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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to honor John Lord for his many
4 years of service as the Naperville Municipal Band's sound
5 engineer; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Mr. Lord valiantly served his country during World
7 War II in General Patton's Third Army at the Battle of the
8 Bulge; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Mr. Lord went on to work for 5 years in radio and
10 television at KGLO AM/FM/TV in Mason City, Iowa, where he met
11 Ann Good of Naperville; they were married on August 14, 1954;
12 and
 
13     WHEREAS, Mr. Lord worked for DuKane Electronics in their
14 Audio-Visual Division for 25 years; he acted as ringmaster for
15 the Naperville Municipal Band Circus concerts; one memorable
16 night with the band is when Mr. Lord impersonated Maurice
17 Chevalier and sang "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" at a concert
18 featuring Broadway songs; he served as the sound engineer for
19 the Municipal Band for 45 years until he retired in 2002; and
 
20     WHEREAS, The Naperville Municipal Band was first organized
21 in 1859 and became a municipal band in 1931; the band performs
22 free outdoor concerts each Thursday night in Naperville's
23 Central Park during the summer as well as several indoor
24 concerts during the winter; the band is the proud recipient of
25 the Sudler Silver Scroll Award and the Sudler Historic Band
26 Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation; in 2000, the band
27 was chosen for the Local Legacy Award from the U.S. Library of
28 Congress and the U.S. House of Representatives; and
 
29     WHEREAS, At the weekly concert on Thursday, June 24, 2004,
30 Mr. Lord will be honored with some special presentations for

 

 

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1 his many years of service; therefore, be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
4 honor John Lord for his many years of service as the Naperville
5 Municipal Band's sound engineer; and be it further
 
6     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
7 presented to Mr. Lord as an expression of our respect and
8 esteem.