Full Text of HR1090 94th General Assembly
HR1090 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, A banquet will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2006, | 3 |
| for the Reverend Lee Grant Cook in honor of his 40-year | 4 |
| anniversary and retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, Pastor Cook came from a family of humble | 6 |
| circumstances; he lived with his parents, Deacon Dorsey Cook | 7 |
| and Mother Virginia Cook, and his older sisters, Cleo and the | 8 |
| late Bessie Cook, in a one-room house in Montgomery, Alabama; | 9 |
| at the age of ten, he was converted and baptized at the New | 10 |
| Canaan Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, It was at that church that his educational career | 12 |
| began in a one-room church and school house; he finished | 13 |
| Loveless Jr. High School and attended Tuskegee Institute, where | 14 |
| he met the grandson of Booker T. Washington; he then graduated | 15 |
| from Booker T. Washington Sr. High School; and
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| WHEREAS, He became a carpenter in 1938 in Montgomery, and | 17 |
| he helped build the 99th Air Force Base in Tuskegee, Alabama; | 18 |
| in 1948, he became a member of the United Brotherhood of | 19 |
| Carpenters and Joiners and is still a member in good standing | 20 |
| today; he moved to Chicago in 1943, but then went on to Atlanta | 21 |
| six months later; and
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| WHEREAS, Rev. Cook was working at an atomic bomb plant in | 23 |
| Tennessee on VJ Day in August of 1945; after the bomb hit | 24 |
| Nagasaki, he left his job; his father died in 1948, and Rev. | 25 |
| Cook returned to Alabama, then moving with part of his family | 26 |
| to Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, He joined Omega Baptist Church in 1948, where he | 28 |
| served as Superintendent of Sunday School and sang in the | 29 |
| choir; he later joined South Side Missionary Baptist Church; | 30 |
| this church ordained him as a deacon and when his calling to |
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| the ministry became evident, he accepted the call and | 2 |
| immediately enrolled in the Chicago Baptist Institute, where he | 3 |
| was a student for four years; he was licensed by Rev. Rudolph | 4 |
| Poole and in 1951, he was ordained; he served as the assistant | 5 |
| pastor at South Side Church until the death of Rev. Poole in | 6 |
| 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, Rev. Cook served as president of the graduating | 8 |
| class of 1958; he was conferred with the degree of Doctor of | 9 |
| Divinity by Hamilton State University of Tucson, Arizona, in | 10 |
| March of 1975; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, He became pastor of True Believers Missionary | 12 |
| Baptist Church on April 17, 1966; his motto is "We have climbed | 13 |
| the hill. The mountain is still before us. We must continue the | 14 |
| task of winning the World for Christ. Then, and only then, can | 15 |
| we truly say our work is done."; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 |
| we congratulate the Reverend Lee Grant Cook on the occasion of | 19 |
| his 40-year anniversary and retirement; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to Rev. Cook as an expression of our esteem.
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