Full Text of SR0267 94th General Assembly
SR0267 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Maurice F. Rabb, Jr. of Chicago passed away on | 3 |
| June 6, 2005; he was recognized internationally as an | 4 |
| ophthalmologist specializing in retinal diseases; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Rabb was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on | 6 |
| August 7, 1932, to Dr. Maurice F. Rabb, Sr. and Mrs. Jewel | 7 |
| Miller Rabb; he graduated from Central Colored High School, | 8 |
| earned a baccalaureate degree in biology from the University of | 9 |
| Louisville in 1954, and graduated from the University of | 10 |
| Louisville School of Medicine in 1958; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Rabb completed his medical internship at Kings | 12 |
| County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and studied | 13 |
| ophthalmology at New York University; at the University of | 14 |
| Illinois at Chicago he served as chief resident and was the | 15 |
| first African-American resident; and
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| WHEREAS, After completing a cornea fellowship at the | 17 |
| University of California at San Francisco, he obtained a grant | 18 |
| from the Illinois Society to Prevent Blindness to relocate and | 19 |
| medically update the Illinois Eye Bank at the University of | 20 |
| Illinois; during his 43-year affiliation with the University he | 21 |
| also served as a professor who received a number of awards for | 22 |
| excellence in teaching, a founder and director of the | 23 |
| Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, interim associate | 24 |
| vice-chancellor of Urban Health, acting associate chancellor, | 25 |
| and director of medical student education in ophthalmology; he | 26 |
| received a special recognition award from the University for | 27 |
| his extraordinary contributions; and
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| WHEREAS, At Mercy Hospital in Chicago he served as the | 29 |
| chair of ophthalmology, president of the medical staff, a | 30 |
| member of the Board of Directors, and a member of the Mercy | 31 |
| Foundation Board; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Rabb served on numerous advisory committees; | 2 |
| he was the author of textbooks and scholarly articles; he | 3 |
| lectured at medical conferences as an expert on corneal disease | 4 |
| and retinopathy; he was recognized by many of the most | 5 |
| prominent medical organizations in the nation and the world; | 6 |
| for forty years he was a dedicated member of the National | 7 |
| Medical Association, the national 110-year old organization | 8 |
| dedicated to the interests of African-American physicians, | 9 |
| which showed its appreciation for his contributions by | 10 |
| co-naming a scholarship after his and the late Dr. H. Philip | 11 |
| Venable's commitments to patient care, teaching, and research; | 12 |
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| WHEREAS, He was a dedicated family man, a photographer, a | 14 |
| world traveler, cinephile, and gadgeteer; his humor, humility, | 15 |
| love, and kindness affected all who were part of his life; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Dr. Maurice F. Rabb, Jr. is felt by | 17 |
| all who knew and loved him, especially his wife of 39 years, | 18 |
| Madeline Murphy Rabb; his sons, Maurice F. Rabb III and | 19 |
| Christopher Murphy Rabb; his mother, Jewel Miller Rabb; his | 20 |
| uncle, Louis A. Rabb; his daughter-in-law, Prof. Imani Perry; | 21 |
| and his grandson, Freeman Diallo Perry Rabb; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 23 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize the | 24 |
| countless contributions of Dr. Maurice F. Rabb, Jr. to his | 25 |
| profession and community and to the health of people around the | 26 |
| world, and we join his family and friends in their sorrow at | 27 |
| this time of loss; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 29 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 30 |
| sympathy.
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