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Wagner new revenue director, Barr named assistant director Raymond T. Wagner Jr., former director of the Missouri Department of Revenue and former chief legal counsel to former Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft, was named by Gov. Jim Edgar on August 4 to head the Illinois Department of Revenue, effective August 9.

Wagner, 34, was most recently an attorney with a St. Louis law firm. He earned his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and has a master's degree from St. Louis University. He replaces Doug Whitley who resigned March 1 to accept a job with Illinois Bell (see "Names," Illinois Issues, April 1993). Sam McGaw who was acting director will go back to his job as deputy director. As Illinois' revenue director, Wagner's annual salary is $78,839.

Edgar also named the new assistant director for revenue on the same day: Joan Barr, 53, former Evanston mayor. She is a past member of the board of trustees of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and former chair of the U.S. Conference of Women Mayors. Barr is also past president of the Northwest Municipal Conference and is one of three public members appointed to the Illinois Employment Security Advisory Board.

As assistant director, her main responsibilities include assisting in issues of property tax assessment, sales taxes and tax collection. She replaces Renee Thaler in the position, which pays $66,710 annually.

Both appointments require Senate confirmation, and terms end January 16, 1995.

Illinois Gaming Board top administrator Morton Friedman was hired by the Missouri Gaming Commission as an administrative consultant to help propel riverboat gambling in that state. His resignation in Illinois was effective August 31.

Friedman's resignation creates a void just as Illinois' last authorized riverboat license is expected to be granted. As top administrator for the Illinois commission, Friedman managed the implementing of the Illinois Riverboat Gambling Act. Friedman previously served as deputy director of the Illinois Department of Employment Security from 1983 to 1990.

Gov. Edgar on July 22 announced the firing of three state workers at the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) as a direct result of 3-year old Joseph Wallaces' hanging death, allegedly by his mother: Richard Higgins, an administrative case reviewer; Ann Rauen, a caseworker; and Joseph Galicia, her immediate supervisor.

The governor also said a state contract was not renewed with Family Care and Associates, which had been assigned to provide homemaking services to the Wallace family once Joseph was returned.

At the same time, Edgar named a team of mental health and legal experts to help prevent another tragedy of this kind. This team will be headed by Dr. Boris Astrachan, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Other members include: Dr. Bennett Leventhal, interim chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago; Dr. Laura Miller, assistant professor of psychiatry and associate director of the pregnancy and post-partum treatment program, University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Markus Kruesi, professor of psychiatry and chief of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and director of the institute for juvenile research. University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Carl Bell, clinical associate and professor of psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago; Mark Heyrman, professor of law, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago; Thomas Gheraghty, associate dean and director of Northwestern University Law School's Legal Clinic; and Nancy Feys, acting chief of clinical services, Juvenile Court of Cook County.

Mac Ryder, DCFS director, and Jess McDonald, director of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Rehabilitation, will work with the team.

Republican David E. Murray of Sterling, a partner in the Sterling law firm of Ward, Murray, Pace and Johnson, PC, was elected chairman of the eight-member Illinois State Board of Elections on July 1 in Springfield.

Murray, formerly the board's vice chairman, succeeds Chicago attorney Langdon D. Neal who will remain on the board as a bipartisan member. Murray earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Illinois. He is the former chairman of the Illinois Board of Regents, a former member of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois State Bar Association Board of Governors.

Elected as vice chairman was Democrat

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Lawrence E. Johnson of Champaign, a senior member of Lawrence E. Johnson and Associates law firm. He is a former Champaign County state's attorney.

The State Board of Elections administers registration and elections laws and keeps records on political campaign contributions and expenditures.

State law requires that the two-year terms of chairman and vice chairman alternate between Democrats and Republicans. All board terms run through 1997.

Michael Skarr of Naperville, assistant vice president of new business development for NICOR Inc., was elected chair of the State Board of Education effective June 17, succeeding Louis Mervis of Danville.

On the board since 1992, Skarr earned his bachelor's degree from Marquette University and received a master's degree from Lewis University. He has served on the boards of directors of the Joliet/Will County Center for Economic Development, the United Way of Will County and the Three Rivers Manufacturers' Association, which he also chaired.

Other officers elected by the board include Lyle Newmann of Cambridge as vice chair and Doreen Crewe of Palos Park as secretary. Newmann, appointed to the board in 1987, is a former member and president of the Cambridge School District 227 Board. He is the intergovernmental liaison for the Illinois Department of Employment Security and a graduate of Western Illinois University. Crewe, who formerly served on the boards of Palos School District 118 and Consolidated High School District 230, was appointed to the state board in 1988. She has a bachelor's degree from Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, England, and has taught high school in England and in Chicago.

Terms for board officers are two years; officers are limited to two consecutive terms.

The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois (SURS) has received the Government Finance Officers Association's (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in financial reporting for the ninth consecutive year. This certificate is presented to government units and public employee retirement systems for their achievement standards in goverment accounting and financial reporting.

Bryan S. Bloom, assistant executive director with SURS, is the person primarily responsible for preparing and submitting this year's report. Created in 1941, SURS main objective is to provide its annuitants, participants and employers with the best possible cost effective pension and benefit plan in the United States.

The National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NASIRE) has honored the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) for an innovative program that will save the state of Illinois an estimated $12 million in computer maintenance costs. CMS will receive the 1993 Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of information technology.

This program involves using a single vendor under a five-year contract to handle computer maintenance within each individual state agency in Illinois government. Prior to this program 62 different vendors did maintenance on a variety of computers. Now each agency will rely on the same vendor, IBM, to maintain computers, which will eliminate multiple bills to a host of vendors.

Celeste Stiehl of Belleville was appointed to the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees by Gov. Jim Edgar effective July 15. The 12-member board maintains and manages the SIU campuses, including the employment of educational and administrative personnel.

Stiehl, 67, is a former state representative from the old 57th district. Active in economic development in the southwestern region of Illinois, she is the former executive director of Belleville Economic Progress Inc. and has received numerous awards including the St. Clair County Bar Association's 1987 Liberty Bell Award for outstanding contributions to the community. Her husband is William D. Stiehl, a U.S. district judge.

She replaces Bernard Birger on the SIU board whose members are paid only expenses. Appointment requires Senate confirmation. Her term ends January 18, 1999.

William Sulaski of Normal was named to the Board of Regents by Gov. Jim Edgar effective June 22. The board is responsible for the operations of three universities: Illinois State, Northern Illinois and Sangamon State. Sulaski, 53, is managing partner with Sulaski and Webb, Certified Public Accountants.

He fills a vacancy on the board for a term ending January 18, 1999. Members are paid expenses only. Appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Larry R. Faulkner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, was named vice chancellor of academic affairs for the U of I on July 9 by the Board of Trustees. He will begin his new duties January 1, 1994. Both the outgoing and incoming U of I chancellors for the Urbana-Champaign campus spoke highly of Faulkner's selection.

Faulkner, 48, succeeds Robert M. Berdahl, who left January 20 to take over the presidency at the University of Texas at Austin. Theodore L. Brown, director of the U of I's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, is currently serving as the interim vice chancellor and will continue to do so through December 31.

Faulkner, who formerly headed U of I's chemistry department, earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent three years on the faculty of Harvard University and taught one year at the University of Texas before joining the U of I. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and is a past president and vice president of the Electrochemical Society. He was the former U.S. regional editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of the Electrochemmical Society. He is also the recipient of the American Society Award in Analytical Chemistry.

On July 1, Michael T. Aiken took over as the Urbana-Champaign campus chancellor, replacing Morton W. Weir (see "Names," Illinois Issues April 1993, page 27). The search for a new dean to replace Faulkner is to begin immediately.

Nancy Ford has been appointed executive director of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) at Sangamon State University in Springfield. The appointment was approved by the Illinois Board of Regents July 22. Ford began her duties September 1.

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Legal Studies since 1984. She holds the bachelor's degree in English and education from Indiana University and the J.D. from Temple University Law School. An attorney, she also maintains a limited law practice in Springfield, providing legal counsel to the Family Service Center of Sangamon County.

She is the second director of IPA, which was created in 1988. The first was J. Michael Lennon who left the position in 1992 to become vice president for academic affairs at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Ray Schroeder, director of the SSU Television Office and associate professor of communications, served as IPA interim director since Lennon's departure.

Steve Culen of Chicago retired as executive director of Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), effective June 30. Replacing Culen is Henry Bayer of Chicago, who was the union's deputy director. Bayer was elected June 9 by the AFSCME Council 31 executive board. Culen, 58, began his career with AFSCME in 1972 as an organizer and staff representative. He was elected executive director in 1980, representing a union with less then 20,000 members. As he retired, AFSCME Illinois represented more than 70,000 workers and had more than 13,000 in the AFSCME retiree organization, making it one of the largest unions in the state.

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With Culen in charge, AFSCME developed benefits and employment practices aimed at helping minorities and women. He oversaw the introduction of programs such as the state upward mobility program, which provides training for employees seeking promotions, and the personal support program, a union-operated program aimed at employee assistance for AFSCME members in state government. Bayer, 47, has spent 17 years with AFSCME, beginning as an organizer for the white collar workers of Illinois. More recently, he has served as an associate director of Council 31, and was serving as deputy director before his promotion.

Donald Johnson of Springfield, president of the Illinois State AFL-CIO, was named to several state board positions held by former Illinois State AFL-CIO president, Richard Walsh. Effective June 22, Johnson replaces Walsh on the following: the Employment Security Advisory Committee (term ending January 16, 1995), the Labor Management Cooperation Committee (term ending July 1, 1994), the Economic Development Board (term ending November 1, 1994) and the Workers Compensation Advisory Council (term ending January 17, 1994). These positions pay expenses only and require Senate confirmation.

Walsh was named national director of the AFL-CIO political education committee in Washington, D.C. (See "Names" Illinois Issues, June 1993.)

Cook County Board president Richard Phelan named an 11-member commission to enforce a countywide Human Rights Ordinance that went into effect May 21. The commission has the power to investigate any discrimination and sexual harassment complaints in employment, housing, credit transactions, public accommodations, access to county services and programs and county contracting.

Members include Marge Friedman of Park Forest, staff assistant to U.S. Rep. George Sangmeister (D-ll, Mokena) and member of the League of Women Voters; Ed Kagan of Worth Township, president of Kagan Real Estate Inc. and past president of the Southwest Suburban Association of Realtors; William B. Kelley of Chicago, attorney at Margolis & Velasco, founder and former cochairman of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association; Rene Luna of Chicago, disability rights coordinator for Access Living and president of Festiva Educativa, a leading Latino organization; and Sylvia Neil of Chicago, executive director and legal counsel for the Midwest region of the American Jewish Congress.

Other members are Sandra Otaka of Chicago, assistant counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and vice president of the Asian American Bar Association; Sheila Schultz of Wheeling Township, serving as president of Wheeling Township and commissioner to the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission; Jacqueline Alexander-Scott of Harvey, dean and academic adviser at Dirksen School, Joliet, and president of the Board of Education for School District 152; the Rev. Wallace Sykes of Maywood, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Maywood and chairperson of Operation Uplift; and Maria Valdez of Oak Park, litigation attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Phelan said he believes the collective efforts of these individuals will ensure that everyone has a voice and a place to air concerns when dealing with human rights.

The Latin American Bar Association of Chicago elected its new officers in June. New president is Jorge Monies, editor and program coordinator at the American Bar Association. He earned his bachelor's degree and J.D. degree from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.

Vice president is Tomas Ramirez, an associate at Ross & Hardies, where he concentrates on environmental law and corporate litigation. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. Secretary is David Reyes, an associate with Micro Business Systems in Chicago. He completed undergraduate studies and law school at Indiana University. Treasurer is Carol Chavez, an assistant Cook County state's attorney. She attended John Marshall School of Law.

Monies said, "We have seen the Latin American Bar Association mature since its founding 20 years ago. Today, our members can be found not only in small neighborhood solo practices, but in the large, prestigious downtown firms."

The Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA) named its new officers on June 12, selecting Robert Gaffner of Greenville to succeed Jeanne Blackman of Springfield as president, effective July 1. Gaffner has been a member of the Kaskaskia College board of trustees since 1974.

ICCTA is a statewide organization created in 1970 to serve as the voice of the state's community college boards. Its membership comes from 40 public community college districts in Illinois. Its officers serve one-year terms.

Roger Tuttle of Pontiac is new ICCTA vice president. Tuttle is a founding member of the Heartland Community College's board of trustees, which he serves as vice chair and board liaison on curriculum mat-

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ters. He retired as principal of the Pontiac Township High School.

Michael Monteleone of Olympia Fields was elected secretary. He is a member of the Prairie State College Board of Trustees and has chaired ICCTA's South Suburban Region since July 1991.

Gary Speckhart of Quincy was elected treasurer. He is a trustee with John Wood College.

Anne Chesney of Naperville won a statewide essay contest sponsored by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA). Chesney, a recent graduate of the College of DuPage, was selected over 20 other entrants for her essay, How My Community College Has Changed My Life: Growth Through Education.

"I was just sitting in the student activities office where I work," she said, "and I decided to enter the contest." Chesney plans to atttend Northeastern Missouri State University, majoring in psychology and organizational communications.

She was a guest of honor at the ICCTA's June 12 awards breakfast in Oak Brook where she received a $500 stipend for educational expenses during the fall 1993 semester.

President Clinton announced the nomination of Ronald Bartholomew, 57, a graduate of the University of Chicago master's program, to the post of ambassador to Italy on June 15.

Bartholomew, a senior foreign service officer with the rank of career minister, has been with the State Department since 1974. He previously held teaching positions at Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago. He started his professional career as an adviser to the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago announced several staff appointments and one promotion. The bank is one of 12 regional reserve banks that, in conjunction with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation's central bank.

Promoted to assistant vice president and assistant general counsel in the legal department was Anna M. Voytovich, 33, of Western Springs. She will continue to oversee litigation, regulatory and employment issues as well as contract negotiations and legal matters related to the reserve bank operations. She joined the bank's legal department in 1987. She received a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and a J.D. degree from the University of Illinois. She also serves as secretary of the Federal Reserve System Insurance Committee.

Valerie Van Meter, 37, of Chicago, was appointed assistant vice president of electronic services, which includes responsibility for payment systems and department administration. She started her banking career at the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 1977. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and holds a certificate from the University of Delaware's Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Douglas Evanoff, 42, of Park Ridge, was appointed senior research economist and research officer in the economic department. He will oversee the bank's research department with an emphasis on risk management and operational efficiency. He joined the bank as a research economist in 1980. Prior to that he was a lecturer at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and he continues to serve as a lecturer at De Paul University Graduate School of Business. He holds a bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and a master's from Southern Illinois University.

Charles L. Evans, 35, of Glen Ellyn was appointed senior research economist and research officer in the economic research department. He will coordinate staff assignments and monitor policy functions within the department. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Kenneth N. Kuttner, 32, of Chicago was appointed senior economist and research officer in the research department. He will oversee coordination of the Federal Open Market Committee briefings as well as other policymaking decisions in the department. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Daniel G. Sullivan, 34, of Evanston was appointed senior research economist and research officer in the research department. He will oversee research efforts on micro-economic studies with emphasis on labor and industrial relations. He holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D from Princeton University.

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