Full Text of HR1172 96th General Assembly
HR1172 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to recognize and honor the upcoming | 4 |
| 80th anniversary of the founding of the National Pan-Hellenic | 5 |
| Council, Incorporated; and
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| WHEREAS, The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Incorporated | 7 |
| (NPHC) is currently composed of nine International Greek letter | 8 |
| Sororities and Fraternities: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., | 9 |
| Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, | 10 |
| Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta | 11 |
| Sorority, Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Zeta Phi Beta | 12 |
| Sorority, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and Iota Phi | 13 |
| Theta Fraternity, Inc.; NPHC promotes interaction through | 14 |
| forums, meetings, and other mediums for the exchange of | 15 |
| information and engages in cooperative programming and | 16 |
| initiatives through various activities and functions; and
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| WHEREAS, On May 10, 1930, on the campus of Howard | 18 |
| University, in Washington D.C., the National Pan-Hellenic | 19 |
| Council was formed as a permanent organization with the | 20 |
| following charter members: Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi | 21 |
| Fraternities and Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta | 22 |
| Phi Beta Sororities; in 1931, Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta | 23 |
| Sigma Fraternities joined the Council; Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority |
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| joined in 1937 and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity completed the list | 2 |
| of member organizations in 1997; and
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| WHEREAS, Early in 1937, the organization was incorporated | 4 |
| under the laws of the State of Illinois and became known as | 5 |
| "The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Incorporated";
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| founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., | 7 |
| has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of | 8 |
| African-Americans and people of color around the world; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc., the first | 10 |
| intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for | 11 |
| African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in | 12 |
| Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need | 13 |
| for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in | 14 |
| this country; the visionary founders, known as the "Jewels" of | 15 |
| the Fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, | 16 |
| Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison | 17 |
| Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy; and
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| WHEREAS, The Fraternity initially served as a study and | 19 |
| support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, | 20 |
| both educationally and socially, at Cornell; the Jewel founders | 21 |
| and early leaders of the Fraternity succeeded in laying a firm | 22 |
| foundation for Alpha Phi Alpha's principles of scholarship, | 23 |
| fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity; and |
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| WHEREAS, Founded on the campus of Howard University in | 2 |
| Washington, D.C. in 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., is | 3 |
| the oldest Greek-letter organization established by | 4 |
| African-American college-trained women; to trace its history | 5 |
| is to tell a story of changing patterns of human relations in | 6 |
| America in the 20th century; and
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| WHEREAS, After the organization's establishment over a | 8 |
| century ago, Alpha Kappa Alpha has helped to improve social and | 9 |
| economic conditions through community service programs; | 10 |
| members have improved education through independent | 11 |
| initiatives, contributed to community-building by creating | 12 |
| programs and associations, such as the Mississippi Health | 13 |
| Clinic, and influenced federal legislation by Congressional | 14 |
| lobbying through the National Non-Partisan Lobby on Civil and | 15 |
| Democratic Rights; the sorority works with communities through | 16 |
| service initiatives and progressive programs relating to | 17 |
| education, family, health, and business; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., is a collegiate | 19 |
| Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African-American | 20 |
| membership; since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 | 21 |
| at Indiana University in Bloomington, the fraternity has never | 22 |
| limited membership based on color, creed, or national origin; | 23 |
| the fraternity has over 150,000 members with 700 undergraduate |
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| and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and | 2 |
| international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, | 3 |
| Japan, the Caribbean, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin | 4 |
| Islands, Nigeria, and South Africa; and
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| WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi sponsors programs providing | 6 |
| community service, social welfare, and academic scholarship | 7 |
| through the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation and is a supporter of | 8 |
| the United Negro College Fund and Habitat for Humanity; and
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| WHEREAS, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., is the first | 10 |
| African-American national fraternal organization to be founded | 11 |
| at a historically black college; Omega Psi Phi was founded on | 12 |
| November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.; | 13 |
| the founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos | 14 |
| Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman, and their faculty | 15 |
| adviser was Dr. Ernest Everett Just; and
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| WHEREAS, The fraternity has worked to build a strong and | 17 |
| effective force of men dedicated to its Cardinal Principles of | 18 |
| manhood, scholarship, perseverance, and uplift; since 1945, | 19 |
| the fraternity has undertaken a National Social Action Program | 20 |
| to meet the needs of African-Americans in the areas of health, | 21 |
| housing, civil rights, and education; Omega Psi Phi has been a | 22 |
| patron of the United Negro College Fund since 1955, providing | 23 |
| an annual gift of $50,000 to the program; and
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| WHEREAS, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., was founded in | 2 |
| 1913 by 22 students at Howard University; these young women | 3 |
| wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic | 4 |
| excellence, to provide scholarships, to provide support to the | 5 |
| underserved, educate and stimulate participation in the | 6 |
| establishment of positive public policy, and to highlight | 7 |
| issues and provide solutions for problems in their communities; | 8 |
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| WHEREAS, The major programs of the sorority are based upon | 10 |
| the organization's Five Point Programmatic Thrust: Economic | 11 |
| Development, Educational Development, International Awareness | 12 |
| and Involvement, Physical and Mental Health, and Political | 13 |
| Awareness and Involvement; and
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| WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., was founded at | 15 |
| Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by | 16 |
| three young African-American male students; the founders, | 17 |
| Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and | 18 |
| Honorable Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter | 19 |
| fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideals of | 20 |
| brotherhood, scholarship, and service; and
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| WHEREAS, From its inception, Phi Beta Sigma was conceived | 22 |
| by its founders as a mechanism to deliver services to the |
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| general community, rather than gaining skills to be utilized | 2 |
| exclusively for themselves or their immediate families; this | 3 |
| deep conviction is mirrored in the fraternity's motto, "Culture | 4 |
| for Service and Service for Humanity"; and
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| WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded on the simple | 6 |
| belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not | 7 |
| overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations, to | 8 |
| address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health | 9 |
| concerns of the day; and
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| WHEREAS, Founded January 16, 1920, Zeta began as an idea | 11 |
| conceived by five co-eds at Howard University in Washington | 12 |
| D.C.: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie | 13 |
| Pettie, and Pearl Neal; these five women, also known as the | 14 |
| Five Pearls, dared to depart from the traditional coalitions | 15 |
| for black women and sought to establish a new organization | 16 |
| predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly | 17 |
| Love, and Finer Womanhood; it was the ideal of the Founders | 18 |
| that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the | 19 |
| country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the | 20 |
| founding principles of the organization; and
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| WHEREAS, Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a | 22 |
| number of firsts; Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter | 23 |
| organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948), to form |
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| adult and youth auxiliary groups, to centralize its operations | 2 |
| in a national headquarters, and to be constitutionally bound to | 3 |
| a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated; and
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| WHEREAS, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., was founded on the | 5 |
| campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922 in | 6 |
| Indianapolis, Indiana, by seven young educators: Mary Lou | 7 |
| Allison Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian White | 8 |
| Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, | 9 |
| Bessie M. Downey Martin, and Cubena McClure; the group became | 10 |
| an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, | 11 |
| 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha chapter at Butler | 12 |
| University; and
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| WHEREAS, Founded in the midst of segregation, Sigma Gamma | 14 |
| Rho Sorority is the only sorority of the four historically | 15 |
| African-American sororities which comprise the NPHC, to be | 16 |
| established at a predominantly white campus; Sigma Gamma Rho | 17 |
| also supports two affiliates: the RHOERS, a group of young | 18 |
| women, and PHILOS, women who are friends of the sorority;
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| Soaring To Greater Heights of Attainment Around The World, | 20 |
| Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., as a leading national service | 21 |
| organization, has met the challenges of the day and continues | 22 |
| to grow through Sisterhood, Scholarship, and Service; and
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| WHEREAS, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., was founded on |
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| September 19, 1963 at Morgan State University in Baltimore, | 2 |
| Maryland; the fraternity was founded by twelve men in the midst | 3 |
| of the Civil Rights Movement even though there were already | 4 |
| four other prominent historically black fraternities at the | 5 |
| time; and
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| WHEREAS, Since its founding date, Iota Phi Theta has | 7 |
| continued to grow and has become the fifth-largest | 8 |
| predominantly black fraternal organization in the United | 9 |
| States; as of now, there are over 35,000 members in the United | 10 |
| States and overseas; a key appeal of Iota Phi Theta is, as an | 11 |
| organization, it refuses to have its members bind themselves to | 12 |
| a defined fraternal image but celebrates the individuality of | 13 |
| its members; more importantly, its members continue to build | 14 |
| upon the fraternity's commitment to success and excellence with | 15 |
| individual and collective achievements in such fields as | 16 |
| politics, education, law, business, medicine, and the | 17 |
| performing arts; and
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| WHEREAS, The National Pan-Hellenic Council has | 19 |
| distinguished members in the General Assembly, Senator Donne E. | 20 |
| Trotter, Representatives Marlow Colvin and Al Riley (Alpha Phi | 21 |
| Alpha Fraternity, Inc.); Senators Mattie Hunter and Toi W. | 22 |
| Hutchinson, Representatives Annazette Collins, Monique D. | 23 |
| Davis, and Constance A. Howard (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, | 24 |
| Inc.); Senator James F. Clayborne Jr., and Representatives |
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| William D. Burns, William Davis, and Eddie Lee Jackson, Sr. | 2 |
| (Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.); Representative David E. | 3 |
| Miller (Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.); Senator Kimberly A. | 4 |
| Lightford and Representative Camille Lilly (Delta Sigma Theta | 5 |
| Sorority, Inc.); and Representatives Kenneth Dunkin and | 6 |
| LaShawn K. Ford (Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.); therefore, | 7 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 |
| recognize and honor the 80th anniversary of the founding of the | 11 |
| National Pan-Hellenic Council, Incorporated and wish all the | 12 |
| members of the organization the best at this time; and be it | 13 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the National President of the National | 16 |
| Pan-Hellenic Council, Incorporated, as a symbol of our respect | 17 |
| and esteem.
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