Full Text of SR0085 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Marvin E. Perzee devoted 54 years of his life in | 3 | | service to the Iroquois County Fair and the larger county fair | 4 | | community of Illinois; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee joined the Iroquois County | 6 | | Agricultural & 4-H Fairs Association in 1965 at the age of 22, | 7 | | serving as president beginning in 1973 and vice president in | 8 | | 2019; he was instrumental in advocating for issues affecting | 9 | | farmers and agriculture and developed an unrivaled knowledge | 10 | | of the inner workings of the Iroquois County Fair; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Beginning in 1979, Marvin Perzee was a member of | 12 | | the legislative committee for the Illinois Association
of | 13 | | Agricultural Fairs and served as its chairman for 40 years; | 14 | | also beginning in 1979, he served
as vice president of the | 15 | | Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs Association's | 16 | | Northern District, and from 1982 to 1983, he served as | 17 | | president; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, From 1983-1984, Marvin Perzee was a member of the | 19 | | advisory board for the
Division of Fairs and Horse Racing; | 20 | | from 1984 to 1989, he was director of the Illinois Association | 21 | | of
Agricultural Fairs; in 1984, he was the recipient of the | 22 | | Department of Agriculture's Fairman of the Year Award; from
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| 1 | | 1990 to 1998, he was appointed to the State Fair Advisory | 2 | | Board; from 1990 to 1991, he was president
of the Illinois | 3 | | Association of Agricultural Fairs; from 1992 to 1996, he was | 4 | | director-at-large of the
Illinois Association of Agricultural | 5 | | Fairs; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee led the Ashkum Chargers 4-H Club, | 7 | | starting in 1965; he served on the Iroquois County Extension | 8 | | Council from 1971 to 1981; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee even met his wife, Sharon, while | 10 | | she was working with county fairs throughout the State; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee was a farmer first; he received the | 12 | | American Farmer Degree from the FFA in 1963; in 1973, he | 13 | | received the Outstanding Young Farmer Award from the Illinois | 14 | | Jaycees; in 1999, he received Prairie Farmer's Master Farmer | 15 | | Award; from 1999 to 2003, he was appointed
to Attorney General | 16 | | Jim Ryan's advisory board; in 2005, he received the Watseka | 17 | | Times-Republic's
Lifetime Achievement Award; in 2006, he and | 18 | | Sharon received the Kankakee Daily Journal's Farm
Family of | 19 | | the Year Award; in 2007, he was inducted into the University of | 20 | | Illinois' 4-H Hall of
Fame; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 22 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare May 20, 2021 |
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| 1 | | as "Marvin Perzee County Fair Day" in the State of Illinois in | 2 | | recognition of his tireless efforts to promote agriculture and | 3 | | county fairs across the State; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to Sharon Perzee as a symbol of our respect and | 6 | | esteem.
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