Full Text of HR0465 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to recognize the accomplishments | 4 | | of local communities and their commitment to serving their | 5 | | fellow citizens; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Rotary Club of Joliet will celebrate its 100th | 7 | | anniversary on August 3, 2013; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Rotary International, the world's first service | 9 | | organization, was founded in Chicago in 1905 and has since | 10 | | grown to include 33,000 clubs and 1.3 million members; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Rotary International focuses locally and globally | 12 | | on the goals of peace and conflict resolution, disease | 13 | | prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and | 14 | | child health, basic education and literacy, and economic and | 15 | | community development, with a special focus on the eradication | 16 | | of polio from the earth; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, What was to become the Rotary Club of Joliet in | 18 | | 1913, began as the Study Club in 1910; the Study Club's purpose | 19 | | was to study business building, efficiency, and character | 20 | | development; the club's president was John McGuire and the | 21 | | members were John P. Kelly, Edmund H. Lennon, Thomas P. Lennon, |
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| 1 | | Maurice F. Lennon, Joseph McGlynn, Michael J. Ryan, Thomas S. | 2 | | Stoll, Robert P. Kiep, Ambrose Kiep, George Lennon, A.F. | 3 | | Bannon, James F. Hebert, James Ley, Nick J. Freis, and F. B. | 4 | | Murphy; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Joliet Rotary was accepted into membership at the | 6 | | Rotary International Convention held in Buffalo, New York and | 7 | | chartered on August 1, 1913, becoming the first Rotary Club | 8 | | from a city of less than 75,000 population; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Noon luncheons were started on September 22, 1914, | 10 | | in the Hobbs Cafe; since then, Joliet Rotary has held its | 11 | | luncheon meetings in the Universalist Church parlors, Snapps | 12 | | Cafeteria, the Chamber of Commerce, Masonic Temple, the YMCA, | 13 | | the Woodruff Hotel, the Louis Joliet Hotel, and the Louis | 14 | | Joliet Renaissance Center; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Since 1913, the Joliet Rotary Club, by | 16 | | recommendations to Rotary International, has ceded territory | 17 | | as well as helped establish new territories by starting Rotary | 18 | | Clubs in Ottawa (1914), Morris (1915), Kankakee (1915), | 19 | | Streator (1919), LaSalle (1920), DeKalb (1921), Aurora (1923), | 20 | | Manteno (1937), Wilmington (1938), and Lockport (1966); the | 21 | | Club has produced four District Governors, J. Stanley Brown | 22 | | (1918-1919), Rev. Henry E. Rompel (1923-1924), Ralph E. Morgan | 23 | | (1957-1958), and Robert E. Leckrone (1986-1987); and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 1987, Rotary International extended membership | 2 | | to women in the United States; at the Conference on Legislation | 3 | | held in Singapore on January 23, 1989, Resolution 8954 was | 4 | | presented by Joliet Rotarian Bob Leckrone, thus officially | 5 | | admitting women into Rotary International; the first women | 6 | | inducted into Joliet Rotary were Mary Jane Broncato, Ruth | 7 | | Calvert Fitzgerald, Carolyn Healy, and Sister Dismas Janssen; | 8 | | and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Joliet Rotary purchased uniforms and instruments | 10 | | for the start of the Joliet Township High School band, which | 11 | | won State Championships in 1924, 1925, and 1926, National | 12 | | Championships in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1938, and | 13 | | 1940, and gave Joliet the nickname, "City of Champions"; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1914, Vaughn Brooks, the second president of | 15 | | Joliet Rotary, was responsible for founding the Joliet Chamber | 16 | | of Commerce; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, In 1915, Joliet Rotary procured Higginbotham | 18 | | Woods for city park property; in 1917, during World War I, | 19 | | Joliet Rotary equipped the "Dandy First" soldiers with shoes | 20 | | and other equipment while they were training at Dellwood Park; | 21 | | in 1930, Joliet Rotary sponsored the first Boy Scout camp at | 22 | | Morris, which is still in existence; later, Joliet Rotary |
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| 1 | | sponsored the first Girl Scout camp at Custer Park; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, From 1984 to 1988, over $250,000 and in-kind | 3 | | contributions were donated to build the Rotary Sports Complex | 4 | | at the Galowich YMCA on the west side of Joliet; in 1989, | 5 | | Joliet Rotary established a $75,000 endowment fund to maintain | 6 | | the YMCA Sports Field; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, In 1990, Joliet Rotary donated $30,000 to Habitat | 8 | | for Humanity to construct two homes; in 1991, Joliet Rotary | 9 | | donated $30,000 to Will-Grundy Free Medical Clinic for an | 10 | | endowment fund for medications; in 1992, Joliet Rotary donated | 11 | | $26,100 to D-FY-IT drug testing program for local high schools, | 12 | | in 1993, Joliet Rotary donated $30,000 to purchase equipment to | 13 | | establish a handicapped playground for Easter Seals; in 1994, | 14 | | Joliet Rotary purchased a 15-passenger van for the Salvation | 15 | | Army; in 1995, Joliet Rotary donated $30,000 to help refurbish | 16 | | facilities for an abused women's shelter; in 1996, Joliet | 17 | | Rotary donated $32,000 to Easter Seals for furnishing a | 18 | | supervisory group home; in 1997, Joliet Rotary donated $30,000 | 19 | | to United Cerebral Palsy Park for specialized playground | 20 | | equipment; in 1998, Joliet Rotary donated a total of $30,000 | 21 | | for endowed scholarships to be awarded annually by Joliet | 22 | | Junior College, Lewis University, and the University of St. | 23 | | Francis; in 1999, Joliet Rotary donated $30,000 for funding of | 24 | | the Will-Grundy Rotary Dental Clinic; in 2000, Joliet Rotary |
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| 1 | | donated $27,400 to Morningstar Mission Ministries for their | 2 | | kitchen renovation project; in 2001, Joliet Rotary divided a | 3 | | $30,000 donation to the Salvation Army for renovation of their | 4 | | kitchen and to the Will County Humane Society for renovation of | 5 | | their facility; in 2002, Joliet Rotary donated a total of | 6 | | $30,000 to the Rotary College Scholarship Program for the | 7 | | scholarship fund established at Lewis University, University | 8 | | of St. Francis, and Joliet Junior College; in 2003, Joliet | 9 | | Rotary donated $30,000 to Joliet Hospice for the construction | 10 | | of a patient room; in 2004, Joliet Rotary donated $14,000 to | 11 | | Lamb's Fold toward a new shower room for the women and | 12 | | children; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Thousands of dictionaries are provided by Joliet | 14 | | Rotary to Joliet public and private school 4th graders each | 15 | | year; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Countless additional donations of time, talent, | 17 | | and treasure have benefitted the local Joliet community as well | 18 | | as Rotary beneficiaries around the world; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 | | we congratulate the current and past members of the Rotary Club | 22 | | of Joliet on the occasion of the club's 100th anniversary and | 23 | | thank the members for providing 100 years of service above |
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| 2 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 | | presented to the Rotary Club of Joliet, Illinois, USA as a | 4 | | symbol of our esteem and respect.
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