Full Text of SR0435 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 Rupert Nelson Evans, who passed away on | 4 | | April 24, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans was born on April 6, 1921 in Terre | 6 | | Haute, Indiana; his parents were Loran Nelson and Hazel Rupert | 7 | | Evans; he married Barbara Jean Barbre in 1941; following his | 8 | | first wife's death, he married Mary K. Flora Farber in 2000; | 9 | | Mary passed away on April 3, 2015; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans served his country as a member of the | 11 | | United States Navy in the Admiralty Islands during World War | 12 | | II; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans graduated from Indiana State | 14 | | Teachers College in 1946 and began teaching high school | 15 | | vocational machine shop in Indiana; he subsequently earned his | 16 | | Ph.D. in industrial psychology from Purdue University in 1950; | 17 | | he was also a Fulbright Scholar at Yokohama National University | 18 | | in Japan in 1957 and the recipient of 4 honorary doctorates; | 19 | | and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans taught for 32 years at the University | 21 | | of Illinois, where he served as head of 2 departments and as |
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| 1 | | dean of the College of Education; he was the major adviser for | 2 | | more than 50 doctoral students and was principal investigator | 3 | | on numerous funded research studies; he wrote 10 books and many | 4 | | articles on vocational and industrial education, teacher | 5 | | education, and bookbinding; he also served as president of the | 6 | | University of Illinois Faculty Senate and as a member of | 7 | | numerous all-university committees; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans was active in many academic, | 9 | | professional, and community organizations; he was a | 10 | | presidential appointee to numerous national committees and | 11 | | served as chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Study | 12 | | Committee on Vocational Education Research; he lectured and | 13 | | conducted research at various national and international | 14 | | universities; he served on the Champaign Unit 4 School Board | 15 | | for 2 terms and served on the board of the Champaign-Urbana | 16 | | Habitat for Humanity; he also served as a member of the Urbana | 17 | | Park District Advisory Committee and was the first president of | 18 | | the Urbana Free Library Foundation; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Rupert Evans is survived by 3 daughters, Ellen | 20 | | (Roger) Collins, Catherine (Ron) Westman, and Nancy (Paul) | 21 | | McNabb, and his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; | 22 | | therefore, be it
| 23 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 2 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Rupert Nelson Evans; | 3 | | and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to the family of Rupert Evans as an expression of our | 6 | | sympathy.
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