Full Text of SR0835 97th 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
Matthew D. Melucci of Collinsville, who | 4 | | passed away on May 10, 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci was born on January 23, 1944, in | 6 | | Belleville, New Jersey; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci earned his bachelor's degree from | 8 | | Rutgers University in 1966 and his master's degree from St. | 9 | | Louis University in 1974; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci had a long career in public | 11 | | service which began during his service as a lieutenant in the | 12 | | U.S. Army Military Police Corps, where he was assigned to the | 13 | | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; he served as Madison | 14 | | County's first director of administration under the late Nelson | 15 | | Hagnauer from 1975 to 1979; he also served as first chief of | 16 | | staff to U.S. Congressman Jerry Costello and was named | 17 | | executive director of the East-West Gateway Council of | 18 | | Governments in 1979; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci was a 5-term clerk of the Third | 20 | | Judicial Circuit Court; he was first elected to the position in | 21 | | 1992 and was subsequently re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, and |
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci served as the chairman of the | 3 | | Madison County Democratic Party; in 2007, he was elected to | 4 | | serve as the Madison County Democratic Party Chairman and was | 5 | | recently re-elected to that post; he was also a member of the | 6 | | Democratic National Committee; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci was a St. Louis Fellow in the | 8 | | Program for Senior Executives of State and Local Government at | 9 | | the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University | 10 | | and was in the 1977 to 1978 class of the Danforth Foundation's | 11 | | St. Louis Leadership Program; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci was a member of S.S. Peter & Paul | 13 | | Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, and the American | 14 | | Legion Post 365; he was also a past president of the | 15 | | Collinsville Lions Club and the Italian American Club of | 16 | | Southwestern Illinois; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci was preceded in death by his | 18 | | parents, Matteo and Antoinette, nee LaBadia, Melucci, and his | 19 | | sister, Maria, nee Melucci, Bainbridge; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Matthew Melucci is survived by his nephews, Tom, | 21 | | Tim, Mark, and James Bainbridge; his nieces, Carla Cogdell and |
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| 1 | | Maria Wilckens; his great-niece and great-nephews; his | 2 | | brother-in-law; and his aunts and cousins; therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 5 | | his family and friends, the passing of Matthew D. Melucci; and | 6 | | be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the family of Matthew Melucci as an expression of | 9 | | our sympathy.
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