Amazing Seniors: Betty Stuart Rodgers Jeffries
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.”
Amazing Seniors: Ruth Abelson
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.
Amazing Seniors: Dr. Robert Buchanan
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?”
Amazing Seniors: Peter R. Sawers
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.
Amazing Seniors: John Whalen
John Whalen is a consummate salesman. He started with the Yellow Pages after college, and 50 years later, he’s still selling.
Amazing Seniors: Lee Frank
Something about Lee Frank just makes you want to hug her. It might have something to do with her role as a professional cuddler.
Amazing Seniors: Sharon J. King
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 […]
