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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The Eta Psi Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma
3 Fraternity, Incorporated, is sponsoring its first legislative
4 visit to the State Capitol; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at
6 Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by
7 three young, African-American male students, celebrated as the
8 Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and
9 the Honorable Charles I. Brown; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., an international
11 organization comprised of 150,000 college-educated men,
12 focuses on issues that impact youth and our communities; and
 
13     WHEREAS, From its inception, the Founders conceived Phi
14 Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general
15 community, rather than gaining skills to be utilized
16 exclusively for themselves or their immediate families; this
17 deep conviction is mirrored in the Fraternity's motto, "Culture
18 For Service and Service for Humanity"; and
 
19     WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma is the only historically
20 African-American fraternity to be constitutionally bound to a
21 sorority, enjoying and fostering a mutually supportive

 

 

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1 relationship with the women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.;
2 and
 
3     WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma has from its very beginning
4 concerned itself with improving the general well-being of
5 minority groups and demonstrates this through partnerships
6 with the March of Dimes, the American Cancer Society, the
7 Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the National Marrow Donor
8 Program, American Diabetes Research, and St. Jude's Children
9 Research Hospital; and
 
10     WHEREAS, The Phi Beta Sigma programs of Bigger and Better
11 Business, Education and Social Action are realized through the
12 Fraternity's overarching program, Sigma Wellness; and
 
13     WHEREAS, Key officers today include: Paul L. Griffin, Jr.,
14 International President; Lezell Lowe, Great Lakes Regional
15 Director; and Quincy Rosenborough, Illinois State Director;
16 therefore, be it
 
17     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
18 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
19 the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of
20 the members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and the values
21 for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, May, 21, 2008 as
22 the First Phi Beta Sigma Day throughout the State of Illinois;

 

 

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1 and be it further
 
2     RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
3 presented to the International President of Phi Beta Sigma
4 Fraternity, Inc., the Great Lakes Regional Director of Phi Beta
5 Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and the Illinois State Director of Phi
6 Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.