Full Text of HR1175 93rd General Assembly
HR1175 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives wish | 3 |
| to congratulate the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago on the | 4 |
| occasion of the dedication of Fred C. Matthews III Senior | 5 |
| Housing Center; and
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| WHEREAS, The building, dedicated on September 10, 2004, is | 7 |
| named for the Association's Senior Vice President of Company | 8 |
| Relations and is a tribute to Fred C. Matthews III's 38 years | 9 |
| of service to the YMCA and Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, The Fred C. Matthews III building will provide 60 | 11 |
| accessible, affordable apartments for persons over 62 years of | 12 |
| age; each apartment will consist of a living-dining room area, | 13 |
| a bedroom with closets, a kitchen, and a private bath; all | 14 |
| apartments will be fully accessible for persons with | 15 |
| disabilities, and the first floor of each building will have | 16 |
| meeting rooms with warming kitchens, a lounge area with an | 17 |
| entertainment center, a craft room, a library, and a computer | 18 |
| room with four computers; full-time social service | 19 |
| coordinators will assist residents on site, and free YMCA | 20 |
| membership will be provided to each resident; and
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| WHEREAS, Fred C. Matthews III began his YMCA career in 1966 | 22 |
| in the JOBS Program (Job Opportunity through Better Skills); in | 23 |
| 1971, at the age of 29, he became the youngest District | 24 |
| Director in the history of YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, with | 25 |
| responsibility for 16 YMCA centers in the south district; he is | 26 |
| a co-founder of West Side Future, YMCA, the Associations's | 27 |
| infant mortality reduction initiative, which has contributed | 28 |
| to dramatic decreases in infant mortality since its inception | 29 |
| more than 20 years ago; he became Executive Director of the | 30 |
| Duncan YMCA in 1985 and became Vice President and a member of | 31 |
| the corporate staff of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago in | 32 |
| 1990; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Matthews has been a long-time patron of the | 2 |
| arts, and his work has led to the creation and growth of the | 3 |
| first YMCA in the country dedicated to the performing arts, | 4 |
| Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts; he also co-created the | 5 |
| Chicago YMCA's Black and Hispanic Achievers Program to foster | 6 |
| leadership and mentoring among area teens; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Matthews' involvement in the life of Chicago | 8 |
| has stretched beyond the YMCA; in addition to his service as an | 9 |
| assistant treasurer of the Illinois Arts Alliance's Board of | 10 |
| Directors, he is a member of the Chicago Department of Human | 11 |
| Services' Committee on Urban Opportunity Advisory Board, 100 | 12 |
| Black Men, Inc., The Chicago Urban League, the NAACP, Rainbow | 13 |
| PUSH, and the Original Forty Club; he is also a trustee of | 14 |
| Grant Memorial AME Church in Chicago and a member of the Grant | 15 |
| Men's Club; he teaches Sunday school, and in 1999, he chaired | 16 |
| the church's 85th Anniversary Celebration; his leadership as | 17 |
| Secretary of Grant Memorial Housing and Economic Development | 18 |
| Corporation and President of the Grant Village Corporation has | 19 |
| led to the development of Grant Village, an 80-unit senior | 20 |
| housing complex on South Drexel Boulevard, as well as the | 21 |
| rehabilitation of 66 housing units in the community surrounding | 22 |
| the church; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Matthews graduated from Southern University | 24 |
| in 1962 with a B.A. in sociology; while there, he was | 25 |
| commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army | 26 |
| and was listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges | 27 |
| and Universities; he served one year of his military duty in | 28 |
| Korea and completed his military service as an Army Captain in | 29 |
| 1965; he is a lifetime member of the Southern University Alumni | 30 |
| Association and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and is active in the | 31 |
| Chicago chapter of the Southern University Alumni Association | 32 |
| and the Chicago Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity; | 33 |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Matthews and his wife of 41 years, the former | 2 |
| Roslyn Nix, have two daughters, Genease Dionne Matthews and | 3 |
| Rhonda Matthews McMillan; they have one grandchild, Rayne Alexa | 4 |
| McMillan; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 7 |
| congratulate the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago on the occasion | 8 |
| of the dedication of the Fred C. Matthews III Senior Housing | 9 |
| Center, and we thank Mr. Matthews for his extensive work at the | 10 |
| YMCA and in Chicago; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and to Mr. Fred | 13 |
| C. Matthews III.
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