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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Mary Ann MacLean, who passed away on
4August 18, 2016; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean was born in October of 1942 in
6Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Hinsdale; after
7graduating from Hinsdale Central High School, she studied for a
8time at colleges in Pennsylvania and in Lausanne, Switzerland;
9and
 
10    WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean was an assistant to a trader at
11Merrill Lynch, where she met her future husband, Barry; she
12became vocal at local school board meetings when her children
13were little, seeking to expand foreign language education in
14early grades; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean served on the Illinois State
16Museum board for 32 years and served as director; in 2011, the
17Mary Ann MacLean Play Museum, which teaches children to learn
18through play what it is like to work at a museum, opened at the
19Illinois State Museum site in Springfield; she served on the
20Illinois State Board of Education and as a trustee at the
21Chicago Zoological Society, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the
22MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of

 

 

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1Chicago Medicine, the Rassias Center at Dartmouth College, and
2at Union College; she also supported education and outreach
3activities at Brookfield Zoo; and
 
4    WHEREAS, In 2013, the Chicago Zoological Society, which
5manages Brookfield Zoo, dedicated its new home for education,
6conservation, and outreach efforts as the Mary Ann MacLean
7Conservation Leadership Center; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean is survived by her husband,
9Barry; her children, Adrian Jay, Gillian Growdon, and Duncan
10MacLean; her stepdaughters, Elizabeth Larned and Margaret
11MacLean; her sister, Libby Lucas; and 12 grandchildren;
12therefore, be it
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
14ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her
15family and friends, mourn the passing of Mary Ann MacLean; and
16be it further
 
17    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18presented to the family of Mary Ann MacLean as an expression of
19our sympathy.