HR1220 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, On April 20-23, 2006, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., will host its Great Lakes Regional Conference at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza in downtown Chicago; and

WHEREAS, The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by three young, African-American, male students, celebrated as the Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and the Honorable Charles I. Brown; and

WHEREAS, From its inception, the Founders conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community, rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families; this deep conviction is mirrored in the Fraternity's motto, "Culture For Service and Service For Humanity"; and

WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma is the only historically African-American fraternity to be constitutionally bound to a sorority, enjoying and fostering a mutually supportive relationship with the women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma has from its very beginning concerned itself with improving the general well-being of minority groups and demonstrates this through partnerships with the March of Dimes, the American Cancer Society, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the National Marrow Donor Program, American Diabetes Research, and St. Jude's Children Research Hospital; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., on the occasion of its Great Lakes Regional Conference, and we wish the attendees well; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., as an expression of our esteem and best wishes for a successful conference.