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and Gay Streets, Baltimore, 21202, Adjutant Warren Conklin,
AmVets, 631 Biggs Avenue, Frederick 21701, Commander Thomas
Kresina, Catholic War Veterans, War Memorial Building,
Baltimore, 21202, Adjutant Manuel Orenberg, Disabled
American Veterans, War Memorial Building, Baltimore, 21202,
Adjutant Bartholomew B. Bechtel, Fleet Reserve Association,
492 Old Hill Road, Millersville, 21108, Commander Al Lerner,
Jewish War Veterans, War Memorial Building, Baltimore,
21202, the Marine Corps League, c/o Dagsboro Road and Hilda
Drive, Salisbury, 21801, Major David R. Goodman, Maryland
Retired Officers, 1661 Homewood Landing Road, Annapolis,
21401, Adjutant Stephen Giernalzzyk, 1711 Bank Street,
Baltimore, 21231, Spanish American War Veterans,. War
Memorial Building, Baltimore, 21202, National Commander
Charles Doane, Veterans of Foreign Bars, War Memorial
Building, Baltimore, 21202, and Commander John McNulty,
Veterans of World War I, War Memorial Building, Lexington
and Gay Streets, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202.

Signed May 1, 1979.

No. 39

(House Joint Resolution No. 75)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Discrimination Against Fat People

FOR the purpose of urging all Maryland citizens to work
toward ending unjust discrimination practices against
fat people; requesting the State Commission on Human
Relations to study such discrimination; and requesting
the Commission to make report to the General Assembly
by a certain date on administrative and legislative
proposals which are appropriate to the alleviation of
discrimination against people on the grounds of their
size or weight.

Heavier than average people constitute a sizable
segment of our State's population; there are fat people of
all ages, in all social classes and groups, and in all walks
of life.

Despite the high percentage of fat people in the
population, many forms of discrimination are directed at
them by our society which is presently obsessed with

unhealthy states of thinness. The most direct

discrimination is in the job market where fully qualified
fat people seem often to be passed over in favor of less
qualified thin applicants. Even universities which glory in
letting a hundred flowers of diverse thought bloom have been
found to discriminate in their admissions practice against
students whose intellects are as large as their girth.