CORY V. ATWELL

CORY V. ATWELL is now the Director of Parks and Recreation for the Olympia Fields Park District, having recently assumed the duties of that position.

He was formerly a facility supervisor at Homewood-Flossmoor Park District's Ice Arena, having also served as racquetball instructor and administrative intern with that district.

His experience also includes being a recreation director for McDonough County low income housing authority, a recreation specialist with army special services, and as graduate assistant with the McDonough County Y.M.C.A. A graduate of Western Illinois University in 1975, he is in the process of completing work on his M.S. in Park and Recreation Administration, also at Western Illinois University. He and his wife, Eileen, reside in Park Forest, Illinois.

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PETER K. KLEIN

PETER K. KLEIN, was promoted to director of recreation Wednesday by Gen Supt. Edmund L. Kelly of the Chicago Park District.

Klein, 57, jonied the district as a lifeguard in 1939. He served for 3 1/2 years in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a flight instructor, until his discharge as a second lieutenant in 1945.

He replaced Thomas F. Hackett, 51, who was named director of office organization and administration. Hackett will oversee budget expenditures for all park departments and will supervise the district's data processing center and other administrative services.

James F. Young, 48, will serve as Klein's assistant. Young joined the district in 1955 as a phys. ed. instructor at Douglas Park. He was promoted to area supervisor in 1971 and was in charge of all parks and playgrounds on the city's near north and near northwest sides.

Hackett joined the city's Bureau of Parks in 1946. He joined the Chicago Park District when that bureau merged with the district on Jan. 1, 1959. He had been director of recreation since 1973.

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Rockford Landscape architect DAVID L. WEIMER will receive a $2,000 fee from the Illinois Department of Conservation for his design of a memorial sculpture for the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site at Wood River.

The memorial is designed to commemorate the beginning of Lewis and Clark's famous overland trek to the Pacific Ocean, an expedition that began near Wood River in 1804.

Wiemer's work was selected by the Lewis and dark Heritage Committee from among three finalists in a competition co-sponsored by DOC and the Committee. It featuers 12 three-sided columns arranged in a circle around a boulder to be brought from the spot in Montana where Lewis and Clark crossed the continental divide. Each column represents one of the states traversed by the expedition, and plaques on the columns record the events of the journey.

The plan also calls for three flags to be flown near the central boulder — an 1804 version of "Old Glory", and Illinois flag, and a current U.S. flag.

A giant arrow outlined on the ground and pointing toward the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers completes the design.

Illinois Parks and Recreation 26 September/October, 1979