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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Four Seasons Hotel, 120 E. Delaware Place, Chicago
5:30 p.m. Cocktails
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6:30 p.m. Dinner & Program
Host: Michelle Relerford, NBC5 Chicago
$250 per person
Karen Gatsis Anderson and Kimball R. Anderson
Presented By:
Co-chairs:
invite you to the
Spring Awards Dinner
Celebrating 20 Years of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth
Sharon E. Jones
Jones Diversity, Inc.
Paula Hudson Holderman
Winston & Strawn LLP
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Philanthropic Award Recipients:
For more information on tickets and sponsorships, please visit
www.lawyerslendahand.org or call 312.554.2041.
Sponsors
(list in formation)
Presenting Sponsor
Barristers Benefactors
Philanthropic Patrons
Supporting Sponsors
Karen Gatsis Anderson
& Kimball R. Anderson
Fidelity Life Association
Holland &Knight LLP
Locke Lord LLP
Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
Tomasik Kotin Kasserman
Celebrating 20 Years of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth
CBA RECORD
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T
he Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth
Program was created 2o years ago
by the Chicago Bar Association
and the Chicago Bar Foundation. Thomas
A. Demetrio funded an annual grant
award with a desire to impact the lives
of Chicago’s underprivileged children
by recognizing the efforts of exceptional
tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago
communities. From this award was born
the Lend-A-Hand Program.
Remarks from then-CBA President
Demetrio on the inauguration of Lend-
A-Hand (
CBA Record,
January 1993) are
included below. The need for this inventive
program continues today, as do the many
wonderful stories of lives that have been
impacted through the efforts of Chicago
attorneys via Lawyers Lend-A-Hand.
Sharing the Gift of Hope
By Thomas A. Demetrio
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve
other people.
–Tolstoy
I amproud to formally announce thatThe Chicago Bar
Association andThe Chicago Bar Foundationwill com-
mence amentoring program for our inner-city youth.
What is mentoring, and why is it important to the
community? Mentoring programs help children of
various ages who are socially isolated from the un-
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