Full Text of SR0866 95th General Assembly
SR0866 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
James Kennan Hotchkiss of Hinsdale, who | 4 |
| passed away on August 21, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was born on April 1, 1928 | 6 |
| in Berwyn and raised in Highland Park; he was the son of the | 7 |
| late Eugene and Jeanette Hotchkiss; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss graduated from Vermont | 9 |
| Academy, then graduated with his two brothers from Dartmouth | 10 |
| College in 1950; he also earned his M.B.A. from the University | 11 |
| of Chicago and held the C.F.A. and C.I.C. designations; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss served as an officer in the | 13 |
| United States Navy from 1950 to 1953; he initially served | 14 |
| aboard a ship with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea | 15 |
| before being stationed in Washington, D.C. with the Office of | 16 |
| Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon; and
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| WHEREAS, After his military discharge, James Kennan | 18 |
| Hotchkiss returned to Chicago, where he worked as a financial | 19 |
| analyst for United Airlines at Midway Airport; in the early | 20 |
| 1960s, he joined the investment firm of Stein, Roe & Farnham in | 21 |
| Chicago, where he became a partner and member of the executive |
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| committee; in 1970, he founded Hotchkiss Associates, a firm | 2 |
| that provides investment counsel to individual and | 3 |
| institutional clients; he was still working for his clients at | 4 |
| Hotchkiss Associates at the time of his passing; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an active member in | 6 |
| numerous civic and charitable organizations; he was a member of | 7 |
| the Board of Trustees of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and a | 8 |
| Life Trustee of the Nature Conservancy's Illinois Chapter, | 9 |
| where he had also served as Chairman; in 1996, the national | 10 |
| Nature Conservancy awarded him the conservancy's highest honor | 11 |
| for leadership and service, the Oak Leaf Award; he served as a | 12 |
| Trustee of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky; he | 13 |
| had also been a member of the Chicago Committee of the Council | 14 |
| on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of Chicago, the | 15 |
| Wayfarers, and the University and Mid-Day Clubs; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss moved with his family to | 17 |
| Hinsdale in 1959; since 1959, he was an active member in civic | 18 |
| life, serving as Chairman of the Trustees of the Public Library | 19 |
| and Vice-Chairman of the Plan Commission; he led referendum | 20 |
| campaigns for new facilities for Hinsdale Central High School, | 21 |
| the Library, and for the initial funding for the College of | 22 |
| DuPage; he also served as a Trustee of the Hinsdale Opera | 23 |
| Theater; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an avid outdoorsman and | 2 |
| very competitive athlete, skiing with his children and | 3 |
| grandchildren well into his 70s; he loved to canoe around the | 4 |
| lakes and walk the back roads around his cabin in the north | 5 |
| woods of Wisconsin and explore the fields and prairie | 6 |
| grasslands of the family's farm in Franklin Grove; and
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| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was preceded in death by | 8 |
| his parents; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss is survived by his wife of | 10 |
| 57 years, the former Nancy McCoy; his children, Carolyn (Kathy | 11 |
| Cole), Laura (Mark) Capaldini, John (Ingrid), and Anne (Steve) | 12 |
| Janzer; his six grandchildren, Lia, Nick, Graham, James, Emily, | 13 |
| and Mark; and his brothers, Frank (Kay Lindahl) and Eugene | 14 |
| (Suzanne); therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 16 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 17 |
| his family and friends, the passing of James Kennan Hotchkiss; | 18 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to the family of James Kennan Hotchkiss as an | 21 |
| expression of our sympathy.
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