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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Maynard Wishner of Chicago, who passed
4away on December 19, 2011; and
 
5    WHEREAS, He was born and grew up in Chicago; he earned
6undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago;
7from 1947 to 1952, he worked for the Chicago Mayor's Commission
8on Human Relations, as head of the commission's department of
9law and order and then as acting director; he then was
10appointed chief city prosecutor for the city's Law Department;
11and
 
12    WHEREAS, He was an attorney with the firm of Cole, Wishner,
13Epstein & Manilow before joining Walter E. Heller & Co., a
14finance company, where he eventually served as president and
15chief operating officer; he retired in 1985; he also acted in
16Yiddish theater; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Mr. Wishner was president of the Chicago chapter
18of the American Jewish Committee from 1961 to 1963 and its
19national president from 1980 to 1983; he continued to serve as
20a member of the organization's board of governors; and
 
21    WHEREAS, He was a president of what is now the Jewish

 

 

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1Federations of North America and chaired what is now the Jewish
2Council for Public Affairs; he also held prominent positions in
3the Chicago Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation, the Jewish
4Community Relations Council, and Jewish Family and Community
5Service; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Mr. Wishner received numerous awards, including
7the Julius Rosenwald Memorial Award, which is the Chicago
8Jewish Federation's highest award, and the AJC's Mensch Award;
9in addition, Mr. Wishner's work to improve Greek-Jewish
10relations led him to receive the Frizis Award from the Hellenic
11American Leadership Conference; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Maynard Wishner is survived by his wife, Elaine;
13his daughters, Ellen Kenemore, Jane Wishner, and Mimi Wishner
14Segel; his sister, Iona Wishner Levenfeld; his 3 sons-in-law,
15his 8 grandchildren, and his 3 great-grandchildren; therefore,
16be it
 
17    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL
18ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
19his family and friends, the passing of Maynard Wishner; and be
20it further
 
21    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
22presented to the family of Maynard Wishner as a symbol of our

 

 

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1sincere sympathy.