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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Rollins Currie is retiring after more than 57 |
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| years at the Bloomington Country Club; and
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| WHEREAS, Rollins grew up in Centralia, and started working |
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| for the Bloomington Country Club on March 22, 1947; he worked |
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| his way up from dishwasher, to locker attendant, to head of the |
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| Grill Room, before being made Assistant Manager in January |
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| 1981; he has eight children, nine grandchildren, and three |
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| great-grandchildren; and
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| WHEREAS, He has worked hard through the years training the |
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| hundreds of employees who have come and gone; he tried to |
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| impress upon them the values of honesty, integrity, and good |
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| service at all times; he has done "about everything at the |
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| club", including waiting and bussing tables, shining shoes, and |
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| even keeping the books; one of the greatest rewards of his many |
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| years is the number of former employees who come back to see |
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| him; one of his greatest achievements is his success in adding |
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| more children's activities and parties at the club; and
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| WHEREAS, For 27 years, he walked to and from work, |
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| averaging 12 miles a day; typically, he would time his early |
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| morning walk to arrive at the club around 8 a.m.; he would work |
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| until 2 p.m., and walk back home; he would then return to the |
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| club at 5 p.m., and return home at 11 p.m. or midnight; people |
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| along his route knew him as "the man with the cigar"; his |
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| favorite times to walk would be in the misty rain or just at |
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| dark in the winter when it was just beginning to snow; and
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| WHEREAS, And now he is walking into retirement; his last |
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| day at the Bloomington County Club will be December 31, 2004; |
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| he will continue his practice of keeping his nine grandchildren |
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| and three great-grandchildren by himself for four days every |
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| January, but he will miss the "kids" in his larger, extended |
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