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Names Killian new IEPA director  Bernard P. Killian, acting director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) since May, was named permanent director by Gov. James R. Thompson on July 29. IEPA former director Richard J. Carlson resigned in May to form his own consulting firm. Killian, a 14-year veteran of IEPA, joined the agency in 1974 as a legislative liaison. In 1980 he became manager of public programs. Four years later he moved into the manager's spot in government and community affairs where he oversaw the establishment of the state's "Superfund" program. He was in this position when he took over as acting director. A Bloomington native, Killian taught school at Porta High School from 1969-74. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Killian's appointment, which must be confirmed by the Senate, was effective immediately. His annual salary is $65,835. Riley revelations rock Illinois Arts Council It's been a disruptive year for the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). In January Adrienne Nescott Hirsch, IAC executive director since 1984, stepped down from the post to accept a position with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Then-deputy director John P. Riley took over Hirsch's responsibilities on an acting basis until June 28 when he was appointed to the post permanently by a unanimous IAC board of directors. Riley had been deputy director since 1985. A month later the agency was stunned by the revelations of a Chicago Tribune investigation of Riley. According to the Tribune, several of Riley's claims on his resume were false, namely that he had been a "principal dancer" with New York's Joffrey Ballet from 1972-76 and that he had appeared as a "guest artist" on the dance company's public television series during the 1970s. When confronted with the Tribune's findings, the 38-year-old Massachusetts native admitted that he had lied. He resigned his IAC post on July 29. As of August 24 the council was looking for a new permanent executive director. Meanwhile, August 1 was Bill Niffenegger's first day with the IAC as deputy director. Appointed one month earlier, he had been a special assistant for the arts to Gov. Thompson. Niffenegger was curator for the State of Illinois Center in Chicago from 1984-87 and was conservator/curator of the Executive Mansion in Springfield from 1980-84. He was regional conservator for the National Park Service from 1982-84. Project Chance gets new board of governors A new board of governors, which will advise the Department of Public Aid's Project Chance, was appointed by Gov. Thompson in May. The eight-member board will assist Project Chance in expanding employment opportunities for welfare recipients. Chairman of the board is Burnett W. Donoho, president and chief operating officer of Marshall Field's & Company of Chicago. Other members include Don DePorter, regional vice president of the Hyatt Hotel Corp., Chicago; Dr. Leo M. Hentikoff Jr., president and chief executive officer of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago; Clifton F. Hooks, an executive vice president with Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago; Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the University of Illinois; Robert E. Page, recent past president, publisher and chief executive officer of the Chicago Sun-Times Co., Chicago; Edward H. Rensi, president and chief operating officer of McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook; and Stephen M. Wolf, chairman, president and chief executive officer of United Airlines and board chairman of Allegis Corp. in Chicago. Project Chance was started in 1985 as a means to move welfare recipients into paying jobs. Since then the program has helped more than 115,000 people find jobs in such areas as food service, retail merchandising, computer processing and truck driving. Sawyer appoints School Reform Authority Several forms of reforming Chicago schools were on the agenda of the spring legislative session. When the session ended in early July, a bill was passed. Besides providing for changes in the Chicago Board of Education, establishment of local school councils and more power for principals, it would create a seven-member oversight authority. The latter was requested in early June by Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who went on to appoint its first members. The new education watchdog group is chaired by John Corbally, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and former president of the University of Illinois. Other members include George Ayers, president of Chicago State University; Florence Cox, immediate past president of the Chicago Region PTA; James Deanes, chairman of the Parent/Community Council of the mayor's Education August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 58 Summit; Claire Fitzpatrick, associate director for academic support services for the College Entrance Exam Board; and Henry Martinez, member of the Parent/Community Council of the Education Summit as well as executive director of the Mexican Community Committee of South Chicago. As of mid-July, the seventh member who will be a representative from the business community, had not been appointed. The seven-member authority will monitor the Chicago Board of Education's reform programs and will oversee the board's implementation of reform recommendations made by the mayor's Education Summit. Terms on the authority are three years; members are not paid. Changes at the Chicago Board of Elections Following a heated debate, Lance Gough was named executive director of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners June 2. Voting for the appointment were then-board Chairman James R. Nolan and Commissioner Nikki M. Zollar. Commissioner Michael Hamblet voted against Gough, citing a possible conflict of interest. Prior to his appointment, Gough was a private consultant who represented a computer equipment and supply business negotiating with the board. Gough, a former employee of the elections board (1976-85), reportedly maintains that he has severed all ties with the business. In July the chairmanship of the three-member elections board changed hands. Commissioner Zollar became the first woman and the first black to head the board. Nolan, the first Republican to head the elections board in more than 60 years, is now secretary. Hamblet continues to sit as a member. Top spots at Chicago Tourism Council announced  Chicago Tourism Council chairman William E. Smith recently announced two major appointments to the council: John T. Trutter to the newly created post of president in May and, in June, Jennifer H. Setzke as executive director. Trutter, a civic leader and former corporate executive, will work to expand the council's base of financial support in the private sector. Trutter has served as a council member since 1986. From 1985 to March 1988 he also served as president of the Chicago Convention and Visitors Bureau. Setzke, assistant director and travel and tour manager of the council since May 1985, replaced founding executive director Marilyn D. Clancy, who resigned June 1 to pursue private sector interests. Prior to joining the council, Setzke was a research associate for the Chicago Crime Commission, a public relations account executive and a government relations assistant for the Illinois State Board of Education. The Chicago Tourism Council was founded in 1984 by the late Mayor Harold Washington. Its mission is to promote the city where, it is estimated, seven million tourists spend over $3.6 billion annually. Wallace replaces Watkins at ISU helm  Leadership at Illinois State University-Normal changed hands August 31 when Thomas P. Wallace became the university's 14th president, succeeding Lloyd Watkins who had served in the post for 11 years. Watkins is joining ISU's communications faculty as a regency professor. Wallace had been chancellor and professor of chemistry at Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne since 1986. He came to Indiana from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., where he had been dean of the School of Sciences and Health Professions from 1978-83 and vice president for academic affairs and professor of chemical sciences from 1983-86. From 1982-85, he also served as an adjunct professor of higher education at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Wallace spent a decade (1968-78) at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, serving as head of the chemistry department for three years and as dean of the College of Science for four years. Founded in 1857, ISU is governed by the Board of Regents of State Universities and has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. New officers, executive director at Guardianship and Advocacy Commission The Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission elected officers and appointed a new executive director in June. The commission's new officers include Rep. Karen Hasara (R-100, Springfield), chairperson; Carol A. Madison of Edwardsville, vice chairperson; James D. Pitts Jr. of Chicago, treasurer; and Corinne Hallett of Hinsdale, secretary. The one-year terms began July 1. Also beginning duties on July 1 was the commission's new executive director, Gary E. Miller. Miller, one of 170 applicants for the post, had been serving on an acting basis since January when Sandra Klubeck left the post to do consulting work. Prior to January 1988 he was the commission's director of administration and chief fiscal officer. He joined the commission staff in January 1984 as chief internal auditor. Before that, Miller, a 20-year veteran of state government, was with the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. Also appointed at the June meeting were a number of Human Rights Authority regional representatives. The authority is a division of the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission. It maintains nine offices around the state staffed by volunteer members who investigate alleged rights violations in nursing homes, hospitals and other facilities serving the disabled.
Representatives serve three-year terms and receive expenses only. '70 by 90' It's been two years since Illinois' seat belt law went into effect, and according to Melvin H. Smith, director of traffic safety for the Illinois Department of Transportation, compliance with the law has risen from 16 percent to 40 percent. This has meant a 5.3 percent reduction in the number of fatalities and a 28 percent decline in incapacitating injuries. But 40 percent compliance isn't enough for Smith and Jeremy Margolis, director of the Illinois State Police. Smith and Margolis, co-chairmen of the newly established "70 by 90" Task Force, want to see a 70 percent compliance rate by 1990. The 23-member task force, appointed by Margolis and Smith with the advice of Gov. Thompson, brings together individuals from government, the media, education, insurance, medicine, industry and community organizations. Working in small groups, the panel hopes to develop a series of informational programs Continued on page 61 August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 59 aimed at various segments of the population. It is hoped that these programs, which are to be initiated in January 1989, will boost Illinoisans' seat belt use by 30 percent in the next two years. Appointments, reappointments to Illinois State Scholarship Commission The Illinois State Scholarship Commission's (ISSC) newest member is William J. Hocter of Chicago, executive vice president of the Illinois Bankers Association. Hocter, who was appointed by Gov. Thompson in May, previously served as vice president and economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and in a variety of staff assignments with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is also vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Universify of Wisconsin-Madison's Graduate School of Banking. Reappointed in May were two ISSC commissioners: David P. Eisenman of Champaign and Lois C. Mazzuca of Glenbrook. Eisenman has been a commissioner since 1979 and has served as vice chairperson since 1985. He is president of the Association for Improvement of Volunteer Blood Donation and a research associate for the Champaign County Blood Bank. Eisenman is also a member of the Illinois Independent Higher Education Loan Authority. Mazzuca, a college counselor at Glenbrook High School, has served on the ISSC since 1981. The former president of the Illinois Association of College Admissions Counselors was chairperson of the Student Financial Aid Study Committee which was recently convened by the ISSC and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Appointments and reappointments to the commission must be confirmed by the Illinois Senate. Commissioners serve six-year terms and receive expenses only. Also reappointed to the ISSC was student representative Daniel F. Dring Jr., currently a junior at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Dring has been active in the university's Student Government Association and in 1985 served as an executive intern for the governor's office of boards and commissions. His term expires in June 1989. Corbally IV to review objectives/assessment program A new task force Corbally IV is reviewing the first cycle of the state's learning objectives/assessment program. The 19-member panel was appointed by Ted Sanders, state superintendent of education, in June. Task force chairman is John Corbally, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Formerly president of the University of Illinois, Corbally has already chaired three committees for the State Board of Education, including the one that wrote the State Goals for Learning. Committee members include Donald Beggs, dean of the College of Education at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lee Betterman, president of the Illinois Education Association, Springfieid; Gene Cartwright, manager of community and urban affairs for Amoco Corporation, Chicago; Ken Drum, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, Oak Brook; Nancy Elson of Canton, parent and member of the three previous Corbally committees; Reva Hairston, principal of Chicago's Terrell Elementary School; J. Kenneth Hill, superintendent of Nashville High School District 99; Timothy Hyland, superintendent of Champaign Unit School District 4; Paul Jung, superintendent of Des Plaines School District 62; Joyce Krueger, of Belleville, president of the Illinois PTA; Alan Lemon, Kankakee County regional superintendent; George Munoz, a member of the Chicago Board of Education; John Pennoyer, curriculum and instruction director at Lyons Township High School District 204, LaGrange; William Peterson, principal of Heritage Elementary School in Streamwood; John Renfro, superintendent of Collinsville Community School District 10; Ronald Simcox, superintendent of Hinsdale Community School District 181; Barbara Wheeler of Westmont, president of the Illinois Association of School Boards; and David T. Willard, superintendent of Kildeer Community School District 96, Buffalo Grove. The group is to submit its report to Supt. Sanders by year's end. News from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Stephanie Marshall, the director of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) in Aurora, was recently elected founding president of the National Consortium of Specialized Schools in Mathematics, Science and Technology. Participants at the spring conference represented 27 specialized residential and commuting schools and the U.S. Office of Education. The newly founded organization's mission is to promote educational excellence in the fields of mathematics, science and technology. Specialized math and science education is paying off for a number of IMSA students. In May juniors Rowan Lockwood of Rockford and Mehmet Guler of Anna finished first and second respectively in the INTECH '88 competition, a science contest designed for high school students residing close to the Illinois Research and Development Corridor, which follows the East-West Tollway (Illinois Route 5) and encompasses portions of DeKalb, DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties. Lockwood won for her work on "Evidences of Bipedalism in Pterosaurs"; Guler's entry was "Ionic Interactions in the Mechanism of the Na + /K + Pump." Maggie Taylor, an IMSA junior from Peoria, was the only individual student in the nation to be chosen to attend the Superquest Summer Institute in St. Paul, Minn. The institute allows students to run projects they have developed on a supercomputer. Competition for the seven-week program began last January, with teams from 99 schools competing. Winning teams were from California, Florida, Maryland and Virginia. Although the IMSA team received only an "honorable mention," Taylor, on the basis of her project proposal, was invited to participate with the California team when one of its members could not attend. Taylor's project dealt with the study of the visual appearance of objects moving through space. Superquest is a computational science competition for high school students sponsored by ETA Systems. Winners are allowed to work on the ETA10-P supercomputer during the institute and have a chance to win the free use of a supercomputer for two years. In this time of tight money in education, the academy was one of five schools nationwide to receive a matching federal energy conservation grant last spring. The grant, part of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, was for $107,500 which will be matched by the state. The money is being used to install a computerized energy management system at the academy. According to IMSA fiscal officer, Gregg Worrell, the system will pay for itself in about two years. Illinois sends four to International Congress of Americanists Four Illinois archaeologists were among the participants in a symposium on prehistoric midwestern agriculture conducted during the 46th International Congress of Americanists in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in July. The symposium was organized by William Woods, a professor in Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville's geography and earth sciences department and coordinator of SIU-E's contract archaeology program. The symposium highlighted the Mississippian cultures of the American Bottoms and of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. The other Illinoisans participating in the symposium were Thomas E. Emerson, chief archaeologist for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (which administers Cahokia Mounds); John Kelly, a staff researcher for SIU-E's contract archaeology program; and Neal Lopinot, associate coordinator of the archaeology program, adjunct professor of geography and earth sciences at SIU-E and research associate with St. Louis' Washington University. SIU-E's archaeology program is funded by external sources. August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 61 The International Congress of Americanists has about 2,000 members and meets every two years to focus on various issues in the western hemisphere, ranging from prehistory to contemporary economic development. The meetings alternate between the "old" world and the "new." The Judiciary Appointments, assignments and retirements announced recently by the Illinois Supreme Court are reported below:
Cook County Circuit Court 7th Judicial Circuit 18th Judicial Circuit Stone new Cook County public defender Randolph N. Stone of Chicago was sworn in as Cook County's new public defender in May. His appointment by the Cook County circuit judges followed a nationwide search. He comes to the post after spending five years with the Washington, D.C., Public Defender Service, the last three as deputy director. Prior to that Stone spent three years in his own Chicago law firm. Between 1976 and 1980 he was office director and staff attorney for the Criminal Defense Consortium of Cook County and was a clinical fellow for the University of Chicago's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. In his new position, Stone is in charge of about 400 lawyers. He is the first black to head the Cook County agency. Kipperman joins Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts Carol A. Kipperman joined the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC) as its labor relations counsel in June. She came to the AOIC from Chicago's Department of Water where she had served as director since July 1986. In her new post she will counsel chief circuit court judges who must oversee contract negotiations for certain court employees, including adult and juvenile probation officers, court stenographers, appellate defenders and, in some counties, public defenders. Kipperman spent five years (1965-70) with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., coming to Chicago in 1971 as the city's equal employment opportunity counsel. In 1972 she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office, working under then-U.S. Atty. James R. Thompson. Kipperman became a partner in the Chicago law firm of Wilson & Mcllvaine in 1974 and remained there until 1985 when she became Chicago's deputy corporation counsel. Community College Trustees Association elects officers, gives awards The Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA), meeting in June for its 16th annual convention, elected officers for 1988-89 and bestowed a number of awards.  Elected ICCTA president was Richard R. O'Dell of Monticello. A former mayor of Monticello and a member of the Parkland College (Champaign) Board of Trustees for the past 11 years, O'Dell served as ICCTA vice president last year. He has been actively involved with a number of the association's committees and has been the ICCTA liaison to the Illinois Community College Board since 1982. He succeeded Tom L. Wilson of Galesburg.  The new vice president of the ICCTA is Richard B. Groharing of Morrison who has served as the association representative for Sauk Valley Community College (Dixon) for the past six years. Also active in a number of ICCTA committees, Groharing chaired the state relations committee for the past two years. He will become ICCTA president next year. Other officers elected were Jan Wagner of Lansing as secretary and James H. Griffith of Homewood as treasurer. Wagner has been a South Suburban College of Cook County (formerly Thornton Community College in South Holland) trustee since 1983. She is currently serving on the national Association of Community College Trustees central region nominating committee. Griffith, a member of the Prairie State College (Chicago Heights) Board of Trustees since 1970, has served six terms as its chairman and eight terms as vice chairman. He has represented his college in the ICCTA for 16 years. During their one-year terms, all officers serve on the association's executive committee. The ICCTA also handed out a number of awards during its convention:
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The Illinois Community College Trustees Association is a statewide lobbying federation created in 1970 to represent the interests of Illinois community colleges. Its membership is comprised of the trustees elected in the state's 39 community college districts. Design team chosen in Matteson In July we told you about the south suburban Cook County community of Matteson winning a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts design program grant. The village planned to match that grant and use the money to fund a study of how it could creatively integrate its residential and commercial areas with the surrounding freeway system. After a national search, Matteson officials have settled on an interdisciplinary design team consisting of RTKL Associates, a Baltimore, Md., urban design/architecture firm; Land Design/Research, an urban design/landscape firm based in Columbia, Md.; and Barton Ashman Associates Inc., an Evanston-based land and transportation planner. RTKL is directing the team. According to the village's director of community development, Ralph Coglianese, Matteson is seeking "to find ways in which, with proper planning and design, we can avoid the stressful traffic congestion and notable lack of cohesive design now visible in many communities where development has taken place during the last decade." It is hoped that this project will produce a national model for design along freeways. Other appointments Joe Anna Sullivan of Rogers Park became the Region 5 (Cook County) field services manager for the Illinois Department for Alcoholism and Substance Abuse on June 1. She replaced Dr. Rose Ravid, who retired in early 1988. Sullivan will be responsible for monitoring community-based prevention programs in Cook County. Previously she spent seven years as executive director of Evanston's Peer Services, a comprehensive drug prevention and treatment program. Sullivan is on Evanston's YWCA board and has helped set up a battered women's shelter. She is international relations committee chair of ZONTA, a professional women's service organization, and a member of the Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association and the Illinois Women's Substance Abuse Coalition. 
Richard M. Hetzer of Schaumburg was the unanimous choice for president of the trustees division of the Township Officials of Cook County (TOCC) in June. A trustee of Schaumburg Township for the past three years, Hetzer is vice president and manager of the public funds unit at the Exchange National Bank of Chicago. The trustees division consists of 120 township trustees elected in suburban Cook County's 30 townships. These trustees are the legislative arm of township government and are responsible for determining township budgets and taxes. The division provides for continuing education of its members and disseminates information. Hetzer has been with the Exchange since February 1967 and has headed its public funds unit since January 1987. Hetzer is a member of the Township Officials of Illinois, the American Institute of Banking and the Government Finance Officers Association. Conservation awards to SIU-C's Klimstra  Willard D. Klimstra, distinguished professor emeritus of zoology at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, was honored this spring by the Wildlife Society and by Chevron for his long and distinguished service to wildlife conservation. Chief among Klimstra's recognized accomplishments was his founding of SIU-C's Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory in 1951. He stepped down as the laboratory's director in August 1987. The Wildlife Society bestowed its most prestigious award the Aldo Leopold Medal on Klimstra during the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. The late Aldo Leopold, a University of Wisconsin game management professor, is considered the father of wildlife conservation in this country. The society, an educational and scientific organization of wildlife professionals with members in more than 40 countries, last year honored Klimstra with its international publication award for Population Ecology of the Bobwhite, co-authored by SIU-C's John L. Roseberry, and with one of only 70 lifetime memberships awarded in the society's 50-year history. Klimstra was one of 20 individuals and five organizations receiving 1988 Chevron Conservation Awards. Besides his development of the wildlife laboratory, Klimstra was cited for his efforts in establishing the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission and for his mined land reclamation work. Chevron's award program is the oldest privately sponsored one of its kind in the U.S. Winners receive $1,000. Klimstra plans to spend his retirement working. For six months each year he will study the endangered key deer on Big Pine Key in Florida, an effort with which he has been involved since 1967. For the remaining six months of the year, Klimstra will be back in southern Illinois working on new ways to reclaim stripmined land. Many of his methods, based on the philosophy that energy development and natural resources management can be compatible land uses, have helped transform mined lands into parks and wetlands that provide needed wildlife habitat. 77 community projects honored with Home Town Awards Brown County took top honors in the seventh annual Governor's Home Town Awards competition which recognizes exemplary volunteer efforts in Illinois communities. The award came as the result of a number of activities by the county and its citizens. Efforts to diversify the county's economic base and its traditional reliance on agriculture have resulted in the construction of a new $41 million state prison and in the $5 million expansion of Dot Foods Inc. Volunteers have raised funds for a swimming pool and recreational area, have worked to place downtown Mount Sterling on the National Register of Historic Places, and have successfully attracted the Stallion Stakes Harness Race to the Brown County Fair. In all, 77 community projects in 10 general population categories were honored. Also recognized in each category were youth and senior citizen projects. Special awards for economic development were presented too. The Governor's Home Town Awards program is administered by the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs in cooperation with the Department on Aging and the Governor's Office of Voluntary Action. Winners are chosen by an outside review body. Continued on page 67 August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 64 1988 Literary Awards announced by Illinois Arts Council Recipients of the Illinois Arts Council's 1988 Literary Awards were announced in June. Fifteen individuals and seven magazines shared a total of $32,000. The awards recognize Illinois writers and noncommercial publishers. In the fiction category, the winners were Dan Chaon of Chicago, Mark Costello of Champaign, Tim Dekin of Evanston, Rochelle Distelheim of Highland Park, Harry Mark Petrakis of Schaumburg, Melissa Brown Pritchard of Evanston and Alice Ryerson and Catherine Scherer, both of Chicago. Poetry winners included John Dickson of Evanston, Mary Kinzie of Skokie, Lisel Mueller of Lake Forest, John F. Nims of Chicago, Alan Shapiro of Evanston and Martha Vertreace of Chicago. The only essay winner was Paul Breslin of Evanston. The noncommercial literary magazines in which the winning works appeared also won awards: Ascent, published in Urbana; Chicago's F Magazine; the Mississippi Valley Review, published in Macomb; Highland Park's Other Voices; Poetry, published in Chicago; the Spoon River Quarterly, published in Normal; and Evanston's Tri-Quarterly. Writers are nominated by the magazines. The 1988 competition attracted 20 magazines that nominated 140 individual writers. Awards are determined by a panel of out-of-state jurors appointed by the council's chairperson, Shirley R. Madigan. This year's jurors included Michael Heffernan of Fayetteville, Ark., Garrett Hongo of Columbia, Mo., and Thalia Selz of Hartford, Conn. Have to Have Habitat winners announced Nine winners of the state's second annual "Have to Have Habitat'' essay contest were announced in June. These fourth, fifth and sixth graders from around the state were asked to imagine themselves as news reporters doing human interest stories about the habitat used by any of Illinois' native wildlife or plant species. First-place winners in each grade received a $100 U.S. savings bond and binoculars. A $75 bond and a Wildlife Encyclopedia went to second-place winners. Third-place winners got a $50 bond and a wildlife field guide. First-place winners included Greg Adam, a sixth grader at Bloomington's Oakland School; fifth grader Angie Jansen from Damiansville Elementary School in Albers; and Patrick Sartain, a fourth grader from Bloomington's Stevenson School. In second place were Tamara Hall, a fourth grader from Stevenson School, Bloomington; sixth grader Earl Hansen from Sheldon Junior High School in Sheldon; and Angela Myers, a fifth grader from Bloomington's Sheridan School. Third-place winners were Jason Cotterer, a fourth grader from Fairbury's Westview School; Jennifer Stejskal, a sixth grader from Indian Trail Junior High School in Plainfield; and fifth grader Susan Tomlinson from Coal City Grade School in Coal City. Entries were judged by a panel of education and wildlife specialists on their accuracy and originality in portraying habitat. The contest was sponsored by the Department of Conservation and a number of environmental and wildlife groups. 1988 Master Farmers named Farming is not an easy job. Farmers must contend with erratic weather, errant soil, determined and voracious insects, and toxic chemicals. The hours can be long and the work exhausting. To honor those who do an outstanding job Prairie Farmer magazine annually designates Master Farmers. This year's winners include Preston Carson, a corn, soybean and dairy farmer from Oakdale; Don Grubb, a no-till farmer from Buda and a Bureau County Soil and Water Conservation District board member; Harry Herrmann of Edelstein, a minimum tillage advocate; and Robert D. Wilson, a no-till farmer from Clinton. The Master Farmer award program was started by Prairie Farmer in 1925. It was discontinued in 1932 but was resurrected in 1968. Contenders are nominated by friends, coworkers or communities and are judged by a three-member panel that includes the magazine's editor on their abilities as an above average farmer and for their service to agricultural organizations, the community and family. No preference is given to either grain or livestock farmers, but according to Prairie Farmer editor Jim Lilly, "there is an increasing importance being placed on soil and water conservation practices." Freeman Coal wins mining award The Freeman United Coal Mining Company of DuQuoin received the Association of Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts' (AISWCD) first Mining Industry Award this spring for its "consistent and quality reclamation efforts" at the company's Fidelity Mine No. 11 site. Freeman was nominated by the Perry County Soil and Water Conservation District. The AISWCD has future plans to offer a similar award to oil drilling companies for well site restoration. McManus wins Lisagor award Ed McManus, one of Illinois Issues' regular Chicago columnists, received a 1987 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in May. Nominated in two categories magazine reporting and column/commentary in a weekly newspaper, trade or special interest publication Continued on page 69 August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 67 he won for his column entitled "Protecting child from danger that wasn't" (August-September 1987, pp. 78-79). McManus is an assistant financial editor for the Chicago Tribune and a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. The Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism were established as a tribute to their namesake in 1977 by the Chicago Headline Club. Peter Lisagor, a newspaper reporter for over 30 years, spent many of those years as the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News. Joyce Tucker honored by Dollars & Sense  Joyce E. Tucker, director of Illinois' Department of Human Rights since its inception in 1980, was named one of America's top 100 black business and professional women by Dollars & Sense magazine in July. The nationally circulated periodical singled out those "who are the country's most successful, educated and celebrated black women." Tucker is the first black woman in Illinois history to be appointed to a cabinet post. She administers an agency budget of more than $4 million and is responsible for the enforcement of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Dollars & Sense labels her "one of the nation's premiere civil rights professionals." She has been chairwoman of the League of Black Women for three years and currently sits on the board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. She is also president of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, an organization of more than 150 state, local and provincial human rights/relations agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Tucker, a graduate of John Marshall Law School, was responsible for administering equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policy for the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities prior to her appointment as the state's human rights director. Two PEACH'S for Illinois Illinois garnered two of three national public health awards from the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga. A Program Evaluation Award in Community Health (PEACH) went to the Cook County Department of Public Health for its hypertension compliance program and to the Stephenson County Public Health Department for its smoking intervention program for pregnant, low-income women. In Cook County, over 600 patients with high blood pressure were taught how to alter their lifestyles and to adhere to a treatment program in order to reduce and control their hypertension. Stephenson County's project was a component of the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program. Of 42 eligible women, 40 participated in the smoking intervention counselling and monthly reinforcement sessions. This first bi-annual PEACH program drew 182 applicants. Projects were judged using five criteria: program objectives, development of intervention techniques, implementation of techniques, demonstrable effects, and subsequent use of evaluation information. The third PEACH went to Salt Lake City, Utah, for its project on proper diets for diabetics. Klaus resigns from Illinois Humanities Council Robert J. Klaus, executive director of the Illinois Humanities Council for the last eight years, resigned June 20. He is now executive director of the American Fund for Dental Health. Based in Chicago, the fund promotes a variety of projects and programs aimed at increasing the availability and use of professional dental care. It is also involved in accelerating the transfer of technology from the research lab to practice and in assisting dental schools in maintaining quality educational programs. Klaus came to the IHC from Iowa where he was assistant director of that state's humanities committee. Francis J. Pettis, an 11-year veteran of the IHC, is serving as its acting executive director. He continues to serve as the director of the council's grants program. The IHC's board of directors is conducting a national search for Klaus' successor. Holloway leaves state government again James D. Holloway, former Democratic representative from southern Illinois, retired from his post as Atty. Gen. Neil F. Hartigan's down-state executive assistant June 30. Besides enjoying his new home on Lake Egypt, Holloway will serve on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Steelville. Holloway's first elective office was as Randolph County's assessor and treasurer in 1954. He was elected to the Illinois House in 1958 and served there until 1974. From 1972-84 he was a Democratic state committeeman. Holloway joined Hartigan's staff in 1983 and was instrumental in setting up the attorney general's downstate operation.□ August & September 1988 | Illinois Issues | 69 |
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