Northbrook Woman’s Club Elisa Glass, President August 2014 Julie Blaszak, Editor

In the packets you will receive the new NWC/F Yearbook, the raffle tickets, information about your Ways and Means obligation, as well as information on upcoming events. In addition, in order to save money on postage, the Ways and Means Benefit Committee is enclosing the invitation for the Benefit in the packet. Please look through the entire packet and note any deadlines As much as I hate seeing the summer end, I look forward to the first luncheon on September 4th. It’s wonderful to see everyone again and catch up on all that’s happened in the last few months. As you walk around during the cocktail hour, try to take an opportunity to introduce yourself to our newer members. When I was a new member, I felt so self-conscious at first; I would have loved it if anyone had introduced herself to me. I am especially looking forward to hearing Barbara Rinella’s dramatization of The Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki at this first luncheon. This popular historical novel revolves around the life of Benedict Arnold and his scheming wife. It should be a delightful program! I am also very excited about our Benefit on October 25th. It will be aboard the Odyssey which will launch off of Navy Pier and cruise around the Lake. We have never had a Benefit like this and it promises to be very a memorable and fun filled event! I hope you will be able to attend. Therefore, don’t lament the ending of summer, but look forward to a fall filled with wonderful new opportunities. Enjoy the rest of your summer!!

Elisa

UPCOMING EVENTS

September 4 Fall Luncheon at Exmoor Country Club September 13 Fall Planting at Red’s Garden Center September 13 Last Days of Summer Backyard Pool & Dinner Party September 17 New Evening Book Club – RSVP today! September 20 Community Blood Drive at Sunset Foods Sept 30 – Oct 2 Book Bin Shopping Days October 25 NWC Annual Benefit -- Cruise for a Cause

Submissions due August 15th for the September newsletter Send to Julie Blaszak at JSB915@comcast.net

As I write this, I am amazed that the summer is half over. If only we could bottle these beautiful days and bring them out in the dead of winter. I’ve so enjoyed the nice weather and the different activities that usually can only happen during our summer months! In the next few weeks you will be getting your Ways and Means Packets delivered to you by our Ways and Means Projects Committee. If you haven’t received your packet by the end of August, please contact Linda Redstone, the Projects Chair.

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*** MEMBERSHIP UPDATES *** The Membership Committee will kick off the new program year by hosting a Cocktail Party for our 12 new members and their spouses on Saturday, September 6 at the home of Elisa Glass. Save the date! Invitations will be forthcoming. Introducing our New Members for 2014-2015:

Leslie Berkowitz Lynn Christos Marcia Hall Keri Muldoon Mary Bowler Caroline Gau Kristin Ihrke Carolyn Nyren Missy Brownson Anni Goldberg Sarah McNally Mary Tritsis

Please be sure to introduce yourself to them at our upcoming events. Additionally, our club officially has 208 members: 12 new, 98 active, 80 sustainer, 18 honorary. To help explain our club and membership to interested ladies, Missy DeVries is our "Prospective New Member Liaison." Helping Hands One of NWC’s invaluable services is to our own membership through “Helping Hands.” If you are interested in joining this group, look for an insert in the August packet. It will give a detailed description on the many ways it assists our members in need and how to sign up. Buffy Ervin organizes this group effort. Membership Committee Reminder to please attend our August 12th, 9 am meeting at Liesel Lavery’s house. We will plan the upcoming New Member Cocktail Party, scheduled for September 6th at Elisa Glass’s house. Our Condolences

Patty Damisch’s mother-in-law, Harriet Damisch, passed away

Jackie Purcell’s mother, Mary Catherine Touhy, passed away

Mary Szostak & Liesel Lavery

Membership Committee Co-Chairs

There’s Still Time for Summer Reading!

Find a shady spot by the pool or in your back yard and read a great book or two this summer. To prepare for Barbara Rinella's Book Dramatization at our September 4th luncheon, read The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki. Here are some more books to read over the summer or add to your wish list for our Book Bin Shopping Day:

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin (She will be our Spring Luncheon on Saturday, March 7th!)

Euphoria by Lily King

Mary Coin by Marisa Silver

Shotgun Love Songs by Nicholas Butler

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Incredible Journey of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

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NWCF Community Projects Update Our new NWC/F Community Project “Keep Them Reading,” begins at our luncheon on September 4. A bin will be available at this and every monthly meeting throughout the 2014-2015 year for members and their guests to deposit their used paperback books that will be placed at the Northbrook Metra station for riders to borrow or keep. This NWC/F project, chaired by Jan Alberts, is in cooperation with the Northbrook Public Library that has expressed gratitude for NWC/F's help in continuing this project during the library's renovation. The Project Linus Appreciation Tea will be held on September 13, 2014, at Gloria Dei Church in Northbrook. Karen Spooner, NWC/F chair of the event, will be contacting her committee in late August/early September. The Northbrook Community Blood Drive is scheduled for Saturday, September 20, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Sunset Foods in Northbrook. The NWC/F chair for this NWC/F-NB Rotary-Sunset event, Michelle Rosenson, will be contacting this committee in late August/early September. A big thank-you to all who volunteered for these and all the other NWC/F Community Projects for the 2014-2015 year. What kind and generous women make up NWC/F!

Marion Rowe & Kathleen Drewno

NWC/F Community Projects Committee Co-chairs

Fall Planting at Red's Garden Center

September 13 at 10:30 am

Bring your own pot or purchase one, and pick from the selection of beautiful fall flowers and plants from Red’s Garden Center. Go home with your lovely fall planter! Fee is based on your selection of plants. Please rsvp to Julie Allen at allenjulie1@sbcglobal.net. Questions? Contact either

Julie Allen or Sarah McNally.

Magazines for Glenbrook Hospital

This is our third year collecting magazines for Glenbrook Hospital to provide current reading materials in the waiting areas for visitors or for the patients. Please donate your magazines once you are finished with them! Magazines will be collected at each of our general meetings and luncheons. A few simple guidelines are:

1 to 2 months current

good (not ripped or curled) covers and pages

name and address blacked out or covered

news, sports, home, fashion, general interest The volunteer office at Glenbrook Hospital appreciates our efforts and is looking forward to working with our Club again this year to provide entertainment and distraction to patients and their families. Thank you in advance for keeping this project in mind as you finish your magazines!

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Northbrook Community Blood Drive September 20th

Please help by giving the gift of life! On September 20th, Northbrook Rotary, Sunset Foods and Northbrook Woman’s Club will again co-sponsor the Northbrook Community Blood Drive. It will be held from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm on the Mezzanine at Sunset Foods in Northbrook. Appointments are appreciated, however, walk-ins are welcome. To schedule your appointment, go to www. lifesource.org and follow these directions:

Click on “Donate Blood”

Click on “Where to Donate”.

Select “Mobile Blood Drives”, then “click here” to search for a drive.

Enter the following “Sponsor Code Search”: NV32.

Or, you can call Lifesource at 1-877-LIFESOURCE. Are you unable to donate? You can still help! Please pass this important information along to family and friends.

KEEP THEM READING New Community Project

Are you wondering what to do with those paperback books that you have read? Now you have the perfect place to donate them so that they may be enjoyed by others. Our new community project called "Keep Them Reading” provides used paperback books through a collaborative program with the Northbrook Public Library. Each book will be stamped “Compliments of the Northbrook Woman’s Club” and help fill the library’s book rack in the Northbrook Metra Station. Commuters are encouraged to borrow or take books that interest them. Look for the collection bin at our monthly meetings and luncheons.

Join Our New Evening Book Club September 17th

There will be a new evening book club starting in September. We are hoping there will be a group of committed interested readers that will make our conversation lively and fun! The first book will be The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. We will meet on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00 pm at Jean Imperato’s house, 2330 Woodlawn Road. If you have any Questions, please feel free to contact Jean Imperato or Adrienne Miller. Space is limited so contact Jean as soon as possible at 847.498.6124 or Jean516@comcast.net if you would like to join. Happy reading!

4.5 million Americans will a need blood transfusion each year.

About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood.

Shortages of blood types happen during the summer and winter holidays.

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Last Days of Summer

Join us! Rain or Shine! Invite Your Friends!

Saturday, September 13th 6 to 10 pm

At the home of Linda & Michael Redstone 2210 Greenview Road

Cost is $40 per person

Price includes all food and drink, lots of fun and games, plus a contribution to the NWCF coffers to be used for grants and scholarships in the spring of 2015.

RSVP by September 4th, please

RSVP FORM Backyard Pool & Dinner Party Payable to Northbrook Woman’s Club

Your Name ____________________________________ Phone _________________________

TOTAL RESERVATIONS _____________x $40 each

AMOUNT ENCLOSED ______________________

Mail this reservation form & payment to: Alison Ayres, 3440 Whirlaway Drive, Northbrook, IL 60062

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EATALY Walking Tour & Lunch in October

Interested in checking out the newest downtown foodie sensation EATALY? Then join your fellow woman’s club members as we explore Eataly – located at 43 East Ohio in Chicago – for a private 2 pm walking tour . Plus, we’ll enjoy a delicious lunch before the tour. The Special Interest Committee is still working out all the details, but we know this will occur on a Friday in October... There is a maximum of 15 for the tour, so if you are interested, please respond to Dara Owens at daranelson@aol.com so you can be kept apprised as details emerge.

Mark Your Calendar: Book Bin Days Returns!

September 30, October 1 & 2

Once again, the Book Bin, located in the Sunset Foods shopping center, has agreed to donate 20% of your purchases made with the coupon below from Tuesday, September 30th through Thursday, October 2, 2014. The funds support the many causes which our NWC members work hard to ensure are making a difference to the community. Bring the coupon below, and if you're a member of a book club, spread the word about the sale days with your club to support the NWC. There will also be coupons available at the Book Bin.

Book Bin Days to Benefit Northbrook Women’s Club September 30 through October 2, 2014

Name:________________________________________________________ Date:__________________ Total Purchase Price:_____________________

Please attach your receipt with this coupon and circle the purchase total.

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A special thank you goes out to all of the ladies on the

2013/2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE!!! Thank you to: Julie Blaszak, Nancy Carey, Rosalie Lemperis, Ann Nugent, Mary Otis, Leena Ramachandra, Regina Ruocco and Stacy Simpson. Many thanks to Nancy Carey for Chairing the March Fashion Show with the above committee members. You all worked so hard to run a successful Spring show with our own members, their children and grandchildren. Last year we had a variety of programs ranging from Byron Kinney of the book, Unbroken, to the GBN Express singing Carols in December, to a fashion consultant to decorating for the holidays. I enjoyed working with each and every one of you! Happy Summer!

Kathy Paleczny

Program Committee Chair, 2013/2014

Summertime Verses

Then followed that beautiful season, summer.

Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape

Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -- Wallace Stevens

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year;

it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. -- Author Unknown

THANK YOU! Northfield Township Food Drive Thank you! We collected $948 and a Honda Pilot full of food for the Northfield Township Food Pantry from your generous donations at our May 2014 Members Luncheon! Great work! As always, they were extremely grateful!

Jennifer Anderson

Food Drive Chair, 2013/2014

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Cruise for a Cause “Come Sail Away” on the majestic ship Odyssey at Navy Pier

All hands on deck Saturday, October 25 at 6:00 pm ! Enjoy our beautiful Chicago

skyline from the vantage of Lake Michigan while enjoying dinner, dancing, drinks

and making donations. Move to the upper deck at 9 :00 pm to marvel at the city’s

spectacular fireworks display over the lake.

Your invitation is included in the August member packet. You will select your meal from a wide ranging menu at your table. Sit with friends! Dinner tables may include parties of 8 or 10. The NWCF Bylaws (Article III, Sec. 2) state that each active member shall annually support, both actively and financially, the NWCF Ways and Means projects. For 2014-15, each active member shall:

1) Make a cash donation of a minimum of $50.00. Please mail this check (made payable to NWCF) to

Cathy Gregory by September 01, 2014. Due to lack of space on the ship, we will not have room for

member item donations.

2) Purchase 2 Benefit tickets at $125.00 each. ($32.00 is tax deductible per ticket). If you are unable to

attend the benefit, you may give your two tickets to friends, or donate $250.00 to NWCF. Your

reservation is requested by September 15, 2014 to Kathy Patelski. There is a $20.00 late fee if paid

after 9/15.

We are seeking benefit sponsors and advertisers. If you or someone you know is interested, please request a Contribution form from Missy DeVries. We hope you will join us as we Cruise for a Cause on Saturday, October 25, 2014.

Cathy Gregory & Mary Beth Smith

Ways and Means Benefit Co-Chairs

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Northbrook Woman’s Club Fall Luncheon

Featuring Barbara Rinella

Enjoy a dramatization of The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki. This fabulous historical fiction reveals how beautiful Philadelphia socialite Peggy Shippen, who loved to party with the British officers, will end up

marrying Benedict Arnold and play a significant role in his treachery to the Patriot's cause!

September 4, 2014

Exmoor Country Club 700 Vine Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois

11:00 am Cocktails 12:00 pm Luncheon and Program

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Menu Chicken Florentine Crepes with roasted chicken, sautéed fresh spinach and oven dried

tomatoes in a mushroom and sherry wine cream sauce, plus a Radicchio Cup with baby spinach, dried fruits, goat’s cheese, candied walnuts and citrus vinaigrette.

Key Lime Tart, Coffee, Iced Tea, Lemonade and Coffee

Reservations by Tuesday, August 28th, 2014, please! ____________________________________________________________________________________

Cost is $40 per person, payable to Northbrook Woman’s Club Due 8/28 Mail reservation to: Cindy Franz, 814 Woodbine Ln, Northbrook, IL

Member Name________________________________________ Phone_______________________ Guest Name(s): ________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Please seat me with: _______________________________________________________________ Please seat me at: New members’ table_______ Sustainers’ table_______ “Getting to know you table”_______

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