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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Elizabeth Chu Richter has been inducted into the |
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Corpus Christi Business Hall of Fame by Junior Achievement of South |
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Texas; and |
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WHEREAS, A worldwide, nonprofit organization, Junior |
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Achievement is committed to educating young people about free |
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enterprise and entrepreneurship and fostering financial literacy; |
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the organization's Corpus Christi Business Hall of Fame recognizes |
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local individuals who have achieved excellence in their field and |
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who have demonstrated vision and innovation, inspiring leadership, |
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and community mindedness; and |
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WHEREAS, Elizabeth Chu Richter is the CEO of Richter |
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Architects, an award-winning architectural design and planning |
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firm that she co-owns with her husband, David Richter; she is |
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particularly noted for the inventive community-focused and |
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family-focused design vision that she brings to many civic and |
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public building projects; among her commissions is the Brooks |
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County Safety Rest Area, which earned one of 13 Honor Awards for |
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architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in |
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1999; the rest stop shared that distinction with an art museum in |
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Helsinki, Finland, and the headquarters of the World Bank, in |
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Washington, D.C.; she has also joined with her husband in creating a |
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series of two-minute radio spots called "The Shape of Texas," which |
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has served to increase public awareness and understanding of |
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architecture and its possibilities; and |
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WHEREAS, Born in Nanjing, China, Ms. Richter attended schools |
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in Hong Kong before moving to Dallas with her family at the age of |
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13; she graduated from The University of Texas with a bachelor's |
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degree in architecture in 1974; after college, she balanced raising |
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her three children with working part-time as an architect until |
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1989, when she joined Richter Architects full-time; certified as a |
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green builder through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental |
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Design program with the U.S. Green Building Council, she is the |
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recipient of a 2001 Young Architect Award from the AIA, and in 2005 |
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she was elected to the AIA College of Fellows, one of the highest |
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honors that the organization can bestow on a member; and |
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WHEREAS, Elizabeth Chu Richter has made an impressive |
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contribution to the built environment of South Texas, and through |
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her work she has touched the lives of many fellow citizens; now, |
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therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas |
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Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby congratulate Elizabeth Chu |
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Richter on her induction into the Corpus Christi Business Hall of |
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Fame and extend to her sincere best wishes for continued success; |
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and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for Ms. Richter as an expression of high regard by the |
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Texas House of Representatives. |