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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, Education is one of the most noble professions an 
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individual can choose to pursue; it has come to our attention 
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that Ann Stockey will be retiring from the education field; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She was born in Chicago on August 2, 1939; as a 
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young child, she lived in Chicago; University City, Missouri; 
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Centralia; and returned to Chicago; she attended St. Xavier 
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Academy until her last year of high school and was a member of 
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the first graduating class of Mother McAuley High School in 
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1957; and

 
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    WHEREAS, During her high school years, Ann was extremely 
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active; she was the president of Student Council, Editor of the 
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Shield (the high school newspaper), a member of the National 
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Honor Society, an honor student, a member of the Quill & 
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Scroll, a  newspaper contributor, and a member of basketball and 
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volleyball intramurals, sodality, press club, dance committee, 
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and the yearbook staff; her ambition in high school was to 
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become an elementary school teacher, as were her mother and 
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grandmother; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She went on to graduate from Marquette University 
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in Milwaukee in 1961; she taught second grade in Oak Lawn at 
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Gasteyer School for almost two years; she got married in  August 
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of 1962 and became a mother in May of 1963; she was  a full-time 
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mom until her husband passed away, leaving her a single mom 
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with four young children; and
 
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    WHEREAS, She went back to teaching at Hawthorne School in 
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Glen Ellyn in 1975 and returned full-time in 1976 at Christ the 
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King School in Lombard, where all of her children attended; she 
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left Christ the King School in the spring of 1986 to teach 
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sixth, seventh, and eighth grade social studies at Winfield 
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Middle School, where she has been teaching since; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, Ms. Stockey is married to Elden Stockey and plans 
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on enjoying time with her grandchildren during her retirement; 
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therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
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NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 
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we congratulate Ann Stockey on the occasion of her retirement, 
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and we thank her for her many years of dedication to the 
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education of young people; and be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Ms. Stockey as an expression of our deepest 
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respect and esteem and with best wishes for a relaxing 
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retirement.