BILL NUMBER: ACR 167	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  162
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Achadjian and Nazarian
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brown, Ian Calderon, Gatto, Holden,
Olsen, Patterson, Wilk, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Buchanan, Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Garcia, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Jones, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Stone, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)
   (Coauthor: Senator Cannella)

                        JULY 3, 2014

   Relative to William Saroyan Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 167, Achadjian. William Saroyan Day.
   This measure would recognize August 31, 2014, as William Saroyan
Day.



   WHEREAS, On August 31, 1908, William Stonehill Saroyan was born in
Fresno, California and resided there for the majority of his life
before his death on May 18, 1981; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan served in the United States Army during
World War II and was stationed in Astoria, Queens, New York; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan was the father of two children, Aram and
Lucy; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan has over 4,000 literary works to his
credit, dating from the late 1920s to the early 1980s; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan wrote The Time of Your Life, for which he
was awarded the New York Drama Critics' Circle award in 1939 and the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan wrote The Human Comedy, which earned him
an Academy Award for Best Original Motion Picture Story in 1943; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan was inducted into the American Theater
Hall of Fame in 1979; and
   WHEREAS, Many of William Saroyan's stories are set in his native
Fresno, drawing international attention to this region; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan promoted the Armenian culture, drawing
international attention to the Armenian culture at a time when his
people were continually met with prejudice and oppression; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan's works portrayed the immigrant
experience in America and depicted human values such as freedom and
universal benevolence and emphasized the "basic goodness" of all
people; and
   WHEREAS, William Saroyan is recognized as one of the most
prominent literary figures of the mid-20th century; now, therefore,
be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes August 31, 2014,
as the anniversary of the birth of William Stonehill Saroyan, and
calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances
to remember William Stonehill Saroyan as one of the most prominent
literary figures of the mid-20th century; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.