Names

Appointments
Michael Mauzy,Springfield, as acting director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency by the governor effective August 29. The post of acting director does not need Senate confirmation. Mauzy has been manager of the agency's water pollution control and laboratory services divisions and became manager of environmental programs in 1974. He replaced Leo Eisel who resigned in August.

Thomas W. Ortciger, Palos Hills, as assistant director of the Department of Registration and Education by the governor effective August 29 pending Senate confirmation. Ortciger, who worked in the governor's office as assistant to Michael Dunn in charge of Cook County patronage, replaced Billie J. Paige. Paige was named coordinator of program development with the same department.

Daniel Clayberg, Cuba, as assistant director for surface mines. Department of Mines and Minerals, by the governor effective August 15 pending Senate confirmation. Clayberg worked for Freeman Coal Mining Corp., Fulton County, for over 20 years, most recently as health and safety administrator. He replaced Robert Pautler, who resigned.

Dean L. Overman, Washington, D.C., as special counsel to the governor at a salary of$l a year by the governor effective August 18. Overman, a partner in the Washington office of a Chicago-based law firm, was assistant to Vice President Rockefeller and consultant to Presidents Ford and Carter. Also appointed was Kurt Freedlund, Batavia, as executive assistant to the governor, effective July 5. A recent graduate in political science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Freedlund is working on special projects.

William P. Gerberding, as chancellor of the University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, by the university's president effective January 1978 and was confirmed by the Board of Trustees. Gerberding is executive vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a professor of political science from 1961 to 1972. He will succeed J. W. Peltason who resigned in September. Morton Weir will continue as acting chancellor until January.

Jack H. Carter, Danville, as state fire marshal! by the governor effective September 16 pending Senate confirmation. Carter was fire chief with the Danville Fire Department where he worked for over 30

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years. He also was president of the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association. Carter replaced Robert G. Walsh.

Col. Joseph G. Iniguez, Jr., Lombard, as commander of the 33rd Infantry Brigade of the Illinois Army National Guard, by the governor effective August 29. Iniguez, who had been deputy commander of the 33rd since 1975, succeeded Brig. Gen. Stephen Crane, who retired May 31.

John C. Wendorff, Petersburg, as deputy director for compliance. Department of Revenue, by Director Robert Whitler effective August 26. Wendorff had been manager of the compliance bureau's audit division since 1975. He replaced Roger C. Beck who resigned.

Michael E. Fryzel, South Holland, as supervisor of the currency exchange division, Department of Financial Institutions, by the governor effective September 1. Fryzel had been director of administration for Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie's Office of Human Resources. He replaced Acting Supervisor James S. Montana, Jr., who will continue to be general counsel and special investigator for the department.

After the merger of the Departments of Finance and General Services into the Department of Administrative Services (DAS), three employees of the Department of Finance moved to newly created posts. Appointed by DAS Director Theodore Puckorius effective August 17 were: Don Bilbrey, Spaulding, as manager, office of fiscal management (he was formerly chief of the bureau of audits); Ron Vycital, Petersburg, as manager, office of procurement (he worked in procurement contract administration); Ken Farmer, Springfield, as acting manager, office of management information and communications (the same post he held in the Department of Finance). In addition, DAS Assistant Director VinceToolen is also serving as acting manager of the office of property management.

Dean R. McClane, Belleville, as director of the accounting and revenue division in the Secretary of State's Office, by Secy. of State Alan Dixon effective August 1. McClane was senior vice president, director and secretary of Commercial Transport, Belleville. He replaced John Lawlor who resigned.

Glenn A. Braden, Springfield, as counsel to the Senate Minority Leader David Shapiro effective September 12. Braden was previously in private practice with a Mat- toon law firm. He succeeded Saul Morse, Springfield, who resigned August 31 to enter private practice. Morse had also worked for former Sen. William C. Harris(R., Pontiac). Continued on back cover.

Senior citizens appointed; women delegates

     Thirty persons were appointed to the newly created Senior Citizens Advisory Council to the Lieutenant Governor by Lt. Gov. Dave O'Neal effective September 2. The council is divided into five committees.
     Income Maintainence Committee: Dr. M. G. Bodine, Macomb, Illinois State University Retirement Association, as chairperson; Ray R. Robinson, Springfield, United Auto Workers #1027; Paul H. Lahann, Chicago, Retired Teachers Association of Chicago; Allen W. Lutrell, Springfield, Illinois State Employees Association; Louis R. McDonald, Peoria, Illinois Retired Teachers Association (IRTA), National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA), American Association of Retired Persons (AARP); Carl E. Renshaw, Springfield, IRTA, NRTA, AARP; Ernest E. Hanson, DeKalb, IRTA, Southern University Annuitant Association; Richard Crabb, Wheaton, VIP Council; Gladys Larson, Elgin.
     Housing Committee: Henry Matthews, Champaign, Iva Matthews Senior Citizens Development Co., Inc., as chairperson; Jean M. Bliese, Moline, Western Illinois Senior Services; Chauncey E. Lee, Springfield, National Association of Retired Federal Employees; Rod Davidson, Addison, VIP Council; Rev. Joseph Taylor, Chicago, Chicago Metropolitan Area Senior Citizen Senate.
     Health and Nutrition Committee: Jean Moore, Carol Stream, as chairperson; Nels E. Bengtson, Galesburg, Western Illinois Senior Services; Emma Lundgren, Rockford, Winnebago County Council on Aging; Edward LaSalle, Moline, AARP; Dennis Haffron, Rockford, Winnebago County Council on Aging; Walter Rhode, Belvidere, Boone County Council on Aging.
     Transportation Committee: Nelle Hays, Champaign, "C" Center Senior Citizens Organization, as chairperson; Aden Wilson, Glen Ellyn, VIP Council of DuPage County; Lou Jungheim, Chicago, Chicago Metropolitan Area Senior Citizens Senate.
     Social Services Committee: Jan Smith, Belvidere, Boone County Council on Aging, as chairperson; David E. Lindstrom, Urbana, Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP); Iva F. Matthews, Champaign, Anna Tutt Honeys; Bluford W.Jackson, Macomb. McDonough County Senior Citizens Association; Irene Plecki, Mokena, VIP Council of Will County, RSVP; Elizabeth Rhode, Belvidere, Boone County Council on Aging; Raiph Arends, Bloomington, NRTA, AARP.
     Fifty-six delegates to the First National Women's Conference to be held in Houston. Texas, November 18-21 were elected at the Illinois International Women's Year Conference in Normal in June.
      They are:Vivian M. Adams, Napervilte, freelance writer and artist; Joanne Alter, Chicago, commissioner, Metropolitan Sanitary District; Ann L. Austin, Oakdale, real estate broker; Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow, Chicago, associate minister, Vernon Park Church of God; Nancy Berg, Chicago, administrative assistant, Plymouth Foundation; Peg Blaser, Springfield, director, Boards and Commissions, State of Illinois; Dr. Arnita Y. Boswell, Chicago, associate field work professor, University of Chicago; Bonnie Bowlby, Decatur, homemaker; Mary C. Brennan, Chicago, teacher; Mary Brown, East St. Louis, social worker; Margaret Butler, Hinsdale, mathematician, Argonne National Laboratory; Laura Canning, Lake Forest, travel agent; Susan Catania, Chicago, state representative, 22nd District; Eugenia S. Chapman, Arlington Heights, state representative, 3rd District; Betty Christopher, Peoria, homemaker; Elizabeth Clarke, Lake Forest, public speaker; Mary Jean Collins, Chicago, collective bargaining representative, Illinois Nurses Association; Anne Sheffield Courtney, Peoria, homemaker; Margaret Cowden, Springfield, executive director, Illinois Commission on the Status of Women; Miriam Cruz, Chicago, administrative assistant to the mayor of Chicago; Anne Culhane, Park Ridge, homemaker; Clara Day, Chicago, labor representative; Darlene L.Degenhardt, Me Henry, homemaker; Irma A. Diaz, Moline, job developer, Illinois Migrant Council; Gladys A. Dickelman, Barrington Hills, teacher; Goudyloch (Giddy) Dyer, Hinsdale, state representative, 41st District; Ruth Edelman, Chicago, political volunteer; Marie Agnes Fese, Elmhurst, railroad clerk; Kay Fors, Macomb, homemaker; Carol Frederick, East Alton, director, Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission;Rosalie Glover, Peoria, office building manager; Violet F. Hamilton, Normal, president. Legislative Research Associates; Sheila Hart, Streator, homemaker; Virginia Hayter, Hoffman Estates, village president; Jo Higgins, Belleville, registered nurse; Joann R. Horowitz, Chicago, teacher; Patricia Hutar, Glenview, public affairs consultant;Matilda Jakubowski, Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority Board;Marge Jindrich, St. Charles, factory worker; Helen Louise Johnson, Rushville, homemaker; Roberta Johnson, Champaign, homemaker;Darlene Kemmerer, Chicago, organizer; Anita I. Kent, Mattoon, registered nurse; Marlene Kettley, Big Rock, free lance artist; June Kuester, Elmhurst, housewife; Anne Ladky, Chicago, staff member, Women Employed; Mary Lawlor, Winnetka, homemaker; Sara Lohr, Normal, registered nurse; Ruby Mabry, Chicago, secretary; Judy A. Mack, Danville, teacher's aide and counselor; Sylvia R. Margolies, Winnetka, homemaker; Marge Markin, Chicago, activist; Barbara Merrill, Chicago, staff representative, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Worker's Union; Veva Meyer, Arlington Heights, real estate agent; Judy Mostovoy, Homewood, rape services co-ordinator YWCA; Kathleen McCabe, Champaign, director and co-founder' Champaign County Women Against Rape; Margaret McGeever Charleston, professor. Eastern Illinois University; Rosemary Thomson, Morton, free lance writer.

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Silas P. Singh, Springfield, as assistant to Charles Taminga, director of public lands and historic sites. Department of Conservation, by the governor effective September 1. Singh coordinates the development of recreational facilities for the handicapped, including access to state parks. His previous post as executive director of the Governor's Committee on the Handicapped was abolished.

Gloria Craven, Springfield, as assistant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Director Pat Lynch effective July 18. Craven resigned as state vice president of the League of Women Voters in order to accept this job as liaison with public groups and the legislature.

Dorcas Moore, Sheffield, as a park ranger, by the Department of Conservation effective August 1. Moore is the first woman to hold this position. She has been employed by the department since 1970.

Ronald Spears, Taylorville, as law clerk, U.S. District Court, southern division, Southern District of Illinois, by federal Judge J. Waldo Ackerman, for a two-year term effective August 15. He received his law degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and replaced Barry Foreman,whose term expired.

Mauricio Solaun, Urbana, as ambassador to Nicaragua by President Jimmy Carter. The appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in August and became effective in September. Solaun, who is from Cuba, is a faculty member of the Department of Sociology and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Charles C. Baker, Naperville, as director of Argonne National Laboratory's fusion power program effective in August. Also appointed was Richard 0. Ivins as acting director of the coal program effective in March.

New officers elected in July by the Association for Modern Banking in Illinois include: Gerald Sinclair, Salem National Bank, as chairman of the board; Loren M. Smith, United Bank of Illinois, Rockford, as president; William E. Weigel, First National Bank and Trust Co. of Centralia, and Harland L. Edwards, First National Bank and Trust Co, of Evanston, as vice presidents; A. D. VanMeter, Jr., Illinois National Bank of Springfield, as treasurer; and Richard M. Bishop, First Galesburg National Bank and Trust Co., as secretary.

Boards and commissions
Charles P. Kocoras, Oak Lawn, as chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, by the governor effective November 1. Kocoras is currently first assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and plans to resign October 31. The governor also appointed Dr. Charles G. Stalon, Carbondale, as a commissioner of the five- member commission. Stalon, who is on leave of absence as professor of economics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, will serve a five-year term. Both posts require Senate confirmation.

Gerald E. Berendt, Buffalo Grove, as executive director of the Office of Collective Bargaining, a division of the Illinois Department of Labor, effective September 1. The appointment was made by the three-member Board of Collective Bargaining. Berendt, formerly law professor at the John Marshall Law School, Chicago, and counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, succeeded acting executive director David Loeback, who was named deputy director of the same office.

Capitol Reporting Service, a governmental and legal reporting service, opened for business in Springfield in August. It was organized by five Springfield women: Sue Freeman, Dorothy Hart, Donna Jackson, Beth Samat and Jeanne Tarr.

Robert Ellison, Decatur, as executive director of the Commission for Economic Development in Illinois by the commission effective September 15. Ellison, whose term expires June 30, 1979, is on leave from A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, where he is compensation manager. Ellison says his salary is paid by the commission, and news reports that A. E. Staley is paying half of his director's salary and the state the other half are incorrect. Rep. Mary Lou Kent (R., Quincy) was reappointed as a legislative member of the commission by House Republican Leader George Ryan for a two- year term effective August 1.

Rep. John Dunn (D., Decatur), as member of the Transportation Study Commission, by House Speaker William Redmond effective August 10. He replaced Rep. Clarence Darrow (D., Rock Island). Members serve two-year terms and receive expenses only.

Resignations
Dan Patterson, Springfield, as Gov. Thompson's liaison with the Bureau of the Budget, effective September 1. Patterson is attending Harvard University Business School, Boston, Mass.

Honors
Timothy R. Campbell, Springfield, elected to the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, Colo., effective in August. Camp- bell is director of the Senate Minority Staff.

Howard White, Havana, elected national president of the Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., effective September 1. White was Illinois division president in the 1950's and was inducted last year into the league's Hall of Fame.

Deaths
Former Sen. Kenneth W. Course, 62, in an accident at his Chicago home on August 5. Course (D., Chicago) served in the Illinois House 1957-1970 and was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1970 and 1972. He was in the process of appealing his conviction, along with others, in last year's cement bribery trial.

Agendas for the General Assembly session this fall look a lot like the index of an old pulp thriller — drugs, pornography, crime and abortion ...

— Sharen Johnson, Gannet News Service
(The Rockford Morning Star, October 4, 1977 )

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