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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dorothy | ||||||
| 4 | Boyd Sinclair of Peoria, who passed away on May 20, 2010; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Dorothy was born April 21, 1929, in Adairsville, | ||||||
| 6 | Georgia, the daughter of Thelma Satterfield Boyd and Robert | ||||||
| 7 | Boyd; she married Henry Sinclair on April 18, 1955, in St. | ||||||
| 8 | Louis, Missouri; she attended Cartersville High School in | ||||||
| 9 | Cartersville, Georgia, and Georgia State College for Women, now | ||||||
| 10 | Georgia College and State University, in Milledgeville, | ||||||
| 11 | Georgia, receiving a B.S. with honors in chemistry; she earned | ||||||
| 12 | a M.S. degree in chemistry at Wellesley University and was | ||||||
| 13 | elected to the Sigma Xi scientific society; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, She had worked at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in | ||||||
| 15 | St. Louis, Missouri, and Beacon Chemical Company in Cambridge, | ||||||
| 16 | Massachusetts; she was a laboratory instructor in chemistry at | ||||||
| 17 | Illinois Central College in East Peoria; and she worked for the | ||||||
| 18 | Peoria Historical Society; she was active in the League of | ||||||
| 19 | Women Voters of Peoria, served two years as its president and | ||||||
| 20 | six years as the Peoria City Council observer for its Local | ||||||
| 21 | Government Study Group (LOGO); she spearheaded the LOGO's | ||||||
| 22 | petition drive to change the manner of election to the Peoria | ||||||
| 23 | City Council from a ward system to the present council/manager | ||||||
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| 1 | system with districts and council-at-large system; and | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, She was elected to the Peoria City Council as a | ||||||
| 3 | council-at-large member in 1975 and was re-elected four times, | ||||||
| 4 | retiring in 1991; she ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1989; she | ||||||
| 5 | was a member of the League of Women Voters of Peoria, the | ||||||
| 6 | Peoria Woman's Civic Federation, the American Association of | ||||||
| 7 | University Women, and the Peoria Women's Club; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, She received many awards, including the Rhodell | ||||||
| 9 | Owens award, the Peoria's Tricentennial Commission award, the | ||||||
| 10 | YWCA's Legend and Outstanding Achievement Professions award, | ||||||
| 11 | the Betty Osborne award, and the Universalist Unitarian Church | ||||||
| 12 | Outstanding Service award; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Dorothy was the Peoria Historical Society's | ||||||
| 14 | administrative head for several years; she assisted in the | ||||||
| 15 | acquisition and moving of the Peoria Visitors Center (Powell | ||||||
| 16 | Press building); promoted, trained, and served as a tour guide | ||||||
| 17 | for historic trolley tours; and was a board member of | ||||||
| 18 | Tri-County Riverfront Action Forum, focusing on restoration of | ||||||
| 19 | the Illinois River and Peoria's riverfront; she made many | ||||||
| 20 | public lectures throughout the area on the history of Peoria's | ||||||
| 21 | distillery business, infamous criminal element, and Peoria's | ||||||
| 22 | historical leading women; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Dorothy Sinclair is survived by her husband, | ||||||
| 2 | Henry; her daughter, Claudia; and her son, Ian; therefore, be | ||||||
| 3 | it
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| 4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 5 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 6 | mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | ||||||
| 7 | Dorothy Sinclair; and be it further
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| 8 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 9 | presented to the family of Dorothy Sinclair as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 10 | sincere sympathy.
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