Full Text of SR1266 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 Ronald Gregory Draper; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Ronald Draper was born to Denmon and Gladys | 5 | | Draper in Chicago on February 8, 1950; he learned the meaning | 6 | | of hard work at an early age as a paperboy, bus boy, and number | 7 | | runner in the Chatham community; he graduated at the top of his | 8 | | class from Martha Ruggles Elementary School in 1963; he | 9 | | attended Harlan High School, where he participated in cross | 10 | | country and track and field and broke the state record for the | 11 | | 120-yard high hurdles, leading his team to the Illinois State | 12 | | High School Championship; he enrolled at the North Carolina | 13 | | Colleges for Negroes, now known as North Carolina Central | 14 | | University, on a track and field scholarship in 1967 and | 15 | | became a 5-time College All-American between 1970 and 1971; he | 16 | | earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science from NCCU in | 17 | | 1971; he earned his Juris Doctor in 1974; he married Virginia | 18 | | Reynolds in 1975, and they had two sons, Jason and Brandon | 19 | | Draper; he passed the Cook County Bar Exam in 1975; he married | 20 | | Vivian Boone in 1987, and she preceded him in death in November | 21 | | 1991; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, After passing the bar, Ronald Draper began | 23 | | working as an assistant district attorney with the Cook County |
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| 1 | | State's Attorney office; as a prosecutor, he applied himself | 2 | | vigorously but realized that role was not his true passion; he | 3 | | eventually left the State's Attorney office for private | 4 | | practice as a criminal defense attorney, where he worked for | 5 | | justice and championed the rights of defendants who were sent | 6 | | to prison without a fair trial or by means of false evidence; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Ronald Draper was an active member of the St. | 9 | | Mark United Methodist Church, Grove Phi Grove, Kappa Alpha | 10 | | Psi, and the Cook County Bar Association; he was an avid golfer | 11 | | and world traveler; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 14 | | Ronald Gregory Draper and extend our sincere condolences to | 15 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 16 | | further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Ronald Draper as an expression of | 19 | | our deepest sympathy.
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