Full Text of HR0400 94th General Assembly
HR0400 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Education is one of the most noble professions an | 3 |
| individual can choose to pursue; it has come to our attention | 4 |
| that Ann Stockey will be retiring from the education field; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Chicago on August 2, 1939; as a | 6 |
| young child, she lived in Chicago; University City, Missouri; | 7 |
| Centralia; and returned to Chicago; she attended St. Xavier | 8 |
| Academy until her last year of high school and was a member of | 9 |
| the first graduating class of Mother McAuley High School in | 10 |
| 1957; and
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| WHEREAS, During her high school years, Ann was extremely | 12 |
| active; she was the president of Student Council, Editor of the | 13 |
| Shield (the high school newspaper), a member of the National | 14 |
| Honor Society, an honor student, a member of the Quill & | 15 |
| Scroll, a newspaper contributor, and a member of basketball and | 16 |
| volleyball intramurals, sodality, press club, dance committee, | 17 |
| and the yearbook staff; her ambition in high school was to | 18 |
| become an elementary school teacher, as were her mother and | 19 |
| grandmother; and
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| WHEREAS, She went on to graduate from Marquette University | 21 |
| in Milwaukee in 1961; she taught second grade in Oak Lawn at | 22 |
| Gasteyer School for almost two years; she got married in August | 23 |
| of 1962 and became a mother in May of 1963; she was a full-time | 24 |
| mom until her husband passed away, leaving her a single mom | 25 |
| with four young children; and | 26 |
| WHEREAS, She went back to teaching at Hawthorne School in | 27 |
| Glen Ellyn in 1975 and returned full-time in 1976 at Christ the | 28 |
| King School in Lombard, where all of her children attended; she | 29 |
| left Christ the King School in the spring of 1986 to teach | 30 |
| sixth, seventh, and eighth grade social studies at Winfield | 31 |
| Middle School, where she has been teaching since; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Stockey is married to Elden Stockey and plans | 2 |
| on enjoying time with her grandchildren during her retirement; | 3 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| we congratulate Ann Stockey on the occasion of her retirement, | 7 |
| and we thank her for her many years of dedication to the | 8 |
| education of young people; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 |
| presented to Ms. Stockey as an expression of our deepest | 11 |
| respect and esteem and with best wishes for a relaxing | 12 |
| retirement.
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