TruSweets • Pyramid Point University of Minnesota Duluth PENNSYLVANIA 2015 TEAMS University of Illinois at Chicago • Sleeping Bear Point - Recreational Sports Outdoor BATH • Student Alliance for Public • Sunset Shores Beach Program Beach Combers Bucket Brigade ILLINOIS Health and the Environment • Tiesma Road Weis Family Carpe Rifiuti IN MEMORIAM ANNUAL IMPACT Al Raby High School Team VISANOW Global Immigration Fruitport Alternative High School Environmental Education Staff INSIDE Anna Kenig-Ziesler - KZ Team Whitney Young Eco Club Global Marine Insurance Agency NEW YORK Greener Behrend YOUR CONTRIBUTION Apple Whole Foods Market: Chicago Dawn Goodwin Capco, Inc. - Kimberly Forness Howard Hanna 1,323 EVENTS TURNING 25 ACTING LOCALLY DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH Arabella Advisors Whole Foods Market: Deerfield Grand Haven High School Walt & Sue Drag Kuhar/Zawacki Great Lakes a Adopt-a-BeachTM volunteers Global bank invests Volunteers help spur rebirth of Emma Bataglia Wilmette Harbor Rotary Club GREEN Club Erie Chautauqua Cattarugus Mercyhurst University Hours worked is the equivalent Windy City Diving Grand Traverse Resort and Spa Board of Cooperative Beach Park Middle School Pinetree Pickers Matt Wnek Green Committee Educational Services amass decades of beach data in Great Lakes two lakefront parks in Cleveland Black & Veatch Corporation Plastek Group passion for former of 3.94 years valued at $250,567 Bowen High School Yanny-Tillar Family Gratiot Lake Conservancy HSBC Buffalo 348 SITES Presque Isle State Park 14,926 Brownie Troop 21802 Youth Conservation Corps Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative HSBC Water Programme Short Jetty Girls buildOn Zion Park District Harbert Volunteers • Marybeth Guarnieri board member Team Higgins Volunteers would fill Katie Bussey Hippe/Kinney • Rosemary Kossow The Alliance is saddened by the loss Volunteers Team Sarnowski Carrigan’s INDIANA Hope College Environmental • Legal Department Team Shaffer 34,561 HOURS 207 school buses STEWARDSHIP ISSUE 2016 Glenn Cekus Association of Beverly Shores Issues Group • Andrew Minderler of Henry “Harry” Chandler, Alliance Center for Conservation Residents Houghton - Keweenaw • Susan Morrison Windjammers board member emeritus and true WaterMarks Leadership Decay Devils Conservation District • Kathy Neiss Chicago Adventure Therapy Discovery Charter School Hudsonville High School Green • Bernie O’Donnell WISCONSIN Great Lakes champion. He passed Chicago Craft Beer Enthusiasts Dunes Learning Center Team • Larry Posses Alverno College away in February at the age of 91. Chicago Girl Scout SU 279 Griffith Izaak Walton League of Inland Seas Education • Bridgette Preston Antea Group - Milwaukee Office Chandler was board president in Chicago Health Corps 2014-15 America Association • Risk Department Bay Shore Lutheran Church Citgo Noelle Hinkel Johnson Controls Incorporated • Vivian Stromberg Bay View Neighborhood the late 1980s and early ’90s when Chicago Parks Foundation Indiana Harbor-East Chicago • Information Technology • Stephen Toner Association the Alliance was the Lake Michigan Paul Culhane Lions • Post Model Service Center • Laurel Vaughn Bethesda Lutheran Church Dewey Elementary School Marina Shores • Woman’s Resource Network • Paul Yaeger Big Bay Team Federation. He was one of a handful Disney II Magnet High School Michigan City Parks and Kazoo School Jessica Lister Coca-Cola Milwaukee of key supporters who managed the Environmental Resources Recreation Department Keweenaw Bay Indian Power of One Nela Deutmeyer #ILoveTheGreatLakes because ... Federation through turbulent waters Management Northwest Indiana Parrothead Community - Natural Slippery Rock University - Fernwood Elementary Francine Ephraim Club Resources Department Geography, Geology, and Friends of Crescent Beach and made sure it lived to grow into Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club Ogden Dunes Environmental Lake Michigan College the Environment Friends of Grant Park the Alliance for the Great Lakes. No sharks, beautiful beaches, freshwater . Exelon Corporation Advisory Board Lake Shore High School SUNY Fredonia Friends of South Shore Park the reasons our volunteers love the Great Fish Bar Our Lady of Perpetual Help Environmental Science Classes • Insitute for Research in Friends of the Manitowoc River In the mid-2000s, Chandler Foss Beach Sea Glass Searchers Green Team Stacey LaRocco Science Teaching Watershed committed his personal support to Lakes are too many to list, but we asked Fourth Presbyterian Church Portage Middle School students Latter Day Saints Church - • Christina Jarvis & Sherri Giles-Pufahl Family anyway so they could share them with the Holland and Hastings the Alliance’s emerging major gift George Washington High School Save the Dunes Mason Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Stewardship Through Education Leelanau County Democrats Team Dex world. When they weren’t singing the lakes’ Glenbrook South High School • Fernwood Montessori School program, and in so doing helped lay Sue the Goldfish Lady Lend A Hand Program The Depew Two Interact Club • Garland Elementary School the foundation for the organization’s praises at the September Adopt-a-Beach™ Go Green Glencoe The Green Herons Ludington Students University at Buffalo Honors • Hawley Environmental School cleanup — our biggest day of action around Goose Island Beer Company Valparaiso Girl Scouts Manistee Water Guardians and College subsequent growth and success. He • Highland Community School Gordon Salon Manistee United Methodist the Great Lakes each year — our 7,034 • Milwaukee Parkside School rallied his friends and family to the Great Lakes Brewing Company MICHIGAN Church OHIO • University School of volunteers were clearing 16,138 pounds of Guerrero Howe A Few Friends for the Michigan Technological Baldwin Wallace University - cause of the Great Lakes and was Milwaukee Hanson Family Environment of the World Univeristy Association Environmental Ethics loyal to the lakes, and the Alliance, to trash from 288 sites. Hi-Cone Ring Leaders Allens/Crosbys of Students for People, Beaumont School • Wedgewood Park School Holland & Knight Alpha Phi Omega Environments, and Nature Business Volunteers Unlimited Matt Hale the end. It was a personal passion. Ann Hopkins Avery & Jennifer Angers Family (ASPEN) (BVU) Hmong American Peace “Harry welcomed me into his Roche Barnes Family Joseph Mikula Campus International School - Academy National Honor home, asked me tough questions HSBC Water Programme Beachside Scoops Alyssa Morin 5th Grade Society • Legal Team Beaver Island Association Muskegon Save Our Shoreline Campus International School - Hollisters about the issues and the Alliance’s • Victoria Patzer Belle Isle Conservancy National Cherry Festival 6th Grade Taylor Jarmes operations, schooled me on the • Wendy Raffaelli Binder Park Zoo Newberry Correctional Facility Case Western Reserve Student Jennine Pufahl Home School Illinois Council of Skin and Scuba Marvin Bishop North Central Michigan College Sustainability Council (SSC) Team history I needed to know, and gave Divers Blossom Land Parrot Head Club - BIO101 Charles A. Mooney Mustangs Johnson Controls - me his trust that we would put his Illinois Environmental Council - Booking.com North Muskegon Middle School Cleveland Clinic Group of Manufacturing Excellence support to good use,” says Joel Young Professional’s Board David Borgeson - 8th Grade Aspiring Leaders (GOAL) Team Illinois Institute of Technology - Brewery Vivant Northwoods Conservancy Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - Zoo Kenosha Junior Womans Club Brammeier, Alliance president and Orland Park Bunche Bobcats Oakridge School Fusion Crew Kenosha Public Museum’s Green CEO. “I valued his commitment and Insurance Industry Charitable Chandler Park Academy Maddy Pelon Cleveland School of the Arts Team Foundation Environmental Club Pentwater Green Schools Club Cleveland State University Kleen Test Products advice immeasurably.” Jackson Park Advisory Council Charlevoix Montessori Academy Portage Lake Garden Club Student Environmental La Pointe Elementary School One of Chandler’s greatest joys was Powell Family Japanese Chamber of Elementary Movement Shenandoah LaRock to spend time with his family on the Commerce Cheever Treatment Center Cory Robinett Drink Local. Drink Tap., Inc. Lauren & Crystal Sharon and Ted Jones Lang LaSalle Circuit Controls Corporation East Clark Elementary School Michael Lazaro shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Clean Water Action Southwestern Michigan East Harbor State Park Justin Wynn Fund Milwaukee Parkside School for Darling Cetaceans Association of REALTORS Euclid Beach Adopt-a-Beach™ Upper Peninsula, and he was an avid Kaplan University the Arts King College Prep High School Delta College Biology Club Straight from the Lake Team lake and saltwater boater. He and Mussels Lake Bluff Park District Delta Sigma Phi & Friends Taylor’ed Tunes Group EY Connect Day Nemschoff Chairs his wife, Clarissa, kept a sailboat on Lake Forest Open Lands Detroit Zoo Team Deegan Gates Mills Environmental Power Family Association Douglass Academy for Young Team General Electric Education Center Lake Michigan for about 40 years, Red Apple School STEAM Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church Men Team Sault Schools Girl Scouts of North East Ohio Schlitz Audubon Nature Center taking it out nearly every weekend Louis J. Agassiz Elementary Drummond Island Lions Club The Green Hearts Glenville High School Loyola Dunes Restoration - Ann Dyer-Anderson The Nature Conservancy - Greater Cleveland Aquarium Sheboygan River Basin and cruising together