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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to  
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learn of the death of
Dr. John E. Halasz, who passed away on 
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April 19, 2010; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz was born on May 14, 1920, in Budapest, 
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Hungary; he was a resident of Burr Ridge; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz served as a medical officer for the 
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United Nations International Refugee Organization in Salzburg, 
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Austria, until 1951, when he came to the United States to begin 
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his training at the University of Illinois Department of 
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Psychiatry; he went on to complete a fellowship at the 
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Institute for Juvenile Research and remained at the university 
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and institute for 43 years, serving on the faculty of the 
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college of medicine's psychiatry department and as director of 
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training, clinical director, associate professor of clinical 
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psychiatry in the child psychiatry division, and academic 
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director of psychiatry at MacNeal Memorial Hospital when the 
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hospital was associated with the university; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz served as a consultant or 
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administrator of mental health clinics in La Grange, Olympia 
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Fields, and DuPage County and consulted with schools and in 
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family therapy; for many years, he was the only child 
 


 






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psychiatrist on the executive committee of the Illinois 
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Department of Mental Health and Development Disability; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz was a fellow of the American 
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Orthopsychiatric Association; he was a life member of the 
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American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of 
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; he was a past president of the 
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Illinois Council of the AACAP; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz was recently honored by the APA for 
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his 50 years of service to the field of psychiatry; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz enjoyed spending time with his family, 
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trains, world travel, and photography; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz was preceded in death by his first 
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wife, Anna, nee Wolfjer, and his brother, Zoltan (the late Ila) 
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Halasz; and
 
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    WHEREAS, John Halasz is survived by his wife, Marilynn, nee 
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Macku; his children, Alexandra (Paul Reed), Frank (Maureen 
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Callanan), Annette (Thomas Gaboriault), and John C. "Neal"; his 
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grandchildren, Reuben Turley, Cricket (Ian) Bernardini, 
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Caitlin and Kevin Halasz, and Lianna Reed; his 
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great-grandchildren, Cooper and Sawyer Bernardini; and his 
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sister-in-law, Ila; therefore, be it
  
 
 


 






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    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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his family and friends, the passing of Dr. John E. Halasz; and 
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be it further
  
 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of John Halasz as an expression of our 
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sympathy.