Bill Text: TX HR608 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo on its 100th anniversary.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-04-01 - Reported enrolled [HR608 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HR608-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 608 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo is | ||
| celebrating its 100th anniversary on April 1, 2025; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The nonprofit day-care organization was founded as | ||
| Amarillo Day Nurseries on April 1, 1925, under the direction of the | ||
| Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs; a year later, it was | ||
| gifted a new building, and the Social Welfare Association took over | ||
| as its governing body, with The Child Study Clubs sponsoring its | ||
| nurseries; incorporated in March 1931, its facilities saw the | ||
| addition of toddler and infant units over the course of the ensuing | ||
| decade, and by 1939, the nursery had more than 50 children in its | ||
| care; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 1964, the McLellan Day Nursery was constructed | ||
| using surplus funds from recent polio immunization campaigns, and | ||
| the Watley Day Nursery was later added with a donation from the | ||
| Kilgore Foundation; in May 1985, the organization underwent a final | ||
| name change to Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo, Inc., and | ||
| it merged with the Young Women's Christian Organization the | ||
| following year; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 1993, the Lawrence R. Hagy Child Care Center | ||
| opened in the Medipark campus, with CLC managing and staffing the | ||
| facility; that same year, the former YWCO building was renamed the | ||
| Sybil B. Harrington Center, and Hazel Kelley Wilson and her family | ||
| donated their home, which came to be known as the Hazel Kelley | ||
| Wilson Infant Center; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Herzstein Learning Center was added in 1994, | ||
| with funding from the Ethel and Albert Herzstein Living Trust and | ||
| construction and land gifted by the Loewenstern family; over the | ||
| course of the early 2000s, CLC saw the further addition of a number | ||
| of buildings, including the Sybil B. Harrington Learning Center, | ||
| Kimble Learning Center, and Curtis-Flemming Learning Center; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Today, CLC operates out of seven facilities, and in | ||
| recent years, it has served as many as 500 families; the | ||
| organization benefits from the able guidance of executive director | ||
| Steve Burton and assistant executive director Tiffani Threet; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Over the past century, Children's Learning Centers | ||
| has provided Amarillo families with high-quality child care, and in | ||
| so doing, it has made a lasting, positive difference in the | ||
| community; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby congratulate Children's Learning Centers on its | ||
| 100th anniversary and extend to all those affiliated with the | ||
| organization sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Children's Learning Centers as an expression of high | ||
| regard by the Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| Fairly | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 608 was adopted by the House on March | ||
| 31, 2025, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
