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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate Illinois State
4 Capitol Nurse Nancy Wedeking on her retirement; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Nancy received her early education in Sunday
6 School, where she never missed a Sunday for fourteen years; she
7 graduated as an honor student from Beardstown High School in
8 1963; she was a 1967 graduate of Passavant Area School of
9 Nursing in Jacksonville, where she received the first Dr. Mary
10 Louise Newman Award for the Outstanding Student in Obstetrics;
11 and she was number one in her class at St. John's School of
12 Anesthesiology in 1968; and
 
13     WHEREAS, She was employed at Schmitt Hospital in
14 Beardstown, Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, and St.
15 John's Hospital in Springfield before beginning her career as a
16 nurse for the State of Illinois; and
 
17     WHEREAS, She served as the Stratton Building Nurse for
18 twenty-four years, before being named by the Illinois
19 Department of Public Health to move to the Illinois State
20 Capitol in 2001; and
 
21     WHEREAS, During her time as a nurse in the State Capitol,

 

 

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1 she has seen an average of forty patients a day; during the
2 times that the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate are
3 in Session, she may see as many as nine hundred people in a
4 month; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Her many duties include: handling all emergencies
6 within the Capitol or outside on the Capitol grounds; having
7 food and drink readily available for patients in need;
8 providing a place of rest for stressed out State employees;
9 removing splinters; listening; caring; and being there in those
10 times when people need a friendly face; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Nancy finds time to be there for anyone in need of
12 her special touch; she is very caring, dedicated to her field,
13 and above all, one of the nicest and most sincere people to be
14 found in the State Capitol; and
 
15     WHEREAS, When Nancy served as an anesthetist, she was
16 chosen to serve during the first kidney transplant to be
17 performed in Springfield; she was later the recipient of a
18 kidney transplant in 2001; and
 
19     WHEREAS, Nancy comes from a medical family; her mother and
20 Nancy both graduated from the same schools, Passavant School of
21 Nursing and St. John's School of Anesthesiology, and both
22 worked at Schmitt Hospital and Memorial Medical Center; and her

 

 

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1 brother, Dr. Fred Lee, resides in Michigan; and
 
2     WHEREAS, Nancy has been blessed with many good friends
3 throughout her life, but none more so than her sister, Peggy
4 White; therefore, be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
7 congratulate Nancy Wedeking on her retirement, we thank her for
8 her dedication to the men and women of the Illinois State
9 Capitol, and we wish her the best in all her future endeavors;
10 and be it further
 
11     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12 presented to Nurse Nancy Wedeking on her retirement as a small
13 symbol of respect from her many friends and patients in the
14 Illinois State Capitol.