Full Text of SR0562 101st 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 Winton Udell Solberg, who passed away on | 4 | | July 10, 2019; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg was born on a farm near Aberdeen, | 6 | | South Dakota to Ole A. and Bertha G. Tschappat Solberg on | 7 | | January 11, 1922; he completed public school in Aberdeen, South | 8 | | Dakota in 1939; he graduated from the University of South | 9 | | Dakota magna cum laude with a degree in history and political | 10 | | science in 1943; he married Constance "Connie" Walton in New | 11 | | York City on November 8, 1952; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg was inducted into the United States | 13 | | Army and sent to Officers' Candidate School at Fort Benning, | 14 | | Georgia; he was commissioned a second lieutenant on May 27, | 15 | | 1943 and trained troops for over a year; on September 10, 1944, | 16 | | he sailed for Europe, arriving in England a week later; he | 17 | | landed on Omaha Beach on September 20, 1944 and joined the | 18 | | 115th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division near the | 19 | | battlefront at Aachen, Germany; an officer in a heavy weapons | 20 | | platoon, he was on the northern flank of the Allied | 21 | | Expeditionary Forces, and his unit fought in the Battle of the | 22 | | Bulge, after which it advanced to the Elbe River; after the | 23 | | European War ended, he served more than a year in Germany in |
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| 1 | | the Army of Occupation; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg was called back to the Army during | 3 | | the Korean War, serving as an instructor at West Point's U.S. | 4 | | Military Academy; he continued his military service by | 5 | | lecturing at the Army Command General Staff School and the Army | 6 | | War College, as well as through summer duties as a Reserve | 7 | | Officer; he retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in | 8 | | 1982; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg earned both a master's degree and a | 10 | | doctorate in American history from Harvard University; he | 11 | | taught history at Yale University from 1954 until 1958, then at | 12 | | Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota; he joined the | 13 | | history department of the University of Illinois at | 14 | | Urbana-Champaign in 1961; during his academic career, he taught | 15 | | American history around the world, including as a Fulbright | 16 | | professor in Bologna, Italy, at Moscow State University in the | 17 | | USSR, and at the University of Calcutta, India; he held | 18 | | professorships at Konan University in Kobe, Japan, at Loyola | 19 | | University in Madras, India, and at St. Stephen's in Delhi, | 20 | | India; the University of South Dakota conferred an honorary | 21 | | degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon him in 1987; the | 22 | | University of Illinois awarded him its highest campus honor, | 23 | | the Chancellor's Medallion, in 2017; he retired from the | 24 | | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, During his career, Winton Solberg played an active | 2 | | role in the governance of higher education, serving as chairman | 3 | | of the history department, a member of the Senate on the Urbana | 4 | | campus, secretary of the University Senates' Conference in the | 5 | | 1970s, president of the Urbana chapter of the American | 6 | | Association of University Professors (AAUP), a member of the | 7 | | Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the AAUP, and vice | 8 | | president of the AAUP; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg's expertise was American | 10 | | intellectual and cultural history; he received several awards | 11 | | for excellence in teaching and kept in touch with many former | 12 | | students; his books and articles covered various topics in | 13 | | American thought and culture over the nation's history, | 14 | | including the formation of the American constitution, the | 15 | | Puritan Sabbath in early America, scientific knowledge in early | 16 | | America, and the history of U.S. higher education; he wrote two | 17 | | volumes on the history of the University of Illinois from its | 18 | | beginning to 1904, a book on Illinois' College of Medicine from | 19 | | 1880 to 1920, and a volume on the Big Ten athletic conference | 20 | | from 1985 to 1945; his book Arctic Mirage: The 1913-1920 | 21 | | Expedition in Search of Crocker Land is in press at MacFarland | 22 | | Publishers; the last volume in his series on the history of the | 23 | | University of Illinois is in preparation for the U of I Press, | 24 | | thanks to the help of his friend, colleague, and early graduate |
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| 1 | | student, David Hoeveler; he was writing and researching until | 2 | | his last years and had occupied a study for over 50 years in | 3 | | the University of Illinois main library, where he worked | 4 | | assiduously, many days a week, until he was 96; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg was preceded in death by his wife, | 6 | | Connie; his parents; and his brothers, Elmo and Lincoln; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Winton Solberg is survived by his children, Gail | 8 | | (Giulio Nicita), Andrew (Yasemin Ciftci), and Kristin (David | 9 | | Seyler); and his grandchildren, Suzanne, Tarkan, Matthew, and | 10 | | Benjamin Solberg, Giulia and Marta Nicita, and John and Stuart | 11 | | Seyler; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 14 | | Winton Udell Solberg and extend our sincere condolences to his | 15 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 16 | | further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Winton Solberg as an expression of | 19 | | our deepest sympathy.
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