Full Text of HR0423 94th General Assembly
HR0423 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Southeastern Illinois College forensics squad | 3 |
| decisively won the 2005 Phi Rho Pi division I overall | 4 |
| cumulative national championship; and
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| WHEREAS, The 12-member team amassed 260 points, a team | 6 |
| record, to defeat 72 other schools in one of the most | 7 |
| competitive tournaments in the recent history of Phi Rho Pi, | 8 |
| the national forensics organization; this is the third national | 9 |
| championship in individual events competition won by the | 10 |
| Southeastern squad; it is only the second time the school has | 11 |
| won the overall championship; the first time was in 1986; and
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| WHEREAS, Division I overall championship is the cumulative | 13 |
| team score that includes points in three categories, including | 14 |
| individual events, reader's theater, and debate; Southeastern | 15 |
| participates only in individual events, but surpassed the other | 16 |
| teams which had entered in all three categories; and
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| WHEREAS, The team broke many other school records covering | 18 |
| the 32-year history of the program; there were 34 events that | 19 |
| made it into semi-final rounds, and the old record was 31 in | 20 |
| 1996; the conversion of semi-final breaks into finals was 19 | 21 |
| for 56% resulting in a conversion to 17 gold medals, and the | 22 |
| old record was 13 gold medals in 1997; every team member | 23 |
| advanced into finals and brought home a gold medal; that has | 24 |
| never happened in the history of the program; and
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| WHEREAS, The coaches of the team are Paul Cummins and Johan | 26 |
| Rice; Emily Rollman is the assistant coach; team members | 27 |
| include Amie Naas, Bethany Wilson, Amy Oglesby, Katie Richey, | 28 |
| Krista Farmer, Jessica Brasier, Ethan Fife, Travis Boots, Josh | 29 |
| McCluskey, Dug Hall, Michael Steudeman, and Stephanie | 30 |
| Youroukous; and
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| WHEREAS, Krista Farmer won second most valuable speaker in | 2 |
| the nation, bringing home 35 points, including three gold | 3 |
| medals and one bronze; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| we congratulate the Southeastern Illinois College forensics | 7 |
| squad on winning the Phi Rho Pi division I overall cumulative | 8 |
| national championship; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 |
| presented to the Southeastern Illinois College forensics squad | 11 |
| as an expression of our esteem.
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