Full Text of SR0761 95th General Assembly
SR0761 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of prominent Chicago architect Walter A. | 4 |
| Netsch Jr., who passed away on June 15, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Walter Netsch was born on February 23, 1920; he | 6 |
| married the former Illinois Comptroller, Dawn Clark Netsch, in | 7 |
| 1963; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Netsch is credited with creating several | 9 |
| significant structures throughout the country using "Field | 10 |
| Theory" and was both praised and criticized for his work; he is | 11 |
| remembered for designing the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in | 12 |
| Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Regenstein Library at the | 13 |
| University of Chicago, the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, | 14 |
| the Behavioral Science Center at the University of Illinois at | 15 |
| Chicago, the Miami University Art Museum, and his home in | 16 |
| Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Netsch studied architecture at Massachusetts | 18 |
| Institute of Technology; during World War II he was stationed | 19 |
| on the Aleutian Islands; and
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| WHEREAS, He spent thirty years with Skidmore, Owings, and | 21 |
| Merrill, the Chicago architecture firm; in 1986 he was |
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| appointed Park District Board president by then Mayor of | 2 |
| Chicago, Harold Washington; and | 3 |
| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, Walter | 4 |
| Andrew Netsch, Sr. and Anna Calista Netsch (nee Smith) and one | 5 |
| sister, Nan (the late William S. II) Kerr; and
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| WHEREAS, Walter Netsch Jr. is survived by his wife of 44 | 7 |
| years, Dawn Clark Netsch; his nephews, Andrew D. (Pamela) Kerr | 8 |
| and William S. Kerr III; his niece, Elizabeth Nan Kerr; and his | 9 |
| grand-nephews, Andrew D. (Lindsey) Kerr, Jr. and Mathias S. | 10 |
| Kerr; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 12 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 13 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Walter A. Netsch Jr.; | 14 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of Walter A. Netsch Jr. as a symbol of | 17 |
| our sincere sympathy.
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