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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of
Ruth Thompson Law, who passed away on | ||||||
| 4 | April 13, 2011; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law was born on March 16, 1935, in Milton, | ||||||
| 6 | Massachusetts; her parents were Willard Weir and Gertrude Brown | ||||||
| 7 | Thompson; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law graduated from Colby Junior College in | ||||||
| 9 | 1954; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law traveled extensively throughout the Far | ||||||
| 11 | East, learning about the people, culture, and cuisine of the | ||||||
| 12 | region while giving numerous cooking classes, lectures, and | ||||||
| 13 | culinary and shopping tours; during her travels, she visited | ||||||
| 14 | China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, | ||||||
| 15 | Indonesia, the Philippines, and India; she featured her talents | ||||||
| 16 | in her "What's Cooking" cooking school, which she operated out | ||||||
| 17 | of her home in Hinsdale from 1981 to 1998; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Over the years, she had the honor of studying and | ||||||
| 19 | cooking with James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Emeril | ||||||
| 20 | Lagasse, Graham Kerr, Rick Bayless, Art Smith, and Martin Yan, | ||||||
| 21 | her mentor; she dined in Thailand with the Queen of Thailand, | ||||||
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| 1 | in Jaipur, India with the Dalai Lama, and in New Delhi with | ||||||
| 2 | Mother Teresa; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, As a result of her passion for travel and sharing | ||||||
| 4 | her knowledge, Ruth Law wrote four cookbooks; her first, "Dim | ||||||
| 5 | Sum - Fast and Festive Chinese Cooking", was a Book of the | ||||||
| 6 | Month Club selection in 1982; "The Southeast Asia Cookbook", | ||||||
| 7 | which appeared on the Chicago Tribune Best Seller List, was a | ||||||
| 8 | Better Homes and Gardens book club selection and was chosen by | ||||||
| 9 | People magazine as one of the best cookbooks of 1990; "Indian | ||||||
| 10 | Light Cooking" was a Julia Child Cookbook Award Finalist; | ||||||
| 11 | "Pacific Light Cooking" was selected as one of the 10 best | ||||||
| 12 | health cookbooks of the year by Health magazine and Ms. Law was | ||||||
| 13 | awarded the 1998 Chicago Women in Publishing award for the | ||||||
| 14 | book; and | ||||||
| 15 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law appeared on Good Morning America and | ||||||
| 16 | numerous other television and radio programs; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Until recently, Ruth Law was the culinary director | ||||||
| 18 | for Bloomingdale's in Oak Brook, where she was able to combine | ||||||
| 19 | her love of food, teaching, and her keen sense of humor into a | ||||||
| 20 | position in life she cherished; she enjoyed bringing in local | ||||||
| 21 | and national chefs for Bloomingdale's Saturday Chef series and | ||||||
| 22 | working with them to cook for an audience filled with dedicated | ||||||
| 23 | and loyal friends and customers; and | ||||||
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law was preceded in death by her brother, | ||||||
| 2 | Ralph Willard Thompson; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Ruth Law is survived by her son, Grant Wordsworth | ||||||
| 4 | (Mary) Law Jr.; her daughters, Alison Law (Ted) Darling and | ||||||
| 5 | Sarah Thompson Law; her granddaughters, Ellen "Maggie" | ||||||
| 6 | Margaret and Anna Weir Darling; her sister-in-law, Joy | ||||||
| 7 | Thompson; and her nephews and niece, Glen, Ronald, and Nancy | ||||||
| 8 | Thompson; therefore, be it
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| 9 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 10 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 11 | her family and friends, the passing of Ruth Thompson Law; and | ||||||
| 12 | be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 14 | presented to the family of Ruth Law as an expression of our | ||||||
| 15 | sympathy.
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