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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Peter J.
4 Stanlis of Rockford on the publication of Robert Frost: The
5 Poet As Philosopher in October of 2007; and
 
6     WHEREAS, The book was published by the Intercollegiate
7 Studies Institute in Wilmington, Delaware and distributed by
8 the University of Chicago Press; it honors twenty-three years
9 of friendship with Robert Frost and fulfills a promise made to
10 the poet by Dr. Stanlis that he would someday write a book
11 about Robert Frost and his art as a poet and philosopher; and
 
12     WHEREAS, The book captures Robert Frost and his perspective
13 on the cultural heritage of Western and American civilization,
14 showing human creativity and the arts provide the basis of
15 civilization, its education, science, and politics; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Dr. Stanlis was the co-founder of the American
17 Society of Eighteenth Century Studies in 1969; he is one of the
18 few Americans honored with an appointment as a British Academy
19 Research Fellow in 1987; he became a member of the Academic
20 Board of the National Humanities Institute in 1987; and he was
21 appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities by
22 former President Reagan and served from 1982 to 1988; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, From 1968 to 1988 Dr. Stanlis was a Professor at
2 Rockford College and the chairman of the English Department;
3 and
 
4     WHEREAS, Dr. Stanlis is now Professor Emeritus of Rockford
5 College and a forty-year resident of the City of Rockford;
6 therefore, be it
 
7     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
8 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
9 congratulate Dr. Stanlis on the publication of his new book and
10 wish him the best in his future endeavors; and be it further
 
11     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12 presented to Dr. Peter Stanlis as a symbol of our respect and
13 esteem.