HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1964.06.22 - 20394Miscellaneous Resolution 4316 June 22, 1964
BY: Mr. Duncan
IN RE: RESOLUTION HONORING R. CLARE CUMMINGS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, R. Clare Cummings retired from this Board in April of 1964, after
serving 27 years as one of the City of Pontiac representatives on the Oakland County
Board of Supervisors, being appointed in 1937; and
WHEREAS, during all of these years, his conduct in public life and private life has
been most exemplary and that of a good and faithful public servant dedicated to the welfare
of the community as well as to his fellow man; and
WHEREAS, R. Clare Cummings served as Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of
Oakland County in 1944 and 1945; was a member of the Ways and Means Committee from
1939 to 1964; Planning Commission from 1949, when first organized, to the present time;
Huron-Clinton Authority from 1945 to the present; was Chairman of the County Coordinating
Zoning and Planning Committee from 1951 to 1964; a member of the Special County
Building Committee from 1952 to 1960, and has been a member of the Auditor General,
Juvenile Affairs and Salaries Committees; and
WHEREAS, R. Clare Cummings, being born in the nearby Village of Franklin and
a lifelong resident of Oakland County, was graduated from the Birmingham High School in
1903, became a teller in the Citizens Bank in Holly, later came to the City of Pontiac in
1912 and went into the insurance business, and in 1934 was one of the original founders
of the Pontiac Federal Savings and Loan Association and is presently Chairman of the Board
of that multimillion dollar financial organization;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Oakland County Board of Supervisors,
at a regular session on June 22, 1964, that a Certificate of Merit be awarded to R. Clare
Cummings, former Pontiac City Supervisor, for his long years of distinguished service to
Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, in grateful recognition of his service to the
County and his endeavors in the public interest, and in order that he might receive
the honors due him, we, the members of the Oakland County Board of Supervisors,
have this 22nd day of June A.D. 1964, unanimously adopted this resolution and have
authorized the County Clerk to affix the Seal of the County of Oakland thereto and to
present a certified copy of this resolution to R. Clare Cummings.
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Special Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
SPECIAL COMMITTF
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