Full Text of HR0095 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards was born in Peoria; he is | 3 | | currently a resident of Chicago; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards has been employed for almost | 5 | | forty years with the Xerox Corporation; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards graduated from Peoria Central | 7 | | High School in 1969; he subsequently attended Illinois Central | 8 | | College and Bradley University, majoring in electrical | 9 | | engineering and technology; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards has had various service line and | 11 | | staff positions with Xerox, including Service Engineer in | 12 | | Peoria, Field Manager of Customer Service in Chicago, District | 13 | | Service Support Manager in Chicago, Employment Manager for | 14 | | Midwest and Southern Regions, Human Resources Operations | 15 | | Manager, and District Manager of Customer Service in the | 16 | | Chicago Metropolitan Area; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards has always been heavily involved | 18 | | in the community; both personally and through the auspices of | 19 | | his company, through numerous organizations, including the | 20 | | Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity, the | 21 | | Tri-County Urban League, Lawrence Hill Youth Services, where he |
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| 1 | | served as a mentor for men in 1992, Xerox Concerned Black | 2 | | Employees, where he served as an officer for the national | 3 | | organization, the Minority Economic Resource Corporation Board | 4 | | of Directors, the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement | 5 | | Board of Directors, the Mt. Sinai Community Institute Board of | 6 | | Directors, the Chicago Minority Business Development Council | 7 | | Board of Directors, and the National Black Employee | 8 | | Association, where he held the offices of Chairman and | 9 | | Treasurer; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards has been invited to speak on | 11 | | business issues on a number of occasions as a speaker for the | 12 | | Kemper Scholarship Program at Northern Illinois University, as | 13 | | a panelist at Loyola University to address diversity in | 14 | | corporate America, and as a speaker on business ethics at the | 15 | | Illinois Business Week Program at North Central College; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Michael Richards is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha | 17 | | Fraternity and is active in many other organizations, both | 18 | | professional and service related, and has always been committed | 19 | | to helping others and will continue to do so in his retirement; | 20 | | therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 23 | | we congratulate Michael A. Richards for his many years of |
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| 1 | | service to his community, wish him the best in his future | 2 | | endeavors, and trust that he will prosper as much in the future | 3 | | as he has in the past; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to Michael A. Richards and his family to commemorate | 6 | | this special occasion.
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