Full Text of HR1368 95th General Assembly
HR1368 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Fr. Robert Carroll | 4 |
| on the occasion of his retirement as principal of Carmel | 5 |
| Catholic High School in Mundelein in June of 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Fr. Robert Carroll graduated from Mt. Carmel | 7 |
| College in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in 1966, receiving | 8 |
| his bachelor's degree in philosophy; he participated in | 9 |
| graduate studies in theology at Whitefriars Hall in Washington, | 10 |
| D.C. in 1966 through 1967 and at the Washington Theological | 11 |
| Union in the fall of 1969 through the spring of 1972; he was | 12 |
| ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in May of | 13 |
| 1971; and
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| WHEREAS, Fr. Robert Carroll began his career in teaching in | 15 |
| an interim internship at Mt. Carmel High School in Chicago | 16 |
| during the 1967-68 and 1968-69 school years, teaching advanced | 17 |
| algebra and European history; he continued taking graduate | 18 |
| classes at Georgetown University and DePaul University during | 19 |
| this time; from the fall of 1972 until the spring of 1979, he | 20 |
| served again at Mt. Carmel as a calculus and German III-IV | 21 |
| teacher; he also taught a two year sequence of cross-discipline | 22 |
| courses known as philosophical literature and a number of | 23 |
| theology courses; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1980, Fr. Robert Carroll assumed the office of | 2 |
| Principal at Mt. Carmel High School; over the following 10 | 3 |
| years, he oversaw the development and growth in the school's | 4 |
| financial support, academic accomplishment, athletic success, | 5 |
| and spiritual formation; he also received his M.Ed. in | 6 |
| administration from Loyola University during this time; under | 7 |
| Fr. Carroll's leadership, Mt. Carmel was one of 60 private | 8 |
| schools to be given the Exemplary Private School status in the | 9 |
| first ever selection of private schools by the United States | 10 |
| Department of Education in 1984; a year later, Mt. Carmel was | 11 |
| rated in the top 5 best schools in the Chicago area by ABC TV; | 12 |
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| WHEREAS, In 1990, Fr. Robert Carroll traveled to Israel for | 14 |
| a semester study program in Biblical Spirituality with the | 15 |
| Catholic Theological Union and completed their certificate of | 16 |
| advanced studies in the spring semester at the home campus at | 17 |
| Hyde Park; in the fall of 1991, while continuing to teach part | 18 |
| time at Mt. Carmel, he began Ph.D. coursework at Loyola | 19 |
| University in the area of educational leadership and policy | 20 |
| studies, which would lead to his Ph.D. degree in May of 1999; | 21 |
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| WHEREAS, In the fall of 1994, Fr. Robert Carroll took over | 23 |
| the position of Principal at Carmel Catholic High School in |
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| Mundelein, a position he remained in until his retirement; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, Under Fr. Robert Carroll's leadership, Carmel | 3 |
| Catholic High School earned three of its four U.S. Department | 4 |
| of Education No Child Left Behind Ribbon awards in 1996, 2002, | 5 |
| and 2007; only five high schools in the nation have earned as | 6 |
| many blue ribbons as Carmel Catholic, due in large part to | 7 |
| Reverend Carroll's great leadership; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Fr. Robert Carroll supervised Carmel Catholic | 9 |
| High School being placed in the top 50 Catholic high schools in | 10 |
| the Catholic High School Honor Roll in 2004, as well as its | 11 |
| placement in the top 20 Catholic high schools in the Catholic | 12 |
| High School Honor Roll on the basis of Catholic Identity; he | 13 |
| also supervised Carmel Catholic being honored as one of three | 14 |
| Catholic high schools in 2006 by Today's Catholic Teacher | 15 |
| magazine for its "Innovations in Catholic Identity"; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, Fr. Robert Carroll served as a probation manager | 17 |
| for the Chicago Board of Education Office of Accountability, | 18 |
| where he implemented improvement plans in two large urban | 19 |
| public schools; he also responded to Chicago Public School | 20 |
| Board of Education and to Superintendent Paul Vallas to | 21 |
| supervise failing Chicago Public Schools from 1996 to 2002, in | 22 |
| which he guided three high schools and one grade school to be | 23 |
| removed from the probation list; and |
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| WHEREAS, Fr. Robert Carroll's enthusiasm, love for life, | 2 |
| great sense of humor, and great ability to engage students will | 3 |
| be greatly missed by the students, faculty, and staff of Carmel | 4 |
| Catholic High School; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 7 |
| congratulate Fr. Robert Carroll on the occasion of his | 8 |
| retirement and wish him continued success and happiness in the | 9 |
| future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 |
| presented to Fr. Robert Carroll as a symbol of our esteem and | 12 |
| respect.
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