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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of former Mayor of Urbana Hiram Paley of | ||||||
| 4 | Urbana, who passed away on January 9, 2012; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, He was born in Rochester, New York, on September | ||||||
| 6 | 9, 1933, he was the son of the late Lesser and Zelda Paley; | ||||||
| 7 | after attending Monroe High School in Rochester, he graduated | ||||||
| 8 | summa cum laude from the University of Rochester with a | ||||||
| 9 | bachelor's degree in mathematics (1955); he followed with M.A. | ||||||
| 10 | and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of | ||||||
| 11 | Wisconsin-Madison in 1956 and 1959; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, He came to the University of Illinois in 1959 as | ||||||
| 13 | an assistant professor of mathematics and was promoted to | ||||||
| 14 | associate professor in 1966, a position he held until his | ||||||
| 15 | retirement in 2003; from 1989 to 1991, he taught college math | ||||||
| 16 | courses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the Midwest Universities | ||||||
| 17 | Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA); and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, He served 2 terms as alderman on the Urbana City | ||||||
| 19 | Council (1967-1973) and one term as mayor of Urbana | ||||||
| 20 | (1973-1977); he was an active member of the local Democratic | ||||||
| 21 | Party and was proud to serve as the chair of United States | ||||||
| 22 | Senator Dick Durbin's Champaign County campaign in 1996, 2002, | ||||||
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| 1 | and 2008; he served terms on the boards of the Urban League of | ||||||
| 2 | Champaign County and the CCDC Foundation in the 1980s, and on | ||||||
| 3 | the board of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Champaign County | ||||||
| 4 | (known formerly as the Champaign County Memorial Society) from | ||||||
| 5 | 1986-2002, with a term as president from 2000-2002; and | ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, He was a member of the American Civil Liberties | ||||||
| 7 | Union (ACLU) since 1960 and served multiple times as the | ||||||
| 8 | Champaign Chapter representative to the Illinois ACLU, as well | ||||||
| 9 | as on the ACLU's state board; in 2005, he received the Roger | ||||||
| 10 | Baldwin Award of the Illinois ACLU for a lifetime of service to | ||||||
| 11 | civil rights and civil liberties; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, In 1981, following a course in darkroom | ||||||
| 13 | photography at Parkland College, he joined the Champaign County | ||||||
| 14 | Camera Club and was an active member, serving multiple terms as | ||||||
| 15 | president; in 2004-2006, he served as president of the Central | ||||||
| 16 | Illinois Camera Clubs Association; he was instrumental in | ||||||
| 17 | organizing an annual community Best in Show photo competition; | ||||||
| 18 | and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, He was a dedicated Illinois athletics fan, and he | ||||||
| 20 | and his wife rarely missed a home men's basketball game; he | ||||||
| 21 | also enjoyed attending events with his wife at the Krannert | ||||||
| 22 | Center for the Performing Arts; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Hiram Paley is survived by his wife of 50 years, | ||||||
| 2 | Jean Passovoy Paley; his son, Joshua (Suzanne); his daughters, | ||||||
| 3 | Elizabeth (Stefan) and Nina; his grandchildren, Allison, | ||||||
| 4 | Karen, Trevor, and Elias; his sister, Marcia (Morton) Camac; | ||||||
| 5 | and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends; therefore, | ||||||
| 6 | be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 8 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 9 | his family and friends, the passing of Hiram Paley; and be it | ||||||
| 10 | further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 12 | presented to the family of Hiram Paley as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 13 | sincere sympathy.
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