Full Text of SR1576 98th 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 Jacob D. "Jake" Dumelle, Lt. Cmdr. (Ret.) | 4 | | United States Navy, of Oak Park, who passed away on June 14, | 5 | | 2014; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle was born in Chicago on April 12, 1925 | 7 | | to Frank and Virginia Dumelle; he graduated from Lane Tech | 8 | | College Preparatory High School and earned his bachelor's | 9 | | degree and Master of Science in Public Engineering | 10 | | Administration at the Illinois Institute of Technology; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle was one of the original appointees to | 12 | | the Illinois Pollution Control Board in 1970; he served nearly | 13 | | 21 years, through December 1991, taking the role of chairman | 14 | | from August of 1973 until November of 1988; prior to this, he | 15 | | held village/city manager positions in Brookfield, Peoria, and | 16 | | Lebanon, New Hampshire; on the federal level, he served as | 17 | | Chief of Staff for United States Sen. Norris Cotton (New | 18 | | Hampshire) in 1960, then as a Deputy Assistant Administrator in | 19 | | the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. | 20 | | from 1962 to 1964; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle's dedication to environmental | 22 | | standards and quality of life was an ongoing force in his |
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| 1 | | career; he worked as Research Director for the Chicago | 2 | | Department of Air Pollution Control from 1961 to 1962, | 3 | | Assistant Chief Engineer for Operations of the Metropolitan | 4 | | Sanitary District of Greater Chicago in 1962 and from 1966 to | 5 | | 1968; he also directed an air pollution-land use study at the | 6 | | Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission from 1964 to 1966 and | 7 | | served as Director of the Lake Michigan Basin Office of the | 8 | | United States Federal Water Quality Administration from 1968 to | 9 | | 1970; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle appeared as an extra in many major | 11 | | movies, including Home Alone (1990) and The Fugitive (1993); in | 12 | | The Lake House (2006), filmed partly in Riverside, he spoke his | 13 | | first lines when he was cast as a concerned patient examined by | 14 | | a doctor played by Sandra Bullock; he attended the premiere in | 15 | | Los Angeles in 2006, which included attending the screening and | 16 | | walking down the red carpet; at the after-party, co-stars | 17 | | Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves offered the highest compliment | 18 | | on his performance: "You got laughs!"; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle was preceded in death by his | 20 | | brothers, Frank and Edward (the late Anne) Dumelle; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Jake Dumelle is survived by his wife, Dorothy J. | 22 | | (nee Konieczny); his children, Grace Dumelle (Walter | 23 | | Podrazik), Margo, Lili, and Christopher (Colleen) Dumelle; and |
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| 1 | | he was the papa of Cassandra and Audrey Dumelle; therefore, be | 2 | | it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 5 | | Jacob D. "Jake" Dumelle, Lt. Cmdr. (Ret.) United States Navy, | 6 | | and extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and | 7 | | all who knew and loved him; and be it further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 | | presented to the family of Jake Dumelle as an expression of our | 10 | | deepest sympathy.
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