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Names Department of Commerce and Community Affairs in Tokyo The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) will open an office in Tokyo in December. Its main purpose will be to attract Japanese investment in Illinois. The creation of the office was an outgrowth of a trip to Japan earlier this year by DCCA Deputy Director Ed Marlin. Tomejiro Tanaka, a Japanese businessman who has worked and lived in Illinois for eight years, MS named by DCCA Director Peter Fox to head the office. Tanaka is a consultant to Dart-Kraft Inc. of Glenview and is chairman of Nippon Steiner Company. He has also served as executive vice president of Marubeni America Corporation's Chicago office from 1960 to 1968. Fox also appointed Norman Li, a Chinese businessman with extensive international marketing experience, as head of DCCA's Hong Kong office. Meanwhile, on the homefront, DCCA has a new Office of Business Enterprises which will perform the functions formerly handled by the Office of Minority Business Enterprises and the Small Business Office. A major goal will be to help small and minority firms land state and federal government contracts by assisting them with bid procedures and paperwork. Fox named James Archier, Chicago, as manager of the Office of Business Enterprises, effective in June. Archier had been a corporate attorney with Allstate Insurance Co. Gannon/Proctor Commission to study discrimination against women The Gannon/Proctor Commission was formed in September to study legal, social and economic discrimination faced by women in Illinois. The private sector, bipartisan commission will make its recommendations in a final report in January 1984. The 34-member commission appointed by the governor is headed by Sister Ann Ida Gannon, former president of Mundelein
Joan M. Baratta, Chicago, senior vice president, Harris Trust & Savings Bank; Carol Burns, Peoria, vice chairman, Illinois Board of Regents; Rabbi Seymour Cohen, Chicago, Anshe Emet Synagogue; Ella Daggett, Chicago, executive director, Austin Development Center; John C. Feirich, Carbondale, president, Illinois State Bar Association; James Feldman, Chicago, Jenner and Block; Thea Flaum, Chicago, executive producer, WTTW-Channel 11; Jill Flores, Buffalo Grove, affirmative action officer/ employee relations manager, Kemper Group; Robert G. Gibson, Chicago, president, Illinois State AFL-CIO; Joyce Gorringe, Naperville, member, National Advisory Council on Adult Education; Dolores Gruss, Lombard, a member of the Organization of Career Homemakers; Joan M. Hall, Chicago, partner, Jenner and Block; Peter Hay, Champaign, dean, College of Law, University of Illinois at Champaign; David Milliard, Chicago, president, Chicago Bar Association; Liz Hollander, Chicago, executive director, Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council; Phillip Hummer, Chicago, former president, Chicago Crime Commission; Gloria Jackson, M.D., Chicago, director, The Clinic in Altgeld; Circuit Judge Marilyn Komosa, Chicago, president, Women's Bar Association; Bernice Lavin, Melrose Park, treasurer, Albert Culver Company; Jorie Lueloff, Chicago, journalist and television news interviewer; Greta E. Marshall, Moline, director of investments, Deere & Co.; Sylvia Miedema, Hinsdale, chairman of the board and president, Clyde Savings & Loan; Jane Crawford Miller, Chicago, Chicago chapter president, National Association of University Women; Dorothy O'Neill, Chicago, president, League of Women Voters of Illinois; Sandra Olson, M.D., Chicago, chief of staff, Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Betsy Ann Plank, Chicago, assistant vice president, Illinois Bell Telephone Company; Mardyth Pollard, Lombard, mayor of Lombard and vice president of the Illinois Municipal League; Ruth Rothstein, Chicago, president, Mt. Sinai Hospital; Ilana Rovner, Chicago, president, Federal Bar Association, and deputy governor of the State of Illinois; former 5th District Appellate Judge Dorothy Spomer, Cairo, now retired; Hamilton B. Talbott Jr., Chicago, assistant vice president, First National Bank; and Carol A. Trumpe, Edwards, a past delegate to the Illinois Conference on Children and Families and the White House Conference on Families. Governor's Commission on Science and High Technology Based on recommendations of the Governor's High-Tech Task Force, the Governor's Commission on Science and High Technology was formed effective September 30. The commission, which consists of 31 leaders from business, labor, higher education and government, will work to establish a long-range plan to stimulate high-tech industry in Illinois. The commission will also be involved with implementation of the plan and monitoring results. Named as co-chairmen of the commission by Gov. James R. Thompson were: Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the University of Illinois, and William T. Ylvisaker, chairman of the board of Gould, Inc., Rolling Meadows. Ikenberry and Ylvisaker had served as co-chairmen of the task force. The governor also appointed Norm Peterson, Flossmoor, as executive director. Peterson, who joined the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs in May to work on the formation of the commission, had been director of the governor's Youth Service Initiative and the Governor's Cook County Court Project. The other members of the commission are: Karl Bays, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, American Hospital Supply Corp., Chicago; James Bere, chairman of the board, Borg Warner Corporation, Evanston; William Browder, chairman, Board of Higher Education, Springfield; Francis T. Cole, past president, Illinois Community College Trustee Association, Chicago; William F. Farley, chairman of the board, Farley Industries, Chicago; Peter B. Fox, director, Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, Springfield; Robert Galvin, chairman of the board, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg; John Mines, president, Continental Illinois Venture Corp., Illinois Continental Bank, Chicago; Jerry Jones, president, Sonicraft, Inc., Chicago; Joseph Kingsley, president, Local 134, Illinois Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Arlington Heights; Nina Klarich, vice president and chief regional economist, The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago; Leanne Lachman, president, Real Estate Research Corporation, Chicago; Leon Lederman, director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia; Lawrence Levy, president, The Levy Organization, Chicago; Thomas L. Martin Jr., president, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Dr. Walter E. Massey, director, Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne; Alan Melkerson, president, December 1982 | Illinois Issues | 35 Gandalf Data, Inc., Wheeling; Stephen C. Mitchell, senior vice president, Lester B. Knight & Associates, Chicago; Stephen J. Nardi, president, Nardi & Company, Hillside; Donald L. Nordland, chairman and chief executive officer, A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur; Robert T. Powers, chairman of the board, Nalco Chemical Company, Oak Brook; Max Robinette, vice president, Hamilton/Avnet Electronics, Bensenville; Robert A. Schoelhorn, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago; Kenneth A. Shaw, chancellor, Southern Illinois University; Wallace C. Solberg, vice president and general manager, Northrup Corporation, Rolling Meadows; Richard D. Spencer, president, LM Instruments, Inc., Urbana; Robert Stone, executive vice president, The Alter Group, Wilmette; Robert Strotz, president, Northwestern University, Evanston; and, William L. Weiss, president, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago. High-technology research park Louis H. Masotti, Chicago, was named development coordinator of the high-technology, bio-medical research park to be housed in the former Chicago Medical Building near Chicago's West Medical Center. The appointment was made jointly by the governor and Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne, effective October 1. Masotti, a professor of political science and urban affairs at Northwestern University and an Illinois Issues board member, will work with the state, the city and its universities and medical centers to formulate recommendations for the park's development. A report of recommendations will be made January 15, 1983. Private sector survey on federal cost control Karl H. Ottolini, Evanston, was appointed to the Agriculture Task Force, one of 35 task forces comprising President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government, effective in August. Ottolini is a staff member of the Chicago office of Alexander Grant & Co., certified public accountants. He will work on issues related to the Farmers Home Administration, a credit agency established in the 1930s to assist farmers and rural communities. Another Alexander Grant employee, Robert C. Nauert, Bloomingdale, was promoted to principal in the firm's Chicago office. Previously, he was director of health care services. Nauert has had an extensive career in government; he served as assistant attorney general from 1969-71; chief counsel for the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission from 1971-73; assistant comptroller from 1973-77, and director of administration and finance for the Chicago and Cook County Health and Hospital Governing Commission, 1977-79. Great Lakes Cargo Marketing Corporation Peter Fox, Springfield, director of the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, and Frank Martin, Chicago, general manager of the Chicago Regional Port District, were elected as members of the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Cargo Marketing Corporation by the board in September. Martin also was elected as vice chairman of the board. The Great Lakes Marketing Corporation was created as part of a program to promote port facilities in Illinois and the Great Lakes. It is composed of 40 representatives of ports, dock workers, shipping associations, labor groups and states. Republican State Committee Rep. Clarence Neff (R., Stronghurst) was elected as a member of the Illinois Republican State Committee at the September 21, meeting of the 17th Congressional District Republican Committee. Neff replaces Robert Swanson, Rock Island, who resigned for personal and business reasons. Nature Preserves Commission Karen Ackerman Witter, Springfield, was named the first permanent program coordinator of the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, by the commission effective in September. Witter will coordinate the commission's programs, act as a liaison with the Department of Conservation (DOC) and other agencies, and seek private and public funding sources for the commission. Previously, she was a research planner for DOC's division of planning and information. The Judiciary The following attorneys have been selected by the circuit judges as associate judges in the 16th Judicial Circuit, effective October 1: Melvin E. Dunn, Maple Park; Richard D. Larson, DeKalb; and, John L. Petersen, Aurora. James L. Griffin, Chicago, will retire as Cook County Circuit judge at the end of his present term, December 6. Griffin has been a judicial officer since 1971. Concluded on back cover 36 | December 1982 | Illinois Issues Continued from page 36 Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Thirteen new members were elected to the 68-member Board of Directors of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce at a business meeting in Chicago September 17. The board represents a cross-section of Illinois' commerce and industry. At the same meeting, Anthony M. Mandolini, partner, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Chicago, was elected chairman of the board for 1983. Mandolini succeeds Richard M. Bishop, president, First National Bank of Moline, who will complete his second term as chairman this year. Of the six district vice chairmen, Robert J. Bauer, president, Empire Stove Company, Belleville, and Chester K. Lasell, vice president, corporation communications, Deere & Co., were newly elected. Reelected were: Peter P. Donis, executive vice president, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria; Richard R. Berry, president, Brass Group, Olin Corporation, East Alton; Anthony S. Greene, president and chairman, Barber-Greene Company, Aurora; and Bernard F. Sergesketter, vice president business marketing, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago. Richard K. Charlton, vice president, The First National Bank of Chicago, was elected treasurer of the board; elected assistant treasurer was Jeffery D. Butterfield, vice president, Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago Honors The Illinois Auditor General's Office is the first state agency to receive a Certification Award for "conforming to high professional standards" from the Midwestern Intergovernmental Audit Forum. The forum is a consortium of federal, state and local organizations which seeks to improve audit quality and coordination at all levels of government. The certificate was presented to Auditor General Robert G. Cronson, Springfield, at a forum meeting in Lansing, Mich., in October. Cronson was elected by the General Assembly in 1974 to a 10-year term as auditor general. Previously, auditing functions in Illinois were under the executive branch. An "automated reasoning" computer program, developed by a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, was listed among the top 30 achievements of the year by the U.S. Department of Energy's office of basic energy sciences. Referred to as AURA ("automated reasoning assistant"), the program has been used in designing electronic circuits, detecting flaws in other computer programs and solving previously unsolved problems in advanced mathematics. |
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