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File #: 2009-1496    Version: 1
Type: Proclamation Status: Adopted
File created: 6/9/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 6/9/2009
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Title: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh, does hereby commend and congratulate Professor Eddie Rose on his superior accomplish­ments and his dedication to the youth of the City of Pittsburgh, and does hereby declare June 9, 2009, to be “Professor Eddie Rose Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.
Sponsors: Darlene M. Harris, All Members
Indexes: PROCLAMATION - MRS. HARRIS
Attachments: 1. 2009-1496.doc
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WHEREAS, Eddie Rose is the Founder and Head Master of ToraHana-Ryu Fighting Science, a Seicho Jutsu Master Instructor, Internationally Certified 8th Degree Black Belt, and eight-time International Martial Arts Hall of Fame Inductee, not to mention a member of the prestigious Circle of Masters and World Head of Family Sokeship Council; and
 
WHEREAS, Eddie Rose was at one time an "at-risk" youth and adjudicated juvenile felon; and
 
WHEREAS, the application of spiritual and universal principles in marital training have made a major positive impact upon Eddie Rose, and he brings his lifelong care and concern for helping and mentoring young people to join with Jay Donaldson and the P.R.O.M.I.S.E. Group to create the P.R.O.M.I.S.E. Martial Arts & Fitness Program on the North Side of Pittsburgh; and
 
WHEREAS, the P.R.O.M.I.S.E. Martial Arts & Fitness Program will coach and train young people between the ages of five and seventeen years old in the unique ToraHana-Ryu Fighting Science and the innovative Seicho Jutsu, addressing specifically the needs of at-risk youth, and looking toward growing this program into a modern self-development and rites-of-passage training institute;
 
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh, does hereby commend and congratulate Professor Eddie Rose on his superior accomplishments and his dedication to the youth of the City of Pittsburgh, and does hereby declare June 9, 2009, to be "Professor Eddie Rose Day" in the City of Pittsburgh.