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                     United Nations, Governor's Commission on the
Members: KATE MARRS, chairperson; RAY SHORT, honorary vice chairperson; ROBERT
S. CHASE,
  JR., secretary; ARLINE SEYMOUR, treasurer; CAROL EDLER BAUMANN, MARTIN
BERK, CHARLES
  DAY, RUBEN J. DEHOYOS, NANCY DESMARAIS, FREDERIC H. DUPERRAULT, JOSEPH
ELDER,
  WALTER H. GEISSLER, STEPHEN KEHM, MICHAEL MOTYKA, MARCIA OLSON, LOiS J.
POWLESS,
  EVERETT REFIOR, CURTIS GEORGE REITHEL, ELIZABETH RINGSTAD, ROBERT SCHACHT,
KEVIN
  SHIBILSKI, PAUL SHIRES, THELMA A. SIAS, SHYAMAL K. SINHA, AARON J. TRUMMER,
MARGARET
  WERNECKE, MARY WILSON, KATHLEEN EDDY YIH, GLORIA JAMES ZIEGLER.
Staff Director: MARIE E. SEITZ.
Address: 1357 Spring Valley Drive, Racine 53405 or Institute of World Affairs,
University of
  Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee 53201.
Telephone: (414) 633-6056 (Racine) or (414) 963-4251 (Milwaukee).
  Originally created in 1959, the commission was recreated most recently,
on January 21, 1987,
in Executive Order 1 by Governor Thompson. The commission is responsible
for sponsoring
statewide educational programs concerning the functioning of the United Nations,
coordinating
Wisconsin's official participation in the annual observance of United Nations
Day, and sponsor-
ing statewide and regional conferences on matters affecting the UN. In the
last several years, the
commission has expanded its programming for classroom teachers on global
education. The
membership of the commission is drawn from various civic, religious, labor,
business, and edu-
cational organizations.
  The "27th Annual Report of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on
the United Nations,
1986", was issued in February 1987.


                     USS Wisconsin, Governor's Commission on the
Members: JAMES W. MCVEY, chairperson; other members to be appointed.
Governor's liaison: DONALD BACH.
Address: Office of the Governor, 115 East State Capitol, P.O. Box 7863, Madison
53707.
Telephone: (608) 266-1212.
  Governor Thompson created the commission in Executive Order 12 on April
14, 1987. Mem-
bers are to be appointed by the Governor. The chairperson, in consultation
with the Governor's
office, will appoint an executive committee to be the principal working group
of the commission
and lead the commission's activities. The Governor directed the commission
to: a) present to the
Governor by August 31, 1987 a plan to commemorate the recommissioning of
the USS Wiscon-
sin; b) plan activities to celebrate the ship's return to the fleet; c) arrange
to maintain an ongoing
relationship between Wisconsin and the ship and its crew; d) maintain contact
with officials of
the ship's home port; e) recommend a plan, in coordination with the State
Historical Society, for
a permanent USS Wisconsin exhibit; and f) consider whether the commission
should become a
statutory body.


                       Vocational Education, Wisconsin Council on
Members: JACK B. REIHL, chairperson; GEORGE ATKINSON, JEAN HENDERSON, RAYNELDA
JAWOR-
  SKI, COURTNEY LEONARD, ERICA MCINTIRE, MARY MUEHLIUS, DON NEVERMAN, AUDREY
V.
  O'HARROW, TRYGUE OvERBO, HENRY A. WALLACE, JR., FEDERICO ZARAGOZA, MARY
JANE
  ZDROIK.
Executive Assistant: SHIRLEY THOMPSON.
Address: 105-1/2 West Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53705.
Telephone: (608) 266-7813.
  Organized in 1969 to assist in the implementation of the federal Vocational
Education Act, the
council was recreated in 1975 by Governor Lucey and in 1983 by Governor Earl.
Governor
Thompson recreated it in Executive Order 1, January 21, 1987. Seven of the
13 council members,
including the chairperson, must be from the private sector. The council advises
the State Board