Queen Marie chaired the meeting commencing at 12:41.
Birthdays: We all joined in wishing Peter Skalski and Tom Evans happy birthdays.
Anniversaries: Patti Van Cleave celebrated her 14th year as a Rotarian.
Announcements: Barb Tubekis reminded us that we are continuing to collect the lunch containers for recycling.
Happy Bucks: Liz Taylor was happy that our speaker today would be Mary Trieschmann.
Patti Van Cleave introduced our speaker of the day, Mary Trieschmann, the Executive Director of the Winnetka Historical Society.
Mary’s parents are long-time Winnetka residents having lived in their house at 615 Cherry Street for 58 years before they moved in 2019. Mary was Patti Van Cleave’s successor as Executive Director of the Society.
Since 1932, the Winnetka Historical Society has been devoted to strengthening our community and increasing our civic pride by honoring and preserving the village’s heritage. It gathers and shares the artifacts and stories of our past, and fosters meaningful connections among Winnetkans and the broader community. The collections currently contain over 30,000 items.
The Society owns two structures: The museum at 411 Linden Street in Winnetka and the Schmidt-Burnham Log House located at 1140 Willow St., Winnetka.
The Society issues a Bi-Annual newspaper, the Gazette. It is a fount of information concerning individual homes and their historical ownership.
Currently, the Society is sponsoring 15 virtual exhibits corresponding to the 15 decades since Winnetka’s founding. For example, the 1860’s features The Sinking of the Lady Elgin; the 1900’s features the Communications Contraption showing off a “pen register” to enable the Fire Department to respond more promptly to fires; and 1940’s focuses on War Effort Victory Gardens. For more, go to the website.
A special project is an 1897 painting by Pauline Dohn (Rudolph) that is currently being displayed at Liz Taylor’s bank, the North Shore Community Bank and Trust – Winnetka, 576 Lincoln Ave.
