STUDS TERKEL TOAST

APRIL 9, 1991 STUDSTERKEL TOAST

IN SUPPORT OF

THE CENTER FOR

NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY

The Center For Neighborhood Technology has throughout the 80s honored “rich and famous” Chicagoans at an annual fundraising event. “Rich” in that they had experiences of struggle to make a better place and “famous” because they were popular in a town that knows how to spot phoneys. The list of honorees is impressive: John Egan, Stan Hallett, Florence Scala, June LaVelle and Scott Bernstein.

This year is special. has consented to let the Center For Neighborhood Technology toast him. What an opportunity for all of us who have resonated to this Chicago voice which has for years been able to rally us or make us reflect on the important issues.

Studs has been more than a voice. He has given us fellow Chicagoans a place, here in town, to be heard and respected. For that we love him. We hope to use this occasion not only to toast Studs but also to celebrate together with others who share some vision of community.

-Lew Kreinberg Masters of Board of Directors Scott Bernstein Ceremony Ramiro Borja PRESIDENT MISSION STATEMENT Leon Despres CHAIRMAN Aaron Freeman Nancy Mathews Founded in 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology James Hadley EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VICE CHAIRMAN seeks affordable, appropriately scaled, locally controlled Stephen A. Perkins ways for city residents to meet basic needs-for food, Charles Hill, Sr. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR housing, jobs, and a healthy environment. The Center Co-Chairs VICE CHAIRMAN pursues this mission through a combination of public interest Dr. Whitney Addington engineering work, research, information, and advocacy. It Jane Alexandroff Jeremy Warburg Russo has earned a reputation for analyzing complex issues of Margaret Burroughs TREASURER energy, economics, housing, and the environment, and Msgr. John (Jack) Egan implementing solutions that create new options for low- and Sherry Goodman Christopher Burgess moderate-income neighborhoods, both in Chicago and other Lew Kreinberg SECRETARY Special Guests urban settings. Seven program divisions make up the Center: Sen. Richard Newhouse Richie Havens Energy Services, Housing, Industrial Environmental Carole Nolan Sonia Bloch Fred Holstein Ray Nordstrand Leila Botts Bonnie Koloc Services, Public Transit, Public Issues, Neighborhood Mike Royko Jonathan Boyer Polly Podewell Investment, and The Neighborhood Works. Bernard Sahlins Bliss Williams Browne Pete Seeger Toshi and Peter Seeger Irving (Gus) Cherry Dr. Quentin Young Elizabeth Densmore Richard DeVries Sharon Feigon Maurice Gamze Ric Gudell Ruth Louie Event Planning Toasters Richard Luecke Committee Paul Carroll Harvey Lyon Scott Bernstein Cyrus Colter Jerald I. Much Sharon Feigon Msgr. John (Jack) Egan Mary Nelson James Hadley Leon Despres Harold Olin Julie Johnson Vernon Jarrett Art Perez Lew Kreinberg Lew Kreinberg Michael Perlow Chuck Olin Victor Navasky Angelo Rose Darlene Pearlstein Norman Pellegrini Sam Sains Michael Perlow Dr. Jorge Prieto Michael Scott Dr. Jorge Prieto Mike Royko Art Smith Florence Scala Florence Scala Steven Starr Michael Scott Dr. Quentin Young Paul Thanos Michaela Touhy Beverly Younger Kathryn Tholin Penny Tyler STUDSTERKEL TOAST IN THE LOBBY...... PROGRAM The Center For Neighborhood Technology invites you to examine the literature displayed on tables located in the lobby area. Materials are available that explain the mission, goals andagenda 5:30 RECEPTION of the The Center For Neighborhood Technology. Music by Joe Johnson. The following groups are also represented: The Chicago Recycling Coalition, The Chicago Electric Options Campaign, The Campaign 6:30 PROGRAM (Participants In Order Of Appearance.) For Responsible Ownership and CNT’s Information Service, The Neighborhood Works. Aaron Freeman Scott Bernstein We hope that you will take a moment to review the materials Nancy Mathews offered by these important community organizations. Individuals Leon Despres are available to answer any questions you might have. Polly Podewell Gene Esposito Beverly Younger Cyrus Colter Norman Pellegrini Lew Kreinberg Richie Havens Msgr. John (Jack) Egan Florence Scala Paul Carroll Victor Navasky Pete Seeger SOUVENIRS OF THE STUDS TERKEL TOAST Jorge Prieto Mike Royko ARE AVAILABLE . . . Vernon Jarrett Quentin Young Henry Blakely Why not purchase a Studs’ mug to commemorate this occasion? Ramiro Borja James Hadley or Studs Terkel Fred Holstein Obtain a copy of “Chicago” for Studs to autograph! Bonnie Koloc

Cash bars are located in the lobby area. They will remain Souvenirs can be purchased in the lobby area. All proceeds help support the Center open until 9:00 P.M. for your convenience. For Neighborhood Technology in the continuing effort to Build Sustainable Communities. THE ORGANICTHEATER COMPANY

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There are ninny American dreams in the city STUDS of Chicago Not all are found on DIVISION AND street or with the giants OF JAZZ, or with those who fought the Good War or even with those who fell on Hard Times.They can be found THE CENTER FOR anywhere and everywhere ... even among those NEIGHBORHOOD wearing red-checked shirts and red v-neck sweat- ers. There is a Great Divide however, between TECHNOLOGY those who do and those who don’t have a dream. Kroch &. Brentano’s would like to thank Studs Terkel for Working so diligently on his dreams ONTHE MAINSTAGE which have produced the kinds of books that American Enterprise---A great Chicago story about make us proud to be booksellers. George Pullman, the Pullman Strike and the early days of the labor movement.

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One Chicago institution visits another Studs Terkel autographs copies of Chicago at Kroch’se &. ORGANIC Brentano’s on Michigan Ave. THEATER Kroch’s & Brentano’s THE FULL SERVICE BOOKSTORES* 3319 N.Clark St. 29 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 332-7500 3 12/327-5588 Studs - Vox populi Studs is palatable to his fellow Americans not because they always agree with him. They do not. But because he is a mixture By Kenan Heise of debater and singer, of talker and listener and of scholar and light-hearted humorist. Studs Terkel is often described with a one-word modifier, “Chicago’s.” A radical whom conservatives respect because he is authentic. A gabby character who people listen to because he entertains and This raspy-voice, very direct bundle of energy, this Studs Terkel has something to say. A conscience who is heard because he is genuine and quintessential Chicago. With him, what you see speaks of freedom. Studs is all of these. is what you get. Studs is a man of the worker, the poor, the intellectual and the In the finest Chicago tradition, he eschews elitism, deflates underdog. A man, yes, but one who shares very many feminine pomposity and flames in anger at all those who crassly espouse qualities, thanks to a large extent because of the very special trickle-down politics, economics and culture. human being, Ida, with whom he shares a marriage and commitments to a much better world. His ways are without blahness, flabbiness or compromise and he is democratic all the way through to his least pretentious impulse. He is the true super-patriot without being a super-nationalist. He believes in the Bill of Rights, even when it is protecting the Studs would more easily be on a Maxwell Street merchant’s best other guy, though that person be a criminal, a traitor or even a dressed list than on one from Marshall Field’s. He looks Republican. authentically funky, with his loosened red knit ties, checked shirts, gray trousers and blue blazers. Little wonder, then, he was cast Of him, John Kenneth Galbraith said, “If Studs did not exist, as a sports scribe in the movie, “Eight Men Out.” some suitably qualified supernatural authority would have had to intervene and invent him. And that, admittedly, would have been In Studs, deep down, are stoked the smouldering convictions a difficult task.” of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons, the enlighting spark of architect Louis Sullivan’s mind and the boisterous enthusiasm of Studs Louis Terkel is Chicagoan by choice. He was born in New sports owner for the people, Bill Veeck. He has shared the fire York City, moving here as a boy. He adopted not only the city, with such fellow Chicago authors as Theodore Dreiser, James T. but also the nickname, Studs, from Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks and Nelson Algren. Farrell’s fictional Chicago character.

Studs is Clarence Darrow, who never practiced law; John Peter He worked first as a clerk at the Wells-Grand Hotel, which his Altgeld, who never held office; , who never ran a family owned. He studied law at the University of Chicago and settlement house; Carl Sandburg, who never published poetry; earned a law degree, but never practiced, seeking rather to be and Ida B. Wells, who is not black. an actor.

He reminds us of the anonymous hobo on a 1930s Bughouse It was in the 1930s, not a good time for gainful employment in Square soapbox as well as the unnamed jazz player from a acting, except perhaps in radio soap operas. He took a job for Prohibition era South Side speakeasy. the federal government, got radio parts as best he could and joined the Writers Program of the Works Progress Administration. There, he wrote and performed in WPA plays. When live television out of Chicago became a tour de force in “Working,” his saga of the lives of ordinary working people; the late 1940s, he was at the heart of it. He hosted “Studs’ Place,” part of the legendary Chicago School of Television. “Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times”; “Studs’ Place” was about conversation and he proved he could “Chicago”; be the master of it. His voice, his gestures and his willingness to read the book and do his homework made the show a success And “The Great Divide.” and became his trademarks as an interviewer. His books are written radio- Studs Terkel asks questions and Studs had spent the 1930s in a cauldron in which his ideas and then listens. They are recorded conversations. commitments had been formed. His beliefs in democracy included the better world that the 1930s radicals envisioned and that the Studs received recognition for his work. He won the Peabody 1940s soldiers fought for. He made certain that the spark would Award for excellence in broadcasting, two National Book Award not be smothered by the intimidating avalanche of 1950s nominations, the Prix Italia, the lrita Van Doren Book Award and, McCarthyism. He kept it burning during the 1960s through the Viet in 1985, the Pulitzer Prize for “The Good War.” Nam War, the 1970s “me first” decade and the 1980s with their reactionary politics. More than anything, he won the respect and affection of listeners and readers. Never was this more clear than when he took on the He was the antithesis of red-baiting, Bill-of-Rights-trampling WFMT management for changing the staff and style of the station. Senator Joe McCarthy. Studs was blacklisted, but he survived. It was a long hard battle and trench warfare, but many on the He would not surrender to the borogoves. sidelines in Chicago came to the conclusion that Studs duplicated the title of his earlier book and made it, “The good war.” FM, like TV, became an opportunity Studs seized from the beginning. He had had several earlier radio shows, including: “Sound of the City,” “Wax Museum” and “Studs Terkel Almanac.” In the early 1950s, WFMT, a fine arts station, hired him to chat and interview as well as play jazz and folk music. He was quickly recognized as the “class” of Chicago radio, bringing the questions of human rights, the labor movement, racial justice, the struggles of the poor and the views of the world to often- insulated Chicagoans.

In 1967, he began putting his interviews into book form, with one of the most Chicago of all books, “Division Street: America.” He had earlier written, “Giants of Jazz.”

Other books followed:

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On The Occasion of Tribute to A Photo Essay Compiled by Ida Terkel.

STUDS TERKEL

Because he caught sight, long ago, of life’s superior design -- which is caring -- of life’s remarkable secret - which is revival -- because, as I said of him long ago, he remains that witty, shrewdly twinkly, canny, approximately fetterless everlasting Studs Terkel, who has dedicated his life to the public recognition of creative distinction in others, and to glorification of the mighty “Littles” -- at last, a correctly affectionate splendor for our bright Legality Studs Louis Terkel -- already STUDS TERKEL! wrapped up in the flag.

Gwendolyn Brooks.

Studs about age 15. Ida and Studs Terkel, 1951. Photo credit Mickey Pallas.

Studs at the microphone. 1950s. Leo Durocher, Chet Roble, Studs Beverly Younger, and Win Stacke ai Baseball Writers Dinner. 1950s Scene from “Studs’ Place.” About 1950. Chet Roble, jazz singer and pianist, Beverly Younger, and Studs. Photo credit Mickey Pallas.

Chester Morris, Paul Lipson and Studs Studs, Win Stracke, in Sidney Big Bill Broonzy, Kingsley’s and Lawrence “Detective Lane. “I Come Story” at the For To Sing.” Blackstone. 1950. Early 1950s. Photo by John Swope. Studs, Cecil Partee and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Studs lecturing at the Smithsonian Institute. Photo credit The National Museum of American History. DAS LIED VON DER ERDE

For Studs-One of the Lords of the Dance

Moving like great prehistoric icebergs Those clouds bring in the dawn Over our loft on Ada Street today As Chicago yawns and stretches in its bed of wild onions Daniel Burnhams's dream Of the city as an Athens or a Paris on the prairie Dissolving in the light of common day

Elegant and thin as hieroglyphics The clouds at noon Drift above the Oak Street beach Like messages from a god whose name has been forgotten

No cloud at all As far as eye can find Here from the observatory at Sears Tower As twilight moves among us wearing its false whiskers of electric lights Like a million fallen stars Yet absence can have a beauty of its own The empty sky tonight Is empty as our notions of divinity Still

At least we can give a god a belly laugh This earth given as a gift each dawn Wrapped in tinfoil tied by big red ribbons And laid beneath the Christmas tree that is the sun Containing the everyday miracles The trees and seas the holy bees of Ephesus the mallard ducks and dogs the flowers and the happy fucks and the old alchemy of tire the perpetually changing art exhibition of the clouds above And how do we behave beneath the tree? How often are our attitudes and actions like that cellist Who during a rehearsal Sir Thomas Beechen was conducting

Studs at a book-author signing in Boston. Photo credit Marc Cadorette. Kept picking apart the music with her bow PROGRAM NOTES (In Order Of Appearance.) In a kind of anal retentive snit Till Beechen finally blew his stack and said “Madame God has given you a precious gift between your legs AARON FREEMAN is creator and co-star along with Rob Kolson And all you do is scratch it” of Chicago’s longest-running comedy revue, “Do The White A rain can be delicate as a black widow’s web Thing” playing at Steppenwolf North. He is also the host of the Or mysterious as a kiss that comes from love popular TV show “Talking With Aaron Freeman” every Sunday Yet we often damn it as “this fucking rain” Night at 9:30 P.M. on Channel 50. Or snow descending can resemble the footprints of the angels Or gallop about like a wild crack Cossack cavalry LEON DESPRES is a life-long Chicagoan whose career reflects Yet how many snows are “a son-of-a-bitch” to you and me? his love of this city and its residents. A champion of civil rights, While all the while we’re busy as a beehive hitting on he has served as Parliamentarian for the Chicago City Council The trees and seas the holy bees of Ephesus (1979-87) and as Alderman of the Fifth Ward (1955 - 1975). the mallard ducks and dogs the flowers and the happy fucks Currently, he is a Board member of Business and Professional and the old alchemy of the fire the perpetually changing People in the Public Interest and the Hyde Park Historical Society. art exhibition of the clouds today Or we’re busy as Platonic beavers building POLLY PODEWELL is also known as the daughter of Grace the Bigger better bombs Waitress from “Studs’ Place.” She has been part of the Chicago Any one of which can bitch up jazz scene for many years. Polly now lives in Los Angeles. She This Christmas present of an earth and send it packing in bits and pieces has sung with the big bands of Benny Goodman, Woody Herman Back to the starlight whence it came and Buddy Rich.

At the Introit to the Mass tonight BEVERLY YOUNGER is also known as Grace the waitress from Here in Holy Name Cathedral on Chicago Avenue “Studs’Place.” She is the mother of Polly Podewell. Where the Near North Side begins or ends An old arthritic priest hobbles from the sacristy to sing CYRUS COLTER is a noted lawyer, teacher and author. His books In voice cracked as Basho’s frog include “The Beach Umbrella,” “The Rivers of Eros,” “The “lntroibo ad altare Dei: ad Deun qui laetificatjuventatem meum” Hippodrome,” “Night Studies,” “A Chocolate Soldier,” and “The (“I will go up to the alter of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth”) Amoralists.” O may I learn to walk that way myself With mouth of praise that rises from the ocean at the bottom of the heart NORMAN PELLEGRlNl has served as Director of Programming Before I turn into a cloud again of WFMT since 1951. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: a Special Armstrong Award for Outstanding Service by -Paul Carroll an Individual on Behalf of the Radio Industry (1984), a Broadcast February 1991 Preceptor Award (1982) and the 1990 Illinois Arts Alliance Award. LEW KREINBERG cofounded the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs PETE SEEGER is the man who first sang “We Shall Overcome” in 1965 and was a community organizer in Lawndale during the to Martin Luther King. He is best known for songs he has written 1960s. He was part of a group responsible for bringing Dr. Martin or helped to write, such as “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” Luther King to Chicago. He helped Scott Bernstein establish the and “If I Had A Hammer.” Pete has also been instumental in Center For Neighborhood Technology. He also coauthored “Street founding and promoting the Clearwater organization which Signs Chicago,” a book which explores the relationships between introduces thousands of schoolchildren every year to the problems community organizing and the big systems that neighborhoods of pollution. are up against. JORGE PRIETO is a Mexican who has lived in Chicago for 40 RlCHlE HAVENS is a peace activist and folk singer who is best years. He served the Pilsen community for 20 years as a physician remembered for his performance at the Woodstock music festival. in private practice. He also presided as Chair of Family Practice His environmental organization, The Natural Guard, offers at Cook County Hospital for 12 years and as President of the Board environmental programs and projects for kids from kindergarten of Health under . through high school. MIKE ROYKO is a columnist for the “Chicago Tribune.” He has MONSIGNOR JOHN (JACK) EGAN is a tireless crusader for been a columnist in Chicago for 28 years. community justice. He was the former parish priest at the Presentation Parish in Lawndale. He also was the cofounder of VERNON JARRETT is a member of the editorial board and an the Interreligious Council on Urban Affairs during the Civil Rights award-winning columnist for the “Chicago Sun-Times” and a movement. He returned to Chicago after 13 years of “exile” at social and political commentator on WLS TV. He is a very long Notre Dame. Currently, he is Assistant to the President of time friend of Studs Terkel. Community Affairs at DePaul University. QUENTIN YOUNG is a physician and former Chair of Medicine FLORENCE SCALA led the fight to keep the University of Illinois at Cook County Hospital. He is host of the radio program from destroying her Near West Side community. She continues “Speaking of Health and Medicine” on WBEZ. to be an activist, friend and community conscience reflecting the true meaning of the word “neighbor.” GWENDOLYN BROOKS is the Poet-Laureate of Illinois. She is the author of numerous books and recipient of many awards for PAUL CARROLL is a poet, editor and professor at the University her poetry. Reading her tribute to Studs Terkel is poet Henry of Illinois at Chicago. He remains a guiding force and mentor for Blakely . young poets. His books include: “Odes,” “The Luke Poems,” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” FRED HOLSTEIN has probably introduced more Chicagoans to folk music than any other artist. His music has been featured VICTOR NAVASKY is the editor-in-chief of the “Nation” locally at such noted establishments as the Earl of Old Town, magazine. He is the author of “Naming Names,” which won an Somebody Else’s Troubles and Holsteins. American Book Award in 1981, and of “Kennedy Justice.” Both books were the subjects of interviews by Studs Terkel. BONNIE KOLOC is one of the top singer-songwriters to emerge from the legendary Earl of Old Town. She excels at everything from her own compositions to classic blues to ballads. The hallmark of her performance is communication that touches the audience with joy and poignancy. Congratulations, Studs winner of the A TIP OF THE HAT TO

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All of the TOASTERS, MCs, CO-CHAIRS, MUSICIANS, PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS and the STAFF OF THE CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY for their individual and collective efforts.

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School Reform Chicago Style tells the story of this remarkable campaign. It examines the research and organizing that built the basis for reform; descrobeshow repeated school strikes SPECIAL THANKS catalyzed parent and community anger into demands for change; traces the building of the unprecedented coalition between corporate leaders, parents, and activists; describes the extraordinary sessions in the state legislature in which citizens crafted the bill line-by-lne; Richard Yonker and summarizes the ensuing efforts to implement the law and empower local school Connie Goddard communities. And it shows what lessons are to be learned from the Chicago experience -- not just for people tackling school issues but for all those working to change public policy. Tao Rodriguez People around the nation are watching Chicagoans' bold effort to reform their schools. Read School Reform Chicago Style to find out what they've done, and what others can learn from their story. The Center For Neighborhood Technology thanks everyone who has participated in the STUDS TERKEL TOAST. We invite you to sign our mailing list to keep informed about the Center's activities.

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