Full Text of HR1541 95th General Assembly
HR1541 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Illinois State | 4 |
| Capitol Nurse Nancy Wedeking on her retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, Nancy received her early education in Sunday | 6 |
| School, where she never missed a Sunday for fourteen years; she | 7 |
| graduated as an honor student from Beardstown High School in | 8 |
| 1963; she was a 1967 graduate of Passavant Area School of | 9 |
| Nursing in Jacksonville, where she received the first Dr. Mary | 10 |
| Louise Newman Award for the Outstanding Student in Obstetrics; | 11 |
| and she was number one in her class at St. John's School of | 12 |
| Anesthesiology in 1968; and
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| WHEREAS, She was employed at Schmitt Hospital in | 14 |
| Beardstown, Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, and St. | 15 |
| John's Hospital in Springfield before beginning her career as a | 16 |
| nurse for the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, She served as the Stratton Building Nurse for | 18 |
| twenty-four years, before being named by the Illinois | 19 |
| Department of Public Health to move to the Illinois State | 20 |
| Capitol in 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, During her time as a nurse in the State Capitol, |
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| she has seen an average of forty patients a day; during the | 2 |
| times that the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate are | 3 |
| in Session, she may see as many as nine hundred people in a | 4 |
| month; and
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| WHEREAS, Her many duties include: handling all emergencies | 6 |
| within the Capitol or outside on the Capitol grounds; having | 7 |
| food and drink readily available for patients in need; | 8 |
| providing a place of rest for stressed out State employees; | 9 |
| removing splinters; listening; caring; and being there in those | 10 |
| times when people need a friendly face; and
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| WHEREAS, Nancy finds time to be there for anyone in need of | 12 |
| her special touch; she is very caring, dedicated to her field, | 13 |
| and above all, one of the nicest and most sincere people to be | 14 |
| found in the State Capitol; and
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| WHEREAS, When Nancy served as an anesthetist, she was | 16 |
| chosen to serve during the first kidney transplant to be | 17 |
| performed in Springfield; she was later the recipient of a | 18 |
| kidney transplant in 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, Nancy comes from a medical family; her mother and | 20 |
| Nancy both graduated from the same schools, Passavant School of | 21 |
| Nursing and St. John's School of Anesthesiology, and both | 22 |
| worked at Schmitt Hospital and Memorial Medical Center; and her |
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| brother, Dr. Fred Lee, resides in Michigan; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, Nancy has been blessed with many good friends | 3 |
| throughout her life, but none more so than her sister, Peggy | 4 |
| White; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 7 |
| congratulate Nancy Wedeking on her retirement, we thank her for | 8 |
| her dedication to the men and women of the Illinois State | 9 |
| Capitol, and we wish her the best in all her future endeavors; | 10 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to Nurse Nancy Wedeking on her retirement as a small | 13 |
| symbol of respect from her many friends and patients in the | 14 |
| Illinois State Capitol.
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