Full Text of HR0457 96th General Assembly
HR0457 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dr. | 4 |
| Narbey Khachaturian of Philo, who passed away on May 14, 2009; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Khachaturian was born January 12, 1924, a son | 7 |
| of Moses and Takouhi Khachaturian; he married Margaret Miles on | 8 |
| January 26, 1952, in Akron, Ohio;
after being accepted at the | 9 |
| University of Illinois as a civil engineering undergraduate, he | 10 |
| left his home in Tehran and embarked for the United States on | 11 |
| December 7, 1944; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Going from his home to San Pedro, California, | 13 |
| during wartime took him more than four months and necessitated | 14 |
| several delays and changes to his initial travel plans along | 15 |
| the way; during this time, he occupied himself by embarking on | 16 |
| a self-taught course in Chinese; and
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| WHEREAS, In the weeks following his arrival in California, | 18 |
| he made the cross-country trip to Champaign-Urbana by train; he | 19 |
| received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in civil engineering | 20 |
| from the University of Illinois, working as a teaching | 21 |
| assistant, instructor, and graduate student under Professor T. | 22 |
| C. Shedd; he joined the department of civil engineering at the |
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| U of I as a faculty member in 1952 as an assistant professor, | 2 |
| and became full professor in 1960; and
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| WHEREAS, Professor Khachaturian held the part-time post of | 4 |
| assistant dean of engineering in the college of engineering in | 5 |
| 1979-80 and assumed the role of associate head of the | 6 |
| department of civil engineering in 1983, a post he held until | 7 |
| his retirement in 1989; he was the adviser to numerous | 8 |
| undergraduate and graduate students and the mentor of 18 | 9 |
| doctoral students; his first doctoral student, Fazlur Kahn, | 10 |
| went on to build the Sears Tower; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Khachaturian served as faculty adviser to Chi | 12 |
| Epsilon, the civil engineering honorary, and received the | 13 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Outstanding Teacher | 14 |
| Award twice; he authored or co-authored 25 formal technical | 15 |
| publications, including one textbook on pre-stressed concrete | 16 |
| design;
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| WHEREAS, Professor Khachaturian was very active in ASCE | 18 |
| throughout his career; he was a leader in the central Illinois | 19 |
| section, was a member of the Committee on Educational Research, | 20 |
| and the structural division Committee on Optimization of | 21 |
| Structures; he was one of the principal founders of the | 22 |
| Technical Council on Forensic Engineering in 1982 and served as | 23 |
| chair of its executive, education, and member education |
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| committees; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, He was active in ACI and the American Society for | 3 |
| Engineering Education and was a member of NSPE; he was a strong | 4 |
| supporter of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois | 5 |
| as a director and as president; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, His honors include the Epstein Award, the | 7 |
| Outstanding Teacher ASCE Student Chapter Award, the John Parmer | 8 |
| Award of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, the | 9 |
| Halliburton Award for Engineering Education leadership, the | 10 |
| Harold T. Larsen Award of Chi Epsilon and the Lifetime | 11 |
| Achievement Award of the ASCE Illinois Section; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Recently Dr. Khachaturian took part in the Chi | 13 |
| Epsilon Induction Ceremonies with his U of I civil engineer | 14 |
| son, Jon, and his U of I civil engineer grandson, Matthew; in | 15 |
| all of his endeavors, Dr. Khachaturian demonstrated the highest | 16 |
| standards of professionalism and set professional standards of | 17 |
| excellence that serve as a lasting model for students and | 18 |
| faculty alike; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Khachaturian was raised in the Armenian | 20 |
| Orthodox Faith; and throughout his life was active in Christian | 21 |
| Ministries; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife; his children, Greg | 2 |
| Khachaturian, Jon (Bobbi) Khachaturian, Mary (Bill) Thrift, | 3 |
| and Steve (Janet) Khachaturian; his grandchildren, Matthew | 4 |
| Khachaturian, Sara Khachaturian, Bethany Khachaturian, Michael | 5 |
| Thrift, David Thrift, Steven Thrift, Nathaniel Khachaturian, | 6 |
| Christian Khachaturian, Benjamin Khachaturian, and Grace | 7 |
| Khachaturian; and his siblings, Arek Khachaturian (Diane) and | 8 |
| Juliet Ter-Sarkissian; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 11 |
| mourn, along with his family, friends, colleagues, and former | 12 |
| students, the passing of Dr. Khachaturian; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Narbey Khachaturian as a symbol | 15 |
| of our sincere sympathy.
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