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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to  
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learn of the death of
James Kennan Hotchkiss of Hinsdale, who 
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passed away on August 21, 2008; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was born on April 1, 1928 
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in Berwyn and raised in Highland Park; he was the son of the 
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late Eugene and Jeanette Hotchkiss; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss graduated from Vermont 
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Academy, then graduated with his two brothers from Dartmouth 
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College in 1950; he also earned his M.B.A. from the University 
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of Chicago and held the C.F.A. and C.I.C. designations; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss served as an officer in the 
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United States Navy from 1950 to 1953; he initially served 
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aboard a ship with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea 
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before being stationed in Washington, D.C. with the Office of 
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Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon; and

 
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    WHEREAS, After his military discharge, James Kennan 
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Hotchkiss returned to Chicago, where he worked as a financial 
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analyst for United Airlines at Midway Airport; in the early 
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1960s, he joined the investment firm of Stein, Roe & Farnham in 
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Chicago, where he became a partner and member of the executive 
 


 






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committee; in 1970, he founded Hotchkiss Associates, a firm 
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that provides investment counsel to individual and 
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institutional clients; he was still working for his clients at 
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Hotchkiss Associates at the time of his passing; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an active member in 
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numerous civic and charitable organizations; he was a member of 
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the Board of Trustees of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and a 
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Life Trustee of the Nature Conservancy's Illinois Chapter, 
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where he had also served as Chairman; in 1996, the national 
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Nature Conservancy awarded him the conservancy's highest honor 
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for leadership and service, the Oak Leaf Award; he served as a 
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Trustee of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky; he 
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had also been a member of the Chicago Committee of the Council 
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on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of Chicago, the 
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Wayfarers, and the University and Mid-Day Clubs; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss moved with his family to 
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Hinsdale in 1959; since 1959, he was an active member in civic 
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life, serving as Chairman of the Trustees of the Public Library 
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and Vice-Chairman of the Plan Commission; he led referendum 
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campaigns for new facilities for Hinsdale Central High School, 
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the Library, and for the initial funding for the College of 
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DuPage; he also served as a Trustee of the Hinsdale Opera 
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Theater; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an avid outdoorsman and 
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very competitive athlete, skiing with his children and 
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grandchildren well into his 70s; he loved to canoe around the 
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lakes and walk the back roads around his cabin in the north 
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woods of Wisconsin and explore the fields and prairie 
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grasslands of the family's farm in Franklin Grove; and

 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was preceded in death by 
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his parents; and
 
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    WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss is survived by his wife of 
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57 years, the former Nancy McCoy; his children, Carolyn (Kathy 
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Cole), Laura (Mark) Capaldini, John (Ingrid), and Anne (Steve) 
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Janzer; his six grandchildren, Lia, Nick, Graham, James, Emily, 
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and Mark; and his brothers, Frank (Kay Lindahl) and Eugene 
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(Suzanne); therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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his family and friends, the passing of James Kennan Hotchkiss; 
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and be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of James Kennan Hotchkiss as an 
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expression of our sympathy.