Full Text of HR1220 094th General Assembly
HR1220 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On April 20-23, 2006, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, | 3 |
| Inc., will host its Great Lakes Regional Conference at the | 4 |
| Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza in downtown Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at | 6 |
| Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by | 7 |
| three young, African-American, male students, celebrated as | 8 |
| the Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, | 9 |
| and the Honorable Charles I. Brown; and
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| WHEREAS, From its inception, the Founders conceived Phi | 11 |
| Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general | 12 |
| community, rather than gaining skills to be utilized | 13 |
| exclusively for themselves and their immediate families; this | 14 |
| deep conviction is mirrored in the Fraternity's motto, "Culture | 15 |
| For Service and Service For Humanity"; and
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| WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma is the only historically | 17 |
| African-American fraternity to be constitutionally bound to a | 18 |
| sorority, enjoying and fostering a mutually supportive | 19 |
| relationship with the women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.; | 20 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma has from its very beginning | 22 |
| concerned itself with improving the general well-being of | 23 |
| minority groups and demonstrates this through partnerships | 24 |
| with the March of Dimes, the American Cancer Society, the | 25 |
| Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the National Marrow Donor | 26 |
| Program, American Diabetes Research, and St. Jude's Children | 27 |
| Research Hospital; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 29 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 30 |
| we recognize Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., on the occasion |
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| of its Great Lakes Regional Conference, and we wish the | 2 |
| attendees well; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 |
| presented to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., as an expression | 5 |
| of our esteem and best wishes for a successful conference.
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