Northbrook woman elected to hospital board

Northbrook resident Marla Friedman Glabe was elected to the Northwest Community Healthcare board of directors.

Glabe, 57, is a partner with Management Control International Inc., serves on the board of directors for Wintrust Wealth Management and is president of the North Shore United Way. She was elected to a 1-year term by the board on April 25.

The Northwest Community Healthcare board of directors is a volunteer board made up of community members and business leaders. The board meets monthly and governs Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights and its satellite facilities.

Ÿ Long Grove resident Terry Layton, Ph.D., received the Silver Circle Excellence In Teaching Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Layton is a visiting professor in the department of Bioengineering at the college.

He joined the UIC staff six years ago and teaches a freshman- and sophomore-level three-course sequence in calculus. His students are mainly science and engineering majors, but some take his courses to fulfill a requirement for a nontechnical major.

Since 1966, the Silver Circle Award has been presented to some of UIC’s best teachers. Winners, who are honored at their college commencements, receive $500 and their names join a long list of distinguished colleagues.

Layton received his award at the commencement ceremony for the College of Engineering on May 7.

Ÿ George Pessimisis, a Conant High School Business Professionals of America (BPA) student, came in first place in Interview Skills at the BPA National Competition held May 4-7 in Washington, D.C.

BPA is an academic club that has four competition areas in which students can choose two events in which to compete: Financial Services; Administrative Support; Information Technology and Management; and Marketing and Human Resources.

Conant High School qualified over 40 students to compete at the state meet last February, with 20 students qualifying there to compete at the national event.