MONTGOMERY MESSENGER The Newsletter of the Residents of Montgomery Place Retirement Community 5550 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60637 October 2016, Vol. 26, No. 10 www.montgomeryplace.org/category/news/messenger/
Day of Atonement) which occur this year on ANOTHER D AY October 2-3 and October 11-12 respectively. TO C ELEBRATE he final event of Montgomery Place’s The solemnity of Yom Kippur is followed only T 25th anniversary celebration is five days later by the joyous holiday of Sukkot scheduled for Thursday, October 13, from commemorating the temporary shelters in which 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Residents, members of the Israelite people lived during the years the Montgomery Place Board, local wandering in the desert. During the seven days business, healthcare, and University of of Sukkot, traditional observance includes Chicago leaders, as well as civic building an outdoor temporary shelter with a roof dignitaries will be invited to attend along made of something that grew from the earth with many of our other stakeholders. (called a sukkah) and dwelling in it as much as possible, including taking all meals in it during The event will be catered by Jewell Events the holiday. Catering and will feature an array of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres paired with Sukkot is followed immediately by two more wonderful wines. A spectacular evening is holy days, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, planned; watch your mailbox for your the latter celebrating the Torah and marking the personal invitation to this “engaging” conclusion and a new beginning of the yearly finale celebrating the first 25 years of cycle of Torah readings. Montgomery Place. Enjoy! Sheila Bogen, Chief Operating Officer Ed Krentz has graciously agreed to do a followup series of Bible study sessions in October and November. The topic will be “Apocalyptic Literature in the Hebrew Scriptures and in the Revelation of John in the New Testament.” A M ONTH F ULL OF H OLY D AYS , There will be six Thursday sessions at 11 a.m. in AND MORE B IBLE S TUDY the Lounge, on October 13, 20, and 27 and his year (2016 C.E. or 5777 in the Hebrew November 3, 10, and 17. T calendar) brings a confluence of Jewish holy days in the Gregorian calendar’s month of I don’t know about you, but the study of October. Most people are aware of the Days of apocalyptic stories seems especially appropriate Awe and the high holy days of Rosh Hashanah to me as the election season gets stranger and (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the stranger with each passing day! Chaplain Julianne Buenting page 2 OCTOBER 2016
SMILES ! you play bags, I can vouch that you are never too here were so many smiles at our 25th old, and who isn’t ready to have fun? T anniversary party on September 1, it made my cheeks hurt! Thank you to all who ♦ 1 point: On the board. It sounds like it participated in the day, enjoying the wonderful would be easy to get the bag to land on the barbecue by Jewell Catering as well as having board. It also sounds easy to get guests to fun at the Wheel of Gifts and being silly with the come to events and hear about Montgomery Balloon Dude and the magician. We extend our Place. But as many of you found out, those gratitude to the many vendors who contributed bags are slippery and although they may hit prizes to help make our day remarkable. The the board, they have a tendency to slide right beanbag tournament was the best! off. Just like some of our guests, who say they are interested, but then seem to slip away. ♦ 3 points: In the hole. When one finally goes in, everyone cheers for the player! When we finally get a client to say, “Yes, I’ll take an apartment,” we all shout out and cheer for the sales counselor and the marketing team! ♦ 21 points: Win. In bags, the team with 21 points wins! In marketing, 21 new apartment sales will Sylvia Steen racks up beanbag points while resident Robert Robertson and Director of Environmental Services Bill Jansma put us at 90% watch. Marilyn and Irv Weigensberg, seated, admire Sylvia’s skill. occupancy! So we look at that as a winning score too.
We want to keep celebrating and I am beginning to see similarities between smiling as we work to hit our score of 21 more playing bags and marketing. sales in marketing. Having your support through referrals (remember our referral bonus program) Distance: It’s only 30 feet in bags, but and help from the Resident Ambassadors is sometimes we seem to be miles apart in our getting us to our goal. And best of all, we are marketing efforts. We hear “we are just not having fun! Keep on smiling! ready,” or “I’m not old enough.” After watching Deborah Hart, CEO and Executive Director OCTOBER 2016 page 3
♦ Friday, October 7, at 12:30 p.m. the bus will OUT AND A BOUT go to the CSO Series B concert introducing to the world Australian composer Karl Vine’s trombone concerto Five Hallucinations . That will be ote: “Tickets required” means you are followed by a performance of Prokofiev’s N responsible for getting your own ticket. See charming Cinderella . Tickets required. Concierge Dino if you need help with buying ♦ Saturday, October 8, at 1 p.m. New resident tickets. Times listed are when the bus leaves Paul Bruce will lead a bus tour of Hyde Park, Montgomery Place, so be sure you are in your which he says is like an iceberg—much more seat by then! below the surface than is visible to the eye! ♦ Saturday, October 15, at 1 p.m. the bus will ♦ Saturday, October 1, at 1 p.m. the bus will go to the Joffrey Ballet for Romeo and Juliet. go to ShawChicago for Shaw’s wonderful Surrender to Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor’s Misalliance, in which uninvited guests drop out raw, emotional reimagining of Shakespeare’s star- of the sky at the Tarletons’ house and turn the crossed lovers. Tickets required. family’s notions about marriage, romance, ♦ Sunday, October 16, at 1 p.m. the bus will go wealth, and politics on their heads. Tickets to TimeLine Theatre for The Last Wife , a political required. thriller about Katherine Parr, sixth and final wife ♦ Tuesday, October 4, at 11:50 a.m. the bus of Henry VIII. Tickets required. will go to the Lutheran School of Theology at ♦ Wednesday, October 19, at 1 p.m. the bus will Chicago for an organ recital. Free. go to the U of C Service League. See page 6 for ♦ Wednesday, October 5, at 1 p.m. the bus information about the program. Free. will go to the Museum of Science and Industry. ♦ Thursday, October 20, at noon the bus will go Here find “Your Inner Builder,” or “Your to the Swedish restaurant, Ann Sather, a Infinite Amazement,” or the U505 submarine: Montgomery Place lunch favorite. “Elusive. Deadly. Captured.” Free, except $12 ♦ Friday, October 21, at 12:30 p.m. the bus will charge for onboard tour of U505. leave for the CSO Series A concert with David Afkham, conductor, and Emanuel Ax, pianist, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, followed by Shostakovich Symphony No. 10. CONTRIBUTORS THIS I SSUE Tickets required. ♦ Editor: Barbara Wilson Saturday, October 22, at 11 a.m. the bus will Contributors: Ev Bernstein, Laurieann Chutis, go to the Met Live in HD for Don Giovanni . Mozart approached his operatic retelling of the Carma Forgie, Paula Givan, Phil Hefner, Kyoko Don Juan myth from a point of view that is neither Inoue, Leah Kadden, Marion Krentz, Evi Levin, tragic nor entirely comic. Tickets required. Richard Muller, Muriel Rogers, Dorothy Scheff, ♦ Sunday, October 23, at 3:30 p.m. the bus will Marilyn Weigensberg, Anne Zeidman go to the Logan Center for the Chicago a cappella Staff Contributors: Sheila Bogen, Deborah concert “The Birds and The Bees: Songs of Hart, Chaplain Julianne Buenting Nature.” Tickets required. Artwork : Nate Kalichman ♦ Wednesday, October 26, at 11 a.m. the bus Layout: Carolyn Allen will go for the Loop trip, stopping coming and Production: Lorri Colbert, Yashone Holt going at the Cultural Center and Water Tower Proofreader: Phil Hefner Place. Calendars: Carma Forgie, Barbara ♦ Friday, October 28, at 7 p.m. the bus will go Wilson to Mandel Hall for the Danish String Quartet. Editor Next Month: Paula Givan Tickets required. Carma Forgie page 4 OCTOBER 2016
CEO D EBORAH H ART OCTOBER U OF C e’d like to welcome Deborah Hart as our SERVICE L EAGUE W new CEO. She was here at Montgomery he program meeting of the Place from 2002 through 2006 as the financial T University of Chicago Service officer. Since then, she got more training and League will be held Wednesday, now returns to us as CEO. October 19, at 1:30 p.m. at Augustana Lutheran Church. The Raspberry Bus Deborah was born in Kansas and went to school will depart Montgomery Place at 1 p.m. there. Later, she went to Washburn University and bring you home afterwards. and still is a certified CPA, though she has never worked at it. She says she just “fell” into The topic “Game Changer Chicago” working with older people. She took a job she will be presented by Brandon thought she’d like, and she did, then another . . . . Hill, executive director of the U of C’s Ci3 Deborah is married to Bill. They have two Center. Teens conduct children. Ellen is an architect here in Chicago. research and combat Matt is in the Navy and stationed in Washington, health risks by DC in a four-year training program. developing games, interactive learning experiences, and Deborah loves to travel, particularly to see nature digital media. Visitors are welcome to and back road trips, not so much cities. She has come hear this interesting talk. been in every one of the 50 states except Maine Marion Krentz and West Virginia. Her favorite place to visit? She answered very quickly: Victoria, British Columbia.
Welcome, Deborah! We look forward to many occasions to come. NEW Y ORKER R EADERS Carma Forgie he New Yorker Readers will meet on T Saturday, October 15, at 2 p.m. in the LLLC. The article to be discussed is “Ghost Stories” by Burkhard Bilger. How do the Germans face their war traumas? It appears in the September 12, 2016 issue. Nate Kalichman will lead the discussion. Please call me at 4647 if you need a copy of the article. Dorothy Scheff, Chair, New Yorker Readers OCTOBER 2016 page 5
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Lloyd Loback moved into apartment 709 (phone 4126) on July 29, 2016. He was born in Chicago and received his entire education here from elementary school up to a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
He was immediately asked to work for IBM in Chicago. After a year, Lloyd transferred to IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York. After 17 years there, he became more and more aware that he was missing the Chicago landscape. He asked IBM to be Ed and Jean Eckenfels moved into returned to Chicago, where he became a computer apartment 401 (phone 4388) on July 14, programmer working on airline reservation 2016. Ed was born and grew up in Cleveland, systems. When the company started downsizing, Ohio. Jean was born in Atlanta. When she Lloyd went to work for the Cook County Clerk of was four years old, her mother moved the the Circuit Court, where he stayed about 13 years family to Norman, Oklahoma, where they until retirement. lived with Jean’s great-grandmother. Ed and Jean met at Jimmy’s when Ed was a U of C A lifelong bachelor, Lloyd formerly lived in a graduate student and a bartender at Jimmy’s, spacious third floor walk-up apartment on 55th and Jean had just started working as an editor Street. He often noticed the Raspberry Bus driving at the U of C Press. back and forth to the Hyde Park Shopping Center and became more and more convinced that he Ed grew up on the poor west side of should prepare for his retirement to Montgomery Cleveland. Because he was an excellent Place, where he would avoid the increasingly student and athlete, he was able to attend difficult task of navigating the stairs to his Cathedral Latin School, an all-boys’ Catholic apartment. high school on the affluent east side (he hitchhiked to school!). After high school, Ed Lloyd has been an opera lover for a long time, joined the Air Force, serving for four years subscribing to Lyric Opera with a season seat in during the Korean War. Row AA, a row with an aisle in front, enabling him to avoid climbing over the knees of people in all Ed took advantage of the GI Bill to enroll at subsequent rows. At Montgomery Place, Lloyd Ohio University in Athens. He was particularly enjoys our Library, the offerings of the influenced by two professors to transfer to Hewson Swift Music evenings, the films we the U of C, where he loved the heady present, and outdoors he enjoys our garden. Lloyd intellectual atmosphere. He went to work at also appreciates being in the midst of the many the nursing school at Presbyterian Hospital, interesting residents who populate Montgomery teaching sociology. When the hospital Place. opened Rush medical school, Ed joined the faculty, teaching social medicine and serving Welcome, Lloyd, to your new home at in the office of the dean of students. His Montgomery Place! focus was on nurturing students and exposing Evi Levin them to the world outside the medical school.
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Ed is best known as the founder of the Rush Community Services Initiative Program, a program of volunteer services for medical students and physicians who supervise and mentor them. Activities included teaching safe sex in schools, serving as “big sibs” for child victims during the AIDS epidemic, staffing clinics for uninsured patients on the South Side, examining Guatemalan refugees who could not seek care because of their illegal status, training community asthma workers in Henry Horner Homes, tutoring kids through the Boys and Girls Club, and caring for the homeless in West Side shelters.
Today, the program is the primary reason OCTOBER B IRTHDAYS students give for applying to Rush, and 98% 10/1 Sheila Elwyn of Rush students participate in the program throughout their schooling. The program 10/4 Vinnie Orpen recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and 10/6 Ben Zeidman there are now more than 30 initiatives for students. Ed’s book, Doctors Serving People, 10/7 Wilma Metz is available in the Library. 10/8 Ginger Plys
10/11 Barbara Harrison Jean graduated from Oklahoma University and won a scholarship to study the 10/11 Lucille Wolfe publishing process for a year at the OU 10/17 Stephanie Butler Press. She landed an editing job at the U of C press. When she married Ed, she quit work, 10/19 Joyce Hilkevitch thinking she would lead an idyllic life doing 10/21 Mary Schloerb whatever she felt like. 10/24 Ed Schaaf
But she got bored and went to work on the 10/27 Dorothy Scheff Assyrian Dictionary at the Oriental Institute, 10/28 Anna Allen spending several years on the letter B! Eventually she was able to return to the Press, where she worked for 30 more years. She says the best thing about the job is that she got to read all the time.
Welcome to the Eckensfelses! Paula Givan OCTOBER 2016 page 7
WHO R EALLY years slowly migrating south and east across DISCOVERED A MERICA ? North America and then into South America. s your answer Columbus, on October 12, South American scientists have proposed I 1492? If it is, you are terribly wrong. alternative theories the “Clovis” migrations. Everything we learned about his voyage was true, but there is a matchless fantasy story that Scientists have also found bones and tools it was the along the New Chinese in 1421 England coast- who discovered line from the America, or Fu same time Sang as they period that the named it. In The Clovis people Year China were marking Discovered territory with America , Gavin their bones and Menzies offers tools. Could the this theory, Clovis people based on a map somehow have discovered in made treks to Taiwan by both Alaska and missionary Dr. New England? Hendon M. Image from the Harris Map Collection, The answer was Harris. www.gavinmenzes.net no, they could not. The answer Upon inspection is that the of the Harris continent was Map, it was determined that the size, location discovered simultaneously by two different and outline of Fu Sang was almost identical to cultures, one crossing the frozen Bering North America. In addition to the outline of Strait on foot and the other island-hopping the continent, the ancient Chinese map from Europe to America’s east coast by boat. showed geographical landmarks such as the Grand Canyon. Further evidence is found in “How about dem Vikings?” you might ask. the Chinese “1418” map that includes outlines Around 1,000 AD, the Viking, Eric the Red, and details of the world’s continents, discovered Greenland, and his son, Leif including both North and South America. This Ericsson, along with Viking Bjarni map shows accurate depictions of major rivers Herjolfsson also explored farther west. I will throughout America. The Chinese could not save their stories for another day. have mapped inland America without coming here themselves. As for Columbus, we all know his story beginning, “Columbus sailed the ocean blue In approximately 12,000 BCE, humans first in 14 hundred and 92,” too late for the gold stepped on the North American continent. medal! They were the “Clovis” people, who walked Marilyn Weigensberg across the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska. They spent the next few thousand page 8 OCTOBER 2016
REGISTERING FOR THE E LECTION HEWSON S WIFT or the November election, any Chicagoan CONCERTS F who needs to register to vote can do so on uring four Wednesday evenings in Thursday, October 6, from 11:30 a.m. until 2 D October, there will be a series of p.m. in the Lounge. You will need two forms interesting concert presentations. They of ID with your name printed are as follows. on them. One of those should also have your address as you ♦ October 5, Elsa are registering to vote. Your Charlston will present a bill from Montgomery Place DVD of the New York or any other official letter Philharmonic, which in will do. You must be 18 2008 went to North years old by Election Day Korea. It was the first time an and be born in the United States or have your American orchestra played a concert naturalization papers with you. there. ♦ October 12, Ed Krentz will I’ve registered a lot of people over the years in present organ works by Franz Liszt schools, markets, apartment buildings, parks, ending with the fugue on the name of town halls and other places. But nothing was B-A-C-H (Liszt used the German key like August 12 of this year when I was at a denominations: B=B-flat, A, C, H= the senior housing building on 69th Street. German symbol for the musical key of B.) The large lawn was set up with at least a dozen ♦ October 19, Bernice Auslander tents with tables and chairs and a roof only to will present singer Tony Bennett. keep off the sun. As I was registering my ♦ October 26, Joyce Swedlund second person, the rain started…. pretty soon presents Winton Marsalis playing the rain was getting very heavy and the wind trumpet concertos by Haydn, Mozart became strong, with gusts that were even and Hummel. stronger. Chairs were collapsing, tables were folding. The Hewson Swift concerts take place in the Lounge at 7 p.m. every The tent’s two forward legs came out of the Wednesday. Please join us! ground and dumped all the water that had Evi Levin, Chair, Hewson Swift Concerts collected in the roof of the tent onto my head and my papers. I was completely soaked to the skin, including my shoes. My papers were all soaked and stuck to each other. I’m still trying to see whether I can separate my papers and determine what can be read. All I had wanted was to make it possible for a few more people to vote!
But registering at Montgomery Place on October 6 in the Lounge will not be like that! Carma Forgie OCTOBER 2016 page 9
THE F IRST A MENDMENT character and reputation of individuals. Federalists believed that personal attacks on “Congress shall make no law respecting officeholders threatened the continued existence an establishment of religion, or of the new government by undermining prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or officeholders’ authority. In the absence of a abridging the freedom of speech, or of the strong police force, their ability to compel press; or the right of the people peaceably obedience to laws would weaken. to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” So in 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which made it a crime to publish any false, fter the Constitution had been drafted, it was scandalous or malicious writings attacking the A sent to the 13 states for ratification through government or its officials. Fortunately, it was conventions called for that purpose. The ineffective. Although a few editors were ratification debates were contentious, and one of successfully prosecuted under the law, the the strongest arguments raised by opponents of Federalists bungled other cases. The law actually the Constitution was the absence of a bill of stimulated the growth of anti-Federalist rights. To promote ratification, proponents of the newspapers. It was allowed to lapse in 1801. Constitution (Federalists) agreed to propose amendments to the Constitution in the new Interestingly, though, opponents of the Congress. Congress eventually settled on ten legislation did not challenge it as a violation of amendments (the Bill of Rights). They were not the First Amendment. Concern for the legal controversial, and once they were passed and protection of first amendment rights emerged ratified by the requisite number of states, only in the 20th century when efforts to Americans seemingly forgot about them until the prosecute left-wing radicals were challenged 20th century. before the Supreme Court. Richard Muller The 1790s was a period of intense partisan conflict, largely centered around relations with France. The Federalists, who controlled Congress and the Presidency, feared the influence of the radical democratic ideas of the French Revolution. These ideas encouraged the lower orders of society, who had previously tended to stay in their place. During this period, the number of newspapers more than doubled and the newspapers became the primary force in forming public opinion in the new nation. Most of the editors saw themselves as political advocates, and their newspapers became the principal instruments of partisan warfare. Much of their writing was vitriolic, and most of them supported the opponents of the Federalists.
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN V OTERS he October meeting of the League of SPOOKY G ALLERY T Women Voters will be held on Thursday, October 27, at 1:30 p.m. in the Late, late in a fading afternoon, East Room. The focus will be on voter I stood alone within this gallery room. service and the November elections. Its printed sheet should show a claim to fame, League volunteers have been busy in But fancied fonts obscured the artist’s name. recent months registering voters. We will also be helping with mock elections, And so, rebuffed, I turned to see a wall, which will be held in nine public schools. Forth from its frames expected crafts to call. But found no trace! Just bleak and barren space. Important referenda will appear on the These walls called out to fill each vacant place. ballot. Consider the item that would eliminate the position of Recorder of Straining my eyes, the lights seemed dimming, Deeds and transfer its duties to the office Breathing slowed, vague memories shimmering, of the Cook County Clerk. The League And suddenly a stronger light took shape ahead. strongly supports this position. Come and A quantum burst from curvy space was sped. find out why, so you can spread the word: vote “yes.” If available, we will have A shuffle forward clearly showed a frame sample ballots and judicial From which a glowing picture clearly came. recommendations from the Bar My memory jogged, eyes widened at the scene; Associations. It was Nantasket Beach that I had seen! Do come and get prepared to vote. Red-tinged clouds the artist’s brush provoke. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will The sandy tidal surf reflects each stroke. be served. And layer after layer of sea and land and sky Dorothy Scheff, Chair, League of Women Voters By some weird mystery has reached my eye.
But wait! Close-up, appears upon the scene A gull, then girl; surf only in-between. Both walking, bird first, followed by her striding; As though the pen proposed some secret hiding.
This picture in my brain: the old neurons Etched real within the Universe’s cauldrons, Then somehow moved, projected to the frame In ways those quirky quantum guys got fame.
But history tells us, as the photons fly, And many a darkened gallery night goes by, That Albert Einstein, from his rumpled head, Announced distaste when spookiness was bred. Ev Bernstein OCTOBER 2016 page 11
GARDEN T ALK Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, continued. you are interested in eptember’s becoming a member of the S hopes of raising Garden Committee, join us monarch larvae the meeting or call me at were dashed when 4616. none appeared on Marilyn Weigensberg, Chair, our one and only Garden Committee milkweed plant. Ever the optimists, we have plans for next year. We’ll plant more milkweed plants and hope that good weather in Mexico sends us more mature butterflies.
Despite the sadness of our first monarch experience, there is still happiness in Eunice Larson, our oldest gardener, Montgomeryville. scored two coups this year: Her A lovely goldfinch garden attracted the monarch The goldfinch (center) sits was spotted and butterflies and a goldfinch. on a sunflower photographed in in Eunice’s garden. Eunice Larson’s garden. And last but not least, our wildflower garden attracted lots of honeybees.
All in all, we had a lovely garden this year. SINGALONG The pots, raised boxes, and plots were he Montgomery Singers are lucky to gorgeous, and all thanks go to our gardeners: T have secured pianist Elaine Smith, Bernice Auslander, Bill and Dottie Baron, who frequently performs in recital at Laurieann Chutis, Joan Forsythe, Paula Givan, Montgomery Place, for our monthly Nate Kalichman, Nancy Harlan, Rhoda singalong. Join us on Tuesday, October 4 Harvey, Neva Hefner, Eunice Larson, Richard at 7 p.m. in the East Room and enjoy Muller, Muriel Rogers, Ada Spanier, Marilyn Elaine Smith at the piano. No singing Weigensberg, Rob Wilson, and Chuck West. expertise necessary; words to the songs are provided. We sing old pop songs, There are pots and raised boxes available for show tunes, holiday songs, and folk next spring for any resident of Montgomery songs. All are welcome to participate in Place who feels an itch in their green thumbs. this engagin evening. There will be a Garden Committee meeting in Paula Givan the LLLC on Friday, October 28 at 1 p.m. If page 12 OCTOBER 2016
OPERATION PUSH—A P ERSONAL V IEW ifty years ago, most Saturday mornings would F find me at McGiffert House, a dormitory of Chicago Theological Seminary in the 5700 block of Woodlawn Avenue, just north of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. In the late 1960s, Operation Breadbasket held its weekly meetings there, in what is now the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Breadbasket, Operation PUSH headquarters now known as Operation PUSH, has been an important Hyde Park institution since its founding in 1966. Temple, presently located at East Hyde Park Boulevard and Greenwood Avenue, across from the Breadbasket was dedicated to improving the Obama residence. A substantial number of economic conditions of African American Montgomery Place residents are members and communities across the United States of America. leaders of KAM Isaiah Israel. The first half of the morning was devoted to enabling the business people with workshops on how to win PUSH still meets every Saturday morning. Its contracts, advertising, human relations, and the like. televised meetings are combination church service with sermon, community meeting, and political rally. The second half was like a church service, featuring Our resident Hank Schwab, who was a friend of a jazz band, a Gospel choir, and the preaching of Jackson’s and a big supporter, attended these Jesse Jackson. While still a student at the seminary, meetings regularly until his death in 2013. Jackson Jackson became the leader of Breadbasket when he preached at Hank’s shiva service. was 25 years old. Thin as a rail and passionate, his preaching each Saturday thrilled me and changed my One of my high school friends (Denver, Colorado) worldview. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visited once and also a fellow student at the U of C Divinity or twice and spoke briefly. Other African American School, George (“Ed”) Riddick, became director of preachers also took the lead on occasion. I still recall studies at PUSH. The first CEO was The Rev. Willie the powerful sermon of another Reverend King, not Barrow, who was also Barack Obama’s godmother. MLK (and a Chicagoan), who urged us to “stand tall In the last months of her life (she died in March like a tree by the river,” for the cause of equality and 2015), she lived briefly at Montgomery Place, justice. virtually unknown by residents.
Jesse Jackson’s star continued to rise. In 1971, he As a result of these experiences in the 60s and 70s, I took Breadbasket to independent status, renaming it have followed Jesse Jackson’s career with interest. Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) He is a brilliant strategist and organizer, to be sure, and merging in 1996 with The Rainbow Coalition, but I see him also as a preacher and moral teacher, which Jackson had founded in 1978. “Rainbow” with a deep commitment to the cause of justice and expresses a multicultural vision, and it continues and equality for deprived persons, continuing his vastly expands the original goals of Breadbasket. ministry as a Baptist minister.
Rainbow PUSH moved its headquarters to 50th Hyde Park has an illustrious history of citizens who Street and Drexel Boulevard, 1 ½ miles northwest of have achieved greatness. Many of them are noted for Montgomery Place. If you drive by this imposing, their contributions to the wellbeing of our society. pillared building, you will note Hebrew words and Jesse Jackson, Willie Barrow, and Operation PUSH Jewish symbols. It was the home of KAM, the oldest stand high in that history. They extend Martin Luther synagogue in Chicago. At the time that PUSH came King’s vision into the 21st century. into ownership, KAM was merging with Isaiah Israel Phil Hefner OCTOBER 2016 page 13
OCTOBER F ILMS leads to a series of wild and wacky situations. ovie fans will enjoy a 1 hour 34 minutes. Presenter: Alex Elwyn. M variety of fascinating films presented by our Documentary Film: committee members on ♦ October 6, Chicago’s South 7 PM Mondays and Thursdays at 7 Side. Written by Geoffrey Baer for p.m. in the Lounge and on PBS . The history and character of Channel 4. Popcorn and lemonade will be Hyde Park and its neighboring served on Mondays in the Lounge. communities, from Chinatown south. 1 hour 30 minutes. Monday Night Films: Presenter: Phil Hefner. ♦ October 3, Sophie’s Choice, 1982. Drama/ romance. Director: Alan Pakula. Starring: Leah Kadden for the Film Committee Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. An aspiring writer from the South meets his neighbors and comes to realize they are harboring secrets that will forever change his life. An Oscar for Streep. 2 hours 32 minutes. Presenter: Evi Levin. ♦ October 10, Stand By Me, 1986. Coming of age drama/ adventure. Director: Rob Reiner. Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman. After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of MUSIC IN THE E AST R OOM a missing teenager. 2 hours 10 minutes. his month we have a diverse array of Presenter: Rhoda Harvey. T programs for your enjoyment. Many of these ♦ October 17, The Postman Always Rings performers are making return appearances in the Twice, 1946. Film noir/crime. Director: Tay East Room. Please join us in welcoming them. Garnett. Starring: Lana Turner and John Garfield. The sensuous wife of the Lunch ♦ Sunday, October 16, 2 p.m. Ravenswood Wagon Cafe’s proprietor and a rootless drifter Chorale presents a new program of their choral begin a steamy affair. They conspire to murder specialties. her husband and must live with the ♦ Sunday, October 23, 2 p.m. Jazz dancer consequences of their actions. 1 hour 53 Zach Robinson performs to a very original minutes. Presenter: Phil Hefner. program of jazz music. ♦ October 24, Philadelphia, 1993. History/ ♦ Thursday, October 27, 7 p.m. Violinist Sara drama. Director: Jonathan Demme. Starring: Su Jones and pianist Dennis Moore of WFMT Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta fame appear in recital. Maxwell. A gay lawyer infected with AIDS is ♦ Saturday, October 29, 2 p.m. Cellists Jan fired from his job. He sues his former law firm Nedvetsky and Jan Goto in concert. These young with the help of a smalltown, homophobic people are students of renowned Russian cellist lawyer. Two Oscars. 2 hours 5 minutes. Vladimir Perlin. Their recent performances in Presenter: Sheila Elwyn Europe were very well received and in May these ♦ October 31, What’s Up, Doc?, 1972. two “wunderkinds” will be performing in Russia. Comedy/romance. Director: Peter ♦ Sunday, October 30, 2 p.m. University of Bogdanovich. Starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan Chicago piano students in recital. O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn. The accidental Muriel Rogers, Chair, Music Committee mixup of four identical plaid overnight bags page 14 OCTOBER 2016
SURPRISE , S URPRISE ! s the October A Messenger went to press, we got the news that Sheila Bogen, our irrepressible Chief Operating Officer, has accepted a position as Executive Director of the Selfhelp Home in Chicago. There will be a going away party for Sheila on Monday, October 10 at 3 p.m. in the East Room. FRIDAY N IGHT SPEAKERS Congratulations, Sheila! We are proud of you he Friday Night Speakers and we thank you for your many T programs start at 7 p.m. in the accomplishments at Montgomery Place, East Room and usually run for one including a top-flight Healthcare Pavilion, a hour. Everyone is invited to attend change in executive leadership, and a redo of the the programs, which feature very second floor. You’ve seen us through thick and interesting speakers. If you have thin. It has been a delight to have you here, and ideas for speakers, please come to we wish you the very best in your new endeavor. our committee meeting on We will miss you. Come back ’n’ see us Wednesday, October 12, 1 p.m., in sometime. the Game Room. A Grateful Community ♦ October 7, Jason Riggle (Linguistics, U of C). Topic: “The Linguistics of Profanity.” Introduced by Laurieann Chutis. ♦ October 14, Donald York (Astronomy and Astrophysics, U of C). Topic: “The Story of an Astronomical Mystery.” Introduced by Richard Miller. ♦ October 21, To be announced. ♦ October 28, William Burger PLAYREADERS (Botany, Field Museum). Topic: here will not be a Playreaders “How Complexity Changed the T presentation in October. Watch this World.” Introduced by Phil Hefner. space for an exciting project for November. November Playreaders has changed nights Audience questions and discussion because the regular night falls on Election follow each presentation. Day. Playreaders in November will be on Phil Hefner, Friday Night Speakers Tuesday, November 15. Committee Anne Zeidman, Chair, Playreaders OCTOBER 2016 page 15
BOOKLOVERS G ROUP MUSINGS FROM S HEILA n October, the group will read The want to share some information about our beauty I Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago, a I salon. Salon PS & Spa is a national operator of Portuguese writer and winner of the Nobel professional salons and spas in more than 600 senior Prize for Literature in 1988. More than two communities across the United States. Since their million copies of Saramago’s books have founding in Cleveland, Ohio in 2008, their team of been sold; they have been translated into 25 750 professionals has served more than 150,000 languages. clients, delivering over 2.6 million salon and spa services to date. It is a slim book about an elephant and his trainer who are a gift from King João III of At PS, they give an unprecedented amount of time, Portugal to the Archduke of Austria in 1551. attention and resources to their business. The It follows them as they make the trip from breadth and depth of services are a reflection of that Lisbon to Vienna over the Alps and across dedication. In addition to all basic salon services, PS the sea. offers its clients at Montgomery Place a selection of more sophisticated and professional salon and spa The New York Times review praised this services including: book for its flow, which often abandons periods, capital letters, and paragraphs. “The ♦ color processing a n d highlights real genius, however, is to tell the tale ♦ perms and relaxers ahistorically. The narrator zooms in and out, ♦ massages forward and back, so we get a good look at ♦ spa manicures and pedicures Suleiman plodding up ancient mountains ♦ gel (no chip) manicures overlooking a deep blue sea as if from a helicopter.” All of their services are provided with the highest quality products and the best, most comfortable, Janette Kopacz, Coordinator of the Book ergonomic equipment. Club in a Bag program of the Chicago Public Library, has loaned ten copies of this Please visit the Montgomery Place Salon and Spa book to us under Anne Zeidman’s library during their customer appreciation event on card. Five members of our group receive a Wednesday, October 19, from 1 to 3 p.m. digital recording of the book as part of the Refreshments will be provided and PS will offer Talking Books program. If you are complimentary mini manicures and polish change/ interested in receiving this book or nail shaping. An invitation will be in your registering for Talking Books, call me at mailbox soon! 4638. The Elephant’s Journey is a fast read, Sheila Bogen, Chief Operating Officer so I am asking people to return the book to me after they have read it so that I can share it with others.
Our meeting to discuss to this book and to get the book for November will be on Monday, October 24 at 3:30 p.m. in LLLC. All are welcome. Laurieann Chutis, Chair, Booklovers Group page 16 OCTOBER 2016
WALTER L EVIN : Right after his arrival in Palestine, Walter A M USICIAN IS B ORN occasionally played as a violin substitute in the his is the remarkable story of how Walter Palestine Symphony; he realized that he had to T Levin, the founder and leader of the LaSalle learn orchestral literature. Because there was no Quartet, became an outstanding musician, not school with an orchestra, he created a student only because of his exceptional talent and orchestra with his friends to study orchestral energy, but also because his parents, particularly music. He also played in various string quartets. his mother, deliberately created a rich musical environment in their home. In early 1946, Walter decided that he wanted to go to America and study at Juilliard. He thought Walter was born in Berlin on December 6, 1924. that only in such a big and rich country could one His father was a businessman who loved music, make a living playing string quartets. He left and his mother was a pianist. The Levin Haifa on a freighter to New York; it took two household was always filled with musicians and months to reach America, and he finally landed music, particularly chamber music. Walter taught in Baltimore because of a dockworkers’ strike in himself to play all kinds of children’s New York. A short train ride took him to New instruments, such as an accordion, a harmonica, York City. and a drum, that family friends gave him. In 1949, Walter graduated from Juilliard. He had At age 4, Walter received a violin from his already created a quartet in 1947, which was grandfather and started playing it by sliding one giving public performances. Right after his finger up and down the strings. He had a graduation, the quartet, which he named the phenomenal auditory memory, so he could play LaSalle Quartet, was engaged by Colorado any piece after hearing it. But he only wanted to College to be their quartet in residence for four play chamber music. It took his first violin years. From this time on, the LaSalle Quartet teacher some time to discover that Walter could played all over the world until the end of 1989, not read music! At an early age, his parents, when Walter disbanded it, though he continued particularly his mother, took him to hear to teach chamber music for many years. concerts, recitals, operas, and chamber music. Kyoko Inoue
With the rise of Hitler in 1933, Jewish people were not allowed to attend concerts or perform publicly. Five years later, the Levins emigrated to Palestine (the state of Israel would not come into existence until 1948, two years after Walter emigrated to the US). In Tel Aviv, Walter attended high school for one year; after that he had only private instruction in school subjects. His music education took precedence.
In Tel Aviv, surrounded by excellent musicians and music, Walter was greatly stimulated and his musical experiences were enriched and broadened. Around this time, his mother asked a distinguished violinist if he thought Walter would be able to have a career in the somewhat precarious field of music. After auditioning, he Logo for the LaSalle Quartet, assured her that this would be a real possibility. designed by Charles Harper
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