Full Text of HR0678 94th General Assembly
HR0678 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, State Representative Monique Davis and the | 3 |
| members of the Illinois House of Representatives learned with | 4 |
| sadness of the death of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright on | 5 |
| October 15, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, The former Mary Elizabeth Henderson was born on | 7 |
| May 26, 1916 in Surry County, Virginia, the last of seven | 8 |
| children of the Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton M. Henderson; in | 9 |
| June, 1938, she married her college sweetheart, the Reverend | 10 |
| Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright; and
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| WHEREAS, She graduated high school at fifteen years of age | 12 |
| and graduated from Virginia Union University magna cum laude, | 13 |
| with degrees in mathematics and English; in 1949, she earned a | 14 |
| Master of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of | 15 |
| Pennsylvania; during the 1958-59 school year, Mrs. Wright was | 16 |
| on a sabbatical study leave as a National Science Fellow in the | 17 |
| Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania | 18 |
| where she earned a Master of Science degree in education; she | 19 |
| went on to earn a Doctor of Education degree from the | 20 |
| University of Pennsylvania in 1971; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Wright had a distinguished 34-year career in | 22 |
| the Philadelphia public schools; she taught mathematics for | 23 |
| nine years at Sulzberger Junior High School; she was later | 24 |
| appointed to teach mathematics at William Penn High School; in | 25 |
| addition, she was the first African-American teacher at | 26 |
| Roosevelt Junior High School, Germantown High School, and | 27 |
| Philadelphia High School for Girls; Dr. Wright was appointed | 28 |
| Vice Principal of the Philadelphia High School for Girls in | 29 |
| 1968 and remained in that position until her retirement in | 30 |
| 1978; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Wright had an active civic life; she was |
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| involved with the Germantown YMCA, the NAACP, LaSalle | 2 |
| University, and many other civic organizations; she received | 3 |
| many achievement awards, outstanding service awards, and other | 4 |
| awards and honors throughout the years from the many groups she | 5 |
| served; and
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| WHEREAS, Church and religion were very important to Dr. | 7 |
| Wright; She was active in the life of the Grace Baptist Church | 8 |
| of Germantown, where her husband was installed as pastor in | 9 |
| 1938; in addition to being the minister's wife, she served as a | 10 |
| Sunday school teacher, a youth leader, the vacation Bible | 11 |
| school director, the choir director, the missionary society | 12 |
| president, the church financial secretary, and the church | 13 |
| trustee; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Wright was a dynamic speaker who was much in | 15 |
| demand for special church services; she was a loyal and active | 16 |
| member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Lott Carey Baptist | 17 |
| Foreign Missions Convention, the North American Baptist | 18 |
| Women's Union of the Baptist World Alliance, and the local | 19 |
| association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows; she | 20 |
| served in a leadership capacity with all of these | 21 |
| organizations; and | 22 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright | 23 |
| has been deeply felt by many, especially her daughter and | 24 |
| son-in-law, Mary LaVerne Miner and Dr. William R. Miner; her | 25 |
| son and daughter-in-law, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, | 26 |
| Jr. and the Rev. Mrs. Ramah Wright; her grandchildren, Janet | 27 |
| Marie Moore, Jeri Lynne Harris, Edward Timothy Wright, Jamila | 28 |
| Nandi Wright, Nikol D. Reed, and Nathan W. Reed; her | 29 |
| great-grandchildren, Jeremiah Antonio Wright-Haynes, Jazmin | 30 |
| Lynne Hall, and Steven Lawrence Moore, Jr.; her nieces, Pamela | 31 |
| Wood, Tommyzee Suggs, and Joyce Baden; and many other relatives | 32 |
| and friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 |
| we mourn the passing of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, | 4 |
| and we extend our deepest sympathy to her family, friends, and | 5 |
| all who knew and loved her; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our sincerest | 8 |
| condolences.
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