Full Text of HR0429 096th General Assembly
HR0429 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 the staff, | 4 |
| students, and faculty of Oakland Elementary School in Antioch | 5 |
| on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the school; and
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| WHEREAS, Oakland Elementary School opened in 1958 and only | 7 |
| 10 of the 17 classrooms were open; Oakland has educated a | 8 |
| half-century's worth of students on what was once farmland | 9 |
| between Antioch and Lake Villa; and
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| WHEREAS, The office was updated six years ago, and in 1978 | 11 |
| a library was added, as well as a science room and a teacher's | 12 |
| lounge; and
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| WHEREAS, The modern-day Oakland building sits on property | 14 |
| that has housed a school since 1910, when a wood-frame | 15 |
| classroom opened its doors; the original facility was replaced | 16 |
| by a 30-by-40-foot brick structure in 1921, before the current | 17 |
| building was constructed; when the building opened as a | 18 |
| kindergarten-8th grade facility the week after Labor Day in | 19 |
| 1958, it featured nine faculty members, and its eighth grade | 20 |
| class numbered 17 students; and
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| WHEREAS, The school is now a 2nd-5th grade school; there |
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| are currently 40 members of the staff, and 500 students require | 2 |
| the auxiliary use of four portable classroom units; and
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| WHEREAS, Longtime staff members include Carol Forrest, who | 4 |
| has worked in the office for 25 years, and cafeteria worker | 5 |
| Clara Svoboda, who has worked at the school for 39 years; | 6 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 8 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 9 |
| congratulate the staff, students, faculty, and all those who | 10 |
| have fond memories of Oakland Elementary School on this | 11 |
| momentous occasion; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to Oakland Elementary School Principal Kerstin | 14 |
| Santarelli as a symbol of our respect.
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