PRINTER'S NO. 3122
No. 363 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON, BROWN, BAKER, BELARDI, BENNINGHOFF,
CALTAGIRONE, CIVERA, L. I. COHEN, COLAFELLA, COY, CURRY,
DiGIROLAMO, FAIRCHILD, FICHTER, FLEAGLE, GEIST, HALUSKA,
HARHART, HERSHEY, HORSEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KENNEY, LAUGHLIN,
MAITLAND, McNAUGHTON, MELIO, OLASZ, PESCI, PIPPY, READSHAW,
ROBERTS, ROBINSON, ROSS, SAYLOR, SCHULER, SEYFERT, SHANER,
B. SMITH, WOJNAROSKI AND BARD, MARCH 12, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS,
MARCH 12, 1998
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Memoralizing the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee of the United
2 States Postal Service to consider and recommend to the United
3 States Postal Service Board of Governors the issuance of an
4 "Ida Tarbell" commemorative stamp.
5 WHEREAS, Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in 1857 in a log home
6 on her maternal grandfather's farm located in northwest
7 Pennsylvania; and
8 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell was raised in Titusville during the
9 1860s when the oil industry was developing and flourishing; and
10 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell was one of the first women to enter
11 Allegheny College in the fall of 1876; and
12 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell authored 23 major books, including "The
13 History of the Standard Oil Company" and nine books about
14 Abraham Lincoln; and
15 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell was a historian and journalist in search
16 of documented facts and not the advocate of a cause or a
1 reformer; and
2 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell pioneered historical research and set
3 standards which professionals today strive to emulate; and
4 WHEREAS, Ida Turbell died of pneumonia on January 6, 1944,
5 and was buried at the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in
6 Titusville; and
7 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell's passion for truth and knowledge is an
8 enduring legacy for the citizens of this Commonwealth and
9 deserves special recognition; therefore be it
10 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
11 memoralize the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee of the United
12 States Postal Service to consider and recommend to the United
13 States Postal Service Board of Governors the issuance of an "Ida
14 Tarbell" commemorative stamp.
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