Full Text of SR0242 101st 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 Dr. Allison L. Burdick Jr., who passed | 4 | | away on November 6, 2018 at the age of 94; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick was born to Dr. Allison L. Burdick Sr. | 6 | | and Adelaide Bartholf Burdick on June 7, 1924; he grew up in | 7 | | Galewood and graduated from Austin High School; he married his | 8 | | high school sweetheart, Beatrice "Bea" King, in June of 1946; | 9 | | he attended the University of Illinois Medical School; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick served the United States Navy as a | 11 | | medical doctor at Great Lakes Naval Academy, as well as in San | 12 | | Diego and Albuquerque; he returned to the Chicago area and | 13 | | completed residencies at Hines VA Hospital in Maywood and West | 14 | | Suburban Hospital in Oak Park; in 1952, he joined his father in | 15 | | private practice on the West Side of Chicago; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick had a vision of educating future | 17 | | family practice doctors and served as a professor in the | 18 | | Department of Family Practice at Rush University Medical | 19 | | School; he was a pioneer in family practice medicine and worked | 20 | | to save the family doctor profession while becoming one of the | 21 | | founding fathers of the family medicine movement in the United | 22 | | States, which carries an emphasis on the family unit, |
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| 1 | | preventative medicine, and patient education; he was a | 2 | | visionary leader who believed that the "people specialty," as | 3 | | family practice doctors were known, was essential to providing | 4 | | ongoing medical care to patients; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, In 1971, Dr. Burdick established one of the | 6 | | country's first residency programs at West Suburban Hospital | 7 | | for in-depth training in family medicine; in a ceremony in | 8 | | 2009, with nearly 100 graduates from all over the country in | 9 | | attendance, the West Suburban Hospital Family Medicine | 10 | | Residency Program was officially named the A.L. Burdick Family | 11 | | Medicine Center to honor his legacy; to date, over 250 new | 12 | | physicians have graduated from this program; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick was a diplomat of the American Board | 14 | | of Family Practice for years and served as its vice president | 15 | | for education; he held several offices with the Illinois | 16 | | Academy of Family Physicians and served as president from 1970 | 17 | | until 1971; he also held numerous positions with the Illinois | 18 | | State Medical Society and was president of the Aux Plaines | 19 | | Branch of the Chicago Medical Society in 1968; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick was known for his passion, leadership, | 21 | | and his ability to teach in a way that influenced his residents | 22 | | for the rest of their careers; former staff members in the | 23 | | Family Practice Department at West Suburban Hospital |
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| 1 | | considered it an honor and a privilege to work with him; he was | 2 | | a "fantastic role model, a compassionate physician, a | 3 | | delightful colleague, and an ardent educator"; many of his | 4 | | former students felt they owed him a tremendous debt of | 5 | | gratitude for helping to develop family practice residencies | 6 | | throughout Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick and his wife, Bea, were members of | 8 | | various yacht clubs and tennis clubs over the years, and he | 9 | | once sailed his boat across Lake Michigan to his summer home on | 10 | | White Lake in Whitehall, Michigan; he was admired for his love | 11 | | of the "good things" in life, including music, books, tennis, | 12 | | the outdoors, boats, and the sun on his face; his happiest days | 13 | | were with family, especially holidays; his unconditional love, | 14 | | patience, wisdom, and gentle nature will live on in his | 15 | | children and grandchildren, of whom he was very proud; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick was preceded in death by his wife of | 17 | | 71 years, Bea; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Burdick is survived by his children, Stephanie | 19 | | Kennington, Susan (Bob) Merz, Bradley (Linda) Burdick, and | 20 | | Robert (Alison) Burdick; his grandchildren, Brandon, Alison, | 21 | | Scott, Kimberly, Marissa, Jenna, Mallory, and Collin; and his | 22 | | nine great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 2 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 3 | | Dr. Allison L. Burdick Jr. and extend our condolences to his | 4 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 5 | | further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to the family of Dr. Burdick as an expression of our | 8 | | deepest sympathy.
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