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DMHDD: Early retirements, suspension and shakeups

William K. Murphy, director of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (DMHDD), took early retirement effective December 31 along with about 1,000 other department employees. Named director by Gov. Jim Edgar in January 1991, Murphy had been acting director since 1989. Murphy, 56, of Springfield said that early retirement presented a financial opportunity he could not ignore and that he hopes to continue serving the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled by working in the private sector.

Named acting director effective January 1 was Leigh Steiner, 40, of Springfield. With DMHDD since 1975, she most recently served as associate director, division of mental health.

Before his retirement, Murphy appointed Marva Ann Arnold of Chicago as acting facility director at the Chicago Read Mental Health Center, effective November 26. Arnold replaced Joseph Parks. He had been acting facility director since October 17, when facility director Jon Steinmetz was suspended after the Mental Health Association in Illinois reported unsanitary conditions and lack of supervision at Read and its Henry Homer Childrens' Center. (Steinmetz has taken early retirement.) Arnold was coordinator of nursing services for the DMHDD's division of clinical services.

Angelo J. Campagna of Elgin was named acting facility director at the Elgin Mental Health Center when facility director Roalda J. Alderman of Wheaton was named special assistant to Arnold, effective November 26. Campagna has been Elgin's deputy director since 1978. A 20-year veteran in social services, Alderman had previously announced her intention to take early retirement December 31. She will continue for a limited time in 1992 on a contractual basis.

Department on Aging: Wirth resigns

Victor L. Wirth resigned as director of the Department on Aging, effective December 31. Wirth, 56, of Springfield, will resume his former position as executive director of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association. Wirth was head of the association from 1984 until January 29, 1991, when Gov. Edgar appointed him to head the Department on Aging. In his letter of resignation to Edgar, Wirth said he was leaving because of increased personal and family responsibilities. Named acting director effective January 1 was Deputy Director Nancy Nelson, 43, of Springfield. She headed the department's training bureau for eight years, 1980-1988.

Wynne chief counsel for Revenue

Michael J. Wynne, 32, of Chicago was named chief general counsel for the Department of Revenue by Director Douglas L. Whitley, effective December 2. He replaced Robert Steere. An expert in sales and telecommunications taxes, Wynne was previously a senior consultant on tax issues with the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. He has also served in the Illinois Attorney General's Office, joining its division of revenue litigation in 1985. He was named assistant attorney general in 1989. During Wynne's career he helped draft laws that strengthened the Department of Revenue's ability to enforce collection of delinquent tax liabilities.

Moore named IlCC police chief

L. Aubrey Moore Jr., 44, of Peoria was named chief of the Illinois Commerce Commission (IlCC) transportation police, by Executive Director Phillip Gonet, effective November 1. With the Peoria police force since 1984, Moore most recently was its manager of planning and research. He has also been executive director of the Peoria Crime Reduction Council and deputy director of the Chicago-based Illinois Dangerous Drugs Commission. As IlCC police chief Moore replaced Robb Miller, who resigned in September. Dave Weigand had been acting interim chief.

Since 1954, the IlCC has used an on-the-road program to enforce state motor carrier regulatory law and commission rules, to investigate complaints and to regulate the tow-truck industry. IlCC police officers can make arrests.

McDonough named to Capital Development Board

Capital Development Board Executive Director Roger Sweet named Pam McDonough of Springfield to the management team at the board effective January 16. With 15 years of government service, McDonough most recently was chief of staff for House Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels (R-46, Elmhurst), 1989 through 1991.

Trinstano new chief of staff to Daniels

House Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels named Michael E. Trinstano as his new chief of staff, effective December 6, 1991. Trinstano, 43, of Glenview, previously served as vice president of the government section of Unisys Corporation. Trinstano will work mainly in Daniels' Chicago office when the legislature is not in session.

The Judiciary

The Illinois Supreme Court named 20th Circuit Court Judge Lloyd A. Karmeier of Nashville to the Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions Criminal Committee, effective November 21. The committee makes recommendations about the pattern instructions given by judges to juries in criminal trials.

Appellate Court
The Illinois Appellate Court judges named Fourth District Appellate Judge James A. Knecht of Bloomington as chairman of the appellate court, effective December 5.

The Appellate Court also made its appointments to the Illinois Courts Commission, which hears and rules on complaints against judges filed by the Judicial Inquiry Board. Reappointed were First Appellate District Judge Francis S. Lorenz of Chicago and Third Appellate District Judge Allan Stouder of Kankakee. As alternate members, First Appellate District Judge David Linn of Chicago was reappointed and Second Appellate District Judge George W. Unverzagt of Wheaton was appointed. All appointments were effective December 5.

Third Appellate District
Clerk Roger H. Johnson of Ottawa retired on December 31.

Fifth Appellate District
Judge Richard P. Goldenhersh was named presiding judge by district judges, effective December 2.

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Cook County Circuit
Chief Judge Harry G. Comerford appointed Associate Judge Harvey Schwartz, Skokie, supervising judge of the First Municipal District's Traffic Center. He replaced Wayne R. Andersen of Glenview, who resigned, effective November 20, to accept President Bush's appointment as judge of the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Chief Judge Comerford also appointed Circuit Judge Sophia H. Hall of Chicago as head of the Juvenile Division, making her the first woman presiding judge in Cook County Circuit Court. On the bench since 1980 and president of the Illinois Judges Association, she replaced Arthur N. Hamilton of Chicago, who resigned as circuit judge effective February 1. He had been a judge since 1971. The Juvenile Division has been heavily criticized by lawyer and other groups.

Other resignations include Circuit Judges Lester D. McCurrie of Palos Park, effective December 27, and Romie J. Palmer of Orland Park, effective December 31. McCurrie had been a judge since 1980 and Palmer since 1976.

The Illinois Supreme Court extended assignments to judicial service in Cook County Circuit Court for 20 retired judges, but one is clouded in controversy. According to reports in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, bar groups criticized the original recalling of Angelo D. Mistretta since he had not been retained as a circuit judge by voters in the November 1990 election and technically might not qualify as a "retired judge" who could be recalled to duty under the Illinois Constitution (Article VI, section 15).

Besides Mistretta, assignments were extended to June 1 by the Supreme Court for retired judges Morton C. Elden, Hyman Feldman, Philip A. Fleischman, Ian H. Levin, John A. McElligott, Benjamin J. Nelson, Sheila M. O'Brien, Margaret G. O'Malley, Edward E. Plusdrak, Paul P. Preston, Richard L. Samuels, Marjan P. Staniec, Arthur A. Sullivan, Alfred B. Teton, Dean M. Trafelet, Raymond E. Trafelet, Eugene L. Wachowski, Jack A. Welfeld and Louis A. Wexler.

8th Circuit
The judges of the circuit appointed Circuit Judge Robert L. Welch of Virginia as chief judge, succeeding David Slocum.

9th Circuit
The judges of the circuit named Circuit Judge Richard C. Ripple of Carthage as chief judge to succeed Stephen Evans.

10th Circuit
The Supreme Court assigned retired Circuit Judge James M. Bumgarner of Hennepin to duty in the circuit effective January 1, 1992, to December 7, 1992.

13th Circuit
Two circuit judges will retire in December, opening their seats for election: William P. Denny of Ottawa and Richard R. Wilder of Morris. Denny, a judge since 1965, has served as chief judge. Wilder has been a judicial officer since 1979.

Volunteers named to the Human Rights Authority

Four volunteer human rights investigators were appointed to the Human Rights Authority by the commissioners of the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, effective October 15.

Appointed in the Elgin region was Martin Buckley of Waukegan, who is associate director of the Lake County Society for Human Development, based in Zion. Appointed in the Cook County south suburban region was Lee Martin of Mokena, who is self-employed. Appointed in the Rockford region were Eugene Peterson and Linda Rose Simmons, both of Rockford. Peterson is a self-employed consultant, and Simmons is a librarian at Rockford College.

Serving three-year terms, the volunteers investigate alleged violations of disability laws by nursing homes, state institutions and other facilities that care for the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, the senile elderly and the severely handicapped. In fiscal year 1990, 81 volunteers worked approximately 4,500 hours, providing services to the Human Rights Authority worth an estimated $45,000.

Trotter heads Corn Growers

Tim Trotter, 31, of Coal City, was elected president of the National Corn Growers Association by its board of directors, effective October 1. The National Corn Growers Association is a national commodities association with 26,000 members in 45 states and 23 affiliates. As president, Trotter will be responsible for dealing with issues such as world trade and agricultural chemicals. The association seeks to improve profitability for corn growers through research, market development and education.

Environmental Communicators elect 1992 officers

The Chicago-based National Association of Professional Environmental Communicators (NAPEC) elected Stephanie J. Reith of Donohue & Associates, Chicago, as president for 1992. Other officers elected for one-year terms at its October meeting in Lisle include Deborah E. Volkmer of Roy F. Weston Inc., Vernon Hills, as vice president; Melissa Murphy of

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Braun Intertec Environmental Inc., Chicago, as treasurer; and John Perrecone of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Chicago, as secretary.

Founded in 1990, NAPEC has about 500 members from the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe including scientists, environmental groups, governmental officials, teachers, artists, industry representatives and "risk communicators," its newest professional listing. NAPEC seeks to improve the way environmental information is communicated and decisions are made. It publishes the NAPEC Quarterly.

Illinoisans elected to the NAPEC board are Jennifer Beese of the USEPA, Chicago; Philip R. Dunne of Weiser Minkus Walek Communications Inc., Chicago; Gretchen D. Monti of Monti Communications Inc., Bloomington; John New of Water and Waste Digest, Des Plaines; David L. Nichols of Jacobs Engineering Group, Chicago; and Helen Taylor of ICF Kaiser Engineers, Chicago. Beese and New serve for two-year terms; the rest serve for one year.

University of Chicago's Coase wins Nobel prize

Ronald Coase, 81, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, was awarded a Nobel prize for economics in October. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences chose Coase for his pioneering work in the effect of property rights and the cost of doing business on the economy. Coase, a British-born U.S. citizen and the university's 13th Nobel prizewinner in economics, received $1 million with the prize.

Coase is "the most important figure in law and economics" today, according to Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School. His work "essentially explained the application of legal rules to economic behavior." Coase, who still lectures at the university, taught there full-time from 1964 to 1981.

ISBE honors outstanding school board president

Judy McConchie, president of the board of education, Marshall School District #2, received the first Thomas Lay Burroughs Award for Outstanding Board President November 22. State Board of Education Chairman Louis Mervis presented the award at the Joint Annual Conference of the Illinois Associations of School Boards, School Administrators and School Business Officials.

Elected to the board in 1985, McConchie has served as president since 1987. Under her leadership, the Marshall school board used its resources to improve the district's math program and to establish new programs.

The new award will be presented annually to the local school board president who demonstrates extraordinary leadership on behalf of educational excellence and equal educational opportunity for students. The award was created to honor longtime State Board of Education Chairman Thomas Lay Burroughs, who died January 21, 1991.

State board names distinguished educators

The State Board of Education named nine teachers and three principals as distinguished educators of 1991 in November. Each received the Illinois Distinguished Educator Award and $25,000 at a November 20 banquet in Chicago.

Winners include three from Chicago School District 299: Bernard F. Bradley, Chicago, kindergarten-eighth grade science teacher, Newberry Mathematics and Science Academy; Rosemary Culverwell, Park Ridge, principal,

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Frank W. Reilly Elementary School; and Blanche F. Smith, Evanston, first grade teacher, Decatur Classical School.

Other winners from around the state were Ronald Carter, Belleville, jazz band director, East St. Louis Lincoln High School, East St. Louis District 189; Michael S. Klippert, Elizabeth, middle-school social studies teacher, River Ridge Middle School, River Ridge School District 210; Robert Nunez Jr., Rockford, physical education/vocational teacher, Sky View Center, Rockford School District 205; Arthur K. Peekel, Palatine, social studies teacher, Rolling Meadows High School (Peekel was also named Illinois Teacher of the Year in September, see Illinois Issues, November 1991, p. 22); Township High School District 214; Donald Ring, Arlington Heights, principal, Niles West High School, Niles Township District 219; Lynn M. Thompson, Peoria, special education teacher, Peoria Developmental Center, Peoria School District 150; Judith A. Trumble, Bradley, third-grade teacher, Thomas Edison Elementary School, Kankakee School District 111; John R. Vallino, DeSoto, principal and sixth-grade teacher, DeSoto Elementary School, DeSoto School District 86; and Patricia A. Walker, Chicago, teacher of English, social studies and home economics in a program for pregnant teens, Bloom Trail High School, Bloom Township High School District 206.

Pollution Prevention Award winners

Six Illinois businesses and three other entities received Governor's Pollution Prevention Awards in November for their efforts to reduce hazardous and solid waste.

The two winners in the small business/industry category (100 employees or less) were Sun Chemical Corporation, General Printing Inks Division, Chicago, and Sun Chemical Corporation, Kankakee. The Chicago division uses solvents (toluene, ketones, acetates, alcohols, ether, resins and pigments) to produce packaging ink for the printing industry. While increasing production from 36 million pounds of ink to 41 million pounds, Sun achieved an overall 13 percent waste reduction in 1990 by reducing waste volume from 227,313 gallons to 198,215 gallons. This was in addition to a 31 percent reduction achieved in 1989. At its Kankakee factory, which is the world's largest producer of gravure ink, Sun reduced the generation of two waste streams. It also modified the manufacturing process to recover raw materials, avoid waste disposal costs and save money. It reduced solid, flammable hazardous waste from 60,000 pounds to 54,000 pounds.

Two winners in the medium business/industry category (101-499 employees) were Advanced Filtration Systems Inc. (AFSI), Champaign, and AGI Incorporated, Melrose Park.b AFSI manufactures liquid filtration products using fully automated, computer-integrated manufacturing techniques. By redesigning its processes, AFSI eliminated 100 percent of an annual 144,000 gallons of polyurethane/solvent flush waste and 54 tons of methylene chloride emissions. AFSI also eliminated 14,070 gallons of isocyanate and 11,450 gallons of ultraviolet resin. AGI is a manufacturer and printer of disc packages, cosmetic folding cartons, etc., and uses sheetfed and web offset printing presses, which generate waste fountain solutions. By distilling the solutions to retrieve the isopropyl alcohol for reuse, AGI reduced waste generated by 90 percent or 10,400 gallons annually. AGI is also planning to switch from traditional to ultraviolet and electronic beam inks, thereby reducing its use of solvents and its emission of volatile organic compounds.

Winners in the large business/industry category (500 or more employees) were Caterpillar Inc., East Peoria, and Illinois Power Company, Decatur. The Caterpillar plant has established a plantwide Environmental and Pollution Prevention Team. Among team successes: reducing aluminum oxide waste by 52 percent with an annual cost savings of over $530,000 and recycling and reusing 50,000 gallons of waste oil in six months for a savings of $118,000. Illinois Power has established a pollution prevention program for waste reduction, reuse and recycling. It has 36 facility waste minimization coordinators. Goals include: reusing utility poles, tree limbs, ethylene glycol; recycling scrap metal, paper, concrete, asphalt and plastic gas pipe; eliminating CFC-based styrofoam; requiring suppliers to use returnable containers, and burning waste oil for energy recovery.

The trade association winner was Rosemont-based Chemical Industry Council of Illinois. It established a set of guidelines, including reducing waste and pollution, which all its members must follow.

The vendor category winner was Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville. Nalco developed PORTA-FEED Containers, which are stainless steel and returnable, thus reducing the use of disposable containers.

The winner of the educational institution category was Northwestern University, Evanston, for development of a comprehensive recycling and procurement program.

Scientific survey circular wins environmental award

Illinois State Geological Circular 546, entitled "Geological and hydrologic factors for siting hazardous or low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities" won the national John C. Frye Memorial Award in October. The report examines the potential for water contamination by disposal of the waste and presents a systematic approach for choosing and characterizing waste disposal sites. The authors are Richard J. Berg, senior geologist and head of the ground-water protection section at the Illinois State Geologic Survey; and H. Allen Wehrmann and John M. Shafer, both of the Illinois State Water Survey. Shafer is head of the survey's hydrology division. Both surveys are divisions of the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources.

Bernardini leaves Cook County Board for Milan

Cook County Commissioner Charles R. Bernardini of Chicago resigned from the county board, effective in January, to take a post in Milan, Italy. The board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy named him managing director and board member. One of the largest American chambers abroad, the Milan-based chamber has over 2,000 members and a staff of 15. It promotes U.S.-Italy trade on behalf of its members and represents their interests in Rome, Brussels and Washington, D.C. Bernardini will also work with the State of Illinois European Office in Brussels and continue as a Mayor Richard M. Daley appointee on the Chicago-Milan sister city committee, a 20-year-old sister city relationship.

Fluent in Italian, Bernardini will begin work in Milan in mid-January. Chicago's strengths in the Italian market include metal working, food processing, legal services and transportation services. The December agreement reached by the European Community to work for a common currency by 1997 will make it possible for U.S. firms to do business across Europe without changing currencies. "It is important to gain a foothold there," Bernardini said.

For the last two years he chaired the Cook County Board committee on economic development. He has also taught international law at Loyola University of Chicago's campus in Rome. An attorney with Allstate Insurance Company and a former Cook County special assistant state's attorney for election fraud, Bernardini was elected to the Cook County Board in 1986. He ran against the Democratic party slate but with the support of Mayor Harold Washington and of 43rd Ward Democratic Committeeman Ann Stepan. He was reelected in 1990 with the support of the party. His replacement on the board will be appointed by the remaining nine members elected from Chicago and will serve until the next election in March 1994.

Staff contributors include Margaret S. Knoepfle, Jennifer Smith, Dawn Siefman and F. Mark Siebert.

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