Full Text of HR0350 94th General Assembly
HR0350 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Larry Mortier, Vice President for Advancement | 3 |
| and Public Services at Western Illinois University, is retiring | 4 |
| on August 1, 2005, by which time he will have completed 34 | 5 |
| years in higher education, including 28 years at WIU; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, He has served as executive director for the WIU | 7 |
| Foundation since 1987 and was named vice president for | 8 |
| advancement and public services in 1994; he provides | 9 |
| administrative leadership for Western's development office, | 10 |
| alumni programs, university relations, visual production | 11 |
| center, scholarship office, marketing communications, and | 12 |
| intercollegiate athletics; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, He served as the University's chief development | 14 |
| officer during the Centennial Campaign For Western (1995-2000) | 15 |
| which generated $24.8 million in private gift support; private | 16 |
| contributions to the Foundation in support of the University's | 17 |
| programs and services totaled $6.2 million in fiscal year | 18 |
| 2003-04, and the assets of the Foundation have more than | 19 |
| doubled during his tenure as vice president, currently | 20 |
| exceeding $20.2 million; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Mortier has been instrumental in the | 22 |
| University and community's relationship with the National | 23 |
| Football League's St. Louis Rams, who have held summer training | 24 |
| camp at WIU for nine years; he has been Western's | 25 |
| representative to the Macomb Area Economic Development | 26 |
| Corporation (MAEDCO) since 1994 and currently serves as | 27 |
| MAEDCO's vice president; and | 28 |
| WHEREAS, His 11-year tenure as vice president included the | 29 |
| expansion of WIU Alumni Association programming and services, | 30 |
| the growth of the WIU Foundation's scholarship program, the | 31 |
| development of the University's official web site, the Visual |
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| Production Center transition of photographic services to | 2 |
| digital format and enhanced large format display capability, | 3 |
| and a year-long Centennial Celebration; he established the | 4 |
| University's first governmental relations office and led the | 5 |
| adoption of a formal integrated marketing approach to | 6 |
| University communications; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, Western athletics programs won five Mid-Continent | 8 |
| Conference Commissioners Cups for overall program excellence, | 9 |
| including 24 team championships, during Dr. Mortier's | 10 |
| administration; the football program won five Gateway | 11 |
| Conference titles and made six NCAA Division 1AA National | 12 |
| Playoff appearances; he has strongly supported the | 13 |
| institution's commitment to gender equity in athletics, which | 14 |
| included the addition of women's soccer and golf; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, Before being named vice president, he served as | 16 |
| director of development at Western from 1986 to 1994 and as | 17 |
| associate director of admissions for community college | 18 |
| relations from 1983 to 1984; he was a member of Western's | 19 |
| football coaching staff as assistant head coach from 1979 to | 20 |
| 1983; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in | 22 |
| education at Western in 1970 and 1971 and his doctorate in | 23 |
| educational administration from Southern Illinois University | 24 |
| in 1995; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, His wife Sandy earned her bachelor's and master's | 26 |
| degree at Western; she has been a teacher at St. Paul's Grade | 27 |
| School for more than 25 years; the Mortiers have a daughter, | 28 |
| Nicole, who is a physician assistant at St. Jude Children's | 29 |
| Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and a son, Joe, who is | 30 |
| a teacher and coach at El Dorado High School in Las Vegas, | 31 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 |
| we congratulate Dr. Larry Mortier on the occasion of his | 4 |
| retirement and we thank him for his dedication and commitment | 5 |
| to higher education and his outstanding leadership at Western | 6 |
| Illinois University; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to him as an expression of our respect and esteem.
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