Council names new officers, directors

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2000 | 11:36 a.m.

The National Council on Problem Gambling has named a number of new officers and board members, including two Nevadans.

The council elected Carol O'Hare, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, to a one-year term as executive vice president of the national council. Elected to a three-year term on the board was William Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada-Reno.

The council also elected Chuck Maurer, a clinical psychologist from Seattle, as president. Betty Greer, executive director of the Mississippi Council of Problem and Compulsive Gambling, was named secretary.

Elected to three-year terms on the board were: Renee Cunningham-Williams, Washington University School of Medicine; Gary Hanson, Washington State Council on Problem Gambling; Nancy Lantz of the Custer Center of Indianapolis; Leo McCarthy, former lieutenant governor of California; Dennis McNeilly, the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and Rachel Volberg, Gemini Research.

The council, based in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit organization designed to help address problem gambling. The organization takes a neutral stance on gambling.

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