SR0033 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SR0033 LRB097 08371 GRL 48498 r

SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Miriam B. Fry; and

WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was born in 1917 in Wheeling; after spending her early childhood in Wheeling, she graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 1935; as a teenager, she moved with her family to Naperville, where she attended North Central College, worked at North Central's library, and received her bachelor's degree in English in 1939; and

WHEREAS, After college, Miriam Fry moved to Detroit, where her husband, Arthur, was a research physicist for General Motors; following the death of her husband, she moved from Detroit back into her parents' home in Naperville, where she immediately went looking for work at the local library; and

WHEREAS, Miriam Fry served as the director of the Nichols Library in Naperville for 34 years until her retirement in 1984; during her tenure, she performed an extensive update of the library's files, ordered thousands of new books, and created an audiovisual department; she was instrumental in automating the library's card system after the purchase of the library's first computers in the early 1980s; she also helped push through a referendum measure for a new 63,000-square-foot library, which opened at Jefferson and Jackson Avenues in Naperville in 1986; and

WHEREAS, Miriam Fry was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur; and

WHEREAS, Miriam Fry is survived by her sons, Gary and James; her brother, Rollin Bubert; her 6 grandchildren; and her 11 great-grandchildren; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of Miriam B. Fry; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Miriam Fry as an expression of our sympathy.