Bill Text: IL SR1367 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Kathryn Dooley Dunn.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-01-13 - Resolution Adopted [SR1367 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR1367-Introduced.html
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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 Kathryn Dooley Dunn, who passed away on | ||||||
4 | June 18, 2015; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Kathryn Dunn was born in Chicago on October 29, | ||||||
6 | 1927 to Dr. Harry J. and Marion E. (nee Culhane) Dooley; she | ||||||
7 | graduated from Trinity High School in River Forest at the age | ||||||
8 | of 16 and went on to study at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College | ||||||
9 | in Terre Haute, Indiana and then at the University of Chicago, | ||||||
10 | where she received a bachelor's degree in interdepartmental | ||||||
11 | pre-medical studies; she had been committed to a life and | ||||||
12 | career of service from an early age; she studied at Loyola | ||||||
13 | University Chicago's Medical School as a graduate student in | ||||||
14 | physiology and met and married fellow medical student, Paul J. | ||||||
15 | Dunn in 1951; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Kathryn Dunn and Paul Dunn became active in the | ||||||
17 | Christian Family Movement and served as Chairs of the Pre-Cana | ||||||
18 | programs and on the Board of Directors of the Pre-Cana programs | ||||||
19 | and the Cana Conference of the Archdiocese of Chicago; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Kathryn Dunn and her husband brought together a | ||||||
21 | group of people and ultimately founded the Alcuin Montessori | ||||||
22 | School in Oak Park in 1961, the second Montessori School in the |
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1 | United States and the first in the Midwest, which has now been | ||||||
2 | operating continuously for 54 years; she was a co-founder and | ||||||
3 | served as Vice-President of the Illinois Montessori Society and | ||||||
4 | was a member of Alcuin's Board of Directors; she also received | ||||||
5 | the American Montessori Society certification as a Montessori | ||||||
6 | Directress; and
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7 | WHEREAS, In November of 1964, Kathryn Dunn and her husband | ||||||
8 | purchased a 260-acre working dairy farm in Ferryville, | ||||||
9 | Wisconsin as a vacation home for their still-growing family; | ||||||
10 | the family spent numerous summers at the farm, which the family | ||||||
11 | still owns, and they made the farm their retirement home in | ||||||
12 | 2004, before moving to Viroqua, Wisconsin in 2012; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Kathryn and Paul Dunn became interested in the | ||||||
14 | Doman-Delacato method of treating brain-injured children; Paul | ||||||
15 | founded the Chicago Center for the Achievement of Human | ||||||
16 | Potential in 1967 with the help of Motorola CEO Paul Galvin; he | ||||||
17 | served as the Center's Medical Director and Kathryn designed | ||||||
18 | and directed the Center's Visual Motor Integration Program; as | ||||||
19 | part of their work at the Chicago Center, Kathryn and Paul | ||||||
20 | became increasingly interested in integrative, holistic | ||||||
21 | approaches to medicine; in order to pursue these ideas in | ||||||
22 | depth, Paul returned to private practice and, with Kathryn, | ||||||
23 | founded the Center for Integrative Treatment and Biochemical | ||||||
24 | Nutrition in Oak Park, one of the first such practices in |
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1 | Illinois; Kathryn joined the staff of the Center as a Certified | ||||||
2 | Clinical Nutritionist; she also lectured extensively at a | ||||||
3 | number of Midwestern colleges and universities and served as | ||||||
4 | Vice-President of the International and American Associations | ||||||
5 | of Clinical Nutritionists; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Kathryn Dunn was preceded in death by her husband, | ||||||
7 | Paul; her parents; and her sister, Marian Sterling; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Kathryn Dunn is survived by her 10 children, Chris | ||||||
9 | (Beth) Dunn, Brian (Deb) Dunn, Paul Dunn, Jr., Peter Dunn, | ||||||
10 | Michael Dunn, Mark (Ann) Dunn, John (Alexa) Dunn, Sarah Dunn, | ||||||
11 | Jeff Dunn, and Julie Dunn; her 9 grandchildren, Zeke Dunn, | ||||||
12 | Molly Dunn, Kelly Barnd, Jacob Barnd, Jack Dunn, Patrick Dunn, | ||||||
13 | Katie Dunn, Ian Dunn, and Raleigh Dunn; other relatives; and | ||||||
14 | many friends; therefore, be it
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15 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
16 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
17 | Kathryn Dooley Dunn, and extend our sincere condolences to her | ||||||
18 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | ||||||
19 | further
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20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
21 | presented to the family of Kathryn Dunn as an expression of our | ||||||
22 | deepest sympathy.
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