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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to recognize citizens who have
4 made outstanding contributions to their community and their
5 state; and
 
6     WHEREAS, For the past 43 years, Janet Ruth (Akers)
7 Bollheimer has been an educator in the State of Illinois; and
 
8     WHEREAS, She graduated from Southern Illinois University
9 in Carbondale in 1963 with a major in home economics; she
10 married Phil Bollheimer in June of 1964, and they have one
11 child, Eddie Bollheimer, and five grandchildren; and
 
12     WHEREAS, She began her teaching career in the fall of 1963
13 at Wesclin High School in Trenton; she taught home economics at
14 Trenton until 1967; she also taught one year of fourth and
15 fifth grade science and health in addition to her Home
16 Economics classes; and
 
17     WHEREAS, When her husband was drafted into the U.S. Army
18 and sent to Germany, she went with him and taught in the
19 Department of Defense Schools in Kaiserslaturn, Germany, from
20 1968 through 1969, first as a special education teacher and
21 then as a second grade teacher; and
 
22     WHEREAS, Returning to the United States while her husband
23 served in VietNam, she taught fourth grade for a year at Pugh
24 School in Decatur; it happened to be the same school her
25 husband had attended in fourth grade and her co-teacher that
26 year was her husband's former fourth grade teacher; and
 
27     WHEREAS, After her husband finished his tour in the Army
28 they moved to Aviston, where they live today; she taught in the
29 Aviston High School as their home economics teacher until she

 

 

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1 retired in 1993 after logging 30 years in the teaching
2 profession; one of the highlights of her teaching career at
3 Aviston was successfully encouraging guys to join her food
4 classes; and
 
5     WHEREAS, After Mrs. Bollheimer retired in 1993 from Aviston
6 High School, she went on to become the Even Start coordinator
7 at the Carlyle Pre-K Program from 1993 to 2000; Even Start
8 provides high quality literacy programs throughout all 50
9 states; she began working part-time with Kaskaskia Community
10 college as the Extension Center Coordinator at Central High
11 School, and then at Wesclin High School, and finally in several
12 grade schools in western Clinton County; she continued in that
13 position until 2000; and
 
14     WHEREAS, In 1998, she proposed that a full-time Kaskaskia
15 College Attendance Center be created in Trenton; thanks to her
16 foresight, the Trenton Attendance Center became a reality and
17 now makes it possible for more students in that area to further
18 their education; and
 
19     WHEREAS, In 2000, she began working at Kaskaskia College
20 full-time, where she continues today; during her first two
21 years at Kaskaskia, she matched tutors to learners for the
22 community literacy program in Centralia; she also worked at
23 night with family literacy programs at Central City, Breese,
24 and Damiansville; and
 
25     WHEREAS, For the past three years she has been the Even
26 Start Coordinator at Kaskaskia College Centralia and works with
27 teen moms and their children, teaching GED and parenting; and
 
28     WHEREAS, Mrs. Bollheimer is retiring on June 30, 2006,
29 after 43 years of selfless service devoted to education;
30 besides being a loving parent and grandparent, she enjoys
31 gardening, doing creative projects, and traveling; therefore,

 

 

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1 be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
4 we honor Janet Ruth (Akers) Bollheimer for her many years of
5 service to the State as a devoted educator, providing service
6 to our most important citizens, our children; and be it further
 
7     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 presented to Mrs. Bollheimer as an expression of our respect
9 and esteem.