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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate the College of
4 Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)
5 Alumni Association on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary;
6 and
 
7     WHEREAS, Following World War II, the need to recruit more
8 students into the College of Agriculture provided the incentive
9 to formally organize a viable alumni association; faculty
10 member John Behrens invited all extension farm advisors and
11 vocational agriculture instructors in Illinois to attend an
12 organizational meeting to discuss the formation of an alumni
13 association; by June of 1956, the "University of Illinois
14 College of Agriculture Alumni Association" was chartered as a
15 non-profit corporation and a constitution and by-laws were
16 drawn up; and
 
17     WHEREAS, The University's Department of Home Economics
18 became the School of Human Resources and Family Studies (SHRFS)
19 in 1974, and the SHRFS Alumni Association became official on
20 November 9, 1974; and
 
21     WHEREAS, With the merger and reorganization of the College
22 of Agriculture and SHRFS in 1997, the College of Agricultural,
23 Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) was created, and
24 the two former alumni associations merged to support the new
25 college; the mission of the ACES Alumni Association is to
26 enhance, support, and communicate the mission of the College
27 and to provide and foster lifelong connections among alumni and
28 between the college and its alumni; and
 
29     WHEREAS, Since their inception, the ACES Alumni
30 Association and its predecessors have worked to advance each
31 organization's respective college; endowments for

 

 

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1 scholarships, funding for new buildings, and recruitment are
2 among the highlights of the Association's contributions to the
3 College; 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 the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and
7 Environmental Sciences (ACES) Alumni Association on the
8 occasion of its fiftieth anniversary; and be it further
 
9     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
10 presented to the Association as an expression of our esteem.