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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
| 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Audria M. |
| 4 | | Thomas Huntington at the age of 87; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington was born in Bessemer, Alabama on |
| 6 | | September 15, 1927; she attended Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Pipe |
| 7 | | Shop elementary schools; she graduated in the top-10 in her |
| 8 | | class from Arthur Harold Parker Vocational High School in |
| 9 | | Birmingham, Alabama; she received her Bachelor of Science in |
| 10 | | Home Economics from Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama |
| 11 | | and her Master of Business Administration from Northern |
| 12 | | Illinois University; and
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| 13 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington began teaching at Marengo High |
| 14 | | School in Dixon Mills, Alabama and continued in Chicago; she |
| 15 | | retired from the Chicago Board of Education after 44 years of |
| 16 | | service; she taught in grades two through college level
in such |
| 17 | | places as Dixons Mills, Alabama, the Phyllis Wheatley
YWCA in |
| 18 | | Atlanta, Georgia, and various Chicago Public Schools;
she also |
| 19 | | taught at the Office of Equal Education Opportunity,
the Cook |
| 20 | | County Juvenile Detention Center School, the Cook
County Jail, |
| 21 | | the Illinois Training Schools for Girls in Geneva,
and the |
| 22 | | First Cataract School in Chicago; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington was a Life Member of Alabama A&M |
| 2 | | University, and a member of the National Silver Haired |
| 3 | | Congress, the Book Circle, and the Chicago Home Economics Club; |
| 4 | | and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington was involved in the 34th State |
| 6 | | Legislative District, where she served as chair of the Senior |
| 7 | | Advisory
Council for State Representative Elgie R. Sims Jr.; |
| 8 | | she was active in helping her
community for the late Chicago |
| 9 | | Mayor Eugene Sawyer and for Chicago Sixth Ward Alderman |
| 10 | | Roderick
Sawyer; she spearheaded voter registration for the |
| 11 | | late
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and former U.S. Senator |
| 12 | | Roland Burris; she also helped organize
one of the first black |
| 13 | | legislative organizations for black educators; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington was very active in her community |
| 15 | | and church organizations; she launched a program designed to
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| 16 | | focus on persons with cancer, which provided support through |
| 17 | | education, nutrition, and meditation; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington received numerous
awards and |
| 19 | | certificates from many civic and educational
organizations, |
| 20 | | including the American Correctional
Association, the College |
| 21 | | Park Maryland Illinois Branch, the
Governor of Alabama, the |
| 22 | | Chicago Department of Aging, Girls and
Boys Town, the National |
| 23 | | Silver Haired Congress, the World's
Who's Who of Women, the |
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| 1 | | International Who's Who of
Intellectuals, and the |
| 2 | | International Register Profile; and
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| 3 | | WHEREAS, Audria Huntington is survived by her daughter, |
| 4 | | Shirley Thompson, and her sister, Gloria Twine; therefore, be |
| 5 | | it
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| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 7 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
| 8 | | mourn the passing of Audria M. Thomas Huntington, and extend |
| 9 | | our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all who |
| 10 | | knew and loved her; and be it further
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| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 12 | | presented to the family of Audria Huntington as an expression |
| 13 | | of our deepest sympathy.
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