All it takes is a computer and a few minutes of your time to help local women and children in need. The WINGS Program, an Arlington Heights-based nonprofit that serves the needs of abused and homeless women and their children, lost a revenue-generating resale shop earlier this summer to a fire. In an effort to […]
The day after Lore Kirchheimer moved into Glencoe with her husband and their three grade school children, her neighbor Lorraine Sandler knocked on her door. She introduced herself and announced, “I’m taking you to a Hadassah meeting.” The astonished young mother replied “I can’t. I’ve just moved in,” but Sandler prevailed. It was 1960 and […]
Betty’s autobiography starts, “A friend once told me that I took advantage of whatever came to me, and put all my talents into whatever I chose to do.”
Ruth Abelson began working with the Children’s Theatre of Winnetka 13 years ago as a set designer, but when her talent and passion for sewing was discovered, she quickly became the company’s head costume designer.
When Robert Buchanan was a boy, his father would ask him the same question every night at dinner: “What have you done to justify your oxygen intake today?”
For the past nineteen years, Peter R. Sawers has given more than 9,000 hours of service to the Executive Service Corps of Chicago (ESC), which provides capacity-building services to non-profits and public agencies through a corps of volunteer consultants who are retired business and civic leaders.
John Whalen is a consummate salesman. He started with the Yellow Pages after college, and 50 years later, he’s still selling.
Something about Lee Frank just makes you want to hug her. It might have something to do with her role as a professional cuddler.
Sharon J. King is the head of membership for the Glencoe Women’s Library Club, which raises money to distribute to different area philanthropies, including hospitals and Glencoe Youth Services. But her service hardly ends there. “If something’s happening, Sharon is in the middle of it,” says Club President Peg Malloy. King is so in the […]
In life’s second act, many of us hit our stride. We follow a passion, pursue a calling or start giving back to our communities.
