Full Text of HR1177 93rd General Assembly
HR1177 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with regret of the death of Dr. | 4 |
| Stanley Yachnin on Monday, August 30, 2004; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Yachnin was born on June 28, 1930 and raised | 6 |
| in Brooklyn, New York in a devout Jewish household; he attended | 7 |
| Midwood High School as well as the Yeshiva in the borough's | 8 |
| Flatbush district; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, From 1947 to 1950, he studied at Cornell | 10 |
| University, but without earning a degree; instead of graduating | 11 |
| from Cornell, Dr. Yachnin opted to go straight to medical | 12 |
| school at New York University, where he earned his medical | 13 |
| degree in 1954 and was first in his class; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, His residency training was interrupted when he | 15 |
| served two years as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps; | 16 |
| he was stationed in a small town outside of Paris, where he | 17 |
| cared for ailing soldiers, learned French, and cultivated a | 18 |
| lifelong interest in wines and food; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Yachnin met and married his wife, Irene, | 20 |
| during his residency; she preceded him in death 1972; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, He resumed medical training in 1958, completing | 22 |
| his residency and a fellowship in hematology in 1961 at the | 23 |
| Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, part of the Harvard | 24 |
| system; he became an assistant professor at the University of | 25 |
| Chicago in 1961 and spent his entire career there, helping to | 26 |
| build a small hematology-oncology section into one of the | 27 |
| world's leading clinical cancer research groups; he became | 28 |
| section chief of hematology in 1966, a full professor in 1969, | 29 |
| and chief of the combined section of hematology and oncology | 30 |
| from 1972 to 1982; he retired in 1996, having recruited many |
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| physicians and scientists to the section; he also served as a | 2 |
| member and chairman of the university committee that approves | 3 |
| faculty appointments and promotions, and from 1988 to 1996 | 4 |
| directed the Pew program, one of the earliest interdisciplinary | 5 |
| graduate programs for students interested in completing both an | 6 |
| M.D. and a Ph.D.; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, Much of Dr. Yachnin's work concentrated on blood | 8 |
| cells and related disorders; during the 1960s, he explored | 9 |
| paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a rare disease that leads | 10 |
| to anemia, bleeding in urine while asleep, and potentially | 11 |
| deadly blood clots; his 1970s research took him into the | 12 |
| biochemistry of lymphocyte transformation, how white blood | 13 |
| cells respond to infections; and
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| WHEREAS, Inside the laboratory, Dr. Yachnin demanded not | 15 |
| only high standards and thorough research from his students and | 16 |
| assistants, but also a reverence and exactitude in their use of | 17 |
| English in their science; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Dr. Yachnin has been deeply felt by | 19 |
| many, especially his children, Benson (Melinda) Yachnin and | 20 |
| Catherine (Addison) Braendel; and his grandchildren Noah, | 21 |
| Clea, William Braendel, and Emma Yachnin; therefore, be it | 22 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 23 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 24 |
| mourn the passing of Dr. Stanley Yachnin, and we are grateful | 25 |
| for the many contributions he made to the medical community and | 26 |
| cancer research; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 28 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Yachnin as an expression of our | 29 |
| sincerest condolences for their loss.
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