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Thompson and Washington appoint McCormick Place Board

As expected, Gov. James R. Thompson appointed former Gov. Richard B. Oglivie trustee over the McCormick Place project. The appointment came November 15, after the General Assembly passed a vehicle bill that included authorization for the board to borrow an additional $60 million to finish expanding the Chicago convention center.

The bill also abolished the 12-member board, replacing it with an interim six-member panel. Thompson's three appointees to the new board are: Patrick F. Daly of Elmhurst, president of the Chicago architectural firm Patrick F. Daly and Associates Ltd.; Anthony M. Mandolini of Glenview, partner in charge of planning and practice development in the Chicago office of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.; and Thomas J. Nayder of Chicago, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council.

Daly's firm has been involved with construction of shopping centers and office buildings in 26 states. Mandolini served for seven years as a member of the executive committee of the National Council on Government Accounting and also has served as chairman of the board of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce. Nayder served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 1972-1980.

Chicago Mayor Harold Washington also made his three appointments to the six-member board in November, including James J. Brice who was elected chairman. Washington also appointed Bernard Weissbourd and Charles A. Tribbett III. Brice, a senior partner with Arthur Andersen and Co. in Chicago, lives in Barrington. Tribbett, an attorney and municipal finance expert from Chicago, will serve as secretary to the board. Weissbourd, chairman of Metropolitan Structures Inc., is a Chicago resident.

Layzell new BOG chancellor

The Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities (BOG) joined the reorganization bandwagon in October when it opted to move to a chancellor/president structure, thereby eliminating the post of executive director. The decision to tread the same path chosen by the Board of Regents in the spring of 1984 followed three months of study by a special board committee which included input from groups representing faculty, students and administrative and civil service staff.

Appointed by the board during the same meeting to fill the new post of chancellor was Thomas D. Layzell, BOG executive director since 1984. Layzell, who has 20 years of experience in university and higher education administration, is also a nationally recognized expert in the area of academic collective bargaining, an expertise that has gained added importance on Illinois campuses since the 1983 passage of a law granting educational employees the right to collectively bargain. Under the new organization, the presidents of the five BOG universities report directly to Layzell and through him to the board. Previously the presidents reported directly to the board. While it may appear that Layzell has merely changed hats, the one he donned in October carries a greater degree of responsibility and power.

All of Illinois' post-secondary education governing boards have adopted similar organizational structures. (The Illinois Comunity College Board serves as an administrative board for the state's 50 community colleges.) The University of Illinois has a chancellor on each of its two campuses who reports to a president. Southern Illinois University has two presidents (in Carbondale and in Edwardsville) who report to a chancellor. The Board of Regents has three presidents (at Illinois State University-Normal, Northern Illinois University-DeKalb and Sangamon State University-Springfield) who report to a chancellor. The five BOG institutions are Chicago State University, Chicago; Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; Governors State University, University Park; Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago; and Western Illinois University, Macomb.

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Baise heads Thompson's campaign; Hanley gets top post at IDOT

Illinois Transportation Secy. Gregory W. Baise resigned December 1 to head Gov. James R. Thompson's bid for an unprecedented fourth term as the state's chief executive. Baise joined the Thompson administration in 1977, working his way to patronage chief in 1980. In 1984, he was the governor's choice to head President Reagan's reelection campaign in Illinois. Upon the successful completion of that campaign, Thompson appointed Baise to the top post at the Illinois Department of Transportation(IDOT).

Thompson's choice to replace Baise at IDOT's helm on December 1 was Harry R. Hanley, a 40-year veteran of the department. Except for a stint in the armed services during World War II, Hanley has been with IDOT since 1941 (then the Department of public Works and Buildings). He had served as  deputy secretary since July 1977. Hanley's appointment requires Senate confirmation and carries an annual salary of $65,000

IDOT's new deputy secretary is Eugene R. McCormick, the former director of IDOT's office of planning and programming. The 21-year IDOT employee's appointment $58,000 annually.

Appointed by Hanley to replace McCormick was Kirk Brown, previously deputy director of the planning and programming office. Brown. who has worked in highway construction and planning at IDOT since 1968, receives an annual salary of $56,000; his appointment does not require Senate confirmation.

Fleischli replaces Frech on governor's staff

Gov. James R. Thompson has appointed a new personnel director to his staff. He is Bill Fleischli, the assistant to the former director of personnel, Mark Frech.

Prior to joining the governor's personnel office in March 1984, Fleischli had worked with the departments of Conservation in 1981 and Transportation in 1982. He was appointed assistant to the director of the Department of Rehabilitation Services in March 1983. Fleischli, 38, was a biology teacher and head basketball coach at Griffin High School in Springfield for 11 years before entering state government in 1981. Fleischli replaced Frech who resigned October 1 to accept a position with Citizens for Thompson, the governor's campaign committee.

The governor also announced two new appointments to the Advisory Committee on Tourism in October and the reappointment of two new members.

The two new appointees were Rex Parker of Rockford, vice president and general manager of that city's Clock Tower Inn, and Donald DePorter of Chicago, regional vice president and general manager of the Windy City's Hyatt Regency Hotel. Reappointed to the committee were: Thomas Meagher of Burr Ridge, president of Continental Air Transport, and James Sheerin of Chicago, senior vice president of Hilton Hotels Corporation.

Positions on the committee pay expenses only and do not require Senate confirmation. The terms expire on August 21, 1987. (For a look at Illinois' tourism promotion activities, see "Tourism: making the 'happy state' richer," by Marc D. Allan, Illinois Issues, December, pp. 12-16.)

Ben Liu, a management and information systems professor at Chicago State University, was appointed to the Agricultural Export Adivsory Committee by the governor, also in October. Liu's appointment expires January 19, 1987. The position pays expenses only and requires Senate confirmation. Liu replaced Virgil Bachtel, who resigned to accept a position with the Illinois Department of Agriculture. The committee advises the director of the state's agriculture department on export policy concerning Illinois farm products.

Board of trustees named for new Mathematics and Science Academy

Seventeen people nominated to the board of trustees of the newly created Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy were announced in October by the governor's office. Eight of the members were chosen by Gov. James R. Thompson, the others by Ted Sanders, state superintendent of education, and Richard Wagner, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE).

Chosen by the governor were: Sheila Griffin of St. Charles, marketing executive for Motorola Inc. in Schaumburg; Leon Lederman of Batavia, director of Fermilab; John Marion of Aurora, journeyman electrician, financial secretary, business manager and apprentice training director for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 461; Walter Massey, vice president for research at the University of Chicago and former director of the Argonne National Laboratory; James McEachern Jr. of Oswego, president and part owner of Wayne Circuits Inc. in Yorkville; James Pearson of Aurora, president and chief executive officer of Aurora Industries in Montgomery; Anthony Sadowski of Naperville, vice president of research for Nalco Chemical Company in Naperville; and Barbara Schmulbach of Carbondale, a mathematics teacher at Carbondale Community High School.

Three representatives of secondary education were nominated by Supt. Sanders: Stephanie Marshall, superintendent of schools in Batavia; Elsie Scott, a chemistry teacher at Mattoon High School; and Jesus Sosa, principal at Chicago's Clemente High School.

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Two trustees were appointed by IBHE's Richard Wagner: Martin G. Abegg, president of Bradley University in Peoria; and Dennis Cooler, dean of the college of education at Northern Illinois University.

The remaining four trustees will be nonvoting members of the board. Besides Sanders and Wagner, they are David Pierce, executive director of the Illinois Community College Board, and Gary Jewel, superintendent of schools in Aurora.

The academy, a component of the governor's Better Schools Progam, is a three-year residential public school in Aurora where students will work at an accelerated pace from the 10th through 12th grades. Students graduating from the academy will qualify for college entrance at the sophomore level.

Women and aging in Illinois

Growing old means facing a number of challenges and obstacles — mandatory retirement from a lifelong career, pensions strangled by red tape, increased health costs and decreased income. But, if you're a woman the problems can be even more formidable and frustrating. Noting such gender differences in the aging process, Department on Aging Director Janet S. Otwell and Illinois Council on Aging Chairman Willard C. Rasmussen announced in early November the formation of a special task force to study the "major concerns which make it different to grow older as a woman than as a man."

The 24-member Task Force on the Status of Older Women in Illinois is focusing on "problems and needs relating to economic security, housing and health care," according to Rasmussen, for ". . . single, married, rural, urban, widowed, minority and ethnic women over 65 years of age in Illinois." According to Otwell, these "women represent 61 percent of our 65 plus population."

The panel, which is chaired by Sr. Julia Huiskamp of Catholic Urban Programs in East St. Louis, is holding a series of public hearings and community roundtable discussions at various places around the state. The first hearing was held in Chicago on December 5; another was scheduled for January in Springfield. The community round-tables will be held during early 1986, with a final report to be submitted to the governor in May — "Older Americans Month."

Illinois Council on Aging members appointed to the task force include Harold Boysaw of Chicago, Regina Kulys of Chicago, Regina Merritt of Western Springs, Margo Schreiber of Hanover Park and Silvia Zaldivar of Chicago.

Also serving on the panel are Jean Aldag of the University of Illinois Medical School, Peoria; Pam Anderson of the Midwest Women's Center, Chicago; Helen Baldwin, a member of the Jacksonville City Council; state Rep. Jane M. Barnes (R-38, Palos Heights); Jeanette Bitter, a civic leader in Quincy; Arnita Boswell of Chicago's League of Black Women; Vicki Bumagin of the Council for Jewish Elderly, Evanston; Velma Carey of Sangamon State University, Springfield; Nicholas J. Cotsonas of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago; state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-26, Chicago); Naomi Fowler of Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield; Elna Hoover, a regional advocate for the elderly in Granite City; Sr. Jean Juliano of Marillac House, Chicago; Delores Pettitt of Salem House, Chicago; Edna Schade, special assistant to the governor for women; and Pat Taylor of the North Shore Senior Center, Winnetka.

Otwell and Rassmussen are also members of the task force. Staff support is being provided by Joyce Hollingsworth, an administrative intern from the University of Chicago, and Albert J. Neely of the Department on Aging. (For more information concerning the task force's schedule of community roundtables, contact Neely at the Department on Aging, 100 W. Randolph, Suite 11-900, Chicago 60601; 312/917-2914.)

DOC's Division of Fisheries gets new administrators

Department of Conservation (DOC) director Michael Witte announced that three key administrative posts within the DOC's Division of Fisheries had been filled in October.

Jim Allen, a staff biologist in DOC's Springfield office, was named head of the programs section. The 27-year veteran of the department now oversees the management of streams, Lake Michigan, reservoirs, commercial fishing and impoundment programs.

Rich Hess, a Lake Michigan fisheries biologist for the past seven years, was named manager for the DOC's Lake Michigan program. Hess has been with the department for nine years.

Gregg Tichacek, most recently a resource planner with the department's planning division, was named head of the field management section. In his new post, Tichacek, a 22-year DOC employee, oversees the activity of the department's regional and district fisheries biologists.

The Judiciary

The Illinois Supreme Court has made the following appointments and assignments: Appointed circuit judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit was Martin E. Conway Jr. of Aledo, effective October 14, 1985. Conway, previously an attorney in private practice filled the vacancy created by the death of Gene McWhorter.

Assigned to serve on the 2nd District Appellate Court was Paul W. Schnake, a circuit judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit Schnake will serve until December 1, 1986, or until further order of the court.

Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Joseph Spitz of Charleston was assigned to the 4th District Appellate Court in October. Spitz has served on the circuit bench since 1977. Prior to that he practiced law in Mattoon.

Circuit judges appointed the following associate judges:

In the 3rd Judicial Circuit, Paul E. Riley, He was previously an Edwardsville attorney.

In the 15th Judicial Circuit, Barry R. Anderson. Prior to his appointment, he was in private practice in Freeport.

In the 18th Judicial Circuit, Ronald B. Mehling. He was previously a Glen Ellyn attorney.

The following judicial officers have announced their resignations:

From the 10th Judicial Circuit, Ivan L. Yontz, effective November 1. One of Illinois' most senior judges in tenure, Yontz has been a judicial officer since 1950. The Pekin resident is also a past president of the Illinois County and Probate Judges Association and most recently was a member of the Illinois Judicial Conference's executive committee.

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John L. Hughes of Waukegan, a judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit, informed the state's Supreme Court that he will not seek retention in the 1986 general election, Hughes has been a judicial officer since 1967.

Associate judges submitting resignations include two from the Cook County Circuit Court: William J. McGah Jr. of Hinsdale and EmanueI A. Rissman of Chicago.

Dexter A. Knowlton of Freeport, an associate judge from the 15th Judicial Circuit, Bitted his resignation.

Gulley retires from Administrative Office of Illinois Courts

Roy Gulley, director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts for 18 years and secretary of the Illinois Courts Commission, retired December 22. Upon his retirement, Gulley was the senior state court administrator in the U.S. He joined the Springfield law firm of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen on January 1. Prior to becoming the chief administrator of the state's court system in 1968, Gulley was a county judge in his native Franklin County from 1950-1954. In 1957, he became a circuit judge for the 2nd Judicial Circuit and served in that capacity until 1967. Gulley is a former member of the Illinois Judicial Conference's executive committee and a past chairman and member of the executive committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators.

Berman chairs legislative committee on education reform

Sen. Arthur L. Berman (D-2, Chicago) was elected chairman of the legislature's Joint Committee on Education Reform October 31. The committee also selected Reps. Gene Hoffman (R-40, Elmhurst) and Richard T. Mulcahey (D-69, Durand) as vice chairmen. Sen. John W. Maitland Jr. (R-44, Bloomington) was named secretary. The panel reviews the progress of the programs and policies set under S.B. 730 — the education-reform package approved last year — and pursues the development of emerging education issues. Also on the committee are Sens. Vince Demuzio (D-49, Carlinville), Emil Jones Jr. (D-17, Chicago), Bob Kustra (R-28, Des Plaines) and Jack Schaffer (R-32, Crystal Lake) and Reps. Mary Lou Cowlishaw (R-41, Naperville), Barbara FlynnCurrie (D-26, Chicago), Loleta A. Didrickson (R-37, Homewood) and Helen F. Satterthwaite (D-103, Champaign). The committee is scheduled to meet four times a year and issue an annual report each April.

Roberts gets nod for U.S. attorney post

Bill Roberts, Sangamon County state's attorney, finally got the nod from U.S. Rep. Bob Michel (R-18, Peoria) to be the next U.S. attorney for the central district of Illinois. Roberts, 43, was appointed Sangamon County state's attorney in 1979 when C. Joseph Cavanagh became a 7th Judicial Circuit judge. He was elected to a full term in 1980 and reelected in 1984.

Michel had been urged by top federal judicial officials to reappoint U.S. attorney Gerald Fines to a third four-year term. Michel commended Fines' record as U.S. attorney but said he felt that both the office and the individual are better served by periodic change. Fines' term expired in November.

Michel has submitted Roberts' name to President Reagan for consideration. His nomination also requires Senate confirmation, a process that could take from four to six months, according to a spokesman for the congressman's office.

Thompson co-chairs Funds for America's Future

Gov. James R. Thompson has been named one of seven co-chairpersons of Funds for America's Future, Vice President George Bush's Republican fund-raising committee. The fund has thus far raised $2.2 million for candidates at all levels of government, especially at the Senate and gubernatorial level.

The other co-chairpersons are: Constance Antonson, a resident of Spartanburg, S.C., and former president of the National Federation of Republican Women; Anne L. Armstrong, co-chairman of the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign, counselor with cabinet rank to Presidents Nixon and Ford and the 1979 Republican Woman of the Year: Angela M. Buchanan Jackson, former U.S. treasurer from 1981-1983; U.S. Rep. Barber B. Conable Jr. (R-N.Y.); Gov. Arch A. Moore of West Virginia; and Edward J. Rollins, President Reagan's top political adviser from 1982-1985.

Lt. Gov. George Ryan, Cook County Republican Party Chairman Donald Totten and Illinois Senate Minority Leader James "Pate" Philip (R-23, Addison) are other IIlinoisans in the 465-member group.

Steinheimer named Teacher of the Year

Randy Steinheimer, a fourth grade teacher at J.H. Freeman Elementary School in West Aurora, was named Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. Steinheimer, 28, was honored at the board's "Those Who Excel" awards banquet November 1 in Chicago. Steinheimer was chosen from among eight finalists for the award.

Steinheimer, who has taught at Freeman for seven years, stresses to his students their responsibility for learning and growth at an individual and a community level: "At the start of each year, the kids help establish classroom rules and are randomly divided into communities. The communities are my reality therapy for the kids . . . [they] teach kids responsibility for themselves, their responsibility to other people and the idea of getting along."

In all, 106 individuals from six regions of the state were honored at the banquet. Awards were given in five categories: classroom teacher, school administrator, student (grades 7-12), school board member and parent or other community member. The awards were determined by a 25-member committee representing 13 educational associations. The committee's criteria centered around the level of constructive change, leadership and excellence achieved by the individual.

As Illinois' Teacher of the Year, Steinheimer will compete this spring for the National Teacher of the Year award which is sponsored by the Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Good Housekeeping and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Illinois Bar Foundation names Underwood Honorary Fellow

Illinois' longest serving Supreme Court justice, Robert C. Underwood of Bloomington, was inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation. Underwood, who served on the state for nearly 23 years, was honored in October at the group's annual dinner in Chicago.

Underwood began practicing law in Normal in 1939. He subsequently served as city attorney and as an assistant staate's attorney of McLean County. In 1946 he was elected county judge. Elected to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1962, Underwood served as chief justice from September 1969 to January 1976. He retired Decemberr 3, 1984, after serving nearly 39 years as a judicial officer in Illinois.

Township officials President's Award to Paul Green

The annual President's Award of the Township Officials of Illinois (TOI) was presented to Paul M. Green, director of the Institute for Public Policy and administration, Governors State University, on November 12 at the association's annual conference in Springfield. TOI President Delbert Lay commended Green for his concern for the advancement of township government in Illinois. Green, of Flossmoor, has organized annual spring training seminars for township officials that are held throughout the state. Green is a regular contributor to Illinois Issues with columns and articles on elections and politics.

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