Our thanks and best wishes go to these three valued colleagues. The summer season brought three new temporary employees. Mike Bonansinga , a recent MA recipient in Legal Studies, was employed by Sangamon State University's Legal Studies Center to assist project staff with legal research on Herndon and Lincoln's Commonplace Book. Another SSU recruit is Dan Dixon , a History major who has performed a variety of useful tasks in the office and in Menard County. John Squibb , History instructor at Lincoln Land Community College, used his legal history expertise to assess the historical context and significance of Lincoln's Illinois Supreme Court cases.
Volunteers continue to devote their respective skills to certain project assignments.
Dan Bannister worked many hours during the winter and spring to finish the arduous task of writing briefs for most of Lincoln's 250-odd Supreme Court cases. His singular dedication presently involves additional work on the Supreme Court material. Susan Krause , a History graduate student at SSU, is devoting several days per week this summer to biographical research on Illinois attorneys who were contemporaries of Lincoln. Bob Lawless , law clerk to U.S. Seventh Circuit Judge Harlington Wood, has written briefs of all of Lincoln's reported federal cases, and also provided other help. The search for additional full-time staff ended successfully by late June, with the appointment of Dennis Suttles and Leslie Wright as Research Associates.