Full Text of HR0083 096th General Assembly
HR0083 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dr.
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| Hawkins, who passed away on January 30, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Larry Hawkins was born in Chicago in 1930; he | 6 |
| attended Douglass Elementary and graduated from Phillips High | 7 |
| School, where he was a star basketball player in 1948; he then | 8 |
| received his associate's degree from Wilson Junior College in | 9 |
| 1950; and
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| WHEREAS, After serving in the United States Army from 1953 | 11 |
| to 1955, Larry Hawkins earned his bachelor's degree from George | 12 |
| Williams College in 1956 and earned master's degrees from | 13 |
| George Williams College and Roosevelt University; in 1986, he | 14 |
| earned his doctorate degree from the University of Illinois; | 15 |
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| WHEREAS, Larry Hawkins had a long and distinguished career | 17 |
| in education; he began his career in 1956 at Carver High | 18 |
| School, where he was hired as a physical education teacher and | 19 |
| was appointed head basketball coach; going far beyond | 20 |
| basketball, he taught his students life skills and the | 21 |
| importance of getting good grades, going to college, and | 22 |
| succeeding in life; in 1963, he led the boys basketball team at |
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| Carver to the State championship, with the team's historic | 2 |
| victory marking the first time that a Chicago public school had | 3 |
| won the State championship in the New Assembly Hall; he also | 4 |
| coached volleyball at Hyde Park High School for many years | 5 |
| prior to his retirement from the Chicago Public Schools in | 6 |
| 1999; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1968, Larry Hawkins became the Director of the | 8 |
| University of Chicago's Office of Special Programs, a program | 9 |
| that encourages and assists educationally disadvantaged | 10 |
| children to succeed in elementary and high school, graduate, | 11 |
| and complete college; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, In 1972, Larry Hawkins founded the Institute for | 13 |
| Athletics and Education, a group that provides advocacy and | 14 |
| support to the community in an effort to maintain the balance | 15 |
| between sports and education in a way that enhances the | 16 |
| positive social and academic development of student athletes; | 17 |
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| WHEREAS, In 1984, Larry Hawkins became the Executive | 19 |
| Director of Big Buddies Youth Services, Inc., an organization | 20 |
| founded in 1949 to assist the community with the prevention of | 21 |
| juvenile delinquency; under Dr. Hawkins' leadership, the | 22 |
| organization expanded to provide educational, social, | 23 |
| cultural, charitable, and community services for disadvantaged |
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| youth and their families as a comprehensive approach to | 2 |
| delinquency prevention; and | 3 |
| WHEREAS, Larry Hawkins was the founder of the Parent | 4 |
| Athletic Support Team and the National Parents Committee on | 5 |
| Youth Sports; he was a member of numerous organizations, | 6 |
| including the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education | 7 |
| and Recreation, Concerned Coaches of Chicago, the Educational | 8 |
| Advisory Committee of the Urban League, the U.S. Olympic | 9 |
| Committee on Youth Identification, the Joint Committee on | 10 |
| Elementary and Secondary School Sports - State of Illinois, and | 11 |
| the First Congressional District District Council; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Larry Hawkins was the author of numerous | 13 |
| publications, including Sports Programs Should Reach Out To | 14 |
| Girls, Too (1990), Media and Sports in the Urban High School | 15 |
| (1987), Hard Times for School Sports (1986), and A Training | 16 |
| Program for Teacher/Coaches (1986); therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Dr. | 20 |
| Larry Hawkins; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Larry Hawkins as an expression |
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| of our sympathy.
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