SENATE COMMEMORATION   NO. 5

        Introduced by: Senators Cradduck, Albers, Apa, Bogue, Brosz, Brown (Arnold), Daugaard, de Hueck, Dennert, Diedrich (Larry), Diedtrich (Elmer), Drake, Duxbury, Everist, Greenfield, Hagen, Ham, Hutmacher, Kleven, Koetzle, Koskan, Madden, McCracken, McIntyre, Moore, Munson, Olson (Ed), Putnam, Reedy, Staggers, Sutton (Dan), Symens, Vitter, Volesky, and Whiting and Representatives Richter, Abdallah, Adelstein, Bartling, Begalka, Bradford, Broderick, Brown (Jarvis), Brown (Richard), Burg, Clark, Davis, Derby, Duenwald, Duniphan, Eccarius, Elliott, Flowers, Frost, Fryslie, Garnos, Gillespie, Glenski, Hansen (Tom), Hanson (Gary), Hargens, Heineman, Hennies (Don), Hennies (Thomas), Holbeck, Hundstad, Hunhoff, Jaspers, Jensen, Juhnke, Klaudt, Kloucek, Koistinen, Konold, Kooistra, Lange, Lintz, Madsen, McCaulley, McCoy, Michels, Monroe, Murschel, Nachtigal, Napoli, Nesselhuf, Olson (Mel), Pederson (Gordon), Peterson (Bill), Peterson (Jim), Pitts, Pummel, Rhoden, Sebert, Sigdestad, Slaughter, Smidt, Solum, Sutton (Duane), Teupel, Valandra, Van Etten, Van Gerpen, Van Norman, and Wick  

         A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION,  Honoring Jeffrey Lukens of Sioux Falls as South Dakota's 2002 Teacher of the Year.

     WHEREAS,  Jeffrey Lukens, a science teacher and department chair at Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls, was chosen as the 2002 South Dakota Teacher of the Year and represented South Dakota in national competition for Teacher of the Year; and

     WHEREAS,  he has dedicated more than twenty-one years to the teaching profession, eleven of those years at Roosevelt High School; and

     WHEREAS,  he encourages his students to pursue the teaching profession and mentors student teachers from Augustana College; and

     WHEREAS,  he considers the ideal educator as someone who sees students through compassionate eyes, gauges their teaching performance against student expectations, and is accountable to the students:

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED,  by the Seventy-seventh Legislature of the State of South Dakota, that Jeffrey Lukens be congratulated upon his selection as South Dakota's 2002 Teacher of the Year.