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Michael Carbone; Rosemary DiCrispino;
Lawrence Levinson; Michelle Marlow; Joseph
Onder; Diana Pillas. Terms expire 1987.
Ellen A. Callegary; Gerald G. Pantaleo, Jr.; Mary
Salkever; Jacqueline Shields. Terms expire 1988.
Shirley D. Finch; Dennis J. Fisher; Bronwyn
Wallace Mayden; Marsha Mazz; John Michener;
Stanley R. Platman, M.D.; Margene Reeder; Gary
Smith, M.D. Terms expire 1989.
William R. Fields; James F. Gardner, Ph.D.;
Thomas F. Krajewski, M.D.; Stephen H. Morgan;
Connie S. Reinwald; Loretta Sinclair. Terms
expire 1990.
Alan C. Lovell; Carol M. Mallonee; Mary Jo
McGovern; Donald R. Rabush, Ed.D.; Stanley
Sidle; Melvin S. Stem, M.D. Terms expire 1991.
Catherine A. Raggio, Executive Director
Telephone: 333-3098
By Executive Order, the Governor created the
Maryland State Planning Council on Develop-
mental Disabilities in 1971 to carry out provisions
of the federal Developmental Disabilities Services
and Facilities Construction Act (P.L. 91-517),
now the Developmental Disabilities Act (P.L.
98-537). In 1973, the Council was reconstituted
to enable the State to qualify for certain federal
grants. Formerly under the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene, the Council was placed
within the Office for Handicapped Individuals in
1987 (Executive Order 01.01.1987.08).
The Council serves as an advocate for persons
with developmental disabilities. The Council also
helps to develop the State plan on developmental
disabilities and monitor, review, and evaluate its
implementation.
The Governor appoints the members of the
Council. At least half the Council consists of per-
sons with developmental disabilities or their par-
ents or guardians, or immediate relatives or
guardians of persons with mentally impairing de-
velopmental disabilities. Of these, at least one-
third must be persons with developmental disabili-
ties (U.S. Code, Title 42, sec. 6024).
GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON
EMPLOYMENT OF THE
HANDICAPPED
Chairperson: John A. Clinton, 1988
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Karen G. Colvin; M. Doreen Croser; William B.
Fox; Richard Frye; Gertrude R. Jeffers; Margaret
Mann, Ph.D.; Jackson McKay; John F. Strahan,
M.D.; David Thompson. Terms expire 1988.
Stevie M. Carter; Walter M. Dickerson; Dan
Ingram; Paul V. Kane; James Letherman; Peggy
K. Martin; George McDevitt; Emanuel Orenberg;
Frank Ortega; Linda Purcell; Anne Wade;
Jacqueline Wiggins. Terms expire 1989.
Richard A. Batterton; Michael Brockmeyer;
Suzanne H. Clay; Richard F. Colbum; John W.
Derr; Jack Kaeufer; Kurt Milam; Pierre H.
Ossman; Ervina Kennedy Phillips; Phyllis T.
Shelton; Stanley W. Stocker; H. Pat Walker.
Terms expire 1990.
Telephone: 333-3098
Established in 1947 as the Governor's Commit-
tee to Promote Employment of the Handicapped,
the Committee was renamed the Governor's Com-
mittee on Employment of the Handicapped in
1979. In 1980, the Committee was placed under
the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the
State Department of Education (Executive Order
01.01.1980.12). The Committee became part of
the Office for Handicapped Individuals in 1987
(Executive Order 01.01.1987.09).
The Committee works to create a public aware-
ness of the problems faced by handicapped indi-
viduals in finding employment and cooperates
with all groups, public and private, in promoting
services for the handicapped. The Committee also
initiates and promotes programs to stimulate hir-
ing the handicapped.
Local committees exist in each county and in
Baltimore City. To coordinate the program and
keep committees informed of State and national
activities, an internal publication, entitled News-
worthy, goes out to State committee members and
local committee chairpersons. A quarterly news-
letter, Mainstreamer, is distributed to citizens and
employers interested in the goals and objectives of
the Committee and to others upon request.
The Committee sponsors annual conferences,
awards programs, and poster and journalism con-
tests to promote public awareness of employment
and rehabilitation programs for Maryland's dis-
abled citizens.
The Committee meets quarterly. Task forces
meet during the interims to develop programs and
projects to accomplish Committee goals. The
Committee's purpose is to 1) promote meaningful
employment opportunities for qualified mentally,
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