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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Wilbert L. Smith of | ||||||
4 | Chicago on the occasion of his 80th birthday; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith was born on October 13, 1934 in | ||||||
6 | Jackson, Mississippi to James Smith and Sallie M. | ||||||
7 | Chrismon-Smith; he moved with his family to Chicago in June of | ||||||
8 | 1955; he graduated from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, | ||||||
9 | Mississippi in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics; | ||||||
10 | he received his Master of Arts in Business Administration from | ||||||
11 | Governors State University in 1976, and also attended the | ||||||
12 | Illinois Institute of Technology, the Chicago Teachers College | ||||||
13 | (now Chicago State University), and Loyola University Chicago | ||||||
14 | Graduate School; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith began teaching at John Marshall | ||||||
16 | Metropolitan High School in February of 1958; in 1963, he left | ||||||
17 | his position to pursue a career in health care and hospital | ||||||
18 | administration, spending more than 10 years in the field; he | ||||||
19 | worked as a sales consultant for the service station operations | ||||||
20 | of the Humble Oil and Refining Company and for the Atlantic | ||||||
21 | Richfield Company (ARCO) as a Financial Analyst; for 11 years, | ||||||
22 | he worked as the Director of Community Relations at South Shore | ||||||
23 | Hospital; he returned to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook |
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1 | County as a Financial Case Worker while teaching GED classes at | ||||||
2 | Olive-Harvey College; he retired in 1991 from John H. Stroger, | ||||||
3 | Jr. Hospital as
Program Planner for the Department of Planning, | ||||||
4 | Education, and Research; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith's 38-year career included many | ||||||
6 | leadership positions; he recruited Fortune 500 corporations to | ||||||
7 | hire students and offer scholarships at Malcolm X College, | ||||||
8 | where he also improved operations and management of the Co-Op | ||||||
9 | Education & Mid-Management Programs; he was the first black | ||||||
10 | president of the Illinois Society for Healthcare Marketing and | ||||||
11 | Public Relations, the first black keynote speaker at the | ||||||
12 | Illinois Society for Healthcare Marketing and Public | ||||||
13 | Relations' Annual Conference, and the first Director of | ||||||
14 | Community Relations at South Shore Hospital; he was past | ||||||
15 | president of the Chicago Tougaloo College Alumni Association | ||||||
16 | for 2 terms and past Vice President and President of the | ||||||
17 | Tougaloo College National Alumni Association; he organized the | ||||||
18 | alumni chapters of the Tougaloo College National Alumni | ||||||
19 | Association in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh, and was the Director | ||||||
20 | of Fundraising for the Chicago chapter; he was the organizer of | ||||||
21 | the Chicago Public Schools Teachers' Campaign for the United | ||||||
22 | Negro College Fund (UNCF) and a past president of the Chicago | ||||||
23 | Inter-Alumni Council for UNCF; and | ||||||
24 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith has received numerous recognitons |
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1 | over the course of his career; he was the Tougaloo College | ||||||
2 | Alumnus of the Year in 1980; he was the recipient of the | ||||||
3 | Chicago Tougaloo College Alumni Association's Austin C. Moore, | ||||||
4 | Jr. Award and recipient of Certificates for Meritorious Service | ||||||
5 | from the UNCF and the Chicago Tougaloo College Alumni | ||||||
6 | Association; he was listed in 2 editions of Who's Who in the | ||||||
7 | Midwest; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith's present and former memberships | ||||||
9 | include: life member, Tougaloo College National Alumni | ||||||
10 | Association and Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; member, Xi | ||||||
11 | Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; member, | ||||||
12 | Chicago Tougaloo College Alumni Association; member, Tougaloo | ||||||
13 | College National Alumni Association Hall of Fame 1996; | ||||||
14 | representative for Tougaloo College, Chicago Inter-Alumni | ||||||
15 | Council, United Negro College Fund, Inc.; member, Park Manor | ||||||
16 | Congregational Church, Chicago; Chairman, Scholarship | ||||||
17 | Committee, Thomas Jackson, Jr. Cultural Foundation, Chicago; | ||||||
18 | the National Association of Health Services Executives; | ||||||
19 | member, Hospital Wide
Patient Education Committee, John H. | ||||||
20 | Stroger, Jr. Hospital; member, Medical Education Committee, | ||||||
21 | John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital; Advisory Committee, Chicago | ||||||
22 | Public Schools
Teachers' Campaign, United Negro College Fund; | ||||||
23 | board member, Community Supportive Living Systems, Inc., | ||||||
24 | Chicago; member, American
College of Healthcare Executives, | ||||||
25 | Chicago; member, John
Marshall Metropolitan High School "M" |
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1 | Club and Alumni Association, Chicago; former board member, | ||||||
2 | Community Mental Health Center, Chicago; former member, Youth | ||||||
3 | Motivation Program, Chicago Public
Schools; former board | ||||||
4 | member, Chatham YMCA (now South Central Community Services, | ||||||
5 | Inc.); former board member, Tougaloo College National Alumni | ||||||
6 | Association; former
Chairman, Church in Society Committee, | ||||||
7 | Park Manor Congregational Church; former member, South Shore | ||||||
8 | Ministerial
Association, Chicago; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Wilbert Smith is married to Dr. Sandra Smith; they | ||||||
10 | have 2 daughters, Jennifer Smith and Nicole Smith Clark, and 3 | ||||||
11 | granddaughters, Amber, Autumn, and Ashleigh; therefore, be it
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12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
13 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
14 | we congratulate Wilbert L. Smith on his 80th birthday and wish | ||||||
15 | him many more wonderful years; and be it further
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16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
17 | presented to Wilbert Smith as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
18 | respect.
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