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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the |
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| State of Illinois wish to recognize the 100th anniversary of |
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| the Foellinger Auditorium in 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Among the oldest buildings on campus, the |
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| Foellinger Auditorium has become the image of the University of |
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| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, overlooking the Quad with its |
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| 120-foot-diameter dome and Northern Italian Renaissance |
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| design; and
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| WHEREAS, The Foellinger Auditorium began as the idea of |
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| President Edmund Janes James, who wished to create a noble |
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| monument dedicated to music in his quest to make the university |
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| a world-class institution; Clarence Blackall was selected as |
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| the architect to design the auditorium; a scaled-back version |
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| of what Blackall had conceived was implemented due to lack of |
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| funding; and
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| WHEREAS, Many students, staff, faculty, public figures, |
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| orators, educators, and scientists have spoken or performed at |
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| the auditorium; Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubenstein, Igor |
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| Stravinsky, John Phillip Sousa, Marian Anderson, Jane Adams, |
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| Robert Frost, Ravi Shankar, Duke Ellington, Eleanor Roosevelt, |
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| R. Buckminster Fuller, Maya Angelou, and Bill Gates have all |
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| appeared there; and
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| WHEREAS, Renovations over the last century have kept the |
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| building up with changing times; in 1983 an alumni gift allowed |
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| the University to fulfill Blackall's original aspirations for |
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| the Auditorium; and
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| WHEREAS, The pineapple placed on the top of the dome is the |
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| international symbol of welcome; therefore, be it
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