Full Text of HR0201 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Herbert Wilson
| 4 | | Nadelhoffer on the occasion of his 90th birthday on March 23, | 5 | | 2019; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer was born at Chicago Lying-in | 7 | | Hospital on March 23, 1929, the second child of
Carleton and | 8 | | Harriet (Wilson) Nadelhoffer; he was delivered by his aunt, Dr. | 9 | | Luella Nadelhoffer; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer came home to the Nadelhoffer | 11 | | Farm at 2800 71st Street in what is now known as
Woodridge, | 12 | | where he was greeted by his strong two-year-old brother, | 13 | | Carleton; his creative
sister, Caroline, followed in 1934; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The Nadelhoffer Farm, a Sears Catalog Aladdin Home | 15 | | and a timber frame barn built by his
great-grandfather John | 16 | | Nadelhoffer, featured many Swiss Brown dairy cows and 178-acres | 17 | | of corn,
oats, alfalfa hay, and wheat; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, The family farm was also home to work horses Black | 19 | | Jack and Fanny, who were good for pulling
the hay mower and | 20 | | cultivating corn, Ginger and Maude, older horses that assisted | 21 | | with planting, hired
hand John Zalipu, one powerful and scary |
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| 1 | | bull, a steel-lugged Farmall F-12 Tractor, and a great deal of
| 2 | | love; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, The Nadelhoffer Farm was recognized as the highest | 4 | | producing herd of dairy cows in the
State of Illinois by the | 5 | | Dairy Herd Improvement Association in 1939 and 1957; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer attended Avery-Coonley | 7 | | School, where his mother was a teacher, and Tamarack
School, a | 8 | | one-room schoolhouse where he was one of two 3rd grade | 9 | | students; he also attended Oswego
High School and Downers Grove | 10 | | High School; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer graduated from Carleton | 12 | | College in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in zoology and a
minor | 13 | | in English; he went on to earn a teaching certificate from | 14 | | North Central College, a master's
degree in theater from | 15 | | Northwestern University, and, ultimately, a Ph.D. in public | 16 | | address and group
communication; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer was drafted in 1953 and served | 18 | | in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence
Corps, where he conducted | 19 | | security clearances; he was honorably discharged in 1955 and | 20 | | participated
in an Honor Flight in 2018; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer taught classes at Naperville |
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| 1 | | Community High School, 7th and 3rd grade
science at O'Neil Jr. | 2 | | High School in Downers Grove, 5th grade at Hanahauoli School in | 3 | | Hawaii, 5th grade at
Lester School in Downers Grove, 5th grade | 4 | | at Highland School in Naperville, and 5th grade at Ellsworth
| 5 | | School in Naperville; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer is the father of two | 7 | | daughters, Heather, a beautiful renaissance musician, and | 8 | | Maile,
a beautiful research economist; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, After living away from the farm for a time, | 10 | | Herbert Nadelhoffer moved back to help take care
of his father | 11 | | after his mother Harriet passed away in 1962; his father passed | 12 | | away in 1969; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, The high taxation of farmland during the | 14 | | Quadrennial Reassessment inspired Herbert Nadelhoffer to work
| 15 | | with Congressman Harris Fawell to secure the agricultural tax | 16 | | rollback which reduced property
taxes for farmers caught in | 17 | | urban expansion; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer was a strong and informed | 19 | | voice during the 1959 creation of the Village of
Woodridge, | 20 | | which incorporated the Nadelhoffer Farm among others; he was | 21 | | elected and served
on the Woodridge School Board and worked | 22 | | with his friend and neighbor, architect Tom Brown, on the
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| 1 | | Rossmoor Woodridge Center project; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, During the riots associated with the 1968 | 3 | | Democratic National Convention, Herbert Nadelhoffer invited
| 4 | | four people to find refuge at the Nadelhoffer Farm; 200 people | 5 | | showed up seeking safety; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer created Frogg's Place and | 7 | | rented two farms at Fermilab to provide healthy outdoor
| 8 | | activities for wards of the court residing at the Youth Home in | 9 | | Naperville; he coordinated volunteers,
music, activities, | 10 | | graduate students, and donors; he also taught an Urban Gateways | 11 | | theater class at
Sacred Heart; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer is a champion of history, | 13 | | storytelling, and of the public use of the Greene Farmstead; | 14 | | and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer met the love of his life, Mary | 16 | | Lou Wehrli, on a racquetball court in 1980 and followed
her to | 17 | | the east coast and London; together in 1982, they, along with | 18 | | family and
friends, built their timber frame home at 916 W. | 19 | | Jefferson Avenue in downtown Naperville; it was a
grand barn | 20 | | raising with all generations measuring, cutting, chiseling, | 21 | | soaping, lifting, hammering, and
celebrating; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer and Mary Lou enjoyed | 2 | | extensive travel across the United States and
to Canada, | 3 | | Mexico, Europe, India, Nepal, Australia, and New Zealand; | 4 | | during the trip to India, they visited the
Wanless Hospital, | 5 | | the Wilson Clinic, and the Kodaikanal International School, | 6 | | where his grandparents, Alexander and Eugene Wilson, had worked | 7 | | a
century before; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer rode an elephant in Nepal and | 9 | | was known as Maja Gunda (Barn Smell); and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer later founded Nadelhoffer | 11 | | Energy Works to develop land and build
energy efficient homes, | 12 | | including solar homes, double envelope homes, and timber frame | 13 | | homes; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, As a representative of Riverbend Timber Framing, | 15 | | Herbert Nadelhoffer designed and built timber frame
homes and | 16 | | structures for 25 years; he retired in 2008; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, In 1987, Herbert Nadelhoffer became a certified | 18 | | NCTV17 Naperville Community Television producer; while
working | 19 | | there, he wrote, produced, directed, edited, and starred in | 20 | | Black Acre: a remembrance and
Farmers, Corn, Cows & Hazy | 21 | | Memories; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer remains a friendly face at the | 2 | | Naperville Edward-Elmhurst Health Center; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer enjoys a variety of strenuous | 4 | | activities, including playing flops, 8# ball toss, the coffee
| 5 | | grinder shoulder work out, pull ups, pushes and pulls for legs, | 6 | | breathing deeply, and the hot tub; he is
also a master | 7 | | gardener, a chef extraordinaire, guitar picker, singer of folk | 8 | | songs, painter, sculptor, and
writer; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer excels at Bananagrams, | 10 | | reading, and tenaciously figuring things out; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Herbert Nadelhoffer has said he considers the | 12 | | greatest gifts in his life to be Mary Lou and growing up on
the | 13 | | family farm; therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 15 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 | | we congratulate Herbert Wilson Nadelhoffer on his 90th | 17 | | birthday, and we wish him many more wonderful years; and be it | 18 | | further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to Herbert Nadelhoffer as a symbol of our respect
and | 21 | | esteem.
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