Full Text of SR1384 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of William T. "Bill" Henderson of Urbana, | 4 | | who passed away on June 11, 2020; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson was born at the family home in | 6 | | Ridge Farm to Ted and Susie (Satterlee) Henderson on October 5, | 7 | | 1929; he graduated from Ridge Farm High School and received a | 8 | | scholarship to the University of Illinois to study | 9 | | floriculture; he also became active in the McKinley Foundation | 10 | | student group; he received his bachelor's degree from the | 11 | | University of Illinois in the spring of 1951 and was | 12 | | commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army's | 13 | | Quartermaster Corps; he completed his active service and was | 14 | | promoted to first lieutenant; he received an honorable | 15 | | discharge from the Army; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson returned to the U.S. and was | 17 | | accepted at McCormick Theological Seminary; he married Kathryn | 18 | | Luther on August 22, 1953; he received his master's degree in | 19 | | library science from the University of Chicago and his Master | 20 | | of Divinity from McCormick Seminary; he served for seven years | 21 | | as the seminary's first acquisitions librarian; he also became | 22 | | an ordained minister; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, As his wife was invited to join the faculty of the | 2 | | Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Bill | 3 | | Henderson accepted a position at the University of Illinois at | 4 | | Urbana-Champaign in 1965 in the emerging field of preserving | 5 | | library collections as they aged; he and his wife taught | 6 | | preservation courses as a team and organized conferences | 7 | | related to preservation; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson received the University of | 9 | | Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science | 10 | | Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award in May of | 11 | | 2011; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, For many years, Bill Henderson was the secretary | 13 | | of the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, the international library | 14 | | and information science honor society; in November of 2014, he | 15 | | and his wife were recognized by the Alpha Chapter with the | 16 | | establishment of the Kathryn Luther and William T. Henderson | 17 | | Award; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson was a member of the Champaign | 19 | | County Farm Bureau; for many years, he and his wife served on | 20 | | the selection committee that determined the recipients of the | 21 | | Champaign County Farm Bureau Foundation agricultural | 22 | | scholarships; he received a Luther Circle Award for his service | 23 | | to the scholarship program; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson was a member of St. Peter's United | 2 | | Church of Christ, where he served on various committees and had | 3 | | a role in Christian education endeavors, his favorite role; as | 4 | | an ordained minister, he could perform other ministerial | 5 | | duties; he was also a longtime member of the American Library | 6 | | Association, the American Theological Library Association, and | 7 | | the Illinois Library Association; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson was preceded in death by his | 9 | | parents; his brother, Joseph David Henderson; his niece, Cheryl | 10 | | Lynn Henderson; his parents-in-law, Carl F. and Ida Lietz | 11 | | Luther; and his sister-in-law, Mildred Luther; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Bill Henderson is survived by his wife of 67 | 13 | | years, Kathryn; his sister-in-law, Annette Gulder Henderson; | 14 | | his nieces, Susan Tracy McDaniel and Carol Lynn Christenson; | 15 | | and his nephew, Joseph David Henderson; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 18 | | Bill Henderson and extend our sincere condolences to his | 19 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 20 | | further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Bill Henderson as an expression of | 2 | | our deepest sympathy.
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