J. Russell Christianson, League's New President

The 45th Annual Conference of the League, held in Springfield, November 9th, 10th and 11th, elected J. Russell Christianson, Village President of Oak Park, to be its President for the next year. John Noel, Village President of Mundelein, was elected First Vice-President, and William Winterhoff, Thornton Township Supervisor, Lansing, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms for the twenty-sixth time.

The Conference broke all attendance records, drawing the largest group of municipal officials ever assembled in Illinois.

The Conference elected the following officials as Vice-Presidents:

ELECTED FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN J. NOEL Village President, Mundelein, Illinois Born, Hershman (Brown County), Illinois . . . Educated in public schools, Abingdon, Illinois . . . Attended Knox College . . . Former Director, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Galesburg, Illinois . . . Former Director, Purchasing Agents' Association of Chicago . . . Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus . . . Past President, North Shore Area Council, Boy Scouts of America . . . Vice-President Lake County Water District; Vice-President, Illinois Municipal League for several years; Past President, Mundelein Lions Club . . . Member, Santa Maria Del Popolo Church, Mundelein, Illinois . . . Village Trustee, Mundelein, 1949 to 1953 . . . Elected Village President 1953 and again in 1957 . . . Sales Representative for the LaSalle Steel Company . . . Married and father of five children.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

ALTON—Mayor P. W. Day

BELLEVILLE—Mayor Jerome J. Munie

BELVIDERE—Mayor Lester Gunningham

BLOOMINGTON—Mayor Bob McGraw

BROADVIEW—Village President Merritt Braga

BROOKFIELD—Village President Fred Kuehn

CALUMET CITY—Mayor Stanley Bejger

CARBONDALE—Mayor John I. Wright

CENTRALIA—Mayor H. B. Blanchard

CHICAGO—Mayor Richard J. Daley

CLINTON—Commissioner C. E. Corrington

DECATUR—Mayor Clarence Sablotny

DE KALB—Mayor Clayton Pooler

DOWNERS GROVE—Mayor B. H. Groves

EAST ST. LOUIS—Mayor Alvin Fields

EVANSTON—Mayor John Kimbark

FREEPORT—Mayor Glen Kunkle

GALESBURG—Mayor Robert P. Cabeen

HILLSIDE—Village President Roman J. Binder

JOLIET—Mayor James T. Hennessy

KANKAKEE—Mayor Edward Madison

LA SALLE—Mayor B. D. Bruno

LOMBARD—Village President William L. Watson

MACOMB—Mayor L. E. Nickson

MATTOON—Mayor Morgan F. Phipps

MELROSE PARK—Village President Andy Frenzel *

MOLINE—Mayor Arnold Smith

PARIS—Mayor T. J. Trogdon, Jr.

PEORIA—Mayor Eugene Letter

PINCKNEYVILLE— Mayor Wm. J. Cunningham

RIVERSIDE—Village President William Hajeck

ROCKFORD—Mayor Benjamin Schleicher

SPRINGFIELD—Mayor Nelson O. Howarth

TAYLORVILLE—Mayor Thomas Sweeney

VANDALIA—Mayor Cecil Smith

WAUKEGAN—Mayor Robert Sabonjian

* Died November 19, 1968.

all good wishes of the season and may the new year bring the realizations of YOUR FONDEST DREAMS FOR A SUCCESSFUL MUNICIPAL YEAR these are the wishes of your LEAGUE STAFF

December 1958 / Illinois Municipal Review / Page 273