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SR0260LRB104 13143 LAW 25270 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 

3to learn of the death of Wayne Calhoun "Doc" Temple, the dean 

4of Abraham Lincoln scholars, who passed away on March 31, 

52025; and

6 WHEREAS, Doc Temple, the son of Howard and Ruby Temple, 

7was born on a small family farm near Richwood, Ohio on February 

85, 1924; he began his education in a one-room schoolhouse and 

9graduated as valedictorian from his high school, during which 

10he ran on a championship boys' 4 x 1500-yard relay team; he 

11also played clarinet in a traveling men's band; and

12 WHEREAS, Doc Temple began attending Ohio State University 

13in 1941 before being drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps; he 

14was sent to Urbana for training as an engineer and then to 

15North Carolina for special training, which was followed by 

16being sent to Kansas for ordnance production; he was stationed 

17in Europe from 1945 to 1946; he served as a technician third 

18grade, the equivalent of a sergeant today, in the Signal Corps 

19at age 21; he helped install new airfields and radio 

20communications, some of it for use by General-in-Chief 

21Eisenhower; he was awarded the Bronze Star for a one-man 

22battle with a Luftwaffe pilot who strafed his camp on the 

23Franco-German border in the last weeks of the war; and

SR0260- 2 -LRB104 13143 LAW 25270 r

1 WHEREAS, Doc Temple, after World War II, earned his 

2Bachelor of Arts in History and English from the University of 

3Illinois; while there, he was the graduate student and 

4research assistant of Prof. James G. "Jim" Randall, the first 

5academic historian of Lincoln, until the professor's death in 

61953; while serving the professor, h