Bill Text: TX SR51 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 1st Special Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing Margie Peschel for her support of cancer prevention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-12 - Reported enrolled [SR51 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SR51-Enrolled.html
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WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to | ||
recognize Dr. Margie Peschel for her tireless efforts on behalf | ||
of cancer prevention and awareness; and | ||
WHEREAS, For decades, this exemplary health care | ||
professional served as a pathologist, a champion of cancer | ||
research, and an unflagging supporter of the American Cancer | ||
Society, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year; and | ||
WHEREAS, Dr. Peschel has been a pioneering figure in | ||
medicine since the days when she was one of only three women | ||
studying at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, | ||
at which time she was supporting herself as a nurse; and | ||
WHEREAS, Early in her medical career, a young patient died | ||
WHEREAS, She began volunteering with the American Cancer | ||
Society in the 1960s, and she served as president of the Tarrant | ||
County branch of the organization; she found time for her | ||
volunteer work in addition to the demands of her longtime career, | ||
which included serving as the medical director of the Carter | ||
Blood Center and as a pathologist at Saint Joseph's Hospital and | ||
John Peter Smith Hospital; and | ||
WHEREAS, Dr. Peschel also spent years moonlighting in | ||
emergency rooms, served as chair of the Allied Health Advisory | ||
Council for Tarrant County College, and helped to set up the | ||
first training course for emergency medical technicians in | ||
Tarrant County; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 83rd | ||
Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby commend Dr. Margie | ||
Peschel for her lifelong commitment to the medical profession and | ||
to supporting the cause of cancer prevention; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, | ||
Davis | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on June 12, 2013. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |