Full Text of HR0987 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 Robert Terry | 4 | | Starks of Chicago on the occasion of his retirement as | 5 | | associate professor with the Northeastern Illinois University | 6 | | Inner City Studies Education Program; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks was born on January 24, 1944, in | 8 | | Grenada, Mississippi; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks earned his bachelor's degree in | 10 | | political science from Loyola University in Chicago in June of | 11 | | 1968 and his master's degree in urban studies from Loyola | 12 | | University in June of 1971; in 1971, he began working toward | 13 | | his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago; | 14 | | and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks was employed as a research | 16 | | specialist at the Chicago Urban League from 1967 to 1970; he | 17 | | also worked as a management consultant at Booz-Allen and | 18 | | Hamilton, Inc. in Chicago from 1968 to 1969 and has served as a | 19 | | political columnist and political editor at the N'DIGO | 20 | | Newspaper since 1991; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks began his career in higher education |
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| 1 | | as director of Black Studies Program and instructor in the | 2 | | Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University | 3 | | in DeKalb in 1970; in 1972, he became an instructor at the | 4 | | Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) Department of Inner | 5 | | City Studies; in 1976, he became a tenured assistant professor | 6 | | with the NEIU Department of Inner City Studies; in 1982, he | 7 | | became an associate professor with the NEIU Department of | 8 | | Educational Leadership and Development's Inner City Studies | 9 | | Education Program; in 1999, he was the Founder, Grantsman, and | 10 | | Director of the Harold Washington Institute for Research and | 11 | | Policy Studies' Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks and his wife, Judith A. Starks, have | 13 | | 2 children, Kenya Miriama and Robert Willis; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Robert Starks serves as a model of hard work, | 15 | | integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | 16 | | Illinois; therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we congratulate Robert Starks on the occasion of his | 20 | | retirement, thank him for his many years of dedicated service | 21 | | in higher education, and wish him many happy and healthy | 22 | | retirement years; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Robert Starks as a symbol of our esteem and | 3 | | respect.
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