Names


Appointments to Gov. Thompson's staff


Gary Starkman, 30, Morton Grove, as top legal counsel. Starkman, who works in the Chicago office, was Thompson's director of research during the gubernatorial campaign and assistant U.S. attorney when Thompson was federal prosecutor. Julian D'Esposito, 32, Winnetka, as legal counsel, Springfield office. He was previously associated with a Chicago law firm where he specialized in municipal and school law.

Zale Glauberman, 37, Springfield, as chief legislative liaison. Serving during the campaign as downstate research director and later as deputy director of transition, he was executive assistant to GOP Minority Leader Rep. James R. Washburn, 1974-1975 and to Speaker of the House W. Robert Blair, 1971 - 1974.

Sam Vinson, 29, Clinton; Don Goff, 29, Springfield, and Robert Kjellander, 28, Chicago, as legislative assistants. Vinson, who works with the House, is a former aide to U.S. Rep. Edward Madigan (R., Lincoln). Goff, also with the House, was previously a partner in a Champaign consulting firm specializing in urban policy planning. Senate liaison Kjellander worked for the Illinois Medical Society during the past four years and with the Committee to Re-elect the President during the 1972 campaign in Illinois.

Dave Gilbert, 36, Chicago, as press secretary. Former transportation editor for the Chicago Tribune, he was Thompson's press secretary during the campaign. Jim Williams, 42, Petersburg, as assistant press secretary. Press secretary for former Comptroller George Lindberg, he previously was the State House reporter for the Rockford Morning-Star and Register-Republic. Jim Skilbeck, 27, Hazel Crest, as assistant press secretary. He served Thompson in that capacity during the campaign and was assistant press secretary to U.S. Rep. Paul Young in the 1974 congressional race. Martha Milcerek, 28, Homewood, as assistant press secretary in charge of the Chicago office. For the last three years she was assistant director of continuing education at Purdue University's regional campus in Hammond, Ind.

James D. Nowlan, 35, as special assistant to the governor for education and acting director of the Department of Financial Institutions. A member of the Illinois House (R., Toulon), 1969-1973, he was Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 1972 and is a member of the board of Illinois Issues.

Dan Patterson, 24, Springfield, as special assistant and liaison to the Bureau of the Budget (BOB). Patterson directs special projects involving outside agencies and commissions. He was Thompson's administrative assistant during the campaign and previously was a commercial loan officer at Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank Chicago.

Larry Main, 35, Springfield, as chief fiscal officer. He was fiscal officer for former Comptroller Lindberg.

Paula Wolff, 32, Chicago, as program coordinator. During the campaign she worked with the nonpartisan Illinois Task Force on Governmental Reorganization which issued its report in November. She directs reorganization planning for state government, departmental liaison and the Washington, D.C., office. Formerly a professor at Governors State University, Park Forest, she was an advisor to Gov. Ogilvie on the Constitutional Convention, 1969-1970 and worked with the Bureau of the Budget, 1969-1972.

Peg Blaser, 52, Springfield, as director of appointments to boards and commissions. Her job includes screening and recruiting applicants for positions on the more than 300 boards and commissions under the governor's authority. Consultant and researcher and a 20-year veteran of the League of Women Voters, she was the league's lobbyist for the ERA, 1973-1976, and served as chairperson of the Illinois

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ERA Coalition.

Al Robinson, 40, Chicago as the governor's assistant for minority affairs. Robinson the first to be appointed under the governor's "loaned executives program." took a leave of absence from his position as director of urban affairs at Borg Warner Corp., Chicago. The firm will continue to pay his salary. A strategist in Thompson's campaign, Robinson will concentrate on the state's affirmative action and model employer programs, act as an advisor and recruit minority persons for posts.

Alberta Levan, Springfield, as Gov. Thompson's administrative assistant. Ms. Levan was former Gov. Dan Walker's personal secretary. Previously she worked for the Bureau of the Budget and the Department of Public Aid.

William Schilling, 29, Mattoon, as director of operations for the Springfield and Chicago offices. Schilling was assistant scheduler during the campaign and executive assistant to Thompson when he was federal prosecutor. Schilling's job includes working with-personnel, boards and commissions, the executive office budget and serving as a liaison with the State Police, National Guard and Emergency Services Division.

Randi von Liski, 24, Springfield, as director of scheduling and appointments secretary. Assistant scheduler during the campaign, von Liski worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and was on George Burditt's senatorial campaign staff in 1974.

Jim Helm, 30, Clinton, as executive assistant in charge of operations and scheduling. Helm, who did a transition study of management and budget for the Department of Agriculture, was an assistant to Gov. Ogilvie from 1969-1972.

Michael Dunn, 24, Rockford, as administrative assistant in charge of personnel and patronage. Starting out as Thompson's Winnebago County chairman, he became regional chairman for 16 counties in Northern Illinois and was in charge of fund raising in Southern Illinois. Thomas J. Booth, 49, Springfield, as assistant to Michael Dunn. Working in public relations for the Republican State Central Committee, Booth who "as won awards for his writing for the freedoms Foundation — was active in the last four presidential campaigns and has worked for former Supt. of Public Instruction Ray Page and former Secy of State John Lewis. Thomas Ortciger, 37. Palos assistant to Michael Dunn in charge of Cook County patronage. He was Cook County coordinator during the Thompson campaign and formerly worked for U.S. Rep. Edward J. Derwinski (R., Illinois).

Lynn Rainey, 34, Bloomington, as adminstrative assistant for governmental for governmental advance. He served on Thompson's Inauguration '77 committee and worked on former President Ford's campaign in Illinois and Wisconsin. ž

Appointments


Richard J. Guidice (D., Chicago) to the Illinois Senate by the 19th district Democratic Legislative Committee effective December 1976. An attorney, he had previously served as director of the Legislative Reference Bureau of Chicago, 1973-1976, and executive director of the Chicago Traffic Safety Commission, 1971-1973. He succeeds Sen. Harold M. Nudelman, who resigned December 6, 1976, to become judge of the Chicago Circuit Court. Nudelman was elected both a judge and a senator in November, but turned down a second term in the Senate.

Dr. Paul Peterson, 64, Chicago, as director of the state Department of Public Health by the governor effective February 24. In 1971 Peterson was named dean of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago. During his 16 years with the U.S. Public Health Service, he served in various posts including chief of the health services branch of the division of international health and chief of the Clinic Disease Program. In 1970 he was named deputy surgeon general of the Public Health Service. He replaces Dr. Joyce Lashof, who resigned in February after four years of service.

Marvin Lieberman, 43, retained by Gov. Thompson as chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Lieberman was initially appointed to a five-year term in 1973 by former Gov. Walker. He served as a state representative ( D., Decatur) from 1965-1967.

L. W. (Bill) Murray, Jr., 37, Springfield, as director of the Governor's Office of Manpower and Human Development by the governor effective February 16, Murray, who has been an associate professor of administration at Sangamon State University, Springfield, since 1974, was director, 1975-1976, of a Central Illinois Comprehensive Employment and Training Act survey to determine job opportunities for unskilled workers. He replaces Raleigh Lewis, who will return to the position of assistant director, which he held from May 5, 1975 until he became director July 1, 1976.

Daniel J. Kennedy, Jr., 32, Chicago, as executive director of the Illinois Toll Highway Authority by the board January 27. Kennelly, who for a short time was Gov. Thompson's personnel director, was an administrative assistant to Thompson during the campaign. Previously he was liaison officer between the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Chicago Police Department.

Dr. Louis Y. Nau as deputy director for rehabilitation services. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, effective February 1. Dr. Nau's most recent posts were in Washington, D.C., where he was executive assistant to the commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and director of planning and research for the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.

Vincent A. Toolen, 40, Springfield, as assistant director of the Department of General Services by Director Theodore Puckorius effective February 15. A Republican precinct committee man and owner of a management consulting firm, Toolen worked under Secy. of State John Lewis as an administrative assistant in charge of the Motor Vehicle Services and Data Processing Divisions, 1971-1973. He replaces Walter Russell who resigned February 15.

Richard E. (Hap) Northern, 49, as superintendent of the Illinois Veteran's Home, Quincy, by the governor. A Quincy real estate broker, Northern was superintendent of the home, 1969-1973, and has been Adams County Republican Central Committee chairman for the past 14 years. He replaced Melvin R. Koch, former Adams County Democratic Central Committee chairman, who was dismissed in February. Koch filed suit charging his termination was politically initiated. U.S. District Court Judge J. Waldo Ackerman on February 18 refused to intervene in the dismissal because Koch was in a policymaking position.

Michael E. Kerr, 34, as administrative assistant to Department of Revenue Director Robert Whitler, effective January 19. He is a certified public accountant and most recently worked for Horace Mann Educators, 1970-1977, Anton Valukas, 33, Evanston, as a special investigator for the Department of Insurance to probe redlining complaints by Director Richard Mathias effective February 15. Valukas, who joined the U.S. Attorney's Northern District Office in 1970, served as chief of the special prosecution division in charge of all official corruption, civil rights and financial crimes prosecutions.

Two appointments to the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission were made by Gov. Thompson effective in February:
James B. Zagel, 36, Chicago, as executive director and Daniel Weil, 36, Chicago, as chairman. Zagel, who coauthored a law book with Thompson, served as chief of Atty. Gen. William Scott's criminal justice division since 1970. Weil, a former superintendent of the Cook County House of Correction, worked under Thompson as an assistant state's attorney and conducted a survey of the state prison system.

William H. Perkins, Jr., Riverside, as a member of the National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board of the Smith-sonian Institution. The appointment was one of President Ford's last official actions. Perkins, who is well-known in Springfield as a representative of CNA insurance, has already served two terms on the board

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through appointments by Presidents Nixon and Johnson.

Lawrence Reinold, former legislative director for the Illinois chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), in February as director of fund raising for AFSCME's Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality (PEOPLE) Program at the union's international office, Washington, D.C. Reinold, who served with the Illinois chapter of AFSCME since 1967, had been legislative director since 1973.

Douglas L. Whitley, 27, Springfield, as director of local government research with the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois effective March 1. Whitley was a legislative aide to Rep. Douglas Kane (D., Springfield).

Resignations
Dr. Michael A. Werckle, Springfield, as director of long term care, Department of Public Health, effective February 28. Dr. Werckle, who served with the department since August 1973, accepted a position as assistant dean of curriculum with the University of Illinois Medical School in Rockford.

Retirements
Johnnie B. Ice, Auburn, as security officer for the Illinois Supreme Court on December 31, after 15 years of service. Before going to the Supreme Court, Ice had worked for the Department of Conservation at Oliver Branch.

Deaths
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard B. Austin, 76, Flossmoor, at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey on February 7. He had been on the Chicago U.S. District Court bench since 1961. Highlights of his career included his 1969 ruling that Chicago must build public housing in both black and white neighborhoods and his 1964 sentencing of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.

Other
Rep. Thomas Hanahan (D., McHenry) was acquitted and former Reps. Robert Craig (D., Danville) and. Louis A. Markert (D., Mount Sterling) were convicted by a federal jury February 8 of conspiracy to commit extortion and mail fraud in a scheme involving rental car legislation. Chicago U.S. District Court Judge Alfred Y. Kirkland set March 23 for sentencing. ž

"I don't think there can be anything done to prevent any individual who truly wants to cheat.

Chicago School Superintendent Joseph P. Hannon
Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1976

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