Full Text of HR0822 94th General Assembly
HR0822 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Gilbert N. Stein began his career in the dairy | 3 |
| business during high school, bottling milk in the basement of | 4 |
| his parents' farmhouse in Canton; by his senior year, he was | 5 |
| delivering 200 quarts a day in his Model T Ford and by his high | 6 |
| school graduation, he was making $125 a week; and
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| WHEREAS, Between 1937 and 1940, he was operating a dairy | 8 |
| and ice cream plant with a retail ice cream shop; in 1944, he | 9 |
| heard about people lining up for blocks in Moline to buy Dairy | 10 |
| Queen soft serve; in 1945, he signed an agreement with Harry | 11 |
| Axene, owner of the Dairy Queen store in Kewanee, that gave Mr. | 12 |
| Stein the territory rights to develop 46 counties in Central | 13 |
| Illinois; his first store was opened in Normal in 1946; and
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| WHEREAS, He went on to open stores in Urbana, Quincy, and | 15 |
| Springfield and acquired 17 additional counties north of | 16 |
| Peoria; in the late 1960s, he acquired the territory rights to | 17 |
| develop two-thirds of Missouri; it was during negotiating for | 18 |
| Missouri that Mr. Stein came up with the idea to form a group | 19 |
| of individuals involved in the Dairy Queen system that would be | 20 |
| interested in acquiring the rights from J.F. "Grandpa" | 21 |
| McCullough, the founder of the soft-serve concept who coined | 22 |
| the Dairy Queen name; in 1962, a verbal agreement was made with | 23 |
| the McCullough family and International Dairy Queen was | 24 |
| founded; and
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| WHEREAS, He went on to overcome technological challenges | 26 |
| and shifts in market trends and demands through carefully | 27 |
| researched pilot testing across populations and time; he | 28 |
| adapted and persevered through changing society and market | 29 |
| cultures and rose to meet his challenges with innovative | 30 |
| business solutions; he is recognized as a true visionary in the | 31 |
| business world; and
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| WHEREAS, He valued higher education, but was unable to | 2 |
| avail himself of a formal university education; he displayed | 3 |
| tremendous energy from an early age and maintaned that energy | 4 |
| and vision across time; and
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| WHEREAS, In recognition of his contributions to the | 6 |
| principles and strategies of business franchising, mentoring | 7 |
| strategies for franchise managers, marketing prowess, and | 8 |
| contributions to the City of Springfield, to the State of | 9 |
| Illinois, and to the nation, Mr. Stein was conferred with an | 10 |
| Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Illinois at | 11 |
| Springfield; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 14 |
| we congratulate Gilbert N. Stein on being conferred with an | 15 |
| Honorary Doctor of Letters, and we recognize his vision and | 16 |
| contributions to the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to Mr. Stein as an expression of our esteem.
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