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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Gene Ruoff, who passed away on January 4,
42020 at the age of 80; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was born to Robert G. Ruoff and Thelma
6L. O'Hara Ruoff on July 23, 1939; he was raised in Paducah,
7Kentucky; he earned his bachelor's degree from Centre College
8in Danville, Kentucky in 1961; he obtained his Master of
9Science in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in
101963; he married A. LaVonne Brown in 1967; together, they
11primarily lived in Oak Park and Glen Ellyn; he adopted her
12children, Stephen Charles and Sharon Louise; he earned his
13Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in
141970; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was a faculty member and former
16administrator at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he
17directed the UIC Institute for the Humanities, where he
18mentored the fellows and organized programs; he also led summer
19institutes for high-school teachers, including Jane Austen:
20The Society and the Self, Jane Addams's Hull House Humanities
21Program, The Romantics and Us, and Literature in an Age of
22Revolutions; he became an associate vice chancellor in 1994; he
23served as associate provost and special assistant to the

 

 

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1chancellor for Information and Management Systems from 1996
2until his retirement in 2009; in this position, he supervised
3UIC's computer system and coordinated UIC's collaboration with
4the Urbana-Champaign and Springfield campuses to create a
5unified computer system; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was a prolific writer and a scholar of
7English romantic literature; in 1989, he wrote Wordsworth and
8Coleridge: The Making of the Major Lyrics, 1801-04; in 1991, he
9covered Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; he also edited a
10number of critical essay collections; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Over a 31 year period, Gene Ruoff and his wife
12passionately restored their 1893 three-story Victorian home,
13which became part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Plus tour of Oak
14Park; for this work, they received a State of Illinois
15Restoration Grant and were awarded a prize for interior
16decoration by the Historical Society of Oak Park; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff is survived by his brothers, Robert A.
18Ruoff and Charles O. Ruoff; his sister-in-law, Suzanne Brown;
19and his daughter-in-law, Cheryl Moffitt Ruoff; therefore, be it
 
20    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
21ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
22Gene Ruoff and extend our sincere condolences to his family,

 

 

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1friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it further
 
2    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
3presented to the family of Gene Ruoff as an expression of our
4deepest sympathy.