00SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 2                                                                                               
01 Dedicating the Terry Miller Gallery of the Chamber of the Alaska Senate to Cliff                                        
02 Groh.                                                                                                                   
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE:                                                                                          
04  WHEREAS Senator Cliff Groh's qualities of diplomacy and intelligence won him                                         
05 leadership of the Senate Finance Committee in 1973; and                                                                 
06  WHEREAS Cliff Groh helped lead the fight for statehood as a founder of "Little Men                                   
07 for Statehood" and as the first chair of "Operation Statehood"; and                                                     
08  WHEREAS  Cliff Groh's hometown of Anchorage honored him as its School Board                                          
09 President, Mayor Pro-Tem, and Charter Commission Chair; and                                                             
10  WHEREAS Cliff Groh is fondly remembered for his annual portrayal, in stovepipe                                       
11 hat and frock coat, of Abraham Lincoln because Cliff not only looked and talked like the                                
12 Great Emancipator, but Cliff's integrity, sense of humor, and compassion likened them to each                           
13 other in the minds of many;                                                                                             
14  BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Senate that, upon the effective date of a bill                                    

01 passed by the Twenty-First Alaska State Legislature and enacted into law naming Capital                                 
02 School in Juneau as the Terry Miller Legislative Office Building, the public gallery of the                             
03 chamber of the Senate that is now known as the Terry Miller Gallery be dedicated to Senator                             
04 Cliff Groh; and be it                                                                                                   
05  FURTHER RESOLVED that a bronze plaque shall be placed on the door of the                                             
06 gallery designating it as the Cliff Groh Gallery.