Full Text of HR0903 93rd General Assembly
HR0903 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate Rabbi Meir | 4 |
| Shapiro on the occasion of his retirement after 40 years of | 5 |
| service as principal at Arie Crown Hebrew Day School; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Shapiro, the son of the late Rabbi Dr. | 7 |
| Joseph and Bluma Shapiro, was raised in Pittsburg, where his | 8 |
| father served as the revered spiritual leader of a prominent | 9 |
| synagogue; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, In addition to having earned a Master's Degree in | 11 |
| Educational Supervision, Rabbi Shapiro received his rabbinic | 12 |
| ordination in 1956, from Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky, widely | 13 |
| recognized as one of the greatest Torah scholars of the past | 14 |
| century; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Shapiro has served the students of Arie | 16 |
| Crown Hebrew Day School with devotion to the development of | 17 |
| each individual, for the past 40 years; during that time, Arie | 18 |
| Crown Hebrew Day School has tripled in size to more than 600 | 19 |
| students and become one of the most prominent and successful | 20 |
| Jewish day schools in the United States; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Rabbi Shapiro has served as a role model for the | 22 |
| intellectual, spiritual, moral, and character development of | 23 |
| his students; he has been a mentor to hundreds of teachers, and | 24 |
| has been a positive influence in the lives of thousands of | 25 |
| young Jewish men and women, many of whom have become leaders in | 26 |
| the Chicago Jewish community and beyond; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Shapiro and his wife, Elizabeth Fischer | 28 |
| Shapiro, have 2 children, Leah and Hillel, who both attended | 29 |
| and graduated from Arie Crown Hebrew Day School; Rabbi and Mrs. | 30 |
| Shapiro are the proud grandparents of 13 children; and |
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Shapiro served Arie Crown Hebrew Day School | 2 |
| as an involved parent, rising through the ranks to serve as | 3 |
| president of the Parent Teacher Association, and she has also | 4 |
| served for many years as the supervisor of early childhood | 5 |
| education for the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, On Sunday, June 6, 2004, Rabbi and Mrs. Shapiro | 7 |
| will be honored by those whose lives he has touched, and who | 8 |
| will be forever grateful for his special and lifelong | 9 |
| dedication to education, with a banquet and other festivities; | 10 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 |
| congratulate Rabbi Meir Shapiro on the occasion of his | 14 |
| retirement after 40 years of dedicated service as principal at | 15 |
| Arie Crown Hebrew Day School; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to Rabbi Meir Shapiro as an expression of our respect | 18 |
| and esteem.
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