Full Text of SR1081 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Paul B. Snider of Peoria, who passed away | 4 | | on November 19, 2010; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, He was born on October 17, 1918, in Cleveland, | 6 | | Ohio, to Bernard and Mary Haeckle Snider; he married June | 7 | | Milner on June 8, 1946, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; he was a World | 8 | | War II veteran of the United States Army Signal Corps from | 9 | | 1942-46, he served in Washington, D.C., and then established | 10 | | and was in charge of United States Army Radiophoto stations in | 11 | | England, France, and Germany; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Before joining Bradley University in 1955, he | 13 | | taught at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and the | 14 | | University of Oregon in Eugene; at Bradley, he served as | 15 | | chairman of the journalism department from 1956 to 1970, and | 16 | | was on leave during 1967 to serve as Fulbright Professor at | 17 | | Kabul University, Afghanistan; while in Afghanistan, he was an | 18 | | accredited foreign correspondent for Time-Life; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, He resigned from Bradley in 1970 to be the | 20 | | founding chairman of the department of mass communications at | 21 | | the American University of Beirut, Lebanon; he also lectured in | 22 | | Iran and Cyprus; he returned to Bradley in 1972, as professor |
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| 1 | | of journalism; in 1976, he received Bradley's Putnam Award for | 2 | | Excellence in Teaching; on his retirement in 1985, Bradley's | 3 | | Board of Trustees appointed him Emeritus Professor of | 4 | | Communication; and | 5 | | | 6 | | WHEREAS, His education included a B.J. from the University | 7 | | of Missouri-Columbia; an M.A. from the University of | 8 | | Oregon-Eugene; and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, Iowa | 9 | | City; he was a retired member of the Society of Professional | 10 | | Journalists, Association for Education in Journalism, Phi | 11 | | Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, and Kappa Alpha Mu; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, He had published articles in many national and | 13 | | international scholarly publications and several U.S. and | 14 | | international newspapers; in 1996, Bradley journalism alumni | 15 | | established two endowed funds in his name, the Dr. Paul B. | 16 | | Snider Award for Teaching Excellence in Communication and the | 17 | | Dr. Paul B. Snider Journalism Scholarship; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, As a journalist, starting in 1936, he worked in | 19 | | the newsphoto division of UPI (United Press International) in | 20 | | Cleveland, and after World War II was manager of the Detroit | 21 | | Bureau, resigning in 1951 to complete his education; after | 22 | | coming to Peoria, for several years he worked summers at the | 23 | | Peoria Journal Star and WEEK-TV, Channel 25; in 1973, he was | 24 | | host and producer of "Urban Issues" on WTVP, Channel 47; from |
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| 1 | | 1976-79, he was the "Media Man," critiquing the media on | 2 | | WEEK-TV, Channel 25; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, He had served as president of the Illinois Valley | 4 | | Press Club, the Board of Directors of the Illinois Heart | 5 | | Association, and was a member of the American Heart Association | 6 | | National Public Relations Committee and Faith, Hope, and Love | 7 | | (prison ministry); he also had been a member of the Peoria | 8 | | Human Relations Committee and foreman of a Peoria County grand | 9 | | jury; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, For several years, he was a tutor in the Common | 11 | | Place adult literacy program; he was a member of the former | 12 | | Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church and a Presbyterian lay | 13 | | minister; he was active from 1978 to 1999 in Cursillo in | 14 | | Christianity, including its prison ministry program; from | 15 | | 2003, as a member of First United Methodist Church of Peoria, | 16 | | he had been active in Caring Hearts, Loaves and Fishes, and | 17 | | Neutral Ground (HIV/AIDS) programs; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, With his wife and children, he had traveled widely | 19 | | abroad; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Paul Snider is survived by his wife; his sons, |
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| 1 | | David Snider and Myk Snider; his daughter, Kathie Downs; and | 2 | | his granddaughters, Julia and Lindsey; therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 5 | | his family and friends, the passing of Paul Snider; and be it | 6 | | further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the family of Paul Snider as a symbol of our | 9 | | sincere sympathy.
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