Bill Text: IL SR0033 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Miriam B. Fry.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-02-10 - Resolution Adopted [SR0033 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SR0033-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of
Miriam B. Fry; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was born in 1917 in Wheeling; after | ||||||
5 | spending her early childhood in Wheeling, she graduated from | ||||||
6 | Arlington Heights High School in 1935; as a teenager, she moved | ||||||
7 | with her family to Naperville, where she attended North Central | ||||||
8 | College, worked at North Central's library, and received her | ||||||
9 | bachelor's degree in English in 1939; and
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10 | WHEREAS, After college, Miriam Fry moved to Detroit, where | ||||||
11 | her husband, Arthur, was a research physicist for General | ||||||
12 | Motors; following the death of her husband, she moved from | ||||||
13 | Detroit back into her parents' home in Naperville, where she | ||||||
14 | immediately went looking for work at the local library; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry served as the director of the Nichols | ||||||
16 | Library in Naperville for 34 years until her retirement in | ||||||
17 | 1984; during her tenure, she performed an extensive update of | ||||||
18 | the library's files, ordered thousands of new books, and | ||||||
19 | created an audiovisual department; she was instrumental in | ||||||
20 | automating the library's card system after the purchase of the | ||||||
21 | library's first computers in the early 1980s; she also helped | ||||||
22 | push through a referendum measure for a new 63,000-square-foot |
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1 | library, which opened at Jefferson and Jackson Avenues in | ||||||
2 | Naperville in 1986; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was preceded in death by her husband, | ||||||
4 | Arthur; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Miriam Fry is survived by her sons, Gary and | ||||||
6 | James; her brother, Rollin Bubert; her 6 grandchildren; and her | ||||||
7 | 11 great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
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8 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
9 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
10 | her family and friends, the passing of Miriam B. Fry; and be it | ||||||
11 | further
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12 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
13 | presented to the family of Miriam Fry as an expression of our | ||||||
14 | sympathy.
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