A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

CONGRATULATING RICHARD P. "RICK" FELDER, III, OF COLUMBIA ON RECEIVING THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES' DIVISION OF LAND RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION DISTRICTS 1994 OUTSTANDING DIVISION EMPLOYEE AWARD AND THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD.

Whereas, state government employee Richard P. "Rick" Felder, III, of Columbia was recently honored at the annual joint conference of the South Carolina Association of Conservation Districts, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' Division of Land Resources and Conservation Districts, and the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service in Charleston; and

Whereas, Mr. Felder, manager of conservation program development with the South Carolina Department of National Resources' (DNR) Division of Land Resources and Conservation Districts, received the Division's 1994 Outstanding Division Employee award and the DNR Meritorious Service Award; and

Whereas, he is a native of Summerton and is the first employee of the newly formed natural resources agency to be so honored; and

Whereas, throughout the almost eleven years he has worked with conservation districts, Mr. Felder has helped many districts throughout the State develop and expand their local education programs; and

Whereas, a graduate of Clemson University, Mr. Felder is an Eagle Scout and a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow; and

Whereas, Rick Felder is an outstanding and exemplary state employee who is highly deserving of the recognition he has received. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, congratulates Richard P. "Rick" Felder, III, of Columbia on receiving the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' Division of Land Resources and Conservation Districts 1994 Outstanding Division Employee award and the Department of Natural Resources Meritorious Service Award.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. Felder and to: Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Felder, Jr., his parents; Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Felder, his grandparents; Dr. James Timmerman, Director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; and Mr. Cary Chamblee, Division Director, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

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Sacrifices Pleasing to God

Hebrews 13

1 Let brotherly love continue.

2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. --

Theodore Roosevelt