Senate Resolution 122

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2                       BY  HOUSER
  1  3 A Resolution recognizing the 100th anniversary of
  1  4    Glenn Miller's birthday.
  1  5    WHEREAS, Alton Glenn Miller was born in Clarinda,
  1  6 Iowa, on March 1, 1904, in the family home located at
  1  7 601 S. 16th Street, now Glenn Miller Avenue; and
  1  8    WHEREAS, Glenn Miller organized an orchestra in
  1  9 1938, performing with an acclaimed style of big band
  1 10 swing music that quickly set new records in attendance
  1 11 and recording sales and continued to do so until the
  1 12 orchestra was disbanded in 1942 at the height of its
  1 13 popularity; and
  1 14    WHEREAS, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra were the
  1 15 first musicians to be recognized with a gold record
  1 16 and this recognition has continued with an
  1 17 accumulation of 29 gold records, so far; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, Glenn Miller showed his patriotism by
  1 19 volunteering at the age of 38 to join the U.S. Army
  1 20 Air Force "to bring our music to the servicemen here
  1 21 and abroad"; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, he was commissioned as a captain and
  1 23 assembled a military band of top=notch musicians that
  1 24 was ordered to England in the spring of 1944, bringing
  1 25 a new swinging sound to military music; and
  1 26    WHEREAS, despite experiencing a shattering loss
  1 27 with the death of Glenn Miller halfway through the
  1 28 band's European mission, the band spent 13 months in
  1 29 the European theater of operations while performing
  1 30 nearly 1,000 times, making musical history while world
  2  1 history was being made; and
  2  2    WHEREAS, in 1976, Clarinda began honoring its
  2  3 famous son by hosting an annual music festival
  2  4 featuring performers from all over the world and the
  2  5 100th anniversary of Glenn Miller's birthday will be
  2  6 specially recognized during this year's five=day
  2  7 festival held June 9=13, 2004; and
  2  8    WHEREAS, membership in Clarinda's Glenn Miller
  2  9 Birthplace Society has grown to 1,500 members
  2 10 representing 48 states and 24 nations, indicating the
  2 11 continuing popularity of the Glenn Miller style of
  2 12 music; and
  2 13    WHEREAS, music helps bridge differences, as shown
  2 14 by the example of Tamana Girls High School Band of
  2 15 Kumamoto, Japan, which made its first appearance at
  2 16 the festival in 1990, leading to establishment of a
  2 17 Sister City and Sister School relationship with
  2 18 Clarinda, a degree of cultural exchange unmatched by
  2 19 other cities the size of Clarinda; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 20    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2 21 salutes Glenn Miller's legacy on the occasion of the
  2 22 100th anniversary of his birthday and joins people
  2 23 everywhere in recognizing through Glenn Miller's
  2 24 influence that when music is shared over the
  2 25 generations and around the world, good things happen.
  2 26 LSB 6646SS 80
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