Full Text of SR0613 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 Ralph Louis Langenheim Jr. of Urbana, who | 4 | | passed away on August 3, 2019; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. was born in Cincinnati, Ohio | 6 | | to Ralph Louis and Myrtle (Helmers) Langenheim on May 26, 1922; | 7 | | he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tulsa | 8 | | in 1943, his master's degree from the University of Colorado in | 9 | | 1947, and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in | 10 | | 1951; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. served as an officer in the | 12 | | United States Navy during World War II; after training at the | 13 | | U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he participated in | 14 | | the D-Day landings; he retired from the Navy Reserve as a | 15 | | lieutenant commander; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. began his career in education | 17 | | as an assistant professor at Coe College in Iowa; he then | 18 | | served as an assistant professor of paleontology at the | 19 | | University of California, Berkeley; he then accepted a position | 20 | | as professor of geology at the University of Illinois at | 21 | | Urbana-Champaign; there, he was named professor emeritus in | 22 | | 1993; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. worked with the Instituto | 2 | | Gelologico Nacional de Colombia, the Geological Survey of | 3 | | Canada, the Geological Survey of Iran, the Geological Survey of | 4 | | the Republic of China, and the Polytechnic University of | 5 | | Albania; he served as a distinguished visiting professor at the | 6 | | University of Nevada, Las Vegas and as the book review editor | 7 | | of Geological Education; he received the Rudolph Eric Raspe | 8 | | Medal from the Institute Geometaphysik Neuschwanstein; he was | 9 | | the curator of fossil invertebrates at the National History | 10 | | Museum and a partner at Lanman Associates Consultant | 11 | | Geologists; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. was a member of many | 13 | | professional organizations, including the American Association | 14 | | for the Advancement of Science, the Paleontological Society, | 15 | | the Geological Society of America, the Society for Sedimentary | 16 | | Geology, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the | 17 | | International Association of Cnidaria Specialists, the | 18 | | Illinois Academy of Sciences, the Explorers Club, and the Rocky | 19 | | Mountain Biological Laboratory; he was also a member of the | 20 | | Naval Institute, the Rotary Club, the Exchange Club, the | 21 | | Reserve Officer Association, the National Association of the | 22 | | United States Ship Landing Craft Infantry, and Sigma Xi; and
| 23 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. served on the Champaign |
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| 1 | | County Board from 1998 until 2014, where he was a member of the | 2 | | Environment and Land Use Committee and the Highway and | 3 | | Transportation Committee; he was the Champaign County Mahomet | 4 | | Aquifer Consortium representative and served on the | 5 | | Champaign-Urbana Urban Area Transportation System Committee | 6 | | and the Human Services Committee; he was a precinct committee | 7 | | representative in Savoy; during every Fourth of July parade, he | 8 | | happily carried the American flag at the head of the Democratic | 9 | | Party; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Ralph Langenheim Jr. is survived by his wife, Mary | 11 | | Casey Diana; his children, Victoria Langenheim and Ralph | 12 | | Langenheim; his stepchildren, Eric Steckler and Matthew Diana; | 13 | | his granddaughter, Emma Lengenheim; and his | 14 | | step-grandchildren, Logan Hodges, Eric Applequist, and Stella | 15 | | and Scarlett Steckler; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 18 | | Ralph Louis Langenheim Jr. and extend our sincere condolences | 19 | | to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be | 20 | | it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 | | presented to the family of Ralph Langenheim Jr. as an | 23 | | expression of our esteem and respect.
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