Full Text of HR1304 93rd General Assembly
HR1304 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with regret of the death of Dr. | 4 |
| Howard Moltz on Friday, November 26, 2004; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Born in the Bronx, Dr. Moltz met his wife, | 6 |
| Marilyn, when he was 13 years old and she was a year younger; | 7 |
| they married in 1948; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, He valiantly served his country as a member of the | 9 |
| U.S. Navy, joining in 1945; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Moltz graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in | 11 |
| philosophy and psychology from New York University in 1949 and | 12 |
| continued his studies there, earning a PhD in 1953; he was a | 13 |
| faculty member at Brooklyn College until 1970, when he joined | 14 |
| the University of Chicago's psychology faculty as a | 15 |
| biopsychology professor; he served as the department chair | 16 |
| until 1973; he later added Jewish studies to the classes that | 17 |
| he taught and was a fellow of the American Association for the | 18 |
| Advancement of Science; he served as president of the | 19 |
| International Society for Developmental Psychology; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, The bulk of the New York native's work centered on | 21 |
| the sexual and parental behavior of rats; one of the highlights | 22 |
| of Mr. Moltz's career included his discovery of the maternal | 23 |
| pheromones used by female rats to attract their nursing babies | 24 |
| and protect them from disease during weaning; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, Although his interests led him to conduct | 26 |
| wide-ranging research, his work was always concerned with the | 27 |
| connection between the mind and body; late in his career, he | 28 |
| joined research into understanding the origins and nature of | 29 |
| homosexuality; his findings, which showed that male sexual | 30 |
| orientation appears to be connected to brain metabolism, were |
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| published in the Brain Research journal this fall after he and | 2 |
| fellow scientists unveiled the study at the Society for | 3 |
| Neuroscience conference in New Orleans last year; the | 4 |
| breakthrough research used high-tech imaging to show that the | 5 |
| hypothalamus, the area of the brain that regulates the sex | 6 |
| drive, functions differently in gay and straight men; and
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| WHEREAS, To his colleagues, Dr. Moltz was a researcher of | 8 |
| extremely high standards who readily imparted that precision to | 9 |
| his students; he loved good writing and words; his wit and | 10 |
| compassion, usually conveyed through his writing, could bring | 11 |
| laughter and a tear to the eye; he always treated his students | 12 |
| as equals, asking them to refrain from calling him "doctor"; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Moltz was the heart and soul of the | 15 |
| interdisciplinary faculty lunch group at the University's | 16 |
| Quadrangle Club round table; his insatiable and wide-ranging | 17 |
| curiosity, his perceptive insights, and his wealth of knowledge | 18 |
| kept his colleagues on their toes - and often well beyond the | 19 |
| lunch hour; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Dr. Howard Moltz has been deeply | 21 |
| felt by many, especially his wife, Marilyn; his daughters, | 22 |
| Erica Moltz (Russ Kinner), Lauren Moltz (John Clement), and | 23 |
| Marci Malter (Norman Malter); his brother, Alan; and his seven | 24 |
| grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 26 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 27 |
| mourn the passing of Dr. Howard Moltz, and we offer our deepest | 28 |
| sympathy to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 29 |
| him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 31 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Moltz as an expression of our |
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| sincere condolences.
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