Full Text of HR1168 93rd General Assembly
HR1168 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives were saddened to learn of the death of Richard | 4 |
| E. Wurtzinger of Oak Park on August 6, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Richard E. Wurtzinger was born and raised in | 6 |
| Chicago; he attended St. Cyril and Methodius Grammar School and | 7 |
| Lane Tech High School; he enrolled in the DeVry Institute of | 8 |
| Technology in 1953 as an undergraduate student of electrical | 9 |
| engineering; at the age of 19, he began his engineering career | 10 |
| while still at DeVry; he worked as an engineer in the Cook | 11 |
| Research Labs; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1957, he married his sweetheart, the late | 13 |
| Frances Mary Black, whom he had known since the age of 5; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Wurtzinger worked on projects contracted out | 15 |
| for the Mercury and Gemini programs at NASA and for the armed | 16 |
| forces; he helped to design systems to recover space capsules | 17 |
| from the ocean after re-entry into the atmosphere; he also | 18 |
| worked on developing the first ejection seat for the F-104 | 19 |
| fighter plane; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Wurtzinger worked for several | 21 |
| technology-driven businesses, starting in 1965; he spent 15 | 22 |
| years as a development engineer in Motorola Inc.'s engineering | 23 |
| division and worked on Motorola's first line of cellular | 24 |
| telephones; some of his other projects included work on the | 25 |
| first highway camera surveillance systems, Mars lights for | 26 |
| squad cars, and night-vision cameras; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1984, while working at VCS Inc. in Carol | 28 |
| Stream, he invented an encoding apparatus for a closed-circuit | 29 |
| television; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a | 30 |
| patent for the device, which allowed a viewer to track the |
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| orientation of a surveillance camera on a remote monitor | 2 |
| screen; and
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| WHEREAS, In his spare time, he was an amateur ham-radio | 4 |
| operator, a hobby he picked up in 1951; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Wurtzinger was an active member of his | 6 |
| community serving on the advisory commission for the Village of | 7 |
| Oak Park for many years, dealing with issues such as parking, | 8 |
| traffic, and cable franchise agreements; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Richard E. Wurtzinger will be | 10 |
| deeply felt by many, especially his two sons, James and | 11 |
| Christopher; his sister, Linda Lou Bricker; and his | 12 |
| granddaughter, Alyssa; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 |
| mourn the death of Richard E. Wurtzinger along with all who | 16 |
| knew and loved him and extend our sincere condolences to his | 17 |
| family and friends; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Richard E. Wurtzinger as a token of | 20 |
| our deepest sympathy.
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