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Atty. Gen. William J. Scott was found guilty March 19 — one day after the state primary — by a federal court jury of filing a false income tax return in 1972. He was aquitted on the same charge for two counts in 1973 and one in both 1974 and 1975.

Scott, 53, and in his fourth term as the state's top legal official, was among the state's most popular Republicans. But the 10-week trial — with nearly six days of jury deliberations — cut through the Illinois primary campaign in which Scott was vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. He lost.

Scott was elected state treasurer in 1962 and to his first term as attorney general in 1968. He has built a record as a consumer advocate and environmentalist. He sued big corporations in air and water polution cases, including Inland Steel Co.'s East Chicago, Ind., mill for polluting Lake Michigan. Scott sued General Motors and won when 1977 Oldsmobiles were equipped with cheaper Chevrolet engines without informing purchasers. He also won a court order closing the Earthline Corp.'s hazardous waste landfill in Wilsonville.

Scott faces sentencing on his felony conviction June 6, when he also must resign as attorney general.

State Supt. of Education Joseph M. Cronin has resigned to return to his home state where he will be president of the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corp., Boston. Illinois' first appointed superintendent, Cronin has served as the chief education officer since 1975. His resignation is effective sometime this summer. His successor will be selected by the State Board of Education (SBE).

Cronin is leaving a $61,000-a-year post as administrator of an office of about 950 employees. During his tenure, he fought for the desegregation of Illinois schools, and his most recent bout has been with regional superintendents over the reorganization of intermediate educational services.

Donald Muirheid, chairman of the SBE, appointed a committee of board members March 27 to establish the selection process for the next superintendent and said a private consulting firm may help in the search. Committee members are: Charles Long, Waggoner, chairman; Carolyn Bergin, Chicago; Dorothy O'Neill, Champaign; Bud Thompson, Prophetstown; Adrienne Bailey, Chicago; Ed Copeland, Highland Park; and Carol Johnston, Des Plaines.

Anderson leaves R & E for PCB

Joan G. Anderson, Western Spring resigned effective March 1 as director of the Department of Registration and Education (R&E) to become a member of the Pollution Control Board (PCB). Announcing her appointment to the board, Gov. James R. Thompson commended her work as head of R&E and said he needs her technical background to address the challenges of environmental standards, energy and economic growth the state faces in the 1980's. (Anderson has a strong background in local government affairs and pollution control, and before her appointment as R&E director in 1977 was a commissioner of the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District.)

Anderson leaves R&E following a controversial three-year term, which included

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is chaired by Donald L. DeMarco, assistant village manager for community relations, Park Forest; vice chairperson is Louise Q. Lawson, president, Illinois Service Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago. The committee will outline steps needed to implement the Human Rights Act, including new jurisdictions that will be the responsibility of the DHR. The Legislative Advisory Committee chairperson is Sen. Harold Washington (D., Chicago); co-chairperson is Rep. Jim Reilly (R., Jacksonville). The legislative committee will review the Human Rights Act for unclear language and will recommend changes to clarify it. The Public Information Advisory Committee is chaired by Lois Weisberg, executive director, Chicago Council of Lawyers; vice chairperson is Charles E. Curry, manager, government relations, Quaker Oats Company, Chicago. The committee will promote public awareness and understanding of the new Continued on back cover

delay in Senate confirmation for appointment to her second term and a disagreement with the state auditor general this winter over the content of a departmental audit which faulted R&E's investigative unit. During her tenure as director, she initiated reorganization of R&E, which licenses 32 occupations involving 600,000 Illinois professionals, including physicians, realtors and beauticians. Areas of reform include occupational licenses, sunset legislation, licensing procedures and increased disciplinary action.

James A. Nowlan was named by the governor as interim director of R&E. He will continue to implement reorganization of the department while a search is conducted for a permanent director. Nowlan is visiting professor of public administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a former state representative (R., Toulon), He recently headed the State Board of Education's Education Service Region Study Commission (see Illinois Issues, March, pp. 18-19), and ran Sen. Charles Percy's campaign.

Anderson's appointment to the PCB was effective March 3 to fill an unexpired term ending July 1, 1981. Thompson also reappointed two members to the PCB for terms ending July 1, 1982: Jacob D. Dumelle, Oak Park, as chairman effective February 24;and Irvin G. Goodman, Oak Brook, as member effective February 12. All three appointments require Senate confirmation.

Other appointments

Stephen A. Schiller, Chicago, as special assignment consultant on bingo, Department of Revenue, by department director James B. Zagel effective February 1. Schiller, an attorney, was previously executive director of the Chicago Crime Commission and is presently vice chairman of the Illinois State Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and editor of the State Bar Association Criminal Law Newsletter.

Schiller's job is to evaluate the Department of Revenue's bingo licensing and enforcement procedures, review the regulations governing bingo games in Illinois and recommend controls to keep the criminal element out of the bingo business. Approximately 1,500 organizations are licensed by the department to conduct bingo games each week in Illinois.

Phil Chiles, Pleasant Plains, as chief of the division of information and education, Department of Conservation (DOC), by department director David Kenney effective in February. He succeeded Glen Harper, Springfield, who was named associate director of natural resources. H. Lyn Devers, Springfield, was named by Kenney in February to replace Chiles as DOC's chief legislative liaison. Previously, she was assistant legislative liaison.

William R. Norwood, Elk Grove Village, was elected chairman of the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees by the board effective February 14. Norwood is a senior pilot for United Airlines and has been an SIU trustee since 1974. He succeeded Harris Rowe, Jacksonville, who served as chairman since 1977. A. D. Van Meter Jr., Springfield, was elected to succeed Norwood as vice chairman, and Carol Kimmel, Rock Island, was reelected as secretary. Van Meter has served on the board since 1975 and is president of the Illinois National Bank, Springfield. Kimmel, a former president of the National Parent-Teacher Association, is an Illinois commissioner to the Education Commission of the States. She has served as trustee since 1977. All board officers serve one-year terms.

Mary Eleanor Wall, Elmhurst, as member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, by President Jimmy Carter effective February 4 for a term expiring in February 1982. Wall is chairperson of the DuPage County Regional Planning Commission and state president of the American Association of University Women. She replaced Richard Riley who resigned in 1979 after being elected governor of South Carolina. Wall is one of three public members of the 26-member commission established by Congress in 1959 to review the operation of the federal system. During the last commission meeting in December, state and local pension systems were discussed.

Ned Roy, St. Louis, as chief of the marketing organization of the Area Private Industry Council (PIC), by council members effective in February. PIC is part of the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association and is composed of business, labor and community representatives from the bi-state region. The council was formed on the initiative of the region's six local government CETA agencies (U.S. Comprehensive Employment Training Act). PIC is working to increase employer participation in the Private Sector Initiative Program which seeks to provide job opportunities for the chronically unemployed. Before joining PIC, Roy was staff consultant in corporate training and development for the Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis.

Duane R. Kullberg, Chicago, was elected chief executive officer and company chairman of Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago, effective February 25 for a four-year term. Kullberg was elected by the firm's 1,220 partners upon recommendation of its board of directors. Kullberg had been the firm's vice chairman, accounting and audit practice. He succeeded Richard J. Boland, who had been acting chairman since the resignation of Harvey Kapnick in October. Kapnick is now deputy director of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Resignations

William Brey, Springfield, as chief of the division of law enforcement, Department of Conservation, effective May 1. Brey, who has held the post since 1973, served as police chief of Danville before joining the department.

Bob Salisbury, Chicago, as deputy director of the Illinois Arts Council, effective December 31, 1979. Salisbury had been deputy director since 1978 and previously served for two years as program director. He is currently doing consulting work.

Retirements

Robert S. Ritz Jr., Chatham, as deputy director of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency (ESDA), effective February 29. Ritz, who had been deputy director since 1969, completed 19 years of service with the ESDA and the Illinois Civil Defense Agency. Previously, he served in the U.S. army for 24 years, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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Advisory committee for Human Rights Continued from page 31 department and its services. Members of the Search Advisory Committee are: Warren H. Bacon, manager, community relations and manpower planning, Inland Steel Company, Chicago; Edwin C. Berry, special assistant to the president, Johnson Products Co., Inc., Chicago; Arnita Bosweil, National Hook-up of Black Women, Chicago; Leonel Campos-Hernandez, assistant professor in corrections, Chicago State University; Jane E. Chapin, executive director, United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois, Inc. Springfield; Jessie B. DeLoch, executive director, Minority Business Opportunity Committee, Chicago; Angeline Dew, Joliet; Leo Franklin, equal opportunity officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago; William Kelley, chairperson, Illinois Gay Rights Task Force, Chicago; Donald H. Moss, executive director, Illinois Association for Retarded Children, Chicago; Patricia Rosenbaum, Oak Park; Velma J. Wilson, president, Parents Resource, Inc., Chicago. Members of the Procedures Advisory Committee are: Mario J. Aranda, executive director, Latino Institute, Chicago; Frank B. Brooks, president, Chicago Economic Development Corp.; Vernon Brown, human relations officer, City of Urbana; James Burns, Chicago; Milton M. Cohen, executive director, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Chicago; Wence Cunningham, director of human services, City of Danville; Allison S. Davis, Davis, Miner and Barnhill, Chicago; Sigel Davis, mayor of Bellwood; Howard Eglit, associate professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Kent College of Law; Leon D. Finney Jr., president, the Woodlawn Organization, Chicago; Mark G. Franzen, executive director, Beverly Area Planning Association, Chicago; Mary Helen Gasser, affirmative action officer, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Thomas M. Gray, executive director, Home Investment Fund/Fair Housing Center, Chicago; Kay S. Grossman, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Chicago; Ronald E. Kennedy, associate law professor, Northwestern University, Evanston; Nancy B. Kreiter, research director, Women Employed, Chicago; Albert Lockridge, equal opportunity officer in the human services department, City of East St. Louis; Wiley Moore, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago; Jean Pavela, community relations director, Village of Maywood; Sherlyn D. Reid, director of community relations division, Village of Oak Park; A. Abbot Rosen, executive director of Chicago offices, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; William Sehwaller, Chicago; Rebecca Sive-Tomashefsky, executive director, Midwest Women's Center, Chicago; David R. Stover, executive director, Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Springfield; Leslie Williams, executive director, Egyptian Housing Development Corporation, Cairo. Legislative members of the Legislative Advisory Committee are Sen. Dawn Clark Netsch (D., Chicago) and Reps. Carol M. Braun (D., Chicago), Susan K. Catania (R., Chicago), Barbara Flynn Currie (D., Chicago) and James C. Taylor (D., Chicago). Other members are Lyn Alderfer, Springfield; Richard William Austin, president, Chicago Bar Association; Manuel Barbosa, attorney, Human Relations Commission, Elgin; F. Willis Caruso, Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, Chicago; Leon M. Despres, Chicago; Gay Lloyd Lott, president, Cook County Bar Association, Chicago; John C. Mullen, president, Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago; Alice L. Tregay, Black Illinois Legislative Lobby, Chicago; Frank J. Williams, president, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Chicago. Members of the Public Information Advisory Committee are: Donald L. Benedict, executive director, Community Renewal Society, Chicago; Diane Bonner, assistant to the Human Services Commission, City of East St. Louis; Lester W. Brann Jr., president, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Chicago; Robert E. Cook, executive vice president, Illinois Association of Realtors, Springfield; Vincent Cullers, Chicago, Hector A. Franco, executive director, Allies for a Better Community, Chicago; Carol M. Frederick, chairperson, Fair Employment Practices Commission, Chicago; Paul R. Gibson, president, Illinois Consultation on Ethnicity and Education, Chicago; Robert L. Lucas, executive director, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, Chicago; Dr. Melvin M. Maclin, Chicago; Dr. Marcelino Miyares, president, OMAR, Chicago; Patricia M, Nielson, Winnetka; Barbara Proctor, president, League of Black Women, Chicago; Renee Pruitt, WVON hotline host, Chicago; Renault A. Robinson, executive director, Afro-American Police League, Chicago; David G. Roth, midwest director, Institute on Pluralism and Group Indentity, Chicago; James W. Rottman, executive director, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Chicago; Ann Rychlinska, Polish American Congress, Chicago; Vernett Schultz, vice president, Public Relations Board, Chicago; Nancy C. Silvers, executive director, Southwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging, East St. Louis; Margie Sturgis, publisher, Midwest Observer, Rockford; Sheila Tucker, WLS-TV public affairs, Chicago; Howard R. Veal, executive director, Springfield Urban League; Bernadine Washington, vice president of WVON, Chicago.