Full Text of HR1314 96th General Assembly
HR1314 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dorothy | 4 |
| Boyd Sinclair of Peoria, who passed away on May 20, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, Dorothy was born April 21, 1929, in Adairsville, | 6 |
| Georgia, the daughter of Thelma Satterfield Boyd and Robert | 7 |
| Boyd; she married Henry Sinclair on April 18, 1955, in St. | 8 |
| Louis, Missouri; she attended Cartersville High School in | 9 |
| Cartersville, Georgia, and Georgia State College for Women, now | 10 |
| Georgia College and State University, in Milledgeville, | 11 |
| Georgia, receiving a B.S. with honors in chemistry; she earned | 12 |
| a M.S. degree in chemistry at Wellesley University and was | 13 |
| elected to the Sigma Xi scientific society; and
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| WHEREAS, She had worked at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in | 15 |
| St. Louis, Missouri, and Beacon Chemical Company in Cambridge, | 16 |
| Massachusetts; she was a laboratory instructor in chemistry at | 17 |
| Illinois Central College in East Peoria; and she worked for the | 18 |
| Peoria Historical Society; she was active in the League of | 19 |
| Women Voters of Peoria, served two years as its president and | 20 |
| six years as the Peoria City Council observer for its Local | 21 |
| Government Study Group (LOGO); she spearheaded the LOGO's | 22 |
| petition drive to change the manner of election to the Peoria | 23 |
| City Council from a ward system to the present council/manager |
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| system with districts and council-at-large system; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, She was elected to the Peoria City Council as a | 3 |
| council-at-large member in 1975 and was re-elected four times, | 4 |
| retiring in 1991; she ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1989; she | 5 |
| was a member of the League of Women Voters of Peoria, the | 6 |
| Peoria Woman's Civic Federation, the American Association of | 7 |
| University Women, and the Peoria Women's Club; and
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| WHEREAS, She received many awards, including the Rhodell | 9 |
| Owens award, the Peoria's Tricentennial Commission award, the | 10 |
| YWCA's Legend and Outstanding Achievement Professions award, | 11 |
| the Betty Osborne award, and the Universalist Unitarian Church | 12 |
| Outstanding Service award; and
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| WHEREAS, Dorothy was the Peoria Historical Society's | 14 |
| administrative head for several years; she assisted in the | 15 |
| acquisition and moving of the Peoria Visitors Center (Powell | 16 |
| Press building); promoted, trained, and served as a tour guide | 17 |
| for historic trolley tours; and was a board member of | 18 |
| Tri-County Riverfront Action Forum, focusing on restoration of | 19 |
| the Illinois River and Peoria's riverfront; she made many | 20 |
| public lectures throughout the area on the history of Peoria's | 21 |
| distillery business, infamous criminal element, and Peoria's | 22 |
| historical leading women; and
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| WHEREAS, Dorothy Sinclair is survived by her husband, | 2 |
| Henry; her daughter, Claudia; and her son, Ian; therefore, be | 3 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 6 |
| mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 7 |
| Dorothy Sinclair; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to the family of Dorothy Sinclair as a symbol of our | 10 |
| sincere sympathy.
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