Full Text of SR0521 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 John M. Wulfers, who passed away on | 4 | | December 2, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, John Manning Wulfers was born on April 28, 1947, | 6 | | in Morristown, New Jersey; he graduated from the University of | 7 | | Wisconsin-Madison and from the Southern Methodist University | 8 | | School of Law; he began his legal career as a felony trial | 9 | | prosecutor in Rochester, New York, before moving to Chicago and | 10 | | entering private law practice in the Loop; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, For 30 years until his retirement at the end of | 12 | | 2010, Mr. Wulfers represented reinsurers and insurers from the | 13 | | United States, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and | 14 | | continental Europe who faced enormous financial pressures from | 15 | | the nationwide toxic tort litigation, massive surety claims, | 16 | | and other complex commercial disputes; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, He loved traveling with his beloved wife, Nancy, | 18 | | all over the United States and to many foreign countries; he | 19 | | loved fly fishing in Montana, deep sea fishing in Hawaii, and | 20 | | Arizona spring training trips with his son, Ted; he and his | 21 | | wife supported Chicago's performing arts and enjoyed musical | 22 | | performances in cities throughout the United States and abroad; |
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, He was a passionate sports enthusiast, attending | 3 | | numerous NFL Championships and Super Bowls, the World Series, | 4 | | NCAA Final Four, soccer's World Cup Final and England's FA Cup | 5 | | Final, Triple Crown Thoroughbred races, PGA major | 6 | | championships, and Ryder Cup matches; he and his father were | 7 | | 50-year season ticket holders of the New York Football Giants; | 8 | | throughout his life, he relished playing many of the world's | 9 | | greatest golf courses and enjoyed attending Big 10 football | 10 | | games, avidly supporting his wife's Northwestern Wildcats and | 11 | | his own beloved Wisconsin Badgers; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, He served in a United States Navy aviation | 13 | | squadron that tracked foreign nuclear submarines throughout | 14 | | the North Atlantic in the late 1960s; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his father, John W. | 16 | | Wulfers; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, John Wulfers is survived by his beloved wife, | 18 | | Nancy; his son, Ted; his mother, Dorothy; and his sister, | 19 | | Melinda Russell (James); therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 21 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| 1 | | his family and friends, the passing of John Wulfers; and be it | 2 | | further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the family of John Wulfers as a symbol of our | 5 | | sincere sympathy.
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