Full Text of HR1041 095th General Assembly
HR1041 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are
pleased to recognize milestone | 4 |
| achievements in high school sports in
the State of Illinois; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, The Centralia High School Boys Varsity Basketball | 7 |
| Team, the
Orphans, won the school's 2,000th game on Friday, | 8 |
| February 15, 2008 at Mt. Vernon High School with a final score | 9 |
| of Centralia 45, Mt. Vernon 43; and
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| WHEREAS, The Orphan team consists of Brandon Buchanan, Evan | 11 |
| Burmester, Myron Cunningham, Adrian Dabney, Keith Johnson, | 12 |
| Justin Keef, Ben Kracht, R.J. Kwiatkowski, Mark McConnaughay, | 13 |
| Jake Prosise, Stile Smith, Devan Wells, and Carlton Westbrook; | 14 |
| the Head Coach is Lee Bennett; the Assistant Coaches are Brad | 15 |
| Goewey, Ryan Blaha, and Doug Jack; and the video person is | 16 |
| DeAndre Williams; and
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| WHEREAS, Centralia Basketball has come a long way in the | 18 |
| past 102 years;
Centralia High School Basketball started in | 19 |
| 1906 and was played in
the basement of "B" Building, which had | 20 |
| a twelve foot high ceiling and
supporting posts on the playing | 21 |
| floor; in 1922, play was moved to a new gym
which had seating | 22 |
| only on the west side; in 1936, the current gym, named after
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| legendary coach A.L. Trout, was dedicated; A.L. Trout served as | 2 |
| coach from 1914
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1950 and holds the Illinois High School | 3 |
| Boys Basketball coaching
record of 809 wins at one school; and
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| WHEREAS, The nickname of the "Orphans" came from a comment | 5 |
| made by a Chicago
sports writer in 1937 at the Pontiac Holiday | 6 |
| Tournament after the team came out
for warm-ups in bedraggled | 7 |
| suits and warm-up jackets with no buttons; Coach
Trout liked | 8 |
| the saying and tagged the club Orphans, a tradition that | 9 |
| continues
to this day; and
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| WHEREAS, Centralia High School is the second high school in | 11 |
| the nation and the first in the State of Illinois to reach this | 12 |
| milestone; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 |
| congratulate the Centralia High School Boys Varsity Basketball | 16 |
| Team on the school's 2,000th win and wish them continued | 17 |
| success on the courts across Southern Illinois; and be it | 18 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to Head Coach Lee Bennett on behalf of the Centralia | 21 |
| Orphans Basketball Team.
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