WHEREAS, Dr. Sybil Collins Mobley has served as Dean of the Florida A&M School of Business and Industry since its inception in 1974, and has been the only Dean that school has ever known; and

WHEREAS, Dean Mobley began her career at FAMU as a clerk in the office of the President in 1945; and

WHEREAS, Dean Mobley has established a tradition of excellence in the FAMU School of Business and Industry -- the students of this school regularly placing in the top five percent nationally, and was ranked by the New York Times as one of the nation’s top five business schools -- one that "the top business schools would do well to emulate"; and

WHEREAS, Dean Mobley has also on the board of directors of the International Association of Black Business Educators, the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, as vice president of both the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of CPAs, served as Special Consultant to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and for the U.S. State Department in the nations of Senegal, Nigeria, Zaire and Kenya, served as a USAID consultant in the nations of Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Liberia, and also helped to establish the Africa University in the nation of Zimbabwe.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA, that today, July 8, 2003, be hereby declared

in Leon County, Florida. We join together with a grateful community to recognize her for outstanding service to the State of Florida and the People of Leon County by establishing a "tradition of excellence" at the FAMU School of Business and Industry. Through her example, she calls us all to higher achievement and greater service to our community -- a challenge that will resound in the professional and educational culture of this community forever.

DATED this 8^TH day of JULY, A.D. 2003