Walker Johnson at Bill Bowe’s 80th Party
Walker Johnson at Bill Bowe's 80th Birthday Party Editor's Note: I know both architect Walker Johnson as well as his architect son Ben from The Cliff Dwellers club. Walker is a past president of the Club and Ben [...]
Beth Hanley Dunn
Beth Hanley Dunn Editor's Note: Beth Hanley Dunn represented the entire Hanley Family, including her brother John Hanley. In a reminder that the pandemic has some lingering effects as the country tries to get back up on its [...]
Jay Edelston
Jay Edelston Editor's Note: Two years ahead of me in high school were Jay Edelston and his classmates Steve Heineman and John Eshoo. Although my family never owned an automobile, these three did grow up with them. Jay [...]
Cathy Parish Skura
Cathy Parish Skura Editor's Note: The paternal grandmother of Cathy Parish Skura was, Catherine Canavan Parish, was the 9th of the 13 children born to Anthony Canavan (1822-1890) and Ann Hughes (1818-1899). My paternal grandmother, Ellen Canavan Bowe was [...]
Jan Grayson
Jan Grayson Editor's Note: I got to know Jan Grayson when he and his friend Jon Laing were pursuing their MBA degrees at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the [...]
Jon Laing
Jon Laing Editor's Note: Jon Laing and I got an academic start to our friendship in the summer of 1953. Our mothers locked us up in Jon's Bellevue Place basement for typing lessons. I followed Jon to Yale [...]
Tony Bowe
Tony Bowe Editor's Note: Tony Bowe set the birthday party in motion, and earlier had been the first to encourage a more ambitious attempt at a website broadly of interest to my extended family. He and his wife [...]
Charley Bowe
Charley Bowe Editor's Note: Charley Bowe arranged to host the party at the Wilmette Harbor Club and he and June arranged the decorations with Tony and Nancy Bowe. Charley recalled that I was his godfather, in a good way, [...]
Pat Bowe
Pat Bowe E Editor's note : Pat Bowe was a key member of the secret cabal that tried and failed to throw a surprise party for my 80th birthday. Leaders Tony and Cathy Bowe tasked Charley Bowe with organizing [...]