EDITOR ASSUMES NEW POSITION

Robert Humke, University of Illinois Community Recreation Specialist and Editor of Illinois Parks and Recreation magazine for the past year, has been named Director of School-Community Recreation for the Madison, Wisconsin, metropolitan school system. The position, which Mr. Humke assumed in July, is similar to that of recreation superintendent for a major park district, except that park operations are a separate entity under the city government. The recreation program for the city of 200,000 encompasses a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities for all age groups. Mr. Humke is responsible for direction and supervision of the total program.

Mr. Humke served in the Office of Recreation and Park Resources, University of Illinois for eight years before assuming his present position. During that period he assisted in many community consultation and training efforts including such major projects as Park and Recreation in Illinois: A New Synthesis, a future perspectives paper created for IAPD, and an organizational alternatives study for Hoffman Estate, Illinois. He also instructed classes in programming, leadership, and basic foundations of recreation for the Department of Leisure Studies, often being cited for excellence in teaching.

Long active in professional affairs, he served as President of the Illinois Community Education Association in 1978. Other professional affiliations include active roles in IPRA, NPRA, and APRS. Among numerous other awards, he was recognized in 1978 with the Professional Citation Award by IPRA.

Prior to joining the staff of the University of Illinois in 1972, Mr. Humke was Superintendent of Recreation for the Peoria Park District during the years 1968-1972. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, LaCross and Indiana University, Bloomington.

An avid runner, Mr. Humke often competed in Master's Track Meets and assisted regularly with amateur track meets as an official. A devoted family man he was also active in community and church affairs.

According to Mr. Humke, his new position offers new challenges and an opportunity to return to the public sector in a part of the country he finds personally very desirable. Although he will miss his many friends and fine professional relationships in Illinois, he is eagerly anticipating both personal and professional satisfaction as he undertakes his new responsibilities in Madison.

Two undergraduates and one alumnus have been honored for outstanding achievements by the University of Illinois department of leisure studies.

Martha L. Peters, chairperson of the division of recreation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, received the Charles K. Brightbill Alumni Award. She earned a Doctorate of Recreation from Illinois in 1969 and a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Ohio State University in 1941. Peters is known widely for her books and articles on therapeutic recreation and her leadership in professional groups.

Thomas Governale, 1127 Elizabeth S., Joliet, received the Brightbill undergraduate award. He expects to receive a bachelor of science degree in park administration from Illinois this coming December. These two awards honor the memory of the head of the U. of I. department of leisure studies from the time it was established in 1957 until his death in 1966.

Toby Broadrick, 309 Kelly Court, Champaign, a senior majoring in therapeutic recreation, received the Lt. John Bruce Capel Memorial Scholarship, awarded in memory of a 1965 Illinois graduate in recreation and park administration who was killed in Vietnam in 1966.

Illinois Parks and Recreation 42 September/October 1980