Full Text of HR1257 94th General Assembly
HR1257 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Margene Pappas, the Director of Bands at Oswego | 3 |
| High School, is retiring after 37 years of service in the music | 4 |
| education field; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Pappas, a native of Champaign, received her | 6 |
| B.S. and M.S. in Music Education from the University of Arizona | 7 |
| and VanderCook College of Music; and
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| WHEREAS, She is the Director of Bands in Oswego Community | 9 |
| Unit School District 308, where she has taught for 37 years, | 10 |
| both at the junior high and high school level; her current | 11 |
| teaching responsibilities include directing the OHS Wind | 12 |
| Symphony, Chamber Winds, and Concert Band, working with the | 13 |
| Marching Band, Pep Band, and Jazz Band, and administering the | 14 |
| district band program; membership in the high school band | 15 |
| program has grown significantly in the last nine years; and
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| WHEREAS, Bands under her direction have performed and | 17 |
| consistently received superior ratings at The Midwest Clinic, | 18 |
| the Bands of American National Concert Band Festival, the ASBDA | 19 |
| National Convention, the IMEA All-State Conference, and the | 20 |
| University of Illinois Superstate Band Festival; in addition, | 21 |
| the high school bands have earned grand championships and | 22 |
| sweepstakes awards from the Outback Bowl Music Festival, the | 23 |
| Dixie Classic, and Musicfest Orlando (three times); and | 24 |
| WHEREAS, Bands under Mrs. Pappas' direction were known to | 25 |
| travel; one notable trip is when she took the TNT Band to march | 26 |
| in the 1982 World's Fair in Tennessee; recently, she had | 27 |
| Oswego's high school bands march in the 2005 Tournament of | 28 |
| Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, where they were seen in | 29 |
| person by over one million people and on television by over 400 | 30 |
| million people around the world; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Pappas' professional associations include | 2 |
| the NBA (Board of Directors 1994-96 as a middle school | 3 |
| representative and 2000-2004 as a high school representative), | 4 |
| ASBDA, Phi Beta Mu, MENC, IMEA, and she is on the advisory | 5 |
| board for the BOA National Concert Band Festival; and
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| WHEREAS, Her honors include the John Philip Sousa | 7 |
| Foundation Sudler Legion of Honor Award, the Illinois Chapter | 8 |
| Phi Beta Mu Hall of Fame, the NBA Citation of Excellence, the | 9 |
| 2000 Studs Terkel Humanities Council Award, the Chicago | 10 |
| Outstanding Music Educator Award, the Illinois State Board of | 11 |
| Education Award of Recognition for "Those Who Excel in | 12 |
| Education", and the Illinois Grade School Music Association | 13 |
| Cloyd Myers Memorial Award for Excellence in Music Education; | 14 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, She was recognized by SBO Magazine to represent | 16 |
| Illinois in 2002 as one of "50 Band Directors Who Make a | 17 |
| Difference"; in 1999, she was featured in THE INSTRUMENTALIST | 18 |
| Magazine and was a recipient of the "Mr. Holland's Opus" Award; | 19 |
| the Ledger-Sentinel, Oswego's weekly newspaper, selected Mrs. | 20 |
| Pappas as one of the 50 most influential people of the century | 21 |
| in Oswego; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 23 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 24 |
| we congratulate Mrs. Margene Pappas on the occasion of her | 25 |
| retirement, and we recognize the incredible impact she has had | 26 |
| on the lives of so many students in the Oswego area; and be it | 27 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 29 |
| presented to Mrs. Pappas as an expression of our profound | 30 |
| esteem and with best wishes for a relaxing retirement.
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