Full Text of HR1228 94th General Assembly
HR1228 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Katherine Rothwell-Francis is retiring after 47 | 3 |
| years of employment with A.C. Nielsen, Jr.; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a four-term trustee of | 5 |
| Waukegan Township; she was appointed as a township trustee in | 6 |
| 1989 and was elected to the position in 1990; and
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| WHEREAS, She served 21 years as president of the Genesee | 8 |
| Branch YMCA Board and was the first woman to hold that | 9 |
| position; she was a board member of the National Council of | 10 |
| YMCAs; she was appointed by Mayor Bill Morris to be a board | 11 |
| member of the Waukegan City Human Relations Commission; she was | 12 |
| a candidate for Park Commissioner for the City of Waukegan; and
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| WHEREAS, Positions she has held include 1st vice president | 14 |
| of the New Fellowship District Association and | 15 |
| secretary/treasurer to the Parent Body; she is a member of | 16 |
| Waukegan's Woman's Club; she served as 4th vice president of | 17 |
| the Baptist State Convention of Illinois and was chairman of | 18 |
| the Lucille C. Williams Scholarship Committee; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a member of Gideon | 20 |
| Missionary Baptist Church, where she is a past B.T.U. director, | 21 |
| choir director, Sunday School teacher (45 years), choir member | 22 |
| (44 years), Women's Day Chairman (16 years), president of | 23 |
| Pastor's Aid (19 years), a member of the Trustee Board, and a | 24 |
| Deaconess; she was a 1978 Women's Day Speaker at Second Baptist | 25 |
| Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a certified teacher-National | 26 |
| Congress Christian Education, and past chairman of special | 27 |
| projects in the Church Secretaries Workshop at the National | 28 |
| Congress of Christian Education, NBC, USA, Inc.; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Garrard County, Kentucky; she is | 30 |
| married to Leonard A. Francis and has two children, three |
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| grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a graduate of the College | 3 |
| of Lake County; she has traveled extensively, and has visited | 4 |
| most of the United States of America, the Holy Land, Egypt, | 5 |
| Italy, Greece, Holland, Brussels, Belgium, Punta Cana, | 6 |
| Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and the West Indies; | 7 |
| therefore, be it | 8 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 10 |
| we congratulate Katherine Rothwell-Francis on the occasion of | 11 |
| her retirement after 47 years of service with A.C. Nielsen, | 12 |
| Jr., and we thank her for her service to her community; and be | 13 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Ms. Rothwell-Francis as an expression of our | 16 |
| esteem.
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