Full Text of HR0447 094th General Assembly
HR0447 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Hazel Renfroe will celebrate her 100th birthday on | 3 |
| Saturday, June 18, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Chicago on Sunday, June 18, 1905; | 5 |
| she attended Chicago Public Schools and graduated from Bowen | 6 |
| High School; she received her Teacher's Certificate from | 7 |
| Chicago Normal College and went on to earn a Bachelor's Degree | 8 |
| from the University of Chicago; she also earned a Master of | 9 |
| Science in art education from the Illinois Institute of | 10 |
| Technology, which included one year of study at the Sorbonne in | 11 |
| Paris, France, on a scholarship; she studied painting in Paris, | 12 |
| France, in the summer of 1950 and interior design at | 13 |
| Northwestern University; and
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| WHEREAS, During World War II, Ms. Renfroe volunteered 100 | 15 |
| hours with the Red Cross as part of the Women's Defense Corps | 16 |
| of America; she taught gas mask and messenger courses to adults | 17 |
| in Pekin District, O.C.D., and acted as a chaperon for young | 18 |
| ladies invited by soldiers to parties at southern Illinois | 19 |
| camps; she was cited by the Treasury Department for topping the | 20 |
| million dollar mark in the sale of War Stamps and Bonds in | 21 |
| Negro hotels in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Her lifelong passion was her avocation - teaching; | 23 |
| she was an art teacher at various Chicago schools, where she | 24 |
| rose through the ranks from Elementary Art Instructor to | 25 |
| Supervisor of Arts; she directed and taught both Adult and | 26 |
| Children's Arts & Crafts programs, served on textbook | 27 |
| committees that selected the art books used in Chicago's Public | 28 |
| Schools, was a member of the committee which revised DePaul | 29 |
| University's Teacher-Training Program, and was a regular | 30 |
| member of visiting committees of the North Central Association | 31 |
| of Secondary Schools and Colleges to evaluate facilities | 32 |
| accreditation, curricula, and faculties with regard to their |
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| Art Departments; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Renfroe was politically active; in 1964, she | 3 |
| organized 250 women for President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Career | 4 |
| Women for the Great Society"; this effort was so successful | 5 |
| that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley asked her to direct the | 6 |
| telephone bank for his third campaign for re-election; and
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| WHEREAS, She is a founding member of the South Side | 8 |
| Community Art Center, the Metropolitan Council of Negro Women, | 9 |
| and the Chicago Women's Division of the United Negro College | 10 |
| Fund, and a charter member of the Bravo Chapter of the Lyric | 11 |
| Opera, the Chicago Chapter of Girl Friends, and the North Shore | 12 |
| Chapter of Links, Inc.; she is a member of Trinity Episcopal | 13 |
| Church, several bridge clubs, and the Board of the City | 14 |
| Associates of the Art Institute; and
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| WHEREAS, She has, at various times subsequent to her | 16 |
| retirement, served on advisory committees for African-American | 17 |
| Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, and the | 18 |
| Chicago Historical Society; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1993, Ms. Renfroe was elected to membership in | 20 |
| the National Association for Female Executives, having opened | 21 |
| her own art consulting firm, and is listed in both the first | 22 |
| "Who's Who Among Black Americans" and the "International Who's | 23 |
| Who of Professional and Business Women"; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 25 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 26 |
| we congratulate Hazel Renfroe on reaching the distinguished | 27 |
| mark of her 100th birthday, and we thank her for the incredible | 28 |
| contributions she has made to the art community in the State of | 29 |
| Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Ms. Renfroe as an expression of our deepest | 2 |
| respect and esteem and with best wishes for a wonderful | 3 |
| celebration in honor of her birthday.
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