Full Text of HR1573 94th General Assembly
HR1573 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 wish to recognize the 100th anniversary of | 4 |
| the Foellinger Auditorium in 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Among the oldest buildings on campus, the | 6 |
| Foellinger Auditorium has become the image of the University of | 7 |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, overlooking the Quad with its | 8 |
| 120-foot-diameter dome and Northern Italian Renaissance | 9 |
| design; and
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| WHEREAS, The Foellinger Auditorium began as the idea of | 11 |
| President Edmund Janes James, who wished to create a noble | 12 |
| monument dedicated to music in his quest to make the university | 13 |
| a world-class institution; Clarence Blackall was selected as | 14 |
| the architect to design the auditorium; a scaled-back version | 15 |
| of what Blackall had conceived was implemented due to lack of | 16 |
| funding; and
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| WHEREAS, Many students, staff, faculty, public figures, | 18 |
| orators, educators, and scientists have spoken or performed at | 19 |
| the auditorium; Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubenstein, Igor | 20 |
| Stravinsky, John Phillip Sousa, Marian Anderson, Jane Adams, | 21 |
| Robert Frost, Ravi Shankar, Duke Ellington, Eleanor Roosevelt, | 22 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller, Maya Angelou, and Bill Gates have all | 23 |
| appeared there; and
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| WHEREAS, Renovations over the last century have kept the | 25 |
| building up with changing times; in 1983 an alumni gift allowed | 26 |
| the University to fulfill Blackall's original aspirations for | 27 |
| the Auditorium; and
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| WHEREAS, The pineapple placed on the top of the dome is the | 29 |
| international symbol of welcome; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 |
| we honor the Foellinger Auditorium on its 100th anniversary; | 4 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to the University of Illinois community as a token of | 7 |
| our esteem.
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