WHEREAS, Of 645,000 American high school students who took col-
lege entrance ACT examinations last fall, 27 had perfect scores of 36 with
five of those being Kansans; and

    WHEREAS, The five Kansas students achieving perfect ACT test
scores were Scott Benolkin of Shawnee Mission West High School, Adam
Chmelka of Washburn Rural High School, Timothy Clark of Hoisington
(home schooled), Katie Mitchell of Wichita High School East and Anna
Perleberg of Wichita High School East; and

    WHEREAS, Kelley Hayden, ACT director of communications, stated
the possibility of getting a perfect ACT score is about one in 20,000 and
that Kansas had an unusually high number of students achieving perfect
scores; and

    WHEREAS, The Kansas high school students achieving perfect ACT
scores, their parents and the educators involved are deserving of recog-
nition for their joint efforts in this great academic achievement: Now,
therefore,

    Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas: That we congrat-
ulate and commend Scott Benolkin, Adam Chmelka, Timothy Clark, Ka-
tie Mitchell and Anna Perleberg for receiving perfect scores on the ACT
test; and

    Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to provide an enrolled copy of this resolution to Scott Benolkin, 16200
W. 79th Terrace, Lenexa, Kansas 66219, Adam Chmelka, 6032 SW 23rd
Terr., Topeka, Kansas 66614, Timothy Clark, 1112 N. Main St., Hoising-
ton, Kansas 67544, Katie Mitchell, 2451 Longwood Circle, Wichita, Kan-
sas 67226 and Anna Perleberg, 2246 Longwood Circle, Wichita, Kansas
67226.

Senate Resolution No. 1866 was sponsored by Senators Lawrence, Bar-
one, Becker, Biggs, Bleeker, Bond, Brownlee, Clark, Corbin, Donovan,
Downey, Emert, Feleciano, Gilstrap, Gooch, Goodwin, Hardenburger,
Harrington, Hensley, Huelskamp, Jones, Jordan, Karr, Kerr, Langworthy,
Lee, Morris, Oleen, Petty, Praeger, Pugh, Ranson, Salisbury, Salmans,
Schraad, Steffes, Steineger, Tyson, Umbarger and Vidricksen.

I hereby certify that the above Resolution originated in the Senate,
and was adopted by that body

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President of the Senate.

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Secretary of the Senate.