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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE GLORIA FOX ON HER RETIREMENT FROM

THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF

DISTINGUISHED AND FAITHFUL SERVICE TO HER CONSTITUENTS AND THE

CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS

     Introduced By: Representatives Hull, Almeida, Morgan, Lombardi, and Williams

     Date Introduced: January 04, 2017

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Honorable Gloria Fox has served her constituents in the Massachusetts

House of Representatives with passion, compassion, honor, and integrity since she was first

elected in 1986. She has served as Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Housing,

on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, the House Committee on Steering, Policy and

Scheduling, and the House Committee on Ways and Means; and

     WHEREAS, Representative Fox's passion for serving the poor and vulnerable came

about in part as an extension of her life story. She was raised in foster care in Boston and Everett

and lived for a while as a single mother in Roxbury. She began her involvement in community

activism when she supported demonstrations opposed to the state's plan to extend Interstate 95

through Roxbury. She then went on to become a well-respected community activist in the 1960's

and 1970's; and

     WHEREAS, Since her election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives,

Representative Fox has been a tireless advocate for the poor and dispossessed. She has fought

vigorously for the proper funding of human resource providers, and her passion for ensuring that

those in need are never forgotten is widely admired by her colleagues, friends, and those living on

the margins of society. Perhaps Representative Fox best described herself when she stated that

she portrays her work as "A life of giving and sharing." In 2011, Representative Fox received the

"Lifetime Achievement Award" from the National Black Caucus of legislators for her community

activism; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby congratulates the Honorable Gloria Fox, on her retirement from

the Massachusetts House of Representatives after thirty years of distinguished and devoted

service to her constituents and the citizens of Massachusetts. We wish her a most happy

retirement and continued success in all her future endeavors; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Gloria Fox.

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