Bill Text: MO HR677 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizes the annual Coaches vs. Cancer basketball game at St. Clair High School as the "Lee McKinney Coaches vs. Cancer Game"
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-10 - Adopted (H) [HR677 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2012-HR677-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HINSON.
WHEREAS, Coaches vs. Cancer is a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches that empowers basketball coaches, their teams, and local communities to make a difference in the fight against cancer; and
WHEREAS, St. Clair High School in St. Clair, Missouri, is hosting a basketball game for the benefit of Coaches vs. Cancer, on February 17, 2012, at St. Clair High School; and
WHEREAS, this Coaches vs. Cancer game and ceremony are being held in memoriam of Dr. Lee McKinney, a 1952 St. Clair High School graduate, a longtime Fontbonne University athletics director, and former Griffins head men's basketball coach, who died last April after a third bout with cancer; and
WHEREAS, Coach McKinney served as a role model, mentor, and father figure to many student-athletes and countless more coaches and athletics administrators, and his contributions to the Fontbonne athletics department, basketball, and cancer research will never be forgotten:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the members of the Missouri House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth General Assembly, hereby recognize the annual Coaches vs. Cancer Basketball game held at St. Clair High School to be known as the "Lee McKinney Coaches vs. Cancer Game"; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for St. Clair High School.
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