Bill Text: IL HR0590 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-10-14 - Resolution Adopted [HR0590 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HR0590-Introduced.html
|
|
|||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Eunice | ||||||
| 4 | Kennedy Shriver, who passed away on August 11, 2009; and
| ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, She was born on July 10, 1921 in Brookline, | ||||||
| 6 | Massachusetts, to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald | ||||||
| 7 | Kennedy; she was the fifth of nine children; in 1943, Eunice | ||||||
| 8 | Kennedy Shriver received her Bachelor of Arts degree in | ||||||
| 9 | sociology from Stanford University; and
| ||||||
| 10 | WHEREAS, Compelled by a love for her intellectually | ||||||
| 11 | challenged sister, the late Rosemary Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy | ||||||
| 12 | Shriver was devoted to improving the lives of people with | ||||||
| 13 | mental disabilities; she has shown us how, with enough | ||||||
| 14 | compassion and ambition, one woman can change the world; and
| ||||||
| 15 | WHEREAS, In 1961, Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw her first | ||||||
| 16 | major success as an advocate for people suffering from mental | ||||||
| 17 | disabilities when the President's Committee on Mental | ||||||
| 18 | Retardation was established; she continued her campaign to | ||||||
| 19 | research preventative measures against mental retardation and | ||||||
| 20 | to improve society's treatment of people with mental | ||||||
| 21 | disabilities; and
| ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | WHEREAS, Eunice Kennedy Shriver collaborated with Anne | ||||||
| 2 | McGlone Burke to host the world's first Special Olympics at | ||||||
| 3 | Chicago's Soldier Field in 1968; over the past 41 years, Eunice | ||||||
| 4 | Kennedy Shriver's legacy, the Special Olympics, has developed | ||||||
| 5 | into a powerful and successful movement worldwide; to date, | ||||||
| 6 | over three million intellectually challenged athletes from | ||||||
| 7 | more than 180 countries compete in the Special Olympics; her | ||||||
| 8 | work as a champion for people with mental disabilities has | ||||||
| 9 | fundamentally changed the way that intellectually challenged | ||||||
| 10 | people are treated; and
| ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, Eunice Kennedy Shriver's efforts have been | ||||||
| 12 | recognized and appreciated across the globe; in 1984, President | ||||||
| 13 | Ronald Reagan presented her with the Presidential Medal of | ||||||
| 14 | Freedom, our nation's highest civilian honor; President George | ||||||
| 15 | H.W. Bush recognized her as a part of the Extra Mile National | ||||||
| 16 | Volunteer Pathway; Prince Albert of Monaco awarded her the | ||||||
| 17 | Laureus Sport for Good Award; she also received The Priz de la | ||||||
| 18 | Couronne Francaise, the Legion of Honor, the AAMD Humanitarian | ||||||
| 19 | Award, and many more honors and awards; and
| ||||||
| 20 | WHEREAS, Many prestigious colleges and universities | ||||||
| 21 | throughout the United States also recognized Eunice Kennedy | ||||||
| 22 | Shriver's efforts by awarding her with honorary degrees; Yale | ||||||
| 23 | University, Princeton University, and Loyola College are three | ||||||
| 24 | of the institutes of higher education that honored her in this | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | way; and
| ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, As a result of her tireless efforts, the world | ||||||
| 3 | that Eunice Kennedy Shriver has departed from is a better, more | ||||||
| 4 | hopeful, and understanding place than the world that she was | ||||||
| 5 | born into 88 years ago; and
| ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, Eunice Kennedy Shriver is survived by her husband, | ||||||
| 7 | Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr.; her five children, Robert Sargent | ||||||
| 8 | Shriver III, Maria Shriver, Timothy Perry Shriver, Mark Kennedy | ||||||
| 9 | Shriver, and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver; and her 19 | ||||||
| 10 | grandchildren; and
| ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, Her son, Timothy Perry Shriver, continues the work | ||||||
| 12 | of his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and is the current | ||||||
| 13 | chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics; therefore, be it
| ||||||
| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 16 | commend the Shriver family for their continuing role in the | ||||||
| 17 | Special Olympics; and that we mourn, along with her family, | ||||||
| 18 | friends, and all those whose lives have been blessed by her | ||||||
| 19 | presence, the passing of Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver; and be it | ||||||
| 20 | further
| ||||||
| 21 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | presented to the family of Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver as a | ||||||
| 2 | symbol of our sincere sympathy.
| ||||||
