Class of '80's Rep. McGrew not of the 'lunatic' fringe

Editor: In your article on the legislative class of 1980 (December 1986), there is a discrepancy in how I was quoted. I was recalling remarks made by another legislator who said he represented the lunatic fringe, but my remarks as quoted in the article indicate that I represented that fringe. Please set the record straight.

Former state Rep. Sam McGrew
Galesburg

Sorry about that, and I will correct the record. The correct quotation from former Rep. Samuel McGrew (D-47, Galesburg) in that article (December 1986, page 11, at the end of column 3) is:

"One of the guys in Springfield said, 'I represented the lunatic fringe.' "             Editor

Former Rep. Kucharski is alive

Readers: Other corrections for the article on the Class of '80 (December 1986):

Former Rep. Ed Kucharski is very much alive. Regrettably, information on the death of the late Jacob Wolf, former representative from Chicago, was incorrectly published following Kucharski's name instead of Mr. Wolf's on p. 13 of the December 1986 magazine.

Also, state Rep. Michael Tate is for certain a Republican. He was incorrectly identified as a Democrat in the list on the same page.

Mea culpa.                                      Editor

Leadership void could lead to disaster

Editor: Michael McKeon's article, "Looking for leadership," (January, pp. 36-37) was enormously perceptive in his sense that "there is a scary wave of distrust out there, a feeling of barely suppressed violence."

I often wonder how a great many citizens, deprived of basic sustenance, overlooked by an affluent society, consigned to humanity's scrap heap, choke back and hold in check those feelings of "barely suppressed violence." It will not be contained indefinitely as the gap between rich and poor becomes a chasm.

There is indeed a leadership void in America today and, if we allow urgent cries for help go unheeded too long, we are literally begging for ugly disaster.

William H. Rentschler
Editor/Publisher
News/Voice Newspapers Inc.
Highland Park

10March 1987/Illinois Issues

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