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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | ||||||
| 3 | to learn of the death of Bruce M. Hannon, Ph.D., who passed | ||||||
| 4 | away on February 18, 2024; and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon was born to of Walter and Kathleen | ||||||
| 6 | (Phalen) Hannon in Ivesdale; he graduated from Bement High | ||||||
| 7 | School; he attended the University of Illinois | ||||||
| 8 | Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Bachelor of Engineering | ||||||
| 9 | in Civil Engineering in 1956, his Master of Engineering in | ||||||
| 10 | Engineering Mechanics in 1965, and his Ph.D. in Engineering | ||||||
| 11 | Mechanics in 1970; he became a first lieutenant in the U.S. | ||||||
| 12 | Army ROTC program; he married Patricia Coffey; and | ||||||
| 13 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon worked as a registered professional | ||||||
| 14 | engineer, aiding in the development of a new | ||||||
| 15 | economic/environmental accounting system that enabled | ||||||
| 16 | transactions to be recorded in monetary values and energy | ||||||
| 17 | units in the same system, and this work was based in the Center | ||||||
| 18 | for Advanced Computation; and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon then became a professor of geography | ||||||
| 20 | at the University of Illinois, where he taught for over 40 | ||||||
| 21 | years; during his tenure, he conducted groundbreaking | ||||||
| 22 | research, taught courses in biological and earth systems | ||||||
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| 1 | modeling, led dynamic natural resource simulations, and | ||||||
| 2 | mentored countless undergraduate and graduate students; and | ||||||
| 3 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon was a lifelong environmental advocate, | ||||||
| 4 | founding the Prairie Rivers Network with his wife, Patricia, | ||||||
| 5 | in 1967; he cofounded the Committee to Save Allerton Park and | ||||||
| 6 | the Coalition on American Rivers (COAR); he was also active in | ||||||
| 7 | the Land Conservation Foundation and the Urbana Courthouse | ||||||
| 8 | Clock Restoration Project; and | ||||||
| 9 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon registered six patents and received | ||||||
| 10 | numerous awards and accolades for his work; and | ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon was an accomplished hiker and walker; | ||||||
| 12 | he was an avid photographer and historian for his family; he | ||||||
| 13 | was affectionately known as "Grandpa Clock" to his | ||||||
| 14 | great-grandchildren for his love of repairing antique clocks; | ||||||
| 15 | he also enjoyed planting burr oak seeds; and | ||||||
| 16 | WHEREAS, Dr. Hannon was preceded in death by his wife; his | ||||||
| 17 | son, Christopher; and his siblings, Susan Hannon Gorman and | ||||||
| 18 | John Hannon; and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, Bruce Hannon is survived by his sister, Ellen | ||||||
| 20 | (Chuck) Wolfenberger; his children, Claire (Brian) Deal, Laura | ||||||
| 21 | (Scott) Madden, and Brian (Rhonda Starkey) Hannon; his | ||||||
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| 1 | grandchildren, Caitlin (Derek) Peterson, John (Olivier | ||||||
| 2 | Colombard) Deal, Ellen (Joe) Saathoff, Sean (Regina) Madden, | ||||||
| 3 | Ben (Genevieve) Madden, Tyler (Camile) Starkey, and Logan | ||||||
| 4 | (Megan) Hannon; and his great-grandchildren, Violet, George, | ||||||
| 5 | Mae, Richie, Freddy, Lincoln, Kennedy, and James, with two | ||||||
| 6 | more on the way; therefore, be it | ||||||
| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
| 8 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 9 | Bruce M. Hannon, Ph.D. and extend our sincere condolences to | ||||||
| 10 | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | ||||||
| 11 | further | ||||||
| 12 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 13 | presented to the family of Dr. Hannon as an expression of our | ||||||
| 14 | deepest sympathy. | ||||||