County Council of Economic Opportunity, Batavia; J. C. Baker, Anita Banks, Dorothy Buford, Elaine Caldwell, Mary Damron, Gerry Hughes, Shirley Johnson, Tishie Smith, Carol Walsh, Leo Hicks and Joe Goodrich, Madison County Economic Opportunity Commission, Godfrey; John Jackson, J. T. Pouge and Beulah Robinson, Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency, Freeport; Hannelore Colburn, Hattie Green, Molly Jones and Bobbi Webster, Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity, Peoria; Jimmy Davis, Elma Mejia, Kris Moore, Joanne Wiklund, and Helen Higgins, Project NOW, Neighborhood Outreach Work, Inc., Rock Island; Rosemary Harms, Department of Human Resources, Rockford; Gail Elsass, Ron Maples and Hazel Taborn, Springfield and Sangamon County Community Action, Inc., Springfield; Monaca Coers, Jerry Kram, Pat Lemmer, Rojeanne McCombs, Pat Pyse and Maria Root, Tri-County Opportunities Council, Sterling; Betty Armstrong, Nadine Brown, Karen Cravens, Lucretia Cocke, Jean Cox, Angle Craig, Aileen Doty, Helen Huffacker, Vivia Lockhart, Brenda McPeak, Emma Mecum, Frances Morgan, Madelyn Phillips, Janet Prosise, Vera Rendleman, Helen Shelby, Pat Slover, Marinell Trusty and Jean Wyatt, Wabash Area Development, Inc., Carmi; Dorothy Benedict, Melba Bradshaw, Sue McClurken, Cecelia Rehmer and Margaret Reinhold, Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council, Steeleville; and Claire B. Davis, Faye Cassidy, Otis E. Hillsman, Mike Kindred, Lawrence Waugfield, Martha Williams and Mary Lou Winauski, Vermilion County Citizens Action Committee for Economic Opportunity, Inc., Danville.

Charles B. Cleveland, recipient of an award for distinguished service in journalism, from Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society, for his editorials on Chicago radio station WIND dealing with delays in paying unemployment compensation claims. Cleveland writes Illinois Issues' Chicago column.

John Rehfuss, director. Center for Governmental Studies and head, Public Administration Program, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, and a writer for Illinois Issues, has been elected to the Council of the American Society for Public Administration for a three-year term.

Deaths

Judge Jack A. Alfeld, Carrollton, in March while serving on the Green County Circuit Court. He had served as a county judge for 12 years, a state's attorney for eight years and had been assistant director of finance for the state.

"We cannot safely leave politics to politicians, or political economy to college professors"
— Henry George (Social Problems, 1883)

Calendar

June 7
Board of Ethics meets in Chicago

June 8
Board of Higher Education meets at Forum 30 in Springfield

June 11,12, 13
State Board of Education holds meeting and workshops in Itasca

June 14
State Board of Elections meets in Springfield

June 16
University of Illinois Board of Trustees meets at Medical Center Campus at University of Illinois, Chicago

June 17
Board of Regents meets at Illinois State University, Bloomington

June 20-23
Illinois State Bar Association meets at The Abbey, Fontana, Wisconsin

June 24
State Board of Education meets in Chicago

June 26
Illinois State Employees Association Board of Directors meets at Forum 30 in Springfield

June 30
Traditional date for windup of spring legislative session

Standing meetings

Second Thursday of the month
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees at Carbondale