Full Text of SR0748 96th General Assembly
SR0748 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Michael B. Ryan of Peoria, who passed | 4 |
| away on April 3, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael B. Ryan was born August 20, 1936, in | 6 |
| Chicago, to Walter J. and Mary Beecher Ryan; he married Maria | 7 |
| Chantal Wiesman on June 1, 1963, in Buffalo, New York; and
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| WHEREAS, He served as regional attorney for the National | 9 |
| Labor Relations Board Peoria Region from 1974 until his | 10 |
| retirement in 1991; he was a trial attorney in the region, | 11 |
| serving downstate Illinois and eastern Iowa from 1966-1974, and | 12 |
| served as chairman of the NLRB Regional Attorneys Guild from | 13 |
| 1982-1988; from 1968-1971, he served as president of the NLRB | 14 |
| Union, representing all agency non-supervisory employees in | 15 |
| the United States; after his retirement, he served as an | 16 |
| independent arbitrator of labor disputes; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a member of the Peoria City Planning | 18 |
| Commission from 1977-1989, serving as elected chairman of that | 19 |
| body from 1979-1989; he was also a member of the Tri-County | 20 |
| Land Use Advisory Committee; he chaired many annexation | 21 |
| hearings, and also served on several ad-hoc city commissions to | 22 |
| which he was appointed by mayors Carver, Neumiller, and Maloof; |
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| prior to his appointment to the Planning Commission, he had | 2 |
| been founder and president of the North Sterling Homeowners | 3 |
| Association; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church, | 5 |
| where he served as a member and officer on the Parish Council | 6 |
| and Parish School Board, and was a lector and Eucharistic | 7 |
| minister; he also served as a parish delegate to the Diocesan | 8 |
| Synod; for many years he served as an officer and director of | 9 |
| the Peoria Notre Dame Club, and served twice as a member of the | 10 |
| University of Notre Dame Alumni Senate; he was named Notre Dame | 11 |
| Man of the Year in 1980; and
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| WHEREAS, He received a B.S. in labor relations from | 13 |
| Manhattan College in 1957, and a doctor of jurisprudence degree | 14 |
| from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1964; he was a | 15 |
| member of the editorial board of the Law Review and a moot | 16 |
| court champion at Notre Dame; he was a White House intern in | 17 |
| the summer of 1963; and he has been included in "Who's Who in | 18 |
| America" since 1968; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, He served in the United States Army from | 20 |
| 1958-1961, including 14 months in the Korean Theater, where he | 21 |
| was an artillery forward observer; he was president of the | 22 |
| Catholic Interracial Council of Peoria, and a member of the | 23 |
| Knights of Columbus Spalding Council 427; he was very active in |
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| several Heart of Illinois United Way campaigns, chairing the | 2 |
| Combined Federal Campaign portion of that fundraising drive, | 3 |
| and serving on the coordinating committee; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, After retirement, he and his wife spent several | 5 |
| winters in their condominium in Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii; they also | 6 |
| took trips to Europe, most notably Ireland and Italy, and | 7 |
| cruises to Alaska and Central America; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael Ryan is survived by his wife, Maria; his | 9 |
| two daughters, Mary (Jeffery) Bolton and Catherine Cameron; and | 10 |
| his son, Matthew (Laura); his six grandchildren, Jasmine and | 11 |
| Jared Cameron, Jacob, Jessica, and Charles Bolton, and | 12 |
| Sebastian Ryan; his brother, Thomas (Renee); his | 13 |
| brother-in-law, Hugh Wiesman (Michaelene); his niece; and his | 14 |
| three nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 16 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 17 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Michael Ryan; and be it | 18 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to the family of Michael Ryan as a symbol of our | 21 |
| sincere sympathy.
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