Bill Text: TX SR41 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing Ada Collins Anderson for receiving the 2011 Boyd Vance Award for the Advancement of the Arts from the ProArts Collective.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-16 - Reported enrolled [SR41 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SR41-Enrolled.html
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WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to | ||
recognize Ada Collins Anderson, who has been selected by the | ||
ProArts Collective to receive the 2011 Boyd Vance Award for the | ||
Advancement of the Arts; and | ||
WHEREAS, The award is being presented at the third annual | ||
ProArts Collective afternoon tea and scholarship fund-raiser, on | ||
June 23; the ProArts Collective celebrates and honors the | ||
contributions of African Americans to our area's arts and | ||
culture; and | ||
WHEREAS, Ada Anderson holds a graduate degree in | ||
educational psychology from The University of Texas at Austin, | ||
and she has long been a proponent of the arts in Austin; she | ||
served on the board of the Laguna Gloria Art Museum for 15 years, | ||
and she was a founding member of the Austin Lyric Opera; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1989, she initiated the creation of the | ||
Leadership Enrichment Arts Program to offer low-income and | ||
minority youths a chance to experience the performing and visual | ||
arts; she was an early civil rights activist, and she has been a | ||
member of numerous African American professional organizations; | ||
she was elected to the Texas Black Women's Hall of Fame, and she | ||
has been the recipient of a leadership award from the Austin | ||
Chamber of Commerce Business Committee on the Arts; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 82nd | ||
Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby commend Ada Collins | ||
Anderson for her outstanding citizenship and her exemplary | ||
service to her community and state and extend to her | ||
congratulations on earning the 2011 Boyd Vance Award for the | ||
Advancement of the Arts; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
her as an expression of esteem from the Texas Senate. | ||
Watson | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on June 16, 2011. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |