Annals of a Bygone Era
Annals of a Bygone Era Bill Bowe, retired Executive Vice President of Encyclopaedia Britannica and a former Club President, gave a short talk about the history of The Cliff Dwellers at the Club's 117th Annual Meeting of [...]
Tony Bowe Interviews Bill Bowe on Bill Bowe
Tony Bowe Interviews Bill Bowe on Bill Bowe In this follow on to his earlier interview of Bill regarding his grandparents, Gus and Julia Bowe, Tony Bowe interviews Bill about his early years, family [...]
Tony Bowe Asks Bill Bowe about His Career as a General Counsel
Becoming a General Counsel Editor's Note: In this last of the series of interviews by my cousin Tony Bowe, he asked me how and when I shifted my career as a lawyer from private practice to serving in successive [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe and The 1960 Kennedy Presidential Campaign
Editor's Note: In 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. After a September campaign event in our apartment living room with Ethel and Joan Kennedy, the wives of his JFK's brothers Robert and Edward Kennedy, my mother joins the soon-to-be-elected President at an event in his Chicago campaign office. Also attending are then Mayor Richard J. Daley, and later Mayor Jane Byrne.
1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families
1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families Tony Bowe asks Bill Bowe to explain why the two Bowe family apartments at the corner of Elm Street and Lake Shore Drive figured so much [...]
Mark Hersch – Time After Time
Mark Hersch - Time After Time Mark Hersch is know for taking rare, historic photographs of Chicago and other cities and merging them with photographs he takes from the exact same vantage point in the present day. The [...]
Diet Troubles
Diet Troubles Though a delicate subject for me, I spoke directly about my diet troubles. [Automatically generated subtitles in both English and French can be read or turned off by clicking on the CC (Closed Captions) button on [...]
Earlier Times with the 80th Birthday Guests
Earlier Times with the 80th Birthday Guests The birthday event featured a 9-minute slideshow of the invitees in earlier years. You can take a look at these guests when they were youngin's here.
Turning 80
Turning 80 At my last birthday party, I had a chance to tell family and friends why Turning 80 was no bed of roses. [Automatically generated subtitles in both English and French can be read or turned off [...]
