HR0961 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to congratulate Dr. Sandra Bury, an Oak Lawn optometrist, on being recognized as the 2004 "Young Optometrist of the Year" by the American Optometric Association; and

WHEREAS, Since her graduation from the Illinois College of Optometry in 1995, Dr. Bury has accepted leadership responsibility in her professional organization, the Illinois Optometric Association; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Bury's activities involve the Oak Lawn Rotary Club, the Illinois Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) Illinois Chapter, and many board memberships; she was awarded the prestigious Paul Harris Fellow award for her leadership and volunteer service in the Oak Lawn Rotary Club; the Rotary Club is dedicated to providing services in the community, state, nation, and the world to those in need; and

WHEREAS, In her service to humanity through VOSH, Dr. Bury has been to six foreign countries as a volunteer optometrist, paying her own expenses to examine the eyes of the poor; her trips include leading a mission to Nicaragua, and co-leading missions to Peru and Lithuania; the mission leader must make all physical arrangements in the host country and recruit all personnel, including other optometrists and support persons as well as supervise the collection and packing of eight to ten thousand pairs of used eye glasses; she has also been to Mexico, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic; each VOSH mission usually examines 1,500 to 2,000 persons; she and her associate in practice, Dr. Floyd Woods, traveled to Lithuania and were doing examinations on 9/11/01; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Bury currently participates in several domestic missions throughout Chicagoland and established a mission in her hometown to examine the eyes of the homeless through the PADS program; and

WHEREAS, She is currently President of the South Suburban Optometric Society of the Illinois Optometric Association; during her presidency she has helped, with the assistance of the West Suburban Optometric society, to charter a new optometric society in the Joliet area; this is the first new optometric society to be organized in Illinois in many years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Bury is a member of the Professional Advisory Council of the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually impaired; and Prevent Blindness America recognized Dr. Bury with a "Woman of Vision Award" in 2002; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Bury has assembled a wonderful staff of highly trained, capable technicians, receptionists, and opticians to assist her in her private practice of optometry; without her skilled staff, Dr. Bury would not be able to accomplish the recognition she has earned; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Bury will be recognized for her achievements at the annual meeting of the American Optometric Association in Orlando, Florida on June 24th, 2004; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Dr. Sandra Bury on being recognized as the 2004 "Young Optometrist of the Year" and recognize all her hard work and dedication; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Dr. Sandra Bury as an expression of our respect and esteem.