Champaign Park District Appoints New General Manager

The Board of Commissioners is pleased to announce that Robert F. Toalson has been appointed General Manager of the Champaign Park District. Mr. Toalson is presently Executive Director of the Oak Park, Illinois Recreation Department. He will assume his new duties in Champaign early in 1970.

Mr. Toalson has had a very broad background in Recreation and Park Activities. He holds a Bachelor Degree from Kansas and a Master's from Indiana. Recently he served as Chairman of the National Recreation and Park Association Annual Convention held in Chicago. He has a strong professional background and spent the summer of 1969 as a Visiting Instructor at Oregon State University on leave from his present job.

As a past president of the Illinois Park and Recreation Society, he was very active in that Society. He also acted as an instructor for the International City Managers Association.

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And was a member of the four-man team that made a complete study of recreation in Champaign in 1966, preparing a complete report for the Park District.

After reviewing the qualifications of a large number of applicants from across the country, the Champaign Park District felt confident that Mr. Toalson would be one of the most outstanding recreation and park administrators in the country.

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