Bill Text: IL SR0340 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Marcel Durot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-01 - Resolution Adopted [SR0340 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SR0340-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | ||||||
| 3 | to learn of the death of Marcel C. Durot, who passed away on | ||||||
| 4 | October 7, 2020 at the age of 91; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on | ||||||
| 6 | September 8, 1929; he was raised in Waban, Massachusetts; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot earned a bachelor's degree from | ||||||
| 8 | Dartmouth College, a Master of Business Administration from | ||||||
| 9 | the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and a Juris | ||||||
| 10 | Doctor degree from Boston College Law School; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot served active duty in the Navy for | ||||||
| 12 | two years aboard the USS Hopper Island; afterward, he began | ||||||
| 13 | working for the Gillette Safety Razor Company; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot's career at Gillette spanned | ||||||
| 15 | multiple subsidiaries and countries; his titles included | ||||||
| 16 | controller treasurer, president-director general, corporate | ||||||
| 17 | vice president, and president; at the Paper Mate Company, he | ||||||
| 18 | helped drive the success of the Flair Pen; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot left Gillette in 1977, spent three | ||||||
| 20 | years working with Mattel, and then joined G.D. Searle & | ||||||
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| 1 | Company in Chicago, where he became part of the launch of Equal | ||||||
| 2 | tabletop sweetener; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot started his own international | ||||||
| 4 | consulting business in 1985; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot was a member of the Young Presidents | ||||||
| 6 | Organization and president of the National Paraplegia | ||||||
| 7 | Foundation; in 1980, he helped successfully lobby the United | ||||||
| 8 | Nations to declare 1981 as the Year of Disabled Persons; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot served on the boards of the | ||||||
| 10 | Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, the Minnesota Outward | ||||||
| 11 | Bound School, and the National Outward Bound organization; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Marcel Durot is survived by his wife, Charlotte | ||||||
| 13 | Ann Durot; his children, G. Georges Durot II (Ann), Jennifer | ||||||
| 14 | C. Durot, Michael M. Durot (Anne), Robert C. Durot (Kamy), and | ||||||
| 15 | Andrew Durot; 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two | ||||||
| 16 | stepdaughters, Paige Soule (Ed Varga) and Christa Desir | ||||||
| 17 | (Julio); and five step-grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
| 19 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 20 | Marcel C. Durot and extend our sincere condolences to his | ||||||
| 21 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | ||||||
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| 1 | further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 3 | presented to the family of Marcel Durot as an expression of our | ||||||
| 4 | deepest sympathy.
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