Full Text of SR0153 100th 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 Paul C. Schreckenberger, Ph.D. of River | 4 | | Forest, who passed away on November 29, 2016, at the age of 69; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger was raised in Buffalo, New | 7 | | York; he earned his bachelor's degree in medical laboratory | 8 | | science from
the State University of New York; he graduated | 9 | | from the University of Minnesota with a master's
degree in the | 10 | | same field in 1974; he served seven years in the United States | 11 | | Army National Guard; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger moved to Chicago to become an | 13 | | assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, | 14 | | teaching
clinical microbiology and helping to train laboratory | 15 | | technicians; he later became Associate Director of Clinical | 16 | | Laboratories at the University of Illinois Hospital; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, After completing work on a Doctorate in Pathology | 18 | | with a focus on microbiology in 1989, Dr. Schreckenberger | 19 | | became the Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at | 20 | | Loyola University Medical Center and a professor of Pathology | 21 | | at the Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood; he was | 22 | | internationally recognized as an expert in the field of |
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| 1 | | microbiology and lectured at conferences around the world; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger was named Teacher of the Year | 3 | | by pathology residents three times while at the Loyola | 4 | | University Medical Center; he was elected to the American | 5 | | Academy of Microbiology in 2008, and in 2010, he received the | 6 | | Pasteur Award from the Illinois Society for Microbiology; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger was one of the lead authors of | 8 | | the microbiology textbook "Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook | 9 | | of Diagnostic
Microbiology"; he wrote a number of chapters for | 10 | | other books and contributed to 85 journal
publications and 259 | 11 | | published abstracts or posters; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger kept spirits high in the | 13 | | department with festivities such as a costume contest or a | 14 | | themed lunch with hot dogs when the Chicago Cubs were in the | 15 | | World Series; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger was preceded in death by his | 17 | | parents, Charles and Dorothy Schreckenberger, and his | 18 | | children, Laura and Scott; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Schreckenberger was the husband of Ann (Dye); | 20 | | the father of Adam; the brother of Ann Marie (Jean Bernard) | 21 | | Roeder, Mary Kathryn (Arthur) Hart, Thomas (Claudine), Denise |
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| 1 | | (Darryl) Anello, and Charles "Chas" (Kimberly) | 2 | | Schreckenberger; the brother-in-law of Cindy (Jerry) Redmond | 3 | | and Sharon (the late Nelson) Dye; and uncle of many; therefore, | 4 | | be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 7 | | Paul C. Schreckenberger, Ph.D., and extend our sincere | 8 | | condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 9 | | him; and be it further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to the family of Dr. Schreckenberger as an expression | 12 | | of our deepest sympathy.
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