Full Text of SR0134 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 Dr. Truman O. Anderson Jr. of Oak | 4 | | Park, who passed away on July 6, 2019 at the age of 92; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Anderson was born to Dr. Truman O. Anderson | 6 | | Sr. and Myrtle V. (Andersen) Anderson on March 26, 1927; he was | 7 | | a native of Chicago's South Side Roseland neighborhood; he | 8 | | grew up in Glenwood and attended Bloom High School in Chicago | 9 | | Heights; he served as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy | 10 | | during World War II; he obtained his bachelor's degree from | 11 | | the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1950; he | 12 | | earned his Master of Science in Microbiology in 1952 and his | 13 | | Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1955; he earned his M.D. from the | 14 | | University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Medicine in | 15 | | 1960; he married Mary Ann Heineken in Emden in 1953, and they | 16 | | moved to Oak Park in 1960; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Anderson taught at both the University of | 18 | | Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Cook County Hospital for 10 | 19 | | years; he held professorships in both medicine and | 20 | | microbiology, including the Keeton Professorship; he | 21 | | transitioned to administration at UIC in 1969; he was the dean | 22 | | of the School of Basic Sciences from 1970 to 1976; he served as | 23 | | executive dean of UIC's four medical campuses in Chicago, |
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| 1 | | Rockford, Peoria, and Urbana-Champaign from 1976 to 1980; he | 2 | | established UIC College of Medicine's James Scholar Program | 3 | | for Independent Study, which he led for many years; alongside | 4 | | many of his colleagues, he helped maintain the independence of | 5 | | the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago in 1989; he | 6 | | retired in 2011; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Anderson received the Conscience of the | 8 | | College Award in recognition of his lifetime service from UIC | 9 | | College of Medicine in 2007; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Anderson served on the Oak Park and River | 11 | | Forest High School Board from 1978 to 1980; he was active in | 12 | | the Oak Park community for many years; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Anderson was known for the importance he | 14 | | placed on family life, and he reveled in the company of his | 15 | | children and grandchildren; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, At the time of his death, Dr. Anderson was | 17 | | survived by his children, Mary Beth Logas, Barbara (Richard) | 18 | | Hickey, Truman O. Anderson III (Caroline Humes), and Amy | 19 | | Anderson (David) de Jong; his grandchildren, William Logas, | 20 | | Daniel (Kristen) Logas, Richard Hickey, Meghan Hickey, | 21 | | Elizabeth Hickey, Kelly Hickey, Sean Hickey, Erik Anderson, | 22 | | Eleanor Anderson, Evan de Jong, and Sonja de Jong; therefore, |
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| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 3 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 4 | | Dr. Truman O. Anderson Jr. and extend our sincere condolences | 5 | | to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be | 6 | | it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the family of Dr. Anderson as an expression of our | 9 | | deepest sympathy.
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