Bill Text: IL SR0166 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Proclaims March 25, 2009 as Kappa Alpha Psi Day in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-05-22 - Resolution Adopted [SR0166 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SR0166-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The North Central Province Chapters of Kappa Alpha
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3 | Psi Fraternity, Inc. are sponsoring their annual legislative
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4 | visit to the Illinois State Capitol; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., was founded in
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6 | 1911 on the campus of Indiana University by African-American
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7 | college men; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an | ||||||
9 | international
organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and | ||||||
10 | alumni
members; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an | ||||||
12 | organization committed to promoting honorable achievement in | ||||||
13 | every field of human endeavor; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished
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15 | themselves individually include Johnny Cochran, Jr., Reginald | ||||||
16 | Lewis, Bill Russell, Gale Sayers, Ralph Abernathy, Leon | ||||||
17 | Sullivan, Samuel Proctor, Tavis Smiley, Percy Sutton, John | ||||||
18 | Jacob, Lerone Bennett Jr., William Johnson, John Singelton, | ||||||
19 | Cedric the Entertainer, Thomas Bradley, Ed Gardner, John | ||||||
20 | Conyers, Louis Stokes, Oscar Robertson, Donald Byrd, Arthur | ||||||
21 | Ashe, General Daniel "Chappie" James, C. Vernon Mason, Wilt |
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1 | Chamberlain, Sanford Bishop, R. Eugene Pincham, Walter | ||||||
2 | Fauntroy, and Montell Jordan; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished | ||||||
4 | themselves in the Illinois General Assembly include Senator | ||||||
5 | James Clayborne, Jr., Senator Kwame Raoul, Representative Will | ||||||
6 | Davis, Representative Will Burns, Representative Eddie | ||||||
7 | Jackson, Senator Richard Newhouse, and Illinois Secretary of | ||||||
8 | State, and former Representative, Jesse White; therefore, be it
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9 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
10 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, in recognition of | ||||||
11 | the achievements of the members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity | ||||||
12 | Inc., and the values for which they strive, proclaim March 25, | ||||||
13 | 2009, as Kappa Alpha Psi Day in the State of Illinois; and be | ||||||
14 | it further
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15 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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16 | presented to Mike Owens, North Central Province Polemarch of | ||||||
17 | Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
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