IHSA Announcements

September 16, 1996

Board of Directors Receives Resignation of President Linda Layne

BLOOMINGTON — The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors has received the resignation of its president, Linda Layne, Sunday at its regular September meeting.

Under the provisions of the IHSA Constitution, the Board of Directors will appoint her successor from her division (No. 1).That appointment will be made no later than the next regular meeting of the Board (Oct. 15).

Mrs. Layne, who moved from the principalship at Chicago (Fenger) to a position in the central administration of the Chicago Public School system, has served as Board president since 1994. She is the first female and first minority to serve the member schools of IHSA as president of the Board of Directors. She was first elected to the Board in 1991, and was its vice president from 1992-94.

"Linda has distinguished herself in state association work," said IHSA Executive Director Dave Fry. "While we are thrilled for her because of her career promotion in the Chicago public school system, we will miss her leadership on our Board. She is a significant role model for young women."

Other Action

The Board took the following action regarding the general business of the Association:
  1. Approved Huff Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the site for the 1997 Dual Team State Final Wrestling Tournament on March 1, 1997.
  2. Added Cultural Academic Student Exchange to the list of approved foreign exchange programs.
Advisory Committee Recommendations

Recommendations from the Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee were acted on as follows:
  1. Approved a host school allowance of $200 plus the cost of officials for regional and sectional tournaments.
  2. Approved a requirement that math computation questions must be rung in within a 30 second time limit and toss up questions be rung in within a 10 second time limit.
  3. Approved an increase in fees for regional moderators to $25 for one round plus $10 for each additional round at each contest site.
  4. Approved a flat fee of $100 per day for moderators at the state final.
Discussion Items

At each meeting of the Board of Directors, there are certain agenda items which the Board discusses but upon which it takes no action. Following is a report of those on the September 1996, agenda:
  1. Public/Private Task Force: The Board heard a report of the Sept. 11 meeting of the Task Force, and of its recommendations to be discussed at the series of 13 Principals Rules Meetings scheduled to begin Sept. 18. These meetings will be conducted as follows: 
    Date             Time        Site
Wed., Sept. 18   10:00 a.m.  Chicago Board of Education
                  4:00 p.m.  Flossmoor (Homewood-F.)
Mon., Sept. 23   10:00 a.m.  O'Fallon
                  2:00 p.m.  Marion (H.S.)
Tues., Sept. 24   1:30 p.m.  Sterling (H.S.)
                  7:00 p.m.  Galesburg
Tues., Oct. 1    10:00 a.m.  Ottawa (Twp.)
                  2:00 p.m.  Lombard (Glenbard East)
Thurs., Oct. 3   10:00 a.m.  Elgin (H.S.)
                  2:00 p.m.  Arlington Hts. (Hersey)
Tues., Oct. 8     2:00 p.m.  Jacksonville (H.S.)
Wed., Oct. 9     10:00 a.m.  Salem
                  4:00 p.m.  Mahomet (M.-Seymour)
  2. Consideration of Amendment Proposals: The Board discussed several ideas for possible proposals, but took no action. The principal of any member school may submit a proposal to amend either the IHSA Constitution and/or By-laws. Deadline for submission of proposals for this year's annual legislative process is Tuesday, Oct. 15. All proposals submitted on or before the deadline will be presented to the IHSA Legislative Commission at its first regular meeting on Monday, Nov. 4.