For more information, contact Dottie Jeffries:
dottiejeffries@gmail.com

The Happy Invention:
History and Significance of Picture Postcards

Wednesday, April 16, 1:30 p.m.
Augustana Lutheran Church
5500 South Woodlawn Avenue

FREE and open to the public

UChicago alumna and Founding Curator of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, which is now at the Newberry Library, will speak about the history and significance of picture postcards. Hyde Park resident and tenth president (and first woman president) of the Newberry Library, Astrida Orle Tantillo, will provide words of welcome.

Attendees are invited to bring postcards of interest for discussion.

Katherine Hamilton-Smith

Astrida Orle Tantillo

This event is co-presented by the Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. Road Scholar speakers travel throughout Illinois sharing free, dynamic presentations about literature, philosophy, theater, Local history, film, music, politics, and more, at no cost to host organizations. The program enables local nonprofit organizations to present free-admission cultural programs to their communities.

Wine and Cheese Spring Benefit

Sunday, June 1, 5 - 7 p.m.
Raiselle and Ken Resnick's house

$50 for members, $25 for guests
Payable by cash, check or credit card at the door
All proceeds benefit our philanthropies

Democratic Ensembles: Spoken Art and Politics at Chicago Settlement Houses, 1890-1920

Join Dottie Jeffries in attending Fiona Maxwell's Thesis Defense, including her research on the Mary McDowell Settlement House

Tuesday, March 25, 12 p.m.

Social Sciences Research Building
1129 E. 59th Street
John Hope Franklin Room

Movie Program

Friday, March 7 1:30 p.m.
Hyde Park Art Center
50th and Cornell

In Honor of Women's History Month:

In collaboration with

Contact Susan Alitto (salitto@gmail.com) for more information

FREE Field Trip to Evanston:
The Block Museum and Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum

Includes coach transportation (from 62nd & Ingleside) and free box lunch

Friday, March 28 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

REGISTER by 3/7
https://www.chpv.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=339585&item_id=2538492

Field Trip

Special Interest Groups

Book Group

Time: Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 p.m.
Book:
Location: Zoom

Chair: Laura Kracke (lhkracke@earthlink.net)
Click HERE for book list

Next meeting:

Walking Group

Time: Tuesdays and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.
Location: Meet at the Shopping Center near the Post Office

Chair: Peggy Garrett (edwpeggy@ameritch.net) - contact to let her know if you will be joining a walk

Time: Third Tuesdays
Location: Zoom

Chair: Janet Surkin (janet.surkin@gmail.com) - contact to confirm meeting times and for log-in information

Book Friends

Contemporary Civics

Time: Mondays, March 3, 17 & 31
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom

Chair: Dorothy Patton (dep712@att.net) - contact two weekdays before the posted event date to register

Cercle Français

Calling all lovers of French!

Lesley Bloch, Ruth Koval and Roberta Bernstein would love to reinvigorate this group. Communicate with Roberta if you have any suggestions for meetings or events.

Chair: Roberta Bernstein (bernsteinroberta@gmail.com)

Dining Out

Chair: Jan O'Malley (claddagh5471@gmail.com) - contact to be added to their mailing list

The Dining Out group at Salonica in January
Clockwise from left: Marie Schilling, Fran Gordon, Deloris Sanders, Catherine Brehm, Margaretha Talerman, Barbara Roy, Astrid Fuller, Reeva Shulruff and Jan O'Malley. Photo by Susan van der Muelen

From left: Jean Singer, Laura Kracke, Fran Gordon and Peggy Garrett

From left: Reeva Shulruff, Natalie Goldberg, Susan van der Muelen and Jan O'Malley

From left: Vanice Billups and Margaret Huyck

February Potluck hosted by Margaret Huyck

photos by Fran Gordon and Margaret Huyck

Needlework

Time: Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m.
Location:

Chair: Call or email Lucy Lester (lucy.lester@sbcglobal.net) for more information

Cheryl Miller finishing a quilt for donation. Photo by Lucy Lester

Music Group

Chairs: Kathy Huff (kathy@rogerhuff.com) and Elizabeth Sonnenschein

Marilyn Helmholz, Reeva Shulruff and Mike Meshenberg, Lesley Bloch, Alice Tolley, and Beth Sonnenschein snagged seats on the Main Floor for the CSO Rehearsal in February
Photo by Kathy Huff.

Trashy Ladies

Time: On Winter Hiatus. Starting Again Soon!
Location: 58th and Woodlawn, on the bench across from the Robie House

Chair: Lesley Bloch (lesley_bloch@yahoo.com) - contact to be added to their mailing list

Spanish Group

Time: Alternate Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m.
Location: TBD

Chair: Agnes Zellner (azellner@gmail.com) - contact for meeting times and locations

Monarch Butterflies Group

Chair: Marilyn Caviccchia (marilyn.cavicchia@gmail.com)