Lois Weisberg to receive Harvard Club’s annual award
January 6, 2012 7:10PM
Lois Weisberg of Chicago with Stephen Baird of Winnetka
EVENT: The Harvard Club of Chicago Award Dinner
DATE: Awardee announced Nov. 7, 2011; dinner to be held Feb. 11, 2012
LOCATION: Chicago Club, Chicago
BENEFITING: The Harvard Club
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Updated: February 21, 2012 5:43PM
At a small reception for its Board of Directors of The Harvard Club of Chicago, held at the Cliff Dwellers on Nov. 7, it was announced that Lois Weisberg would be the recipient of the Club’s Annual Award, which will be presented at
The Annual Award Dinner of the Harvard Club of Chicago to be held on Feb. 11, 2012, at the Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren, Chicago.
Lois Weisberg of Chicago was the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs in Chicago from 1989 until January, 2011. She founded the Chicago Cultural Center and Friends of the Park, and was responsible for the establishment of the renowned Gallery 37 program, which gathered Chicago youths to a vacant block in downtown Chicago to make art, she also created the Taste of Chicago Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Chicago Gospel Festival, citywide neighborhood festivals and the Chicago Holiday Sharing It Program. She launched Chicago’s Cows on Parade exhibit, the first in the U.S. Ms. Weisberg is the recipient of many civic and arts awards including the League of Woman Voters Award, and the Harold Washington History Maker Award.
The dinner speaker will be Jacob Weisberg, son of the honoree. He is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. He graduated from Yale University in 1986, where he worked for the Yale Daily News. After Yale, he attended New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship.
The award announcement was made by Susanne McCullagh of Winnetka, chair of the Harvard Club Awards Committee. Some of the guests present at the reception included Nancy Berman of Chicago, Award Dinner Chairman, John Challenger and Stephen Baird of Winnetka and Joel Schneider of Highland Park.
The dinner, the club’s only fundraiser, is the principal source of scholarship and community service funds for Chicago area students.
For further information, please call Nancy Berman at (312) 266-9820 or the Club office at (847) 254-1211, or see http://clubs.harvard.edu.
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