Full Text of SR0384 95th General Assembly
SR0384 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Dick Glennie of Oak Park, who passed away | 4 |
| on September 15, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie grew up on the South Side of Chicago; | 6 |
| he attended Calumet High School and graduated from Drake | 7 |
| University in Des Moines, Iowa; he married his wife Linda in | 8 |
| 1966; they started their family in Hyde Park before moving to | 9 |
| Oak Park in 1983; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1967, Dick Glennie founded Gregg Communication | 11 |
| Systems, Inc., a telecommunications company that supplied | 12 |
| telephone systems to business and specialized in call centers; | 13 |
| he served as vice president and general manager of the company | 14 |
| from 1967 to 1990 and served as company president from 1990 | 15 |
| until his retirement in 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie's prestigious position at Gregg | 17 |
| Communication Systems, Inc. enabled him to spend quality time | 18 |
| with his children and allowed him to show up to his children's | 19 |
| concerts and soccer games; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie was a passionate music lover; he was | 21 |
| a member of the Apollo Chorus in Chicago for over 40 years, |
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| serving for many years on the chorus' board; he was also an | 2 |
| active participant in the Chicago Children's Choir; he | 3 |
| regularly attended the opera and symphony concerts as well; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie was a passionate supporter of the | 5 |
| Great Lakes area; he was a member of the Alliance for the Great | 6 |
| Lakes, which protested the dumping practices of the British | 7 |
| Petroleum Corporation into the waters of the Great Lakes; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie was an avid traveler, preferring to | 9 |
| travel by train; he and his wife also traveled to China, | 10 |
| Australia, and Europe, and were regular hosts to foreign | 11 |
| exchange students; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie was a longtime member of the First | 13 |
| United Church of Oak Park, where he joined the peace vigil | 14 |
| group that protested against the war in Iraq on the church's | 15 |
| front steps every Friday night and met every Saturday morning; | 16 |
| he was also a frequent letter writer in the op-ed section of | 17 |
| the Chicago Tribune and Wednesday Journal newspapers; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie was preceded in death by his sisters, | 19 |
| Marjorie (Bernard) Rickert, Carol (the late David) Cameron, and | 20 |
| Dorothy Glennie; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie is survived by his wife, Linda; his |
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| children, Michele (Bradford) Wolter, Robert Dick (Amanda | 2 |
| Sewell), Matthew, and Gregory (Kirsten Langley) Glennie; his | 3 |
| grandchildren, Caroline, Marianne, Gabriel, and Eleanor; and | 4 |
| his many nieces and nephews; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick Glennie will be remembered by all who knew | 6 |
| and loved him as a passionate and caring person who loved | 7 |
| talking to everyone around him; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 9 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Dick Glennie; and be it | 11 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to the family of Dick Glennie as an expression of our | 14 |
| sympathy.
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