Two new members have joined the ranks in the Illinois House. John (Phil) Novak of Bradley was appointed in May by 86th District Democrats. A former Bradley village trustee and Kankakee County treasurer, Novak is Kankakee County's Democratic chairman. He replaces Rep. Charles Pangle who resigned the seat May 15 to accept the position of recreational resource administrator with the Department of Conservation at Kankakee River State Park. Pangle had begun his third term in the House in January.

In July 1st District Democratic officials chose Louis I. Lang of Skokie to represent the district. A Niles Township attorney for the last 12 years, Lang is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Feingold, Lang & Levy. He replaces Alan J. Greiman, also of Skokie, who was appointed in June to serve as a Cook County circuit judge. Greiman, who had served in the House since 1973, was assistant majority leader when he resigned to accept the judgeship.

Illinois Rep. Penny Pullen (R-55, Park Ridge) was appointed by President Ronald Reagan on July 23 to serve on the President's Advisory Commission on the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Epidemic. A major sponsor of AIDS-related legislation during the spring session, Pullen was the only elected public official appointed to the 13-member panel which is chaired by Dr. Eugene Mayberry, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's board of governors.

The special commission, which will hold its first formal meeting during the second week in September, will study the existing research and information about AIDS and submit a preliminary report in 90 days identifying directions that research should take. Within a year the panel is to complete a detailed report advising all governmental levels of treatment possibilities and prevention strategies.

Two Illinois state universities spent most of 1987 conducting national searches for new presidents and both found their choices anything but limited. Over 250 candidates vied for the two top spots — one at Western Illinois University-Macomb (WIU) and one at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU-C). When the final candidate eliminations were over, each university discovered that the best was close to home.

In June, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities chose Ralph H. Wagoner as WIU's new president. The university's former vice president for public affairs and development assumed his new post August 1, replacing Leslie F. Malpass, who had held the post for the last 13 years. Malpass was Illinois' longest tenured public university president before he retired in July.

During his tenure as WIU vice president, Wagoner successfully orchestrated a $23 million fundraising campaign for the university and was a recipient of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's "Grand Award." He came to Western in 1977 after 10 years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Previously he served in several academic and administrative capacities at Ohio's Kent State University.

WIU, which serves 12,000 students, has an annual operating budget of over $50 million. As its top administrator, Wagoner will be paid $81,000 annually.

Farther south, Southern Illinois University Chancellor Lawrence Pettit announced in July the appointment of John C. Guyon as president of the university's 23,261-student Carbondale campus. Guyon, the former vice president for academic affairs and research at SIU-C, had been acting president since Albert Somit stepped down last January.

Guyon, who joined the university 13 years ago as dean of the College of Science, became associate vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School in 1976. Following a national search in 1981, he was promoted to vice president for academic affairs and research after serving in the post for a year on an interim basis.

Guyon came to SIU-C from Tennessee where he chaired Memphis State University's chemistry department from 1971-74. Prior to that he was a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of Missouri for 10 years.

Thomas Lay Burroughs of Collinsville, Dorothy J. O'Neill of Champaign and Michael Bruton of Chicago were chosen by Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) members in June to serve two-year terms as chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the board, respectively. They assumed their positions August 1.

Burroughs, an attorney and former president and secretary of the Collinsville Unit 10 Board of Education, was appointed to the ISBE in 1981 and had served as vice chairman since 1983. O'Neill, appointed to the board in 1979, had served as its secretary since 1983. She is a past president of the League of Women Voters of Illinois and a former chair of the league's state committees on school finance and tax assessments. A former member of the St. Daniel the Prophet Board of Education, Bruton is secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council. He was appointed to the ISBE in 1985.

Louis Mervis of Danville, president of Mervis Industries, was reappointed to the board in June. If confirmed by the Senate, he will serve until January 1993. He receives expenses only. Professional and family obligations and expired terms have resulted in the departure of ISBE members Ron Blackstone, Carol Johnson, Peggy Pilas-Wood, Frederick "Fritz" Rabenstein and Nilda Soler. As of mid-July no appointments had been made to fill these vacancies.

Gov. James R. Thompson in May named Robert G. Gibson of Chicago as cochairman of the 12-member Labor Management Commission. Gibson is president of the Illinois State AFL-CIO and has been a member of the commission since March 1986.

The governor also appointed three new members to the commission, which advises the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs on labor management issues. New commissioners include Gerald Flaherty of Peoria, vice president of employee relations for Caterpillar Inc.; Robert Healy of Homewood, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor; and William Hogan Sr. of Barrington, president of Teamsters Joint Council 25.

Gibson replaces the late Louie Peick as co-chairman of the commission and Hogan takes Gibson's position as member. Healey replaces the late Edward Brabec and Flaherty replaces James K. Ward. The appointments were effective immediately and expire in July 1988, with the exception of Healey, whose appointment expires in July 1989. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation. Six of the commission members are from the management community and six are from labor.

Four directors were named in May to four- year terms on the 11-member Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. They include Kim Fox of Chicago, executive director of Citizens for Thompson; John P. Garrow of Wheaton, president and chairman of Columbian Lithographing Company; Frank A. Gesualdo of Northbrook, new-car dealer, Francis Cadillac; and Nancy Lundstrom of Rockford, community volunteer. All are reappointments except Fox, who replaced James Soper. Effective immediately, the appointments require Senate confirmation and expire in May 1991. The part-time posts pay $15,675 annually.

The Illinois Toll Highway Authority establishes rules and rates for the construction, operation, relocation, regulation and maintenance of the state's toll highway system. Its membership is to reflect geographically those areas served by toll highways.

Seven members were reappointed and two new members were named to the Illinois Council on Aging in May.

New appointees were Walter Ousley of Calumet City, division manager for Catholic Charities, and Genevieve Yager of Geneseo, homemaker. Ousley replaced Harold Boysaw; Yager replaced Delores Doederlein.

Reappointed to the council were William Bounds of Danville, president of Teamster Local 26 and Joint Council 65; Dorothy Crowder of Flora, board president of the Midland Area Agency on Aging in Centralia; Ted Kozer of Royalton, owner of Kozer Grocery; Regina Kulvs of Chicago, assistant professor, University of Illinois-Chicago; Abbot Rosen of Chicago, Midwest area director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; Ronald Weismehl of Glencoe, executive vice president of the Council for Jewish Elderly; and Silvia Zaldivar of Chicago, coordinator of services for Hispanic elderly for Catholic Charities. The appointments were effective immediately and expire in January 1990, with the exception of Ousley, whose term ends in January 1988, and Yager, whose term expires in January 1989. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

Gov. Thompson has reappointed six members to the 17-member Children and Family Services Advisory Council. The council advises the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on services and programs for children and adults under its care.

Renamed to the council were the Rev. William Causer of Mascoutah, minister of St. John United Church of Christ; June Foster of Urbana, retired licensing supervisor for the Champaign region DCFS office; Asst. U.S. Atty. Gregory Harris of Springfield; Michael Horwitz of Elgin, executive director of the Larkin Home for Children; Mildred A. Meyer of Springfield, counselor at Lincoln Land Community College; and Karyl Y. Thorsen of Rockford, clerk in the Robert L. Thorsen Law Office.

Terms expire in January 1991 with the exception of Harris, whose ends in January 1989. The positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

Illinois Humanities Council elects officers

The Illinois Humanities Council's (IHC) board of directors elected three officers at the council's spring meeting. Cullom Davis, Sangamon State University professor of history and director of its Oral History Office, is the board's new chairman. Selected vice chairman was Margaret Brown, site superintendent at Cahokia Mounds historic site. Maynard Wishner, counsel to the firm of Rosenfeld and Shanfield, was elected treasurer.

Davis, a native of Peoria, is a nationally known Lincoln scholar and author of The Public and Private Lincoln. As director of SSU's Oral History Office Davis has helped establish the university's extensive holdings in Illinois government and politics. He recently received a Fulbright research fellowship and will travel to Jamaica this winter to conduct oral histories about the island's social history.

As site superintendent at Cahokia Mounds, Margaret Brown spurred the drive to build a museum at the historic site, as well as developed programs to promote understanding of Indian and colonial societies. Prior to her present appointment, she was an archaeologist with the Illinois Department of Conservation.

Attorney Maynard Wishner began his professional career in Chicago city government. A leader in Jewish charitable and communal affairs, he has previously served as national president of the American Jewish Committee.

Another of President Reagan's nominees for the U.S. District Court in Chicago was sworn in in June. James H. Alesia, a partner in the Chicago law firm of Isham, Lincoln & Beale, joins another recent Reagan appointee, James B. Zagel, on the federal bench. Zagel had been director of Illinois' Department of State Police until his appointment to the bench. Still awaiting Senate confirmation of her presidential appointment to the northern district's federal court is Suzanne Conlon. Currently executive director of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C., Conlon has spent most of her life in Chicago. She previously worked under two U.S. attorneys in Chicago and one in Los Angeles, Calif.

David S. Ruder, former dean of Northwestern University's law school, was given the presidential nod in June to serve as chairman of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ruder, whose nomination requires Senate confirmation, has been a member of Northwestern's faculty for over 25 years, specializing in corporate and securities law. The Highland Park resident served as dean of Northwestern's law school from 1977 to 1985 when he returned to teaching and research. In the late 1970s Ruder served on the American Law Institute's committee that drafted a proposed overhaul of the federal securities code. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the legal advisory committee of the New York Stock Exchange. Ruder succeeds John Shad, who resigned earlier this year to become U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.

The Illinois Travel and Tourism Council elected its 1987 officers in May. The council, which represents the travel and tourism industry in Illinois, serves as an avenue of communication between the industry and the state's governmental bodies. The council also co-hosts and manages the annual Illinois Governor's Conference on Tourism.

L. Ronald Johnson, a district marketing director for Delta Air Lines, is the council's new president. A 25-year veteran of the travel and transportation industry, Johnson began his career in Atlanta, Ga., in 1961. Since then, he has served in various management positions for Delta in Georgia, Texas, Michigan and Illinois.

Other officers elected were J. Barry Dickston, executive director for the Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, vice president; and Susan Martin, associate executive director for the Hotel/Motel Association of Illinois, secretary-treasurer. Myron S. Levy, executive vice-president and general manager of Chicago's Midland Hotel, assumed the advisory office of past president/chairman of the council.

The Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA) announced its 1987 officers and a number of award winners during its 15th annual convention in June. Tom L. Wilson of Galesburg was elected association president. Previously ICCTA secretary and vice president, Wilson has been a trustee at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg since 1970. Elected vice president was Richard R. O'Dell of Monticello, a member of Champaign's Parkland College Board of Trustees for 10 years. Richard Anderson of Grayslake, a trustee of the College of Lake County in Grayslake for the past 13 years, was elected secretary. Joyce E. Heap of Newark was elected treasurer. Heap is a former ICCTA secretary (1985-1986) and has been a member of the Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees for the last six years. All officers serve one-year terms. The 1987 Outstanding Community College Faculty Member Award for significant educational contributions this year went to two individuals. Selected from 31 finalists were Edmund Dehnert, professor of humanities at Truman College in Chicago, and Gibby Monokoski, a music instructor and program coordinator at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.

Sen. Forest D. Etheredge (R-21, Aurora) received the John M. Lewis Outstanding Legislator Award for his exemplary public service and dedication to higher education.

Other legislators honored by the ICCTA with meritorious service awards were Sens. John Davidson (R-50, Springfield), Sam Vadalabene (D-56, Edwardsville) and Harry "Babe" Woodyard (R-53, Chrisman); and Reps. Loleta A. Didrickson (R-37, Homewood), Terry A. Steczo (D-78, Oak Forest) and Arthur L. Turner (D-18, Chicago).

The 30,000-member Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) elected Maurice E. Bone its new third vice-president during the group's annual meeting in June, putting him in line to be ISBA president in 1990. Bone, a Belleville attorney, is currently serving on the association's board.

Other incoming ISBA officers include Donald C. Schiller of Chicago, president, succeeding Richard L. Thies of Urbana; Jerome Mirza of Bloomington, president-elect; and Leonard F. Amari of Chicago, second vice president. Officers serve one-year terms.

Elected to the association's 25-member Board of Governors in contested races were, from Chicago, Dennis J. Burke, Loretta C. Douglas (a Cook County associate circuit judge), Joseph N. DuCanto and Michael D. Monico. William F. Costigan of Bloomington, Roger W. Eichmeier of Aurora and Ralph A. Gabric of Wheaton also won contested seats. New board members who were unopposed included Tom Leahy of Chicago, Shari R. Rhode of Carbondale and David W. Watt of Murphysboro. Board members serve two-year terms.

Seven suburban municipal officials were elected to the 30-member Northeastern Illinois Planning Commision (NIPC) in June. The new commissioners were elected by NIPC's assembly of mayors and village presidents from suburban Cook, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.

New commissioners include Alan D. Cornue, Woodstock councilman; Mary T. Latta, president of Plainfield; Edward W. Paesel, mayor of Sauk Village; David L. Pierce, mayor of Aurora; Margaret P. Price, mayor of Naperville; Sheila H. Schultz, president of Wheeling; and Edward P. Tomkowiak, president of Wadsworth. Commissioners serve four-year terms.

NIPC is the comprehensive planning agency for the six-county metropolitan area, providing technical and research assistance and reviewing federal grant requests for local governments. In addition to the seven elected by the assembly, commissioners are appointed by the governor of Illinois, each of the six county board chairmen, the mayor of Chicago, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, the Chicago Park District and the Illinois Association of Park Districts.

Illinois Comptroller Roland W. Burris was one of five new members elected in June to three-year terms on the executive board of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) during its 81st annual conference on public finance in Washington, D.C. The Chicago-based GFOA represents approximately 11,000 state, provincial and local government finance professionals in the U.S. and Canada. The 18-member executive board is the governing body of the association and establishes policies and practices for finance officials.

The American Judicature Society (AJS) in May named Frances Kahn Zemans of Chicago as its new executive vice president and director. The 24,000-member organization of citizens, judges and lawyers works to improve the courts through research, educational programs and publications. Zemans, the first nonlawyer and the first woman to head this independent national organization, joined AJS in 1983 as director of education and research and in 1985 was named assistant executive director for programs.

Before coming to AJS, Zemans was an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Association, where she directed a five-year project on legal education and the professional development of lawyers and conducted research on citizen use of the law. She has written extensively on law, public policy and the administration of justice and currently serves on the Board of Visitors for Southern Methodist University School of Law and the editorial board of Justice System Journal. A member of the Police Board of Chicago since 1980, Zemans is also a member of the Task Force on Judicial Conduct and Ethics of the Special Commission on the Administration of Justice in Cook County.

House Minority Leader Lee A. Daniels (R-46, Elmhurst) in May was named the Illinois chairman of U.S. Sen. Bob Dole's presidential bid. He will be responsible for the overall direction of the campaign in the state. Daniels, who was elected to his third term as Republican leader of the Illinois House in January 1987, created the House Republican Policy Committee which serves as the policymaking arm of the Republican caucus. At the national level, Daniels is currently serving his fourth term on the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. First elected to the House in 1974, Daniels is a full partner in the Elmhurst law firm of Katten, Muchin, Zavis.

Climbing on another national GOP bandwagon is Senate Republican Leader James "Pate" Philip (R-23, Wood Dale) who, it was reported in mid-July, would head the Illinois presidential campaign of Vice President George Bush. Philip, who served eight years in the House, was first elected to the Senate in 1975. He has been leader of the Senate Republicans since 1981.

John P. Schiffer of Downers Grove, senior physicist and associate director of the physics division at Argonne National Laboratory, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in May. Membership in the academy, which advises the federal government on matters of science and technology, is considered among the highest honors that can be awarded a U.S. scientist. Schiffer joined Argonne in 1956 and has served as associate director of the physics division for 20 years. He was named a senior physicist in 1965, and since 1969 has held a joint appointment as professor of physics at the University of Chicago, which administers Argonne for the U.S. Department of Energy. Schiffer also served as chairman of the National Science Foundation from 1983-85.

Joan G. Anderson of Western Springs and Ronald C. Flemal of DeKalb, professor of geology at Northern Illinois University, were reappointed by Gov. Thompson in June to the seven-member Pollution Control Board. The reappointments were effective immediately and expire July 1, 1990. The positions pay $58,600 annually and require Senate confirmation.

Also in June the governor announced the appointment of Jeffrey Clark Sunderlin as the new director of the Governor's Council on Health and Physical Fitness. Sunderlin has served as the director of the Center for Sports Medicine and Health Fitness at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria since 1978. His appointment was effective August 1. Sunderlin replaced James Liston, council director since April 1978, who accepted the post of executive director of the National Association of Governors' Councils on Physical Fitness and Sports in Indianapolis.

Comptroller Burris appointed Al Manning of Evanston as his director of communications in May. Manning succeeds Alfred Cain, now a special assistant to Burris. Manning came to the Office of the Comptroller from Atty. Gen. Neil F. Hartigan's office where he had first served as Hartigan's communications director and press secretary and later as his administrative assistant. Before joining Hartigan's staff three years ago, Manning was a reporter for the San Diego Union and before that a reporter and political columnist for the Springfield State Journal-Register. He is based in Chicago.

Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) director Jay Hedges announced in May the appointment of Jon B. Bauman of Springfield as deputy director of that agency's operations bureau. He will oversee the approval of DCCA grants and loans to businesses, communities and organizations throughout Illinois. Previously property manager for the Department of Central Management Services, Bauman's annual salary is $58,368.

Gil L. Johnson of Oakland, Calif, was named a deputy director of the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) in June. He now heads DORS' bureau for blind services. Johnson, who is blind, comes to Illinois government from San Francisco's Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, where he served as director of program development. In his new post he manages statewide fiscal policy, programs and services for people who are blind or visually impaired. The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) announced the appointment of Gregory E. Mansfield as public information officer in June. Mansfield joined IAC in December 1985 as administrative assistant to the council's executive director. Prior to that he was the manager of marketing communications and graphics with Horace Mann Companies in Springfield.

Don Johnson of Springfield is the new Illinois AFL-CIO legislative director. In his new post, he works with political action committees around the state. Johnson had been executive secretary of the West Central Illinois Building and Trades Council since the office was established in 1978.

James R. Wolfe of Oak Brook was named finance chairman for the Illinois Republican party in May, replacing William D. Smithburg. Wolfe is chairman, president and chief executive officer of the CNW Corporation, the holding company of the Chicago & North Western Transportation Company. He has served as a member of the steering committee of the Illinois Republican State Finance Committee and of the finance committee of the Republican Central Committee of Cook County. Elected to a two-year term as chair of the Washington, D.C.-based National Prevention Network in June was Alvera Stern, prevention and education administrator for Illinois' Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. The National Prevention Network is a major advocate for national issues and policies concerning prevention of substance abuse. Stern has served on the network's board of directors since 1985.

The Illinois State Historical Society presented superior achievement awards for outstanding contributions during 1986 in research, interpretation and preservation of state and local history at the society's annual spring meeting in Galesburg. Recipients included:
• John C. Abbott, head of Special and Research Collections at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville's Lovejoy Library, and Raymond J. Spahn, professor emeritus of German at SIU-E, for the translation and publication of the major pioneer writings about New Switzerland (Highland, Ill.), entitled Journey to New Switzerland.

• The Chicago Neighborhood History Project, under the direction of Gerald A. Danzer and Lawrence W. McBride with assistance from Arthur E. Anderson and David Ruchman, in the Special Projects category. The project was designed to aid the teaching of community and neighborhood history in the school system.

• Carl J. Ekberg of Normal for authorship of Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier, a historic case study of the Illinois Country in the southern part of the state.

• Mark E. Neely Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry of the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum for The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. The book was based on the recently discovered file of Robert Todd Lincoln as it relates to the commitment proceedings for his mother.

• Former Sangamon State University history professor Charles B. Strozier for his 1986 video documentary, "Mr. Lincoln in Illinois." Lincoln's role in 19th century politics, particularly his involvement with the nascent Republican party, and his personal and private stances on race relations are analyzed in the film. Strozier is now executive director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College in New York City.

• Helen Hornbeck Tanner, research associate for The Newberry Library in Chicago, for her editing work on the book Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. The Atlas, in a sequence of 33 newly researched maps, displays the movement of Indian communities from 1640 to 1871.

• The Rev. Richard A. Thompson, formerly of Glen Ellyn and now of Austin, Texas, in the Friend of History category for work with the DuPage County Historical Society, classes taught at the College of DuPage, preparation of a historical slide program and authorship of two books.

Fourteen Illinois senior citizens received the Governor's Award for Unique Achievement during Older Americans Month in May. The awards were given in recognition of their community service and devotion to programs and services benefitting Illinois' older citizens.

Recipients included: Richard Acaley of Loves Park, a member of the advisory council for the Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging in Rockford; Frances Bernero of Harwood Heights, a member of the board of directors of the Suburban Cook County Area Agency on Aging's advisory council; Dorothy Crowder of Flora, board president of the Midland Area Agency on Aging in Centralia; Unis P. Davis of Colp, activist and volunteer for his rural community and for southern Illinois; Ann Gale of Chicago, a part-time employee with the Chicago Department on Aging and Disability; Wayne T. Guthrie of Downers Grove, a member of the board of directors, Region Two Area Agency on Aging; and Carrie Redebaugh Levi of Dixon, coordinator of events at the Illinois State Fair Senior Center for several years.

Also, Audrey R. Peak of Winchester, president of the Scott County Council on Aging; James E. Peeples of Peoria, advocate for low-income and minority persons; Lloyd Twing of Neponset, district and unit coordinator of the Neponset Boy Scouts and art instructor for the Neponset Senior Citizens Organization; the Rev. William S. Warford of Quincy, chaplain of the Illinois Veterans Home; and Eleanor Wooten of East St. Louis, a member of the board of directors of the Southwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging and of the Illinois Council on Aging.

Two individuals were honored posthumously. William J. Major of Eureka was a former president of the Illinois Association of Senior Citizens in East Peoria and chairman of the Illinois Senior Citizens Leadership Council; he died in April. The late H. Everett Wade of Decatur, who died last February, was a former member and officer of the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging's corporate advisory board and a member of the Illinois Association of Area Agencies on Aging.

The Illinois Arts Council announced the recipients of its 1987 Literary Awards in June. The awards, given annually, recognize the creative excellence of Illinois writers and promote awareness of noncommercial publishing in the state. Award winners, selected by a three-person jury, received $1,000 each.

Poets honored for their work were Joan Colby of Streamwood, Mark Frazier of Mundelein, Joseph Gastiger of DeKalb, Sterling Plumpp of Chicago, Kevin Stein of Dunlap and Martha Vertreace of Chicago.

Those receiving awards for works of fiction were Janet Desaulniers of Evanston, John Jacob of Chicago, James McManus of Winnetka, S.L. Weisenberg of Chicago and David Williams of Sycamore.

Essay winners were Larry Kart of Highland Park and David Spurr of Chicago.

The Lincoln Academy's Order of Lincoln as conferred on four individuals in May by the academy's president, Gov. James R. Thompson. The annual awards honor outstanding citizens either born or residing in Illinois.

This year's winners included real estate developer Michael Butler; Paul Harvey, whose twice-daily news and commentary programs are carried on 1,300 radio stations and reach over 20 million listeners weekly; Walter E. Massey, vice president for research at the University of Chicago since 1984 and director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory; and Walter Payton, Chicago Bears' running back since 1975 and holder of 23 team records and seven National Football League records.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the winners of the Illinois Small Business Person of the Year and the Illinois Advocates of the Year awards during annual Small Business Week in May. Oliver Goold, president of GBL/Goold Electronics in Elk Grove, was honored as the state's top business person. He was nominated by the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry.

Advocates of the year included Alice K. Campbell, president of Alice Campbell Temporaries, women-in-business; Ranee Crain, Crain's Chicago Business, media; Joseph D'Onofrio Jr., Peat, Marwick, and Main, accounting; Jerome Krokocki, Veterans Business Resource Council, veterans; James H. Lowery, president of James H. Lowery and Associates, minorities; and Scott W. Taylor, Skokie Trust and Savings Bank, financial services.

In the special awards categories Monte Lazarus, senior vice president of United Airlines, received the Development Award. Lazarus and United Airlines also won the national award in this category, making it the second year in a row this national honor has been won by an Illinois business.

Special recognition also went to Bruce Moore, president of Machine Research Company, Innovator Award; Lynn Moore, president of Moore Media International, Exporter of the Year Award; and Mary Shanley, president of the Telemarketing Company, Young Entrepreneur Award.

More than 2,000 of the state's best high school "mathletes" participated in the state finals of the seventh annual Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) Math Contest held in May at Illinois State University-Normal. The contest, sponsored by ICTM and the CNA Insurance Companies, concluded months of coaching more than 6,000 students by mathematics teachers in 278 Illinois high schools.

The top three winners in Division AA (for schools with 750 or more students) were New Trier High School, Winnetka, first place; Evanston Township High School, second; and Naperville North High School, third.

Division A winners (schools with less than 750 enrolled) were Sparta High School, first place; Oblong High School, second; and Lemont High School, third.

Regional competitions for the eighth annual contest will be held March 12, with state finals on April 30. For information on participating, contact Professor Thomas Shilgalis, Math Department, Illinois State University, Normal, 61761, or call (309) 438-7267 or 438-8781.

Two Illinois groups were award winners in the U.S. Department of the Interior's first annual "Take Pride in America" competition, a national public awareness campaign aimed at reducing abuse and promoting wise use of public lands and resources. The Franklin Creek Preservation Area Committee of Franklin Grove and the Memorial Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America in Homewood were selected from an initial field of over 500 nominations.

An idle 506-acre tract of land in 1981, Franklin Creek State Park was to be developed by the Department of Conservation until budget constraints put the project in limbo. Area citizens didn't wait for state money. They organized the Franklin Creek Preservation Area Committee in 1981 and spent the next four years developing the park on their own, assuming responsibility for all facility construction, development and maintenance and for most of the security patrols in the park. It is the only state park in Illinois developed entirely by volunteers.

In Homewood, the local Izaak Walton League chapter conducted public information and education, fundraising and news media campaigns to prevent the destruction and to promote the preservation of a valuable 16-acre natural prairie site in that Chicago suburb. In addition to the site's importance as a prairie remnant, it also contains vestiges of sand dunes and shoreline that surrounded prehistoric Lake Chicago over 12,000 years ago. The official awards are to be presented by President Reagan in Washington, D.C. The date had not been announced.

• Gov. Thompson presented Student Historian of the Year Awards to 26 youths at the first All-Illinois History Exposition held in Springfield in May. The students were selected for their excellence in researching and writing for Illinois History magazine, which features student-authored articles on selected themes in Illinois history. Four of the 26 received special awards and cash prizes of $50: Jon Berry, Belleville High School West, and John J. Lehman, Althoff High School, both in Belleville; Jimmy Moody, Brookwood Junior High School, Glenwood; and Jeff Pozzi, Wilson Middle School, Rockford. The exposition is a cooperative awards program sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Society and the Chicago Metro-History Fair. It seeks to encourage junior and senior high school students to compete for statewide honors for their historical research.

• Five Illinois students were among 150 winners nationwide who attended special May ceremonies in their honor in Washington, D.C., as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Elementary Essay Project on the Bicentennial of the Constitution. The state winners, who wrote on ''What the Constitution Means to Me and to Our Country,'' include Louis Bernstein, grade 6, William Ray School Gifted Center, Chicago; Sara Casica, grade 2, St. Peter and Paul School, Chicago; Meredith Cunningham, grade 8, Minonk-Dana-Rutland Junior/Senior High School, Minonk; Ryan Potts, grade 4, St. Theresa School, Palatine; and Amy Rosen, grade 8, Edgewood Middle School, Highland Park. The essays were judged by a panel of educators, business executives and professional writers.

• The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was among the winners of the 1987 Public Service Excellence Awards presented during a ceremony in May by the Public Employees Roundtable, a nonprofit coalition of 24 associations representing public employees and retirees. The special recognition certificate was awarded to DCFS for its successes in moving "special needs" children out of foster care and into adoptive homes. Since 1980, the DCFS has reduced the number of children waiting for adoption from an all-time high of 2,832 to an all-time low of 280 children.

• Jay R. Hedges, Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) director, was one of eight recipients of "Entrepreneur of the Year" awards in June. The awards were sponsored by Venture magazine and Arthur Young, an international public accounting and consulting firm. Robert A. Center, director of entrepreneurial services for Arthur Young Chicago, commended Hedges for his leadership in creating an environment that promotes small business growth. Hedges was named DCCA director in April 1986 following two years as Gov. Thompson's economic development liaison. He will be inducted into the American Institute of Entrepreneurs during a national conference in October.