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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Connie Keelin is retiring from the position of |
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| Administrator of the DeWitt Piatt Bi-County Health Department; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, She received her R.N. degree in 1968 and was |
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| employed as a nurse at the DuPage County Health Department in |
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| Chicago from 1968 to 1970; she took a break from the work force |
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| to raise her two children, Matt and Brenda Keelin, from 1970 to |
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| 1981; she served as the Director of Nursing at DeWitt Piatt |
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| Bi-County Health Department from 1981 to 1986; in 1985, she |
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| received a BSN from Sangamon State University; after a two-year |
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| stint as Director of Nursing at the Logan County Health |
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| Department, she became Administrator of the Department; in |
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| 1996, she became Administrator of the DeWitt Piatt Bi-County |
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| Health Department; and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout the years, Ms. Keelin has been |
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| recognized in her field; she served as President of the |
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| Illinois Public Health Nurse Administration Association, as |
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| Treasurer of the Illinois Public Health Association, as |
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| President of the Illinois Association of Public Health |
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| Administrators, and she was named Public Health Worker of the |
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| Year by the Illinois Public Health Association in 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, She is also active in her community and has been |
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| involved with Rotary in Logan, Livingston, and Piatt; the Local |
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| Health Liaison Committee with the director of the Illinois |
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| Department of Public Health; the University of Illinois Public |
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| Health Leadership Institute; the Illinois Association of |
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| Public Health Administrators; and she was appointed by the |
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| Governor to serve on the State of Illinois Immunization |
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| Advisory Committee; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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