Full Text of SR0105 99th 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 Peter A. "Tony" Oakley of Quincy, who | 4 | | passed away on January 23, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Growing up, Peter Oakley was a newspaper carrier | 6 | | for the Quincy Herald-Whig, occasionally doing work in other
| 7 | | departments; he worked several summers during high school and | 8 | | college for WGEM radio
and television; he was a 1952 graduate | 9 | | of Quincy High School and graduated in 1956 from Westminster | 10 | | College in
Fulton, Missouri, with a degree in English; he | 11 | | served in the United States Army from 1957 through July of | 12 | | 1959, stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia; he served in the Army | 13 | | Reserve from 1959 to 1963; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley joined the Herald-Whig as a full-time | 15 | | employee in October of 1959 in the circulation department; he
| 16 | | served as city circulation manager from October of 1964 through | 17 | | August of 1966, becoming the newspaper's
circulation manager in | 18 | | 1965, a position he held until 1995; during that time, he hired | 19 | | the first African-American and
the first female carriers for | 20 | | the newspaper; in 1971, he started the Outstanding Carrier | 21 | | Banquet; in 1995, he became the Herald-Whig's community | 22 | | relations director, a position he held until 2008; he
was the | 23 | | co-founder and long-time coordinator of the newspaper's Good |
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| 1 | | News of Christmas campaign, which
recently celebrated its 26th | 2 | | year of helping area families in need during the holidays; he | 3 | | was an active member in the International Circulation Managers | 4 | | Association, the Central States
Circulation Managers | 5 | | Association, and the Association of Illinois Circulation | 6 | | Managers; he served as President
of the Central States | 7 | | Circulation Managers Association from 1988 to 1990 and was | 8 | | awarded the group's President's
Trophy in 1992 for his | 9 | | contributions toward the betterment of the profession; he was | 10 | | also a member of the
Newspaper Association of America; he | 11 | | played a prominent role in Quincy Newspapers, Inc. (QNI), which
| 12 | | won the 1991 Illinois Governor's Hometown Award for the Good | 13 | | News of Christmas campaign and the 1999
Illinois Governor's | 14 | | Award for the Arts; he was a member of the Quincy Newspapers, | 15 | | Inc. Board of Directors from 1983 to 2007 and a member of the
| 16 | | Board of Directors of the Quincy Broadcasting Company from 1969 | 17 | | to 2007; he was Secretary for the Board of
Directors for QNI | 18 | | and the Oakley-Lindsay Foundation from 2001 until his passing; | 19 | | and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley also took the lead in various | 21 | | community organizations; he served on the board and was either | 22 | | a
past President or Chairman of the Quincy Community Theatre, | 23 | | the Progressive Playhouse, the Quincy Society of
Fine Arts, the | 24 | | Washington Theater Commission, the John Wood Community College | 25 | | Foundation Board of Trustees, the
Noon Kiwanis Club of Quincy, |
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| 1 | | and the Community Counseling Center (now known as Transitions | 2 | | of
Western Illinois);
he also served on the boards for the | 3 | | Quincy Art Center, the Friends of Dr. Richard Eells House, the | 4 | | Historical Society of
Quincy and Adams County, the United Way | 5 | | Unmet Needs Committee, the Quincy Notre Dame Foundation,
the | 6 | | Westminster Sigma Chi Fraternity Association, Junior | 7 | | Achievement, the Quincy Museum, the Quincy Arts Corridor
| 8 | | Committee, and the St. Mary Hospital Foundation Board of | 9 | | Trustees; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley served as a volunteer for the United | 11 | | Way and was a division chairman; in 1980, he was
appointed by | 12 | | the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission to the first | 13 | | Human Rights Authority, which
covered an 18-county region in | 14 | | West-Central Illinois; he volunteered as a child-family mentor | 15 | | in the Quincy
Public Schools; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley and his wife, Signe, were co-founders | 17 | | of the Adams County Arc, a group that provides support to
| 18 | | parents and families of those with developmental disabilities; | 19 | | they were honorary chairpersons of the D.A. Weibring pro-am | 20 | | golf tournament in 1992 and were longtime
volunteers for the | 21 | | event, which benefited the Arc for 25 years; Peter Oakley was | 22 | | the group's first President, and he received a number of honors | 23 | | for his community involvement; the Oakleys were honored with | 24 | | the Enid Ireland Award from the Quincy Community Theatre in |
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| 1 | | 1990; they were recipients of
the Transitions of Western | 2 | | Illinois Humanitarian Award in 1999, and, in 2003, they were | 3 | | recipients of the Joe
Bonansinga Community Service Award from | 4 | | the United Way of Adams County; the Oakleys were honored with | 5 | | the Sister Theresa Marie Braun Service Award from Quincy | 6 | | Catholic Charities
in 2007; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley was honored by Westminster College | 8 | | with its Alumni Achievement Award in
2004; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Peter Oakley is survived by his wife of 50 years, | 10 | | Signe; his sons, Peter A. Oakley, II and his wife, Judy, and | 11 | | Harold B.
"Hal" Oakley and his wife, Kathy, and their children, | 12 | | Bennett W. Oakley, Abigail L. Oakley, and Allen B. Oakley; | 13 | | therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 15 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 16 | | Peter A. "Tony" Oakley, and extend our sincere condolences to | 17 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 18 | | further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to the family of Peter Oakley as an expression of our | 21 | | deepest sympathy.
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