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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of Marguerite Sara "Rete" Kaufman of | ||||||
4 | Woodstock, who passed away on August 16, 2014; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Marguerite Kaufman was born in Woodstock on August | ||||||
6 | 14, 1913 to the Reverend Dr. Roger and Blanche (nee Hostetter) | ||||||
7 | Kaufman; she was a member of Grace Lutheran Church and | ||||||
8 | graduated from Woodstock Public High School in 1931; she | ||||||
9 | received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carthage College in | ||||||
10 | 1935 and later earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of | ||||||
11 | Science in library science from the University of Illinois; she | ||||||
12 | also took doctoral-level courses; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Marguerite Kaufman's professional career began | ||||||
14 | with 2 years
of intermittent teaching assignments; she spent | ||||||
15 | several years teaching at Woodstock Community High School, | ||||||
16 | eventually also
serving as the school's librarian; she then | ||||||
17 | moved to Iowa to work as teacher-librarian at the State School
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18 | for the Blind; advancing professionally in her field | ||||||
19 | necessitated several geographic moves, which included working | ||||||
20 | as
a librarian at Midland College in Nebraska, then at Carthage | ||||||
21 | College, the University of Illinois Architecture
Library, and | ||||||
22 | Elmhurst College; she then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||||||
23 | and spent 6
years as the architecture reference librarian at |
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1 | Harvard University's Graduate School of Design;
she returned to | ||||||
2 | Illinois and served as the Head Librarian of the Art and | ||||||
3 | Architecture Library and
as Assistant Professor of Library | ||||||
4 | Administration at the University of Illinois; she retired from | ||||||
5 | the University of Illinois in 1974 and returned to Woodstock; | ||||||
6 | and
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7 | WHEREAS, Marguerite Kaufman was an avid White Sox fan and | ||||||
8 | an enthusiastic bird watcher with the local Audubon Society; | ||||||
9 | from 1980 to 1998,
she fed her love of learning and sense of | ||||||
10 | adventure by traveling via train and bus to 29 different
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11 | elderhostels across the United States; she also enjoyed | ||||||
12 | walking, tending to indoor and outdoor plants, participating
in | ||||||
13 | Grace Lutheran Church's women's circles, and attending Retired | ||||||
14 | Teacher Association events; among
extended family members, she | ||||||
15 | was known for her carefully chosen gifts of books to the | ||||||
16 | children and for
the designer Barbie doll clothing she sewed by | ||||||
17 | hand; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Marguerite Kaufman was preceded in death by her | ||||||
19 | parents and brother; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Marguerite Kaufman is survived by cousins, Edna | ||||||
21 | Steadman, Dan
(Marilyn) Steadman and children, Bruce (Lois) | ||||||
22 | Gerloff and children, Brian (Carole) Gerloff and children,
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23 | Pamela Gerloff, Jane Gerloff (god-daughter), Lisa (Bill) |
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1 | Gerloff Banker, and Carl (Dagmar) Lofgren and
children; | ||||||
2 | therefore, be it
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3 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | ||||||
4 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
5 | Marguerite Sara "Rete" Kaufman, and extend our sincere | ||||||
6 | condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | ||||||
7 | her; and be it further
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8 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
9 | presented to the family of Marguerite Kaufman as an expression | ||||||
10 | of our deepest sympathy.
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