Full Text of SR1124 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of John Peter Clark, III of Oak Park, who | 4 | | passed away on June 4, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Peter Clark was born on May 6, 1942 in | 6 | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he graduated from La Salle College | 7 | | High School in 1960 and the University of Notre Dame with a | 8 | | Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1964; he | 9 | | subsequently earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the | 10 | | University of California, Berkeley in 1968; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, In 1972, Peter Clark joined the faculty at the | 12 | | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he | 13 | | taught for six years; he then worked for the ITT Continental | 14 | | Baking Company as its director of research; in 1982, he moved | 15 | | to Oak Park and started a long career in consulting; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Peter Clark was the author of eight books and more | 17 | | than 40 papers and served as a contributing editor and | 18 | | columnist for Food Technology magazine; in 2011, he received | 19 | | the Life Achievement Award from the International Association | 20 | | for Engineering and Food; he was also a fellow of the American | 21 | | Institute of Chemical Engineering and the Institute of Food | 22 | | Technology; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Peter Clark was the President of the board and a | 2 | | volunteer at the Oak Park-River Forest Food Pantry; he was also | 3 | | an active member of the St. Giles Family Mass Community; he and | 4 | | his wife were longtime benefactors of the WFMT Folkstage | 5 | | program and enthusiastic supporters of the folk music | 6 | | community; they also regularly hosted traveling musicians in | 7 | | their home in Oak Park; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Peter Clark is survived by his wife, Nancy; his | 9 | | children, Shannon John (Usha Mishra) and Hannah (Peter Meehan); | 10 | | his grandchildren, Hazel, Avi, and Joan; his siblings, Mary | 11 | | Elizabeth Clark S.S.J., Mark, Teresa (John) Trudeau, Louis | 12 | | (Anne), Jimmy Clark (Angela Klaerner), and Victoria Clark | 13 | | (Jeffrey) Kauffman; and his many nephews and nieces; therefore, | 14 | | be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 17 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of John Peter Clark, III; | 18 | | and be it further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to the family of J. Peter Clark, III as an expression | 21 | | of our sympathy.
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