Fredrick named to State Board of Education

Helen Burleson Fredrick, Olympia Fields, as member of the State Board of Education, by Gov. James R. Thompson effective January 12. The unsalaried position for a term ending in January 1983 needs Senate confirmation. Fredrick is a former English teacher who taught in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. school systems and has served on the Flossmoor Board of Education since 1972. She has also served on the Illinois Humanities Council since 1977. Currently, she is doing volunteer work while she works at home on her doctorate in public administration from Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She replaces Martin Gavin, Chicago Heights, who resigned.

DCCA update

Over the last several months there has been some reorganization at the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) and several top-level appointments.

Peter B. Fox, Champaign, as assistant director of DCCA, by Gov. James R. Thompson in July. The post requires Senate confirmation. Previously, Fox was owner-operator of a fast-food restaurant. He has also served as chairman of the Illinois Lottery Board since January 1979. Fox replaced Andrew Barrett, who was appointed by Thompson as a member of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

The following appointments were made by DCCA director John Castle.

Bruce Patterson, Springfield, as DCCA's chief legal counsel, effective in June. Patterson, who replaced Robert Barry, formerly served as the chief legal counsel with the Department of Administrative Services. Patterson has appointed Ken Brickman and Edgar Philpot as assistant legal counsels in the department.

Diane Schneider, Oak Park, as manager of the division of economic development services, in July. Previously, she served in the Chicago office of governmental and community services; she joined the DCCA in 1978. Schneider replaces Tom Clark, who is now manager of DCCA's division of commercial and industrial development services.

Melinda Parker, Chicago, as permanent manager of the division of international business, in October. Parker had served as the acting manager of international business after it was elevated to division status in August. Previously international business was an office in the commercial and industrial development division. Parker joined DCCA in July 1979 as assistant to the director.

Dale Berg, Hong Kong, as managing director of DCCA's Far East bureau, effective in May. Berg had been manager of the Direct International Investment Program in the department's division of international business. He replaced George Lui, who is working as an attorney in Hong Kong.

Alvin J. Keller, Bloomington, as chief of local management services in the division of government and community services, in October. Keller had worked as a local systems management advisor, giving technical assistance to local governments. He has also worked for the Department of Revenue and the Department of Local Government Affairs, since its creation in 1970. Keller also was director of finances for Bloomington.

Appointments

W. Paul Zemitzsch, Springfield, as director of policy and planning with the Attorney General's Office, by Atty. Gen. Tyrone Fahner, beginning February 1. Zemitzsch had been the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's Springfield bureau chief since 1979. Zemitzsch, who replaces Frank M. Grenard who is returning to a private law practice, will coordinate public information activities and act as a public policy advisor and assistant to the attorney general.

Gary Reineke, St. Charles, as administrative assistant for natural resources, by Lt. Gov. Dave O'Neal effective January 5. One of two administrative assistants to the lieutenant governor, Reineke was previously employed on the staff of U.S. House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill, where he worked on alternative energy legislation.

Stanley A. Changnon Jr., Urbana, was appointed by former President Carter, through the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to the newly created, nine-member Weather Modification Advisory Panel effective October 1980. Changnon is the chief of the Illinois State Water Survey and has directed research programs dealing with the meteorological, socio-economic and institutional aspects of weather modification (see Illinois Issues, February 1981, p. 20).

Robert E. Kozeliski, Springfield, as assistant vice president for government relations for Illinois Bell, effective January 1. In this newly created position, Kozeliski will work as a liaison to members and staff of the General Assembly, elected state officials and various state agencies. He joined Illinois Bell in 1951 and since 1970 has been division 1 manager for government relations in Springfield. Kozeliski also serves on legislative committees of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Manufacturers' Association and Illinois Telephone Association.

Honors

Adrienne Y. Bailey of Chicago and a member of the Illinois State Board of Education, was selected as one of Phi Delta Kappa's 75 young educational leaders in the U.S. and Canada on January 8 as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the professional education fraternity. Bailey was first appointed to the Board of Education in 1974; she was reappointed in 1979 to serve a six-year term. Presently, Bailey is the senior staff associate at the Chicago Community Trust.

Walter E. Massey, director of the Argonne National Laboratory, has been elected for a four-year term to the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Massey is also a professor of physics at the University of Chicago and has served with the University of Illinois, Brown University, Washington University and Morehouse College. The association, founded in 1848, is the world's leading general scientific organization.

The Menard Time, the inmate-published newspaper at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, won second place in its publication category in the 1980 nationwide Penal Press Contest in December. The contest is sponsored each year by the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Menard Time staffers won eight individual awards. Inmate journalists from Stateville and Vienna correctional centers also won individual awards.

Deaths

Rep. Louis F. "Doc" Capuzi, 60, on December 24 in Chicago. Capuzi (R., Chicago) served for 11 terms in the General Assembly beginning in 1955, and was reelected to a 12th term in November. He was the Republican spokesman on the House Motor Vehicles Committee and was active with issues involving the Italian-American community. In 1976, Capuzi was convicted by a federal jury of accepting $200 in cash as part of a bribe scheme involving the ready-mix concrete industry. Capuzi, however, said the money was a campaign contribution, and the conviction was reversed later the same year.

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