Full Text of SR1577 098th 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 Thomas Dudley Ferguson of Oak Park, who | 4 | | passed away on March 16, 2014; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson was born in Hinsdale on August 23, | 6 | | 1938 to Mildred (nee Whitt) and James Carroll Ferguson; he was | 7 | | raised in La Grange and graduated from Cossitt Avenue | 8 | | Elementary School and Lyons Township High School; he married | 9 | | Carole Lindner Ferguson in 1959; he received his Bachelor of | 10 | | Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Illinois | 11 | | Champaign-Urbana in 1962; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson began his teaching career at | 13 | | Elmwood Park High School in 1962; in 1965, he and his family | 14 | | settled in Oak Park; he joined the Oak Park and River Forest | 15 | | High School (OPRF) history department in 1967, where he taught | 16 | | until his retirement in 1994; from 1986 to 1994 he served as | 17 | | chairman of the history department; in 1988, he started | 18 | | "Interpretations", an annual publication of the finest | 19 | | scholarly history writing by OPRF students; he was always | 20 | | delighted to hear from former students, who would stop him on | 21 | | the street decades later to tell him how much they had learned | 22 | | in his class; in 1970, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship | 23 | | to teach for a year at the Sherborne School in Sherborne, |
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| 1 | | Dorset, England, and, in the summer of 1971, the family | 2 | | embarked on a memorable 6-week-long camping trip through | 3 | | western Europe, Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson enjoyed jazz, photography, road | 5 | | trips, good food, family history, hometown newspapers, C-Span, | 6 | | the Civil War, old movies, tennis, and the White Sox; he and | 7 | | his wife traveled together to all 50 states, the Middle East, | 8 | | Costa Rica, and Canada; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson was preceded in death by his | 10 | | daughter, Christine; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson is survived by his wife, Carole; | 12 | | his daughters Sarah (William Neuman) and Heather (Annika | 13 | | Fjelstad); his beloved grandchildren, Max, Emma, and Romy | 14 | | Neuman and Josiah and Gabe Fjelstad Ferguson; and a large and | 15 | | loving extended family; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 18 | | Thomas Dudley Ferguson, and extend our sincere condolences to | 19 | | his 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 Thomas Ferguson as an expression of | 2 | | our deepest sympathy.
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