Full Text of SR0238 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
Ruth Thompson Law, who passed away on | 4 | | April 13, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law was born on March 16, 1935, in Milton, | 6 | | Massachusetts; her parents were Willard Weir and Gertrude Brown | 7 | | Thompson; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law graduated from Colby Junior College in | 9 | | 1954; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law traveled extensively throughout the Far | 11 | | East, learning about the people, culture, and cuisine of the | 12 | | region while giving numerous cooking classes, lectures, and | 13 | | culinary and shopping tours; during her travels, she visited | 14 | | China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, | 15 | | Indonesia, the Philippines, and India; she featured her talents | 16 | | in her "What's Cooking" cooking school, which she operated out | 17 | | of her home in Hinsdale from 1981 to 1998; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Over the years, she had the honor of studying and | 19 | | cooking with James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Emeril | 20 | | Lagasse, Graham Kerr, Rick Bayless, Art Smith, and Martin Yan, | 21 | | her mentor; she dined in Thailand with the Queen of Thailand, |
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| 1 | | in Jaipur, India with the Dalai Lama, and in New Delhi with | 2 | | Mother Teresa; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, As a result of her passion for travel and sharing | 4 | | her knowledge, Ruth Law wrote four cookbooks; her first, "Dim | 5 | | Sum - Fast and Festive Chinese Cooking", was a Book of the | 6 | | Month Club selection in 1982; "The Southeast Asia Cookbook", | 7 | | which appeared on the Chicago Tribune Best Seller List, was a | 8 | | Better Homes and Gardens book club selection and was chosen by | 9 | | People magazine as one of the best cookbooks of 1990; "Indian | 10 | | Light Cooking" was a Julia Child Cookbook Award Finalist; | 11 | | "Pacific Light Cooking" was selected as one of the 10 best | 12 | | health cookbooks of the year by Health magazine and Ms. Law was | 13 | | awarded the 1998 Chicago Women in Publishing award for the | 14 | | book; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law appeared on Good Morning America and | 16 | | numerous other television and radio programs; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Until recently, Ruth Law was the culinary director | 18 | | for Bloomingdale's in Oak Brook, where she was able to combine | 19 | | her love of food, teaching, and her keen sense of humor into a | 20 | | position in life she cherished; she enjoyed bringing in local | 21 | | and national chefs for Bloomingdale's Saturday Chef series and | 22 | | working with them to cook for an audience filled with dedicated | 23 | | and loyal friends and customers; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law was preceded in death by her brother, | 2 | | Ralph Willard Thompson; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Ruth Law is survived by her son, Grant Wordsworth | 4 | | (Mary) Law Jr.; her daughters, Alison Law (Ted) Darling and | 5 | | Sarah Thompson Law; her granddaughters, Ellen "Maggie" | 6 | | Margaret and Anna Weir Darling; her sister-in-law, Joy | 7 | | Thompson; and her nephews and niece, Glen, Ronald, and Nancy | 8 | | Thompson; therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 10 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 | | her family and friends, the passing of Ruth Thompson Law; and | 12 | | be it further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 | | presented to the family of Ruth Law as an expression of our | 15 | | sympathy.
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