Full Text of SR1536 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Gene Ruoff, who passed away on January 4, | 4 | | 2020 at the age of 80; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was born to Robert G. Ruoff and Thelma | 6 | | L. O'Hara Ruoff on July 23, 1939; he was raised in Paducah, | 7 | | Kentucky; he earned his bachelor's degree from Centre College | 8 | | in Danville, Kentucky in 1961; he obtained his Master of | 9 | | Science in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in | 10 | | 1963; he married A. LaVonne Brown in 1967; together, they | 11 | | primarily lived in Oak Park and Glen Ellyn; he adopted her | 12 | | children, Stephen Charles and Sharon Louise; he earned his | 13 | | Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in | 14 | | 1970; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was a faculty member and former | 16 | | administrator at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he | 17 | | directed the UIC Institute for the Humanities, where he | 18 | | mentored the fellows and organized programs; he also led summer | 19 | | institutes for high-school teachers, including Jane Austen: | 20 | | The Society and the Self, Jane Addams's Hull House Humanities | 21 | | Program, The Romantics and Us, and Literature in an Age of | 22 | | Revolutions; he became an associate vice chancellor in 1994; he | 23 | | served as associate provost and special assistant to the |
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| 1 | | chancellor for Information and Management Systems from 1996 | 2 | | until his retirement in 2009; in this position, he supervised | 3 | | UIC's computer system and coordinated UIC's collaboration with | 4 | | the Urbana-Champaign and Springfield campuses to create a | 5 | | unified computer system; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff was a prolific writer and a scholar of | 7 | | English romantic literature; in 1989, he wrote Wordsworth and | 8 | | Coleridge: The Making of the Major Lyrics, 1801-04; in 1991, he | 9 | | covered Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; he also edited a | 10 | | number of critical essay collections; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Over a 31 year period, Gene Ruoff and his wife | 12 | | passionately restored their 1893 three-story Victorian home, | 13 | | which became part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Plus tour of Oak | 14 | | Park; for this work, they received a State of Illinois | 15 | | Restoration Grant and were awarded a prize for interior | 16 | | decoration by the Historical Society of Oak Park; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Gene Ruoff is survived by his brothers, Robert A. | 18 | | Ruoff and Charles O. Ruoff; his sister-in-law, Suzanne Brown; | 19 | | and his daughter-in-law, Cheryl Moffitt Ruoff; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 21 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 22 | | Gene Ruoff and extend our sincere condolences to his family, |
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| 1 | | friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it further
| 2 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 | | presented to the family of Gene Ruoff as an expression of our | 4 | | deepest sympathy.
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