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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 Thomas Dudley Ferguson of Oak Park, who |
| 4 | | passed away on March 16, 2014; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson was born in Hinsdale on August 23, |
| 6 | | 1938 to Mildred (nee Whitt) and James Carroll Ferguson; he was |
| 7 | | raised in La Grange and graduated from Cossitt Avenue |
| 8 | | Elementary School and Lyons Township High School; he married |
| 9 | | Carole Lindner Ferguson in 1959; he received his Bachelor of |
| 10 | | Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Illinois |
| 11 | | Champaign-Urbana in 1962; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson began his teaching career at |
| 13 | | Elmwood Park High School in 1962; in 1965, he and his family |
| 14 | | settled in Oak Park; he joined the Oak Park and River Forest |
| 15 | | High School (OPRF) history department in 1967, where he taught |
| 16 | | until his retirement in 1994; from 1986 to 1994 he served as |
| 17 | | chairman of the history department; in 1988, he started |
| 18 | | "Interpretations", an annual publication of the finest |
| 19 | | scholarly history writing by OPRF students; he was always |
| 20 | | delighted to hear from former students, who would stop him on |
| 21 | | the street decades later to tell him how much they had learned |
| 22 | | in his class; in 1970, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship |
| 23 | | to teach for a year at the Sherborne School in Sherborne, |
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| 1 | | Dorset, England, and, in the summer of 1971, the family |
| 2 | | embarked on a memorable 6-week-long camping trip through |
| 3 | | western Europe, Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union; and
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| 4 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson enjoyed jazz, photography, road |
| 5 | | trips, good food, family history, hometown newspapers, C-Span, |
| 6 | | the Civil War, old movies, tennis, and the White Sox; he and |
| 7 | | his wife traveled together to all 50 states, the Middle East, |
| 8 | | Costa Rica, and Canada; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson was preceded in death by his |
| 10 | | daughter, Christine; and
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| 11 | | WHEREAS, Thomas Ferguson is survived by his wife, Carole; |
| 12 | | his daughters Sarah (William Neuman) and Heather (Annika |
| 13 | | Fjelstad); his beloved grandchildren, Max, Emma, and Romy |
| 14 | | Neuman and Josiah and Gabe Fjelstad Ferguson; and a large and |
| 15 | | loving extended family; therefore, be it
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| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL |
| 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
| 18 | | Thomas Dudley Ferguson, and extend our sincere condolences to |
| 19 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it |
| 20 | | further
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| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |