2020 Past Programs Word
April 2, 2020
Speaker: Sharon Newman
Topic: What do when you learn your loved
one has dementia
snewman@improvingminds.org
~Sharon Newman
708-631-5846
April 23, 2020
Speaker: Lisa Jacobs
Topic: Juvenile Justice & Mental Illness
312-915-7876. ljacobs@luc.edu
May 14, 2020
Speaker: Neil Hansen
Topic: Recalls his escape from Captured Cambodia 1975
Contact:
Luann at White Rose Productions 630-291-8750 lpg@whiteroseproductions123.com
May 21, 2020
Dr. Jeffrey M. Smith D.C.
Wellness Instructor, Chiropractor, Part-Time Humorist & Author of the highly acclaimed book, Laughing, Loving, Living Your Way to a Stress-Free Life.
(708) 220-6530 Cell
(708) 456-8844 Clinic
May 28, 2020
Maxie Gluckman
Past President, Rotary E-Club of San Diego Global
(858)-617-9998
Topic: Train for Change Program in Honduras
June 4, 2020
Dr Noe Mojica
Topic: A Supportive Response to
Fathers of Children with Cancer
June 11, 2020
Speaker: Dr Aissetu Ibrahima
Topic: Advancing Human Rights, Social and Economic Justice
while tackling a pandemic.
a-ibrahima@neiu.edu
June 18, 2020
Dr Judith Rocha. J-Rocha5@neiu.edu
Topic: Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving in the
Latinx Community
June 25, 2020
Speaker - Meghan Jorgensen
Travelers Aid - (Heartland Alliance)
Topic: How they are handling the Covid 19 crisis
312-660-1320. mjorgensen@heartlandalliance.org
July 2, 2020
Speaker Ted Williams III
Topic: The Bible and the Ballot
tdwillia3@gmail.com
Ted Williams III is a political commentator who has taught Political Science at Wright College, Chicago State University, and currently is the Chairman of the Social Sciences Department at Kennedy-King College.
July 9, 2020
Speaker: Ed Spire
Topic: Restore our Democracy
ed.spire@nonconfundar.org
Mr. Edward Spire, representing an Indivisible chapter in the Northwestern Chicago suburbs, will present Restore our Democracy, a discussion of the corrupting influences of unlimited political money on our government, and what we can do – here and now – to begin reversing this troubling trend.
July 23, 2020
Speaker: Diane Carroll
dcarroll@myjoyfulheart.org
Topic: My Joyful Heart
Diane gave us an update on MY JOYFUL HEART PROGRAM. 708-458-3979 www.myjoyfulheart.org. MJH now has over 1000 disadvantaged kids enrolled in their program. Our club sponsors two children from this organization. Bring your back to school supplies to donate.
July 30, 2020
Speaker Roger Breisch
Topic: Finding Life on the Suicide Hotline
630-248-6291
REBreisch@alum.mit.edu
August 6, 2020
Project C.U.R.E.
Dr. Tom Wilson, member
Westminster 7:10 Rotary Club
303-881-3214 tomnnoel@gmail.com
August 20, 2020
John Nanni is a Polio Survivor, a Post Polio Syndrome Survivor and a Rotary Polio Plus advocate. He was diagnosed in 1953 with polio before he was one year old. He details his journey through polio and post polio syndrome and his journey with Polio Plus. He also compares polio and the pandemic we are currently experiencing.
John Nanni. jntenor@yahoo.com
302-449-5346 - H
609-605-4007 - C
August 27, 2020
Pacific Garden Mission is a homeless shelter in the Near West Side section of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1877,[1] by Colonel George Clarke and his wife, Sarah. It has been nicknamed, "The Old Lighthouse." It is the oldest such shelter in Chicago. According to the PGM website, "Pacific Garden Mission is the oldest, continuously operating rescue mission in the country."
philip@pgm.org. 312-492-9410
1458 S Canal St, Chicago, IL 60607
Pastor Philip Kwiatkowski
September 3, 2020
Lizzy Appleby discussed some of the challenges that LGBTQ+ youth experience and the role of community members in making communities more affirming of LGBTQ+ youth
EAppleby@youthservices-gn.org
Lizzy Appleby, AM, LCSW
Phone: 847.724.2620 x121. www.ysgn.org
September 10, 20020
Our speaker Mike McGowan is Executive Director of NOAH, the National Organization for Albinism and Hiypopigmentation. mmcgowan@albinism.org
NOAH’s mission is to act as a conduit for accurate and authoritative information about all aspects of living with albinism and to provide a place where people with albinism and their families, in the United States and Canada, can find acceptance, support and fellowship.
September 17
Mr Bill Morris & Raul Guzman
Blue Star Recyclers is a nonprofit social enterprise with
a mission of recycling electronics to create local jobs for
people with disabilities.
bill@bluestarrecyclers.com
http://bluestarrecyclers.org
719-494-4436
October 8
Agnes Lewis
Topic:Feeding 9 Billion
ajlewis7@gmail.com
October 15 - Zoom
Deacon Joseph R Ferrari, Ph.D.
Topic: Becoming a Catholic Deacon
October 22 - Zoom
Bill Ballou, PDG 5630 (Nebraska)
Topic: ShelterBox
weballou@gmail.com
October 29 - Zoom
Rebecca Weininger
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic
Topic: Domestic Violence
847.737.4042 | nslegalaid.org
rweininger@nslegalaid.org
November 5 - Zoom
Dr Tom Bookler Ed.D.
Topic: Homeless Program in Schools
Cell (630) 386-0883
November 12 - Zoom
Henry Cervantes
Topic: The Peace Exchange
hcervantes@hfm.org
Henry Cervantes is Program Manager of The Peace Exchange, a program of Holy Family Ministries. His organization engages youth in leadership training and international travel to study global nonviolent movements for peace and justice. Cervantes has coordinated exchanges with young people from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America. Cervantes has trained young activists across the United States as a facilitator for the James Lawson Institute.
November 19 - Zoom
Bill Hammack
Topic". Why Shakespeare
bill@symbolix.com
Bill is a self-described theatre addict who loves to talk about it with people who like to hear about it.
December 3 - Zoom
Kevin Kuhn
Topic: Forest Preserves of Cook County
O: 773-631-1790 • C: 312-882-0842
December 10 - Zoom
Charlie Laliberte
Topic: Uganda Mission
630-750-8027. charlielaliberte@gmail.com
December 17 - Zoom
Munira Zahabi
Topic: The IIE Principle, which reflects, Initiation, Implementation, and Execution.
zahabim@gmail.com. 818-854-4704