Bill Text: IL HJR0058 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates the Savanna-Sabula bridge as the "Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-31 - Adopted Both Houses [HJR0058 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HJR0058-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois General Assembly are | ||||||
| 3 | saddened to hear of the death of Dale Allen Gardner, who passed | ||||||
| 4 | away on February 19, 2014; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner was born in Fairmont, Minnesota on | ||||||
| 6 | November 8, 1948; he graduated from Savanna Community High | ||||||
| 7 | School in 1966 as valedictorian and earned a Bachelor of | ||||||
| 8 | Science in Engineering and Physics at the University of | ||||||
| 9 | Illinois in 1970 with a 5.0 grade point average; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner entered into active duty with the | ||||||
| 11 | United States Navy and was assigned to Aviation Officer | ||||||
| 12 | Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner graduated from Basic Naval Flight | ||||||
| 14 | Officer Training School with the highest academic average ever | ||||||
| 15 | achieved in the history of the squadron; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner then attended Naval Air Technical | ||||||
| 17 | Training Center for advanced training where he was selected as | ||||||
| 18 | a Distinguished Naval Graduate and was awarded his Naval Flight | ||||||
| 19 | Officer Wings on May 5, 1971; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner then spent his next two years | ||||||
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| 1 | assigned to the Weapons Systems Test Division; he was involved | ||||||
| 2 | in the initial F-14 Tomcat developmental test and evaluation | ||||||
| 3 | from 1973 until 1976 and was assigned with the first | ||||||
| 4 | operational F-14 squadron; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner was assigned to Test and Evaluation | ||||||
| 6 | Squadron Four (VX-4) aboard Naval Air Station Point Mugu, | ||||||
| 7 | California and was involved in the operational test and | ||||||
| 8 | evaluation of Navy fighter aircraft; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner was selected as an astronaut | ||||||
| 10 | candidate by NASA in January of 1978; he reported to the | ||||||
| 11 | Johnson Space Center and completed a one-year training and | ||||||
| 12 | evaluation period in August of 1979; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner subsequently served as the Astronaut | ||||||
| 14 | Project Manager for the flight software in the space shuttle | ||||||
| 15 | onboard computers leading up to the first flight in April of | ||||||
| 16 | 1981; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner logged a total of 337 hours in space | ||||||
| 18 | and 225 orbits of the Earth on two flights at the end of his | ||||||
| 19 | NASA career; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner returned to his Navy duties and was | ||||||
| 21 | assigned to the United States Space Command in Colorado | ||||||
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| 1 | Springs, Colorado in October of 1986 where he served for two | ||||||
| 2 | years; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner was promoted to the rank of captain | ||||||
| 4 | in June of 1989 and became the Command's Deputy Director for | ||||||
| 5 | Space Control at Patterson Air Force Base; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner retired from the United States Navy | ||||||
| 7 | in October of 1990 and accepted a position with TRW Inc. in | ||||||
| 8 | Colorado Springs and became program manager for TRW's Space and | ||||||
| 9 | Defense Sector; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner ended his career as the Associate | ||||||
| 11 | Director for Renewable Fuels Science and Technology at the | ||||||
| 12 | National
Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2003 and retired in | ||||||
| 13 | January of 2013; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Dale Gardner was awarded the Defense Superior | ||||||
| 15 | Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Meritorious | ||||||
| 16 | Unit Commendation, the Humanitarian Service Medal, the Sea | ||||||
| 17 | Service Deployment Ribbon, the NASA Space Flight Medal, the | ||||||
| 18 | Master Space Badge, and the Lloyd's of London Meritorious | ||||||
| 19 | Service Medal; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 21 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE | ||||||
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| 1 | CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the Savanna-Sabula bridge | ||||||
| 2 | as the "Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge"; and be it | ||||||
| 3 | further
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| 4 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation | ||||||
| 5 | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with | ||||||
| 6 | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | ||||||
| 7 | giving notice of the name "Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial | ||||||
| 8 | Bridge"; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 10 | presented to the family of Dale Gardner, the Mayor of Savanna, | ||||||
| 11 | the Mayor of Sabula, Iowa, and the Secretary of the Illinois | ||||||
| 12 | Department of Transportation.
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