State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  2002  

707H0737  
SENATE COMMEMORATION   NO.     9  

        Introduced by: Senators Apa, Albers, Brosz, Brown (Arnold), Daugaard, Dennert, Drake, Duxbury, Ham, Kleven, McCracken, Staggers, and Whiting and Representatives Derby, Burg, Eccarius, Heineman, Konold, Lange, Pederson (Gordon), and Smidt  



         A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION,  Honoring Dr. Thomas R. Hills of Black Hills State University on twenty-five years of outstanding service to the South Dakota Legislative Internship Program.

     WHEREAS,  Dr. Thomas R. Hills, professor of political science at Black Hills State University, began serving as a campus coordinator for the South Dakota Legislative Internship Program during the 1977-78 school year; and

     WHEREAS,  Dr. Hills, since that first year, has assisted in the recruitment of over one hundred Black Hills State University students as legislative interns and has served as a valuable mentor to these students; and

     WHEREAS,  Dr. Hills has been a model campus coordinator and a valuable advisor to, and a promoter of, the South Dakota Legislative Internship Program, year after year; and

     WHEREAS,  this year marks the twenty-fifth consecutive year in which Dr. Hills has served as a campus coordinator for the South Dakota Legislative Internship Program at Black Hills State University:

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED,  by the Seventy-seventh Legislature of the State of South Dakota, that Dr. Thomas R. Hills of Black Hills State University be hereby recognized, congratulated, and thanked for twenty-five years of dedicated and outstanding service to the South Dakota Legislature as a campus coordinator for the South Dakota Legislative Internship Program.