Full Text of HR1417 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Norman Groetzinger | 4 | | on his retirement as Executive Director of the Counseling | 5 | | Center of Lake View on September 26, 2010; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Norman J. Groetzinger has served as the Executive | 7 | | Director of the Counseling Center of Lake View since 1975; | 8 | | during his tenure at the Counseling Center, he has also served | 9 | | on the boards of Alderman Tunney's Community Directed | 10 | | Development Council, the Lake View Action Coalition, the | 11 | | Central Lake View Merchants' Association, the Chicago Public | 12 | | Welfare Coalition, the Lincoln Belmont Pantry, the Cross Roads | 13 | | Fund, and a variety of other philanthropic organizations; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Under his leadership, the Counseling Center of | 15 | | Lake View has added many programs, including: the Child and | 16 | | Adolescent Services Program; Gay Horizons, which is now known | 17 | | as the Center on Halsted; the Older Adults Program, a | 18 | | home-based program that provides services to the elderly and | 19 | | mentally ill; a geriatric psychosocial rehabilitation services | 20 | | program called "21st Century Seniors"; the Sojourners Program, | 21 | | a case management and "deflection from hospitalization" | 22 | | program that serves the homeless and mentally ill; the | 23 | | Alternatives to Hospitalization program, which became an |
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| 1 | | Assertive Community Treatment program and is now part of the | 2 | | Community Support Team; and Projecto Asistencia Social, which | 3 | | grew out of the Latino Counseling Program and began offering | 4 | | immigration services in the early 1990s; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Prior to serving at the Counseling Center, Mr. | 6 | | Groetzinger served with the Mary Crane Nursery School, the | 7 | | Logan Square Church, the North Center for Handicapped Children, | 8 | | and the Philadelphia Tutorial Project and earned a M.A. in | 9 | | Health Policy and Planning from the University of Chicago's | 10 | | School of Social Service and Administration, a M.A. in Theology | 11 | | from the University of Chicago's Meadville Theological School, | 12 | | and a M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Prior to coming to Chicago in 1969, he and his | 14 | | wife, Linda, served for two years as Peace Corps volunteers in | 15 | | the family planning program of the state of Madhya Pradesh in | 16 | | central India; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Upon retirement he plans to devote more time to | 18 | | attending Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts and volunteering | 19 | | with the Saints, a non-profit organization that provides | 20 | | ushering and other services for Chicago and suburban theater, | 21 | | dance, and music organizations; therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 2 | | congratulate Norman Groetzinger on his retirement and wish him | 3 | | the best in all his future endeavors; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to Norman Groetzinger as a symbol of our respect and | 6 | | esteem.
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