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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of prominent Chicago architect Walter A.
4 Netsch Jr., who passed away on June 15, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Walter Netsch was born on February 23, 1920; he
6 married the former Illinois Comptroller, Dawn Clark Netsch, in
7 1963; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Mr. Netsch is credited with creating several
9 significant structures throughout the country using "Field
10 Theory" and was both praised and criticized for his work; he is
11 remembered for designing the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in
12 Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Regenstein Library at the
13 University of Chicago, the Inland Steel Building in Chicago,
14 the Behavioral Science Center at the University of Illinois at
15 Chicago, the Miami University Art Museum, and his home in
16 Chicago; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Mr. Netsch studied architecture at Massachusetts
18 Institute of Technology; during World War II he was stationed
19 on the Aleutian Islands; and
 
20     WHEREAS, He spent thirty years with Skidmore, Owings, and
21 Merrill, the Chicago architecture firm; in 1986 he was

 

 

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1 appointed Park District Board president by then Mayor of
2 Chicago, Harold Washington; and
 
3     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, Walter
4 Andrew Netsch, Sr. and Anna Calista Netsch (nee Smith) and one
5 sister, Nan (the late William S. II) Kerr; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Walter Netsch Jr. is survived by his wife of 44
7 years, Dawn Clark Netsch; his nephews, Andrew D. (Pamela) Kerr
8 and William S. Kerr III; his niece, Elizabeth Nan Kerr; and his
9 grand-nephews, Andrew D. (Lindsey) Kerr, Jr. and Mathias S.
10 Kerr; therefore, be it
 
11     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
12 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
13 his family and friends, the passing of Walter A. Netsch Jr.;
14 and be it further
 
15     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
16 presented to the family of Walter A. Netsch Jr. as a symbol of
17 our sincere sympathy.