Full Text of HR0129 097th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender | 3 | | and Women's Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception | 4 | | honors Civic Engagement,
Community Service, and Community | 5 | | Organizing (CECSCO) Award recipients; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Cleo Wilson is a founding board member of Intuit: | 7 | | The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and served as its | 8 | | president from 2002 to 2006; established in 1991, Intuit is | 9 | | grounded in the belief that the instinct to be creative is | 10 | | universal and the arts must embrace all, celebrate all, and be | 11 | | accessible to all regardless of education or socio-economic | 12 | | status; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, She was the editor of Intuit's magazine, The | 14 | | Outsider, from 1992 until 2002, and in 2004, curated an | 15 | | exhibition at Intuit entitled "Sistuhs: Four African American | 16 | | Self-Taught Artists"; prior to accepting the position of | 17 | | Executive Director at Intuit in 2006, with responsibility for | 18 | | the day-to-day operations of Intuit, including supervision of | 19 | | artistic and administrative personnel and programs, she served | 20 | | for 25 years as the Executive Director of the Playboy | 21 | | Foundation, a corporate giving program of Playboy Enterprises, | 22 | | Inc.; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Serving as a Playboy employee since 1976, she was | 2 | | named Foundation grants and programs manager in 1982; she was | 3 | | promoted to executive director of the Foundation in 1984 and | 4 | | named director of public affairs in 1989, and appointed vice | 5 | | president in 2000; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, She serves on a variety of State and municipal | 7 | | grant-review panels, including the Illinois Arts Council, City | 8 | | Arts, and most recently the Propeller Fund; she has served as a | 9 | | member of the board of directors of the National Coalition | 10 | | Against Censorship (1997 to 2000), and was a member of the AIDS | 11 | | Foundation of Chicago's board of directors (1989 to 1999), and | 12 | | its president from 1990 to 1993; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, She also was on the board of the American Civil | 14 | | Liberties Union of Illinois, serving as vice president from | 15 | | 1997 to 2004; she has been listed since 1988 in Who's Who Among | 16 | | African-Americans and, since 1990, in Who's Who Among American | 17 | | Women; she was saluted as one of Chicago's up-and-coming black | 18 | | business and professional women in 1985 by Dollars and Sense | 19 | | magazine; in 1984, she was inducted into the Black Woman Hall | 20 | | of Fame in recognition of her community service; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, In 1991, she was honored as a "Friend for Life" by | 22 | | the Howard Brown Medical Center; she received the "Phenomenal | 23 | | Woman Award" in 1997 at Chicago's Expo for Today's Black Woman, |
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recognition of her leadership and dedication to community | 2 | | issues; in 1999, she was honored by the AIDS Foundation of | 3 | | Chicago for her "leadership, compassion, and generosity"; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, In 2004, she received the Handy L. Lindsey Award | 5 | | for Inclusiveness in Philanthropy, and also that year, an award | 6 | | for outstanding leadership in support of reproductive rights | 7 | | from Personal PAC; in 2006, she was awarded the Edwin A. | 8 | | Rothschild Civil Liberties Award for her "persistent and clear | 9 | | voice in defense of civil liberties"; in October 2010, she was | 10 | | inducted into the HistoryMakers, the single largest archival | 11 | | collection of interviews of both well-known and unsung | 12 | | African-American history makers; she is a native Chicagoan and | 13 | | a 1976 graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, She will receive the Civic Engagement,
Community | 15 | | Service, and Community Organizing (CECSCO) Award during the | 16 | | annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women's | 17 | | Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception on March 4, | 18 | | 2011; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 | | we congratulate Cleo Wilson on receiving this award and wish | 22 | | her continued success for years to come; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Cleo Wilson as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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