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ROYAL REMEMBRANCES WILMETTE ROTARIANS DON OLSON AND JOE GOLDSTEIN LOOK BACK AT PRINCE PHILIP’S APPEARANCE AT A LOCAL ‘PROGRAM FOR PEACE’ IN 1982. BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Rotary Club of Wilmette member Don Olson’s vivid memories of Prince Philip’s visit to the Chicago area 39 years ago range from the Duke of Edinburgh’s tiny Scotland Yard security detail to the royal’s sterling charm after a banquet to an attendee’s nosedive into a plate of salad at the same banquet. “Quite an experience,” Olson, a two-time Rotary Club of Wilmette president, says of what he absorbed during “A Program For Peace” event that his North Shore rotary club staged at the Arlington Park Hilton in 1982. “Only one bodyguard accompanied Prince Philip on the trip here, and he wasn’t even armed. You have to remember what was going on at the time—Prince Philip was a target of the IRA (Irish Republic Army). No wonder the State Department felt it necessary to provide a team of 30 to protect him. Prince Philip, who died earlier this month at age 99, visited “I was asked to manage the the North Shore nearly 40 years ago.
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dinner for 720 invitees and take care of the event’s logistics,” the longtime State Farm insurance agent adds. “Security wanted to know the names of each attendee and exactly where each would be seated. I had the information, so I shared it.” Prince Philip, who was born on the Greek island of Corfu and married Britain’s future Queen Elizabeth II in 1947, died at age 99 on April 9. His funeral was held before a gathering of 30 guests at St. George’s Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle in the English county of Berkshire on April 17. Philip had been hospitalized several times in recent years, most recently in February for a heart condition at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Thirty-nine years ago this November, Prince Philip headlined “A Program For Peace”—a tribute to former Egypt President Anwar Sadat that also announced the location of a Park for Peace in Sadat’s homeland—as the international president of the World Continued on PG 12