Full Text of HR0317 094th General Assembly
HR0317 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with regret of the death of Joan | 4 |
| Carole Miller Wood on 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; while pursuing her | 17 |
| degree in political science, she forged friendships with the | 18 |
| few other African Americans on campus, there were only seven, | 19 |
| and the friendships last until this day; she especially enjoyed | 20 |
| her time in Massachusetts with trips to Boston, Harvard | 21 |
| parties, Yale football games, pledging Delta Sigma Theta, and | 22 |
| peppermint ice cream with chocolate sauce from the dormitory | 23 |
| cafeteria; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from Wellesley, she moved to | 25 |
| Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, | 26 |
| Annenberg School of Communications, where she earned her degree | 27 |
| in photojournalism; her professional career began in the | 28 |
| Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Edward Long of | 29 |
| Missouri; this job honed her analytical and writing skills and | 30 |
| instilled in her a commitment to community service; armed with | 31 |
| these tools and a passion for human equality, she went to work | 32 |
| for the St. Louis Urban League and later the Louisville Urban |
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| 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 | 3 |
| her parents on the campus of Indiana University; shortly after | 4 |
| they married she became a National Urban Fellow, and the | 5 |
| newlyweds soon moved to Akron, Ohio; while in Ohio, Mrs. Wood | 6 |
| worked for the Cleveland Foundation and completed additional | 7 |
| graduate work in Public Administration; on May 13, 1972, Joan | 8 |
| and Clarence were blessed with the birth of their only child, | 9 |
| Carole, named after her mother; and
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| WHEREAS, Over the years, Mrs. Wood's commitment to | 11 |
| community service was demonstrated through her work as: the | 12 |
| National Executive Director of the Settlement House | 13 |
| Association of America (New York); Senior Program Officer of | 14 |
| the Chicago Community Trust; Director, Senior staff associate | 15 |
| of the National Council of Negro Women; and Principal, Miller | 16 |
| Wood Associates - business consulting (Chicago); she served as | 17 |
| a consultant for various entities often as "angel in the | 18 |
| background"; and
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| WHEREAS, She was an avid reader, music lover, and patron of | 20 |
| the arts; she served on the boards of the Frank Lloyd Wright | 21 |
| Preservation Trust, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Jane | 22 |
| Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, and the Woman's Board of the | 23 |
| Field Museum; she loved spending time with her friends, | 24 |
| traveling with the Network, New Years Day parties in New York, | 25 |
| 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 | 27 |
| immediately make friends and acquaintances feel at ease and | 28 |
| comfortable; additionally, she had a way of making people feel | 29 |
| so special because she remembered so many of "the little | 30 |
| things"; although she would be the first to deny it, she was a | 31 |
| gifted hostess and given to excitingly marvelous recipes and | 32 |
| tablescapes; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Joan Carole Miller Wood has been | 2 |
| deeply felt by many, especially her husband, Clarence; her | 3 |
| daughter, Carole; her son-in-law, Carl Jenkins; her brother, | 4 |
| James Erroll Miller II; her niece, Kimberly Miller; her nephew, | 5 |
| James Erroll Miller III; her loving cousins, James and Olivia | 6 |
| Fleming and their children and grandchildren, Jana, Jennifer, | 7 |
| James Jr., John, Sam, Jake, Journey, and Olivia; her foster | 8 |
| sons, Garaen Flake and Phillip Rivers; and her many cousins, | 9 |
| friends, and loved ones; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 |
| we mourn the passing of Joan Carole Miller Wood, and we extend | 13 |
| our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all who | 14 |
| knew and loved her; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest | 17 |
| sympathy.
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