• Dr. Thomas Schneider, Jr. of Glenview was put in as president of the Chicago Dental Society. Beforehand, Dr. Schneider held a number of management positions throughout the Chicago Dental Society’s Northwest Facet Department and served on quite a few committees.
As president, Dr. Schneider will lead planning efforts and preparations for the 157th midwinter assembly, “A Dental Custom,” which might be held in February at McCormick Place West in Chicago. The occasion is the society’s annual scientific assembly and one of many dental trade’s premier occasions.
Dr. Schneider graduated from the College of Illinois Faculty of Dentistry and has a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma from Loyola College Chicago and Loyola College’s College of Dentistry, with a specialty in periodontics, respectively.
Along with his management roles with the Chicago Dental Society, he’s a member of the American Dental Affiliation, Illinois State Dental Society, American Academy of Periodontology, Illinois Society of Periodontists, Midwest Society of Periodontology, The Odontographic Society of Chicago, and is a Fellow of each the Worldwide Faculty of Dentists and the American Faculty of Dentists.
Dr. Schneider has additionally taught dentistry for a lot of his 33-year profession and is at the moment instructing within the division of Periodontics on the College of Illinois Chicago Faculty of Dentistry. He’s additionally an lively member of the Knights of Columbus.

Legal professional Shannon Bauer joins the Property Planning and Administration follow group at Lavelle Regulation in Schaumburg.
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Legal professional Shannon Bauer has joined the Property Planning and Administration follow group at Schaumburg-based Lavelle Regulation. Bauer has been working with the crew at Lavelle Regulation as an incoming affiliate and regulation clerk since August of this 12 months.
She arrives with a longtime dedication to the neighborhood service initiatives of Lavelle Regulation, having spent vital time volunteering with Chicago-area authorized help organizations whereas in regulation college at Loyola College Chicago College of Regulation.
Bauer was a multiple-time member of the dean’s listing at Loyola, the place she additionally was a Management, Service and Public Curiosity Recognition Award recipient. She holds a grasp’s diploma in training from Marian College and two bachelor’s levels from the College of Kentucky.
Previous to becoming a member of the crew at Lavelle Regulation, Bauer labored as a regulation clerk for 18 months at a Chicago agency.

Erich Beer receives his Snap-on/ASE Grasp Vehicle Technician of the Yr award Nov. 18, on the ASE board of governors assembly in Arizona. Pictured, from left, are: Tim Zilke, ASE president and CEO; John Wolf, president, Snap-on Enterprise Options; award recipient Erich Beer and Mark Polke, chairman of the ASE board of administrators.
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Prospect Heights resident Erich Beer, an ASE Licensed automotive technician, was honored with a nationwide achievement award because the Snap-on/ASE Grasp Vehicle Technician of the Yr.
Beer was acknowledged on Nov. 18 on the fall board of governors assembly of the Nationwide Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE).
The ASE annual awards highlight high scorers on the ASE Certification assessments from among the many ranks of the roughly quarter million ASE Licensed professionals nationwide.
Beer works at Formulation Automotive in Mount Prospect.
• Daniel VanOverbeke of Lake Villa, a Southern Illinois College, Carbondale, graduate pupil, has been chosen for the extremely aggressive Diversifying Excessive Training College in Illinois program, a fellowship program designed to extend the variety of minority full-time tenure observe college and workers at increased training establishments within the state.
Established in 2004 by the Illinois Common Meeting, this system is open to any Illinois graduate pupil who’s a member of an underrepresented group. Fellowship recipients obtain a tuition waiver and month-to-month stipend.
The fellows get pleasure from networking and convention alternatives as they put together for careers in increased training. They comply with search positions in Illinois increased training establishments, governing boards or education-related positions in a state company after finishing their graduate training.
Returning fellow VanOverbeke is a doctoral pupil in economics and was initially chosen for the 2020-2021 tutorial 12 months. He’s a a number of SIU alumnus with bachelor’s levels in economics, finance and enterprise economics.
He has additionally earned grasp’s levels in accounting, economics, agricultural economics and media in mass communication and media arts. He plans to proceed his work in financial improvement analysis after commencement.
VanOverbeke hopes to change into an economics professor and initially to show in Israel for a 12 months after commencement.
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