Full Text of SR2430 99th 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 Jeremiah David Sullivan of Urbana, who | 4 | | passed away on July 7, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was born on November 15, 1938 in | 6 | | Norwood, Massachusetts; his parents were Jeremiah F. Sullivan | 7 | | and Doris Nutton Sullivan; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, After receiving his bachelor's degree in physics | 9 | | as an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar in 1960 from Carnegie Institute | 10 | | of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Jeremiah | 11 | | Sullivan earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University | 12 | | in 1964; he spent his postdoctoral years as a research | 13 | | associate in the theoretical physics group at the Stanford | 14 | | Linear Accelerator Center; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, In 1967, Jeremiah Sullivan joined the Physics | 16 | | Department at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana as | 17 | | an associate professor; he became a professor in 1973; he | 18 | | retired from the University of Illinois in July of 2006 as the | 19 | | head of the Department of Physics, a position he held for six | 20 | | years; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, In 1974, Jeremiah Sullivan began what ultimately |
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| 1 | | developed into his major research direction when he accepted an | 2 | | invitation to become a member of JASON, a group of scientists | 3 | | who provide expert technical analyses to the United States | 4 | | government on scientific issues relevant to national security; | 5 | | each summer, until 2011, he spent six weeks working with the | 6 | | JASON group and contributed greatly to its success; he also | 7 | | lent his expertise to a number of other important studies and | 8 | | reviews that have played key roles in the evolution of United | 9 | | States defense policy over the past 20 years; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan made significant contributions | 11 | | to particle physics in the early years of his career; he was a | 12 | | member of numerous influential committees, including the | 13 | | United States Department of Energy's High Energy Physics | 14 | | Advisory Panel, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Particle Data | 15 | | Group Advisory Panel; the Advisory Committee of the National | 16 | | Nuclear Security Administration, the Board of Directors of the | 17 | | Arms Control Association, the Distinguished External Advisory | 18 | | Committee on Arms Control and National Security of Sandia | 19 | | National Laboratories, the External Review Committee of the | 20 | | Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and International Security | 21 | | Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the | 22 | | Review Committee of the National Security Directorate of | 23 | | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; he was also the acting | 24 | | head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Fermi National | 25 | | Accelerator Laboratory in 1972; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 2001, Jeremiah Sullivan was appointed to a | 2 | | four-year term as the United States representative to the Panel | 3 | | on Security-Related Civil Science and Technology, a | 4 | | subcommittee of the NATO Science Committee; he served on the | 5 | | Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the | 6 | | American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 2002 and on | 7 | | the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the | 8 | | National Academy of Sciences from 1980 to 1983; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was elected as a Fellow of the | 10 | | American Physical Society and the American Association for the | 11 | | Advancement of Science; he received an Alfred P. Sloan | 12 | | Foundation fellowship in 1968; he was also recognized by the | 13 | | American Physical Society with the 2000 Leo Szilard Award; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan loved sailing in the Pacific | 15 | | waters off San Diego and was delighted to be co-captain of a | 16 | | six-person sailboat for two weeks with his friends in Tahiti | 17 | | and Bora Bora in 2001; he enjoyed building furniture and wooden | 18 | | toys for his children and was handy in fixing anything that | 19 | | broke; he enjoyed art and was good at framing pictures for his | 20 | | home and for gifts; he enjoyed music, his garden, spending time | 21 | | in nature, and traveling with his wife throughout the United | 22 | | States and abroad; he also enjoyed reading about history, | 23 | | current events, and science of many kinds, and playing with his |
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| 1 | | children, his granddaughter, and his cats; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was preceded in death by his | 3 | | parents; his sisters, Doris Ann Bradbury and Mary Ellen Hanley; | 4 | | and his brother, David Hall Sullivan; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan is survived by his loving wife | 6 | | of 54 years, Sheila Sullivan; his children, Maureen E. Sullivan | 7 | | and Jeremiah J. (Jennifer) Sullivan; his granddaughter, Lily S. | 8 | | Sullivan; and his nieces and nephews, Captain Timothy R. | 9 | | (Marie) Hanley, United States Navy (Ret.), Mary K. Hanley (Ken | 10 | | Scheffler), David L. (Carla) Bradbury, Karole L. Bradbury, and | 11 | | Steven E. Bradbury; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 14 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Jeremiah David | 15 | | Sullivan; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the family of Jeremiah Sullivan as an expression | 18 | | of our sympathy.
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