Full Text of SR0916 095th General Assembly
SR0916 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Paul Pesthy, who passed away on October | 4 |
| 27, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Paul Pesthy was a native of Budapest, Hungary; as | 6 |
| a teenager, he participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution | 7 |
| against the Soviet occupation of the country; after his parents | 8 |
| helped him escape and obtain asylum in Colombia, a United | 9 |
| States Army general spotted him at an athletic competition and | 10 |
| got him inducted into the U.S. Army; and
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| WHEREAS, During his tenure in the U.S. Army, Paul Pesthy | 12 |
| studied at Rutgers in New Jersey and won several NCAA and | 13 |
| national fencing championships, including a team championship | 14 |
| in 1964; that same year, he joined the U.S. Olympic team as a | 15 |
| member of the modern pentathlon team that won the silver medal | 16 |
| at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games; he was also a member of the | 17 |
| Olympic national fencing team in 1968, 1976, and 1980, but | 18 |
| couldn't compete in the 1980 Moscow games due to the American | 19 |
| boycott; and
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| WHEREAS, Shortly after participating in the Tokyo Olympic | 21 |
| Games, Paul Pesthy went to the San Antonio, Texas area and | 22 |
| nearly single-handedly built a house in Bulverde; while in San |
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| Antonio, he taught kinesiology at San Antonio College for more | 2 |
| than 20 years and served as the director of the national | 3 |
| pentathlon association in San Antonio before it moved to the | 4 |
| control of the U.S. Olympic Committee; he also began coaching | 5 |
| and mentoring numerous athletes, such as 2008 Olympic fencer | 6 |
| Kelley Hurley of San Antonio and former pentathlon world | 7 |
| champion Bob Nieman; and
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| WHEREAS, Paul Pesthy is survived by his loving wife, | 9 |
| Carolyn; and
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| WHEREAS, Paul Pesthy will be remembered by all who knew and | 11 |
| loved him as a wonderful husband and athlete who loved | 12 |
| representing the country that offered him freedom; therefore, | 13 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 15 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 16 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Paul Pesthy; and be it | 17 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Paul Pesthy as an expression of our | 20 |
| sympathy.
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