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Reilly named Thompson's chief of staff

Jim Reilly, Springfield, is Gov. James R. Thompson's new chief of staff, effective January 6. Reilly, a former state representative (R-97, Jacksonville), resigned his seat in the Illinois House last August to become the governor's chief counsel. Thompson, who chose Reilly from among several top staff members, called the decision "a struggle for me ... I believe that Jim Reilly's career as a legislator, with its emphasis on appropriations and human services, comes as close as it is possible to come in the legislature to acquiring the talent and the skills and the ability for a position which, in many ways, is like the office of governor itself." Speculation is that Reilly may be taking on more responsibility than his predecessor, Arthur F. Quern, who resigned last November, due to the governor spending increasingly more time away from Springfield.

Reilly served as city attorney for Jacksonville prior to his election to the House in 1976. Subsequently elected to three more terms, he was minority spokesman of the House Appropriations II Committee and chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.

In addition to his new duties, Reilly will continue to serve as chief counsel until a successor is named.

New directors for Public Aid and Children and Family Services

Gov. Thompson shifted Gregory L. Coler, Springfield, to director of the Department of Public Aid (DPA) from director of the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), a post he held for nearly five years. He came to the Thompson administration from the New York State Department of Social Services, where he was associate commissioner. Coler replaces Carl Mankowitz, DPA's deputy director, who has been serving as acting director since Jeffrey Miller's resignation last year to head the governor's planning office. In choosing Coler, the governor noted his work in strengthening the state's child protection system, accelerating adoption of "special needs" children and consolidating state services for troubled teenagers.

Gordon Johnson, Springfield, replaces Coler as DCFS director. Deputy director for program operations at DCFS since 1979, Johnson previously held several high level administrative positions in New York's Department of Social Services and served as director of the child welfare bureau in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. Since joining DCFS, he has been a leader in the "One Church, One Child" program to increase adoption of black children in Illinois. The new cabinet appointments were made December 27 and require Senate confirmation.

Bushnell, Stone appointed to Illinois Commerce Commission

The two new members of the expanded Illinois Commerce Commission (I1CC), appointed by the governor, are Mary B. "Meg" Bushnell, Stillman Valley, and Susan C. Stone, Urbana. Both appointments require Senate confirmation and are for terms ending January 19, 1987.

Bushnell, appointed November 1, is a partner and co-manager of Walnut Creek Farms, a 2,400-acre family farming operation, and Walnut Creek, Inc., a grain merchandising firm. She became active in utility issues in the early 1970s when she tried to block licensing of Commonwealth Edison's proposed nuclear power plants at Byron and Braidwood. She is also a founding member of the Black Walnut Environmental Association and the Ogle County Prairie Preservation Society and has been active in Ogle County Republican politics. Her appointment was confirmed by the Senate November 4.

Stone, appointed January 17, has served as special assistant to the director of the state office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration. Most recently, she was a program planning consultant to the five-county Central Illinois Economic Development Corporation. Thrice elected commissioner of the Urbana Park District, she is district vice president and is also a member of the state board of the Illinois Association of Park Districts. Other activities include involvement with the Champaign County Interagency Land Dedication Task Force, the Champaign County Forest Preserve Advisory Committee and the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission.

The two new appointments come as a result of last year's legislation increasing the number of commissioners from five to seven in an effort to broaden geographical representation on the commission.

Development Finance Authority members named

Gov. Thompson appointed an executive director and 10 public members to the Illinois Development Finance Authority, effective December 23. They will serve, along with three ex-officio members, on the new economic development panel created last September when the governor approved legislation restructuring the state's capital development system. The legislation, which combined the Illinois Industrial Development Authority and the Environmental Facilities Financing Authority, was designed to spur economic expansion and streamline business and commercial finance relations with the state.

Named as executive director was Ronald Bean, Park Forest, former director of the Environmental Facilities Financing Authority. Currently president of Park Forest, Bean also serves as director of Chicago Commons Inc. and of the Community Renewal Society. He is also a former president of the Council of Pollution Control Financing Agencies, a national environmental panel.

Authority members with terms ending January 21, 1985, are: Peter Gidwitz, Chicago, president of Burnham Development Company; Thomas Harrington, Champaign, a real estate broker with Devonshire Realty; John Johnson, Chicago, president of Johnson Publishing Company; Michael Malone, Marion, secretary/treasurer of Jake's Tire Company; and Perry Snyderman, Highland Park, an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Rudnick & Wolfe.

Members with terms ending January 19, 1987, are: Allen Andreas, Decatur, assistant treasurer of Archer Daniels Midland Company; Edward Czadowski, Chicago, an attorney with Winston & Strawn; Nicole Foster, Chicago, treasurer of Swift Independent Packing Company; Courtney Munson, Monmouth, president of Munson Trucking; and Robert Podesta, Chicago, a hotel and restaurant developer. All appointments require Senate confirmation and pay expenses only.

The authority's three ex-officio members are: Allen Bernardi, Springfield, director of the Illinois Department of Labor; Sheldon Gray, Chicago, a representative of the legislature's Commission for Economic Development; and Michael Woelffer, Chicago, director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.

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Staff changes at Department of Corrections

Department of Corrections (DOC) director Michael P. Lane made the following appointments in November:

Richard W. DeRobertis, Joliet, as assistant deputy director of the adult division, a new position, effective November 19. DeRobertis was formerly warden at the Stateville Correctional Center. Replacing him at Stateville is Michael F. O'Leary, Joliet, the former assistant warden for operations there.

Walter A. Groesch, Springfield, as superintendent of the Corrections Training Academy, effective December 1. Groesch, the former executive assistant to the deputy director of the adult division, replaces James C. Chrans, Springfield, who is the new warden at the Pontiac Correctional Center.

Pontiac's former warden, Kenneth L. McGinnis, as the new Jacksonville Correctional Center's warden, effective December 1.

Donald D. Petersen, Springfield, as warden for the new Lincoln facility. Petersen was previously manager of DOC's operations and program audit unit.

Committee to clarify what students should know

Clarification of Illinois' educational goals is the task of an 84-member committee recently appointed by State Supt. of Education Donald G. Gill. To report its recommendations to Gill by March 15, the Committee to Define State Requirements for What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do is chaired by John Corbally, president and director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and former president of the University of Illinois.

The committee is to devise "outcome statements" which clearly and broadly address the knowledge and skills students must have to be educated citizens. According to Gill, "These statements will replace, not supplement, the program-related mandates now in the statutes. The barnacle-like growth of mandates over the past 150 years has resulted in, at best, mixed messages about the state's expectation for schooling in Illinois."

Subcommittees are developing the outcome statements in six learning areas considered fundamental by the State Board of Education. Subcommittee chairpersons and the learning areas are: Dr. David Bristow, Effingham, pediatrician and director of Marshall Clinic in Effingham (physical development and health); William Caples, Chicago, member of the Chicago law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz and former president of the Chicago Board of Education (social sciences); Phillip Drotning, Chicago, former executive secretary for two Wisconsin governors and former vice president of Northwest Airlines (science); Peggy Hoberg, Chicago, assistant vice president of Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago (mathematics); J. Michael Lennon, Rochester, associate professor of literature and director of Sangamon State University's Office of Public Affairs Communication (language arts); and Nancy Roucher, Decatur, director of Project Heart (fine arts).

Governor's appointments

Mark Freeh, Jacksonville, as director of the governor's personnel office, effective January 20. Assistant director of the office for the previous three years, he replaces Gregory W. Baise, Springfield, who resigned to become executive director of President Reagan's reelection campaign in Illinois. Freeh's new position pays an annual salary of $49,000.

Irving J. Koppel, Chicago, to the Liquor Control Commission, effective January 10, for a term ending January 20, 1986. Koppel is vice president for corporate affairs at Helene Curtis Industries Inc., Chicago.The commission, which is the chief regulator of the state's liquor industry, was expanded last year from three to five members. Koppel's appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays $10,000 annually.

Norman Garfinkel, Oak Park, to the Dangerous Drugs Commission, effective January 10. A pharmacist with Sears Pharmacy, Garfinkel fills a vacancy on the 11-member commission, which is composed of three public members and eight human services cabinet directors. The appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays expenses only. Garfinkel will serve until June 30, 1984, when the commission will merge with the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities' alcoholism division to form the new Department of Substance Abuse. (See Illinois Issues, December 1983, p. 39.)

Andrew M. Raucci, Chicago, as a judge on the Illinois Court of Claims, effective January 10. He is partner in the Chicago law firm of Kusper & Raucci. The Court of Claims, which was expanded last year from three to five members, hears all claims against the state except those dealing with workmen's compensation. Raucci's tern expires January 20, 1986; he will receive an annual salary of $25,000.

Jeanne Bradner, Winnetka, as director of the Illinois Office of Voluntary Citizen Participation, effective January 3. For the past three years Bradner was the Association for Retarded Citizens of Illinois' director of development and marketing. She has been a director and officer of the League of Women Voters of Illinois and has served as president of the league's Winnetka-Northfield-Kenilworth chapter. Bradner also recently completed two terms as trustee and treasurer of Winnetka. She replaces Kathy Knox, who resigned in September to move to New York. Bradner is responsible for promoting cooperation among the business, not-for-profit and public sectors on behalf of the citizens of Illinois.

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Other appointments

Thomas R. Lamont, Springfield, as deputy chief of the general law division in the Attorney General's Office by Atty. Gen. Neil F. Hartigan, effective January 3. A Springfield attorney, Lamont has previously served as a legal adviser to the Capital Development Board and as executive director of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission. He has also worked for the Legislative Reference Bureau and the House Democrats. Harry "Bud" Hall, Bloomington, as director of the corporations department within the Secretary of State's Office by Secy. of State Jim Edgar in October. Hall, who was previously deputy clerk of the Court of Claims, replaces Don Templeman who became internal auditor in the Attorney Genital's Office.

Harry "Bud" Hall, Bloomington, as director of the corporations department within the Secretary of State's Office by Secy. of State Jim Edgar in October. Hall, who was previously deputy clerk of the Court of Claims, replaces Don Templeman who became internal auditor in the Attorney General's office.

Mark Boozell, Springfield, as legislative liaison for the Secretary of State's Office, by Edgar, effective in October 1983. Boozell, formerly legislative liaison for the Department of Transportation, has also served previously as deputy director and legislative budget analyst for the House Republican appropriations staff. Richard J. Bentley, Chicago, as director of research for the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities, by federation chairman Ivan Frick, effective January 1. Prior to joining the federation as a research associate in June 1980, Bentley worked for the Chicago Community Trust. The federation represents the 49 independent nonpublic institutions of higher education in Illinois.

Richard J. Bentley, Chicago, as director of research for the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities federation chairman Ivan Frick, effective Janruary 1. Prior to joining the federation as a research associate in June 1980, Bentley worked for the Chicago Community Trust. The federation represents the 49 independent nonpublic institutions of higher education in Illinois.

Sen. Prescott E. Bloom (R-47, Peoria) as chairman of the Health Cost Containment Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), by the conferee's president, effective in January. The committee is to develop a set of recommendations in the areas of hospital costs, Medicaid costs and care for the medically indigent. A Guide to Health Care Cost Control is also to be written by the committee to assist the nation's lawmakers in setting health care policy in the 50 states. The NCSL is the official organization of the nation's 7,500 state legislators.

Terry R. Lash, deputy director of the Department of Nuclear Safety, as a member of the U.S. advisory panel on alternative means of financing and managing radioactive waste facilities, by U.S. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel in December. The panel, which is composed of 12 members from around the nation, will assist in the search for a permanent underground dump for highly radioactive waste. The president is required, under the federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, to recommend a site by March 31, 1987; the repository is supposed to be in operation by January 1998. Lash has been active as a consultant to federal agencies and public and private organizations interested in the nuclear waste field for the past 10 years.

Resignations

Sangamon State University President Alex B. Lacy Jr. of Springfield announced his resignation January 12, effective upon the hiring of a new president by the Board of Regents. Lacy's presidency began in 1978 when the university was eight years old. A native of Virginia, he holds degrees in political science from Duke Universty and the University of Virginia. Prior to coming to SSU, he was director of the division of public programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and had served as dean of the Georgia State University School of Urban Life. The Board of Regents accepted his resignation January 25 and established a search committee to recommend a replacement.

Retirements

Franklin G. Matsler, Springfield, has announced his retirement as executive director for the Illinois Board of Regents (BOR), effective August 31. Matsler, who plans to join the faculty of Illinois State University in Normal in January 1985 as a professor of higher education, has held the post since 1968. The BOR is part of the governance system of higher education and was created in 1967 to oversee the operations of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Sangamon State University in Springfield and Illinois State University. Matsler came to the BOR after five years as a specialist with the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education; he was also on the faculty of California's Humboldt State University from 1958 to 1963.

Corrections

We regret that we failed to include JoAnn Page, president of the Illinois Nurses Association, as a member of the Transition Task Force for the Department of Substance Abuse in our December magazine.

We apologize for misspelling Hon. Allen L. Stouder's name in our February magazine.

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