Senate Resolution 26

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2                        BY  RAGAN
  1  3 A Resolution honoring the City of Mason City on its
  1  4    sesquicentennial year.
  1  5    WHEREAS, the City of Mason City, first settled in
  1  6 1853, is celebrating its 150th anniversary; and
  1  7    WHEREAS, Mason City is the hometown of Meredith
  1  8 Willson, composer of the Broadway musical "The Music
  1  9 Man", and of his older sister Dixie Willson, writer
  1 10 and poet, is the home of the Music Man Square, and is
  1 11 the host of the annual North Iowa Band Festival; and
  1 12    WHEREAS, Mason City is the home to one of the most
  1 13 famous Prairie School residential developments
  1 14 featuring three Frank Lloyd Wright structures
  1 15 including the Park Inn Hotel, the last remaining hotel
  1 16 designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the world; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, Mason City is the home of the Charles H.
  1 18 MacNider Art Museum which holds one of the finest
  1 19 American Art collections in the country, and the Mason
  1 20 City Public Library, one of the most beautiful
  1 21 libraries in the country, and is the hometown of Bil
  1 22 Baird, the master puppeteer; and
  1 23    WHEREAS, Mason City is the birthplace of Hanford
  1 24 MacNider, a businessman and philanthropist who served
  1 25 as assistant secretary of war, minister to Canada, and
  1 26 is Iowa's most decorated soldier; and
  1 27    WHEREAS, for almost 100 years, Mason City has been
  1 28 a regional center for the production of cement,
  1 29 employing local workers in a variety of locally,
  1 30 nationally, and internationally owned businesses; and
  2  1    WHEREAS, Mason City continues to contribute to the
  2  2 culture, well=being, and prosperity of Iowa, the
  2  3 nation, and the world; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  4    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  5 recognizes and extends its congratulations to the City
  2  6 of Mason City on its sesquicentennial anniversary year
  2  7 and for its 150 years of service to its citizens and
  2  8 to the State of Iowa; and
  2  9    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon adoption, an
  2 10 official copy of this Resolution be prepared and
  2 11 presented to the Honorable Jean Marinos, Mayor of
  2 12 Mason City.
  2 13 LSB 3181SS 80
  2 14 kk/pj/5.1