Full Text of HR0715 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Cecelia Cukla Olejniczak | 4 | | on the occasion of her 90th birthday; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak was born in Chicago on August | 6 | | 15, 1925 to Joseph and Julia Cukla; she attended St. Joseph's | 7 | | Grammar School and Resurrection High School, where she | 8 | | performed a piano concert to raise money for the Red Cross to | 9 | | help troops during World War
II and won a contest for her vocal | 10 | | talents; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, After graduation from high school, Cecelia | 12 | | Olejniczak continued entertaining with many well-known
| 13 | | orchestras in the Chicagoland area; she also worked in the | 14 | | family bakery, which was known as the Original Tasty
Bakery in | 15 | | Chicago; she began attending college in 1944 to work on a | 16 | | musical degree; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, At her mother's request, Cecelia Olejniczak wrote | 18 | | letters to Joseph Olejniczak, a soldier in World War II, and 2 | 19 | | years later in 1946, they married; they moved to Oak Lawn in | 20 | | 1950, where they raised their 9 children; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak became an active parishioner |
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| 1 | | at St. Gerald Church, where she was part of the choir and a
| 2 | | substitute organist; in 1952, she became the full-time organist | 3 | | at St. Gerald and St. Albert the Great; she also taught piano | 4 | | and the organ and gave vocal lessons in her home throughout her | 5 | | 90 years; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak was at one time the Musical | 7 | | Director of St. Gerald Church and President of the St. Gerald
| 8 | | Altar and Rosary Society; she earned a Certificate in Church | 9 | | Liturgy and an Associate Degree in Church Music from St.
Joseph | 10 | | College in Indiana during the 1980s; in 1992, she earned her | 11 | | Bachelor of Arts in Music from St. Xavier's
University in | 12 | | Chicago; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak received a Lifetime | 14 | | Achievement Award in 2009 for over 50 years of serving as Music | 15 | | Director at St.
Gerald Church; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak crochets baby blankets for | 17 | | newborn babies and hats for cancer patients at Advocate Christ
| 18 | | Medical Center; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Cecelia Olejniczak is the proud mother of 9; | 20 | | grandmother of 24; and great-grandmother of 27; therefore, be | 21 | | it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | that we congratulate Cecelia Cukla Olejniczak on her 90th | 4 | | birthday and we wish her many more wonderful years; and be it | 5 | | further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to Cecelia Olejniczak as an expression of our esteem | 8 | | and respect.
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