OBITUARIES.Robert Counsell, a retired educator and president of the Darien Park District in Darien, Ill., died on October 20, 1999. He was 72. Counsell served as commissioner and acting president of the Darien Park District for more than 20 years. In 1984 he was named Darien Citizen of the Year. A past president of Darien's Lions Club, Counsell had received the Melvin Jones Award last year, the highest honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. bestowed by that organization. Dr. James D. Mertes died on November 8, 1999, in Saginaw, Mich. Mertes served as a consultant to the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as with cities and counties in Texas on park and wetland projects, multiple use and recreation planning, and environmental resource management matters. He taught in Texas Tech's Department of Landscape Architecture from 1970 to 1996. In 1996, Mertes returned to Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). to teach at his alma mater ma·ter n. Chiefly British Mother. [Latin m  ter; see m , Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning regional planning: see city planning. .
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