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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 133
BY SENATOR BROOME
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To commend the Baton Rouge chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., upon the celebration
of their fiftieth anniversary and designates May 21, 2014, as "Jack and Jill Day at the
Capitol".
WHEREAS, Jack and Jill is a premier national family organization founded on
January 24, 1938, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the late Marion Stubbs Thomas; and
WHEREAS, twenty mothers came together to discuss creating an organization to
provide social, cultural and educational opportunities for youth between the ages of two and
nineteen; and
WHEREAS, today, the organization boasts over two hundred twenty chapters
nationwide, representing over thirty-thousand members and each chapter plans annual
programming activities guided under a national theme; and
WHEREAS, Jack and Jill of America Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Jack
and Jill of America, Inc., and since its inception has distributed millions of dollars across the
country by supporting programs to develop leadership skills, improving academic test
scores, encouraging cultural awareness and instilling moral and social responsibility in
America's youth; and
WHEREAS, Jack and Jill of America is divided into seven regions nationally and
Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico are members of the south central region; and
WHEREAS, the boundaries of the Baton Rouge chapter include the parishes of East
and West Baton Rouge, Ascension, East and West Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and
a portion of Livingston; and
WHEREAS, the Baton Rouge chapter of Jack and Jill was organized as a mother's
interest group in 1959 by Marjorie Dumas Lawless, and after the national convention in
1962, was approved as a provisional chapter with eighteen mothers initiated as charter
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WHEREAS, the Baton Rouge chapter places a high valuation on activities to
promote the goals and aims of the organization through the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of
Service, literacy initiatives, voter registration drives, donations to battered women shelters
and the elderly living in nursing homes, feeding the homeless, and healthy eating for
children; and
WHEREAS, the women of the chapter affectionately refer to Jack and Jill as "A
labor of love", and since 1980, the chapter annually hosts its signature event, Breakfast with
Santa, which serves a hot breakfast to well over 500 individuals, provides generous toys and
crafts for children, and entertainment for those in attendance; and
WHEREAS, in the words of the organization's founder, "To us as mothers, it has
become a means of furthering an inherent and natural desire to bestow upon our children all
the opportunities possible for a normal and graceful approach to a beautiful adulthood"; and
WHEREAS, the Baton Rouge chapter of Jack and Jill merits a special measure of
commendation as they visit the Louisiana State Capitol on Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend the Baton Rouge chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., upon the celebration
of their fiftieth anniversary and designates May 21, 2014, as "Jack and Jill Day at the
Capitol".
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Baton Rouge Chapter of Jack and Jill America, Inc.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES