Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 1/11 CURTIS COOPER ’75 Every era has its wonders and aura of innate possibilities. Coming of age on the South side of Chicago in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies is tinged with the contradictory and the eventful. It was a time of discord and rancor but also […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 3/10 JAMES J ARNEBERG ’45  Scene: The Southwest Side of Chicago. Time: The mid-1930s, the height of the Great Depression. It was a volatile time when people moved and acted with a naked desperation, regardless of their age, to get by, to feel worthy and to achieve self-respect. The […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 10/09 MARK DWYER ’66 “Whoso would be a man,” Emerson said, “must be a nonconformist.” The story of Mark Dwyer is of a man who’s ostensibly gone against the grain. Not every time, mind you. But he found his own road, his own path and took the plunge. It […]