HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 04091991 - 91-207 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF )
Honoring Mr. Thomas Long on being)
named "Humanitarian of the Year" )
by the Easter Seal Society of )
Contra Costa/Solano/Napa Counties) RESOLUTION NO. 91/ 207
WHEREAS, Mr. Thomas Long was born in Covelo, California, and graduated
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1932; and
WHEREAS, in 1938 , Mr. Long and his brother, Joseph Long, founded Longs
Drug Stores and, within fifty years, built it into one of the five hundred
largest businesses in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Long, who has lived in Alamo since 1950, has contributed
greatly over the years to many charitable interests, including the John
Muir Medical Center, the Regional Center for the Arts, Longs Theater and
the School of Pharmacy at the University of the Pacific and the UC Berkeley
band; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Long has been a member of the University of the Pacific
Board of Regents, was a University of California, Berkeley Fellow in 1972 ,
and was named the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce businessperson of the
year in 1981; and
WHEREAS, in 1982 , Thomas Long established Camp Lisa, the first totally
accessible camping site for the disabled within a California State Park, in
the Plumas-Eureka State Park near Johnsville; and
WHEREAS, in October, 1990, the administration of Camp Lisa was taken
over- by the Easter Seals Society and 1991 will be the first year that the
facility will be a full-time summer camp for the disabled; and
WHEREAS, the Easter Seals Society of Contra Costa/Solano/Napa Counties
has named Thomas J. Long "Humanitarian of the Year for 1991" for his many
years of community contributions and will honor him with a dinner on April
11, 1991.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors of
Contra Costa County THANKS Mr. Thomas Long for the efforts he has made to
enrich the lives of the disabled through the establishment of Camp Lisa and
the lives of others through his many other benevolent contributions and
hereby COMMENDS Mr. Long on being named "Humanitarian of the Year. "
PASSED AND ADOPTED by unanimous vote of the Board members present on
this 9th day of April, 1991.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a
resolution entered on the minutes of said Board of Supervisors on the date
aforesaid.
I Y:
BERT I. SCHRODER
District III
M POWERS, CHAIR NANCY C. AHDEN
District I 4 " Distric I
SUNNE W. MCPEAK � TOM TORLARSON
District IV District V
Witness my hand and the Seal
of the Board of Supervisors
affixed this 9th day of
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