Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 630

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 17

SALUTING PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR, GREGORY S. BENTLEY, 1973 GRADUATE OF JOHN DICKINSON HIGH SCHOOL, FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS.

WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the members of the 127th General Assembly that Gregory S. Bentley, a 1973 graduate of John Dickinson High School in Millcreek Hundred, has been accorded a number of outstanding scholastic honors; and

WHEREAS, Greg Bentley, a diligent student possessing a happy-go-lucky personality, has been named Delaware's male Presidential Scholar for the 1972-73 school year, a National Merit Scholarship winner, and most outstanding student at John Dickinson High School; and

WHEREAS, Greg Bentley has accepted an invitation by President Richard M. Nixon to join 120 other Presidential Scholars for a three-day visit to the Nation's capital, commencing June 17 and highlighted by a special White House ceremony honoring those students; and

WHEREAS, the members of the 127th General Assembly wish to congratulate former newsboy Greg Bentley for his superb scholastic achievements of the past and to wish him well in his future studies at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.

NOW, THEREFORE:

BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the 127th General Assembly, the Senate concurring therein, salutes Gregory S. Bentley for the scholastic honors he has received and sends sincere wishes to this fine young Delawarean for continued success in his future endeavors.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be forwarded to Greg Bentley and his parents, to Mr. George E. Glynn, Jr., Superintendent of the Stanton School District, and to Mr. James E. Atkinson, Principal of John Dickinson High School.

Approved June 26, 1973.