Full Text of SR0033 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of
Miriam B. Fry; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was born in 1917 in Wheeling; after | 5 | | spending her early childhood in Wheeling, she graduated from | 6 | | Arlington Heights High School in 1935; as a teenager, she moved | 7 | | with her family to Naperville, where she attended North Central | 8 | | College, worked at North Central's library, and received her | 9 | | bachelor's degree in English in 1939; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, After college, Miriam Fry moved to Detroit, where | 11 | | her husband, Arthur, was a research physicist for General | 12 | | Motors; following the death of her husband, she moved from | 13 | | Detroit back into her parents' home in Naperville, where she | 14 | | immediately went looking for work at the local library; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry served as the director of the Nichols | 16 | | Library in Naperville for 34 years until her retirement in | 17 | | 1984; during her tenure, she performed an extensive update of | 18 | | the library's files, ordered thousands of new books, and | 19 | | created an audiovisual department; she was instrumental in | 20 | | automating the library's card system after the purchase of the | 21 | | library's first computers in the early 1980s; she also helped | 22 | | push through a referendum measure for a new 63,000-square-foot |
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| 1 | | library, which opened at Jefferson and Jackson Avenues in | 2 | | Naperville in 1986; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was preceded in death by her husband, | 4 | | Arthur; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry is survived by her sons, Gary and | 6 | | James; her brother, Rollin Bubert; her 6 grandchildren; and her | 7 | | 11 great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 9 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 | | her family and friends, the passing of Miriam B. Fry; and be it | 11 | | further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 | | presented to the family of Miriam Fry as an expression of our | 14 | | sympathy.
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