First Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. R97@0073.01 EBD
STATE OF COLORADO
BY SENATOR Pascoe;
also REPRESENTATIVE Tate.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 97-5
CONCERNING CONGRATULATING THE DENVER CITYWIDE MARCHING
BAND ON ITS APPEARANCE IN THE 1997 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE.
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band has brought
great honor to the residents of Denver and to the whole state
of Colorado by performing in the 1997 Tournament of Roses Parade
in Pasadena, California; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band was formed
in 1980 through the combined efforts of students, parents, teachers,
and the Denver community; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band consists
of two hundred members from the city's ten high schools, bringing
young people together from across the city and fostering civic
pride and understanding; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band Parents
Corporation provides 13,000 volunteer hours and $75,000 per year
to support the efforts of these young people; and
WHEREAS, Every member of the Denver Citywide Marching
Band completes a four-week music camp during the summer and one
practice session a week all year; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band has provided
countless hours of inspiration and entertainment to the residents
of Denver, the citizens of Colorado, and the citizens of this
country; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band has marched
at the Liberty Bowl, the Copper Bowl, and the Alamo Bowl; and
WHEREAS, The Rose Parade, which was seen by one million
people in person and on television by another five hundred million
people in both the United States and ninety other countries, is
a shining moment for the members of the band and the pinnacle
of their success; and
WHEREAS, The members of the Denver Citywide Marching
Band, through their own hard work and self-discipline, raised
all of the money necessary for their participation in the Tournament
of Roses Parade; and
WHEREAS, The members of the Denver Citywide Marching
Band were required to rise at three a.m., be in formation by six
a.m., and march for two and a half hours over the five mile Tournament
of Roses Parade; and
WHEREAS, The Denver Citywide Marching Band's appearance
at the tournament of Roses Parade was the first appearance by
a Denver band in the Parade's one hundred eight year history,
and the band was one of only thirteen bands not from California
to perform in this year's Parade; and
WHEREAS, The performance of these young people has
demonstrated to the nation and to the world the spirit of Colorado
and our values of hard work, cooperation, and determination; now,
therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-first
General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives
concurring herein:
That we, the members of the Senate and the House
of Representatives of the Colorado General Assembly extend our
warmest congratulations to the Denver Citywide Marching Band on
their appearance at this year's Tournament of Roses Parade.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Board of Directors of the Denver Citywide Marching Band Parents Corporation, the principal of each Denver high school, the Denver School Board, and the Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools.