IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 882 
Honoring Dr. Carolyn R. Wilder, Professor of Child Development at West 
Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, California, in recognition of her 
retirement after 32 years of service to the College. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 21, 2006 
Ms. WATERS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring Dr. Carolyn R. Wilder, Professor of Child Develop-
ment at West Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, in recognition of her retirement after 32 years 
of service to the College. 
Whereas Dr. Carolyn R. Wilder has served as Professor of 
Child Development at West Los Angeles College since 
1974 and will retire in 2006 from the position of Depart-
ment Chairperson; 
Whereas in response to increased economic demands placed 
on families and the need of working parents to know that 
their children are in a safe facility near their workplace, 
Dr. Wilder founded Child Care Centers, Inc., a con-
sulting firm to enable corporations and businesses to es-
tablish child care facilities for their employees; 
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Whereas Dr. Wilder became the Parent Coordinator for Delta 
Sigma Theta Head Start and implemented programs for 
over 600 families in Santa Monica, Venice, and the Cen-
tral Los Angeles areas; 
Whereas Dr. Wilder was given the opportunity to develop, set 
up, and implement the curricula for all nine of the child 
development centers located on the Los Angeles Commu-
nity College District campuses; 
Whereas in 1972, Dr. Wilder served as the first Director of 
the Child Development Center on the West Los Angeles 
College campus; 
Whereas in 1983, Dr. Wilder and her husband Raymond 
founded Tender Care Child Development Center, a pri-
vate preschool that serves approximately 180 children of 
ages 2 through 5 and offers a curriculum-based approach 
to learning; 
Whereas responding to the need for a new kindergarten edu-
cation program, Dr. Wilder established Tender Care Kin-
dergarten for approximately 80 students in 1988; 
Whereas responding to the increased demand for programs 
for students in grades K through 8, Dr. Wilder estab-
lished Tender Care Elementary in 1994, renamed 
‘‘Wilder’s Preparatory Academy’’ in 1999; 
Whereas the vision of Dr. Carolyn and Raymond Wilder for 
a preparatory academy became a reality in 2000, when 
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy expanded to a 37,000 
square-foot state-of-the-art facility geared to serve inner 
city students and provide an accelerated college pre-
paratory curriculum with 22 large classrooms, three com-
puter labs, a library, an art room, an indoor gym, a 
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media lab, a science lab, a study hall, and a dance the-
ater; 
Whereas over the past 21 years, Carolyn and Raymond Wild-
er have become known as industry leaders in the field of 
early childhood education and childcare service; 
Whereas over 4,000 students have graduated from Tender 
Care Child Development Center, and, as a result of the 
outstanding education and nurturing they received, they 
have matured into bright, productive, and accomplished 
young citizens; 
Whereas in 2003, Wilder’s Preparatory Academy became 
Inglewood Preparatory Academy Charter School, the first 
Charter School to be approved in the City of Inglewood, 
California, accommodating 480 students in grades K 
through 8; 
Whereas Dr. Wilder has served in the posts of Commissioner 
of the Los Angeles First Five, City of Los Angeles (for-
merly Prop 10 Commission), appointed by Los Angeles 
County Board of Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke; Commis-
sioner of the Human Affairs Commission, City of 
Inglewood, appointed by the Mayor of Inglewood, Cali-
fornia; Commissioner of the Child Care Advisory, City of 
Los Angeles, appointed by Los Angeles County Board of 
Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke; and was a Board Member 
of the YMCA of Los Angeles Metro 28th Street/ 
Crenshaw Branch; 
Whereas Dr. Wilder was the recipient of the Woman of the 
Year Award in 1988 from Senator Teresa P. Hughes, 
25th Senatorial District of California; 
Whereas Dr. Wilder is a member of Delta Sigma Theta So-
rority, Inc., the California Association for Early Child-
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hood Education, the Black Women’s Forum, the YMCA, 
the Black Child Development Institute, the National As-
sociation for the Education of Young Children, the Na-
tional Association of Women Business Owners, the Coali-
tion of 100 Black Women, the Ebony Guild, and the New 
Philadelphia AME Church; and 
Whereas Dr. Wilder is married to Raymond D. Wilder, an 
entrepreneur, a real estate developer, the CEO of 
Inglewood Preparatory Academy Charter School, and a 
community activist, and the couple has one daughter, Ra-
mona R. Wilder: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors Dr. Carolyn R. Wilder for her 32 
years of service to West Los Angeles College in Los 
Angeles, California; 
(2) 
recognizes 
her 
accomplishments 
and 
achievements in childcare service, in higher edu-
cation, and as an entrepreneur; and 
(3) extends its appreciation to her in recogni-
tion of her retirement from West Los Angeles Col-
lege in Los Angeles, California. 
Æ 
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