Full Text of HR1143 94th General Assembly
HR1143 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On Saturday, April 22, 2006, Rick Bonn, James | 3 |
| Lancaster, Ron Spears, George Zigman, Jack Fabri, Bob Dare, and | 4 |
| the 1956 boys basketball team will be inducted into the | 5 |
| Taylorville High School Sports Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, The Taylorville High School Sports Hall of Fame | 7 |
| originated in 1995 to honor athletes, coaches, friends, and | 8 |
| teams that represent the highest traditions of the rich history | 9 |
| of Taylorville High School athletics; since that year, 29 | 10 |
| players, 12 coaches, 12 friends, and 10 teams have been | 11 |
| inducted into the Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, Rick Bonn was a three-year letter winner and | 13 |
| starter on the Tornadoes basketball team from 1971 through | 14 |
| 1974; he was the third leading scorer in Taylorville history, | 15 |
| with a total of 1078 points and was an All-Midstate Conference | 16 |
| selection in both his junior and senior years; and
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| WHEREAS, James Lancaster earned two varsity letters and was | 18 |
| a two-year starter for the Taylorville Tornadoes Basketball | 19 |
| Team; he holds the seventh highest single season scoring record | 20 |
| in school history; he attended Aurora University, where he led | 21 |
| the Spartans in scoring his senior year and was selected All | 22 |
| Northern Illinois Intercollegiate Conference and Aurora | 23 |
| University's male "Athlete of the Year" as well as selected | 24 |
| team MVP; he also served as an assistant coach at Aurora and | 25 |
| went on to first coach the university's women's basketball team | 26 |
| and then the men's team; he is currently ranked 27th in wins | 27 |
| among the NCAA men's active basketball coaches and has been | 28 |
| selected NIIC "Coach of the Year" five times; he has led the | 29 |
| Spartans to four Division III NCAA play off appearances; and
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| WHEREAS, Ron Spears graduated form Taylorville High School | 31 |
| in 1969 and was an outstanding offensive lineman for the 7-1-1 |
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| Tornadoes; he played offensive guard and was an All-Mid State | 2 |
| Conference selection as well as the Decatur Herald and Review | 3 |
| Player of the year; and
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| WHEREAS, George Zigman graduated from Taylorville High | 5 |
| School in 1950 and was a member of the Tornadoes basketball | 6 |
| team from 1947 through 1950; he attended Illinois State | 7 |
| University, where he lettered in basketball his junior and | 8 |
| senior years; following college, he served as an assistant | 9 |
| basketball coach at Taylorville, head coach at Delavan, | 10 |
| sophomore coach at Glenbard East High School, and head coach at | 11 |
| Hersey High School in Arlington Heights; during his coaching | 12 |
| career, he never had a losing season; he is a member of the | 13 |
| Illinois High School Coach Association Hall of Fame; he retired | 14 |
| in 1990 and passed away in 1991; and
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| WHEREAS, Jack Fabri graduated from Taylorville High School | 16 |
| in 1931 and won varsity letters in football, basketball, and | 17 |
| track; he was a member of the undefeated 1928 Hall of Fame | 18 |
| football team; he coached basketball at Cathedral High School | 19 |
| in Springfield, served in the U.S. Navy, went on to coach at | 20 |
| Collinsville and McBride High School in St. Louis, and coached | 21 |
| at LaSalle High School, where he took his third team to the | 22 |
| Sweet Sixteen in 1948; Mr. Fabri moved to Decatur Lakeview in | 23 |
| 1952, where he had two 20-win seasons before he became the head | 24 |
| coach at Palatine High School; he went on to coach at Niles | 25 |
| West High School until his retirement in 1962; he was inducted | 26 |
| into the Illinois High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 1985; and
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| WHEREAS, Bob Dare is being inducted into the Taylorville | 28 |
| High School Sports Hall of Fame as a "Friend of Sports"; he | 29 |
| moved to Taylorville in 1959 and immediately became involved in | 30 |
| Taylorville athletics; he coached Little League Baseball and | 31 |
| Biddy Basketball; he was a founding member and for ten years, | 32 |
| president of the Taylorville Boys Junior Football League; he | 33 |
| and Hall of Famer Emil Mayer used their own funds to purchase |
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| the first equipment for the program and even stored it in his | 2 |
| garage until he could find storage at the high school; he was | 3 |
| time keeper for the basketball program for ten years, and when | 4 |
| the Sports Boosters were formed, he assisted in many of the | 5 |
| services they provided, often funding them himself; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1956, the Taylorville High School boys | 7 |
| basketball team, coached by Bob Lyons and assisted by Sam | 8 |
| Morehead, had one of the most remarkable seasons in Taylorville | 9 |
| High School history; four starters averaged double figures, but | 10 |
| the Tornadoes had difficulty maintaining consistency during | 11 |
| the regular season and finished the year with an 8-16 record; | 12 |
| the team came together during the state tournament, as the | 13 |
| Tornadoes ran off five straight victories winning the regional | 14 |
| and sectional tournaments before being stopped by the Rantoul | 15 |
| Eagles in the supersectional with a score of 79-74; members of | 16 |
| that team were Bruce Meriwether, Bob Frisina, Howard Long, | 17 |
| Larry Friedrich, Bill Crevits, Bob Edwards, Bill Tex, Mike | 18 |
| Rightnowar, Darriel Mammen, and Mel Gessell; in winning the | 19 |
| regional tournament, the team beat Blue Mound 100-67, | 20 |
| Shelbyville 100-68, and Kincaid 73-63, for a school record 273 | 21 |
| total points in a regional, a record that still stands today; | 22 |
| the Tornadoes finished the season with a 13-17 record, but are | 23 |
| one of only six Taylorville Basketball Teams to advance to the | 24 |
| Sweet Sixteen; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 26 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 27 |
| we congratulate the 2006 inductees of the Taylorville High | 28 |
| School Sports Hall of Fame; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 30 |
| presented to each inductee as an expression of our esteem.
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