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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Education is one of the most noble professions an
3 individual can choose to pursue; it has come to our attention
4 that Ann Stockey will be retiring from the education field; and
 
5     WHEREAS, She was born in Chicago on August 2, 1939; as a
6 young child, she lived in Chicago; University City, Missouri;
7 Centralia; and returned to Chicago; she attended St. Xavier
8 Academy until her last year of high school and was a member of
9 the first graduating class of Mother McAuley High School in
10 1957; and
 
11     WHEREAS, During her high school years, Ann was extremely
12 active; she was the president of Student Council, Editor of the
13 Shield (the high school newspaper), a member of the National
14 Honor Society, an honor student, a member of the Quill &
15 Scroll, a newspaper contributor, and a member of basketball and
16 volleyball intramurals, sodality, press club, dance committee,
17 and the yearbook staff; her ambition in high school was to
18 become an elementary school teacher, as were her mother and
19 grandmother; and
 
20     WHEREAS, She went on to graduate from Marquette University
21 in Milwaukee in 1961; she taught second grade in Oak Lawn at
22 Gasteyer School for almost two years; she got married in August
23 of 1962 and became a mother in May of 1963; she was a full-time
24 mom until her husband passed away, leaving her a single mom
25 with four young children; and
 
26     WHEREAS, She went back to teaching at Hawthorne School in
27 Glen Ellyn in 1975 and returned full-time in 1976 at Christ the
28 King School in Lombard, where all of her children attended; she
29 left Christ the King School in the spring of 1986 to teach
30 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade social studies at Winfield
31 Middle School, where she has been teaching since; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, Ms. Stockey is married to Elden Stockey and plans
2 on enjoying time with her grandchildren during her retirement;
3 therefore, be it
 
4     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
5 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
6 we congratulate Ann Stockey on the occasion of her retirement,
7 and we thank her for her many years of dedication to the
8 education of young people; and be it further
 
9     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
10 presented to Ms. Stockey as an expression of our deepest
11 respect and esteem and with best wishes for a relaxing
12 retirement.