Full Text of SR0287 97th 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
Howard Kaplan, who passed away on June | 4 | | 19, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Howard Kaplan was a native Chicagoan who grew up | 6 | | in a conservative Jewish working-class family in East Rogers | 7 | | Park; he met his future wife while he was a student at Sullivan | 8 | | High School and she was attending Senn High School; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Howard Kaplan was employed as an attorney, a | 10 | | certified public accountant, and a real estate developer; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Howard Kaplan was a business leader and a Jewish | 12 | | community activist who held important posts in local, national, | 13 | | and international Jewish and civic organizations for many | 14 | | decades; he served as chairman of the Board of Governors of | 15 | | Israel Bonds' Midwest office; he was a board member of the | 16 | | Israel Bonds national organization for more than 15 years; he | 17 | | served as the 1996 general campaign chairman for the Jewish | 18 | | United Fund; he was a past chairperson of the Jewish Community | 19 | | Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan | 20 | | Chicago; he served as president of Hadassah Associates; he was | 21 | | a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for | 22 | | Israel; he was also a past president of Northwest Suburban |
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| 1 | | Jewish Congregation, a trustee of Hebrew University, and chair | 2 | | of the Cook County Crime Commission; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Howard Kaplan is survived by his wife, Marlene; | 4 | | his children, Audra Kaplan Spellberg, Rhonda Katz, Bennett | 5 | | Kaplan, and Patrick Kaplan; his grandchildren, Emile, Ruby, | 6 | | Breit, Ali, Leah, Golda, Shaina, Joseph, David, Helen, Aviva, | 7 | | and Nathan; his sisters, Phyllis Shapps and Carole Kaplan; and | 8 | | his sister-in-law, Ilene Strauss; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Howard Kaplan will be remembered fondly by all who | 10 | | knew and loved him as a loving and devoted father and | 11 | | grandfather, whose kindness and dedication to his Jewish | 12 | | heritage served as an inspiration to all; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 15 | | his family and friends, the passing of Howard Kaplan; and be it | 16 | | further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Howard Kaplan as an expression of | 19 | | our sympathy.
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