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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, Katherine Rothwell-Francis is retiring after 47 
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years of employment with A.C. Nielsen, Jr.; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a four-term trustee of 
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Waukegan Township; she was appointed as a township trustee in 
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1989 and was elected to the position in 1990; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She served 21 years as president of the Genesee 
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Branch YMCA Board and was the first woman to hold that 
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position; she was a board member of the National Council of 
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YMCAs; she was appointed by Mayor Bill Morris to be a board 
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member of the Waukegan City Human Relations Commission; she was 
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a candidate for Park Commissioner for the City of Waukegan; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Positions she has held include 1st vice president 
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of the New Fellowship District Association and 
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secretary/treasurer to the Parent Body; she is a member of 
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Waukegan's Woman's Club; she served as 4th vice president of 
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the Baptist State Convention of Illinois and was chairman of 
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the Lucille C. Williams Scholarship Committee; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a member of Gideon 
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Missionary Baptist Church, where she is a past B.T.U. director, 
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choir director, Sunday School teacher (45 years), choir member 
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(44 years), Women's Day Chairman (16 years), president of 
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Pastor's Aid (19 years), a member of the Trustee Board, and a 
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Deaconess; she was a 1978 Women's Day Speaker at Second Baptist 
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Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a certified teacher-National 
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Congress Christian Education, and past chairman of special 
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projects in the Church Secretaries Workshop at the National 
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Congress of Christian Education, NBC, USA, Inc.; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She was born in Garrard County, Kentucky; she is 
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married to Leonard A. Francis and has two children, three 
 


 






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grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a graduate of the College 
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of  Lake County; she has traveled extensively, and has visited 
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most of the United States of America, the Holy Land, Egypt, 
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Italy, Greece, Holland, Brussels, Belgium, Punta Cana, 
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Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and the West Indies; 
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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 Katherine Rothwell-Francis on the occasion of 
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her retirement after 47 years of service with A.C. Nielsen, 
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Jr., and we thank her for her service to her community; and be 
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it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Ms. Rothwell-Francis as an expression of our 
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esteem.