Joseph Koval, Staunton, as Macoupin County circuit judge by the Illinois Supreme Court effective July 1. He succeeds Francis Bergen who resigned last year.
A sevenmember Medical Disciplinary Board was appointed by the governor in June. Members are W. C. Scrivner, M.D., Belleville, a public member of the Judicial Inquiry Board; Helen Constance Bonbrest, M.D., Chicago, vice president for professional affairs and medical director of the Mile Square Health Center in Chicago; Sam Brinkley, D.C., East Alton, chairman of the board of directors of the Illinois Chiropractic Society; Levon Krikor Topouzian, M.D., Skokie, chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and codirector of the Cook County and hospital's orthopaedic training program; George Thomas Caleel, D.O., Chicago, professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical education at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; James B. Williams, M.D., Chicago, senior attending physician in surgery at Provident and St. Bernard's Hospitals and chief of surgery I at Mercy Hospital, all in Chicago, and Raimundo Rodrigues, M.D., Murphysboro, family practice specialist. The Board will determine the validity of charges brought by the Department of Registration and Education or citizen that could lead to suspension or revocation of a physician's license. The appointments need Senate confirmation.
Salvatore J. Bongiorno, a Chicago attorney specializing in workmen's compensation, as chairman of the Illinois Industrial Commission by the governor in June. The fouryear appointment requires Senate approval. Bongiorno, 38, is a member of the Workmen's Compensation Lawyers Association and served on its board of managers from 1973 to 1975. He replaces Mel Rosenbloom who was recently named director of the division of aeronautics, Illinois Department of Transportation.
Michael P. Duncan, Springfield, as director of the Department of Insurance by the governor effective July 1. He succeeds Robert Wilcox who resigned in June to become president of the Property and Casualty Insurance Council. Prior to his new post, Duncan, 36, served as the governor's chief of legislative liaison. Senate confirmation is required for the appointment.
Three appointments in the Attorney General's Office were made by Atty. Gen. William J. Scott in April: Timothy J. Bonansinga as chief of the Consumer Protection Division, George M. Schafer as chief of the Crime Victims Compensation Division and Raymond K. Riggs as chief of the Inheritance Tax Division.
Richard D. Desnoyers, Buffalo Grove, as assistant manager of the Investigative Division, Illinois Department of Revenue, by Director Robert H. Allphin effective June 1. He directs operations of the division's northern Illinois office in Chicago.
John J. Flood, Mundelein, to the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission by the governor on April 28. He is founder and president of the Combined Counties Police Association.
John E. McNeal, Chicago, as a member of the Illinois Industrial Commission by the governor in June. He fills the vacancy created by the death of John Moulin. McNeal, 33, has served as assistant general counsel to the State Board of Elections and as an assistant attorney general in the office of the Illinois Attorney General. The appointment requires Senate approval.
Mary Ellen Gornick, Evanston, as manager of the Office of Benefit Audit, Illinois Bureau of Employment Security, Department of Labor, by Robert Haughey, commissioner of the department's Unemployment Insurance Division, on May 1. Ms. Gornick, a former manager of the department's Unemployment Insurance Office of Benefit Accountability, will investigate any suspect claimant fraud cases.
Dr. Patricia Ann Nolan, Springfield, as Illinois licensed administrative physician, Illinois Department of Public Health, by the department effective April 1. In the position, she serves as a medical consultant to the associate director of the Office of Health Facilities and Quality of Care. She was formerly employed by the New York City Department of Public Health.
Patricia S. Breivik, 35, as dean of library services and associate professor of library science at Sangamon State University, Springfield, effective July 1. A library search committee selected her to replace former library director Howard Dillon, and the Board of Regents confirmed the appointment on May 20. Ms. Breivik, who will serve as director of the university's Brookens Library, has a doctorate of library science from Columbia University. She was previously employed as associate dean of library science at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn.
John A. Kennedy, Chicago businessman,
as director of Sec. of State Michael J. Howlett's Advisory
Committee on Economic Development by Hewlett in May.
Kennedy, 54, served as a state legislator during the
74th General Assembly and was appointed as the first
director of General Services in 1968. He is scheduled to
present the committee's findings to Hewlett by early
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Mark Levine, 26, as assistant director of information and publications, Community Services Section, and Lloyd "Jim" Stowell, 32 as assistant director for resource services, Special Education Section, Illinois Office of Education, by Supt. of Education Joseph M. Cronin. Levine assumed his new post on March 29 and Stowell started on April 2.
Lolita Spinks as a manpower planner in the Governor's Office of Manpower and Human Development effective April 1. She had previously been manager of administrative services for the City of East St. Louis Manpower Administration.
Honors
Representative A. T. "Tom" McMaster
(R.., Oneida) with an alumni achievement award from
Knox College on June 5 for distinguished public service
leadership in the conservation field. McMaster, a member
of the 1940 class, was given special recognition for his
authorship of several strip mining laws.
R. David Whitaker, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Whitaker, New Lenox, as winner of an essay contest held in conjunction with the formal opening of the remodeled state Senate chambers in May. His was titled "Why Is the Illinois General Assembly Important to Illinois Citizens?" and was selected from an estimated 300 entries and read at the formal dedication ceremonies on May 26.
Deaths
Former state Sen. Hudson Ralph Sours
(R., Peoria), of an apparent heart attack on May 27. Sours,
66, who had served in the Senate from 1960 through 1974,
had practiced law in Peoria since his retirement. ž
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