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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The blond and statuesque Sybille Fritzsche, our | ||||||
| 3 | own Nordic goddess, was an iconic role model for Lab School | ||||||
| 4 | mothers during the years she graced our neighborhood; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Sybille's decision to go to law school as an adult | ||||||
| 6 | while her children were young served as a different and | ||||||
| 7 | possibly even finer role model for Hyde Park mothers; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, At the University of Chicago Law School she was | ||||||
| 9 | one of my husband's favorite students; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Sybille's work for the Illinois chapter of the | ||||||
| 11 | American Civil Liberties Union, from the late 1960s through | ||||||
| 12 | 1974 broke ground in the areas of reproductive rights, | ||||||
| 13 | religious liberty, free speech, gender discrimination, and | ||||||
| 14 | employment law; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Sybille, barely out of law school, served as lead | ||||||
| 16 | attorney in the case of Doe V. Scott, a pre-Roe v. Wade | ||||||
| 17 | decision which established that the federal right to privacy | ||||||
| 18 | protects a woman's right to choose abortion; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, She laid the legal groundwork for the successful | ||||||
| 20 | challenge to a Chicago public college preparatory school that | ||||||
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| 1 | initally barred women from admission and, when the ban was | ||||||
| 2 | lifted, required successful women applicants to earn higher | ||||||
| 3 | scores than their male counterparts; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Sybille later served with distinction as | ||||||
| 5 | executive director of the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil | ||||||
| 6 | Rights under the Law; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Sybille's incisive mind and extraordinary | ||||||
| 8 | constitutional vision provided a strong intellectual framework | ||||||
| 9 | for her legal work on behalf of women, the poor, and racial | ||||||
| 10 | minorities; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Her friends and neighbors, as well as all the | ||||||
| 12 | people of Illinois, were sorry to lose her charm and her | ||||||
| 13 | talents when she and Hellmut moved to Arizona; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, This is the year Sybille celebrates her 80th | ||||||
| 15 | birthday; therefore, be it
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| 16 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 17 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 18 | thank Sybille Fritzsche for her tireless work on behalf of | ||||||
| 19 | civil rights and civil liberties, that we send her joy on her | ||||||
| 20 | birthday, and that we wish her happy days in the years ahead; | ||||||
| 21 | and be it further
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 2 | presented to Sybille Fritzsche as an expression of our profound | ||||||
| 3 | respect and esteem.
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