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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Dr. John E. Halasz, who passed away on
4 April 19, 2010; and
 
5     WHEREAS, John Halasz was born on May 14, 1920, in Budapest,
6 Hungary; he was a resident of Burr Ridge; and
 
7     WHEREAS, John Halasz served as a medical officer for the
8 United Nations International Refugee Organization in Salzburg,
9 Austria, until 1951, when he came to the United States to begin
10 his training at the University of Illinois Department of
11 Psychiatry; he went on to complete a fellowship at the
12 Institute for Juvenile Research and remained at the university
13 and institute for 43 years, serving on the faculty of the
14 college of medicine's psychiatry department and as director of
15 training, clinical director, associate professor of clinical
16 psychiatry in the child psychiatry division, and academic
17 director of psychiatry at MacNeal Memorial Hospital when the
18 hospital was associated with the university; and
 
19     WHEREAS, John Halasz served as a consultant or
20 administrator of mental health clinics in La Grange, Olympia
21 Fields, and DuPage County and consulted with schools and in
22 family therapy; for many years, he was the only child

 

 

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1 psychiatrist on the executive committee of the Illinois
2 Department of Mental Health and Development Disability; and
 
3     WHEREAS, John Halasz was a fellow of the American
4 Orthopsychiatric Association; he was a life member of the
5 American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of
6 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; he was a past president of the
7 Illinois Council of the AACAP; and
 
8     WHEREAS, John Halasz was recently honored by the APA for
9 his 50 years of service to the field of psychiatry; and
 
10     WHEREAS, John Halasz enjoyed spending time with his family,
11 trains, world travel, and photography; and
 
12     WHEREAS, John Halasz was preceded in death by his first
13 wife, Anna, nee Wolfjer, and his brother, Zoltan (the late Ila)
14 Halasz; and
 
15     WHEREAS, John Halasz is survived by his wife, Marilynn, nee
16 Macku; his children, Alexandra (Paul Reed), Frank (Maureen
17 Callanan), Annette (Thomas Gaboriault), and John C. "Neal"; his
18 grandchildren, Reuben Turley, Cricket (Ian) Bernardini,
19 Caitlin and Kevin Halasz, and Lianna Reed; his
20 great-grandchildren, Cooper and Sawyer Bernardini; and his
21 sister-in-law, Ila; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
3 his family and friends, the passing of Dr. John E. Halasz; and
4 be it further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to the family of John Halasz as an expression of our
7 sympathy.