SR0866 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of James Kennan Hotchkiss of Hinsdale, who passed away on August 21, 2008; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was born on April 1, 1928 in Berwyn and raised in Highland Park; he was the son of the late Eugene and Jeanette Hotchkiss; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss graduated from Vermont Academy, then graduated with his two brothers from Dartmouth College in 1950; he also earned his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and held the C.F.A. and C.I.C. designations; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1953; he initially served aboard a ship with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea before being stationed in Washington, D.C. with the Office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon; and

WHEREAS, After his military discharge, James Kennan Hotchkiss returned to Chicago, where he worked as a financial analyst for United Airlines at Midway Airport; in the early 1960s, he joined the investment firm of Stein, Roe & Farnham in Chicago, where he became a partner and member of the executive committee; in 1970, he founded Hotchkiss Associates, a firm that provides investment counsel to individual and institutional clients; he was still working for his clients at Hotchkiss Associates at the time of his passing; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an active member in numerous civic and charitable organizations; he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and a Life Trustee of the Nature Conservancy's Illinois Chapter, where he had also served as Chairman; in 1996, the national Nature Conservancy awarded him the conservancy's highest honor for leadership and service, the Oak Leaf Award; he served as a Trustee of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky; he had also been a member of the Chicago Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Wayfarers, and the University and Mid-Day Clubs; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss moved with his family to Hinsdale in 1959; since 1959, he was an active member in civic life, serving as Chairman of the Trustees of the Public Library and Vice-Chairman of the Plan Commission; he led referendum campaigns for new facilities for Hinsdale Central High School, the Library, and for the initial funding for the College of DuPage; he also served as a Trustee of the Hinsdale Opera Theater; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was an avid outdoorsman and very competitive athlete, skiing with his children and grandchildren well into his 70s; he loved to canoe around the lakes and walk the back roads around his cabin in the north woods of Wisconsin and explore the fields and prairie grasslands of the family's farm in Franklin Grove; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss was preceded in death by his parents; and

WHEREAS, James Kennan Hotchkiss is survived by his wife of 57 years, the former Nancy McCoy; his children, Carolyn (Kathy Cole), Laura (Mark) Capaldini, John (Ingrid), and Anne (Steve) Janzer; his six grandchildren, Lia, Nick, Graham, James, Emily, and Mark; and his brothers, Frank (Kay Lindahl) and Eugene (Suzanne); therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of James Kennan Hotchkiss; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of James Kennan Hotchkiss as an expression of our sympathy.