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deVito to resign as DMHDD director

Dr. Robert A. deVito, Downers Grove, will resign as director of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (DMHDD) effective June 30 to become chairperson of the department of psychiatry, Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University, Chicago. DeVito was named DMHDD director in 1977 by Gov. James R. Thompson. Previously he had been superintendent of the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, Hines. In his new teaching post, he says he hopes to integrate some of his experience in the public sector into academic programs. DeVito is working with the governor to find a successor and has recommended that a broadly based committee with representatives from the fields of mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism and drug abuse be appointed to conduct the search.

DeVito says one of the achievements of his administration is better care for institutionalized patients which has resulted in the accreditation of 21 out the 28 state-operated facilities. (Those which have not yet received accreditation are: Murray Developmental Center, Centralia; Illinois Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Chicago; Dixon Developmental Center, Dixon; Lincoln Developmental Center, Lincoln; Bowen Developmental Center, Harrisburg; Elgin Mental Health Center, Elgin; and Manteno Mental Health Center, Manteno.)

In addition, DMHDD has emphasized closer security and more intense care for mentally ill persons who are potentially dangerous or who have committed a crime. DeVito also favors a controversial proposal in the General Assembly which would eliminate the insanity defense and substitute the plea of "culpable and mentally disabled" or "mentally disabled and neither culpable nor innocent."

Deinstitutionalization, a major trend of the 1970's, continued during deVito's term with the conversion of the Lincoln Annex to a medium security prison. There are also plans to convert the East Moline Mental Health Center into a minimum security prison. Plans for the Tinley Park Mental Health Center include transferring some patients to other centers and converting one of the buildings to a community facility for the developmental disabled.

A major problem for the 1980's, according to deVito, is developing community mental health systems with sufficient funds to support the added burden of providing housing and programs for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled as well as alcohol and drug abuse patients. Federal, state and private funding will have to be put together "if community programs are to survive," he says.

Porter elected U.S. rep from 10th District

John E. Porter (R., Evanston) was elected U.S. representative from the 10th Congressional District in a special election held January 19. The election was held to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Abner J. Mikva to become judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In the 1978 elections, incumbent Mikva had defeated Porter for the seat in a hotly contested race (see January 1979, p. 15). But this time Porter defeated his Democratic opponent, Robert A. Weinberger of Glenview. The final count was 36,981 votes to 30,929.

Porter, who was sworn in January 24, is an attorney. He served as a state legislator during the 78th, 79th and 80th general assemblies. He is running for the 10th District seat in 1980 and was uncontested for the nomination in the Republican primary. State Sen. John J. Nimrod (R., Glenview) and James J. Henderson, Winnetka, who

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had filed for the GOP primary, withdrew before the March primary elections.

Weinberger, an attorney who was previously chief legislative advisor to the secretary of Congress, sought the Democratic nomination for the 10th District seat. He faced Thomas W. Flynn, Niles, a lawyer, former urban planner and former instructor of business and law at the City College of Chicago; and Marshall J. Hartman, Lincolnwood, an adjunct professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and former executive director of the Criminal Defense Consortium of Cook County.

Changnon to head Water Survey

Stanley A. Changnon Jr. was named chief of the Illinois State Water Survey by Frank Beal, director of the Illinois Institute of Natural Resources (IINR) effective March 17. His appointment was approved by the Natural Resources Board, which oversees the state's three surveys — Geologic, Natural History and Water.

Previously, Changnon was head of the atmospheric sciences section, State Water Survey, and professor of geography at the University of Illinois (UI) at Urbana-Champaign. Changnon has been studying the effects large urban centers have on weather and has published articles on the subject.

He replaced William C. Ackerman, who retired as water chief after 23 years. Ackerman is now adjunct professor at UI, and is also working as a consultant.

Department of Public Health

David King, Rochester, as chief of the division of budget and fiscal operations, Department of Public Health (IDPH), by department director William L. Kempiners effective December 1. Previously, King was budget manager for the Department of Transportation. King replaced Harry Bostick, Chatham, who became assistant to IDPH's deputy director. Bostick had been the agency's chief fiscal officer since September 1978 after the General Assembly forced a shakeup in the department because of reports of mismanagement of the state's trauma services program. The department has set up an accounting system designed to correct the problems.

IDPH is also working to correct difficulties in its federally funded Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WICS). The $27 million program came under investigation last spring for allegedly improperly awarding data processing contracts. In December, newly appointed Director Kempiners dismissed Patricia Fitzgerald, Springfield, who had managed the WICS program since 1974. A 1979 report by the Legislative Investigating Commission cites "serious oversights on the part of individuals," lack of communication and reluctance on the part of former IDPH directors Joyce Lashof and Paul Peterson to oversee the WICS program as contributing to the difficulties. The commission also recommended that the General Assembly determine whether management consulting contracts and contracts for the use or purchase of data processing equipment and software should continue to be exempt from formal bidding requirements.

University of Illinois

William Forsyth Jr., Springfield, was reelected president of the University of Illinois (UI) Board of Trustees for a one-year term by the board effective January 17. Also elected for one-year terms were: James Costello, Champaign, as university counsel; Earl Porter, Champaign, as secretary; and R. W. Brady, Chicago, as comptroller. Forsyth is president of Forsyth Insurance Agency, Inc., Springfield. Costello is UI counsel; Porter is UI secretary, and Brady is UI vice president for administration. Robert R. Manchester, Chicago, was elected last year for a two-year term as treasurer of the UI Board of Trustees. He is vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Edwin L. Goldwasser, Urbana, as UI vice chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, by the board of trustees effective January 17 at the recommendation of university president Stanley O. Ikenberry and John E. Cribbet, chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus. Goldwasser, who had been acting vice chancellor since July, succeeded Morton W. Weir who resigned to direct a new psychology research facility in Omaha, Neb. A physicist, Goldwasser was deputy director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, for 11 years. He will continue to serve as vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate College until the positions are filled.

Other appointments

Peg Blaser, Springfield, as director of the Department on Aging (DOA), by the governor, effective on her fifty-fifth birthday, January 19. Blaser had served as acting director since May 1979 because the statute requires the director of DOA to be 55 years of age or over.

C. Robert Throckmorton, Petersburg as production manager, Illinois correctional industries, Department of Corrections (DOC), effective in February by correctional industries superintendent Harold L. Skolnik, Springfield. Formerly manufacturing manager of Sangamo Electric in Springfield, Throckmorton worked most recently in DOC's management division. Skolnik, who became industries superintendent in March 1979, had been administrator of program development for the Dangerous Drugs Commission and also worked for nine years with DOC.

Suzan Sutherland, Springfield, as staff member, criminal justice division, Office of the Attorney General, by division director Donald McKay effective February 1. Sutherland, an attorney, was previously

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with the State Board of Elections. In her new post, she replaced Steven J. Teplinsky, Springfield, who transferred to the revenue division where he is in charge of prosecuting criminal violations of the Illinois Revenue Code.

William P. Ryan, Glen Ellyn, as associate general counsel and acting general counsel of the State Board of Elections by the board effective January 2. Ryan, who was assistant attorney general in the state attorney general's office in Springfield from 1969-1973, was in private practice before his appointment this year. The post he fills is a new position.

Keith R. Sanders, Carbondale, as government relations officer for the Southern Illinois University System (SIU), by the university chancellor Kenneth Shaw, effective in January. Sanders was professor of speech communication, SIU Carbondale. He replaced George L. Criminger who became special assistant for external relations to George R. Mace, vice president for university relations at Carbondale.

Steve Culen, Chicago, as executive director of Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), by the council's executive board effective February 1. Culen was director of AFSCME Council 102 which represents northern Illinois. He became an AFSCME staff representative in 1972 and has represented both state and local employees and led statewide negotiations for prison guards. He plans to continue efforts to organize the municipal workers in Chicago. Culen filled the vacancy left by the death of Larry Marquardt (see below).

Lawrence B. Christmas, Oak Park, as executive director of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, by the commission effective in February. He succeeded Matthew L. Rockwell, Winnetka, who took a job with a Chicago architectural firm. Previously, Christmas had been executive director of the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, a nonprofit organization concerned with planning in the greater Chicago area. Elizabeth L. Hollander, Chicago, was named to succeed Christmas as the council's executive director by its board of governors in February. Hollander was associate director of the Task Force on the Future of Illinois, a two-year legislative commission which turned in its final report long-range goals for the state in January 1980.

John E. Schwegman, Springfield, was elected president, and George B. Fell, Rockford, was elected secretary treasurer of the Natural Areas Association (NAA) at its

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first meeting in October. They will serve for one-year terms. Thirteen midwestern states are represented in the organization which is composed of professionals from state and federal agencies interested in preserving natural land areas. Schwegman is chief natural areas biologist and head of the natural areas section, Department of Conservation. Fell is executive secretary of the Natural Land Institute in Rockford which serves as field staff for the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission under a contract with the Department of Conservation.

Virginia M. Lawton, Riverside, as executive director of Illinois Citizens for Better Care (ICBC), by its board of directors effective in February. ICBC is a Chicago-based advocacy organization which seeks to improve the lives of institutionalized elderly persons throughout Illinois. Its first-year program focuses on four areas in Chicago with heavy nursing home concentrations: Uptown, Rogers Park, W. Rogers Park and Washington Park. Lawton was previously community associate for the Greater St. Louis Health Systems Agency. She replaced ICBC acting director Sister Catherine McHugh, Chicago, who plans to continue working in the organization.

Rev. Charles Koen, Cairo, was elected president of the National Association of Neighborhoods at the organization's annual meeting in Louisville, Ky., in November for a one-year term. He won the election in an upset over the association's slated candidates when the midwest caucus joined the black caucus in backing an alternate slate. Koen is associate minister of Cairo's First Missionary Baptist Church, vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, chairman of the board of the Little Egypt Housing Development Corporation, and a member of the congressional black caucus' housing and health brain trusts. In the early 1970's he led a two-year boycott in Cairo in which blacks protested high unemployment and poor housing.

Deaths

Larry Marquardt, 50, of Chicago, of a heart attack January 27 after attending a dinner with union members in Springfield. Marquardt began his union career with the United Auto Workers. He joined the AFSCME staff in 1972, representing employees in the mental health field, and later directed Council 102. In January 1978 he was named statewide executive director of Council 31 which represents 43,000 state employees plus about 10,000 local government employees. He was also an international vice president of AFSCME and vice president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor.