Full Text of HR1232 94th General Assembly
HR1232 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Sharyn Markus, Edwin Schomaker, Charles "Dan" | 3 |
| Dermody, and Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, will be inducted into | 4 |
| the Mater Dei
Catholic High School Hall of Honor on Saturday, | 5 |
| May 6, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Inductees into the Mater Dei Hall of Honor have | 7 |
| distinguished themselves in living the mission of Mater Dei | 8 |
| High School by their service to their communities in the areas | 9 |
| of academics, business, professional or religious life, and | 10 |
| public service; and
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| WHEREAS, Sharyn Markus of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a | 12 |
| 1968 graduate of Mater Dei High School; she is being inducted | 13 |
| for her contributions in education as an English, Language | 14 |
| Arts, Reading, and Journalism teacher, and for the many | 15 |
| outstanding community service projects that she has | 16 |
| established; her teaching career began in 1972, and she now | 17 |
| serves as the school liaison for the Colorado Springs World | 18 |
| Affairs Council and is also the project coordinator of All | 19 |
| Pikes Peak Reads for the Pikes Peak Library District and | 20 |
| coordinator for the Children's Literacy Center, Academy School | 21 |
| District Twenty; she and her students started the paperclip | 22 |
| campaign to honor Holocaust victims; she has served as the | 23 |
| executive director for the Colorado Springs Dental Society | 24 |
| since 1976, and she traveled to Argentina in 2005 and 2006 with | 25 |
| the Children's International Dental Project; and
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| WHEREAS, Edwin Schomaker is being inducted for his many | 27 |
| years of service to Mater Dei and his commitment to the Fathers | 28 |
| and Friends organization; he lives in New Baden and is a member | 29 |
| of St. George parish; he valiantly served his country as member | 30 |
| of the U.S. Army, worked for an Oldsmobile dealership in | 31 |
| Mascoutah, and in 1990 retired from General Motors after 44 | 32 |
| years; he has been a member of the St. George Holy Name Society |
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| and served as its president for ten years; he has been a member | 2 |
| of the American Legion Poelker Post for 52 years, served with | 3 |
| the Fathers and Friends for 32 years, and from the late 1970s | 4 |
| to early 1980s, was a member of the Mater Dei School Board; he | 5 |
| also was involved with the March of Dimes for several years; he | 6 |
| and his wife Frieda (Wolters) have been married since 1953 and | 7 |
| are blessed with five children, Jim, Don, Mary Lou, Geri, and | 8 |
| Karen, and eight grandchildren; and
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| WHEREAS, Charles D. "Dan" Dermody is a member of Mater Dei | 10 |
| Class of 1961; upon his graduation in 1961, he immediately | 11 |
| started working in broadcasting; his career has taken him to | 12 |
| stations in Illinois, Armed Forces Radio on Okinawa, North | 13 |
| Carolina, Florida, and back to Illinois; in 2005, after working | 14 |
| for 19 years at WXCL, he joined JMP/Triad Broadcasting in | 15 |
| Peoria as Program Director/Morning Host on WIRL; the Illinois | 16 |
| Country Music Association has named him "Illinois Country Music | 17 |
| Air Personality of the Year" five times; on October 1, 2006, he | 18 |
| will celebrate 45 years in the broadcasting industry; he and | 19 |
| his wife, Mary Ann (Schmitt), serve as Ambassadors for the St. | 20 |
| Jude's Children's Research Hospital and its affiliate in | 21 |
| Peoria; he has been instrumental in raising over one million | 22 |
| dollars for the continuing research into childhood cancer and | 23 |
| other pediatric diseases; he is active in St. Vincent de Paul | 24 |
| parish activities and serves as a lector; he and Mary Ann have | 25 |
| one son, Christopher; and | 26 |
| WHEREAS, Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, is a 1966 graduate of | 27 |
| Mater Dei and is currently serving as co-director of John XXIII | 28 |
| Retreat Center in Hartford, Indiana; Sr. Joetta entered the | 29 |
| Novitiate of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Donaldson, | 30 |
| Indiana, after high school; she began her ministry by teaching | 31 |
| elementary school; she has served in many places, including | 32 |
| Macon; Mt. Zion; Edwardsville; Richmond, Minnesota; | 33 |
| Burlington, Iowa; Rock Island; and she returned to pastoral | 34 |
| ministry in 1987 as a DRE/Pastoral Associate at St. Mary's, |
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| Quincy, then assumed the role of Pastoral Associate at St. | 2 |
| Vincent de Paul, Fort Wayne, Indiana, until 1997; at that time, | 3 |
| she was elected to the Leadership Team of the Poor Handmaids of | 4 |
| Jesus Christ as a Provincial Councilor, a position she held for | 5 |
| eight years; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 8 |
| we congratulate Sharyn Markus, Edwin Schomaker, Charles (Dan) | 9 |
| Dermody, and Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, on their induction | 10 |
| into the Mater Dei Hall of Honor; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
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| presented to each inductee as an expression of our respect
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| esteem.
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