Full Text of SR2036 99th 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 Henry Beall Sinclair of Peoria, who | 4 | | passed away on April 21, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair was born on January 11, 1930 in St. | 6 | | Louis, Missouri; his parents were Ida Lowry Sinclair and | 7 | | Salomon S. Sinclair; he married Dorothy Boyd in April of 1955 | 8 | | in St. Louis, Missouri; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair graduated with a Bachelor of | 10 | | Science from the College of Chemistry at the University of | 11 | | California in Berkeley in 1952; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair worked at Mallinckrodt Chemical | 13 | | Works in St. Louis, Missouri, where he met his future wife; the | 14 | | couple later moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned | 15 | | his Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry in 1959 from the | 16 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, | 17 | | Massachusetts; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute | 19 | | of Technology, Henry Sinclair and his family moved to | 20 | | Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked at Proctor & Gamble as a | 21 | | chemist; in 1963, he accepted a position at the "Ag Lab" in |
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| 1 | | Peoria with the United States Department of Agriculture, where | 2 | | he remained employed until he took early retirement in the | 3 | | 1990s; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In the mid-1960s Henry Sinclair began his lifelong | 5 | | commitment to the Boy Scouts of America, W. D. Boyce Council; | 6 | | he served as a scout leader at Kellar School Boy Scout Troop | 7 | | 304 for 15 years; while involved in scouting, he attended three | 8 | | National Jamborees, numerous camps at Philmont Scout Ranch in | 9 | | New Mexico, and many international scouting events; he attended | 10 | | many canoe outings throughout Illinois; he devoted his time to | 11 | | countless troop meetings, camping, hiking, and cooking events | 12 | | at Camp Wokanda, and Wood Badge basics classes; at the age of | 13 | | 78, he was still volunteering to review submission papers from | 14 | | older scouts seeking the rank of Eagle Scout; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, After retiring from the Ag Lab and through a | 16 | | lifetime scouting friendship that evolved, Henry Sinclair and | 17 | | his wife traveled extensively with his friends, Jack and JoAnne | 18 | | Dennis; they visited historical locations throughout the | 19 | | United States and the world for 15 years; as a Civil War | 20 | | history buff, he read hundreds of biographies and books about | 21 | | the history and strategy of the Civil War and the time period; | 22 | | he and his wife also took frequent recreational travels to | 23 | | Civil War towns and related locations; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair was a member of the Universalist | 2 | | Unitarian Church for over 50 years; he served as President of | 3 | | the Board, Trust Officer, and in many service positions; as | 4 | | President, he made it possible for the minister to take a leave | 5 | | to join the historic Selma March; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair was a longtime member of the | 7 | | Audubon Society; throughout the years, he frequently traveled | 8 | | to view local and national bird habitats to study bird species; | 9 | | he participated as an Audubon bird census counter, officially | 10 | | tracking and recording birds at Illinois River and marsh | 11 | | locations; he often talked about the number, types, and | 12 | | locations of birds that he had observed birdwatching; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, From 2008 to 2015, Henry Sinclair volunteered | 14 | | preparing taxes for senior citizens and low income people; he | 15 | | also enrolled in the Bradley University Continuing Education | 16 | | Program and took several college classes; for five years, he | 17 | | participated in OLLI education programs and bus trips to | 18 | | various locations throughout the Midwest and mid-South; in late | 19 | | 2015, he was nominated to submit suggestions for academic study | 20 | | in cinema class and spent the last year of his life | 21 | | recommending and studying historic and classic cinematography; | 22 | | and | 23 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair was a dedicated supporter of the |
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| 1 | | Peoria Red Cross, the Peoria Historical Society, the Peoria | 2 | | Symphony Orchestra, the Lakeview Museum, the Corn Stock | 3 | | Theater, and the Peoria Rivermen; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Henry Sinclair is survived by his children, | 5 | | Claudia and Ian; therefore, be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 7 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 8 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Henry Beall Sinclair; | 9 | | and be it further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to the family of Henry Sinclair as an expression of | 12 | | our sympathy.
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