Appointments
Dr. James B. Holderman, Indianapolis.
Ind., former executive director, Illinois
Board of Higher Education as senior vice
president and director of public policy
programs of the Academy for [educational
Development, Inc.. Indianapolis. For the
past three years he has served as vice president for education of Lilly Endowment, Inc.
William K. Alderfer, Springfseid. state historian and director of the Illinois State Historical Library, as Illinois historical records coordinator by Gov. Dan Walker. effective July 28. Also appointed was a nine member advisory board to work with Alderfer in help ing the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in its grant program in Illinois. Members of the board are: Maynard J. Brichford, Urbana: John E. Daly, Springfield: Carrol C. Hail, Springfield; Mary Lynn McCree, Chicago: James E. Myers. Springfield: John Y. Simon, Carbondale; Harold K. Skramstad, Jr., Chicago: Lawrence W. Towner, Chicago: Clyde C. Walton. De Kalb.
Vivian H. Medak, Lincolnwood. to the Illinois Community College Board by Gov. Dan Walker for a term expiring in June 1981. A member of the Oakland Community College Board of Trustees since 1973, she was elected chairperson in 1976.
Dr. LeRoy P. Levitt, Chicago, as vice president for medical affairs at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center by the hospital governing board and as professor of psychiatry at Rush Medical College of Rush PresbyterianSt. Luke's Medical Center. Or, Levitt has been director of the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities since March!. 1973. and will continue in this post until December 1 when his appointments become effective.
Ewen M. Akin as president of Kennedy King College, Chicago, by Chancellor Oscar Shabat, effective August 4. Akin. who has been president of Malcolm X College since 1973, replaces Maceo T. Bowie.
Dr. Brent Knight as president of Triton College, River drove, by the Triton College Board of Trustees in August. Knight has been at Triton since 197 i and had served as acting president since April .1976,
William Denton as executive director of the Illinois Arts Council by Council Chairman Bruce Sagan, effective November?. Denton. who was managing director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C... replaces Michele Brustin, who resigned in July.
Five new members were appointed to the state's Advisory Committee on Tourism by Gov. Walker in April: Larry Buckmaster, Chicago: Patti Crowley, Chicago: Joe Spivey, Springfield: Ralph Stauder, Belleville, and Alan Terrill, Lincolnshire.
Thaddeus, E. Pinkney as warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center September 10 by Department 0} Corrections Director Charles .1. Rowe. He replace. Fred L... Finkbeiner who resigned.
Sheila J. Pruden. Springfield, as director of the Springfield office of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission. The office, which administers grants, loans and scholarships for Illinois residents, was officially opened on September 27.
Dr. Richard G. Umstead as superintendent of the Illinois Braille and Sight Saving. School. Jacksonville, by Mary Lee Leahy, director of the Department of Children and Family Services, effective October 15. Umstead, who was principal of the Ohio State School of the Blind in Columbus. succeeds Jack R. Hartog, who retired last summer.
Dr. William Page Johnson as superintendent of the Illinois School for the Deaf, Jacksonville by Mary Lee Leahy, director of the Department of Children and Family Services, effective November 29. Johnson. who was, director of a special education distinct in Mount Pleasant. la., succeeds Dr. Kenneth R. Mangan. who resigned to accept a position with California Stale University at North ridge.
Dr. Robert J. Stein as the first Cook County medical examiner by the Cook County Board. This office replaces {he office of coroner December 6, when the term of Dr. Andrew J. Toman, present Cook County coroner expires. Dr. Stem has been director of the McHenry Hospital pathology department since 1968.
Terry Lou Kedzior, Peoria. as Investigator trainee by the Investigation Division, office of the Secretary of" State September 20. Ms Kidzior is the first woman to be selected for this position.
James Conway as executive director of the Association of Illinois Student Government by its governing board in September Conway was recently graduated from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H.
Dr. Adrienne Bailey. Chicago, as vice president of the National Association of State Boards of Education in October. Dr. Bailey was appointed to a sixyear term on the State Board of Education in 1973.
The Assembly of Black State Executives on September I unanimously reelected its chairperson, Connie Seats, executive director of the Illinois Commission on Human Relations.
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Resignations
Tom Flaherty, press secretary to U.S. Sen.
Charles Percy since 1973, to return to Time,
Inc., as a senior editor of Time-Life Books in
Alexandria, Va. He was replaced October 1
by John H. Walker, Oak Park, who has been
on Percy's staff since 1972.
Retirements
Virginia Lee Lorton, Springfield, supervisor of the word processing center at the
Illinois Department of Corrections, after
nearly 36 years of service with the state.
Robert B. Meyer, Springfield, from the Illinois Department of Revenue September 30 after 38 years of service. He had been executive in charge of the Revenue Department's Taxpayer Service Unit since 1951.
Honors
Milton Friedman, University of Chicago
economist, won the Nobel prize in economics. The news came to him at the Detroit
Press Club on October 14 where he was
preparing to hold a press conference on a
Michigan tax limitation proposal. Friedman, a conservative economist, was honored
"for his achievements in the fields of
consumption analysis, monetary history and
theory, and for his demonstration of the
complexity of the stabilization policy." The
selection was made by the Swedish Royal
Academy of Science.
Saul Bellow, Chicago, as recipient of the
1976 Nobel Prize for literature on October
21. One of the most successful postwar
American writers, Bellow has been celebrity
in residence and professor. Committee on
Social Thought, at the University of Chicago
since 1962. His works include Mr. Sammler's Planet, Mosby's Memoirs, Henderson
the Rain King, Herzog and Humboldt's Gift.
Deaths
Former U.S. Sen. Paul Douglas, 84, "the
conscience of the Senate," in his home in
Washington, D.C., on September 24.
Douglas, a former University of Chicago
economics professor, served as a Chicago
alderman and also saw combat duty in the
Pacific during World War II. In 1948 he was
elected to the U.S. Senate where he served
for three terms, retiring after his defeat by
Sen. Charles Percy in 1966.
Sen. Daniel Dougherty (D., Chicago) at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital October 1. Dougherty, who served in the legislature for 20 years, was chairman of the Senate Local Government Committee and held memberships on the Elections and Reapportionment Committee, the Appropriations Committee and the Executive Appointments and Administration Committee.
Ray C. Dickerson, 67, director of the state Department of Business and Economic Development, 1969-73, on September 23 in an Urbana hospital. Dickerson of Champaign, who headed a construction firm, was a director of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, 1956-65, and its president, 1962. He was also chairman of the board of trustees, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, 1971-76.
James W. Karber, 62, of Ridgway at the Welborn Baptist Hospital in Evansville, Ind., September 25. A former chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, Karber served on the ICC from July 1961 to March 1969 and was a representative (D., Ridgway) in the Illinois General Assembly from 1947 until 1950.
Carl Tolpo, 74, sculptor of the recently dedicated statue of the late U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen, at his studio in Stockton September 25. During his long career Tolpo created 14 official portraits of governors and other public officials in Illinois. His widely acclaimed bust of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated in 1969 at the Lincoln Museum in Washington, D.C.
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