Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 52–Senators Raggio, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Townsend, Washington and Wiener

 

June 1, 2001

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Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Dini, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Oceguera, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams

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Read and Adopted

 

SUMMARY—Commends Shelba Gamble for her service as Administrative Assistant to President of University of Nevada, Reno. (BDR R‑1568)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Senate Concurrent RESOLUTION—Commending Shelba Gamble for her service as Administrative Assistant to the President of the University of Nevada, Reno.

 

1-1    Whereas, Shelba Jean Gallaher Gamble was born on January 31, 1938,

1-2  in Lockesburg, Arkansas, the youngest of the four children of Robbie and

1-3  Thelma Gallaher; and

1-4    Whereas, Shelba excelled as an athlete and a scholar during her school

1-5  years by achieving the status of all-county basketball player in junior high

1-6  school and by attaining the rank of salutatorian of the 1956 graduating

1-7  class of Lockesburg High School; and

1-8    Whereas, Shelba Gamble attended Texarkana College, where in

1-9  addition to her scholastic endeavors, she performed as a member of the

1-10  Starlet Dance Troupe; and

1-11    Whereas, Shelba Gamble served as an able member of the staff of the

1-12  Political Science Department at the University of Arkansas from 1967 to

1-13  1969 and also served in several different staff capacities for the State of

1-14  Arkansas from 1969 to 1976; and

2-1    Whereas, Shelba Gamble was actively involved in the campaigns of

2-2  Winthrop Rockefeller and Ted Boswell for Governor of Arkansas and Dale

2-3  Bumpers for United States Senator from that state; and

2-4    Whereas, Shelba Gamble came to Nevada in 1976, as a single mother

2-5  of a young child, to serve in the administration of President Max Milam at

2-6  the University of Nevada, Reno; and

2-7    Whereas, Continuing to serve the University in the key position of

2-8  Administrative Assistant to Presidents Joseph Crowley and Stephen

2-9  McFarlane, Shelba concluded this assignment in June 2001, after 25 years

2-10  of distinguished service; and

2-11    Whereas, During her quarter century at the University of Nevada,

2-12  Reno, Shelba Gamble carried out the complex responsibility of managing

2-13  the President’s office and staff, served as a member of the President’s

2-14  Cabinet, fulfilled a role as a key adviser to three presidents, and continually

2-15  exhibited patience, a caring attitude and a willingness to listen while

2-16  interacting with the many visitors who came daily to the President’s office;

2-17  and

2-18    Whereas, Shelba Gamble has touched the lives of thousands of

2-19  students, faculty, staff and others during her career at the University, is

2-20  admired and respected for her distinguished performance of a difficult and

2-21  challenging job, and will be fondly remembered for her service by a legion

2-22  of friends; and

2-23    Whereas, After raising her daughter, Sean, who is a graduate of the

2-24  University of Nevada, Reno, Shelba is now the proud grandmother of Bryn

2-25  and wishes to spend more time with her loving family; now, therefore, be it

2-26    Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, the Assembly

2-27  Concurring, That the members of the Nevada Legislature pay special

2-28  tribute to Shelba Jean Gamble on the occasion of her departure from the

2-29  position of Administrative Assistant to the President of the University of

2-30  Nevada, Reno, a position that she so capably filled; and be it further

2-31    Resolved, That the Nevada Legislature wishes Shelba Jean Gamble a

2-32  happy and productive retirement, and much well-deserved quality time

2-33  with her loving family; and be it further

2-34    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy

2-35  of this resolution to Shelba Jean Gamble and to the University of Nevada,

2-36  Reno.

 

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