RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, On a sunny Monday afternoon, on April 25, 2016, bystander, Sharyl Mackey was at Lake Shore Park with her children, not far from Northwestern Memorial Hospital; and
WHEREAS, Sharyl Mackey's 5-year old son had moments before kicked a soccer ball over to a male jogger who playfully thrown the ball back to the boy before running another lap at the park; and
WHEREAS, Upon returning from his jogging lap the man collapsed on a park bench, and
WHEREAS, Upon seeing the man in distress and not breathing, Sharyl Mackey yelled for help and called 911, and
WHEREAS, The man had gone went into cardiac arrest after his jogging run, and
WHEREAS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine medical students Max Kazer, Jessica Quaggin-Smith and Carla Berkowitz also noticed the man and rushed over to help him, and
WHEREAS, Jessica Quaggin-Smith, Max Kazer and Carla Berkowitz lowered the man to the ground, careful not to hit his head, and
WHEREAS, Max Kazer began performing CPR while Quaggin-Smith and Berkowitz tilted the man's head back to open his airwaves, and
WHEREAS, Two more first-year medical students Sneha Goswami and Krish Suresh came over to assist and the students all took turns doing chest compressions, and
WHEREAS, While all five students were taught CPR but had never applied their training to a real-life situation before, and
WHEREAS, The medical students were not overtaken by fear and were driven by their desire to save a life, dedicated their lives to save lives, and
WHEREAS, Were it not for the actions taken by Sharyl Mackey, Max Kazer, Jessica Quaggin-Smith, Sneha Goswami, Krish Suresh and Carla Berkowitz, the man would have died; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council, assembled this eighteenth day of May, 2016, do hereby express our sincere gratitude to Sharyl Mackey, Max Kazer, Jessica Quaggin-Smith, Sneha Goswami, Krish Suresh and Carla Berkowitz for their leadership and heroism; and