Gottfried's remarks will come during a dinner at 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at the Holiday Inn, Urbana. John J. Hanlon, assistant director of the appellate defender's Death Penalty Trial Assistance Division, will receive the IPDA Cunningham Award for outstanding work on behalf of indigent capital defendants.
The dinner will be preceded by an afternoon of seminar presentations introduced by IPDA President David Brodsky of Lake County and Randall Rosenbaum of Champaign County. The seminar will continue Saturday morning, May 18.
Advocates Society
Chicago attorney Michael W. Rathsack, a past president of the Appellate Lawyers Association and member of the ISBA Special Committee on Appellate Practice, will speak to the Advocates Society during a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office.
Bohemian Lawyers
Arlington Heights attorney George T. Drost, honorary consul for the Czech Republic, will receive a Liberty Award from the Bohemian Lawyers Association of Chicago during its 91st annual dinner on Thursday, May 16, at the Riverside Golf Club (see photo on this page).
Randall J. Kadlec of Chicago Title Insurance will succeed Randall B. Hribal as president. Other incoming officers are David W. Krula and Terence R. Kalina, vice presidents; Adalbert Vlazny III, treasurer, and Anthony M. Slawniak, secretary.
Chicago Bar
Judges and lawyers who have supported activities of the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section during the past year will be honored during a reception and open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at association headquarters. Call (312) 554-2032.
Corporate Counsel
The Chicago chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has scheduled three informative programs on Tuesday, May 21. Call Crissy Coit at (312) 755-0635 for full details and registration. The presentations are:
"The Decision: Generating Positive Change," featuring Southern California fitness coach and personal growth catalyst Marc Vahanian; 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Nicor Gas in Naperville, preceded by continental breakfast; 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. at the East Bank Club, Chicago, preceded by reception and followed by buffet dinner.
"What's Your I2Q? Increasing Effectiveness Through Innovative Intelligence," a workshop with Debra Jacobs of Innolect Inc.; 2:30 to 5 p.m. at the East Bank Club.
DuPage County Bar
Wheaton attorney Donald J. Ramsell will be installed Thursday, June 6, as president of the DuPage County Bar Association (see photo on this page). The installation dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in the Wyndham Hotel Lisle. Call (630) 653-7779.
Young lawyers of the DuPage County Bar Association will hold a social reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at the Arrowhead Golf Club, Wheaton.
DuPage Women Lawyers
Brenda M. Carroll, director of the DuPage Bar Legal Aid Service, will be installed as president of the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers during a dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at the Hilton Hotel, Lisle. Call (630) 221-0802.
Illinois Trial Lawyers
The 30th annual convention and 47th annual golf outing of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association will take place Friday, June 7, at the Oakbrook Hills Resort. Call (800) 252-8501.
Justinian Society
Members of the Justinian Society from throughout the Chicago region will head for the Oak Meadows Golf Club in Addison on Tuesday, June 4, for a golf outing and bocce tournament. Call President-elect Antonio Romanucci at (312) 458-1000.
The schedule includes lunch at 12 noon, shotgun start at 1 p.m., bocce during the afternoon, and reception and dinner at 7:30 p.m. in a private tent.
Kane County Bar
The Kane County Bar Association will elect officers during its annual meeting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, in the County Judicial Center, St. Charles. Elgin attorney John F. Early is slated to be installed June 13 as president. The scheduled 11 a.m. memorial service has been cancelled because no member has died in the past year.
Madison County Bar
The Madison County Bar Association will conduct a memorial service at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 23, in the 3rd District Courthouse, Edwardsville. The association will hold elections during a dinner meeting May 23 at Aaron's in Alton. Call Kay Pile, (618) 296-5921.
Native American Bar
The Illinois Native American Bar Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at The John Marshall Law School. Call (847) 622-4192.
Nordic Law Club
The Nordic Law Club will hold its second annual Lutefisk Open, a benefit golf outing for its Scholarship Fund, on Friday, June 14, at White Pines Golf Club in Bensenville. Call Patricia Oakley, (708) 923-6760. Tee times will begin at 10 a.m., with refreshments and buffet dinner at 5:30 p.m.
North Suburban Bar
New officers of the North Suburban Bar Association will be elected at dinner meeting Tuesday, June 11, in the Terrace Restaurant at the Wilmette Golf Club. Call President Mary Long at (847) 272-0800.
Slated candidates are David P. Pasulka, a member of the ISBA Family Law Section Council, for president; Francis Baumgart, Jeanine Cunningham, Paul Shuldiner and Deidre Bauman, vice presidents; Dolores Leone, secretary, and Nancy Viser, treasurer.
Peoria County Bar
The Peoria County Bar Association will conduct a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 29, in room 210 of the County Courthouse. Call (309) 674-6049.
St. Clair Professionals
New officers of the St. Clair County Legal Professionals Association were installed May 15 during a dinner in Belleville. They are Terry Woelfel, president; Marie Sweitzer, vice president; Linda Sintzel, treasurer, and Terry Kessler and Diane Quart, secretaries.
U. of Illinois Law
The University of Illinois College of Law Alumni Association has scheduled a Rockford-area luncheon and a Quad Cities-area reception on Monday, June 3. Call (217) 333-2628 for details.
Vermilion County Bar
The Vermilion County Bar Association will hold a golf outing Monday, June 3, at the Danville Country Club. A 12 noon buffet lunch will precede the 1:15 p.m. shotgun start. Dinner will start at 7 p.m.
Will County Bar
Associate Judge Richard C. Schoenstedt of the 12th Circuit will become president of the Will County Bar Association on July 1, and Associate Judge William G. McMenamin will move up to first vice president.
Elections of other officers and directors will take place at 12 noon Thursday, May 16, at the association office in Joliet. ISBA Assembly member Myles L. Jacobs is slated for second vice president, and Kenneth A. Carlson for secretary-treasurer. Call (815) 726-0383.
Women's Bar of Illinois
Tracey J. Stokes will be installed Thursday, June 6, as president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (see photo on preceding page). The 88th annual dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel and Towers, Chicago, will begin with a 5 p.m. reception in the Normandie Lounge. Call (312) 341-8530.
Other incoming officers are Elizabeth M. Budzinski and Marlene A. Kurilla, vice presidents; Lori G. Levin, treasurer, and Jennifer Lundy Sender, Jennifer Baron and Dawn M. Gonzales, secretaries.
Esther "Tess" Canja, president of AARP, and Anastasia Kelly, executive vice president and general counsel of Sears, Roebuck and Co., will receive Women of Achievement Awards.
Charley Popejoy of Wheaton headed DuPage County Bar
Wheaton attorney Charles Popejoy, a past president of the DuPage County Bar Association, died April 15 at age 90 of cardiac arrest in his home.
A 1939 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, working at the Union Stockyards to pay tuition and expenses, Mr. Popejoy practiced with the Chicago Motor Club until World War II. He was an Army first sergeant in Europe and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Returning to the Motor Club after the war, Mr. Popejoy left in 1950 to join his brother-in-law, Gates W. Clancy, in an insurance defense practice in DuPage and Kane Counties.
He subsequently formed his own Glen Ellyn firm, from which six members eventually became judges. One is his son, 18th Circuit Associate Judge Kenneth L. Popejoy.
Charley Popejoy served as a hearing officer for the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission during the 1980s. He was a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Through his marriage to Gates Clancy's sister, he also was related to St. Charles attorneys Wendell W. Clancy, Michael W. Clancy of the ISBA Board of Governors, Timothy G. Clancy and Susan Clancy Boles, and San Francisco attorney Kent J. Clancy.
Lewis Barron
Chicago attorney Lewis R. Baron died April 30 at age 70 of injuries suffered in a fall. A 1955 graduate of the Harvard Law School, he had been of counsel to Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner since 2000.
Mr. Baron concentrated in tax, trust and estate planning for family-owned businesses with four firms during his 46 years in practice. He was known for creating the "rabbi trust" in 1975, an executive compensation plan for retired clergy and employees of not-for-profit organizations.
Federal tax incentives editor since 1994 for the American Bar Association Journal on Affordable Housing and Community Development, Mr. Baron served for many years on the Community Development and Housing Initiatives Committee of United Way of Chicago.
Charles Blachinsky
Kewanee attorney Charles W. "Chick" Blachinsky, a past president of the Henry County Bar Association, died April 11 at age 87. A 1939 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, he had been of counsel since 1981 to the Blachinsky Law Offices with his son, John M. Blachinsky.
Charles Blachinsky practiced continuously in Kewanee except for Army service as a sergeant during World War II in Europe. He was a past chair of the ISBA Municipal Law Section and municipal attorney for many cities, villages and other governmental units.
Among them were Kewanee (three stints totaling 14 years), Atkinson (1956-79), Galva (1955-81), Kewanee School Dist. 229, Kewanee Airport Authority (1972-81) and Henry County Housing Authority (1948-81). He was an assistant Illinois attorney general for condemnations from 1960 to 1966.
Mr. Blachinsky was a director of St. Francis Hospital and the Kewanee Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Kiwanis Club, and past exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge.
In addition to his law-partner son, survivors include a daughter, St. Louis attorney Kay Lindbeck of Collinsville, and a nephew, Chief Judge Jeffrey W. O'Connor of the 14th Circuit in Rock Island.
Thomas McKay
St. Charles attorney Thomas McKay Jr. died May 2 at age 81 of cancer in a New Jersey health care center. A 1944 graduate of the New York University Law School, he practiced with a New Jersey law firm for six years.
In 1950, Mr. McKay became assistant general counsel of Thomas A. Edison Industries in West Orange, N.J., rising to general counsel and secretary and overseeing the company's merger with the McGraw Electric Co. in Elgin to form the McGraw-Edison Corp.
Mr. McKay was vice president, general counsel and secretary of McGraw-Edison from 1967 to 1980, managing more than 35 merger and acquisition transactions.
In 1980, he set up a legal department for the Swift Independent Packing Co., a spin-off from Beatrice Foods, and was vice president, secretary and general counsel when he retired in 1984.
Mr. McKay was of counsel to the Chicago firm of Boodell, Sears, Giambalvo & Crowley from 1984 until 1987, when he began a second career as a volunteer in the Kane County office of Prairie State Legal Services. He received its Harry A. Blackmun Award in 1992.
He served on the Norris Cultural Arts Center board in St. Charles and the Kane County Ambulance Board, and was an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
A memorial service for Mr. McKay will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 29, in the Episcopal chapel at The Evergreens, Morristown, N.J.
Francis Nolan
Additional information has been received about retired Chicago attorney Francis A. Nolan III, whose death on April 19 at age 56 from an infection related to cancer was reported in the May 1 issue.
A 1971 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Nolan became an assistant Cook County state's attorney in 1972 and helped prosecute serial killer John Wayne Gacy. He left to head the new Office of Professional Standards of the Chicago Police Department in the late 1970s.
Mr. Nolan left the OPS in 1983 to begin a private practice in criminal defense, but had suffered from cancer for several years.
Edward Scott
South Holland attorney Edward A. Scott Jr., a resident of Olympia Fields, died March 29 at age 81 in a Blue Island hospital of pneumonia related to lung cancer.