HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 95-4619, by Representatives Jacobsen and Carlson

     WHEREAS, Political Science Professor Emeritus Hugh Bone of the University of Washington died last year at the age of eighty-five; and

     WHEREAS, IN 1956, Professor Bone, aided by a Ford Foundation grant, developed our state's legislative internship program which was one of the first of its kind in the nation and later was copied by many other state legislatures; and

     WHEREAS, Professor Bone counted as friends and allies politicians from both sides of the political aisle, along with numerous college students, lobbyists, and members of the media; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Bone was nationally acclaimed as a scholar of legislatures, political parties, state parties, elections, and voting and as such viewed politics as the very highest expression of human activities; and

     WHEREAS, Some thirteen years after Professor Bone had retired to emeritus status at the University of Washington he was recalled to duty in 1992 to run the legislative internship program he had begun;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Washington State House of Representatives that the life and accomplishments of Professor Emeritus Hugh Alvin Bone, Jr., be hereby acknowledged; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That his lasting legacy, the legislative internship program, be named in his honor, "The Hugh Bone Internship to the Washington State Legislature"; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives immediately transmit copies of this resolution to Professor Bone's two sons, Christopher H. Bone and William James Bone and to the political science department of the University of Washington.

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