House Resolution 105 - Introduced
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1 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY GIPP and MURPHY
1 3 A Resolution honoring James L. Brimeyer, the 2005 Iowa
1 4 Professor of the Year.
1 5 WHEREAS, career educator James L. Brimeyer received
1 6 both his Bachelor of Arts and his Master of Arts
1 7 degrees at Loras College in Dubuque; and
1 8 WHEREAS, for 10 years Professor Brimeyer has been a
1 9 composition and literature instructor at the Peosta
1 10 Campus of Northeast Iowa Community College; and
1 11 WHEREAS, out of 400 top professors nominated by
1 12 colleges and universities across the country, the
1 13 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
1 14 and the Council for Advancement and Support of
1 15 Education have named Professor Brimeyer as the 2005
1 16 Iowa Professor of the Year; and
1 17 WHEREAS, Professor Brimeyer has received many
1 18 accolades in the course of his career, including the
1 19 Iowa State University Educational Leadership Award in
1 20 2004, the Iowa Literacy Award for Contributions to
1 21 Literacy and Learning in 2001, the National Institute
1 22 for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching
1 23 Excellence Award in 1997, the Northeast Iowa Community
1 24 College Extra Effort Award in 2003, and a listing in
1 25 the 58th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in America in
1 26 2004; and
1 27 WHEREAS, Professor Brimeyer has dedicated his life
1 28 to the education of generations of young Iowans,
1 29 teaching at Wahlert High School in Dubuque for 25
1 30 years before joining the Northeast Iowa Community
2 1 College faculty in 1995; NOW THEREFORE,
2 2 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
2 3 That the House of Representatives congratulates James
2 4 L. Brimeyer on being named the 2005 Iowa Professor of
2 5 the Year and honors his three decades of service to
2 6 the education of Iowa's youth.
2 7 LSB 6375HH 81
2 8 jr:rj/gg/14
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