Full Text of SR0842 96th General Assembly
SR0842 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
George R. Arnold of Edwardsville, who | 4 |
| passed away on May 14, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold was born September 11, 1916, in | 6 |
| Carbondale; he was the son of the late William Edward and | 7 |
| Elizabeth H., nee Scott, Arnold; he married Mildred Caviness on | 8 |
| December 22, 1956, in Pinckneyville; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold was a veteran of the U.S. Navy | 10 |
| during World War II; he became an Ensign at the Great Lakes | 11 |
| Naval Training Station in 1942; he served as an instructor of | 12 |
| physics, navigation, and meteorology for the naval cadets in | 13 |
| Glenview Naval Air Station in Glenview; he then received 12 | 14 |
| months of instruction in Aerology in Annapolis, Maryland in | 15 |
| 1943 and 1944; he was then assigned to the Naval Station in the | 16 |
| Port of Spain at Trinidad, West Indies; from 1945 to 1946, he | 17 |
| served as an instructor at the naval air station in Corpus | 18 |
| Christie, Texas; after his service in the military, he was a | 19 |
| partner in Arnold Orchards in Carbondale, specializing in | 20 |
| apples and peaches; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold retired as a professor of physics | 22 |
| and environmental science after 10 years at SIU-Carbondale and |
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| 17 years at SIU-Edwardsville; he received his bachelor's degree | 2 |
| in education, physics, and mathematics from SIU-Carbondale in | 3 |
| 1939; he then received his master's degree in physics from the | 4 |
| University of Illinois in 1940 and his doctor of science degree | 5 |
| in environmental science from Washington University; he was the | 6 |
| first person to receive a doctorate on air pollution from | 7 |
| Washington University; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold was an active member in many | 9 |
| organizations; he served as president of the Lewis & Clark | 10 |
| Society, acting president of MCCA, executive secretary of | 11 |
| IMRPAC, chairman of the Illinois Corridor, co-chair of the | 12 |
| Illinois-Missouri Trails Coalition, archivist for the | 13 |
| Marquette-Joliet Tercentennial, chairman of the Piasa | 14 |
| Palisades Sierra Group, president of the Vadalabene Nature | 15 |
| Trail Volunteers, secretary of the Grassroots Trailnet | 16 |
| Committee, member of the Mississippi River Corridor Study | 17 |
| Commission, and a member of the MRPC; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, George Arnold was the recipient of the | 19 |
| Edwardsville Meritorious Service Award in 1959; in 2000, he was | 20 |
| honored by the Madison County Transit for the role he played to | 21 |
| pave the way for a world-class bikeway system in Madison | 22 |
| County; in 1970, George, along with the help of Senator Sam | 23 |
| Vadalabene, introduced legislation for creating bikeways | 24 |
| throughout the State of Illinois; in 1986, he promoted Wood |
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| River as the number one site of the National Lewis and Clark | 2 |
| Trail as a member of the Lewis and Clark Society; he, along | 3 |
| with Congressman Jerry Costello and Governor Jim Edgar, helped | 4 |
| obtain 7 million dollars for the construction of the new Lewis & | 5 |
| Clark Bicentennial Interpretive Center, which had 185,000 | 6 |
| visitors during its 1st year; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold was preceded in death by his wife | 8 |
| and his brothers, Clyde Arnold, Clarence Arnold, and Ralph | 9 |
| Arnold; and
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| WHEREAS, George Arnold is survived by his sister, Marian | 11 |
| Calnon, and his many nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 13 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 14 |
| his family and friends, the passing of George R. Arnold; and be | 15 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to the family of George Arnold as an expression of | 18 |
| our sympathy.
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