Full Text of SR0971 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Michael Stokely Kelly, who passed away | 4 | | on September 2, 2021 at the age of 52; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly was born in Chicago on October 25, | 6 | | 1968; at age four, his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly attended the Hawthorne and Holmes | 8 | | Elementary Schools and Oak Park and River Forest High School; | 9 | | and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, During high school, Michael Kelly wrote for the | 11 | | school newspaper, acted in stage plays, and was the junior | 12 | | class president; the highlight of these years was his | 13 | | directorial debut for the Little Theater; while casting for | 14 | | the play Bleacher Bums, he selected multiple students who had | 15 | | no prior acting experience; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly completed his bachelor's degree at | 17 | | the University of Michigan in 1991; he later earned a master's | 18 | | degree in Social Work and, in 2006, a doctoral degree in Social | 19 | | Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, In his career as a helping professional, Michael |
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| 1 | | Kelly served as a family therapist, a youth minister at St. | 2 | | Giles Family Mass, and a school social worker for 14 years, | 3 | | first at Indian Trail Middle School in Addison and later at | 4 | | Mann and Lincoln Elementary Schools in Oak Park; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, After completing his doctoral degree, Michael | 6 | | Kelly entered academia by joining the faculty of the School of | 7 | | Social Work at Loyola University; in 2020, he was named the | 8 | | Lucian Welch and Carol Matusak Endowed Chair; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly was also a prolific writer in the | 10 | | social work field; he published more than 100 articles, and | 11 | | one of his books was recently translated into Japanese; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly earned a fellowship at the Oxford | 13 | | University Symposium for School-Based Family Counseling; in | 14 | | that role, he edited the School Mental Health Journal and the | 15 | | International Journal of School Social Work; all the while, he | 16 | | mentored countless students in the United States and Canada; | 17 | | and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly ran in a number of marathons, | 19 | | including those in Chicago, Rome, and Ireland, and competed in | 20 | | a total of 18 international races; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly was preceded in death by his |
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| 1 | | father, Richard Kelly; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Michael Kelly is survived by his wife, Lucy Fox; | 3 | | their three sons, Benjamin, Isaac, and Alfred; his mother, | 4 | | Karen Kelly; his brother-in-law, Daniel (Susan) Fox; his | 5 | | parent-in-laws, Win and Alan Fox; and his countless relatives | 6 | | and friends; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 9 | | Michael Stokely Kelly and extend our sincere condolences to | 10 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 11 | | further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 | | presented to the family of Michael Kelly as an expression of | 14 | | our deepest sympathy.
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