Full Text of HR0419 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the | 4 | | administration, teachers, and students of Timothy Christian | 5 | | Schools on the occasion of the school's 100th anniversary in | 6 | | 2012; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The rich history of Timothy Christian Schools | 8 | | began on April 16, 1907, when the first meeting for the purpose | 9 | | of organizing a "Society of Christian Instruction" was held at | 10 | | the home of F. Speckman; the Timothy Christian School was | 11 | | officially opened on August 13, 1911, in a rented hall with an | 12 | | enrollment of 60 pupils; in 1912, the first Timothy Christian | 13 | | school building was built at 13th and Tripp Streets in Chicago; | 14 | | in July of 1917, Timothy was fully accredited by the Chicago | 15 | | Board of Education; in 1920, the society decided to join the | 16 | | National Union of
Christian Schools; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, In the 1920s, Timothy Christian School began to | 18 | | move west to the Cicero, Berwyn, and Oak Park areas; in 1927, | 19 | | with the enrollment at 150 pupils, a new Timothy Christian | 20 | | School was opened at 5900 West 14th Street in Cicero; in 1946, | 21 | | the Ebenezer School merged with Timothy, increasing enrollment | 22 | | by 116 pupils; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 1951, Timothy Christian School was expanded to | 2 | | include a high school; a building was constructed at 1225 60th | 3 | | Court in Cicero to house both the high school and the junior | 4 | | high; as enrollments continued to grow to the near-800 mark in | 5 | | 1956, expansion bulletins were again circulated to society | 6 | | members; in 1962, a new high school was built at its present | 7 | | location in Elmhurst; in 1965, a gymnasium, industrial arts, | 8 | | and music wing were added to the high school; in 1962, Timothy | 9 | | joined the Private School League for athletic competition and | 10 | | the Illinois High School Association; in 1965, the school was | 11 | | formally recognized by the State of Illinois; the high school | 12 | | subsequently received accreditation from the North Central | 13 | | Association in 1976; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1970, the building on 60th Court in Cicero was | 15 | | sold and the junior high was moved to a new building on the | 16 | | Elmhurst campus; in 1971, the Western Suburbs Christian School | 17 | | was merged with Timothy, which resulted in two separate K-6 | 18 | | campuses; in 1972, the Society approved the construction of six | 19 | | additional classrooms on the west side of the junior high | 20 | | building; grades 1 through 6 from the Cicero building were | 21 | | moved to this addition and the 59th Avenue building was sold; | 22 | | the school continued to operate two grade schools until 1980, | 23 | | when the school's east wing, consisting of the all-purpose | 24 | | room, media center, and six classrooms, was added; in 1973, the | 25 | | grade school was formally recognized by the State of Illinois; |
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| 1 | | and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Due to increased enrollments, the Society | 3 | | approved an expansion program to both the grade school and the | 4 | | high school in 1984; in the spring of 1985, the south wing, | 5 | | consisting of a library-media learning center and six | 6 | | classrooms, was added to the existing grade school building; in | 7 | | the fall of 1985, a new fine arts wing and auditorium was | 8 | | constructed at the high school; the school's most recent | 9 | | capital expansion project added space to the elementary | 10 | | building in 1995-1996; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Today, Timothy Christian Schools has over 1,100 | 12 | | students in its K-12 program; the school remains dedicated to | 13 | | its mission of "developing academically prepared Christian | 14 | | disciples"; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, In 1999, Timothy Christian Schools was named one | 16 | | of 96 outstanding high schools in America by U.S. News and | 17 | | World Report; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The Timothy Christian Schools community will | 19 | | celebrate this milestone in its history throughout the | 20 | | 2011-2012 school year with numerous events, including a | 21 | | campus-wide carnival on October 1, 2012 to kick off the | 22 | | celebration and a gala dinner to be held at Chicago's Field |
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| 1 | | Museum in April of 2012; therefore, be it
| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 3 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 | | we congratulate the administration, teachers, and students of | 5 | | Timothy Christian Schools on the occasion of the school's 100th | 6 | | anniversary and wish them continued success and happiness in | 7 | | the future; and be it further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 | | presented to Matt Davidson, superintendent of Timothy | 10 | | Christian Schools, as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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