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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Larry Nedrow was born on December 13, 1924, in
3 Oregon, Illinois; he attended school in a one-room school house
4 in Oregon for grades 1 through 8; he then attended Oregon High
5 School; and
 
6     WHEREAS, In 1944, Larry Nedrow was drafted into the United
7 States Army; he then volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps,
8 where he was assigned to the Army Airways Communication System
9 and was stationed on Canton Island in the Pacific and Hickam
10 Field in Hawaii; he also served as a civilian employee of the
11 Army Signal Corps as a Message Center Officer during the winter
12 of 1946-1947; he returned to Aurora in 1947; and
 
13     WHEREAS, In 1949, Larry Nedrow entered the painting trade;
14 he worked for numerous painting contractors before founding
15 Larry Nedrow Decorating in 1956; he owned the business until
16 his retirement in 1992; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Larry Nedrow was very active in the painting
18 industry and was adept at labor relations; in 1958, he founded
19 the Aurora Painting Contractors Association; in that same year,
20 he was instrumental in negotiating a State-wide Welfare Plan;
21 these entities stayed in place until 1966, when the Northeast
22 Illinois Chapter of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of

 

 

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1 America (PDCA) was established and the union reorganized into
2 the Painter's District Council No. 30; Larry served as the
3 first President of the new PDCA chapter; he was also very
4 active with the Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee, where
5 he worked with other contractors and union officials to
6 standardize the apprentice training program; and
 
7     WHEREAS, Larry Nedrow was one of the first trustees of the
8 Northern Illinois Painting and Drywall Institute (NIPDI), an
9 industry fund founded in 1976 to serve union painting and
10 drywall taping contractors throughout northern Illinois; Larry
11 served as an NIPDI trustee from December of 1978 to June of
12 1992; and
 
13     WHEREAS, Larry Nedrow married the love of his life, Doris,
14 on August 9, 1957; together, they had 4 children, Jill, Jack,
15 George, and Jodi; and
 
16     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to honor
17 the life of Larry Nedrow, who passed away on April 4, 1996;
18 therefore, be it
 
19     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
20 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
21 his family and friends, the passing of Larry Nedrow; and be it
22 further
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, That we designate the week of April 4, 2010 as
2 Union Painting Contractors Week in the State of Illinois; and
3 be it further
 
4     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5 presented to the family of Larry Nedrow in appreciation of his
6 dedication and leadership of the Northern Illinois Painting and
7 Drywall Institute.