Full Text of HR0944 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Mark H. | 4 | | Ayers of Alexandria, Virginia, formerly of Peoria, who passed | 5 | | away on April 8, 2012; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, He was born on January 22, 1949, in Canton, to | 7 | | Edward Charles Ayers and Daunie Darlene Hawks Ayers; he married | 8 | | Deborah Selburg in Peoria, on May 24, 1998; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Mark H. Ayers was President of the Building and | 10 | | Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO; prior to becoming | 11 | | President of the BCTD, he served for 9 years as the director of | 12 | | the Construction and Maintenance Department at the | 13 | | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); he was | 14 | | also a member of IBEW Local 34 in Peoria, since 1973, which he | 15 | | headed as business manager for 9 years; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, He was co-founder and chairman of the Central | 17 | | Illinois Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors | 18 | | Association-IBEW Local 34 Quality Connection; he was appointed | 19 | | to the National Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee; he | 20 | | served as a trustee and chairman of the NECA-IBEW Welfare and | 21 | | Pension Trust Funds; and he was a member of the board and on | 22 | | the executive committee of the Peoria Area Labor Management |
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| 1 | | Council and the Labor Management Cooperative Health Program; | 2 | | and | 3 | | WHEREAS, During his years with Local 34 and the | 4 | | West-Central Illinois Building and Construction Trades | 5 | | Council, he also served on the Board of Directors of the Peoria | 6 | | Chapter of the American Red Cross, and was appointed by the | 7 | | Mayor of the City of Peoria to serve on the Peoria Civic Center | 8 | | Authority; he worked with the Junior League of Peoria to build | 9 | | the Tri-Centennial Playground in Glen Oak Park commemorating | 10 | | the 300th birthday of the founding of Peoria; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, He was also instrumental in organizing 2 major | 12 | | Labor Management committees in the Peoria area, including the | 13 | | Peoria Area Labor Management (PALM) group which brought all | 14 | | area unions and companies together including Caterpillar and | 15 | | the UAW, and the Tri-County Construction labor management | 16 | | committee, which brings all the building trades unions and | 17 | | their respective contractors and associations together in a | 18 | | positive Labor-Management setting; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, He attended the George Meany Institute for Labor | 20 | | Studies, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of | 21 | | Illinois Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations; he also | 22 | | served in the United States Navy as an aviator during the | 23 | | Vietnam war era, and his commitment and devotion to our |
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| 1 | | nation's military veterans was amplified through his direct | 2 | | involvement with the "Helmets to Hardhats" program, serving as | 3 | | president of the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council and through his | 4 | | support of the Education Center of the Vietnam Veterans | 5 | | Memorial Fund; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, He was appointed by President Barack Obama to | 7 | | serve on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear | 8 | | Future; he also served as chairman of the National Coordinating | 9 | | Committee for Multi Employer Plans and on the Board of | 10 | | Directors of the Diabetes Research Institute; he was | 11 | | Secretary-Treasurer of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company | 12 | | and a Chairman of the Center for Construction Education and | 13 | | Research CPWR; he was on the Board of Trustees for the AFL-CIO | 14 | | Housing Investment Trust and was Labor Co-Chair for the Helmets | 15 | | to Hardhats Program; he served on the Board of Directors of the | 16 | | Nuclear Energy Institute and on the Board of Trustees of the | 17 | | National Labor College; and he was on the Board of Directors of | 18 | | the Elderly Housing Development and Operations Corporation | 19 | | (EHDOC); and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his father, Edward | 21 | | Charles Ayers; and his stepfather, John Taylor; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Mark Ayers is survived by his wife, Deborah | 23 | | Selburg Ayers; his mother, Daunie Hawks Ayers Taylor; his |
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| 1 | | brother, Edward Kent (Nancy) Ayers; his daughters, Aimee Ayers | 2 | | (Bill) Mansfield and Tami (Bill) Lamprecht; his grandchildren, | 3 | | Carlee, Porter, Brenin, Tatym, Taryn, and Taylor; and several | 4 | | nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 7 | | we mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of | 8 | | Mark Ayers; and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the family of Mark Ayers as a symbol of our | 11 | | sincere sympathy.
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