Full Text of HR0808 94th General Assembly
HR0808 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, By the middle of January of 2006, a familiar face | 3 |
| in the Statehouse will take a long-deserved break and his voice | 4 |
| will be missing from the airwaves; Ben Kiningham, Springfield | 5 |
| Bureau Chief for the Illinois Radio Network, has announced his | 6 |
| retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Kiningham was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, in | 8 |
| 1942; he graduated from Springfield High School in 1960 and | 9 |
| attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he | 10 |
| studied radio-TV and started his broadcasting career as a | 11 |
| volunteer at WSIU; and
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| WHEREAS, He enlisted in the military in late 1964, serving | 13 |
| in the Illinois Air National Guard; some years later, he served | 14 |
| as public affairs staff officer for the 183rd Tactical Fighter | 15 |
| Group; he retired from the 183rd with the rank of lieutenant | 16 |
| colonel after 22 years in the military; and
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| WHEREAS, He began his broadcast career in Springfield at | 18 |
| WTAX, where he was hired on January 24, 1966; since 1974, when | 19 |
| he succeeded Bill Miller as Statehouse Bureau
Chief for the | 20 |
| Capital Information Bureau, he has kept radio listeners | 21 |
| apprised of developments in
Illinois government and politics; | 22 |
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| WHEREAS, He is past president of the Illinois News | 24 |
| Broadcasters Association (INBA) and the Illinois Legislative | 25 |
| Correspondents Association; he received a lifetime achievement | 26 |
| award from the INBA and has received several news awards from | 27 |
| media organizations, including the AP, UPI, and the National | 28 |
| Association of State Radio Networks; in 2004, he was named | 29 |
| alumnus of the year by the radio-televsion department at SIU-C; | 30 |
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| WHEREAS, His affiliations stretch to the private sector, | 2 |
| and he is a past chair of the American Lung Association | 3 |
| Christmas Seal campaign downstate and a former elder in Central | 4 |
| Presbyterian Church in Petersburg; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Kiningham has spent more than 10 years hosting | 6 |
| "CapitolView with Ben Kiningham", a public affairs program, | 7 |
| with a panel of reporters discussing the latest political | 8 |
| events in the State; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, During his retirement, he plans to stay active in | 10 |
| his hobbies of amateur radio and photography, and he and his | 11 |
| wife, Beth, hope to travel, including visits to their children | 12 |
| in Wisconsin and Arizona; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 |
| on the occasion of his retirement, we congratulate Mr. Ben | 16 |
| Kiningham, who has exemplified the highest ideals of journalism | 17 |
| and community responsibility and whose voice will truly be | 18 |
| missed; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to Mr. Kiningham with our sincerest best wishes for | 21 |
| his future.
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