Full Text of HR0993 94th General Assembly
HR0993 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with sadness of the death of Ola | 4 |
| Marie Bundy of Normal on Saturday, February 18, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born on August 4, 1935, on a farm in | 6 |
| Allerton to Ervin Stanley and Marie Magdelena Rohl Bundy; she | 7 |
| was a 1953 graduate of Champaign High School, where she was | 8 |
| involved in various GAA activities, sang in the chorus, served | 9 |
| as vice president of the senior class, and was editor of the | 10 |
| school yearbook; she went on to graduate from the University of | 11 |
| Illinois, where she majored in physical education and was | 12 |
| awarded a letter for her participation in the school's athletic | 13 |
| teams; she later did postgraduate work at the U of I and at | 14 |
| Northern Illinois University; and
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| WHEREAS, After college, Ms. Bundy taught high school for | 16 |
| eight and a half years at Grant Park, Thornton Fractional | 17 |
| South, and her alma mater in Champaign, before joining the | 18 |
| Illinois High School Association; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1967, she joined the Illinois High School | 20 |
| Association as an assistant executive director in charge of | 21 |
| girls athletics; after Title IX was passed in 1972, the IHSA | 22 |
| established several state tournaments for girls, and Ms. Bundy | 23 |
| was in charge of all of them; throughout her career at IHSA, | 24 |
| she provided uncompromising leadership for girls athletic | 25 |
| programs in Illinois and across the nation; she wrote the | 26 |
| IHSA's affirmative action policy for girls playing in boys | 27 |
| state series and helped write the Illinois State Board of | 28 |
| Education's sex equity rules that served as the model for many | 29 |
| other states; in 1993 she testified at a Congressional hearing | 30 |
| on girls athletic participation; and
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| WHEREAS, During her 29-year career with IHSA, she |
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| shepherded girls athletics from the early days of GAA and | 2 |
| postal tournaments to a full-scale, 12-sport, interscholastic | 3 |
| state tournament lineup that was every bit the equivalent of | 4 |
| boys programs; many times it was only by the sheer force of her | 5 |
| personality that she was able to persuade high school | 6 |
| administrators to give girls athletics a fair shake; and
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| WHEREAS, She had the distinction of being the first person | 8 |
| inducted into the Illinois Girls Coaches Association Hall of | 9 |
| Fame; she was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall | 10 |
| of Fame, a member of the Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame, | 11 |
| and a member of Champaign Central High School's Hall of Fame; | 12 |
| she was inducted into the National Federation Hall of Fame in | 13 |
| 1996 for her national leadership in the rise of girls | 14 |
| interscholastic athletic programs; she also received special | 15 |
| recognition for her work from the Illinois Swimming | 16 |
| Association, the Illinois High School Girls Gymnastics Coaches | 17 |
| Association, the United States Volleyball Association, the | 18 |
| Illinois State Board of Education, and the National Association | 19 |
| for Girls and Women's Sports; she served on the U.S. Olympic | 20 |
| Women's Volleyball Committee for the 1972 and 1976 Olympic | 21 |
| Games; and she also received the prestigious Woman of | 22 |
| Distinction in Education award; and
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| WHEREAS, She enjoyed working with the schools and | 24 |
| student-athletes; she took great pride in providing equitable | 25 |
| opportunities for the boys and girls sports programs in | 26 |
| Illinois and was a great leader and role model; she loved to | 27 |
| travel, read, play golf, work crossword and sudoku puzzles, and | 28 |
| visit with family and friends; she was a vocal supporter of | 29 |
| IHSA, ISU, U of I, and Cubs sports events; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Ola Marie Bundy has been deeply | 31 |
| felt by many, especially her brothers, Stanley Eugene (Jan) | 32 |
| Bundy and Ervin Caleb (Diane) Bundy; her sisters, Dr. Janet | 33 |
| Kjestene Bundy and Esther Yvonne (Larry) Lutz; and her many |
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| close nieces and nephews as well as many wonderful friends; she | 2 |
| was preceded in death by her parents and her infant sister, | 3 |
| Alma Jean; 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 mourn the passing of Ola Marie Bundy, and we extend our | 7 |
| deepest sympathy to her family, friends, and all who knew and | 8 |
| loved her; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our sincerest | 11 |
| condolences.
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