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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022 | |
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S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N | |
JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF MS. DORABELLE SMITH ON | |
FEBRUARY 21, 2022, AND THANKING HER FOR HER SERVICE TO OUR NATION | |
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Introduced By: Senator V. Susan Sosnowski | |
Date Introduced: March 01, 2022 | |
Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar | |
1 | WHEREAS, The year 1922, the year of Ms. Dorabelle Smith’s birth, was an important |
2 | time in American and World history. The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated, the BBC was formed, |
3 | the Irish Free State was established, famed Center Court was completed at Wimbledon, and the |
4 | “new technology” of radio was exploding across the United States and the world; and |
5 | WHEREAS, Prices of goods in 1922 are hard to believe for folks of later generations. A |
6 | fresh chicken was only 30 cents a pound, lean fresh pork roast was only 12 cents a pound, eggs |
7 | were 35 cents a dozen, a sixteen ounce loaf of bread was only five cents, and a new frying pan |
8 | could be attained for merely ten cents; and |
9 | WHEREAS, The world welcomed Ms. Dorabelle Smith on February 21, 1922. She was |
10 | born in Pennsylvania, and during World War II she enlisted in the United States Navy and went |
11 | to boot camp in the State of New York. She then proceeded to attend Tech School in Oklahoma |
12 | and served our nation with tireless devotion and distinction as an airplane mechanic at Quonset |
13 | Naval Air Station from 1942 to the end of the Second World War. While serving in the Navy, |
14 | Ms. Smith, whose maiden name was Johnson, was given the nickname of “Johnnie”, a name she |
15 | goes by to this day; and |
16 | WHEREAS, After her service, Ms. Smith settled in Rhode Island where she and her |
17 | husband, Laurence Smith, raised three children. She later retired from the Navy Exchange and |
18 | has lived a very full and active life in retirement. One of the highlights of her retirement years |
19 | occurred on September 15, 2018, when she fittingly was chosen to be a member of the Honor |
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1 | Flight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transporting as many veterans as possible to see the |
2 | memorials of the wars they served in, at no cost to the veterans. Ms. Smith also had the honor of |
3 | being one of the veterans to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an event she says |
4 | she will never forget; now, therefore be it |
5 | RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby joyously celebrates the |
6 | 100th Birthday of Ms. Dorabelle Smith on February 21, 2022, and thanks her for her service to |
7 | our nation during World War II; and be it further |
8 | RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
9 | transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Ms. Dorabelle Smith. |
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