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GOP finally finds candidate to oppose Atty. Gen. Hartigan

Former Cook County State's Atty. Bernard Carey was named the Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general June 16. The Republican State Committee unanimously chose Carey following a month of scrambling to fill the position after Arlington Heights Mayor James Ryan withdrew from the race. Ryan, who was unopposed in the March 18 Republican primary, announced his decision on May 14 not to run against incumbent Democrat Neil F. Hartigan when reporters uncovered allegations that he had abused his two wives.

Carey, 51, will resign his current position on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. He was first elected to the board in 1982 and was seeking reelection when party members approached him about the attorney general vacancy. Carey, who lives in South Holland, served as state's attorney in Cook County from 1972 to 1980 and is the only Republican to win a countywide office in the last decade. His other law enforcement experiences include: special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for five years, under sheriff of Cook County and assistant to then-Atty. Gen. William J. Scott.

O'Brien, Grotberg withdraw from congressional races

Illinois Republicans must find candidates to fill two congressional vacancies on the November ballot. Veteran Congressman George M. O'Brien (R-4, Joliet) announced May 16 that he would not be seeking reelection in the fall. O'Brien had won an uncontested March 18 primary for the U.S. House seat. The Democratic candidate is Shawn Collins, a former legislative aide to state Sen. George E. Sangmeister (D-42, Mokena).

O'Brien, 68, cited poor health for his withdrawal. First elected to Congress in 1972, O'Brien survived the Democratic reapportionment of 1980 which pitted him against fellow incumbent Edward Derwinski when their two districts were combined into one for the 1982 election. O'Brien became the ranking minority member on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Judiciary. Republican leaders in the 4th District have scheduled a July 14 meeting to pick a successor.

There will also be a Republican opening in the 14th Congressional District, because Rep. John E. Grotberg (R-14, St. Charles) said May 23 that he also would withdraw from the ballot. The 61-year-old congressman is in his first term, and has suffered a series of health problems since undergoing treatment for liver cancer last winter. Grotberg, who served in the Illinois House and Senate, ran for the congressional seat left vacant by Thomas Corcoran when he decided to challenge Charles H. Percy for the U.S. Senate in 1984. Grotberg was a member of the committee on banking, finance and urban affairs as well as the committee on small business.

Grotberg had been unopposed in the March 18 primary. Mary Lou Kearns was the uncontested Democratic winner. District Republicans were to fill the vacancy at a June 22 convention.

Bestudik appointed state fire marshal

Gov. James R. Thompson appointed former Springfield fire chief Thomas Bestudik, 61, as the new Illinois state fire marshal in April. Bestudik, a Springfield resident, has been the deputy state fire marshal for personnel standards and education since July 1984. He replaces Harold L. Schmeilski, who resigned for health reasons. Schmeilski had been fire marshal since November 4, 1983.

Bestudik joined the state fire marshal's office in December 1983 as a field certification specialist. He had been Springfield's fire chief from January 1979 to November 1983 and assistant fire chief from April 1975 to January 1979. Active in the firemen's union, Bestudik was president of the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois (AFFI), AFL-CIO, from April 1970 to November 1976. He was the union's legislative representative from June 1966 to April 1970 and served on the executive board of Local 37 for nine years.

DuBois to oversee Du Quoin Fair

In an effort to rebuild the Du Quoin State Fair and improve the chances of seeing a return on the state's recent $3 million investment, Gov. James R. Thompson named Michael D. DuBois of Springfield as manager of the financially troubled southern Illinois fair. As assistant superintendent of the Illinois Department of Agriculture's division of fairs and horse racing, DuBois will spend two to four days at the Du Quoin fairgrounds each week.

He retains his current duties as entertainment manager of the Illinois State Fair. With the Illinois State Fair since March 1978, DuBois is responsible for booking all grandstand entertainment, operating the ticket office, supervising the special events department and producing the fair's advertising program. DuBois also helped put together last year's Farm Aid concert in Champaign. DuBois' annual salary is $39,000. His appointment does not require Senate confirmation.

Task force to study city, county jails and their funding

The formation of a 21-member tast force to review state detention standards for county and municipal jails and explore alternative methods of financing the modernization of these facilities was announced in April by Gov. James R. Thompson. Chairman of the new State Detention Standards Task Force, which will report to the governor by year's end, is Lake County State's Atty. Fred L. Foreman of Gurnee. Foreman is akso a member of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

Other members of the task force are: Gary K. Anderson, mayor of Decatur and a member of the Illinois Municipal League; John Annerino of Bolingbrook, chairman of the Will County Board; Ron Bean, village president of Park Forest and executive director of the Illinois Development Finance Authority; John R. Clemons of Murphysboro, Jackson County state's attorney; Thomas E. Hornsby of Dixon, a judge in the 15th Judicial Circuit; Dallas Ingemunson of Yorkville, Kendall County state's attorney and chairman of the State's Attorneys Appellate Services Commission; Mearl J. Justus of Belleville, St. Clair County sheriff and president of the Illinois Sheriffs Association; Lester L. "Butch" Kimmel of Morrison, Whiteside County sheriff; Michael J. Mahoney of Chicago, executive director of the John Howard Association; Thomas J. Monahan of Midlothian, assistant executive director of the Cook County Department of Corrections and president-elect of the Illinois Correctional Association; Roger Richards of Fairview Heights, chief of police and president of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police; George P. Shadid of Edwards, Peoria County sheriff; Cal Showers of Danville, superintendent of the Vermilion County Correctional Center; George Troike of Springfield, chief of the Illinois Department of Corrections' bureau of detention standards; Fleur Wright of Rockford, criminal justice chair-person of the League of Women Voters of Illinois; and Charles R. Zalar of Morris, Grundy County state's attorney and president of the Illinois State's Attorneys Association.

In addition, each of the four legislative leaders appointed one member to the task force. House Speaker Michael J. Madigan appointed Rep. John J. Cullerton (D-7. Chicago) and Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels named Rep. jeffrey D. Mays (R-96. Quincy). Senate President Philip J. Rock appointed Sen. Glenn Poshard (D-59. Cartervillc) and Minority Leader James "Pate" Philip named Sen. Frank C. Watson (R-55, Greenville), Patricia Bornor of Chicago, chief legal counsel for the Department of Corrections, is serving as councel to the task force.

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Appointments and reappointments to Illinois Arts Council: Arts Week October 17-26

The governor made six appointments and two reappointments in April to the Illinois Arts Council, which has proclaimed October 17-26 as Illinois Arts Week. There are buttons, banners and posters: there are "field depots" around the state to help anyone in every community plan a event: there are tips and ideas for every conceivable and feasible cultural celebrations. September 10 is the deadline for ordering buttons, posters, brochures (free while supplies last) and the banners (31 inches by 99 inches, $135 a set).

New council members include: Orville C. Beattie of Lake Forest, president and director of Benjamin-Beattie Ltd., Fine Arts; Carlotta Biefeldt of Peoria Heights, community leader and professional volunteer; Willard L. Boyd of Chicago, president of the Field Museum of Natural History; Michael V. Hasten of Chicago, attorney and partner with Winston and Strawn; John Malkovich of Chicago, actor, director and cofounder of Steppenwolf Theater Company; Daniel J. Miller of Danville, adult and continuing education supervisor for Danville Area Community College.

Reappointed to serve were: Ralph Arnold of Chicago, chairman of the fine arts department at Loyola University, and Dr. Robert Rader of Cobden, a surgeon.

All appointments and reappointments were effective immediately for terms ending June 30, 1989. Council members serve three-year terms without compensation.

New advisory panel on clean and beautiful Illinois

The governor made seven appointments to the newly created Illinois Clean and Beautiful Advisory Board in April. The board will disburse $400,000 in state funds to cities and counties throughout Illinois that are developing programs designed to reduce base litter and solid waste.

The appointees were: Carl Alessi of Lansing, legislative director for the United Steel Workers of America; Malcolm Chester of Lake Forest, director of public affairs for the Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc.; Norman Day of Danville, a retired firefighter; Roberta Foster of Streator, a lab technician at Diamond Bathurst; Louise Knolhoff of Centralia; vice president and director of marketing for OId National Bank; Ernie Kumerow of Barrington Hills, president and business manager of the Chicago District Council Laborers-County, Municipal Employees', Supervisors' and Foremen's Union Local 1001; Greg Lindsey of Crystal Lake, student and recycling consultant for Environmental Consulting; Jeffrey Markland, mayor of Urbana; Anne Nadakvukaren of Normal, a teacher and lecturer at Illinois State University; John Nord of Bloomington, president and general manager of Midwest Paper Stock Inc.; William Olson of Springfield, executive vice president of Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois; Ken Pritz of Joliet, president of the Joliet-Will County Clean Community Organization; Bernie Spatz of Chicago, president and business representative for the Glaziers Union Local 27; and Larry Sullivan of Rock Falls, president of the local Teamsters Union.

All appointments are effective immediately and carry no specific expiration date. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

O'Connor new Public Health Department assistant director

Paul O'Connor, director of communications for the Department of Public Health (IDPH), was named assistant director for that agency by Gov. James R. Thompson effective May 1. He replaces Barbara Weiner who left state government to practice law in Chicago.

O'Connor, a Chicago resident, was press secretary and counselor to Gov. John Spellman of Washington from December 1980 to January 1985 when he joined IDPH. O'Connor has an extensive journalism background that includes a stint as chief research assistant for then Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko from 1972 to 1974. He also worked as a columnist and reporter for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, as an on-air reporter and producer for the Chicago Educational Television Association (WTTW-TV) and as a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago.

O'Connor's appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, is effective immediately for a term ending in January 1987. The position pays $55,000 yearly.

Public administrators, guardians named for 17 counties

Gov. James R. Thompson made eight appointments and nine reappointments in March and April to fill the positions of public administrator, guardian and conservator in 17 counties. Duties include handling the real or personal estate of a deceased person who has no executor until an executor is found and overseeing the estate and welfare of any disabled adult in need of a guardian.

The eight appointments, alphabetically by county, were: in Calhoun County, Barbara K. Long of Hamburg, a mental health technician trainee at Alton Mental Health Development Center; in DeWitt County, Robert L. Morin of Clinton, a veterinarian; in Ford County, Leslie Conkling of Kempton, a teacher at Tri-Point School; in Jersey County, Lawrence J. Rolando of Jerseyville, retired maintenance engineer for the U.S. Postal Service; in Livingston County, John Safer of Dwight, an attorney; in Madison County, Eleanor Schulte of Edwardsville, secretary for the Jury Commission Board of Edwardsville; in Pulaski County, Barbara J. Bode of Mound City, an associate of Bode's Drug Store; in Schuyler County, Charles A. Burton of Rushville, an attorney.

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The nine reappointments were: in Boone County, Roger Russell of Belvidere, an attorney; in Cass County, Edward R. Houston of Arenzville, retired purchasing director for Fiat-Allis; in Cook County, Thomas Chuhak of River Forest, an attorney; in DuPage County, John Darrah of Bartlett, an attorney; in Kane County, Henry Banser of Aurora, retired from the Northern Illinois Gas Co.; in Macoupin County, William S. Hebron of Carlinville, an attorney; in McLean County, S.S. Schneider of Bloomington, an attorney; in Montgomery County, Frederick Floreth of Litchfield, an attorney; in Rock Island County, Wallace Koenig of Taylor Ridge, formerly a reporter for the Quad City Times in Davenport, Iowa.

The positions, except for Chuhak's which pays $20,000 a year, pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation. The appointments are effective immediately; terms expire in December 1989, except for those of Banser, Darrah, Floreth, Koenig and Russell, which expire in December 1988.

Other appointments by the governor

Four members were appointed and one reappointed to the Illinois Development Finance Authority in April by the governor. New members include: Donald R. Davidson of Chicago, president of Metro Financial Group Ltd.; Wilbur Freitag of Jacksonville, second vice president of the Laborer's International Union of North America; Howard Kaplan of Morton Grove, attorney and certified public accountant; and Terrence O'Brien of Northfield, real estate appraiser, broker and consultant. Reappointed was Michael D. Malone of Marion, secretary-treasurer of Jakes Tire Company. All appointments take effect immediately for terms expiring in January 1989, with the exception of O'Brien's term, which expires in January 1987. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

Capital Development Board reappointments in April by the governor include G. Raymond Becker of Peoria, president and chief executive officer of Becker Companies, and Bernard B. Birger of Collinsville, president of B.B.B. Cadillac-Oldsmobile Inc. The reappointments, effective immediately upon Senate confirmation, are for terms expiring in January 1988. The positions pay expenses only.

Illinois Coal Research Board reappointments in April include Theodore A. Bean of Clarendon Hills, director of marketing for the Freeman United Coal Company, and Wilbur W. Dodge of Peoria, manager of environmental control for Caterpillar Inc. Both reappointments take effect immediately and require Senate confirmation. The terms expire on July 1, 1989; the positions pay expenses.

The Historic Preservation Agency board of trustees gained two new members by gubernatorial appointment in April. They are Marc S. Schulman and Richard J. Roddewig, both Chicago attorneys. At the same time the governor reappointed three trustees: Julie Cellini, a Springfield free-lance writer; Frank Mason of Springfield, owner of Frank Mason Company; and Sally Schanbacher also of Springfield, a civic volunteer. All five begin their terms immediately and will serve until January 1988. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

Liquor Control Commission chairman Albert McCoy of Aurora, was reappointed to the commission in April by the governor. He is the vice president of public affairs for the Old Second Bank of Aurora. The position pays $14,500 per year and requires Senate confirmation; his new term begins immediately and expires in February 1992.

J. Gary Fencik, a member of the 1986 Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears football team, was appointed by the governor to the State Banking Board of Illinois. His appointment requires Senate confirmation and takes effect immediately for a term ending in January 1987. The position pays expenses only.

Two vacancies on the Illinois Job Training Coordinating Council were also filled by the governor in April. The appointees are Frank Casillas of Downers Grove, a former U.S. assistant secretary of labor, 1985-86, and Mickey Holzman of Northbrook, business manager for the Carpenters Union of Chicago, Local 1539. The appointments, which require Senate confirmation, are effective immediately for terms expiring in July 1987. The positions pay expenses only.

The newest member of the governor's staff is John E. Glennon, former general counsel to the Illinois Housing Development Authority, and now Thompson's assistant for economic development. Glennon replaced Jay R. Hedges, who was appointed earlier this year as director of the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs. A Flossmoor resident, Glennon will be paid $51,420 per year. His appointment does not require Senate confirmation.

Pettit new SIU chancellor

After an eight-month nationwide search, the Southern Illinois University's board of trustees appointed Lawrence K. Pettit of Kingsville, Texas, as chancellor of the SIU system. Pettit, who assumed his duties on July 1, replaced Kenneth A. Shaw, now president of the University of Wisconsin system. Pettit, most recently the chancellor of the University System of South Texas, will be the second SIU chancellor since the post was created in 1979 after the revamp of the system's governing structure. He will oversee SIU's two main campuses in Carbondale and Edwardsville, the school of medicine in Springfield, the school of dental medicine in Alton and a residence center campus in downtown St. Louis.

Pettit is a political scientist with a long career in higher education administration. From 1973 to 1979, he served as commissioner of higher education for the six-campus University of Montana system. Petit directed his own higher education consulting firm in Helena, Mont., from 1979 to 1981. In 1981, he became the deputy commissioner for academic programs with the Texas College and University System Coordinating Board for two years. In September 1983, he joined the South Texas system as its chief administrative officer.

Monat steps down as chancellor of Board of Regents

The Board of Regents' first systemwide chancellor, William Monat, announced April 30 that he would step down from the post July 31 to return to teaching at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb. Since September 1984 Monat has been the top administrator for the system that oversees NIU, Illinois State University-Normal and Sangamon State University-Springfield. A search committee, headed by board vice chairman D. Brewster Parker of Lincoln was established by the board May 22.

Monat came to the chancellorship after 11 years at NIU. In 1969 he was named chairman of the university's political science department; he left that post in 1971 to join the faculty of Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City where he served as vice president of academic affairs from 1974-76. Returning to NIU in 1976 as vice president and provost, Monat moved into the presidency in 1978.

LaTourette new NIU president

The Board of Regents appointed John E. La Tourette president of Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, on May 22, replacing Clyde J. Wingfield, who had held the post since July 1. Wingfield resigned amid controversy related to expenses for refurbishing the NIU president's house and for reassigning the student newspaper's adviser after the paper reported on the expenditures for the president's house.

La Tourette, who was a finalist for the NIU presidency along with Wingfield last year, has been NIU vice president and provost and served as acting president between September 1984 and July 1985.

Wingfield, who was on the NIU faculty from 1962-64, was granted tenure when appointed president and will return to the NIU campus as a professor of political science after a paid leave of absence ends in January 1987. Wingfield has been in top administrative posts at the University of Texas-El Paso, University of Miami-Coral Gables, Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City and State University of New York at Old Westbury.

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Schwaninger appointed woman's business advocate

Women interested in starting a business and those already in business who need advice or assistance now have someone to help them. She is Luanne Schwaninger of Lakeview who was appointed women's business advocate in April by Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) acting director Jay R. Hedges.

In her recently created post, Schwaninger serves as a resource person and liaison between state government and female entrepreneurs, helping them take full advantage of DCCA's programs and services geared for small businesses. One-third of all small businesses are owned by women, and it's the lastest growing segment of the small business community, according to DCCA.

Schwaninger spent five years as assistant director of admissions at Knox College in Galesburg from 1980 to 1985. She also served on the executive board of the Illinois Association of College Admissions Counselors from 1981-1985. Before joining DCCA, she was an associate publisher of Private Colleges Magazine. There are 87 small business development centers throughout Illinois, offering advice, education and loans. Two of these centers in the Chicago area are exclusively for women.

Rich succeeds Gove at IGPA

Robert Rich stepped into the post of director of the University of Illinois' Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) on July 1. He succeeds Samuel K. Gove who served as IGPA director from 1967-1985.

Rich had been a member of the faculty at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Urban and Public Affairs in Pittsburgh, Pa., since 1982. Prior to that he spent six years on the faculty of Princeton University.

Gove, who has been on sabbatical since stepping down from the director's post last August, is returning to teaching and research in the institute and the political science department at the university.

Along with its new director, the IGPA is adopting a new mission. Following Gove's announcement that he would resign, a faculty committee reviewed the institute and its mission and recommended that its mission be expanded. This recommendation helped guide the selection of the new director, which was conducted by the university's vice president of academic affairs, Morton Weir.

This broadening of focus includes looking beyond Illinois to federal policy issues and how they affect the state; expanding the institute's influence into the Chicago area — including opening an office on the UI campus there — to take advantage of the shift of state government activity into the city; and expanding the institute's public policy issues orientation to include such previously excluded areas as health care administration and science and high technology.

De Land new head of Great Lakes Rural Network

H. Brent De Land of Springfield, executive secretary of the Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies, was elected president of the Great Lakes Rural Network in April. De Land, an adjunct assistant professor of management at Sangamon State University (SSU), will serve as president until spring 1988. He was network secretary in 1982-83 and treasurer in 1983-86.

The network is comprised of seven mid-western states whose concern is the water quality and sewage control in rural areas. The states involved are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Other board members from Illinois include Michael Ayers, vice president for academic affairs, SSU; Ronald J. Huelster, consulting director, Illinois Rural Community Assistance Program, Springfield; and Jane Poertner, executive director, Central Illinois Economic Development Corporation, Lincoln.

Illinois leader in helping educationally disadvantaged kids

For the second year in a row, Illinois led the rest of the nation with eight school districts honored for their Chapter 1 programs, which are those designed to meet the needs of educationally disadvantaged children. The districts were honored by the U.S. Secretary of Education's 1986 Initiative Program to Improve the Quality of Chapter 1 Projects at an April luncheon in Philadelphia, held during the International Reading Association's annual meeting.

The project personnel and school districts honored were: Beverly Guzy of Community High School District No. 218, Oak Lawn, for the second consecutive year; Pat Helphinstine of Barrington Community Unit School District No. 220; Eileen Huckstadt of Danville Community Consolidated School District No. 118; Rose Keppler of Hinsdale Township High School District No. 86; Raymond J. Quick of Illinois Department of Corrections School District No. 428, Springfield; Don Schmitt of Mascoutah Community Unit School District No. 19; Sandra Snyder of Olympia Community School District No. 16, Stanford; and Kathy Toll of Elgin School District No. U-46.

Carbondale wins disability award

Carbondale's Partnership for Progressive Approaches to Disability Issues was awarded a $5,000 grand prize at the 4th Annual Community Awards presentation in Washington, D.C., in April. The partnership, a community-based volunteer organization concerned with disability issues, was one of 18 community service organizations from across the nation honored at the ceremony which was cosponsored by the National Organization on Disability and Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Working closely with Carbondale city government and local businesses, the partnership was recognized for increasing community awareness and improving accessibility for persons with disabilities. It was also recognized for the establishment in 1985 of the Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living which was funded through a grant from the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services.

The partnership intends to use the award money to defray some of the costs of preliminary studies for the development of a citywide transportation system that is accessible to those with disabilities.

John Knoepfle receives Mark Twain award

John Knoepfle of Auburn, poet and professor of literature at Sangamon State University, received The Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to midwestern literature May 9. The award was given by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature at its 16th annual conference held at Michigan State University at East Lansing. Knoepfle has lived in and written about the Midwest since he began his career in the 1950s. Two recent books reflect that commitment: Poems from the Sangamon, published in 1985 by the University of Illinois Press, and Selected Poems, published in 1985 by BkMk Press, University of Missouri at Kansas City. (Knoepfle's Poems from the Sangamon is reviewed this month on p. 30.)

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