Names
Appointments
Kenneth A. Shaw as president of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville by the Board of Trustees. Shaw, a native of Edwardsville, joined the faculty of Towson State University, Baltimore, Md., in 1969 and served as vice president and acting dean. Previously he was a faculty member and assistant to the president of Illinois State University at Normal. He succeeds the late John S. Rendleman and assumes his new duties January 17.
Dr. Daniel E. Marvin, Jr. as president of Eastern Illinois University by the Board of Governors, effective February 15. Marvin previously was director of the Virginia State Council of Higher Education, Richmond, Va. He succeeds Dr. Gilbert C. Fite, who resigned last August to become Richard B. Russell Professor of History at the University of Georgia at Athens.
John R. Keith (D., Taylor Springs) to the Illinois House by the 50th District Legislative Committee on December 13. He filled the unexpired term in the 79th General Assembly of James T. Londrigan (D., Springfield), who was sworn in December 3 as Sangamon County resident judge, 7th Judicial Circuit.
Richard E. Bratton, Springfield, as director of the Bureau of the Budget by Gov. Walker December 1. Bratton, who has been deputy director since June 1975, replaces Leonard Schaeffer, who resigned to become a vice president of Citibank, New York City. Schaeffer served as Bureau director since May 1975 and as chairman of the Capital Development Board since September 1976.
Dr. Ivan Pavkovic, Edwardsville, as acting director of the Department of Mental Health by Gov. Dan Walker effective December 31, the date of former director Dr. Leroy Levitt's resignation. Dr. Pavkovic has been deputy director for the department's Clinical Services and Programs since 1975.
Theodore A. Gottfried of Springfield to a second four-year term as state appellate defender by the Illinois Supreme Court on November 23. Previously, Gottfried was associated with the Cook County Public Defender's Office and the Illinois Defender Project.
Roger D. Bridges of Springfield as the head librarian of the State Historical Library on December 1 by State Historian William K. Alderfer. Bridges, who will continue as the library's director of research, has been with the library since 1970 and has taught courses in history at Sangamon State and Illinois State Universities. He succeeds Mildred Schuiz of Springfield, who retired in November. Ms. Schuiz was reference librarian from 1964 to 1970 and served as head librarian for the last six years.
Five persons appointed by Gov. Dan Walker have assumed office automatically because the Senate, for the first time since enactment of the 1970 Constitution, failed to act on the appointments within the required period of 60 session days: Nancy Philippi of Springfield as assistant to the director of the Department of Personnel; Harriet J. Pacini of Glenwood as supervisor of women's and children's employment for the Department of Labor; Donald L. Fischer of Elizabeth as Jo Daviess County conservator; Joe Craggs of Morrisonville as a member of the state Mining Board, and James Lewis, Sr. of East St. Louis as a member of the Parole and Pardon Board.
Resignations
Donald L. McLaurin, Springfield, as administrator of the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security, effective January 1. McLaurin, who assumed the post in August, will be manager of region systems for the Weyerhauser Corporation, Tacoma, Wash. He is succeeded by James C. Hutchins, Chicago, who served as controller of the bureau since August 1975.
Willard Ice, chief counsel of the Illinois Department of Revenue, left state service effective January 1 after 35 years to open a Springfield office (in Lincoln Towers) for a Chicago law firm, Martin, Craig, Chester and Sonnenschein. Ice, a lawyer, is blind but this has not prevented him from performing the basic drafting of about a third of the Illinois tax laws now on the books and reshaping many others through amendments. His 1955 draft of the general use tax act was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1957, Turner v. Wright, 11 Ill. 2d 161, and represented the first case where that court agreed that a privilege tax could be applied to a natural right (the right to use a property). This victory has meant millions of dollars of revenue for Illinois in the years since the tax was passed.
Retirements
Judge Joseph Burke, 88, of Chicago as judge of the First District Appellate Court on December 3 after 54 years of service on the bench. Burke, whose family immigrated from Ireland when he was a child, was elected a judge of the Chicago municipal court in 1922 and became a circuit court judge in 1930. In 1938 he was given a temporary assignment with the appellate court and in 1939 was formally named an appellate court judge.
Honors
Honored at the Fall Conference of the Illinois Council of Community College Educators were: Richard G. Browne of Normal, first director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education; Robert O. Birkhimer of Godfrey, Lewis and dark Community College president emeritus; Gerald W. Smith of Springfield, founding executive secretary of the Illinois Association of Junior Colleges; and Eldon A. Lichty of Normal, Illinois State University professor emeritus.
Teachers, school board members, administrators, students and parents were honored December 3 at an awards program sponsored by the Illinois Office of Education. Selected as 1977 Illinois Teacher of the Year was Emiel Hamberlin of DuSable High School, Chicago. In addition, 25 persons won awards for achievement in their fields.
Outstanding teachers: Flossie Shotts, Hidalgo Grade School, Jasper County; Irene A. Hubbard, Carthage Elementary School; Norma Hawkins, Westville Junior High, Danville; Norma Zimmer, Leal School, Urbana; Patricia Ann Brown, Mattoon High School; and Patricia Koch, Butler School, Springfield.
Outstanding school board members: Marilyn Lehman, Oak Park District 97; Robert Glass, Macon Unit District 5; Marvin Gavin, Bloom Township High School District 206; Robert Marshall, Vermont, Ipava and Table Grove Community Unit School District 2; John Goss, East St. Louis School District 189; and Marion Schirer, Roanoke-Benson School District 60.
Outstanding administrators: Luke H. Helm, Jr., DuSable High School, Chicago; Margaret Parke, Bismark-Henning Community Unit #1; Dorothy Amyx, Carlinville High School; and Jenolar McBride, Cairo Public Schools.
Outstanding students: Patricia A. Statam, DuSable High School, Chicago; Kathlyn Gayle Churchman, Alton Senior High School; and Julie Stuart, Macon Community High School.
Outstanding parents: Pat and Ed Spencer, Macon School District 5; George Edwards, Evanston District 65; Barbara Elmore, Granite City, District 9; Emmy Lou Daniel, Decatur, District 61; and Eleanor Kuntz, Kankakee, District 111.
Deaths
Mayor Richard J. Daley, 74, in Chicago of a heart attack on December 20. Mayor of Chicago since 1955 — achieving an unprecedented sixth term in 1975 — and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee since 1953, he entered party ranks in 1927 as Continued on back cover.
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