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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1998
Page
14
The page lists editors and staff members including Margaret Seltzner Dennis Wheeler Joanne Zerkel and Paula Carlson among others. It confirms roles such as assistant editor news editor features editor and page editor at various associations and newspapers in Illinois. The date Thursday May 14 1998 appears as the publication tag.
About 600 diners in 55 homes took part last month in the first Diversity Dinners aimed at connecting people of varied races creeds and professions in the South Suburbs. Organizers plan October events hoping to scale to 150 200 dinners and spark a regional town meeting at Governors State University next spring.
Residents surround Homewood and surrounding suburbs to bid farewell to James Mahan, superintendent of School District 153 for 15 years. A 2 p.m. Sunday program at James Hart School will honor his service before he retires to hand over to Barbara Ramsey. The district under his leadership earned two Blue Ribbon schools and advanced tech in classrooms. Mahan, 63, plans more leisure and new challenges with wife Jan, volunteering and other work.
Jerry Blakemore, 43, a Ford Heights native and Bloom Township High School alumnus, has been appointed chair of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. A Princeton and John Marshall Law School graduate, he previously served on state boards and as a special assistant to Gov. Thompson before the Edgar appointment in 1992. He now leads the board that guides two and four year colleges and advises the governor on education budgets, while serving as CEO of the Illinois Sports Facility Authority.
A Crestwood construction drive centers on 141st and Kenton where Chester Stranczek plans a minor league Cheetahs stadium. workers pace the concrete rise as a dugout and locker rooms form, with lighting tubes and a pending grandstand. Weather and plan changes slow progress, eyeing July completion.
The letter writers challenge Democratic loyalty and criticize fence sitting, urging party integrity. A second writer condemns Southwest Airlines for pressuring Chicago’s air-transport growth and favors a third airport to restore competition, urging consumer-led market freedom.
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