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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Elizabeth Arts on |
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| being named the Western Springs 2008 Woman of the Year; and
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| WHEREAS, After her two daughters and son were married |
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| within a
three-year period, Elizabeth was ready for a new |
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| project, the Ekdahl House; she led a team of Historical Society |
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| trustees in the
development of a plan to save, move, and |
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| restore the 1887 Ekdahl building as an outdoor community |
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| museum; and
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| WHEREAS, With her talent
for organizing, she was able to |
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| convince not only the Historical Society trustees that the |
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| building should be saved but also the
Village Board to locate |
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| the building on Village-owned property; Elizabeth has been a |
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| member of the Historical Society for ten years and chaired the |
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| Preservation Awards Committee; she redesigned the
program and |
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| evaluation process, secured the sponsorship of the Doings |
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| newspaper, and planned the awards receptions; and
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| WHEREAS, Elizabeth is on the Women's Board of the Mercy |
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| Home for Girls and Boys,
which promotes education and |
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| scholarships for young people; with Easter Seals of Metro |
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| Chicago, she has helped coordinate a
program between autistic |
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| children at the Therapeutic School for Autism Research and a |
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| Chicago charter school stressing career
opportunities; another |
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| project was a socialization program between higher functioning |
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| autistic boys and 7th and 8th grade boys; and
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| WHEREAS, During the 35 years that she and her husband, |
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| Dave, have lived in Western Springs, she has been a Girl Scout |
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| leader, a Little
League team mother, a CCD teacher at St. John |
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| of the Cross, co-chair of the St. John's Health Committee, and |
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| a volunteer in their
program to visit the elderly; she serves |
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| as a reading mother to the Cayman International School, where |
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| her daughter and
family reside, via Skype; and
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| WHEREAS, She was raised in New York and met her husband |
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| while she attended St. Francis University in Joliet; she is a |
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| registered nurse and earned her master's and Ph.D. in clinical |
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| psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology |
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| in Chicago; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Elizabeth Arts and wish her the best in her future |
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| endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Elizabeth Arts as a symbol of our respect.
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