Full Text of SR0934 95th General Assembly
SR0934 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
Dr. Lora L. Tyson of Naperville, who | 4 |
| passed away on September 1, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson is a native of Iowa; she was one of | 6 |
| four daughters whose father worked as a school superintendent | 7 |
| in towns in Iowa and Minnesota; she graduated with a bachelor's | 8 |
| degree from Wheaton College, where she also met her husband of | 9 |
| 21 years and the father of her two sons, Rosendo F. Tyson Jr., | 10 |
| who preceded her in death in 1997; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from college, Dr. Lora Tyson | 12 |
| worked for a few years as a teacher at a grade school in | 13 |
| Itasca; she then moved with her husband and children in the | 14 |
| late 1970s to Kentucky, where she earned a master's in | 15 |
| education from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in | 16 |
| education from the University of Kentucky; in 1999, she joined | 17 |
| the faculty at North Central College, where she also served as | 18 |
| chairman of the education department from 2005 to 2007; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, As chairman of North Central College's education | 20 |
| department, Dr. Lora Tyson focused her energies on improving a | 21 |
| section within the North Central College library known as the | 22 |
| curriculum resource center; in honor of her work for the |
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| curriculum resource center, the center will be renamed the Lora | 2 |
| Tyson Curriculum Library; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson was a member and served as an elder | 4 |
| at the River Glen Presbyterian Church in Naperville; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson is survived by her sons, Ian and | 6 |
| Brent; her mother, Esther Trail; her sisters, Ruth Anerino, | 7 |
| Beth Hale, and Karin Trail-Johnson; and her granddaughter; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson will be remembered by all who knew | 9 |
| and loved her as a kind and compassionate role model who | 10 |
| believed that civility and empathy were not just words to live | 11 |
| by, but words to teach; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 13 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 14 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Dr. Lora L. Tyson; and | 15 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Lora Tyson as an expression of | 18 |
| our sympathy.
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