CBA Record

Thursday, May 28, 2015

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6:30 p.m. Dinner & Program

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Karen Gatsis Anderson and Kimball R. Anderson

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invite you to the

Spring Awards Dinner

Celebrating 20 Years of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth

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Paula Hudson Holderman

Winston & Strawn LLP

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Barristers Benefactors

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Karen Gatsis Anderson

& Kimball R. Anderson

Fidelity Life Association

Holland &Knight LLP

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Stout Risius Ross, Inc.

Tomasik Kotin Kasserman

Celebrating 20 Years of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth

CBA RECORD

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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