Full Text of HR1378 94th General Assembly
HR1378 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 congratulate Bill Wills, | 4 |
| editorial page editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, on the | 5 |
| occasion of his retirement after nearly 44 years of service; | 6 |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Wills started with the Pantagraph in November | 8 |
| of 1962 as an office boy; he went on to serve as police and fire | 9 |
| reporter and then to cover Bloomington city government; he was | 10 |
| named the Pantagraph Employee of the Year by his fellow workers | 11 |
| in 1971; from 1975 to 1977, he was the coordinator of | 12 |
| Bloomington, Normal, and McLean County government coverage; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, He moved into the editorial ranks in 1977, when he | 15 |
| became city editor; he then went on to serve as metro editor, | 16 |
| assistant managing editor/news, managing editor, managing | 17 |
| editor/editorial, and finally as editorial page editor; and
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| WHEREAS, He is an award-winning reporter and photographer | 19 |
| and has served on committees of the Associated Press Managing | 20 |
| Editors Association; he was a member of the Editorial Steering | 21 |
| Committee of the Illinois Press Association and the Board of | 22 |
| Directors of the Mid-America Press Institute; he served with | 23 |
| the Illinois AP Editors, twice as president, and at one time he | 24 |
| held the longest consecutive board term at 12 years; he has | 25 |
| been a Penny-Missouri Judge, a member of the Journalist in | 26 |
| Space regional screening committee, and a member of the board | 27 |
| of directors of the Illinois Editors Highway Safety Conference; | 28 |
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| WHEREAS, He has served as president of the Pantagraphers | 30 |
| Federal Credit Union and on the Audit Committee and Credit | 31 |
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| WHEREAS, Active in the community, Mr. Wills is a former | 2 |
| president of the Bloomington Rotary Club, a former secretary of | 3 |
| the Bloomington Rotary Club Foundation, and is a Rotary Paul | 4 |
| Harris Fellow, the highest honor given by Rotary; he has served | 5 |
| on the OSF St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Community Board, | 6 |
| the board of the McLean County chapter of the American Cancer | 7 |
| Society, the advisory board and audit committee of the | 8 |
| Centrillio Girl Scouts Council, the local chapter of the | 9 |
| National Issues Forum Committee, and the Bloomington | 10 |
| All-American City Committee; he is a former co-president with | 11 |
| his wife of the Bloomington Senior High School Booster Club and | 12 |
| is one of the founders of the Booster Club's annual steak fry | 13 |
| fundraiser; he served on the ISU Students in Free Enterprise | 14 |
| Advisory Board, on the Four Seasons Association board, and on | 15 |
| the founding committee of the annual Christmas Party for | 16 |
| Children of the Unemployed of McLean County for ten years; he | 17 |
| has been a member of Ambucs and on the board of the Adlai | 18 |
| Stevenson Lecture Series; and
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| WHEREAS, He is a native of Mahomet and a graduate of | 20 |
| Mahomet High School; he married his wife, Phyllis, in 1962, and | 21 |
| they are the parents of Teri, Rick, and Mike and grandparents | 22 |
| of five; therefore, be it | 23 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 24 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 25 |
| we congratulate Bill Wills on the occasion of his retirement; | 26 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 28 |
| presented to Mr. Wills as an expression of our esteem and with | 29 |
| best wishes for a relaxing retirement.
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