Full Text of SR0411 97th 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 Sally Page of Peoria, who passed away on | 4 | | October 15, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, She had founding roles at Lakeview Museum, Planned | 6 | | Parenthood, the Arts and Sciences Council, the Human Service | 7 | | Center, and other central Illinois agencies and institutions; | 8 | | her community leadership spanned 7 decades, from her work | 9 | | during World War II to establish the Central Volunteer Bureau | 10 | | to her passionate support for the Riverfront Museum; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, She chaired the Lakeview Museum council's museum | 12 | | committee, led the fund drive, was president when Lakeview | 13 | | opened in 1965 and 13 years later led the fund drive to expand | 14 | | the museum; 4 decades after groundbreaking for the museum, she | 15 | | was happy to be present when the development agreement for the | 16 | | new Riverfront Museum was signed; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, She also treasured the collaboration that merged 4 | 18 | | mental health and addiction-related organizations into the | 19 | | Human Service Center in 1976; as president of the Comprehensive | 20 | | Mental Health Board in the early 1970s, she understood that | 21 | | many needing mental health treatment suffered related | 22 | | problems, such as addiction, and would fare better if cared for |
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| 1 | | under one roof; in 1986, the Human Service Center named its | 2 | | counseling family home after her; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, She was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 29, | 4 | | 1917, to Justus and Hildegard Kirby and grew up in Los Angeles; | 5 | | she graduated from Smith College and married Ted Page in 1939; | 6 | | and | 7 | | WHEREAS, While her husband served in World War II, she | 8 | | helped fill in the gaps on the home front by organizing and | 9 | | presiding over the Central Volunteer Bureau, the first of its | 10 | | kind in Peoria; she championed the establishment of a Planned | 11 | | Parenthood chapter in Peoria in the 1950s; in 1968, when a | 12 | | busing program was put in place to desegregate District 150 | 13 | | schools, she led an effort to enlist volunteer tutors to help | 14 | | struggling students in their new schools; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, She was also involved in the South Side Mission, | 16 | | Common Place, the United Way, the Junior League of Peoria, the | 17 | | Girl Scouts, Illinois Advocates of the Arts, the Lay Ministries | 18 | | Committee of the Peoria Area Council of Churches, and the First | 19 | | Baptist Church of Peoria, where she was a 72-year member; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, In 1978, she was among 11 recipients statewide of | 21 | | the inaugural Governors Award for the Arts; among her other | 22 | | awards was the YWCA Legend Award; she and her husband were the |
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| 1 | | first husband and wife team to be named Citizen of the Year by | 2 | | B'nai B'rith in 1979; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband, Ted; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Sally Page is survived by her children, Sally | 5 | | Snyder, Ted (Sally) Barrett-Page, and Susan (John) Miller; her | 6 | | 10 grandchildren; and her 11 great-grandchildren; therefore, | 7 | | be it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 9 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 | | her family and friends, the passing of Sally Page; and be it | 11 | | further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 | | presented to the family of Sally Page as a symbol of our | 14 | | sincere sympathy.
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