| 1 | 1 | | 24 LC 112 2202 |
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| 2 | 2 | | House Resolution 1219 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By: Representatives McClain of the 109 |
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| 5 | 5 | | , Buckner of the 137 |
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| 7 | 7 | | , Greene of the 154 |
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| 9 | 9 | | , Oliver |
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| 10 | 10 | | of the 82 |
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| 12 | 12 | | , and Hugley of the 141 |
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| 15 | 15 | | A RESOLUTION |
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| 16 | 16 | | Honoring the accomplishments of Natalie "Tally" Sweat; and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | WHEREAS, Natalie "Tally" Sweat was born on September 7, 1935, in Cuthbert, Georgia;2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | and 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | WHEREAS, the Official Butterfly of Georgia is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, in part4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | because of the efforts of Tally; and 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | WHEREAS, the Garden Club of Georgia is proud of Tally for her long term service to our6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | community, including her work with Park Pride in Atlanta and the Olmstead Linear Park7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Alliance, her legislative work with the Garden Club of Georgia, her active membership in8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | many garden clubs in Dogwood and Redbud District, and her environmental work with the9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Georgia Water Coalition; and10 |
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| 27 | 27 | | WHEREAS, in 1989, Tally was the founding board president of Park Pride, a nonprofit11 |
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| 28 | 28 | | organization working with Atlanta communities to improve greenspaces and contribute to12 |
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| 29 | 29 | | community health and well-being; and13 |
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| 30 | 30 | | H. R. 1219 |
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| 32 | 32 | | WHEREAS, in 1995, Tally joined forces with other community leaders and nonprofit |
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| 34 | 34 | | organizations to develop a strategy to stabilize and rehabilitate the Olmsted Linear Park in15 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Druid Hills. This led to the establishment of the Olmsted Linear Park Alliance (OLPA) in16 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 1997, which to this day has successfully renovated and managed the 45 acres of beautiful17 |
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| 37 | 37 | | greenspace and old growth forests; and18 |
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| 38 | 38 | | WHEREAS, from 2011 to 2024, Tally served as the legislative chair for the Garden Club of19 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Georgia and spoke out often for Georgia's amazing wilderness areas, wildlife, and plants. She20 |
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| 40 | 40 | | also served in many other positions with garden clubs in Stone Mountain and Druid Hills;21 |
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| 41 | 41 | | and22 |
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| 42 | 42 | | WHEREAS, since 2013, Tally has served on the Georgia Water Coalition's leadership23 |
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| 43 | 43 | | committee, where she has helped to chair events and guide the coalition of more than 25024 |
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| 44 | 44 | | organizations to many successes for Georgia's waterways; and25 |
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| 45 | 45 | | WHEREAS, Tally met Dan Sweat when they both worked at The Atlanta26 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Journal-Constitution. They married in 1956, and Tally was an indomitable partner to Dan27 |
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| 47 | 47 | | as he served as a executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission, president of Central28 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Atlanta Progress, and more; and29 |
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| 49 | 49 | | WHEREAS, in 2020, Central Atlanta Progress honored Tally for her decades of community30 |
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| 50 | 50 | | service with the prestigious "Dan Sweat Award," renaming the award to the "Dan & Tally31 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Sweat Award." This award annually honors those individuals who have done much to make32 |
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| 52 | 52 | | downtown Atlanta a better place and have exhibited traits of "exceptional leadership, forward33 |
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| 53 | 53 | | thinking public service, and humility of spirit"; and34 |
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| 54 | 54 | | H. R. 1219 |
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| 56 | 56 | | WHEREAS, Tally is very proud of her birthplace, the home of noted educator Fletcher |
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| 58 | 58 | | Henderson Sr. and Fletcher Henderson Jr., the composer who wrote "Tuxedo Junction,"36 |
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| 59 | 59 | | accompanied Bessie Smith on record, and invented "swing," without which "it don't mean37 |
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| 60 | 60 | | a thing."38 |
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| 61 | 61 | | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that39 |
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| 62 | 62 | | the members of this body honor Natalie "Tally" Sweat for her tireless devotion to public40 |
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| 63 | 63 | | service and extend best wishes for continued success.41 |
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| 64 | 64 | | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized42 |
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| 65 | 65 | | and directed to make an appropriate copy of this resolution available for distribution to43 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Natalie "Tally" Sweat.44 |
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| 67 | 67 | | H. R. 1219 |
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