Full Text of HR0750 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Beulah E. Posten of | 4 | | Chicago on her centennial birthday; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Beulah Esmilda Clark was born on March 8,1922 in | 6 | | Colon, Panama; in 1920, at the age of 8, Beulah,
along with her | 7 | | mother, Lillian, emigrated from Panama to the United States; | 8 | | and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In Chicago, she married Cornelius Sankey, a | 10 | | carpenter who worked on the Panama Canal; he emigrated from
| 11 | | Panama to the United States a couple of years prior to | 12 | | establish a home for Beulah and her mother; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, She was educated at Oakland Elementary School and | 14 | | Lucy
Flowers Technical High School; with the encouragement of a | 15 | | mentor, she
enrolled in the Nurses Training School at Provident | 16 | | Hospital, where she became a certified nurse and
worked and | 17 | | trained for several years at Provident and Cook County | 18 | | Hospitals; she went on to have a successful nursing career at | 19 | | the University of Chicago Hospitals,
where she was employed for | 20 | | over 30 years, serving as
head nurse of the Dermatology | 21 | | Department and the Eye Clinic; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, She was an active member of the black nursing | 2 | | sorority Lambda Pi Alpha, Beta Mu Chapter Chicago; she sought | 3 | | citizenship and was naturalized in 1954; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, She
has been a faithful member of Saint Thaddeus | 5 | | Catholic Church in Chicago for over 35 years,
where she was | 6 | | also a contributing member of the church's Knights of Peter | 7 | | Claver Ladies Auxiliary for
over 20 years; she also | 8 | | participated in the church's choir and outreach ministry; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, She was a member of the 71st Street YMCA's Golden | 10 | | Agers Social Club; she has a passion for singing, dancing, and | 11 | | swimming;
she has 2 children, Diane P. Sims and John Jeffrey, | 12 | | Jr, and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; | 13 | | therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 | | we congratulate Beulah Posten on her 100th birthday and wish | 17 | | her good health and happiness for the future; and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to Beulah Posten as a symbol of our respect and | 20 | | esteem.
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