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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Richard Nardini will be retiring from the Leyden
3 High School District 212 School Board after 36 years on the
4 board; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardini first won election to the school board
6 in 1969; he has served as president of the board for the past
7 29 years, and even before becoming president, he took an active
8 position in all decisions made by the Leyden Board of
9 Education; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardini has been head of the Board of
11 Education longer than any other president in the history of
12 Leyden, providing thoughtful and effective leadership for 36
13 years; he is a 1952 Leyden graduate, and all five of his
14 children graduated from East Leyden; and
 
15     WHEREAS, He has been diligent in his leadership of the
16 school management team; he would continually study information
17 about the schools, attend conferences sponsored by the Illinois
18 and National Associations of School Boards, and has always been
19 a perceptive listener to suggestion from parents, staff, and
20 community members; he has been the chief negotiator for the
21 board, working to establish constructive teacher union
22 contracts; and
 
23     WHEREAS, In 1992, Mr. Nardini was honored to be given the
24 Thomas Lay Burroughs Award for the State's Outstanding School
25 Board President; in 2004, at commencement ceremonies, he handed
26 a diploma to the last of his grandchildren living in District
27 212; and
 
28     WHEREAS, This summer, he celebrates his 55th year as an
29 employee of the Chicago Sun-Times, currently serving as the
30 director of classified advertising; he has been married to his

 

 

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1 wife, Mabel for 48 years; and
 
2     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardini's leadership skills, integrity, and
3 ethics will be missed as he retires from the board; therefore,
4 be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
7 we congratulate Richard Nardini on the occasion of his
8 retirement from the Leyden High School District 212 School
9 Board after 36 years of service, and we thank him for his many
10 years of dedication to the citizens, faculty, staff, and
11 students of the district; and be it further
 
12     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
13 presented to him as an expression of our respect and esteem and
14 with best wishes for a relaxing retirement.