Full Text of HR0023 96th General Assembly
HR0023 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Elizabeth Arts on | 4 |
| being named the Western Springs 2008 Woman of the Year; and
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| WHEREAS, After her two daughters and son were married | 6 |
| within a
three-year period, Elizabeth was ready for a new | 7 |
| project, the Ekdahl House; she led a team of Historical Society | 8 |
| trustees in the
development of a plan to save, move, and | 9 |
| restore the 1887 Ekdahl building as an outdoor community | 10 |
| museum; and
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| WHEREAS, With her talent
for organizing, she was able to | 12 |
| convince not only the Historical Society trustees that the | 13 |
| building should be saved but also the
Village Board to locate | 14 |
| the building on Village-owned property; Elizabeth has been a | 15 |
| member of the Historical Society for ten years and chaired the | 16 |
| Preservation Awards Committee; she redesigned the
program and | 17 |
| evaluation process, secured the sponsorship of the Doings | 18 |
| newspaper, and planned the awards receptions; and
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| WHEREAS, Elizabeth is on the Women's Board of the Mercy | 20 |
| Home for Girls and Boys,
which promotes education and | 21 |
| scholarships for young people; with Easter Seals of Metro | 22 |
| Chicago, she has helped coordinate a
program between autistic |
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| children at the Therapeutic School for Autism Research and a | 2 |
| Chicago charter school stressing career
opportunities; another | 3 |
| project was a socialization program between higher functioning | 4 |
| autistic boys and 7th and 8th grade boys; and
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| WHEREAS, During the 35 years that she and her husband, | 6 |
| Dave, have lived in Western Springs, she has been a Girl Scout | 7 |
| leader, a Little
League team mother, a CCD teacher at St. John | 8 |
| of the Cross, co-chair of the St. John's Health Committee, and | 9 |
| a volunteer in their
program to visit the elderly; she serves | 10 |
| as a reading mother to the Cayman International School, where | 11 |
| her daughter and
family reside, via Skype; and
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| WHEREAS, She was raised in New York and met her husband | 13 |
| while she attended St. Francis University in Joliet; she is a | 14 |
| registered nurse and earned her master's and Ph.D. in clinical | 15 |
| psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology | 16 |
| in Chicago; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| congratulate Elizabeth Arts and wish her the best in her future | 20 |
| endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to Elizabeth Arts as a symbol of our respect.
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