Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0156R    Version: 0 Name: In Support of the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2010 and its Commencement Invitation to President & Mrs. Barack Obama
Type: City Council Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 10/5/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 10/5/2009
Enactment #:
Title: In Support of the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2010 and its Commencement Invitation to President & Mrs. Barack Obama FOR the purpose of expressing support for the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2010's invitation for President Obama to deliver the keynote address at their commencement ceremony on May 27, 2010.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Warren Branch, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: Resolution
Attachments: 1. 09-0156R - Adopted.pdf
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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Support of the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2010 and its Commencement Invitation to President & Mrs. Barack Obama

FOR the purpose of expressing support for the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2010's invitation for President Obama to deliver the keynote address at their commencement ceremony on May 27, 2010.
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WHEREAS, President-Elect Barack Obama and his family honored Baltimore City and the thousands of us in attendance by choosing Baltimore as the final stop on the Obama Family’s historic whistle-stop journey to Inauguration 2009; and,

WHEREAS, In that same homecoming spirit, the senior class of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the keynote address on the occasion of its own “whistle stop” in its likewise significant journey to baccalaureate degrees as proud graduates of the Johns Hopkins Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering; and,

WHEREAS, As undergraduates, the Class of 2010 has distinguished itself by fulfilling a record number of volunteer contributions to the citizens of Baltimore City, especially the children, by tutoring and mentoring in our public schools and branch libraries, by walking with neighborhood Citizens On Patrol, by painting and repairing non-profit youth centers in our most challenged corners of the City, and by plant...

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