PRINTER'S NO. 3845
No. 774 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS, BELFANTI, FAIRCHILD, CALTAGIRONE, CUTLER, DONATUCCI, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEORGE, GIBBONS, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, JAMES, KULA, MAJOR, MANTZ, MILLARD, D. O'BRIEN, PAYNE, ROCK, RUBLEY, SAINATO, SCAVELLO, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH, J. WHITE, MYERS, BEYER AND SIPTROTH, JUNE 4, 2008
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JUNE 4, 2008
A RESOLUTION 1 Honoring the Prehistoric Journeys team on its efforts relating 2 to the Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) excelsus dinosaur. 3 WHEREAS, The people of this Commonwealth are justly proud of 4 the Prehistoric Journeys team of Sunbury, who have earned 5 themselves a niche in paleontological annals by preparing, 6 reconstructing and display-mounting the complete 72-foot-long 7 skeleton of the first Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) excelsus 8 dinosaur with an original, related skull; and 9 WHEREAS, Barry James and April Rhodes-James, owners of 10 Prehistoric Journeys, along with their able team members, Giles 11 Wickham, Dean Raker, Scott Rohrbach and Aaron Whyne, have 12 completed the Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) excelsus dinosaur 13 project in the Sunbury workshop; and 14 WHEREAS, The finding is significant as a major scientific 15 discovery for the 21st century because it is the first 16 discovered dinosaur of this species with an incomparable 85% of
1 its skeleton and a skull and brain case; and 2 WHEREAS, It can now be shown exactly how this dinosaur looked 3 during its lifetime some 140 million years ago in what is now 4 Wyoming, where the skeleton was found and excavated on private 5 ranch land; and 6 WHEREAS, The skeleton was shipped by Cellitti Movers of 7 Sunbury to the workshop of Prehistoric Journeys for preparation 8 and display-mounting; and 9 WHEREAS, For 130 years, since the first Apatosaurus 10 (Brontosaurus) excelsus dinosaur bones were discovered and 11 named, a related skull has never been found until that of 12 "Einstein"; and 13 WHEREAS, Other citizens of central Pennsylvania who assisted 14 in various ways to ensure this project was brought to fruition 15 were John and Karen Campbell of Sunbury, Nancy Cleaver and Misha 16 Kryzytski of Lewisburg, Hugh and Mary Grimes of Selinsgrove, 17 Kate Lesslie and Chris Snyder of Lewisburg, Robert and Sanae 18 Poust of Sunbury and Rodney Raker of Sunbury; and 19 WHEREAS, The Prehistoric Journeys team is an outstanding 20 example of a scientific business going above and beyond the 21 criteria, and it is deserving of congratulations and 22 commendation; therefore be it 23 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the 24 Prehistoric Journeys team on its unique talents, its dedication 25 and its valuable work in bringing this scientifically 26 significant Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) excelsus dinosaur 27 skeleton back to life; and be it further 28 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives extend its best 29 wishes to the Prehistoric Journeys team for continued success in 30 its future endeavors; and be it further 20080H0774R3845 - 2 -
1 RESOLVED, That suitably prepared copies of this resolution be 2 transmitted to Barry James and April Rhodes-James, Dean Raker, 3 Scott Rohrbach and Aaron Whyne. E30L82JS/20080H0774R3845 - 3 -