Full Text of SR0166 96th General Assembly
SR0166 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The North Central Province Chapters of Kappa Alpha
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| Psi Fraternity, Inc. are sponsoring their annual legislative
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| visit to the Illinois State Capitol; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., was founded in
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| 1911 on the campus of Indiana University by African-American
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| college men; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an | 9 |
| international
organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and | 10 |
| alumni
members; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an | 12 |
| organization committed to promoting honorable achievement in | 13 |
| every field of human endeavor; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished
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| themselves individually include Johnny Cochran, Jr., Reginald | 16 |
| Lewis, Bill Russell, Gale Sayers, Ralph Abernathy, Leon | 17 |
| Sullivan, Samuel Proctor, Tavis Smiley, Percy Sutton, John | 18 |
| Jacob, Lerone Bennett Jr., William Johnson, John Singelton, | 19 |
| Cedric the Entertainer, Thomas Bradley, Ed Gardner, John | 20 |
| Conyers, Louis Stokes, Oscar Robertson, Donald Byrd, Arthur | 21 |
| Ashe, General Daniel "Chappie" James, C. Vernon Mason, Wilt |
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| Chamberlain, Sanford Bishop, R. Eugene Pincham, Walter | 2 |
| Fauntroy, and Montell Jordan; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished | 4 |
| themselves in the Illinois General Assembly include Senator | 5 |
| James Clayborne, Jr., Senator Kwame Raoul, Representative Will | 6 |
| Davis, Representative Will Burns, Representative Eddie | 7 |
| Jackson, Senator Richard Newhouse, and Illinois Secretary of | 8 |
| State, and former Representative, Jesse White; therefore, be it | 9 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, in recognition of | 11 |
| the achievements of the members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity | 12 |
| Inc., and the values for which they strive, proclaim March 25, | 13 |
| 2009, as Kappa Alpha Psi Day in the State of Illinois; and be | 14 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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| presented to Mike Owens, North Central Province Polemarch of | 17 |
| Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
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