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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Angela Comana of Althoff Catholic High School in |
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| Belleville has been named one of 10 winners of the Chicago |
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| Tribune's 2005 All-State Academic Team scholarship |
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| competition; and
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| WHEREAS, Each of the 10 All-State Academic Team winners |
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| receives a $2,000 scholarship from the Chicago Tribune |
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| Foundation, which supports civic, educational, cultural, and |
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| journalistic endeavors; the 10 winners and 61 regional |
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| finalists also receive Olympic-style medallions; and
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| WHEREAS, The 250 high school seniors entered in the |
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| competition all demonstrated strong academic achievement and |
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| involvement in their communities, but the 10-member All-State |
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| Academic Team winners are especially impressive; each |
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| maintains an A average despite carrying numerous advanced |
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| placement and honors courses; and
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| WHEREAS, A straight-A student, Angela Comana plans to study |
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| electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame in South |
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| Bend, Indiana; and
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| WHEREAS, She is an accomplished jazz and ballet dancer and |
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| a flute player; she also loves to read science fiction; she |
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| spends at least seven hours a week studying and teaching ballet |
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| and modern dance in suburban St. Louis; another two hours a |
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| week are spent on the ice, where she teaches group figure |
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| skating and has competed; and
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| WHEREAS, In her volunteer work, she danced in "Xanadu |
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| Live", a benefit for breast cancer research, and earned a Girl |
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| Scout Gold Award that involved the donation of personal items |
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| and religious materials to prisoners at 12 southern Illinois |
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| facilities; therefore, be it
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