Full Text of HR0320 94th General Assembly
HR0320 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce has named | 3 |
| Philip "Mike" Beard as its 2005 Citizen of the Year; and
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| WHEREAS, The award will be presented at the Jefferson | 5 |
| County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner on Friday, April 15, | 6 |
| 2005, at the Holiday Inn in Mt. Vernon; and
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| WHEREAS, Originally from southeast Missouri, Mr. Beard | 8 |
| grew up in Dexter, Missouri; after graduating from Bloomfield | 9 |
| High School in 1964, he attended college; in 1966, he was | 10 |
| drafted into the U.S. Army and served until 1968; after being | 11 |
| discharged from the military, he returned to college and, in | 12 |
| 1972, graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in | 13 |
| Cape Girardeau, Missouri, with a Bachelor of Science degree in | 14 |
| Secondary Education; and
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| WHEREAS, His first job out of college was at Mingo Job | 16 |
| Corp., in Puxico, Missouri, where he taught Driver Education | 17 |
| and Remedial Reading; two years later, he entered the insurance | 18 |
| industry, going to work with Farmers insurance Group as a | 19 |
| claims adjuster; on May 1, 2004, he celebrated 30 years in the | 20 |
| insurance industry; during those 30 years, he has worked in | 21 |
| numerous facets of the insurance industry; he and his wife, | 22 |
| along with two others partners, opened the Insurance Store | 23 |
| Regional Agency, Inc., in Mt. Vernon on August 1, 1998; Mr. | 24 |
| Beard and his wife bought the agency in June of 2000 and the | 25 |
| independent insurance agency, now known as Brooke Insurance, is | 26 |
| in its sixth year and represents numerous financially strong, | 27 |
| nationally known, insurance companies; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Beard and his wife of 34 years, Sharon, have | 29 |
| two daughters, Sarah (husband Byron) and Stefanie (husband | 30 |
| Jason), and four grandchildren, Grant, Kennedy, Jakob, and | 31 |
| Caden; and
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| WHEREAS, He and his wife are both members of the First | 2 |
| United Methodist Church; Mr. Beard has served as the | 3 |
| Chairperson of the Church Administrative Board, the Finance | 4 |
| Committee, and was a member of their remodeling committee; he | 5 |
| has served on the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce board, | 6 |
| has chaired numerous committees, and was President in | 7 |
| 2002-2003; he presently is a member of the Chamber's Past | 8 |
| Presidents and Internal Affairs committees; and
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| WHEREAS, An active member of the Mt. Vernon Rotary Club, | 10 |
| Mr. Beard served as its President in 1999-2000; he then served | 11 |
| as an Assistant District Governor for Southern Illinois Rotary | 12 |
| Clubs from 2000-2003; he is also a member of the Mt. Vernon | 13 |
| Elks Lodge #819, on the Board of Directors of the Downtown | 14 |
| Development Corporation where he serves as the Vice-President | 15 |
| of the Promotions committee, was recently recognized by the | 16 |
| Register-News as one of the Jefferson Counties 100 All-Stars | 17 |
| 2004, and was the Chairperson for the 2004 Jefferson County | 18 |
| United Way Campaign; he was also a
member of the Mt. Vernon | 19 |
| Vision 2008 committee; and
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| WHEREAS, Professionally, Mr. Beard is a member of the | 21 |
| Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois and | 22 |
| Independent Insurance Agents of America, and is active with | 23 |
| their Political Action Committees on the State and National | 24 |
| level;
his greatest professional award came in 1994 when he | 25 |
| received the John Edward Hutton Award; the award was presented | 26 |
| to him by his employer, Farmers Insurance Group, for his | 27 |
| outstanding accomplishments as a scholar, his leadership in the | 28 |
| field of insurance education, and for his continuing | 29 |
| encouragement and assistance to others in their pursuit of | 30 |
| professional excellence; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 32 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we commend Philip "Mike" Beard on being named as the 2005 | 2 |
| Citizen of the Year by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce | 3 |
| and thank him for his community-enriching contributions; and be | 4 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to Mike Beard as an expression of our congratulations | 7 |
| and best wishes for continued success.
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