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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are deeply | ||||||
| 3 | saddened to learn of the death of Gerald J. Moyar of | ||||||
| 4 | Naperville, who passed away on July 5, 2012; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar was born on May 22, 1935, in | ||||||
| 6 | Jeannette, Pennsylvania and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; he | ||||||
| 7 | graduated from Petersburg (VA) High School in 1953, where he | ||||||
| 8 | was a first-team all-state football selection his senior year; | ||||||
| 9 | he graduated from Princeton University in 1957, and earned | ||||||
| 10 | advanced degrees from the Department of Theoretical and Applied | ||||||
| 11 | Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; | ||||||
| 12 | and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar came to Chicago in 1977, to lead a | ||||||
| 14 | cooperative international research program on railroad | ||||||
| 15 | track/train dynamics managed by the Association of American | ||||||
| 16 | Railroads; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar was recognized by the American | ||||||
| 18 | Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) with their national | ||||||
| 19 | Dedicated Service Award in 1994; during his tenure at the Fox | ||||||
| 20 | Valley Section of the ASME, he gained landmark recognition for | ||||||
| 21 | a diversity of regional sites, including Fermilab's Tevatron | ||||||
| 22 | Collider; in 1999, the Alumni Association of the University of | ||||||
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| 1 | Illinois honored him with its Constituent Leadership Award; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar attended First United Methodist | ||||||
| 3 | Church in Downers Grove, where he developed a strong interest | ||||||
| 4 | and commitment to the Foundations' adult Christian education | ||||||
| 5 | program; he enjoyed communicating with his Princeton | ||||||
| 6 | classmates while serving as the religion editor for the class | ||||||
| 7 | of 1957 alumni web site; and | ||||||
| 8 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar enjoyed many years of service to the | ||||||
| 9 | university alumni organizations, religious institutions, and | ||||||
| 10 | professional societies to which he belonged; during the 1990's | ||||||
| 11 | he served on the board of the Chicago Engineers' Foundation, | ||||||
| 12 | Union League Club of Chicago; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar was preceded in death by his parents, | ||||||
| 14 | George and Jessie Moyar and his sister, Priscilla; and | ||||||
| 15 | WHEREAS, Gerald Moyar was survived by his wife, Ruth; his | ||||||
| 16 | sons, James (Lynelle), Jess(Leslie), and Timothy; his 8 | ||||||
| 17 | grandchildren; his sister, Susan Jane Williams (the late David | ||||||
| 18 | Williams) and his brother, George Russell Moyar (Bonnie); | ||||||
| 19 | therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 21 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
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| 1 | Gerald Moyar, and we extend our sincere condolences to his | ||||||
| 2 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | ||||||
| 3 | further
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| 4 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 5 | presented to the family of Gerald Moyar as an expression of our | ||||||
| 6 | deepest sympathy.
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