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Chicago attorney William Daley, 45, who was passed over for U.S. secretary of transportation, was named chairman of the Clinton administration's lobbying effort on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in early August. He now has the tough job of selling Congress on free trade with Mexico and Canada. He is the brother of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Bill Daley has extensive connections in the Democratic party from his political work on several presidential campaigns, including Illinois campaign chairman for President Clinton. He will take a leave of absence from the Chicago law firm Mayer, Brown & Platt, where he is a partner. Daley took the job, he said, against the better wishes of his peers. He said his main reasons for taking the job was that the president asked him to do it and that he believes NAFTA is good for the country.

Daley has his work cut out for him since many Democrats such as Illinois' U.S. Sens. Carol Moseley-Braun and Paul Simon have taken neutral positions on NAFTA as of September 15. NAFTA will first go to the House and then to the Senate.

Gov. Jim Edgar named Raymundo Flores of Chicago as the managing director of the Illinois Trade Office in Mexico on August 16.

Flores is the former director of research for the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, where he oversaw the direction and coordination of major economic research studies. He was formerly a senior research associate and acting research director at Chicago's Latino Institute.

He replaces Toni Vazquez who resigned to join the private sector. Flores has been an adviser for the Chicago Urban League and the United Neighborhood Organization. He is a former member of the board of directors of the 18th Street Development Corporation. His bachelor's degree is from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently on a leave of absence from UIC where he is enrolled in the Ph.D. program.

Illinois exports to Mexico have shown a

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rapid increase in recent years, making Illinois the fourth largest exporting state to that nation. And Mexico is now only second to Canada as Illinois' top export market.

Tim Bobinksy of Springfield, a vice president at Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, was named executive director of the seven-member Illinois Rural Bond Bank on August 16 by Lt. Gov. Bob Kustra, who chairs the board.

Bobinksy, 43, has been vice president of tax exemption institutions at Harris Trust and Savings since 1991 and was local government program director at the Illinois Development Finance Authority from 1989 to 1991. He previously served as a municipal credit analyst and investment banker at Continental Bank in Chicago. He is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and earned a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His term runs three years with the Rural Bond Bank, which pools resources of small rural governments to offer bonds at better rates to finance improvement projects such as sewerage system maintenance and repair of school buildings, streets and roads.

The 15-member State Banking Board was overhauled by Gov. Edgar's appointment of eight new members, effective August 10. Edgar also reappointed two members at the same time. The board advises the Commissioner of Banks and Trusts Companies on rules and policies directly related to banking matters, including any disciplinary action taken against any bank, bank leader or director.

Appointees have different terms. Two have terms expiring December 31, 1994: Britta Harris, 65, of Lincoln, housewife and former research assistant at Sangamon State University in Springfield (she replaced Gary Fencik); and Donald Pratt, 62, of Rockford, president of First Bank in Capron (he replaced Eyvonne Moore).

Four have terms expiring December 31, 1995: Valerio Bert, 44, of Chicago, senior vice president and manager of Banca Di Roma, Chicago branch (he was reappointed); William Osborn, 45, of Wilmette, senior executive vice president of the Northern Trust Company in Chicago (he replaced Richard Brown); Anna Scott, 67, of Urbana, professor of sociology at Parkland College (she replaced James McCormick); and Kenneth Stark, 86, of Pittsfield, president of Corn Belt Bank and Trust Company (he was reappointed).

The other four were appointed to terms expiring December 31, 1996: A. Dean Decker, 51, of Geneseo, president of Central Trust and Savings Bank (he replaced Warren Martin); Robert Field, 47, of Olympia Fields, chairman of the board of directors of the Bank of Homewood and president of the village of Olympia Fields (he replaced James Fitch); Donald Gutowski, 62, of Norridge, president of Consolidated Tool Manufacturers Inc. in Franklin Park (he replaced John Morris); and Harlan Yates, 63, of Cisne, president and CEO of Cisne State Bank (he replaced John Seaton).

Members of the State Banking Board are paid expenses only and appointments require Senate confirmation.

Maureen Patrick, executive director of Family Focus Inc. of Chicago, was named chair of the Illinois Interagency Council on Early Intervention by Gov. Jim Edgar effective June 16. She replaced Gail Lieberman whose term expired.

The 17-member council advises the State Board of Education on early intervention and education programs for handicapped children and their families.

Patrick is a former employee of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago and was education coordinator for Hull House Association of Chicago. She also worked for the Association for Retarded Citizens of Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., and a master's degree from Loyola University's Erikson Institute for Graduate Studies. She is also the parent of an aspiring rock/blues musician who is currently practicing his art in California.

Gov. Jim Edgar announced the appointments of Leon Kohlmeier and Donald Condit to the seven-member State Soil and Water Conservation Advisory Board effective August 10. The board is responsible for developing and coordinating the state's soil erosion and water sediment control program and reviews rules and ordinances of soil and water conservation districts.

Kohlmeier, 45, of Waterloo is a self-employed farmer and director of the Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District. He replaces Greg Steele. Condit, 68, of Pulliam, is a self-employed farmer/rancher and member of the Heartland Water

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Resources Council. He replaces Alvin Neal.

Both terms expire January 20, 1997. Members are paid expenses only and appointments require Senate confirmation.

John White Jr., 63, of Elburn resigned as president of the Illinois Farm Bureau on August 31, surprising many with his announcement after heading the 100,000-member organization since December 1983. He apparently does not have a big money Washington job waiting for him; instead he plans to spend more time at home on his farm in northeastern Illinois. He said since September is the start of the bureau's fiscal year that it seemed a logical time for a new president to take over.

Vice president of the Farm Bureau is Alan Dale, a Bureau County farmer.

Illinois Agriculture director Becky Doyle announced the results of four state commodity checkoff board elections on August 11. Those elected to the three-year terms include:

• On the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, which administers programs linked to marketing Illinois-produced corn, Floyd Schultz of Plainfield (District 1), Lynn Liable of Magnolia (District 4), Thomas Leeper of Decatur (District 7), John A. Beatty of Waverly (District 10) and Larry E. Chamness of Wayne City (District 13).

• On the Illinois Sheep and Wool Marketing Board, which recommends programs for the direct marketing of Illinois sheep and wool. Franklin Hintzsche of Rochelle (District 1), Janet Gibbs of Benson (District 4) and Ed Craig of Clay City (District 7).

• On the Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board, which administers soybean marketing programs, Brian Heiser of Miner (District 5), Alan L. Puzey of Fairmont (District 7), Joe Aggertt of San Jose (District 9), James C. Gay of Rockport (District 12) and Ken B. Elmore of Waggoner (District 13).

• On the Illinois Beef Council, Roger Nordman of Oregon (District 1), Jay Book of Sterling (District 2), Larry Watson of Sycamore (District 3), Marion Butler of Blandinsville (District 4), Roger Houston of Jacksonville (District 5), Frank Riniker of Shelbyville (District 6) and Gerald Neher of Anna (District 7).

Howard A. Tyner, 50, of Chicago was named editor of the Chicago Tribune on August 26. He is the 19th person to run the newspaper in its 146-year history. He replaced Jack Fuller, who became president and chief executive of the newspaper on the same day.

Tyner joined the Tribune in 1977 as a general assignment reporter after 10 years at United Press International bureaus in London, Vienna, Bonn, Frankfurt, Warsaw and Moscow. He was the Tribune's Moscow correspondent from 1982 to 1985 when he returned to Chicago to be the newspaper's foreign editor for the next three years. Since 1992, Tyner has been an associate editor, overseeing the features section of the newspaper.

Tyner, quoted in the Tribune in its news story on his becoming editor, said, "The Tribune's job had not changed much since Joseph Medill was editor in the late 19th Century: "To be skeptical on behalf of the community about the people who govern us..."

David R. Bean of Chicago, director of research of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, was named to a national task force on state and local budgeting by Jeff Esser, executive director of the Chicago-based Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). The main goal of the GFOA task force, according to Esser, is to identify ways of making improvements in state and local budgeting.

Bean was previously senior manager with Ernst & Young and was coordinator of the State of Illinois Comptroller's Uniform Statewide Accounting System.

Dwight Friedrich, 80, of Centralia, a Republican who served parts of four decades in the General Assembly, died August 24 from injuries sustained in a car accident on Highway 57. Mr. Friedrich, an insurance, real estate and investment broker, served in the Senate from 1953 to 1965 and in the House from 1975 until he lost a reelection campaign in 1986.

He was born in Marion County. During World War II he served three years in naval

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intelligence and between his terms as a legislator he served as a delegate to the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention. In the House, he served as chair of the GOP caucus and as a member of the Rules Committee. Surviving are his wife, Virginia; a daughter; and a grandson.

Dillard

Hansen

Hendren

Kingman

Kirk W. Dillard, Lawrence N. Hansen, H. Carter Hendren and Linda K. Kingman will be inducted into the Samuel K. Gove Legislative Internship Hall of Fame in Springfield on October 25.

Dillard of Hinsdale is Gov. Jim Edgar's chief of staff. He is president of the Western Illinois University Alumni Council and is a member of the Bi-State Third Chicago Airport selection committee. He is a former Illinois Court of Claims judge (the Court of Claims is a division within the secretary of state's office). He earned a bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University in Macomb and a J.D. degree from DePaul University in Chicago.

Hansen of Falls Church, Va., is research professor and director of The Democracy Agenda project at the National Center for Communications Studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is also a program consultant to the Joyce Foundation of Chicago. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and attended Heidelberg University in Germany. He is the author of a number of books, publications and speeches and is a consultant to over 15 publications.

Hendren of Springfield is chief of staff to Illinois Senate President James "Pate" Philip (R-23, Wood Dale). A graduate of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Hendren directed Jim Edgar's 1982 winning campaign for secretary of state. In 1984 he was campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Charles H. Percy, and in 1989 he again helped lead Edgar to victory, this time in the gubernatorial campaign.

Kingman of Lawndale is senior account supervisor with Hill and Knowlton Inc. of Chicago. She formerly served as chief of staff to Philip J. Rock, when he was Senate president. She is currently president of Illinois Women in Government and serves on the advisory board of DePaul University Community Mental Health Center and the board of Chicago Women in Government Relations. Kingman received a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal.

Each served in the Legislative Internship Program more than 10 years ago, and were selected by Illinois Issues to join the hall of fame as former interns whose careers exemplify distinguished public service. Illinois Issues established the hall of fame three years ago, partly to emphasize the role played by public service internships in developing public sector leadership.

The charter inductees, a group of 11, include Gov. Jim Edgar, whose entry into state government was the Legislative Internship Program. That program places college students as interns working directly with the General Assembly. First coordinated by the University of Illinois' Institute of Government and Public Affairs, the program now is coordinated by Sangamon State University's Illinois Legislative Studies Center in Springfield through the General Assembly's Legislative Research Unit. Because of Sam Gove's deep involvement in both the early internship program at the University of Illinois and in establishing Illinois Issues as its charter board chairman, the awards to the inductees are named after him to recognize his contribution to public service.

The next induction into the hall of fame is scheduled for the fall of 1995.

James Pollock

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