Full Text of SR0763 99th 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 Earl R. Swanson of Savoy, who passed away | 4 | | on July 2, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson was born on the Nels Swanson Farm | 6 | | near Reilly in Vermilion County on on May 26, 1921 to S. Gustaf | 7 | | and Alice Erikson Swanson; he attended grade and high school in | 8 | | East Lynn and graduated with highest honors from the University | 9 | | of Illinois College of Agriculture in 1943; during World War | 10 | | II, he served as an infantry platoon leader with the 25th | 11 | | "Tropic Lightning" Division in Luzon, Philippine Islands;
he | 12 | | married Janice E. "Becky" Beckstrom on June 23, 1951 in Rock | 13 | | Island; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson farmed with his father on the Erikson | 15 | | Farm from May of 1946 to September of 1947; he received a | 16 | | Master of Science in Agriculture Economics from the University | 17 | | of Minnesota in 1948 and a Ph.D. in Agriculture Economics from | 18 | | Iowa State University in 1951; in 1948, he attended summer | 19 | | school at the University of Oslo, Norway; he joined the | 20 | | Department of Agriculture Economics at the University of | 21 | | Illinois in 1950 and taught farm management until being | 22 | | recalled to active duty during the Korean Conflict; he served | 23 | | in the United States Army as a Captain in the Office of |
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| 1 | | Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, in Washington, D.C.;
he returned | 2 | | to the University of Illinois in 1952 and remained on the | 3 | | faculty of the Department of Agriculture Economics until his | 4 | | retirement in 1984; he served as associate head of the | 5 | | Department of Agriculture Economics from 1968 to 1970 and as | 6 | | acting head from 1974 to 1975; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson published over 100 articles in | 8 | | journals and chapters in books and was thesis supervisor to | 9 | | more than 20 doctoral candidates; he was visiting professor at | 10 | | Hokkaido University, Japan, in the summer of 1958 and from 1958 | 11 | | to 1959; he was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the | 12 | | Royal College of Agriculture in Denmark; he participated in the | 13 | | US-USSR Cultural Exchange Program in 1963, lecturing at Moscow | 14 | | State University and Leningrad State University. He was a Ford | 15 | | Foundation consultant at Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University | 16 | | in India in 1968; in 1976, he was a research scholar at the | 17 | | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in | 18 | | Laxenburg, Austria, and was visiting professor at the Institute | 19 | | of Economics and Statistics, Swedish University of Agriculture | 20 | | Sciences in 1984; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson's government service included | 22 | | membership on advisory committees to the United States | 23 | | Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection | 24 | | Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Academy of |
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| 1 | | Sciences, and to the Agency for International Development of | 2 | | the Department of State; he participated in agricultural | 3 | | assistance evaluations in Egypt, Mexico, and the islands of | 4 | | Antigua and St. Vincent in the West Indies; he served as editor | 5 | | of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 1965 to | 6 | | 1968 and was elected a Fellow of the American Agricultural | 7 | | Economics Association in 1977; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson received the Quality of | 9 | | Communication Award from the American Agricultural Economics | 10 | | Association in 1978; he received the University of Illinois | 11 | | College of Agriculture Alumni Award of Merit in 1976 and the | 12 | | Paul A. Funk Award in 1977; he was a member of Grace Lutheran | 13 | | Church, the Heimskringla Society, the Nabor House Fraternity, | 14 | | and the Champaign Lions Club; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson was preceded in death by his wife, | 16 | | Janice; his son, Rolf; and his sister, Agnes E. Umbanhowar; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Earl Swanson is survived by his son, Paul | 18 | | (Phyllis) Swanson; his daughter, Ann (Mikel) O'Klock; his 3 | 19 | | grandchildren, Sarah (Nate) Nickel, Jonathon (Ashleigh) | 20 | | Swanson, and Erika Swanson; and his 4 great-granddaughters, | 21 | | Kaydence, Isabella, Payge, and Samantha; therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 2 | | Earl R. Swanson, and extend our sincere condolences to his | 3 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 4 | | further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to the family of Earl Swanson as an expression of our | 7 | | deepest sympathy.
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