Session 2000
Effective: 2-25-2000
� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1816 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � A Resolution congratulating and commending Lydia Gonzales.
� � � WHEREAS,� Long-time Garden City educator Lydia Gonzales will be
honored February 25 in Topeka. She ended her 22-year career this past
month at Garden City Community College due to declining health; and

� � � WHEREAS,� She has been credited with assisting numerous South-
west Kansas Hispanic students and others attain higher education, first
as director of the LULAC Education Service Center in Garden City and
then as assistant director of the Educational Talent Search Program at
the college; and

� � � WHEREAS,� A designation of "Lydia Gonzales Day" will be pro-
claimed during the annual Hispanic Legislative Day at the Kansas state-
house; and

� � � WHEREAS,� Lydia Gonzales, who returned to school to complete her
own college degrees at the age of 38, began her community service with
the League of United Latin American Citizens in 1978. Among a myriad
of civic activities, she was appointed by the governor to the White House
Conference on Families, was named Garden City Business and Profes-
sional Woman of the Year, earned the Outstanding Service Award of the
Kansas Advisory Council for Vocational Education, was listed in a Kansas
journal of Hispanic professionals called "The King's Highway," was
named GI Forum Woman of the Year, earned recognition for outstanding
service to students from the University of Kansas, received a recognition
award from the Hispanic Youth Empowerment Project of the U.S. His-
panic Leadership Institute, and was named a role model for all genera-
tions by earning a 1997 Buena Gente Hispanic Leadership Summit
Award: Now, therefore,

� � � Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas:�That we congrat-
ulate and commend Lydia Gonzales for her many years of service to the
Hispanic community, Garden City Community College, the city of Gar-
den City and the state of Kansas; and

� � � Be it further resolved:�That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to provide an enrolled copy of this resolution to Lydia Gonzales, 204
South 6th Street, Garden City, Kansas 67846 and to Elias L. Garcia,
Executive Director, Topeka Human Relations Commission, 215 S.E. 7th
Street, Room 170, Topeka, Kansas 66603.

Senate Resolution No. 1816 was sponsored by Senators Morris and
Feleciano