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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Katrina Marie | ||||||
| 4 | Clark Thomas on the occasion of her retirement as principal of | ||||||
| 5 | Lilly-Freeman Elementary School; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas was born in St. Louis, Missouri and | ||||||
| 7 | raised in East St. Louis; she is the daughter of the late | ||||||
| 8 | Willie B. Clark and Allan "PJ" McCarty; she has one sister, | ||||||
| 9 | Deborah Cobb, and one brother, the late Kenneth "Ricky" | ||||||
| 10 | Williams; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas attended John Robinson School, | ||||||
| 12 | Monroe School, and Rock Jr. High School before graduating with | ||||||
| 13 | the January 1967 class of E. St. Louis Senior High School; | ||||||
| 14 | after high school, she earned her bachelor's degree in | ||||||
| 15 | education from Southwest Missouri College in Springfield, | ||||||
| 16 | Missouri in 1971; she subsequently earned her master's degree | ||||||
| 17 | in educational administration from the University of Illinois; | ||||||
| 18 | and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas began her teaching career at | ||||||
| 20 | Jefferson Elementary School (now Nelson Mandela Elementary | ||||||
| 21 | School) in February of 1971; in 1992, she was offered the | ||||||
| 22 | opportunity to be an exchange professor at Southern Illinois | ||||||
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| 1 | University in Edwardsville in the field of education; in 1993, | ||||||
| 2 | she resumed her teaching career at Mandela, where she remained | ||||||
| 3 | until she was assigned to Lilly-Freeman Elementary School as an | ||||||
| 4 | elementary principal in the summer of 1995; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas has been the recipient of | ||||||
| 6 | outstanding recognition and numerous honors; she is a Life | ||||||
| 7 | Member in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., a Life Member | ||||||
| 8 | in the East St. Louis Branch of the NAACP, a board member of | ||||||
| 9 | the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, and treasurer of | ||||||
| 10 | the East St. Louis Principals' Association; she is also a | ||||||
| 11 | member of Macedonia Baptist Church; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas and her loving husband, Argie H. | ||||||
| 13 | Thomas, have been married for 35 years; and | ||||||
| 14 | WHEREAS, Katrina Thomas serves as a model of hard work, | ||||||
| 15 | integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | ||||||
| 16 | Illinois; therefore, be it
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| 17 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 18 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 19 | we congratulate Katrina Marie Clark Thomas on the occasion of | ||||||
| 20 | her retirement and wish her many happy and healthy retirement | ||||||
| 21 | years; and be it further
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 2 | presented to Katrina Thomas as a symbol of our esteem and | ||||||
| 3 | respect.
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