STATE OF CALIFORNIA
AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 68 RESOLUTION CHAPTER 103 Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 68—Relative to the First Lady Pat Nixon Memorial Highway. [Filed with Secretary of State August 1, 2022.]
legislative counsel’s digest
SCR 68, Archuleta. First Lady Pat Nixon Memorial Highway. This measure would designate the portion of State Route 91, from the Pioneer Boulevard undercrossing to the Carmenita Road overcrossing, as the First Lady Pat Nixon Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs. WHEREAS, On March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nevada, First Lady Pat Nixon was born Thelma Catherine Ryan; and WHEREAS, She was given the nickname Patricia, or “Pat” by her father because she was born just hours shy of Saint Patrick’s Day; and WHEREAS, Mrs. Nixon attended Pioneer Boulevard Grammar School in the City of Artesia (now the City of Cerritos), California and Excelsior High School in the City of Norwalk, California; and WHEREAS, Mrs. Nixon graduated from the University of Southern California in 1937, becoming the first Presidential First Lady to earn a graduate degree, and subsequently began teaching at Whittier Union High School in the City of Whittier, California; and WHEREAS, Pat met Richard Nixon in February 1938 and they married two years later in the City of Riverside, California; and WHEREAS, The couple had two daughters, Patricia and Julie Nixon; and WHEREAS, Throughout her lifetime of service, Mrs. Nixon fundamentally transformed the roles of both Second Lady and First Lady, redefining them for an entire generation of people who would follow her; and WHEREAS, In 1953, then Second Lady Pat Nixon, as wife of the Vice President of the United States, led an extensive two-month tour through Asia and the Pacific, including visiting Cambodia, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan; and WHEREAS, On January 20, 1969, Pat Nixon became the First Lady of the United States of America; and WHEREAS, Mrs. Nixon championed and supported the societal advancement of women and girls by endorsing the Equal Rights Amendment, 96