state agencies, universities, business and mineral industries in January. Other members are Jack A. Simon (vice chairman) and W. Calhoun Smith (secretary), Illinois State Geological Survey; Sheridan A. Glen, Department of Business and Economic Development; Peter J. Roberts, Department of Conservation; Robert J. Williams and Kay Whitlock, Department of Agriculture; Frank A. Kirk and Thomas Nurse, Department of Local Government Affairs; Warren P. Miller, Environmental Protection Agency; Daniel R. Irwin, Southern Illinois University; Raymond J. Bodner and Cynthia Forster, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce; Theodore G. Haines, Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and Regional Planning Commission; Charles S. Danner, Illinois Society of Professional Engineers; Otis J. Gibson, Illinois Coal Operators Association; Charles J. Pardee, Illinois Oil and Gas Association; Joe Shramovich, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission; Bruce Barker, Division of Water Resources, Department of Transportation; and Jack E. Eades and George D. Rose, Division of Highways, Department of Transportation. Additional appointments will be made later.

Deaths

Sen. Sam Romano (D., Chicago), 68, on February 16 of cancer. A veteran of 20 years in the legislature, he was also a senior partner of Rapid Business Services in Chicago.

John Rendleman, 48, president of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, of lung cancer on March 4. At the university since 1951, he was promoted from vice president for business affairs to the presidency by the SIU board of trustees in 1968 when the campus became independent of Carbondale. As executor of the estate of Secretary of State Paul Powell, in 1970 Rendleman disclosed the discovery of some $800,000 in cash in shoeboxes in Powell's Springfield hotel room.

Frederic H. Guild, 83, dean of state legislative research directors, at Carbondale on February 25. Guild served as director of the Kansas Legislative Council (the nation's first) from 1934 to 1963 when he joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,

Judge Jack A. Alfeld, Carrollton, on March 6. Alfeld was a former assistant state finance director.

Other

Rep. Harold Katz (D., Glencoe) made Ann Landers column (March 10). Katz, who signed himself as chairman of the House judiciary committee, urged that the penalty for possession and use of small amounts of marijuana should be a "modest fine."

Calendar

May 4
Board of Higher Education meets at North Central College, Naperville

May 7
Board of Ethics meets in Springfield

May 10
Illinois Supreme Court convenes
Board of Elections meets in Chicago

May 13
State Board of Education meets in Springfield

May 14
Governor's Advisory Council on Manpower meets in Springfield

May 20
Board of Regents meets at its Central Office, Springfield

May 24
Governor's Conference on Tourism held at the Marriott Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire

May 27
State Board of Education meets in Chicago

May 31
Memorial Day

Standing meetings

Second Thursday of the month
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees meets in Edwardsville

Third Wednesday of the month
University of Illinois Board of Trustees meets in Urbana

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man"

— Edmund Burke, Speech on American taxation, 1774

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