Full Text of SR1208 099th 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 Margaret Balbach, who passed away on | 4 | | September 17, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach was born in 1924 in New Orleans, | 6 | | Louisiana; her parents were John Kain and Marie LaPorte; she | 7 | | married Harold Balbach in 1961; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach was educated at Emmanuel College | 9 | | in Boston, Massachusetts, where she earned a bachelor's degree | 10 | | in biology; she later earned an A.M. degree from Radcliffe | 11 | | College; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach served as a professor at Emmanuel | 13 | | College for several years; while there, she received a National | 14 | | Science Foundation faculty award to attend Harvard University | 15 | | for a year, where she studied geology and paleontology; in | 16 | | 1960, she entered graduate school at the University of Illinois | 17 | | and there met and married her future husband; she received her | 18 | | doctorate in botany in 1964 and taught at the University of | 19 | | Illinois at Chicago and then in Urbana, where she was the | 20 | | coordinator of the introductory botany course, which enrolled | 21 | | more than 1,000 students a year; she later taught at Eastern | 22 | | Illinois University; in 1972, she took a year to expand her |
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| 1 | | knowledge of horticulture, completing numerous courses at the | 2 | | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later at several | 3 | | extension locations; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In 1973, Margaret Balbach joined the Agriculture | 5 | | Department at Illinois State University and taught | 6 | | horticulture there until her retirement in 1994; she attained | 7 | | the rank of full professor of plant and soil science and | 8 | | founded their hort-business program, in which horticulture | 9 | | students minored in business so as to better integrate into the | 10 | | business aspects of prospective employers; she also created and | 11 | | taught numerous courses in horticulture and landscape and | 12 | | floral design and wrote a weekly column on these topics for the | 13 | | Bloomington Pantagraph from 1976 to 2006, followed by several | 14 | | years on the Internet at PegBalbach.com; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach was a charter member of the | 16 | | Garden Writers of America and was a Certified Professional | 17 | | Horticulturalist through the American Society for | 18 | | Horticultural Science; she was also a Champaign County Master | 19 | | Naturalist; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach was preceded in death by her | 21 | | parents; her brother; and her dear cousin, Mary Slaton (the | 22 | | actress, Dorothy Lamour); and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Balbach is survived by her husband, | 2 | | Harold; her sister, Rosemary; and her 5 nieces and nephews; | 3 | | therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her | 6 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Margaret Balbach; and | 7 | | be it further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 | | presented to the family of Margaret Balbach as an expression of | 10 | | our sympathy.
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