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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
Virginia Metze of Oakwood, who passed 
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away on February 7, 2009; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Virginia Metze was born on February 8, 1934 in 
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Argenta; her parents were Ford Campbell and Grace (Campbell) 
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Phegley; she married Gernot Metze on July 13, 1962; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Virginia Metze earned her Juris Doctor from the 
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University of Illinois in 1976; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Virginia Metze was retired as the Director of the 
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Computer Center at the Materials Research Laboratory at the 
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University of Illinois; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Virginia Metze was an active member of her 
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community; she supported numerous causes, including the 
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University of Illinois Law School, the American Constitutional 
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Society, the ACLU, Common Cause, the Bill of Rights Defense 
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Committee, the Americans United for Separation of Church and 
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State, the Human Society of the United States, the ASPCA, the 
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Union of Concerned Scientists, Amnesty International, NARAL, 
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the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness 
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Society, and Eco Partners, among many others; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, Virginia Metze enjoyed politics, computers, cats 
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and dogs, cooking, reading, beading, knitting, and weaving; she 
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also desired to write a mystery novel set in a university 
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laboratory; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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her family and friends, the passing of Virginia Metze; 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 the family of Virginia Metze as an expression of 
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our sympathy.