HR1228 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Katherine Rothwell-Francis is retiring after 47 years of employment with A.C. Nielsen, Jr.; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a four-term trustee of Waukegan Township; she was appointed as a township trustee in 1989 and was elected to the position in 1990; and

WHEREAS, She served 21 years as president of the Genesee Branch YMCA Board and was the first woman to hold that position; she was a board member of the National Council of YMCAs; she was appointed by Mayor Bill Morris to be a board member of the Waukegan City Human Relations Commission; she was a candidate for Park Commissioner for the City of Waukegan; and

WHEREAS, Positions she has held include 1st vice president of the New Fellowship District Association and secretary/treasurer to the Parent Body; she is a member of Waukegan's Woman's Club; she served as 4th vice president of the Baptist State Convention of Illinois and was chairman of the Lucille C. Williams Scholarship Committee; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a member of Gideon Missionary Baptist Church, where she is a past B.T.U. director, choir director, Sunday School teacher (45 years), choir member (44 years), Women's Day Chairman (16 years), president of Pastor's Aid (19 years), a member of the Trustee Board, and a Deaconess; she was a 1978 Women's Day Speaker at Second Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a certified teacher-National Congress Christian Education, and past chairman of special projects in the Church Secretaries Workshop at the National Congress of Christian Education, NBC, USA, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, She was born in Garrard County, Kentucky; she is married to Leonard A. Francis and has two children, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Rothwell-Francis is a graduate of the College of Lake County; she has traveled extensively, and has visited most of the United States of America, the Holy Land, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Holland, Brussels, Belgium, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and the West Indies; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Katherine Rothwell-Francis on the occasion of her retirement after 47 years of service with A.C. Nielsen, Jr., and we thank her for her service to her community; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Ms. Rothwell-Francis as an expression of our esteem.