Full Text of HR0126 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the students, | 4 | | teachers, and staff of St. Patrick's School on the occasion of | 5 | | the school's 155th anniversary; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The rich history of St. Patrick's School began in | 7 | | the late 1850's, when Miss Shepherd conducted parochial school | 8 | | services in a house on the 600 block of West Prairie in | 9 | | Decatur; after Miss Shepherd left in 1858, various teachers | 10 | | took her place in the years leading up to the Civil War, | 11 | | teaching children in various houses throughout the city; in | 12 | | 1857, Father Thomas Cusack built a modest frame church on the | 13 | | 700 block of West Prairie; this building was used as a two-room | 14 | | school by Mr. and Mrs. St. Leger; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Following Mr. and Mrs. St. Leger's departure, | 16 | | seven Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary arrived from | 17 | | Montreal, Canada and opened the St. Teresa Academy; St. Teresa | 18 | | Academy was short-lived, however, and the parochial school came | 19 | | back under the guidance of secular teachers; throughout the | 20 | | late 1800s, the school was under the tutelage of the Ursuline | 21 | | Order, who decided to teach both boys and girls at the academy | 22 | | starting in 1882; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 1912, Father Murphy began to make plans for a | 2 | | new school building on Jackson and North Streets, which was | 3 | | completed in February of 1913; the following year, the Ursuline | 4 | | Order vacated the St. Patrick school grounds and the parochial | 5 | | school was renamed St. Patrick School; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The early 20th century was a period of robust | 7 | | growth for St. Patrick School; in 1929, St. Patrick opened a | 8 | | high school for boys and girls on the Academy grounds; the | 9 | | church's numbers flourished in the subsequent years; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, With the coming of Father Powell in 1945, St. | 11 | | Patrick School completely renovated their building and updated | 12 | | the school's equipment to become a first-rate school in its own | 13 | | right; today, St. Patrick School serves as a leader in quality | 14 | | parochial education in the City of Decatur, the State of | 15 | | Illinois, and the world at large; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | we congratulate the students, teachers, and staff of St. | 19 | | Patrick's School on the occasion of the school's 155th | 20 | | anniversary and wish them continued success and happiness in | 21 | | the future; and be it further
| 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to St. Patrick's School as a symbol of our esteem and | 2 | | respect.
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