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Arbor Day Promoted
The Illinois Park & Recreation Society and Illinois Association of Park Districts actively promoted Arbor Day again this year. The Honorable Governor Richard B. Ogilvie issued a proclamation early in March pointing out the importance of trees to the human environment. He also was present for the planting of a tree in Arlington Heights on March 16th, which was another promotional method used to draw attention to Arbor Day 1972.
Efforts of the Illinois Association of Park Districts towards Arbor Day were coordinated through Bob Nichols of Bensenville who is chairman of the Community Relations Committee for the Association. In Memoriam The Naperville Community and Park and Recreation officials throughout Illinois were saddened by the death of Dr. Lester J. Schloerb on February 29, 1972. For 55 years he was a part of the community of Naperville, having graduated from North Central College in 1919 and raised his family in this far western suburb of Chicago. The life of Dr. Schloerb was highly distinguished with an unsurpassed quantity and quality of public service, having served his community in innumerable capacities, and modes, including: service on the Board of Trustees of North Central College from 1939 to 1954; president of the Naperville Park District since the District's founding in 1966 during which time said park district rose to standards of excellence recognized nationally; president of the Board of Education of the Naperville Public Schools for 16 years; member of the YMCA Board of Directors; and active in numerous other civic activities. His services to mankind transcended far beyond his community, including positions as Associate Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools, with 41 years of service to that school system; and including service as a teacher and supervisor of teacher interns of Northwestern University; and as Secretary of the International YMCA in Bucharest, Romania; and as an author of books in the field of vocational guidance and in the service of his country in the Armed Forces during World War I.
Elected president of
L. S. Hubbard, President of the Halogen Supply Company of Chicago and a nationally recognized swimming pool consultant was elected President of the National Swimming Pool Institute at the National Convention held in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of January. Hubbard has been in the swimming pool field for over thirty-three years, he has been an associate member of the Illinois Association of Park Districts since 1946. He participated in the Illinois Park Association activities through the years and has proven to be a real friend to the Park and Recreation movement. The National Swimming Pool Institute is a trade association of more than 1400 firms from all phases of the swimming pool industry. In addition to the United States, the institute has members in Canada, Mexico and 17 other countries. Illinois Parks and Recreation 14 May/June, 1972 New Appointment
William D. Creighton has been appointed assistant vice president of American Locker Company, Inc. and Canadian Locker Company Limited, subsidiaries of AVM Corporation, headquartered in Jamestown, New York. He will continue to direct operations and sales of the specially designed American lockers which chiefly serve recreational markets, shopping centers, and colleges. This portion of American Locker's operations has had outstanding growth since acquired by AVM eight years ago, with revenues presently equal to those realized by the company's lockers which serve vast transportation markets. A director of sales since 1966, Creighton came to American Locker with considerable sales and production experience. He had been a sales manager in New England for Felters Company of Boston, and before that he was production manager for Melamite Division, Jones-Mansville Corp. in Lawrence, Mass. A native of Woburn, Mass., he attended Boston University. FUNDS RELEASED Governor Richard B. Ogilvie has approved the release of state-administered federal funds (BOR) to several park districts in Illinois for the partial purchase cost of recreational land. The money comes from the Land and Water Recreation Fund administered for BOR by the Department of Conservation.
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