Full Text of SR0581 100th 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 Lucille Rose (Kotewa) Msall, who passed | 4 | | away on May 15, 2016, at the age of 87; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall was born to Polish immigrant parents | 6 | | in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood on June 29, 1928; | 7 | | she graduated from Lourdes High School and studied psychology | 8 | | at Loyola University Chicago; she became active in social | 9 | | justice issues on campus and in the city; she met her husband, | 10 | | Emil, during her junior year of college and they married in | 11 | | 1950; 18 years and seven children later, she received her | 12 | | bachelor's degree from Loyola; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Before getting her degree, Lucille Msall was | 14 | | active in tutoring and teaching children with special needs, | 15 | | both out of her home and in the homes of her pupils, helping to | 16 | | teach the skills they were not being taught in public schools; | 17 | | and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall was an American disability rights | 19 | | activist and was recognized for co-founding some of the United | 20 | | States' first organizations to advocate on behalf of people | 21 | | with Down Syndrome; in 1968, she was the founding director of | 22 | | the Beacon Therapeutic School for children with autism and |
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| 1 | | other special needs, which still operates on Longwood Drive on | 2 | | Chicago's Far South Side; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall helped organize the National | 4 | | Association for Down Syndrome and served as its president from | 5 | | 1974 to 1975; she was inspired to do so when her daughter, | 6 | | Christianne, was born with Down Syndrome in 1969; she helped | 7 | | form the National Down Syndrome Congress, for which she was the | 8 | | first recording secretary and was the organization's president | 9 | | from 1978 to 1979; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall was invited by President Jimmy | 11 | | Carter to participate in the White House conference for the | 12 | | mentally "retarded" in 1980; she became a strong advocate for | 13 | | replacement of the word "retarded" in favor of "developmentally | 14 | | challenged" or "special needs"; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall became a rehabilitation counselor | 16 | | for the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services from | 17 | | 1989 until 2003, where she focused on helping people become | 18 | | independent and having opportunities for fuller lives, | 19 | | including employment; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall's greatest joy of her professional | 21 | | career was helping any child to learn to read and write or to | 22 | | master arithmetic; she believed in the ability of everyone, and |
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| 1 | | she believed that everyone deserved an education and could be | 2 | | educated, and she set out to prove it; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall and her family moved from the South | 4 | | Side of Chicago to Oak Park in 1975 to give her daughter, | 5 | | Christianne, an opportunity to attend a mainstream school; | 6 | | Christianne went on to attend National Louis University and | 7 | | completed a certificate program, fulfilling a life's goal for | 8 | | her mother; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall expected her children to become | 10 | | well-rounded, each learning a musical instrument and becoming | 11 | | involved in outside activities such as 4-H or the Scouts, and | 12 | | to take on part-time jobs; as they got older, she encouraged | 13 | | her children to help those in need by getting involved in | 14 | | projects that would increase their awareness and address some | 15 | | of the inequities in the community; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall encouraged expectations of higher | 17 | | education for her children while they were in high school, | 18 | | resulting in nine of her living children attending college; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall was preceded in death by her beloved | 20 | | husband, Emil B. Msall, and her son, Gerard Peter Msall; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Lucille Msall is survived by her loving children, |
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| 1 | | Michael (Karla), Anita, Karin (Steve) Fischer, Mary (Scott) | 2 | | Rogers, Camille, Laurence, Madeleine (Frank Mauceri), | 3 | | Christianne, and Julianne (Christopher) Pegler; 17 | 4 | | grandchildren; and her sister, Joan (Stanley) Vinkler; | 5 | | therefore, be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 7 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 8 | | Lucille Rose Msall, and extend our sincere condolences to her | 9 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 10 | | further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the family of Lucille Msall as an expression of | 13 | | our deepest sympathy.
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