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Downing heads Illinois Savings and Loan Commission

Paul Downing, Glenview, was named head of the Illinois Savings and Loan Commission by Gov. James R. Thompson, effective July 1. An attorney in general, corporate and real estate law, Downing worked for the Uptown Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago from 1947-1981, serving in a variety of positions, including corporate director. He is a past president of the Chicago Area Council of Savings and Loan Associations, has served as instructor at the Savings and Loan Institute and has worked with many Chicago area civic organizations. He replaces William Schilling, who resigned to take a position with the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.

Downing's appointment requires Senate confirmation and carries a salary of $38,000 per year.

Top appointments in Department of Central Management Services

Louis J. Giordano, director of the Department of Central Management Services (DCMS), named five bureau chiefs effective July 1. All but one had been previously employed by the Department of Administrative Services or the Department of Personnel which were merged in July to create DCMS. The appointments are:

Pete Vallone, Springfield, as manager of the bureau of personnel. Vallone had been manager of employee relations and development in the Department of Personnel.

Ken Cobern, Chatham, as manager of the bureau of support services. Cobern, who was formerly deputy director of the index division in the Secretary of State's Office, replaces Bob Graves, who had headed the office of procurement in the Department of Administrative Services (DAS).

Bill Vetter, Buffalo, as manager of the bureau of information and communications services. Vetter, who was former executive deputy director of DAS, replaces Jack Hatcher who was deputy director of the DAS office of management information and communications.

Dave Knox, Springfield, as manager of the bureau of administrative operations. He had been manager of the systems and services division in the Department of Personnel.

Jon Bauman, Champaign, as manager of the bureau of property management. Bauman had been deputy director of the DAS office of property management.

Rose Mary Bombela, who is assistant director of DCMS, is serving as acting manager of the bureau of benefits until a permanent manager is appointed.

Department of Corrections

Department of Corrections Director Michael P. Lane made several shifts of key department personnel, effective July 16. The appointments included naming Linda A. Giesen, Dixon, as the state's first woman warden at an adult male prison. Giesen will be warden of the Dixon Correctional Center which is scheduled to be converted from a developmental center for retarded adults to a prison within the year. She had been warden of the Dwight Correctional Center since October 1979.

The other appointments are:

Kenneth L. McGinnis, Pontiac, as warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center. He had been warden of the John A. Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro since February 1979.

Jimmy W. Fairman, Joliet, as warden of the Joliet Correctional Center. He had been warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center since May 1979.

James H. Thieret, Hillsboro, as warden of the Graham Correctional Center. Thieret had been assistant warden of operations at Pontiac since February 1979.

Jane E. Huch, Dwight, as warden of the Dwight Correctional Center, the state's prison for women. She had been assistant warden of operations at Dwight since February 1980.

John Drieske Jr., Springfield, as deputy director of the department's Bureau of Policy Development. He is an 11-year state employee who has worked in the departments of Law Enforcement, Registration and Education, and with the Illinois secretary of state.

Daniel C. Bosse, Springfield, as manager of the department's Capital Programs Unit. He had been warden of the Joliet Correctional Center since March 1980. Bosse will assist in planning new and converted correctional facilities in such sites as Dixon, Harrisburg, Vienna and a new prison, the site of which is yet to be determined.

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Illinois State Scholarship Commission

Peter Lardner, Rock Island, was named chairman of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission (ISSC), by the governor effective July 1 for a term ending June 30, 1985. Lardner is chief executive officer of Bitu-minus Insurance Corporation and its parent company Bitco Corporation. He has served on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities and the Black Hawk College Board of Trustees. Lardner fills the un-expired term of former ISSC Chairman Peter E. Friedes who resigned in June. The appointment requires Senate confirmation and the chairman receives expenses only.

Other appointments

Secy, of State Jim Edgar as member of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, by President Ronald Reagan effective May 18. Members of the commission represent state and local government as well as the private sector throughout the U.S. and will attempt to address the problem of drunk driving, the nation's No. 1 cause of highway fatalities, on a national level.

Fred S. Barrett, Rochester, as statistician-in-charge of the Illinois Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) effective June 14. He had previously been chairman of program support staff for USDA's AGRISTARS program which uses LAND-SAT satellites in developing domestic and international agriculture resource inventories. Illinois recently joined a research effort which combines LANDSAT data and field surveys to increase the accuracy of crop yield projections. Barrett replaces James R. Kendall, who held the position since 1972.

Richard E. Archer, DeSoto, as member of a national energy planning panel sponsored by the Office of Technology Assessment, an advisory board to Congress. The panel is to develop strategic guidelines for the U.S. to use in the event of a world oil shortage. The one-year appointment was made at the request of Sen. Charles Percy and is effective June 30. Archer is an assistant professor of comprehensive planning and design at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Rebecca Paul, Rochester, as Illinois Republican state chairwoman, by the Republican State Committee effective June 3. Paul had been co-state central committeewoman for the 20th Congressional District since 1981. She replaces Teddi Inman, who resigned to campaign for Congressman Paul Findley.

Raymond A. Willis, as manager of the international trade department of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, effective June 15. Willis, who commutes between Princeton, N.J., and Washington, D.C., has been associate director of the State of Illinois Washington Office, where he was involved in export trade promotion and other economic development activities.

Donald R. Lovett, Dixon, was elected president of the Illinois Bankers Association at the association's annual convention held in St. Louis in June. Lovett, who will serve for a one-year term beginning July 1, is chairman of the board and president of the Dixon National Bank.

The Illinois Community Colleges Trustees Association elected the following members as officers for one-year terms effective July 1: Sheilah Dye, Macomb, as president; Richard J. Doyle, Hoopeston, as vice president; Mary Hill Dobbs, Toledo, as secretary; and Jerry Lacey, Carbondale, as treasurer. All have previously served with the association in various capacities. Dye is a member of the Spoon River College board; Doyle is a member of the Danville Area "Community College board; Dobbs serves on the Lake Land College board, and Lacey on the John A. Logan College board.

Honors

Paul S. Cousley, publisher of the Alton Telegraph, will receive the John Peter Zenger Award for service in behalf of freedom of the press. The award, to be presented during the annual convention of the Arizona Newspapers Association and the National Newspaper Association in September, is based on the newspaper's efforts to defend itself in a $9.2 million libel judgment (see Illinois Issues, February 1981, p. 35, and April 1981, p. 41).

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