Full Text of SR0543 98th 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 Donald E. Eckmann, who passed away on | 4 | | July 4, 2013; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Donald Eckmann was born in Chicago and raised in | 6 | | Riverside; he was a longtime resident of Downers Grove; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Donald Eckmann graduated from | 8 | | Riverside-Brookfield High School and earned his Bachelor of | 9 | | Arts in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at | 10 | | Urbana-Champaign in 1956; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, After college, Donald Eckmann began working for | 12 | | Alvord, Burdick, and Howson in Chicago, where he soon became an | 13 | | expert in the practice of water and wastewater engineering and | 14 | | was named a partner in 1969; while at the firm, he was | 15 | | responsible for the design of waterworks facilities in | 16 | | Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Virginia, | 17 | | Kentucky, and Monrovia, Liberia; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, During his tenure at Alvord, Burdick, and Howson, | 19 | | Donald Eckmann served as the civil engineer responsible for | 20 | | overseeing the design of the Lake Michigan water supply system | 21 | | project, which helped lay the groundwork for more than 20 |
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| 1 | | DuPage County communities to receive Lake Michigan water from | 2 | | Chicago; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Donald Eckmann retired from Alvord, Burdick, and | 4 | | Howson in 2006; he continued as a part-time consultant at the | 5 | | firm following the firm's acquisition by the engineering firm | 6 | | of Donohue & Associates; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Donald Eckmann served as president of the Illinois | 8 | | Section and director of the national organization of the | 9 | | American Society of Civil Engineers; he also served as | 10 | | president of the Western Society of Engineers; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, In 1989, Donald Eckmann was the recipient of the | 12 | | Distinguished Alumni Award from Illinois' Civil and | 13 | | Environmental Engineering Alumni Association; in 1992, he was | 14 | | named the Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society of | 15 | | Civil Engineers for his work on the Lake Michigan water supply | 16 | | system project; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Donald Eckmann is survived by his wife of 56 | 18 | | years, Arlene; his son, David; his daughters, Pam Kolzow and | 19 | | Lora Kmieciak; and his 8 grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 21 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his |
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| 1 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Donald E. Eckmann; and | 2 | | be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the family of Donald Eckmann as an expression of | 5 | | our sympathy.
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