Officers of the Illinois Municipal League PRESIDENT JEFFREY T. MARKLAND, Mayor,    Urbana FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ANTHONY VACCO, Village President,    Evergreen Park SERGEANT-AT-ARMS JAMES M.THOMAS, Mayor, Ottawa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STEVEN SARGENT VICE PRESIDENTS Belleville—Mayor Richard Brauer Bellwood—Mayor Sigel C. Davis Bradley—Village President Kenneth P. Hayes Bridgeview—Village President John A. Oremus Buffalo Grove—Village President Verna L. Clayton Carbondale—Mayor Helen Westberg Centralia—Mayor Jack Sligar Chicago—Mayor Harold Washington Decatur—Mayor Gary K. Anderson DeKalb— Mayor Greg Sparrow East Chicago Heights—Mayor Saul Beck Elgin—Mayor Richard L. Verbic Galesburg—Mayor Jerry L. Miller Gurnee—Village President Richard A. Welton Joliet—Mayor John Bourg, Jr. Loves Park—Mayor Joseph F. Sinkiawic Macomb—Mayor Robert Anstine Mount Vernon—Mayor Roland Lewis Niles—Village President Nicholas B. Blase Northlake—Mayor Eugene Doyle Oak Lawn—Mayor Ernest F. Kolb Park Ridge—Mayor Martin J. Butler Paxton— Mayor James E. Kingston Pekin—Mayor Willard E. Birkmeier Peoria—Mayor James Maloof Pontiac—Mayor Dale O. Campbell Quincy—Mayor Verne W. Hagstrom Riverdale—Village President Frank J. Heenan Rockford—Mayor John McNamara Salem—Mayor Leonard E. Ferguson Schiller Park—Village President Edward E. Bluthardt Skokie—Mayor Albert J. Smith Waukegan—Mayor Robert Sabonjian West Chicago—Mayor A. Eugene Rennels Woodridge—Mayor William F. Murphy PAST PRESIDENTS HAROLD J GOUWENS. Village President, South Holland ROGER W. DETTRO, Mayor, Mattoon MARK B. McLeRoy, Mayor, Freeport JACK B. WILLIAMS. Village President, Franklin Park J. MICHAEL HOUSTON, Mayor, Springfield JAMES T. RYAN, Mayor, Arlington Heights

The International Institute of Municipal Clerks announced that Linda M. Taets, Clerk/Treasurer of the Village of Tampico, has been awarded the designation of CERTIFIED MUNICIPAL CLERK for achieving the high educational, experience, and service requirements established by this Institute for attainment of this honor.

Marian Humes, Alderman, Chicago, was elected to the Board of Directors of the National League of Cities for a two year term.

The League was saddened to learn of the death of Audrey Tarron, Village Treasurer, Schram City and the death of Mayor H. R. Williams, Kirkland who served in that office for 15 years.

Financing Rural Health Care, a conference hosted by Illinois Lt. Governor George H. Ryan and coordinated by the Illinois Department of Public Health and Western Illinois University, will be held February 19 and 20, 1987 at the Springfield, Illinois Hilton hotel.

The conference features nationally recognized speakers from academic institutions, health care associations, government, and health care practitioners. Topic areas include rural health care financing issues, such as cost saving innovations, federal reimbursement changes, advantages of HMOs, recent trends in home patient care, and progressive non-hospital alternatives.

For further information, please contact LaVonne A. Straub, Department of Economics, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois 61455; (309) 298-1413.

The ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL REVIEW continues to be an open forum of expression for municipalities. Articles appearing in the Review do not necessarily express the views of the League or its staff but those of the various authors.