344                               JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Stringer on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on February 23,
1958.

"Uncle" Stringer is an institution in the State House. Beginning
with the 1935 Session of the General Assembly and continuing with-
out interruption to the present, he has served the Department of
Legislative Reference and the Legislature with industry and de-
votion.

He is a native of Reisterstown, in Baltimore County, and except
for brief periods has resided all his life either in Baltimore County
or Baltimore City. Before his retirement, he took a long and active
part in the business, commercial and civic affairs of the Baltimore
community. As a young man barely out of his 'teens he enlisted in
the United States Army and served during the Spanish-American
War.

During most of the years he has spent in the State House, "Uncle"
served as reporter in the Senate for the Department of Legislative
Reference. More recently he has been in charge of the bill room
and legislative journal clerk.

Twenty-four years of State House oratory and legislative abraca-
dabra have left "Uncle" unchanged and unspoiled. He remains, as
first we knew him, the cracker-barrel philosopher, the salty humorist,
the past master of a ready quip, the puncturing wit for State House
egos, the constant individualist, the consistent realist, the unrecon-
structed rebel. He has kept, too, the ready smile, the friendly
greeting, the active mind, the zest for living with great gusto.

It is our pleasure and privilege to have had "Uncle" Stringer in
the State House since 1935, and to say that he has left an indelible
mark on the legislative processes for more than two decades would
be a masterpiece of understatement.

An eightieth birthday and a twenty-four year tenure in the State
House both are unusual. When they are combined in such a rare
personality as that of "Uncle" Stringer, the occasion is one for par-
ticular celebration. It is with deep respect and affection that the
members of the General Assembly of Maryland unite in this sin-
cere expression of their warm good wishes to him; now, therefore,
be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the hearty
congratulations and good wishes of this Body be extended to Edwin
L. Stringer, upon the occasion of his eightieth birthday and the com-
pletion of twenty-four years of service to the General Assembly; and
be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State of Maryland be directed to
send a copy of this Resolution to Mr. Stringer, under the Great Seal
of the State of Maryland and signed by the Governor of Maryland
and the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Delegates of the General Assembly of Maryland.

Approved March 6, 1958.