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      <title>Debbie Mitchell [Signature #224]</title>
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      <title>Jody Craine [Signature #222]</title>
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      <title>Denasha Oliver [Signature #220]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Denasha Oliver, Murphysboro, Illinois, United States of America<p>She deserves this!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Anita Ellis Whitson [Signature #219]</title>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #218]</title>
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      <title>amy falaster [Signature #217]</title>
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      <title>Joyce Terpstra [Signature #216]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Joyce Terpstra, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America<p>BELEIVE the arts are important in every community</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Dunn, Forney, Texas, United States of America<p>Mrs. Sims was the greatest!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Julia Barringer [Signature #211]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jaycee Blaskowski, Mesa, Arizona<p>I was born and raised in Murphysboro and had Mrs. Simms as a teacher. She was a wonderful teacher and I love the idea of honoring her memory in this way.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Debbie Mifflin [Signature #208]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Debbie Mifflin, Murphysboro, Illinois, United States of America<p>Leah Sims is the best !!! She definitely deserves this !!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Cathedral City, California, United States of America<p>Mrs. Sims was an inspiration every time she spoke to me.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Terry Polk [Signature #203]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Debbie Cook, Erin, Tn, United States of America<p>Loved her . Choral music, chorus. She was an excellent teacher in music.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Lori Lee [Signature #199]</title>
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      <title>James Morgan [Signature #198]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wayne Whittington, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America<p>Leah Sims....with great joy it is my great pleasure to support this petition. I am her first project student. Mrs Sims used ordinary students and did extraordinary things. Her gift was to reach inside of each child and find and draw out the very best within them. It was to the point that once she showed you what you had inside she then taught you how to draw more of it out of yourself and perfect it. The way she taught , the songs we sang...even to the plays taught us to act were all life&#039;s lessons in themselves. She never talked about what she believed yet her life revealed who she was. I cannot think of a greater privilege than to show my support for a woman that did more for me inwardly in one class than in all my years of primary education combined. Please , act to accordance with the policies of the murphysboro school board in the city of murphysboro Illinois to acknowledge the impact of one Mrs Leah Sims. I motion support the naming of the center for the performing arts henceforth and forever in murphysboro high school the &quot;Leah Sims Center for the Performing Arts&quot;.<br />
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