Chicago Botanic Garden

Support

OFFICERS

Susanna R. Block
Co-President

Jay L. Owen
Co-President

Hilary C. Semple
Vice President

Anthony T. Hoban
Treasurer

Joseph M. Brickman
Secretary

Anne S. Loucks
Membership Co-Chair

Elizabeth Dunkel Ryan
Membership Co-Chair

The Guild of the
Chicago Botanic Garden

Founded in 1998, our membership comprises more than 100 enthusiastic civic leaders from Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.

We are committed to assisting the Chicago Botanic Garden by promoting it to a larger audience, raising funds for its support and providing services that advance the Garden's mission.

We are very proud of the support the Guild has provided the Chicago Botanic Garden. We have raised more than $2.2 million and introduced hundreds of new friends to the Garden; we also hold the honor of being the first board to reach 100 percent participation in the first phase of the Campaign for the Chicago Botanic Garden.

The Harvest Ball is the Guild's main fundraiser. We are proud to direct
the proceeds of this evening to benefit the Garden's Center for Teaching
and Learning, providing educational programs for teachers and youth from
preschool through grade 12. These programs inspire a lifelong
interest in the natural world and the sciences, as well as concern and
care for our environment.

Your support will enable the Chicago Botanic Garden to reach, teach,
involve, and transform students' lives. Center for Teaching and Learning
programs engage students with the sciences while instilling in them a
sense of responsibility for protecting our increasingly fragile
environment. They are our future.

PHOTO: children catching insects in a discovery program PHOTO: a class on the prairie

GUILD MEMBERS

Brayton and Pim Alley

Laura Ferris Anderson

Lindsey C. Axel

Annie O. Barlow

Kimberly Beard

Wendy W. Beard

Elizabeth and Chandler Bigelow III

Peggy and Paul Bodine

Amy P. Brock

Jonathan M. Bross

Donna G. Brunso

Audrey L. Buchner

Susan R. Bulley

Kimberly J. Burt

Catherine and Michael Busch

Susan and Michael Canmann

Laura M. Carlson

Elizabeth K. Chalmers

Saira M. Cooper

Heather W. Dunkel

Frances M. Elliott

Jamee C. Field

Kate Fisher Fitzgerald

John D. Fornengo

Rebecca and Victor Garces

Amy M. Geer

Clarissa C. Grayson

Angela W. Haggie

Stacey L. Hancock

Karen Hawkins

Jennifer C. Healy

Carolyn M. Hines

Lisa L. Holstein

Elizabeth T. Holt

Catherine P. Hurtgen

Troy C. Ihlanfeldt

M. Preston Jansing

Daniel G. Joseph

Jennifer and Sanford Kasten

Jennifer P. Keenan

Barbara Malott Kizziah

Patricia R. Knox

Brooke and James Kuehnle, Jr.

Stephanie Scott Leichtweis

Denise and Frederick Lenn II

Anita Livaditas

Emily and John MacEntee

Stephanie Madigan

Kathryn Bader Mangel

Gloria S. Masterson

Amanda C. McElroy

Carlette McMullan

Carrie C. McNally

Melissa T. McNally

Peyton H. Merrill

Nancy Moreno

Roni Moore Neumann

Cindy D. Nicolaides

Julie and Jim O’Connor

Riley S. O’Neil

Kelley F. Owen

Shawna Owen

Heidi B. Paul

George A. Peinado, Jr.

Katherine and Richard Peterson

Carolynn J. Pfaff

Molly A. Porterfield

Christopher B. Richards

Eve R. Rogers

Margaret W. Scheyer

Todd D.H. Schwebel

Heidi L. Sibert

Leslie A. Simpson

Karen P. Solomon

Cassie Spencer

Jennifer Stone

Jennifer M. Tengelsen

Laura R. Thompson

Anne C. Tucker

Steven M. Valenti

Courtney A. VanDeVelde

Amy Walsh

Jeffrey C. Yehle

Liza Zito