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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives wish to congratulate the Mount Zion
4 Swingsations show choir on their 25th year as a group; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The choir was organized in 1973 as a nine-member
6 all-girl Mount Zion swing choir; the group was choreographed by
7 founding member Roberta Vest and Decatur resident and former
8 member of the Radio City Music City Hall Rockettes, Darlene
9 Wittenauer; and
 
10     WHEREAS, In 1975, boys joined the group for the first time
11 and to this day the group includes both male and female
12 members; in 1979, the group became known as the Mount Zion
13 Swingsations; and
 
14     WHEREAS, The Swingsations have won national dance
15 championships in Florida, California, New York, Tennessee,
16 Wisconsin, and Illinois; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Most recently, the Swingsations were awarded
18 honors including the grand championship, best visual effect,
19 best combo, best vocals, best female vocalist, and best male
20 vocalist in Nashville, Tennessee; and
 
21     WHEREAS, The director of the choir is Jeff Gemar; assistant
22 director and combo director, Carla Moebius; choreographer,
23 Dwight Jordan; and president of the parents' booster club, Rick
24 McKibben; and
 
25     WHEREAS, This body also wishes to recognize former
26 director, Connie Mulligan and former assistant director, Cyndi
27 Johnson, under whose direction the Mount Zion Swingsations were
28 crowned Grand Champion at Chicago Showstoppers in 1995 and at
29 Terpsichore in Chicago in 1999; and former assistant director

 

 

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1 and alumna, Heather Pistorius; and
 
2     WHEREAS, The alumni of the Mount Zion Swingsations gather
3 together for the group's annual dinner theater the weekend of
4 April 28 through May 1, 2004; therefore, be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
7 congratulate the Mount Zion Swingsations show choir on
8 celebrating their 25th year as a group; and be it further
 
9     RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
10 presented to the director, assistant director, choreographer,
11 president of the parents' booster club, and to each member of
12 the Mount Zion Swingsations show choir as a token of our
13 respect.