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State Board of Education fills top posts in new division

After an intensive nationwide search, state Supt. of Education Ted Sanders announced in May that the State Board of Education's new division of educational programs will be headed by Dorothy L. Magett, most recently the acting superintendent of the Tucson, Ariz., public school district. Her title is associate state superintendent. Magett has 33 years of experience in education as a teacher, a counselor, a principal and an administrator. Among honors she has received for her role in improving education are the 1975 State of Illinois Human Relations Award, a 1974 National Outstanding Teacher Award and an award in 1974 for outstanding achievement in education from the Omaha, Neb., chapter of the National Council of Negro Women.

Working with Magett as assistant superintendent for school improvement services is Lyndon Wharton, former manager of program planning and development with the State Board of Education for 11 years. Wharton, who has 26 years experience in education, joined the agency in 1973 as director of the curriculum development section. Prior to that, he held a variety of administrative and teaching positions throughout Illinois. Among his honors in the field are a service award from the Illinois Curriculum Council, a presidential citation from the Illinois Association of School Administrators and an Outstanding Service Award from the Educational Council of 100.

Hazardous Waste Advisory Council members named

All six of the gubernatorial slots on of the 14-member Illinois' Hazardous Waste Advisory Council were filled by reappointment, including the chairman, Gretchen Monti of Normal, environmental quality director for the League of Women Voters of Illinois. Established by law (P.A. 83-983, effective December 12, 1983), the council's major responsibilities include reviewing procedures for selecting the sites of new regional pollution control facilities, reviewing new alternative treatment methods and promoting their use, and reviewing state and federal laws, including enforcement, that pertain to the treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous waste.

Reappointed by Gov. Thompson on June 13 were Joseph Linskey of Kankakee, a partner in Linskey and Offerman Associates; J. Edward Meers of Chicago Heights, an environmental engineer with J.E. Meers and Associates; Robert Miller of Ottawa, environments manager for Borg-Warner Corporation; Chairman Monti; Phillip Naffziger of Walnut, a farmer; and Richard Neumiller of Peoria, director of legislative and public affairs for Central Illinois Light Company. Their original terms began in January 1984.

Other members on the council are determined according to the position they hold in state government or they can name designees. These members include the heads of three agencies under the governor — the Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Pollution Control Board (PCB); the attorney general; and the four legislative leaders. Each has named a designee; they include:

DENR's David Thomas, manager of the State Water Survey's Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center; EPA's William Child, acting manager of that agency's land pollution control division; PCB's Morton Dorothy, a member of the board's scientific/technical section; for Atty. Gen. Neil F. Hartigan, Bill Frerichs, an assistant attorney general in the environmental section; for Senate President Philip J. Rock, Kevin Greene of the Chicago-based Citizens for a Better Environment and a part-time lobbyist for the Illinois Environmental Council; for House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, Samuel Epstein, a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences with the University of Illinois School of Public Health in Chicago; for House Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels, Bernard H. Sieracki, vice president of government affairs for Waste Management of Illinois Inc. in Palos Heights; and for Senate Minority Leader James "Pate" Philip, Louis Perona of LaSalle, a circuit judge in the 13th Judicial Circuit.

Members serve two-year terms and are paid expenses only. Appointments do not require Senate confirmation.

Governor names child abuse panel to hold hearings

Calling it "the most repugnant and intolerable crime of all," Gov. James R. Thompson appointed a 14-member panel to coordinate the state's latest efforts to stop child abuse and to increase public awareness of the problem and the efforts that are underway or should be to solve it.

The Illinois Campaign to Protect Our Children, co-chaired by Inspector General Jeremy Margolis of Chicago and Sen. William F. Mahar (R-19, Homewood), will be holding a series of public hearings this summer and fall. The plan is to share information with the public about existing state child protection programs, to hear testimony from selected child protection organizations to determine what is being done at the local level, and to listen to the opinions of concerned citizens. The final work of the panel will be to recommend in a published report of its findings what state programs and legislation are needed.

Also serving on the panel are: Norma Chesney of Homewood, Junior Organization Task Force liaison for the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs; Anne Cohn of Chicago, executive director of the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse; Gordon Johnson of Springfield, director of the Department of Children and Family Services; Regina Kane of Skokie, juvenile protection chairperson of the Illinois Parent Teacher Association; Dora Larson of Orion, a private citizen; Harriet O'Donnell of Chicago, Gov. Thompson's special assistant for child safety; John Patterson of Washington, D.C., deputy director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; Rep. Robert P. Regan (R-80, Park Forest); Ted Sanders of Springfield, Illinois superintendent of education; Sen. Patrick Welch (D-38, Peru); and James Zagel of Chicago, director of the Department of State Police.

The first public hearing was scheduled at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Heights on July 23. Additional hearings will be held in Quincy on September 11, Decatur on September 24 and Belleville on October 8. Persons needing more information can contact the inspector general. Sen. Mahar or Harriet O'Donnell at the State of Illinois Center, 100 W. Randolph, 16th Floor, Chicago, Ill. 60601.

Seven named to health coordinating council

Rockford physician Norris R. Dougherty was appointed to head the Statewide Health Coordinating Council by Gov. James R. Thompson in May. Dougherty is already a member of the council and will serve a one-year term as chairman.

Newcomer to the council is Bernice Kann of Lebanon, a teacher at Lebanon High School.

Six other council members were reappointed by the governor. They include Linda Gates of Montgomery, a secretary at Mercey Center; Mary Barb Johnson of Lake Forest, an attorney; Kevin Miller of Pontiac, marketing director of Bromenn Healthcare; Northern Illinois University reasearch associate Janis Priede, a DeKalb resident; Ted Smith of Glen Ellyn, a market researcher at Bankers Life and Casualty Company; and Robert Wixom of Vermont, a retired coach. The appointment and all reappointments were effective in May and will expire December 1988. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

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Reineke replaces Huddle at helm of Build Illinois

The administration of Gov. James R. Thompson's $2.3 billion "Build Illinois" program changed hands May 8. Gene Reineke replaced Mark Huddle, who had administered the program from its enactment in 1985. Huddle has moved to the Department of Conservation, where he is now assistant to Director Michael B. White.

Reineke, 29, had been special assistant to James Reilly, Thompson's chief of staff. Reineke keeps that title and his $47,000 annual salary, but his duties were expanded to include Build Illinois, according to an administration spokesman.

Appointments to banking advisory committees announced

Gov. James R. Thompson appointed 16 persons in June to two new advisory committees that will report to William C. Harris, Illinois commissioner of banks and trust companies. One will advise the commissioner on electronic fund transfer policy and the other on data processing policy. The appointments require Senate confirmation and members receive expenses only.

Appointees to the Illinois Electronic Fund Transfer Advisory Committee are: Gary Anderson of East Moline, vice president of State Bank of East Moline; Nancy Berry of Chicago, general counsel for Sears Payment Systems; Stephen Cole of Chicago, vice president of electronic banking services for the First National Bank of Chicago; Frank Eckstein of McHenry, vice president of service operations and business support for Jewel Food Store; Harvard Keefe of Springfield, president of Citizens Savings and Loan; Terry Nichols of Bloomington, assistant vice president and secretary of Champion Federal Savings and Loan Association; Christine Richards of Chicago, controller for United Airlines Employee Credit Union; Sharon Sullivan of Normal, vice president of People's Bank of Bloomington; and Melvin Week of Freeburg, vice president of First National Bank of Belleville. Terms are staggered, with Cole and Berry serving until January 1987 Eckstein and Sullivan until January 1988 Nichols and Richards until January 1989 and Anderson. Keefe and Week until January 1990.

Named by Thompson to the Illinois Electronic Data Processing Advisory Committee, which will also advise Harris on how to minimize unsafe data processing practices, were: Fred Brooks of Alton, director of data processing for Alton Bank and Trust Company; Ken Greenwalt of Marion, senior vice president and general manager of Financial Management Corporation; John Lawrence of Winchester, vice president of First State Bank of Winchester; David McStowe of Wilmette, general manager of Lane Data Services Inc.; Linda Simpson of Casey, assistant vice president for data processing for Bank of Casey; Gilian Geniesse of Wilmette, senior vice president of information systems and services for Northern Trust Co.; and Vincent Vachio of Lisle, general manager of E.D.S. Corporation, Lombard. Terms are staggered with Brooks serving until January 1987, McStowe and Simpson until January 1988, Lawrence and Vachio until January 1989 and Geniesse and Greenwalt until January 1990.

Clean coal advisory committee named

Applications for the state's Industrial Coal Utilization Program will be reviewed by a new five-member committee whose members were announced in May by Don Etchison, director of the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) which administers the program.

Appointees to the new DENR Financial Advisory Committee are: Jack A. Emmons of Mount Carmel, president of Security Bank and Trust Co.; Jaye P. Morgan of Chicago, assistant vice president of Global Corporate Bank of the First National Bank of Chicago; James R. Philpott of Springfield, vice president of Franklin Life Insurance Co.; Guerry L. Suggs of Springfield, senior vice president of the First National Bank and chairman of the board of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce; Greg Tallas of Chicago, vice president of the First National Bank; and Michael D. Travelstead of DuQuoin, president of the DuQuoin State Bank.

Committee members will serve without pay for two-year terms; their appointments do not require Senate confirmation.

The committee will meet two to four times a year to review applications for low-interest loans to industries who are developing clean coal-burning systems. The first grant went to the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, a corn processing plant in Decatur. The $2.5 million loan announced in June will be used to replace six coal-fired boilers with two fluidized-bed boilers (90 percent of the sulfur from Illinois high-sulfur coal should be removed when limestone mixed with the coal during combustion captures sulfur dioxide emissions). Staley is expected to increase its consumption of Illinois coal from 90,000 to 300,000 tons per year.

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Up to $55 million in funds over the next five years will be available under the Industrial Coal Utilization Program, established under Build Illinois. An Illinois company can apply for a maximum loan of $2.5 million or 25 percent of the total project cost, whichever is less, to finance a clean-coal conversion operation. Loans must be used for commercially proven and available technologies that comply with environmental regulations. Loans must be repaid within seven to 10 years at a 3 to 5 percent interest rate. Repayments will be deposited in a revolving fund to help finance future industrial clean-coal projects.

Legislative research, printing units get new directors

All nine of the permanent legislative support service agencies now have permament directors with the appointment in June of Patrick D. O'Grady of Springfield as executive director of the Legislative Research Unit (LRU) and John L. Rodents of Springfield as executive director of the Legislative Printing Unit (LPU). They were appointed by the Joint Committee on Legislative Support Services, which consists of the four legislative leaders. The other seven commission executive directors were named in February and March (see Illinois Issues, May 1986, p.38).

O'Grady was chief of mandates and special programs in the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA). Before that, he was program manager for DCCA's State Mandates Review Program, 1981-82; a staff analyst for the Senate minority staff, 1977-81; an analyst for the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission, 1974-77; and co-director of the Association of Illinois Student Governments Inc., 1973-74.

Rodems, who has owned his own printing business since 1979, established and operated the printing department for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine from 1973 to 1979. Before that he was supervisor in the Illinois Office of Education's printing department.

O'Grady replaced H. William Hey, the acting director since commission reform was enacted two years ago, and Rodems replaced Judy Ruff, acting director since June 1985.

Hey, a 27-year veteran of the LRU and its predecessor, the Legislative Council, was associate director since 1964 and director at the time the legislative commissions were reorganized two years ago. He is now a special assistant to Sangamon State University president Durward Long. Ruff had been with the printing unit since 1980 when it was part of the Legislative Council.

The Judiciary

The new chief judge in the 12th Judicial District is Michael A. Orenic of Joliet, who was selected by his fellow judges to succeed Charles P. Connor who retired.

New associate judges were appointed in Cook County and in two downstate circuits by the circuit judges. By circuit, they include:

Cook County Judicial Circuit:

Thomas J. Condon, 35, of Chicago, an assistant public defender;

Julia Quinn Dempsey, 50, of Oak Park, a lawyer with the State Board of Education for nearly 11 years and the only one of four women finalists chosen;

Philip S. Lieb, 50, of Northbrook, a matrimonial specialist with the Chicago law firm of Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, in his third try;

Daniel M. Locallo, 33, of Chicago, assistant corporation counsel for the city of Chicago;

Jeffrey A. Malak, 46, of Calumet City, a municipal and probate law specialist and partner in the South Holland firm of Jacobs, Buikema, Malak, Heaney & Hiskes;

Charles M. May, 59, of Evanston, a sole practitioner;

William F. Ward Jr., 47, of Chicago, an assistant state's attorney for the last 10 years;

Walter Williams, 47, of Chicago, an associate in the law firm of Williams & Williams, specializing in criminal defense work;

Michael C. Zissman, 45, of Northbrook, a sole practitioner handling criminal and civil litigation.

4th Judicial Circuit: David L. Sauer of Centralia, formerly in private practice.

16th Judicial Circuit: Grant S. Wegner of Oswego, a Kendall County assistant state's attorney.

The new associate judges will serve four-year terms. An additional 13 associate judges will be appointed later this year. The nine new associate judges in the Cook County Circuit Court were elected by the 157 full circuit judges from an initial field of 166 applicants.

Resignations accepted from circuit judges by Illinois Supreme Court chief justice William G. Clark include, by circuit:

3rd Judicial Circuit: William E. Johnson of Edwardsville, effective June 9, 1986. Except for a brief nine-month absence, Johnson had been a judicial officer since 1965.

12th Judicial Circuit: Charles P. Connor of Joliet, effective June 4, 1986. A judicial officer since 1965 and chief judge since December 1982, Connor also served on the executive committee of the Illinois Judicial Conference.

Resignations of two associate judges were also announced:

Cook County Circuit Court: Michael J. Howlett Jr. of Chicago, a judicial officer since 1983, resigned in order to run with Adlai Stevenson III in his third-party bid for governor. Howlett is seeking nomination as lieutenant governor under a new political party label — Solidarity Illinois.

12th Judicial Circuit: John Verklan of Plainfield, a judge since 1967, will step down from the bench September 5, 1986.

U.S. court: northern and southern districts

The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Frank J. McGarr, announced May 7 that he would step down from that post on June 30. He will remain on the federal bench as a senior judge. The northern district's chief judge since August 1981, McGarr was first appointed to the federal bench in October 1970 by President Richard M. Nixon. Before that he was in private practice.

Replacing McGarr as chief judge was John F. Grady of Waukegan. Grady has been a district court judge since his 1975 appointment by President Gerald Ford.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois finally has its third judge. William D. Stiehl of Belleville was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 13. Stiehl, a Republican, was nominated for the post in late 1984 by U.S. Sen. Charles H. Percy during the final days of his term. Action on the nomination was delayed, and U.S. Rep. Bob Michel (R-18) of Peoria took up the cause in 1985. Reagan administration endorsement was not forthcoming, however, until May 1986.

According to most published reports, the biggest snag in Stiehl's nomination was his age — 60. Many Republican officials wanted to place a younger man in the post so that the seat would remain in GOP hands longer. After his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Stiehl was reported to have commented about the age issue: "My answer was twofold: one, there wasn't much I could do about it, and number two, I was relatively young when this [nomination] started."

Stiehl was an assistant state's attorney is St. Clair County from 1956-60 and a special assistant state attorney general from 1970-73. The rest of his career has been spent in private practice.

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Froelich elected BOG chair

The Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities (BOG) elected Nancy Froelich of Lake Bloomington as its chairman June 19. The BOG is the first Illinois higher education governing board to elect two women consecutively to the chair's position. Froelich's predecessor, Evelyn Kaufman of La Salle, was elected to the post in 1984. Quality education and a commitment by higher education to the state's economic development are two areas Froelich plans to stress during her two-year tenure.

A BOG member since 1977, Froelich is currently chairman of the board's committee on common computer software. A licensed funeral director, she is also chairman of the McLean County Board and a member of the executive committee of Bloomington-Normal's Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development. She attended Illinois Wesleyan University.

The BOG is responsible for setting policy for Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University-Charleston, Governor's State University-University Park, Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago and Western Illinois University-Macomb.

Other appointments by the governor

Gerald E. Berendt of Evanston was appointed June 13 by Gov. Thompson to replace Martin Wagner of Urbana as chairman of the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board. Wagner, the former director of the University of Illinois' Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, was the board's first chairman when it was established in 1984. Berendt, a John Marshall Law School professor, will serve until February 1, 1990, and earn a $50,000 annual salary. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate June 19.

The president of Korex Corporation, Kimberly Kang of Oak Brook, was appointed by the governor June 13 to serve on the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Kang will be paid expenses only. The appointment, which expires January 9, 1989, requires Senate confirmation.

Joseph Hernandez of Chicago replaced Tom Skiles on the Governor's Small Business Advisory Council June 13. Hernandez, who is director of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry's small business division, was appointed by Gov. Thompson. He will serve an unspecified term and be paid expenses only. The appointment does not require Senate confirmation.

Kolton hired by GOP

The new director of communications for the Illinois Republican State Central Committee is Dave Koltun of Springfield. He is responsible for media relations, newsletters, voter contact programs and election research. Koltun formerly served as a policy analyst and planner for the Illinois State Board of Education.

Kennedy new president of The Joyce Foundation

Craig Kennedy was elected president of The Joyce Foundation May 15 by the foundation's board of directors. He succeeds Charles U. Daly who had headed the Chicago-based organization for the last seven years. Daly will continue to serve on the board. Kennedy, who was chosen from an initial field of 750 applicants, has been the foundation's vice president for program and planning since 1984. He joined the foundation in 1980 as a program officer. A graduate of the College of the University of Chicago. Kennedy resides in Hyde Park. The Joyce Foundation, one of the nation's major general purpose foundations with assests of $240 million, was created by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago in 1972. The Midwest is the primary focus of the foundation's activities. Grants, which totaled $8,278,101 in 1985, are concentrated in six areas: conservation, culture, economic development, education, government and health. The foundation has supported several series of articles, dealing with soil conservation, water resources, economic development and toxics risk, in Illinois Issues over the last several years.

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Howe president of National School Boards Association; Seamon, Huebner in new posts

Jonathan T. Howe, an attorney from Northbrook, wa elected president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) by the NSBA Delegate Assembly in April. Howe, president of the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) in 1978-79, is a member of the Northbrook District 27 school board. In another election at the assembly, Harold P. Seamon of Springfield became president elect of the NSFJA's executive directors liaison committee. As president, he will serve as next year's ex-officio member of the NSBA board of directors. Seamon is presently the IASB's executive director.

Both Howe and Seamon assume their duties at the NSBA assembly in 1987.

Roger Huebner of Springfield joined the IASB staff in May as associate director of government relations. He is the IASB's chief lobbyist at the Statehouse. Before coming to the IASB, Huebner was government affairs liaison for the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System. Before that, he worked for the revenue litigation division of the Illinois Attorney General's Office.

Idleman named to top information post at Illinois Farm Bureau

Jeff Idleman of Carlock is the new executive director of information at the Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB). Idelman, the IFB's associate director of commodities since April 1985, replaces William W. Allen, who died in November 1985. In his new job, Idleman will be responsible for the information, public relations and public affairs programs of the IFB.

Before joining the IFB, Idleman worked for the assistant secretary for economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was the superintendent of the Division of Marketing at the Illinois Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 1983. He also served as special assistant to Illinois' then-director of agriculture John Block from 1977 to 1980.

Winners of Governor's Awards for the Arts

Every year the Governor's Awards for the Arts recognize contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in Illinois. 1986's winners, honored at ceremonies in May, were:

Individual artist: Herbert L. Fink of Carbondale, the first-ever distinguished professor of art at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Fink, a printmaker, illustrator, teacher and administrator, is well known for his recreation of southern Illinois landscapes. Fink has been honored many times in his career, including a Guggenheim Fellowship Grant in 1965-66, election to the National Academy of Design in 1979, and the National Society of Illustrators' 1974 Gold Medal for Best Book Illustrations of the Year.

Arts organization: Hubbard Street Dance Company of Chicago, under the direction of Lou Conte, has earned a national and international reputation for excellence and imagination. Combining the strength, technique and grace of ballet, the explosive energy of jazz and the rhythmic footwork of tap, this nonprofit organization provides Illinois audiences with the finest in professional dance performances. The company also offers classroom instruction in dance, student and senior matinees and lecture/demonstrations.

Corporation: AT&T, for sponsoring two Chicago theaters — Steppenwolf and Wisdom Bridge — that were selected by the American National Theatre for the AT&T Performing Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. AT&T also sponsors other theater projects, dance companies, opera, visual art and music activities.

Community: Village of Oak Park for the active involvement of its citizens in promoting the arts. Oak Park is the home of one of the oldest civic symphonies in the nation and over 50 arts organizations and groups.

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Illinois small businesses win national, state awards

In celebration of Small Business Week May 18-24, a dozen Illinois small business owners and representatives received national and state recognition.

Five Illinoisans received national recognition: Cindy Bartosiak and Barbara Manegold of Design Strategies in Freeport were winners of the National Small Business Week Poster contest. Judi Schindler of Chicago, Schindler Public Relations Inc., was named Women in Business Advocate. Jack Sheehan of Chicago, district manager for economic development with Illinois Bell and Ameritech, won the Small Business Development award. Douglas A. Wilbrandt of Crystal Lake, founder and president of C.B.D. Landscaping Inc. and Art's Floral Shop and Conservatory, received the Young Entrepreneur award.

Those receiving state recognition were: Wallace B. Appelson, president of Truman College, Veterans Advocate of the Year; Wilma Emma Mosely Clopton, president of Foresee Inc., O'Fallon, Minority Advocate of the Year; Behrooz Jalayer of Rock Island, president of the Servus Rubber Co. Inc., Small Business Person of the Year; Janel Landon, president of Travelbound Ltd., Exporter of the Year; Lewis F. Matuszewich, attorney and chairman of the Economic Development Council, co-Media Advocate of the Year; Donald Franklin Moyer, president and executive director of the Inventors Council, Innovator of the Year; Nancy C. Pechloff, a CPA for Arthur Andersen & Co., Olympia Fields, Accountant Advocate of the Year; Terry Savage, financial analyst for WBBM-TV Channel 2, co-Media Advocate; and Charles J. Wisniewski, senior vice president of Chicago Heights National Bank, Financial Services Advocate of the Year.

Campbell receives distinguished service award

Northern District federal judge William J. Campbell, 81, received the fourth annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award in May. First appointed to the federal bench in the Northern District of Illinois in 1940, Campbell was named chief judge in 1959. He assumed senior status in 1970.

Campbell, who is the country's senior district court judge, was recognized for his 45 years of service in the federal court system and for his contributions to improving court procedures and to educating federal judges. The award, which was established in 1982 by the West Publishing Company, is meant to draw public attention to the achievements of federal judges. It carries with it a $10,000 honorarium.

Rep. Hoffman NIU's distinguished alumni

School teacher and state Rep. Gene Hoffman of Elmhurst received the distinguished alumni award from Northern Illinois University's Alumni Association in May.

Hoffman, a Republican, is chairman of the social studies department at Bensenville's Fenton High School and continues to teach while representing the 40th District in the state legislature. He earned a master's degree in social sciences and a doctorate in educational administration at NIU while teaching at Fenton.

Hoffman was elected to the Illinois House in 1967. He has served as chair of the now-defunct School Problems Commission and as vice chair of both the joint House and Senate Committee on Education Reform and the Commission on Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Hoffman has received the legislative recognition award from the Illinois State Board of Education every year since 1975. In 1985 he received the Illinois Administrator of Special Education Award, the Phi Delta Kappa National College of Education Award and the Northern Illinois Cooperative in Education Certificate of Appreciation.

Burrus receives Chicago State President's Award of Distinction

Clark Burrus, senior vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, received the President's Award of Distinction from Chicago State University (CSU) in June. Burrus, a Chicago native, was honored for his high level of achievement in business and public service as well as his support of CSU.

Prior to joining First National Bank in 1979, Burrus spent 26 years in Chicago city government holding 12 different posts. In 1974, he was named city comptroller by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley and continued to serve in that post under Mayors Michael Bilandic and Jane Byrne. Burrus was Sertoma International's 1975 Man of the Year and is currently a board member of Illinois Issues.

Also honored by CSU were Chicagoans Jacoby Dickens and Isobel H. Neal. Dickens, board chairman of Seaway National Bank, received the President's Leadership Award. Neal, a well-known educational and community activist, was the recipient of the President's Humanitarian Award.

Public health department fetes winners of nutrition poster contest

Winners of the statewide 1986 Nutrition Poster Contest were honored at a ceremony in June at the Illinois Department of Public Health (DPH) in Springfield. Over 8,000 schoolchildren from 38 service regions participated in the contest. DPH director Dr. Bernard J. Turnock presented the first-place winners with plaques, T-shirts and Schwinn bicycles.

The first-place winners were: grades K-2, Dana Simek, a first grader at Lake in the Hills Elementary School, Lake in the Hills; grades 3-5, Jennie Lucas, a fifth grader at Quin-Opalinski School, Palos Hills; and grades 6-8, Daren R. Otten, a sixth grader from Columbia Elementary School. Unit 4. Columbia.

The contest, intended to increase the nutritional awareness of school children, was cosponsored by the DPH and the Illinois chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Illinois Dietetic Association and the Illinois Nutrition Association, in the cooperation with the regional superintendents of public schools. Winning poster will be on exhibit at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield during September.

Congressman O'Brien dies

U.S. Rep. George M. O'Brien (R-4, Joliet) died of cancer July 17. A member of Congress since 1972. O'Brien. 69, learned he had cancer May 16. He was a patient at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. Md., when he died. O'Brien represented the old 17th Congressional District until reapportionment in 1980 forced him to run against former Rep. Edward J. Derwinski (R-4, Flossmoor) who had been in Congress since 1958. O'Brien defeated Derwinski and went on to become ranking minority member of the House appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice, state and the judiciary. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and was a member of the Will County Board of Supervisors from 1956-1964. He had his own law practice until his election to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1971. where he served for one term before his election to Congress.

State Sen. Chew dead at 63

State Sen. Charles Chew, the Chicago Democrat from the 16th District, died July 2 at the age of 63. The former Chicago alderman (17th Ward) was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1966 and was serving as an assistant majority leader at the time of his death. A nationally and internationally recognized expert in transportation issues. Chew spent 15 years as chairman of the Senate's Transportation Committee. Other committee assignments included executive appointments, insurance, license and pension and local government.

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Aurora's Jack Hill dies

Lifelong Aurora resident and 18-year veteran of the Illinois House, former Democratic Rep. John J. "Jack" Hill died June 13 at the age of 67. First elected in 1958, Hill served nine consecutive terms in the state legislature where he championed environmental and labor concerns. He retired from the House in 1976.

Hill, who had served two terms as an Aurora alderman prior to running for the legislature, returned to local politics, winning election as Aurora's mayor in 1977 and again in 1981. The former machinist was a member of United Steel Workers, served on the National Council of Mayors, was an elected member of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission and a former chairman of the legislature's Illinois Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation.

Former downstate Congressman Mack dies

Former U.S. Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr., the Democrat who represented what is now the 20th District, died July 4 in Gaithersburg, Md. The Potomac, Md., resident was 69. Elected in 1948 to the 81st Congress, Mack was one of the U.S. House's youngest members. He served seven terms before being defeated by Pittsfield's Paul Findley in 1962.

Mack joined the Southern Railway system in 1963 and spent 12 years as assistant to the president. Most recently he was president and chief executive officer of his own real estate and investment firm, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Potomac, Md.

A Naval Air Force aviator and flight instructor during World War II, Mack gained international attention in 1951 when he piloted his single-engine plane on an around-the-world goodwill tour, visiting 59 countries. His plane, the Friendship Flame, is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum.

Former Supreme Court Justice Schaefer dies

A 25-year veteran of the state's high court, former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Walter V. Schaefer died June 15 in a Lake Forest hospital. He was 81. Schaefer, who earned his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1928, served as an assistant corporation counsel for the city of Chicago from 1937-40. He began a teaching career as a professor of law at Northwestern University in 1940, remaining in that post until 1951. From 1949-51, Schaefer also served as chairman of the Illinois Commission to Study State Government. In March 1951 he was appointed to the state's high court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Francis Wilson. Schaefer was elected to the Supreme Court in June 1951, reelected in 1960 and retained in 1970. He retired from the bench in December 1976 and joined the Chicago law firm of Rothschild, Barry & Myers. Much respected by his colleagues, Schaefer was the recipient of the American Bar Association's highest honor, the Gold Medal, in 1969.

Bill Scott, former attorney general, dies

William J. Scott, the environmental and consumer advocate who served as Illinois' 36th attorney general, died June 22 at his Palos Heights home. He was 59. A Republican, Scott was elected to the attorney general's post four times, the first in 1968. He immediately began to reinterpret the office's traditional role as legal counsel for state agencies. Although he faced opposition, he believed that the attorney general's foremost responsibility was to represent the people of Illinois. Scott's creation of full-time divisions within the attorney general's office to handle pollution control, antitrust matters and criminal justice reflect this concern for the state's citizens.

Scott's primary concern was the environment. He successfully sued the city of Milwaukee to stop that city from dumping sewage into Lake Michigan and then used that success to pressure the cities of Kenosha and Racine, Wis., to install new treatment plants for sewage headed for the lake. Pollution of Lake Michigan was again the object of suits brought against Inland Steel and U.S. Steel. In 1978 he won a circuit court decision to stop toxic land-filling at Wilsonville.

Although he was chosen the nation's outstanding state attorney general by the National Association of Attorneys General in 1978, clouds had begun to gather on Scott's political horizon. In 1977 he became the target of a federal investigation of his use of campaign funds. In 1980 he was dealt serious blows by both the legal and the political systems: On March 18 he lost in the primary election to then-Lt. Gov. Dave O'Neal for the GOP nomination to the U.S. Senate; on March 19 Scott was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to serve one year plus one day in federal prison. After exhausting all avenues of appeal, Scott entered a federal prison in California and served seven months.

After his release, Scott appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to restore his law license. The court agreed to do so in 1983 and Scott became associated with the Chicago law firm of Burditt, Bowles & Radzius Ltd.

Scott began his career as a Chicago banker. In 1959 he became a special assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting vice cases in Calumet City. He returned to banking briefly before successfully running for state treasurer in 1962. He lost only two elections in his political career: the 1980 primary for the U.S. Senate and and the 1964 primary for governor, when he lost the nomination to Charles Percy.

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