Full Text of SR2184 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 Mary Ann MacLean, who passed away on | 4 | | August 18, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean was born in October of 1942 in | 6 | | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Hinsdale; after | 7 | | graduating from Hinsdale Central High School, she studied for a | 8 | | time at colleges in Pennsylvania and in Lausanne, Switzerland; | 9 | | and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean was an assistant to a trader at | 11 | | Merrill Lynch, where she met her future husband, Barry; she | 12 | | became vocal at local school board meetings when her children | 13 | | were little, seeking to expand foreign language education in | 14 | | early grades; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean served on the Illinois State | 16 | | Museum board for 32 years and served as director; in 2011, the | 17 | | Mary Ann MacLean Play Museum, which teaches children to learn | 18 | | through play what it is like to work at a museum, opened at the | 19 | | Illinois State Museum site in Springfield; she served on the | 20 | | Illinois State Board of Education and as a trustee at the | 21 | | Chicago Zoological Society, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the | 22 | | MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of |
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| 1 | | Chicago Medicine, the Rassias Center at Dartmouth College, and | 2 | | at Union College; she also supported education and outreach | 3 | | activities at Brookfield Zoo; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In 2013, the Chicago Zoological Society, which | 5 | | manages Brookfield Zoo, dedicated its new home for education, | 6 | | conservation, and outreach efforts as the Mary Ann MacLean | 7 | | Conservation Leadership Center; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Mary Ann MacLean is survived by her husband, | 9 | | Barry; her children, Adrian Jay, Gillian Growdon, and Duncan | 10 | | MacLean; her stepdaughters, Elizabeth Larned and Margaret | 11 | | MacLean; her sister, Libby Lucas; and 12 grandchildren; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her | 15 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Mary Ann MacLean; and | 16 | | be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Mary Ann MacLean as an expression of | 19 | | our sympathy.
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