Honored to be here!

Superintendent Linda Yonke, James Collins Warren, Susan B. Noyes, Xanthia F. Warren

So honored to be with one of our country’s great unsung heros – Lt. Col James Collins Warren, of the famed Tuskegee Air Corps – his engaging wife, Xanthia, and my friend Linda Yonke. Originally from the cotton fields of the south, Warren’s mother worked as a maid in Winnetka, and sent her son to New Trier. Warren so loves the school that he donated his Congressional Medal Of Honor to it after being inducted into it’s Alumni Hall Of Honor today. Superintendent Yonke beamed with delight,

Make It Better at Lyric’s “Showboat”

The world’s best editorial and art team at a world class production of Showboat. Aren’t they beautiful!

Rock Stars Of The Civic Service World

The big-hearted, smart, talented and beautiful women of Make It Better won the Volunteer Center’s Civic Engagement award Saturday night. These women are rock stars of the lives well lived world.

Make It Better Welcomes Our New Senior Editor Kelly Konrad

With great pleasure, we announce that Kelly Konrad will become Senior Editor on Monday, March 5.

Kelly’s excellent work as Events Editor, book critic and tireless work on the web, Better Letter and events calendar prove her to be an excellent team player – always doing what she can to make others more successful. She will bring those skills to her new position and be an outstanding editor.