Full Text of SR0511 96th General Assembly
SR0511 96TH 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
James E. Lind, who passed away on October | 4 |
| 8, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, James Lind was born in Lemont; he earned 4 varsity | 6 |
| letters in basketball and 3 letters in football at Lemont High | 7 |
| School, throwing 13 touchdown passes for the 1945 football | 8 |
| team; in 2008, he was named to the Lemont High School's Hall of | 9 |
| Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, After high school, James Lind attended North | 11 |
| Central College in Naperville, where he helped the team to | 12 |
| back-to-back seven-win seasons in 1946 and 1947; he earned his | 13 |
| bachelor's degree in health and physical education in 1950 and | 14 |
| his master's degree in education from Northern Illinois | 15 |
| University in 1964; and
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| WHEREAS, After taking a number of teaching jobs downstate, | 17 |
| James Lind took a job teaching biology at Downers Grove North | 18 |
| in 1955; a year later, he became an assistant football coach | 19 |
| under legendary head coach Dick Carstens, for whom the school's | 20 |
| football stadium is named; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1957, James Lind was one of 8 teachers who were |
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| asked to help start Downers Grove North's guidance department; | 2 |
| for the next decade, he served as both a biology teacher and a | 3 |
| guidance counselor; in 1967, he became a full-time guidance | 4 |
| counselor; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1977, James Lind stepped down from coaching | 6 |
| football and started working as a driver at Argonne National | 7 |
| Laboratory during the summers; in 1989, he retired as a | 8 |
| guidance counselor; and
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| WHEREAS, James Lind is survived by his wife of 59 years, | 10 |
| Rosalie; his daughters, Lauren Hoffman, Lisa Kean, Jenifer, and | 11 |
| Julie; his sisters, Caryl Garling and Virginia Connelly; and | 12 |
| his 5 grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 14 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 15 |
| his family and friends, the passing of James E. Lind; and be it | 16 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to the family of James Lind as an expression of our | 19 |
| sympathy.
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