Full Text of HR0187 96th General Assembly
HR0187 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representative are pleased to congratulate Roger E. Poole on | 4 |
| the occasion of his retirement as Directing Business | 5 |
| Representative of District 9 International Association of | 6 |
| Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I.A.M.A.W.); and
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| WHEREAS, Roger Poole was a 43-year member of Automotive | 8 |
| Lodge 313 and was elected to serve as President and | 9 |
| Vice-President of the lodge; he was elected Business | 10 |
| Representative in January of 1979; and
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| WHEREAS, Roger Poole was elected to serve as Directing | 12 |
| Business Representative of District 9 I.A.M.A.W., a position he | 13 |
| served in from January 1, 2004 until his retirement; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, Prior to joining the staff at District 9, Roger | 15 |
| Poole was active in his Local, serving as a delegate to the | 16 |
| Belleville Union Labor Council, the Southwestern Illinois | 17 |
| Central Labor Council, the Greater Madison County Federation of | 18 |
| Labor, District Lodge 9, the Illinois State Council of | 19 |
| Machinists, the Mid-West States Conference of Machinists, and | 20 |
| the Illinois State AFL-CIO; he also served as a delegate to | 21 |
| every I.A.M. convention since 1972; and
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| WHEREAS, Roger Poole is a member of the International | 2 |
| Association of Machinists Law Committee and the Machinists | 3 |
| Non-Partisan Political League National Planning Committee; he | 4 |
| has served as president of the Mid-West State Council of | 5 |
| Machinists and as president of the 12th Congressional District | 6 |
| of C.O.P.E. AFL-CIO; he has served as Vice-President of the | 7 |
| Illinois and Missouri State AFL-CIO; he has been an Executive | 8 |
| Board member of the St. Louis Labor Council and has served on | 9 |
| the Executive Committee of the United Way of Greater St. Louis; | 10 |
| he has also served as an elected Democrat Precinct | 11 |
| Committeeman; and
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| WHEREAS, Roger Poole was the recipient of the Labor Man of | 13 |
| the Year Award from the Southwestern Illinois Central Labor | 14 |
| Council and the Community Services Labor Man of the Year Award | 15 |
| from the St. Louis Labor Council; and
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| WHEREAS, Roger Poole has been married to his wife, Rosalie, | 17 |
| for 43 years; he has two sons, Brian and Jason, two | 18 |
| daughters-in-law, Barbara and Gina, and two grandchildren, | 19 |
| Darby and Cody; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 22 |
| congratulate Roger E. Poole on the occasion of his retirement | 23 |
| and wish him many happy and healthy retirement years; and be it |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to Roger Poole as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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