Shaw Among Four Finalists for SIU Chancellor
SIU Edwardsville President Kenneth A. Shaw is among four finalists for chancellor of the SIU system. Other candidates are Durward Long of Hawaii, Donald Swain of UC Berkeley, and Clyde Wingfield of the University of Miami. The board’s Harris Rowe called the list outstanding as finalists prepare interviews in St. Louis and campus visits in Carbondale and Edwardsville.
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Frank Suhadolnik
Southern
University of Miami
Florida
Rowe
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Long
University of Florida
Wheaton College
Illinois
Syracuse University
Texas Technological College
Pennsylvania State University
Northern Illinois University
Shaw
Siu-Edwardsville
Towson State University
Maryland
SIUE
Towson State
Illinois State University
Purdue University
Board of Trustees
St. Louis
Siu-Carbondale
Edwardsville
Swain
Siu-C
Siu-E
Wingfield
James Brown
SIUC
Warren W. Brandt
Council of Deans
District 95 rehires five teachers for austerity period
Carbondale Elementary School District 95 board rehired five of nineteen laid off in February. Tenured teachers Betty Fohr and Margie Bryson join Terry Pauls non tenured, plus two grant program staff George Wayne and Mary Jane Boswell. Waggoner, an industrial arts teacher, was not rehired after a tied vote. Board approved a 36586 interfund loan to the transportation fund to cover, with repayment expected when tax revenue arrives. A $2800 lunch program deficit was also noted amid rising milk costs.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Board of Education
Betty Fohr
Margie Bryson
Terry Pauls
George Wayne
Mary Jane Boswell
Leroy Waggoner
Don Garner
Harold Bardo
Linda Brandon
Waggoner
Mike Altekruse
Anita Lenzini
Karl Bartelsmeyer
Brandon
Maralou Hawse
George Edwards
Transportation Fund
John Barbie
Barbie
Water woes hit several area towns and Monolithic pumps
Water pressure and supply issues hit Metropolis and neighboring towns after a lightning strike and power outages disrupted the Mardale pump system. Officials reported boil water orders, conservation drives, and interconnections causing low pressure in Murphysboro, Elkville, De Soto and nearby districts. A crane incident worsened supply in June, with pumps and storage deeply stressed.
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Southern Illinoisan
Metropolis
Forces of Evil
Superman
Southern Illinois
Man of Steel
Charlotte Bailey
Control Panel Board
City Water Office
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Marion
Grand Tower
Tom Hale
Chicago
Hale
Kinkaid-Reed’s Creek Conservancy District
de Soto
Elkville
Mardale Water District
Bob Chapman
Kinkaid Conservancy
Kaid
Chapman
Murphysboro
Michael Bowers
Bowers
Kinkaid
Mardale
Willisville
Campbell Hill
Ava
Murdale
Empty roads mark Rend Lake resort dream at Gun Creek area
The Bend Lake Conservancy District’s Gun Creek Recreation Area near Rend Lake holds a multi million dollar resort plan stalled by a 2.4 million sewage treatment plant. The district has struggled since 1976 to raise its 25 percent share and faced loan uncertainties with the Farmers Home Administration while officials insist the project remains viable.
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Cathy Saxenmeyer
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois 183
Franklin County
Bend Lake
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Economic Development Administration
District Board of Trustees
Farmers Home Administration
Sheldon Keyser
Fmha
Nashville
Foster
Charles J. Covington
U.S
Paul Douglas
Covington
Rend Lake
Intercity Water System
Indiana
Gun Creek
EDA
State of Illinois
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Ina
Convention Center
Carbondale High Eyes Competency Tests and Remedial Programs
Carbondale Community High School district 165 board approved goals for a Minimal Competency Program requiring basic skills testing in reading, language arts, and math for incoming freshmen with remediation for low scorers. It would use annual retests, leveraging the eighth grade High School Placement Test, with a minimum 8.5 average target. In other actions, bids were awarded for football field lighting, parking lot seal coating, and building foundation work for a new building technology house. The 1979 student-built technology house deed was transferred to John Green of General Telephone for $73,105.
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Keyser
Fmha
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
EDA
Larry Foster
Board of Trustees
Foster
Lawrence A. Lipe and Associates
Ella Reilly
Southern Illinois
Carbondale Community High School
Cchs District 165 Board of Education
Margaret Hollis
Hollis
City Lighting
American Seal Centers
General Acrylics
Coniglio Construction Co
John Green
General Telephone
Green
Carbondale
Bloomington
Marion penitentiary denies visitation rights suspended
Marion federal penitentiary officials deny that visiting privileges were suspended after a stabbing last week left Associate Warden John L. Clark hospitalized. Clark, 41, is listed in fair condition at Marion Memorial Hospital after being stabbed in the abdomen on June 14 in an unprovoked attack. Prison officials say inmates have not been locked in cells and movements are allowed. a prisoner letter claimed otherwise, but spokesman Ron Beal denied any lockup or halted visits.
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Marion Federal Penitentiary
John L. Clark
Clark
Marion Memorial Hospital
Southern Illinoisan
Ron Beal
G. C. Wilkinson
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SIU System
California
Hawaii
Florida Southern College
University of Georgia
University of California System Administration
University of California-Davis
The
University of California At Berkeley
District 95
Donald
Judy
Fenee
Joe Jines
Rend Lake Resort
Carbondale High
Marion Penitentiary
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