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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 168
BY SENATOR BROOME
A RESOLUTION
To commend and congratulate the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium at the Louisiana Art &
Science Museum in Baton Rouge on hosting the 2012 International Planetarium
Society Conference and to welcome delegates to the conference to Louisiana and
Baton Rouge.
WHEREAS, the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium at the Louisiana Art & Science
Museum (LASM) is hosting the International Planetarium Society Conference during July
22-26, 2012; and
WHEREAS, the conference, which is held biennially, will bring scientists, educators,
and vendors from all over the world to Louisiana and Baton Rouge; and
WHEREAS, the conference venues will include the Pennington Planetarium, LASM,
the Old State Capitol, Shaw Center for the Arts, The Manship Theater, the River Center
Conference Center and Hilton - Indigo - Belle hotels and will feature prestigious keynote
speakers from Switzerland, Chicago, and Berkeley; and
WHEREAS, the International Planetarium Society, founded in 1970, the largest
planetarium society in the world, is an association of planetarium professionals throughout
the world; and
WHEREAS, members of the society represent schools, colleges, universities,
museums and public facilities of all sizes, including small portable planetariums; and
WHEREAS, host sites for prior conferences include Melbourne, Australia; Osaka,
Japan; Chicago; London, England; Borlänge, Sweden; Washington, D.C.; Valencia, Spain;
and Alexandria, Egypt and the 2014 conference will be held in Beijing, China; and
WHEREAS, through the efforts of Planetarium Director and International
Planetarium Society Past President Jon Elvert, who traveled to Toulouse, France to attend
the council meeting of the International Planetarium Society and to present the bid invitation
which included a detailed presentation that was assembled with the assistance of the Baton
Rouge Area and Convention Visitors Bureau, the LASM and the Irene W. Pennington
Planetarium was selected as the host site for the 2012 Conference over the Morrison SR NO. 168 ENROLLED
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Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and the Astronef
Planetarium in Saint-Etienne, France; and
WHEREAS, there will be over five hundred delegates from some forty countries,
including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Japan, Mexico,
Portugal, South Korea, and Syria, attending the conference, perhaps the largest such
conference ever.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend and congratulate the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium at the
Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge on hosting the 2012 International
Planetarium Society Conference.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the delegates to the 2012 International
Planetarium Society Conference are hereby welcomed to Louisiana and Baton Rouge and
best wishes are hereby extended for a successful conference.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Jon
Elvert.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE