Full Text of HR1227 94th General Assembly
HR1227 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to recognize citizens who have | 4 |
| made outstanding contributions to their community and their | 5 |
| state; and
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| WHEREAS, For the past 43 years, Janet Ruth (Akers) | 7 |
| Bollheimer has been an educator in the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, She graduated from Southern Illinois University | 9 |
| in Carbondale in 1963 with a major in home economics; she | 10 |
| married Phil Bollheimer in June of 1964, and they have one | 11 |
| child, Eddie Bollheimer, and five grandchildren; and
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| WHEREAS, She began her teaching career in the fall of 1963 | 13 |
| at Wesclin High School in Trenton; she taught home economics at | 14 |
| Trenton until 1967; she also taught one year of fourth and | 15 |
| fifth grade science and health in addition to her Home | 16 |
| Economics classes; and
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| WHEREAS, When her husband was drafted into the U.S. Army | 18 |
| and sent to Germany, she went with him and taught in the | 19 |
| Department of Defense Schools in Kaiserslaturn, Germany, from | 20 |
| 1968 through 1969, first as a special education teacher and | 21 |
| then as a second grade teacher; and
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| WHEREAS, Returning to the United States while her husband | 23 |
| served in VietNam, she taught fourth grade for a year at Pugh | 24 |
| School in Decatur; it happened to be the same school her | 25 |
| husband had attended in fourth grade and her co-teacher that | 26 |
| year was her husband's former fourth grade teacher; and
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| WHEREAS, After her husband finished his tour in the Army | 28 |
| they moved to Aviston, where they live today; she taught in the | 29 |
| Aviston High School as their home economics teacher until she |
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| retired in 1993 after logging 30 years in the teaching | 2 |
| profession; one of the highlights of her teaching career at | 3 |
| Aviston was successfully encouraging guys to join her food | 4 |
| classes; and
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| WHEREAS, After Mrs. Bollheimer retired in 1993 from Aviston | 6 |
| High School, she went on to become the Even Start coordinator | 7 |
| at the Carlyle Pre-K Program from 1993 to 2000; Even Start | 8 |
| provides high quality literacy programs throughout all 50 | 9 |
| states; she began working part-time with Kaskaskia Community | 10 |
| college as the Extension Center Coordinator at Central High | 11 |
| School, and then at Wesclin High School, and finally in several | 12 |
| grade schools in western Clinton County; she continued in that | 13 |
| position until 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1998, she proposed that a full-time Kaskaskia | 15 |
| College Attendance Center be created in Trenton; thanks to her | 16 |
| foresight, the Trenton Attendance Center became a reality and | 17 |
| now makes it possible for more students in that area to further | 18 |
| their education; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2000, she began working at Kaskaskia College | 20 |
| full-time, where she continues today; during her first two | 21 |
| years at Kaskaskia, she matched tutors to learners for the | 22 |
| community literacy program in Centralia; she also worked at | 23 |
| night with family literacy programs at Central City, Breese, | 24 |
| and Damiansville; and
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| WHEREAS, For the past three years she has been the Even | 26 |
| Start Coordinator at Kaskaskia College Centralia and works with | 27 |
| teen moms and their children, teaching GED and parenting; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Bollheimer is retiring on June 30, 2006, | 29 |
| after 43 years of selfless service devoted to education; | 30 |
| besides being a loving parent and grandparent, she enjoys | 31 |
| gardening, doing creative projects, and traveling; therefore, |
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| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 3 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 |
| we honor Janet Ruth (Akers) Bollheimer for her many years of | 5 |
| service to the State as a devoted educator, providing service | 6 |
| to our most important citizens, our children; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to Mrs. Bollheimer as an expression of our respect | 9 |
| and esteem.
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