HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02041992 - 1.21 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Congratulating )
Clarence Woodard ) Resolution No.: 92/59
Orinda Citizen of the Year, 1992--)
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard has been named Orinda's forty-second Citizen of the
Year; and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard moved to Orinda thirty-eight years ago with his late
wife, Patricia, and raised his family amidst the oaks and rolling hills, and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard coached and sponsored Orinda youth soccer, basketball,
and baseball teams, as well as coached the 1959 to 1962 championship Summer League
baseball team; and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard seeded the successful efforts to acquire the Orinda
School so that it could be converted by the citizens into the Orinda Community Center with an
initial $5,000 donation to the Orinda Foundation, along with his enthusiastic support; and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard led, directed, encouraged, and saw through the
successful campaign to bring the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, now renamed the California
Shakespeare Festival to the beautiful Siesta Valley in unincorporated Orinda; and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard lends his considerable energies and fundraising
expertise to such. diverse, local human services organizations as Clausen House, JFK
University, the Oakland Boys Club: and
WHEREAS Clarence Woodard has been lauded for his significant time and monetary
contributions to charity by the Easter Seal Society, the American Cancer Society, Episcopal
Charities of California and by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which named him a
National Lifetime Director.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Contra Costa, California, hereby CONGRATULATES Clarence Woodard on his selection
as the Orinda's forty-second Citizen of the Year, COMMENDS Clarence Woodard for his
unstinting and effective efforts to improve the health, welfare and cultural opportunities of the
people of Orinda and way beyond, and EXTENDS to Clarence Woodard its best wishes for
much further civic and charitable accomplishment and enjoyment.
PASSED and ADOPTED this fourth day of February, 1992, by unanimous vote of the
Board members present.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution entered in
the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
Witness my hand and the seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed this
fourth day of February, 1992.
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors and
County Adminis ter.
By Deputy Clerk
Introduced by:
Supervisor Na4W CfFanden---.-..,
Distrill