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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives wish to express their sincerest condolences
4 to the family and friends of the Reverend Donald H. Lee, who
5 passed away on June 21, 2002; and
6 WHEREAS, An ordained Lutheran minister who was known to
7 everyone simply as "Don", Rev. Lee was a fixture at Oakton
8 Community College where his wife, Margaret B. Lee, served as
9 president and professor of English; and
10 WHEREAS, Born in Detroit, Michigan on September 19, 1928,
11 Rev. Lee held degrees in English and history from St. Olaf's
12 College, a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary, and
13 graduate degrees in City Planning from the Massachusetts
14 Institute of Technology and Asian Studies and Chinese from
15 Yale University; and
16 WHEREAS, Rev. Lee's academic appointments included a
17 six-year professorship at the University of Taiwan while
18 simultaneously running a Lutheran publishing house in Hong
19 Kong, as well as stints in campus ministry at the University
20 of Idaho at Moscow and the Harvard/MIT campus, the latter
21 while also holding an appointment at the Harvard Divinity
22 School; in addition, he served as the director of Yale's
23 "Planning an Economic Opportunity" office and ran a pig farm
24 in Spruce, Michigan; and
25 WHEREAS, Rev. Lee met his wife, Peg, during his tenure at
26 Harvard/MIT and they married on June 30, 1973; they moved to
27 Wilmette in 1985 after Peg was appointed vice president of
28 Oakton Community College; and
29 WHEREAS, The passing of the Reverend Donald H. Lee will
30 be deeply felt by all who knew and loved him, especially his
31 beloved wife of 29 years, Margaret Lee; his children, Maia
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1 (husband, Steve) Wright, Kari, Tora, Marcus (wife, Lisa),
2 Anton (wife, Rosemary), Gustav, Ivan (wife, Chris),
3 Katherine, and Kristopher; and his 11 grandchildren;
4 therefore, be it
5 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
7 we mourn, along with all who knew him, the death of the
8 Reverend Donald H. Lee of Wilmette; and be it further
9 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
10 presented to the family of the Reverend Donald H. Lee with
11 our sincere condolences.