A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of
     Laurie Shaffer Bottoms.

     With deepest respect and admiration, we pay homage and tribute to
     Laurie Shaffer Bottoms, and we pause in silent reverence for her
     soul.

     WHEREAS, it is with heavy hearts and deep sadness when we reflect
     upon the untimely passing of Laurie Shaffer Bottoms on November
     19, 1999, in Los Angeles, California; and

     WHEREAS, Laurie Shaffer Bottoms was the devoted wife of Thomas
     C. Boysen of Santa Monica, California; she was the loving mother
     of Suzanne Bottoms of New York City, Anne-Marie Boysen of Irvine
     California, Thomas C. Boysen, Jr., of Bellevue, Washington, and
     Sarah Bottoms, who resides with her husband Marc Magnus-Shale and
     their son, John David, in Asheville, North Carolina; she was the
     loving daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. John Nevin Shaffer; and
     she was the loving sister of Floy Lilley and John Nevin Shaffer,
     Jr., all of Austin, Texas; and

     WHEREAS, Laurie Shaffer Bottoms received her bachelor's degree
     from the College of William and Mary; she earned her Master's
     Degree in English and her Ph.D. in English Literature from
     Fordham University; and she earned her School District
     Administrator Certification from Columbia University; and

     WHEREAS, during Laurie Shaffer Bottoms impressive and outstanding
     career, she chaired English Departments at the Buckley School in
     Sherman Oaks, California, at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford,
     Connecticut, and at San Francisco University High School in San
     Francisco, California; and with her last assignment being
     Assistant Head of the Milken Community High School in Los
     Angeles, California, where she was engaged with her colleagues in
     the creation of an academically and spiritually outstanding
     independent Jewish high school, attracting outstanding educators
     to that school and teaching honor students and Israeli exchange
     students there, an endeavor that was most gratifying to her; and

     WHEREAS, she came to Kentucky with her husband, Dr. Thomas
     C. Boysen, Kentucky's first appointed state Commissioner of
     Education; her accomplishments as an educator exemplified her
     professionalism in the classroom with much of her academic career
     being devoted to improving reading and writing at all levels to
     include technological and visual literacy; in 1991, she became an
     Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of
     Education; she served as the Director of the Bluegrass Writing
     Project, and she will be best remembered and long admired in
     Kentucky as the founding Executive Director of the Carnegie
     Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky; and

     WHEREAS, the passing of Laurie Shaffer Bottoms has left a void
     that will be difficult to fill, and she is mourned across the
     length and breadth of the Commonwealth;

     NOW, THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the Senate of the General
     Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:



     Section 1.  The Senate does hereby express its profound sense of
     sorrow upon the passing of Laurie Shaffer Bottoms and extends to
     her family and many friends its most heartfelt sympathy.

     Section 2.  The passion, dedication, intelligence, and social
     consciousness Laurie Shaffer Bottoms brought to the Commonwealth
     of Kentucky and to this great nation will never be forgotten, and
     her influence will continue through her students.

     Section 3.  When the Senate adjourns this day, it does so in
     loving memory and honor of Laurie Shaffer Bottoms.

     Section 4.  The Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to
     transmit a copy of this Resolution to Dr. Thomas C. Boysen, Santa
     Monica, California.
     

UNOFFICIAL COPY AS OF  01/26/00	00 REG. SESS.	00 RS BR 1853
BR185300.100-1853		

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