Full Text of SR0377 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Roy Arthur Axford, Sc.D., of Urbana, | 4 | | who passed away on March 10, 2021; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford was born in Detroit to Charlotte | 6 | | Donaldson Paulson and Roy Paulson on August 26, 1928; he was | 7 | | later adopted by his mother's second husband, Morgan Axford; | 8 | | he received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Williams | 9 | | College and his Bachelor of Science in General Science from | 10 | | MIT in June 1952; he married Anne Sophie Langfeldt Rasmussen | 11 | | on April 1, 1954, and she preceded him in death on September | 12 | | 20, 2017; he received his Master of Science in Nuclear | 13 | | Engineering from MIT in June 1955; he became the first student | 14 | | to earn his Doctor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from MIT | 15 | | in February 1958; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford worked as a nuclear engineer for the | 17 | | Technical Research Group Inc. in New York in 1958 and as a | 18 | | supervisor for the Theoretical Physics Group, Atomics | 19 | | International in Canoga Park, California from 1958 to 1960; | 20 | | subsequently, he entered the academic community for the rest | 21 | | of his career; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford's academic appointments included |
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| 1 | | associate professor of Nuclear Engineering from 1960 to 1962 | 2 | | and professor of Nuclear Engineering from 1962 to 1963 at | 3 | | Texas A&M University, associate professor of Nuclear | 4 | | Engineering from 1963 to 1966 at Northwestern University, and | 5 | | associate professor of Nuclear Engineering from 1966 to 1968, | 6 | | professor of Nuclear Engineering from 1968 to August 2017 and | 7 | | professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at | 8 | | Urbana-Champaign; during his 51 years of teaching at the | 9 | | University of Illinois, he mentored numerous master's degree | 10 | | students and 54 doctoral students; he advised students, served | 11 | | on many university committees, and received numerous teaching | 12 | | honors; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford also served as a consultant; starting | 14 | | in 1963, he spent 44 summers as a consultant at the Los Alamos | 15 | | National Laboratory (LANL), X-Division, Theoretical and | 16 | | Computational Physics in Los Alamos, New Mexico; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford belonged to a number of professional | 18 | | societies, including the American Nuclear Society, which named | 19 | | him a fellow in 2018; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford was preceded in death by his wife of 63 | 21 | | years, Anne; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Axford is survived by his children, Roy |
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| 1 | | (Sarah), Trevor (Cyndi), and Elizabeth; his grandchildren, | 2 | | Noah, Charlie, Madison, and Mackenzie; his cousins, Pete | 3 | | Donaldson and Jay Chandler (Fleur); and his nieces, nephews, | 4 | | and cousins in the U.S. and Norway; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 7 | | Roy Arthur Axford, Sc.D. and extend our sincere condolences to | 8 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to the family of Dr. Axford as an expression of our | 12 | | deepest sympathy.
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