Full Text of SR0957 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are deeply | 3 | | saddened to learn of the death of Robert W. "Rob" Pullen of | 4 | | Naperville, who passed away on July 2, 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Robert Pullen was born on May 29, 1962, in Oak | 6 | | Lawn to Robert and Mary Kay Pullen; he married Dawn Amendola on | 7 | | September 16, 1988; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Robert Pullen was a parishioner and student at Our | 9 | | Lady of Ransom in Niles; he graduated from Maine East High | 10 | | School in Park Ridge in 1980; he earned a Bachelor of Science | 11 | | in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis in Physics, from | 12 | | the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he played | 13 | | 4 years as the starting shortstop for the university's baseball | 14 | | team; in 1993, he earned his MBA in management from | 15 | | Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Rob Pullen joined Tellabs, Inc. in 1985, as an | 17 | | electrical engineer; he worked his way up to become the Chief | 18 | | Executive Officer in 2008, after holding jobs in development, | 19 | | sales, marketing, and services; he reached the position of CEO | 20 | | and President and was a member of the Board of Directors; he | 21 | | served as the chairman emeritus of the executive board for the | 22 | | Telecommunications Industry Association and was a former |
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Rob Pullen was a member of SS. Peter & Paul | 3 | | Catholic Church in Naperville; he coached soccer, basketball, | 4 | | and baseball, helping children to excel in everything they did; | 5 | | he coached his son Brendan's Naperville Little League Cardinals | 6 | | to win the city championship in 2007, and he coached the | 7 | | Naperville White Sox Travel Baseball Team; he enjoyed traveling | 8 | | the world along with boating, water and snow skiing, | 9 | | snowmobiling, and spending time with his family at their lake | 10 | | house in Green Lake, Wisconsin; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Robert Pullen is survived by his wife Dawn Pullen; | 12 | | his children, Brittany and Brendan Pullen; his parents, Robert | 13 | | and Mary Kay (nee Nolan) Pullen; his siblings, Jim (Kim) | 14 | | Pullen, Sharon Varco, Jack Pullen, and Mike (Lisa) Pullen; his | 15 | | in-laws, Keith (Mary) Amendola, Craig (Diane) Amendola, and | 16 | | Krista (Dan Fagan) Amendola; and his 18 nieces and nephews; | 17 | | therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 19 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 20 | | Robert Pullen, and we extend our sincere condolences to his | 21 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 22 | | further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to the family of Robert Pullen as an expression of | 3 | | our deepest sympathy.
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