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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Harry "Bud" Kelley |
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| on the occasion of his retirement after 34 years of service |
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| with the Illinois Association of Tobacco and Candy |
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| Distributors; and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley was born on May 12, 1932, in Hillsboro; |
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| his parents are Harry V. and Mildred Kelley; he married Nancy |
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| Shuster in June of 1954; she passed away in 1994; he married |
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| Sharon Duesterhaus Elvidge on September 2, 1995; and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley was a member of the 1949 varsity |
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| Hillsboro basketball team that won 2nd place in the Illinois |
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| State Tournament; he graduated from Millikin University in |
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| 1954; that same year, he was commissioned in the United States |
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| Marines, where he attained the rank of Captain; after his |
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| discharge from the military, he returned to Hillsboro to manage |
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| his family's business, Kelley Foods; on February 1, 1966, he |
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| joined the Illinois Department of Business and Economic |
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| Development as Chief Administrative Assistant to the Director; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley was the organizer and developer of the |
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| safe Halloween Trick or Treating at the Governor's Mansion for |
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| School Children, which continues today through the Secretary of |
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| State after 20 years of continuous operation; and
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| WHEREAS, Since 1975, Bud Kelley has served as Executive |
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| Director of the Illinois Association of Tobacco and Candy |
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| Distributors, where he has served as an advocate and liaison |
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| between the Association's distributor members and the Illinois |
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| General Assembly; during his tenure at the Association, he has |
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| gained a sterling reputation as a tireless and dedicated worker |
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| who always sought a balance between the concerns of the |
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| distributors and manufacturers he represented and those of the |
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| government; and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley was an active member of the Jaycees, |
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| the Hillsboro Voluntary Fire Department, and the Hillsboro |
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| Chamber of Commerce; and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley has been the recipient of numerous |
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| awards and accolades for his service to the community, |
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| including the first ever Hillsboro Education Foundation's |
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| Distinguished Alumni Award, the National Brotherhood Award |
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| from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the |
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| designation of a room in his name at the Abraham Lincoln |
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| Presidential Library, the 1965 Outstanding Young Men of America |
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| Award, 2 Ernest J. O'Brien Awards for Outstanding State |
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| Association Executive, the 1980 American Jewish Committee |
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| Human Relations Award, and the 1987 Max Bloom Memorial Award; |
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| in 2004, he was named an Honorary Mayor of Clonmel, Ireland and |
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| was instrumental in obtaining Clonmel as a sister city to |
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| Peoria; and
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| WHEREAS, Bud Kelley is well known by his friends and |
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| colleagues as a man of great honesty and integrity with a |
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| giving heart; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Harry "Bud" Kelley on the occasion of his |
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| retirement and wish him many happy and healthy retirement |
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| years; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Bud Kelley as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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