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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives recognize Edward Henry Fauth for his many years
4 of community service; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Fauth was born on October 22, 1922, in Aurora;
6 he was raised in the country and attended country schools in
7 what is now Oswego until enrolling at East High School in
8 Aurora; after graduating from East High in 1939, he began
9 working at Barber-Greene in Aurora until entering the U.S. Army
10 in 1943; and
 
11     WHEREAS, After the war, he returned to Barber-Greene where
12 he worked with only one interruption (for two years to complete
13 his Bachelor of Science degree at Michigan State University in
14 1950) until 1970; during his years at Barber-Greene, he
15 completed his master's degree in mechanical engineering at
16 Illinois Institute of Technology; after leaving Barber-Greene,
17 he took an administrative position at Waubonsee Community
18 College where he worked until his retirement in 1987; during
19 his years at Waubonsee, he earned an Ed.D. in secondary
20 education from Nova University; and
 
21     WHEREAS, Mr. Fauth served as Dean of Community Services at
22 Waubonsee Community College until 1985, he was a Director of
23 the Savings and Loan Association Aurora Home Rule and Revenue
24 Sharing Committee, a member and Vice-Chairman of the southern
25 Kane County planning council, a Kane-Dekalb Consortium for
26 Manpower Services Aurora Labor-Management Committee
27 co-founder, a Director of the Aurora Urban League, and a
28 co-founder/Director of the Kane Kendall County Mental Health
29 Center; he served on the Aurora Area Ad Hoc Committee on Drug
30 Abuse from 1974 to 1973; in addition, he was a Director of the
31 Kane County Community Action Agency from 1970 to 1976,
32 President of the United Way from 1971 to 1973, a member of

 

 

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1 Aurora East School District 131 Board of Education from 1960 to
2 1966, and president for two years and member of the Board of
3 Directors of Aurora YMCA from 1960 to 1966; and
 
4     WHEREAS, He received the Distinguished Service Award of
5 Cosmopolitan International Club of Aurora in 1977; he was a
6 Kane County Ceta Services volunteer from 1972 to 1984, a leader
7 of the DuKane chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional
8 Engineers from 1981 to 1982, and he received the Quad County
9 Urban League "Do the Right Thing" Award of Honor in 2003; and
 
10     WHEREAS, His wife, Frances, serves on the Plum Landing
11 Board of Directors, is a Waubonsee Community College Literacy
12 Volunteer Tutor Child Welfare League Church Women, and is a
13 member of the United P.E.O. PTAs; and
 
14     WHEREAS, The Fauth's have been a host family for students
15 from Paraguay, Norway, Brazil, and Aurora's Science and Math
16 Academy; they continue to reside in Aurora; they have four
17 children and 12 grandchildren; therefore, be it
 
18     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
20 we recognize Edward Henry Fauth's many years of exceptional
21 community service to the City of Aurora; and be it further
 
22     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
23 presented to Edward Henry Fauth as an expression of our esteem.