Illinois Issues

June 1981 VOL. VII, NO. 6

ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The magazine's board is appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.

Publisher: J. Michael Lennon (on leave)
Editor and Acting Publisher: Caroline Gherardini
Fulfillment and Advertising manager: Elizabeth A. Curl
Circulation director: John E. Cockrell
Editor emeritus: William L. Day
Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Larry Smith
            Richard J. Shereikis
Assistant Editor: John G. Martin
Legislative correspondent: Diane Ross, Shelley Davis
Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood,
      Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer,
      Milton Rakove, Robert Mackay
      Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt,
Artist: Ed Dyson
Business staff: Bonnie S. Roberts
Student staff: Patricia Hadsall

The Board
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute
      of Government and Public Affairs, University
      of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: James R. Kackley, partner
      Arthur Anderson & Co., Chicago
William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield
Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan
      Institute, University of Chicago
David Kenney, director, Illinois Department
      of Conservation, Springfield
Louis H. Masotti, professor of political science and urban
      affairs, Northwestern University,
      Evanston
Odas Nicholson, Judge, Cook County Circuit Court
James D. Nowlan, Director, public administration program
      Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
James T. Otis, lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism,
      University of Illinois, Urbana
Betsy Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois
      Bell Telephone Co., Chicago
Gerald H. Pugh, vice president and director of
      government relations, Combined Insurance
      Company of America, Chicago
Carl Shier, international representative, Region
      4, United Auto Workers
Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president,
      Canteen Corporation, Chicago
Thomas F. Roeser, Vice President-government relations
     The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago
James M. Wall, editor, Christian Century,
      Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago
James C. Worthy, professor of management.
      Northwestern University
J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member

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