Full Text of HR0692 95th General Assembly
HR0692 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Gordon Goodman | 4 |
| on the occasion of being the recipient of the Downers Grove | 5 |
| Citizen of the Year Award; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman was born on August 19, 1933 in | 7 |
| Chicago and grew up in Riverside; he attended Harvard | 8 |
| University from 1951 to 1959, where he earned his bachelor's | 9 |
| degree with honors and his Ph.D.; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman worked at Argonne National | 11 |
| Laboratory from 1959 to 1971, publishing more than twenty | 12 |
| contributions in chemical physics; he worked in the fields of | 13 |
| molecular spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry, as well as | 14 |
| the supervision of researchers holding Ph.D.'s and the | 15 |
| direction of thesis work; he taught at Harvard Summer School in | 16 |
| 1960 and at Cornell University in the spring of 1964; during | 17 |
| the fall of 1970, he developed a course entitled "Environmental | 18 |
| Consequences of Changes in Information Technology" at Southern | 19 |
| Illinois University at Edwardsville; in 1974, he was employed | 20 |
| at Saclay's Center for Nuclear Studies by the French Atomic | 21 |
| Energy Commission; and he assisted in the development of Great | 22 |
| Lakes Tomorrow, an international organization to improve | 23 |
| citizen participation in Great Lakes decisions from 1975 until |
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| 1976; and
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| WHEREAS, From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Gordon Goodman worked on | 3 |
| numerous problems in atomic and molecular physics, assisting in | 4 |
| the interpretation of experiments on photoionization and | 5 |
| high-resolution rotational spectra of open shell atoms and | 6 |
| molecules; this work was characterized by strong emphasis on | 7 |
| the use of symmetry properties and local density methods for | 8 |
| modeling electronic structures; from 1985 until his retirement | 9 |
| from Argonne in 1990, he worked as a part-time staff member in | 10 |
| Argonne's Chemistry Division; he has produced over 75 | 11 |
| publications in referred scientific journals, which have led to | 12 |
| several international collaborations, including work with | 13 |
| graduate and post-graduate research students in Leuven, | 14 |
| Belgium, where he was a visiting professor in 1987; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman and his wife Nancy moved to | 16 |
| Downers Grove in 1962; he became involved in public affairs in | 17 |
| Downers Grove and DuPage County in the early 1970's, serving as | 18 |
| Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Flood Plain Acquisition | 19 |
| from 1972 to 1973; he was a member of the Steering Committee | 20 |
| for the Second Total Community Development Study, TCD II from | 21 |
| 1992 to 1994 and co-chaired the committee's focus group | 22 |
| regarding Public/Cultural Facilities and Information | 23 |
| Technology; he has appeared and offered testimony on many | 24 |
| issues before most of the community's boards and commissions |
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| spanning the last 35 years; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, In 1995, Dr. Gordon Goodman joined with other | 3 |
| citizens of Downers Grove in establishing the Pierce Downer's | 4 |
| Heritage Alliance to provide expert testimony at hearings about | 5 |
| the future land use for property at the southeast corner of | 6 |
| 31st Street and Highland Avenue; he served as Chair of the | 7 |
| Heritage Alliance from 1995 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2004 and | 8 |
| currently serves as its Treasurer; the group's efforts have | 9 |
| contributed to the public acquisition of more than 40 acres of | 10 |
| open space woodlands which now enhance and protect the Lyman | 11 |
| Woods Forest Preserve; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman was an active Board Member of | 13 |
| the Illinois Environmental Council from 1998 to 2004 and served | 14 |
| as Secretary and Chair of the council's Bylaws Committee; he | 15 |
| has served on the DuPage County Environmental Commission and | 16 |
| the Downers Grove Environmental Concerns Commission; he is a | 17 |
| board member and secretary of the Citizen Advocacy Center in | 18 |
| Elmhurst, a group dedicated to "building democracy for the 21st | 19 |
| century"; he currently serves as a director of the Downers | 20 |
| Grove Concert Association, the Downers Grove Coalition for | 21 |
| Managed Redevelopment, and the Downers Grove Heritage | 22 |
| Preservation Corporation; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman currently devotes much of his |
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| time to projects which increase citizen participation in local | 2 |
| decision making, in the effort to achieve stable, liveable | 3 |
| communities with enhanced environmental quality; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Gordon Goodman's sizable contributions to | 5 |
| modern science and the tireless work he has performed in his | 6 |
| community make him a model for the citizens of this State; | 7 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 |
| congratulate Dr. Gordon Goodman on the occasion of being the | 11 |
| recipient of the Downers Grove Citizen of the Year Award and | 12 |
| wish him continued success and happiness in the future; and be | 13 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Dr. Gordon Goodman as a symbol of our esteem and | 16 |
| respect.
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