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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
George R. Arnold of Edwardsville, who 
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passed away on May 14, 2010; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold was born September 11, 1916, in 
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Carbondale; he was the son of the late William Edward and 
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Elizabeth H., nee Scott, Arnold; he married Mildred Caviness on 
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December 22, 1956, in Pinckneyville; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold was a veteran of the U.S. Navy 
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during World War II; he became an Ensign at the Great Lakes 
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Naval Training Station in 1942; he served as an instructor of 
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physics, navigation, and meteorology for the naval cadets in 
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Glenview Naval Air Station in Glenview; he then received 12 
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months of instruction in Aerology in Annapolis, Maryland in 
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1943 and 1944; he was then assigned to the Naval Station in the 
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Port of Spain at Trinidad, West Indies; from 1945 to 1946, he 
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served as an instructor at the naval air station in Corpus 
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Christie, Texas; after his service in the military, he was a 
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partner in Arnold Orchards in Carbondale, specializing in 
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apples and peaches; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold retired as a professor of physics 
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and environmental science after 10 years at SIU-Carbondale and 
 


 






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17 years at SIU-Edwardsville; he received his bachelor's degree 
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in education, physics, and mathematics from SIU-Carbondale in 
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1939; he then received his master's degree in physics from the 
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University of Illinois in 1940 and his doctor of science degree 
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in environmental science from Washington University; he was the 
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first person to receive a doctorate on air pollution from 
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Washington University; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold was an active member in many 
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organizations; he served as president of the Lewis & Clark 
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Society, acting president of MCCA, executive secretary of 
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IMRPAC, chairman of the Illinois Corridor, co-chair of the 
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Illinois-Missouri Trails Coalition, archivist for the 
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Marquette-Joliet Tercentennial, chairman of the Piasa 
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Palisades Sierra Group, president of the Vadalabene Nature 
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Trail Volunteers, secretary of the Grassroots Trailnet 
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Committee, member of the Mississippi River Corridor Study 
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Commission, and a member of the MRPC; and
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold was the recipient of the 
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Edwardsville Meritorious Service Award in 1959; in 2000, he was 
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honored by the Madison County Transit for the role he played to 
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pave the way for a world-class bikeway system in Madison 
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County; in 1970, George, along with the help of Senator Sam 
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Vadalabene, introduced legislation for creating bikeways 
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throughout the State of Illinois; in 1986, he promoted Wood 
 


 






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River as the number one site of the National Lewis and Clark 
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Trail as a member of the Lewis and Clark Society; he, along 
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with Congressman Jerry Costello and Governor Jim Edgar, helped 
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obtain 7 million dollars for the construction of the new Lewis &
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 Clark Bicentennial Interpretive Center, which had 185,000 
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visitors during its 1st year; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold was preceded in death by his wife 
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and his brothers, Clyde Arnold, Clarence Arnold, and Ralph 
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Arnold; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, George Arnold is survived by his sister, Marian 
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Calnon, and his many nieces and nephews; 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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his family and friends, the passing of George R. Arnold; 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 George Arnold as an expression of 
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our sympathy.