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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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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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