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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The highest award the National  Council  of  the
 3    Boy  Scouts  of  America  can  bestow upon a Scout is that of
 4    Eagle Scout; and

 5        WHEREAS, Andrew S. Gounardes of Boy Scout Troop  715,  in
 6    Bay  Ridge Brooklyn, New York, received the Eagle Scout Award
 7    on June 6, 2002; and

 8        WHEREAS, In order to qualify as an Eagle Scout,  a  young
 9    man  must  demonstrate outstanding qualities of leadership, a
10    willingness to be of help to others, and superior  skills  in
11    camping, lifesaving, and first aid; and

12        WHEREAS,  Andrew  has  been  in scouting for 10 years; he
13    started in 1993 as a Cub Scout  in  Pack  715,  and  after  3
14    years, he earned the Arrow of Light award as a Webelos Scout;
15    as a member of Troop 715, he joined the Wolf Patrol and began
16    to  work  his  way through the ranks; he served the troop and
17    the patrol as  the  Scribe,  the  Quartermaster,  the  Patrol
18    Leader, the Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, the Senior Patrol
19    Leader,   the   Chaplain   Aide,  and  the  Junior  Assistant
20    Scoutmaster; he earned 21 merit badges on his trail to  Eagle
21    Scout; and

22        WHEREAS,  To  attain  the rank of Eagle Scout, each young
23    man must complete an Eagle Scout project;  Andrew  helped  to
24    reorganize  the  Sumas  Library for Children located at Saint
25    Basil Academy, a home for children of dysfunctional  families
26    from  primarily  the  Orthodox faith; the library houses over
27    20,000 volumes, which were in no particular order whatsoever;
28    over an 8-month period, Andrew and other volunteers organized
29    all the volumes according to contemporary  library  standards
30    and  removed outdated volumes; through donations, the library
31    was  able  to  purchase  new  furniture  and   order   3-year
32    subscriptions  to over 11 different magazines; today, over 60
 
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 1    children  served  by  Saint  Basil  Academy  have   a   fully
 2    functional  and  up-to-date library to assist them with their
 3    studies; and

 4        WHEREAS, In earning this  high  rank,  Andrew  joined  an
 5    elite and honorable fraternity of achievers that counts among
 6    its  members  an  extraordinary number of this nation's great
 7    leaders in business, government, education, and other sectors
 8    of society; and

 9        WHEREAS, The achievement  of  the  rank  of  Eagle  Scout
10    reflects  favorably  upon  the  recipient,  his  justly proud
11    family, his Scoutmaster, and his fellow scouts; therefore, be
12    it

13        RESOLVED,  BY  THE   HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF   THE
14    NINETY-THIRD  GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
15    we congratulate Andrew S. Gounardes on the many honors he has
16    earned as an Eagle Scout and commend him upon the  unswerving
17    dedication  to  excellence  that is the hallmark of the Eagle
18    Scout; and be it further

19        RESOLVED, That a suitable  copy  of  this  resolution  be
20    presented to Eagle Scout Andrew S. Gounardes as an expression
21    of our respect and esteem.