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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Margaret McGlynn, esteemed resident of Belleville |
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| and a senior at Althoff Catholic High School, has achieved |
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| national recognition
for exemplary volunteer service by being |
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| named one of the top two youth volunteers in Illinois and a |
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| recipient of the 2006 Prudential Spirit of
Community Award; and
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| WHEREAS, This prestigious award, presented by Prudential |
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| Financial in
partnership with the National Association of |
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| Secondary School Principals,
honors young volunteers across |
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| America who have demonstrated an extraordinary
commitment to |
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| serving their communities; as a State Honoree, Ms. McGlynn will |
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| receive a $1,000 award, an engraved silver medallion, and a |
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| trip to Washington, D.C., for a series of national recognition |
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| events; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. McGlynn helped create a teen mentoring program |
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| that has provided friendship, support, and positive role models |
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| over the past three years for more than 200 severely abused and |
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| neglected children in a local transitional residence; in a |
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| passionate effort to ease the sadness in the young lives at the |
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| Don Bosco Children's Center, she and her sister decided to |
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| recruit high school volunteers to spend time with the kids and |
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| hopefully help to heal their emotional wounds; and |
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| WHEREAS, After filling out long government forms and |
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| attending many meetings and orientation sessions on child |
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| abuse, Ms. McGlynn and her sister began looking for mentors, |
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| but had difficulty finding any; they encountered much prejudice |
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| among their peers toward the children at Don Bosco; eventually |
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| the sisters were able to persuade several schoolmates to join |
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| them, and the number of mentors has increased to more than 24; |
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| the high school students play games with the young children, |
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| tutor and read to them, take them on field trips, and often |
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| just talk or listen to them; and |