Mathilda Jakubowski, Chicago, to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) board by the governor in March.
Donald B. Yerly, Springfield, as chief of the Investigation Division, Illinois Department of Revenue, by Director Robert H. Allphin on April 1. An IRS special agent since 1953, Yerly supervised an intelligence division group in Peoria and was assigned to the Springfield office in 1971.
William Dickerson, Downers Grove, and Susan Richmond, Chicago, as director and assistant director of Illinois Status Offender Services by Mary Lee Leahy, director of the Department of Children and Family Services, on March 15. The project will attempt to develop alternatives to jail or detention facilities for youths who need social services and a place to stay.
New appointments to the Illinois Delinquency Prevention Commission were made by the governor in January. Members, pending Senate approval, are: Allyn R. Sielaff, Springfield, director of the Department of Corrections; Dr. Jefferson Ware, Edwardsville, president of the State Community College of East St. Louis; Mrs. Mary Lee Leahy, Springfield, director of the Department of Children and Family Services; Dr. Charles Shireman, Chicago, professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration; Marjorie VanderScheer, Springfield, executive director of the Planning Consortium for Children's Services, Inc.; Mrs. Susan B. Gende, Moline, Rock Island County assistant state's attorney in the juvenile court division; Larry F. Hildebrand, Bourbonnais, sheriff of Kankakee County; Mrs. Katherine Mann, Chicago, executive director of the Citizens Committee on the Juvenile Court for Cook County; Steven Thompson, Paris, city mayor; John W. King, Bloomington, sheriff of McLean County; Mrs. Loretta Pena, Chicago, project director for the Little Village Youth in Action Service bureau; Albert Alexander, Champaign, chief of the juvenile division in the Champaign County Sheriffs Department; and Dennis Szewczyk, Belleville, youth division supervisor for the St. Clair County Sheriffs Department. The commission was created by the General Assembly to help develop local delinquency prevention programs.
Six staff appointments in the Department of Corrections were made by Joseph A. Feconda, administrator of adult institutions, on April 14: Kenneth L. McGinnis of Murphysboro, assistant warden for program services, Menard Correctional Center; Michael V. Fair of Menard, assistant warden for operations, Menard Correctional Center; Jon M. Heckel of Vandalia, assistant warden for program services, Sheridan Correctional Center; James R. Nolan, of Chicago, acting warden for program services, Joliet Correctional Center; David G. Sandahl of Joliet, assistant warden for operations, Joliet Correctional Center, and William Welch of Joliet, staff assistant, Office of Adult Institutions.
A nine-member Nursing Home Reimbursement Review Board was appointed by Public Aid Director James L. Trainor in February. Members are Leon Shlofrock, president, Chicago Residential Care Association; Rabbi Hillel H. Yampol, executive director, Illinois Association of Health Care Facilities; Ray White, chairman, Health Care Committee of Illinois; Neil L. Gaynes, executive director, Illinois Association of Homes for the Aging; Theodore J. T. Short, principal, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company; Scott Jones, president, Gardner Jones & Company; Walter Kendall, assistant professor of law, John Marshall Law School; Harold O. Swank, former public aid director, and John E. Murphy, executive director, the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. The board will review cost information to determine whether additional rate increases are justified.
Nineteen persons were appointed to the Title XX Advisory Council, Department of Public Aid, by director Trainor in February. They are Mrs. C. Milton Anderson, Welfare Services for Greater Chicago; Patricia M. Barger, Ph.D., Loyola Guidance Center and Day School; Karen Barr, Illinois Association for Retarded Citizens; Philip Drotning, Child Care Association; Robert Franks, Agency on Aging; Ethel Gingold, Department of Corrections Advisory Board [adult]; Margaret Hastings, Ph.D., National College of Education; Naomi Hiett, Illinois Commission on Children; Preston Kavanagh, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry; Arturo Lopez, Illinois Migrant Council; Ruby Mabry, Illinois Welfare Rights; Robert E. McMahon, Drug Abuse Council of Illinois; Steve Schnorf, Proviso Association for Retarded Citizens; Samuel Shanes, Statewide Advisory Committee on Day Care; Eileen Subak, Department of Corrections Advisory Board [juvenile]; Lillian Tauber, Model Cities — Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity(CCUO); Naomi Tillman, Council for Community Services; Sheldon Tobin, University of Chicago, and Nezzi Willis, Welfare Rights (Chicago).
Robert Johnston, regional director of the United Auto Workers; Donald Perkins, Jewel Foods chairman; and Robert Strotz, Northwestern University president, by James R. Thompson, Republican candidate for governor, to form a "nonpartisan volunteer task force to undertake a massive review of state government" including structure (see "State of the State," p. 28).
Samuel K. Gove, Urbana, as chairman of a Champaign-Urbana citizens' commission for improved intergovernmental cooperation by the cities' councils on March 8. He is a professor of political science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois.
Col. James M. Miller, Washington, from Chicago District Engineer, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, to executive to the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works effective April 20. He is succeeded by Col. Andrew C. Remson, Jr., who formerly served as deputy director of Strategy, Plans and Policy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Department of the Army.
Honors
More than 100 outreach staff members
employed by community action agencies
were honored by the governor's Office of
Manpower and Human Development on
March 10 in Springfield. The recipients are:
Bessie Marohl, Cindy Miller, Joyce Schrabert, Clara Wade, Delores White, Catherine Wright and Viola Sears, BCMW Community Services, Inc., Centralia; Bonita Branham, Pam Call, Wilma Coleman, Dixie
Gutierrez, Kathryn Sarver, Ruby Welsh,
Vera Whitehurst and Phyllis Whitworth,
CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation,
Effingham; Pearl Burns, Mary Derrickson,
Gertrude Embrey, Georgia Koester, Lois
Sowa, Madlein Whitney and Diane Wilkes,
Decatur-Macon County Opportunities
Corporation, Decatur; Betty Armstrong,
Myra Fickes, Mildred Lewis, Wanda
Rogers, Mary Russell and Marlene Vincent,
Embarras River Basin Agency for Economic
Opportunity, Inc., Greenup; Carrie M.
Coleman, Charla K. Denton, Lula O'Neal
and Johnnie Sanders, Joliet-Will County
Community Action Agency, Joliet; Blanche
Barber, Margaret Lakin, Helen Richards,
Dianne Stelbrink and Judy Wimmersberg,
Illinois Valley Economic Development
Corporation, Carlinville; Christine Emerson, Lucy Shliet and Bea Totten, Kane
Continued on back cover.
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