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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives wish
3 to honor Augustine Lehmann upon her retirement from the
4 University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; and
5 WHEREAS, Augie Lehmann began her employment with the
6 University of Chicago at the age of fourteen; she worked
7 first with the Albert Merritt Billings Hospital Dietary
8 Department; initially she had been told that there were no
9 openings, but was called back by the dietitian, Miss Ella
10 Eck, who put Augie on a swing rotation from the diet kitchen
11 to the main kitchen and the cafeteria; her first year she
12 worked 20 hours a week, earning 78 cents an hour; and
13 WHEREAS, Augie graduated from high school and Peters
14 Business College; she worked for private industry before
15 returning to the University of Chicago to begin her work
16 within the secretarial sciences; and
17 WHEREAS, Augie furthered her career at the University of
18 Chicago by working within many different areas of the
19 University; she worked within the Education Department, the
20 Enrico Fermi Institute, the Sociology Department (within the
21 Center for Urban Studies), the Physics Department, the
22 History Department, the Pediatrics Department's Hematology
23 Section, and the Woodlawn Maternal and Child Health Center;
24 Augie also served as Vice President for the EEO and
25 Affirmative Action Sponsored Programs; and
26 WHEREAS, Augie has had an interesting life as a part of
27 the University of Chicago; she worked as an independent free
28 lance typist while on maternity leaves; at one time she was
29 at the campus to pick up a check when students, in the middle
30 of a riot to protest the Kent State College uprising, seized
31 the Administration Building; Augie attempted to pick-up her
32 check, but her check remained upstairs; and
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1 WHEREAS, Augie is the Artistic Director of the
2 Afro-American Playwrights Inventive Theatrical Troupes
3 Workshop (PITTinc) as well as the Director of the Abbott Park
4 Society of Artists' Park Poets; Augie has helped in the
5 establishment of the International Black Writer's Conference
6 and the Trinity Church Fine Arts/Literary Guild black history
7 project; and
8 WHEREAS, Augie made the decision to work at the
9 University of Chicago thirty-seven years ago to be around
10 people with whom she enjoyed working; as a poet and author,
11 Augie felt the need to be around people who could critique
12 her work; Augie is a storyteller who holds storytelling
13 sessions and readings of her poetry in Abbott Park and the
14 Discovery Center, where she is an artist in residence; Augie
15 credits God's blessing for her career at the University of
16 Chicago, and is looking forward to her future along with her
17 husband John Lehmann and her three daughters Carol, Janice,
18 and Gail; therefore, be it
19 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
20 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
21 commend Augustine "Augie" Lehmann as she retires from the
22 University of Chicago, a place she has called home for
23 thirty-seven years; and be it further
24 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
25 presented to Augustine Lehmann of Chicago, Illinois.