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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. Lora L. Tyson of Naperville, who 
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passed away on September 1, 2008; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson is a native of Iowa; she was one of 
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four daughters whose father worked as a school superintendent 
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in towns in Iowa and Minnesota; she graduated with a bachelor's 
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degree from Wheaton College, where she also met her husband of 
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21 years and the father of her two sons, Rosendo F. Tyson Jr., 
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who preceded her in death in 1997; and

 
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    WHEREAS, After graduating from college, Dr. Lora Tyson 
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worked for a few years as a teacher at a grade school in 
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Itasca; she then moved with her husband and children in the 
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late 1970s to Kentucky, where she earned a master's in 
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education from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in 
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education from the University of Kentucky; in 1999, she joined 
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the faculty at North Central College, where she also served as 
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chairman of the education department from 2005 to 2007; and
 
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    WHEREAS, As chairman of North Central College's education 
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department, Dr. Lora Tyson focused her energies on improving a 
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section within the North Central College library known as the 
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curriculum resource center; in honor of her work for the 
 


 






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curriculum resource center, the center will be renamed the Lora 
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Tyson Curriculum Library; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson was a member and served as an elder 
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at the River Glen Presbyterian Church in Naperville; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson is survived by her sons, Ian and 
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Brent; her mother, Esther Trail; her sisters, Ruth Anerino, 
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Beth Hale, and Karin Trail-Johnson; and her granddaughter; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Dr. Lora Tyson will be remembered by all who knew 
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and loved her as a kind and compassionate role model who 
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believed that civility and empathy were not just words to live 
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by, but words to teach; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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her family and friends, the passing of Dr. Lora L. Tyson; 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 Dr. Lora Tyson as an expression of 
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our sympathy.