Full Text of SR0511 93rd General Assembly
SR0511 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate were saddened | 3 |
| to learn of the passing of Karl Joachim "Jock" Weintraub of | 4 |
| Hyde Park on March 25, 2004; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Karl Joachim Weintraub was born in Darmstadt, | 6 |
| Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother and spent | 7 |
| his childhood at a Quaker boarding school in Holland, where he | 8 |
| was hidden during World War II by a Christian family and | 9 |
| afterwards was sent by the Quakers to live in America, where he | 10 |
| eventually found his way to Chicago and enrolled at the | 11 |
| University of Chicago; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Weintraub received a bachelor of arts degree | 13 |
| in 1949, a master of arts in 1952, and a Ph.D. in History in | 14 |
| 1957; he began teaching as an intern in 1954 at the University | 15 |
| of Chicago, where he spent 60 years as a student, professor, | 16 |
| and an inspiring mentor to generations of students; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Weintraub's course on Western History and | 18 |
| Culture had a "rock concert-like" appeal, with spring long | 19 |
| being marked by students sleeping out on the university's | 20 |
| quadrangle the night before registration in order to secure a | 21 |
| place in his class, which many alumni recall as a centerpiece | 22 |
| of their education; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, He continued to teach his course even after | 24 |
| retiring and refused to accept a salary in quiet protest of the | 25 |
| changing styles in higher education, explaining that his | 26 |
| experiences with Nazism deepened his determination to keep his | 27 |
| course alive; and | 28 |
| WHEREAS, In addition to teaching at the University of | 29 |
| Chicago, he shared his knowledge by serving as a Life Trustee | 30 |
| for Knox College; and |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Weintraub also served as a trustee of the Art | 2 |
| Institute of Chicago and on the Board of Governors of the | 3 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Weintraub was the Thomas E. Donnelly | 5 |
| Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History at the | 6 |
| University of Chicago, where his teaching skills earned him two | 7 |
| Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in | 8 |
| 1960 and 1986, the Danforth Foundation's E. Harris Harbison | 9 |
| Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1967, and the Amoco | 10 |
| Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to | 11 |
| Undergraduate Teaching in 1995; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, In 2001, he received the Norman Maclean Alumni | 13 |
| Award, which recognizes emeritus and senior faculty members who | 14 |
| have made outstanding contributions to teaching and to the | 15 |
| student experience of life on campus; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, Karl Joachim Weintraub was an esteemed scholar and | 17 |
| the author of numerous publications, including two books, | 18 |
| Visions of Culture: | 19 |
| Voltaire-Guizot-Burckhardt-Lamprecht-Huizinga-Ortega y Gassett | 20 |
| (1966) and The Value of the Individual: Self and Circumstance | 21 |
| in Autobiography (1978); and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Karl Joachim Weintraub's passing | 23 |
| will be deeply felt by many, especially his wife, Katy O'Brien | 24 |
| Weintraub; his sister, Tatjana Wood; and his many colleagues, | 25 |
| former students, friends, and family; therefore, be it | 26 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 27 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of | 28 |
| Karl Joachim Weintraub along with all who knew and loved him | 29 |
| and extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends; | 30 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Karl Joachim Weintraub as an | 3 |
| expression of our sorrow for their loss.
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