Bill Text: TX HR1256 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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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

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H.R. No. 1256

R E S O L U T I O N
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
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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.
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Chief Clerk of the House