1965, Mr. McCalpin, a geophysicist, was | ||
transferred to Richardson, and the family relocated to the city | ||
Mrs. McCalpin would call home for more than 45 years; she devoted | ||
herself to her family, serving as a Girl Scout leader, a den mother, | ||
and a PTA president, and she learned speech therapy in order to help | ||
one of her children overcome a speech defect; moreover, she taught | ||
hundreds of Richardson children swimming and lifesaving skills at | ||
public pools; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mrs. McCalpin later began taking photography | ||
courses, and with the encouragement of her husband she pursued a | ||
career in that field; a member of the Professional Photographers of | ||
America for more than 20 years, she served as president of both the | ||
Dallas and Texas chapters of the organization; she worked as a | ||
wedding and portrait photographer and also took many pictures of | ||
local leaders in Richardson; and | ||
WHEREAS, A tireless champion of her community, Mrs. McCalpin | ||
served more than a decade on the Richardson parks and recreation and | ||
zoning boards, and she was instrumental in the success of the city's | ||
Wildflower Arts and Music Festival and Great Fountain Festival and | ||
the construction of the fountain and the brick memorial walk at City | ||
Hall; she held leadership roles in nearly every civic and community | ||
club in Richardson with female members, including local chapters of | ||
the Junior League, Rotary International, and YMCA, as well as the | ||
Altrusa International volunteer association; her long list of civic | ||
responsibilities further included service as a board member of the | ||
Network of Community Ministries and the Richardson Adult Literacy | ||
Center, as president of the Friends of the Richardson Public | ||
Library, and as a founding member of St. Mark the Evangelist | ||
Catholic Church in Plano, and she also assisted numerous other | ||
organizations and initiatives; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mrs. McCalpin was deservedly named Citizen of the | ||
Year by the Richardson Chamber of Commerce in 1990, and the city | ||
proclaimed her 80th birthday "Dot McCalpin Day" in 2004; in | ||
addition, the Friends of the Richardson Public Library have created | ||
a scholarship in her honor; and | ||
WHEREAS, This spirited Texan gave generously of herself | ||
throughout her life, and although she will be deeply missed, she | ||
will forever be remembered with great affection by those who were | ||
privileged to share in her love and friendship; now, therefore, be | ||
it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas | ||
Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby pay tribute to the memory | ||
of Dorothy Edna Schulte McCalpin and extend sincere sympathy to the | ||
members of her family: to her husband, George; to her daughters, | ||
Peggy Clark and her husband, Joe, and Tricia Stefanko and her | ||
husband, Ed; to her sons, Jim McCalpin, Bill McCalpin and his wife, | ||
Chris, John McCalpin, and Michael McCalpin and his wife, Julie; to | ||
her grandchildren, Erin, Kevin, Allison, Nicholas, Amy, Alex, | ||
Matthew, Kenneth, Reid, and Eleanor; and to her other relatives and | ||
many friends; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Dot | ||
McCalpin. | ||
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Carter | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 149 was unanimously adopted by a | ||
rising vote of the House on June 28, 2011. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||