Before leaving office, Gov. George Ryan named individuals to serve on an 11-member advisory board for the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
• Marilyn Boria of Elmhurst, director of the Elmhurst Public Library, who will serve through 2005.
• Charles Bryan Jr. of Richmond, Va., director of the Virginia Historical Society, who will serve through 2005.
• Warrick Carter of Chicago, president of Columbia College, who will serve through 2006.
• Bill Kurtis, Chicago television producer and former news anchor, who will serve through 2004.
• Anthony Leone, a lobbyist, who will serve through 2003.
• John Roe of Bradenton, Fla., a former judge and Illinois state senator from Rochelle, who will serve through 2004.
• Anna Eleanor Roosevelt of Chicago, a community relations expert and the granddaughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who will serve on the board through 2006.
Named earlier were Lonnie Bunch, president of the Chicago Historical Society; Charles Cullen, president and librarian of Chicago’s Newberry Library; Richard Franke, retired chairman and CEO of John Nuveen & Co. Inc., who will serve as chairman of the panel; and Garry Wills, historian, author and Northwestern University professor.
The board will be paid expenses only.
