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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, For 34 years, Deborah Miller has diligently served |
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| as a member of the Schaumburg Township District Library Board; |
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| during that time, she has served as president, secretary, and |
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| treasurer, and has chaired each committee of the board; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Miller has been honored in many ways during |
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| her tenure on the Library Board; she was the winner of the |
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| Trustee Citation for 1985 from the American Library |
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| Association; the Trustee Citation is given each year to an |
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| outstanding trustee in the United States who has given |
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| distinguished service to library development; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2002, she was honored as a recipient of the |
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| Studs Terkel Humanities Service award; she was an Illinois |
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| Library Trustee of the Year and National Library Trustee of the |
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| Year; she was also recognized as the White House Conference on |
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| Libraries and Information Services Task Force "Citizen of the |
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| Year" and received the Illinois Library Association |
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| Intellectual Freedom Award; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a board member and past president of the |
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| North Suburban Library System from 1972 to 1978 and was a |
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| charter member of the Hoffman Estates-Schaumburg League of |
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| Women Voters; she also served on the Illinois Board of |
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| Education for a time; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Miller has served as vice-chairman of the |
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| Hoffman Estates Arts Commission since its inception in 1997; |
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| she was also a member of the Schaumburg Township |
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| Sesquicentennial Committee and is a member of the Schaumburg |
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| Township Historical Society; and
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| WHEREAS, She is especially proud of the work she put into |
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| the construction of the Schaumburg Township branch library on |