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2004 SESSION


HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 19
Commending the Virginia Pep Band.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 12, 2004

WHEREAS, the student pep band at the University of Virginia, the Virginia Pep Band, has served the University and the Commonwealth for 30 years, striving to entertain its wide-ranging audience with joyful music and good-natured humor; and

WHEREAS, this diverse group of dedicated students and other members of the Charlottesville community have offered continued enthusiastic support to student athletics at the University of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, the Charlottesville and Albemarle County area has benefited from the Virginia Pep Band's performances at such events as the United Way Day of Caring, the Charlottesville 10-Miler, the Memory Walk, and the Charlottesville AIDS Walk; and

WHEREAS, the Virginia Pep Band embodies the ideals of student self-governance held dear by Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University at which the band is a long-standing tradition; and

WHEREAS, the students of the Virginia Pep Band have endeavored not only to support the student-athletes at the University of Virginia but also to ensure that all students of the University are represented by a band as distinctive and original as the institution it serves; and

WHEREAS, the Virginia Pep Band represents a unique and valued tradition in the history of the University of Virginia and the Commonwealth; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That the Virginia Pep Band be hereby commended and congratulated on the occasion of its 30th anniversary; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the Virginia Pep Band as an expression of the congratulations and best wishes of the House of Delegates.