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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Centralia, Illinois is the home of the Centralia
3 Hall of Fame; every year, distinguished members of the
4 community are honored with induction into the Hall of Fame;
5 one inductee is the late Lewis Van Haney; and
6 WHEREAS, Lewis Van Haney was born in Centralia, Illinois
7 on June 14, 1920; Lewis Van Haney came from a musical family;
8 His father was a railroad engineer and a country fiddler, his
9 mother was a singer, and his older brother played the
10 trombone; by the age of ten, Lewis had started studying the
11 trombone, and went on to win the State trombone solo
12 competition his junior year of high school; Lewis Van Haney
13 went on to study at the National Music Camp at Interlochen,
14 Michigan; and
15 WHEREAS, Lewis Van Haney met and studied with Emory
16 Remington while at the National Music Camp; he went on to the
17 Eastman School of Music and received his Bachelor of Music
18 there; while serving in the armed forces, Lewis Van Haney
19 served as bass trombonist for the United States Army Band, as
20 well as two years overseas in Europe; and
21 WHEREAS, Upon his return to the United States, Lewis Van
22 Haney accepted the position of second trombone with the New
23 York Philharmonic, where he spent the next seventeen years;
24 on September 22, 1951, Slyvia Jacobsen became Mrs. Lewis Van
25 Haney; together they raised two children, Franklin and
26 Vanessa; and
27 WHEREAS, Lewis Van Haney moved on to a career as a music
28 teacher; he taught at Columbia Teachers College, the Henry
29 Street Settlement School, Indiana University, the Music
30 Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and as a
31 visiting faculty member at the University of Southern
32 California; and
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1 WHEREAS, Lewis Van Haney spent his final years in Tucson,
2 Arizona; he played for two seasons with the Tucson Symphony
3 and for one season with the Arizona Opera Company; therefore,
4 be it
5 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
7 salute Lewis Van Haney on his induction into the Centralia
8 Hall of Fame; and be it further
9 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
10 presented to the family of Lewis Van Haney.