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IN HCR0040
Concurrent Resolution
Status
N/A
Primary Sponsor
Matt Pierce
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AI Summary
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Indiana House Concurrent Resolution memorializing Dorothy Weitz Drummond, an educator, author, and world traveler who passed away on November 30, 2018, at age 89
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Drummond was a geography educator who taught at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Indiana State University, authored world culture textbooks and encyclopedia articles, and served as president of the National Council for Geographic Education in 1990
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Founding member and longtime board member of the Geography Educators' Network of Indiana (GENI), established in 1983, promoting geography education in school curriculums
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Traveled to more than 80 countries and served as a Fulbright Scholar with her husband at the University College of Mandalay in Burma during the 1957-58 academic year
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Active in Terre Haute civic affairs, including resettling Vietnamese refugees, establishing the local Bread for the World chapter, and planning the original Banks of the Wabash Festival
Legislative Description
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing Dorothy Weitz Drummond.