Bill Text: GA HR1697 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Georgia House Resolution 1697 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Knight-Ofosu, Dr. Pauline; commend

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-05 - House Read and Adopted [HR1697 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HR1697-Introduced.html

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House Resolution 1697

By: Representatives Beasley-Teague of the 65th, Kendrick of the 94th, Dickerson of the 95th, Dawkins-Haigler of the 93rd, Stephenson of the 92nd, and others

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing and commending Dr. Pauline Knight-Ofosu; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Dr. Pauline Knight-Ofosu is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and a beloved daughter of the late Grover Cleveland Knight and Florence Evelyn Durrette Knight; and

WHEREAS, she graduated from Pearl Senior High in 1958 and received a degree in Biology from A&E State University in Tennessee in 1962, a Medical Technologist degree from St. Vincent's School of Medical Technology in 1963, and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2008; and

WHEREAS, she became an active member of the Student Central Committee of the Nashville Christian Leadership Council in 1960, where she participated in the Freedom Rides, which resulted in her arrest and imprisonment in Jackson, Mississippi, and expulsion from A&E State University; and

WHEREAS, the Freedom Riders filed a lawsuit, Pauline Knight, et al. v. Tennessee State Board of Education et al., which resulted in her reinstatement; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Knight-Ofosu was employed as a medical technologist for five years, during which time she taught laboratory techniques to sophomore medical students at Howard University Medical School, Introduction to Allied Health, and Morality and Ethics to honors classes at Clark Atlanta University while writing an environmental health curriculum and managing and operating all four diagnostics laboratories at the Atlanta V.A. Hospital; and

WHEREAS, she was recruited by the late Civil Rights icon, Vivian Malone Jones, to be the first female pesticides inspector to the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and

WHEREAS, she graduated in Class II from the Women's Executive Leadership Program in February of 1988 where her program highlights included a tour of service at the Washington, D.C., Congressional Office of the Honorable Congressman, John R. Lewis, and tours of service in the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters and Region IV Offices of Management and Systems Evaluations and Accountability Systems branch; and

WHEREAS, she contributed to the Civil Rights oral history in 2004 by participating in the AARP "Voices of Civil Rights" bus tour held at the Auburn Avenue Research Library; and

WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the outstanding accomplishments of this remarkable and distinguished Georgian be appropriately recognized.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend Dr. Pauline Knight-Ofosu for her efficient, effective, unselfish, and dedicated public service and recognize her many contributions to education and the Civil Rights Movement.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Dr. Pauline Knight-Ofosu.