Full Text of SR0163 94th General Assembly
SR0163 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Joan Carole Miller Wood on | 4 |
| Friday, April 8, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on | 6 |
| August 1, 1940, to James Erroll Miller, Ph.D., and Grace Odessa | 7 |
| Thomas Miller; she grew up on the campus of Lincoln University, | 8 |
| a historically black college, where she developed a passion for | 9 |
| education and a love of the written word; after attending | 10 |
| Washington Elementary school, she became one of the first | 11 |
| African Americans to attend Jefferson City Senior High School; | 12 |
| while in high school, she was the recipient of many accolades, | 13 |
| including induction into the National Honor Society and | 14 |
| receiving the Outstanding Journalist award; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating with honors, she went on to | 16 |
| attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she earned a | 17 |
| degree in political science and pledged Delta Sigma Theta; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from Wellesley, she moved to | 19 |
| Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, | 20 |
| Annenberg School of Communications, where she earned her degree | 21 |
| in photojournalism; her professional career began in the | 22 |
| Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Edward Long of | 23 |
| Missouri; this job honed her analytical and writing skills and | 24 |
| instilled in her a commitment to community service; armed with | 25 |
| these tools and a passion for human equality, she went to work | 26 |
| for the St. Louis Urban League and later the Louisville Urban | 27 |
| League, where she met her groom, Clarence N. Wood; and
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| WHEREAS, They were married August 15, 1970, at the home of | 29 |
| her parents on the campus of Indiana University; shortly after | 30 |
| they married she became a National Urban Fellow and moved to | 31 |
| Akron, Ohio; while in Ohio, Mrs. Wood worked for the Cleveland |
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| Foundation and completed additional graduate work in Public | 2 |
| Administration; on May 13, 1972, Joan and Clarence were blessed | 3 |
| with the birth of their only child, Carole, named after her | 4 |
| mother; and
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| WHEREAS, Over the years, Mrs. Wood's commitment to | 6 |
| community service was demonstrated through her work as: the | 7 |
| National Executive Director of the Settlement House | 8 |
| Association of America (New York); Senior Program Officer of | 9 |
| the Chicago Community Trust; Director, Senior staff associate | 10 |
| of the National Council of Negro Women; and Principal, Miller | 11 |
| Wood Associates - business consulting (Chicago); she served as | 12 |
| a consultant for various entities often as "angel in the | 13 |
| background"; and
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| WHEREAS, She was an avid reader, music lover, and patron of | 15 |
| the arts; she served on the boards of the Frank Lloyd Wright | 16 |
| Preservation Trust, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Jane | 17 |
| Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, and the Woman's Board of the | 18 |
| Field Museum; she loved spending time with her friends, | 19 |
| traveling with the Network, New Years Day parties in New York, | 20 |
| holiday celebrations, and season tickets to local theatre; and
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| WHEREAS, Known for her wit and grace, Mrs. Wood was able to | 22 |
| immediately make friends and acquaintances feel at ease and | 23 |
| comfortable; additionally, she had a way of making people feel | 24 |
| so special because she remembered so many of "the little | 25 |
| things"; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Joan Carole Miller Wood has been | 27 |
| deeply felt by many, especially her husband, Clarence; her | 28 |
| daughter, Carole; her son-in-law, Carl Jenkins; her brother, | 29 |
| James Erroll Miller II; her niece, Kimberly Miller; her nephew, | 30 |
| James Erroll Miller III; her loving cousins, James and Olivia | 31 |
| Fleming and their children and grandchildren, Jana, Jennifer, | 32 |
| James Jr., John, Sam, Jake, Journey, and Olivia; her foster |
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| sons, Garaen Flake and Phillip Rivers; and her many cousins, | 2 |
| friends, and loved ones; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 4 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 5 |
| Joan Carole Miller Wood, and we extend our sincere condolences | 6 |
| to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be | 7 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest | 10 |
| sympathy.
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