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FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE January 2019 Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 January 2019 Volume XLVI, Number 7 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Mailing List Exchange Donor records are proprietary and confidential. WILL does not sell, rent or trade its donor lists. Patterns Friends of WILL Membership Magazine Editor/Art Designer: Sarah Whittington Art Director: Kurt Bielema Printed by Premier Print Group. Printed with SOY INK on RECYCLED, RECYCLABLE paper. RADIO 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See pages 4-5. 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced music programs and classical music from C24. (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana New year, new look area.) See page 6. 580 AM: News and information, NPR, BBC, It’s a new year, which provides a great news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also heard opportunity for refreshment and renewal. on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming on Patterns is no exception, and I hope you enjoy will.illinois.edu.) See page 7. the new look. TELEVISION This month, our documentary film series Reel WILL-HD All your favorite PBS and local programming, Midwest returns. This is a special project of in high definition when available. 12.1; Contact mine, and I am happy to share these amazing your cable or satellite provider for channel films with you. Page 1 has info on the films information. See pages 9-16. featured this month. WILL Kids 24/7 Around the clock, award-winning children’s We are also starting two new regular features programming. 12.2; also available on Comcast in Patterns: WILL Passport updates and 45th and Mediacom. Anniversary of Friends of WILL highlights. WILL Create Both are found in the News section and Cooking, travel, gardening and home improve- will keep you up-to-date on our online ment, arts and crafts. 12.3; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8. programming and the year-long celebration, respectively. WILL World PBS documentaries, news and public affairs. And finally, it’s the return of a fan favorite: 12.3; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8. Masterpiece Classic’s Victoria. See page 11 for the details on how you can join us for a sneak ONLINE will.illinois.edu preview of the new season. 2019 is off to a great start at Illinois Public facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline Media! @willpublicmedia @willpublicmedia Moss Bresnahan, Get Aircheck President and CEO Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, program schedule updates and more, delivered Twitter: @MossILMedia every weekend to your email inbox. will.illinois.edu/aircheck COVER STORY Reel Midwest—Illinois Public Media’s independent film series that aims to find the best in features, documentaries, and shorts in Illinois and across the Midwest— returns to the WILL-TV primetime lineup at 9 pm Thursdays, from January 3 through February 28. The series includes ten episodes that feature 15 films. JANUARY’S FILMS Inquiring Nuns | January 3 Now We Live on Clifton | January 24 Two young nuns explore Chicago—from a 10-year-old Pam Taylor supermarket to the Art Institute to the front and her 12-year-old of churches on Sunday— brother Scott grew up to confront people with in a multiracial Chicago the crucial question, “Are neighborhood, but they you happy?” The answers worry that they’ll be forced they get range in sincerity out by the gentrification following the and depth. expansion of DePaul University. Diverse Voices | January 10 Winnie Wright—Age 11 | January 24 This collection of short films from Kartemquin Winnie, the daughter Films includes Shinemen, The Amazing of a steel worker and a Mr. Ash, and Parts and Labor. They follow teacher, lives in a Chicago the lives and times of a variety of everyday neighborhood that is people, including a shoeshine technician, a changing from white magician, a skateboarder, a mom-and-pop to black. As her family hardware store owner, and so much more. struggles, she learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female. Vietnam, Long Time Coming | January 17 Back in 1998, the World My Sister Hali | January 31 T.E.A.M. (The Exceptional After 50 years of burying Athlete Matters) took a the past, Paul Sheriff returns 16-day, 1,100 mile bicycle to his childhood hometown expedition through once of Blue Mound, Illinois to war-torn Northern and reconstruct the pieces of Southern Vietnam. For his extraordinary childhood the veteran athletes, the ride is more filled with Olympic dreams of an exorcism than a race. and catastrophic loss. PATTERNS ∙ JANUARY 2019 1 In 2022, we’ll celebrate 100 years of public media in central Illinois. We have you to thank for that legacy—gifts from Friends have kept this service strong since the first on-air fund drive in 1974. Almost 30 years ago, we began asking Friends to invest in WILL with annual gifts of $1,000 or more. This group, originally called Vision 2022—later, Vision Circle—has been a guiding force with their annual gifts. This month, we salute them all, and thank them for their terrific support, especially in this 45th anniversary year of the Friends of WILL. VISION CIRCLE Jennifer C Greene Maurice Bresnahan Diamond Visionaries Stephen & Mary Gritten William & Ellen Brewer ($50,000 & above) Terence & Sharon Harkness Gary Brinkmeyer Estate of Bruce Creamer Thomas & Peggy Herrmann David & Terri Burdick Newman’s Own Foundation A J Hildebrand John & Carol Butler Estate of Marjorie Richmond Jack & Holly Jordan Roy & Ann Campbell Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. James Kaler Andreas C & Helen Cangellaris Platinum Visionaries Edward Karrels Catherine A Capel & Ken Smith ($20,000-$49,999) Jeff & Marilyn Marshall Joseph & Sandra Casserly Estate of Phyllis Cline John & Pamela Muirhead Sohail Chaudhry East Central Illinois Community Carolyn Mullally Barton & Sharon Clark Foundation/Estate of Jose Ochoa Olive Clark Mary Kay Peer Don Perrero Willis & Carol Colburn Robert O Endres Mary W Reimers Paul R Cole Estate of Mildred Luther Anne Robin Kelly M Collier Anonymous Brian & Deborah Ruddell Barbara A Colson Gold Visionaries William & Grace L Schoedel William J Davey ($10,000-$19,999) Martha J Sivier Ellen L Davis David Donnini & Anne Slichter Millie Davis Karen D Rudolph Bob Spitze Robert & Patricia Davis Rosemary Laughlin Case M & Elaine J Sprenkle Deborah Day John Wustman Burton & Iris Swanson Cynthia Degnan Silver Visionaries Thanom and Srirat Temiyasathit Fred & Nancy Delcomyn ($5,000-$9,999) Vision Circle Friends John L & Jane C Denby Beth L Armsey ($1,000-$2,499) Oliver N Dold Allen Avner Chester L Alwes & Marianne Downey & Tyler Fitch Dot & Rob Beldon Marlys Scarbrough John Downing Barbara Bowman James & Ruth Anderson Scott & Frances Drone-Silvers Mrs. Walter Brissenden Matthew & Amy W Ando Dave & Nancy Drook Stephanie Drake Susan Appel Linda K Lee Drozt Dale & Marny Elliott Susanne Aref John Dudley Joan Friedman M Jocelyn Armstrong John Dunkelberger Jim & Deb Halle Richard & Carol Arnould Joanne Durkee Susan & Lewis Hopkins Margaret Ashline David & Susan Eades Mary Kruse Beth E Bachtold James & Anastasia Economy Wayne & Loretta LaFave Janice M Bahr J Andrew Edwards Estate of Norma Schaumburg Sandra & Ritchie Barnett Wayland & Brenda Eheart Cynthia Swanson George O & Sandra L Batzli Charlotte Emel John E & Rebecca S Wetzel Carol Bauer Rhoda R Engel Bronze Visionaries Gordon Baym & Cathrine Blom Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans ($2,500-$4,999) Dennis & Danda Beard Richard & Elizabeth John R & Susan Adams Roger & Ann Beck Engelbrecht-Wiggans May Berenbaum Ashley & Joyce Beitel Terry & Barbara England Joyce Bohrer John & Evelyn Bertsche Molly Evans Daniel & Charlotte Brady Freda Birnbaum Constance & Frederick Fairchild Rabel & Joyce Burdge Mary Blair David & Norma Fathauer Nancy Curran Kathleen Bock A Belden Fields & Jane Mohraz Mary D Disseler Tom & Janice Bonilla Don A & Sue Anne Fischer Phyllis Dougherty-Fabrizio & Robert & Camille Born William & Linda Y Fred Joseph Fabrizio Robert & Sue Boucek Rusty & Jill Freeland Pat Flaugher John & Linda Braden Glen Freimuth & Ethel Chiang Anne Francis Rollin & Harriet Branstad Eric T & Jane M Freyfogle Lisa Goldwasser Andrea Brasch Beverly Friese 2 PATTERNS ∙ JANUARY 2019 Michael Fuerst Gene Larson Stephen K & Deborah C Rugg Rich Furr Herbert & Jane Lasky Barbara Sandell Susan M Garnsey Eileen Layden Dilip V Sarwate Mabel Gast Robert & Diane Lentz Peter & Sylvia Sauer Jay & Judi Geistlinger Jon & Judith Liebman Judith Sawyer Dorothy E Gemberling Thomas Littlewood Christie B Schuetz James & Mary R Gentry Melanie Loots John Severns Sharon A & Fredrick A Gerth Cynthia & Michael Loui David & Anne Sharpe Pat Gill Iris Nigg Lundin Trent Shepard Martha & Rhanor Gillette Morgan & Brenda Lynge O David & Julie A Sherwood Eldon & Gretchen Gleichman Adam Machalek Mildred Sims Daniel Grayson & Carol Marguerite Maguire Robert & Margie Skirvin Livingstone David & Christine Main Larry & Barbara Slanker Bill & Patty Gropp Vera V Mainz & Gregory Jan Slater Daniel & Diana Grunloh Girolami John E & Joann Ernest N & Lois E Gullerud Richard & Cynthia Mann Hesselmann Smith Jon R & Tracy Gunderson Adam & Teri Marganski Linda C Smith Laura Gundrum Stephen & Kathryn Marshak Wayne & Adriana Smith Marilu Hafer Dave Marshall Charles Smyth & Audrey Ishii Dick & Jenny Harvey Marilyn Marshall K Sarah Spaulding Ravi Hasanadka Theodore & Gloria Mathewson James Spellman Stephen & Susan Haury Casey J Mayfield Clark C & Mary Lee Spence Jialing He & Huahua Chang Marilyn & Robert McClean