The North Shore Weekend, July 23rd, 2022

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7 rapid response A therapist network is mobilized in the wake of the July 4 shooting in Highland Park

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provide details on how victims can apply for funding and how the funds will be distributed.

It is also developing timeline—one Olian hopes will have the initial funds raised distributed by October 1.

“We want this vehicle to be transparent and to identify a path forward not just for victims, but donors and survivors,” says Olian.

“We’ll be meeting with victims as soon as next week to start drafting protocols based on their feedback, and we’ll be getting written feedback from the community.”

While the primary purpose of the show at Madame Zuzu’s is to raise donations for the community foundation fund, it’s also a love letter of sorts from Corgan and Mendel to the community in which they’ve chosen to raise their family. Both feel deep connections to Highland Park, both as residents and business owners.

“Highland Park is a town that started based on the arts and also being a town where those who are not included or invited in other areas can come together and be welcomed,” Mendel says. “I think that really speaks to who we are as a community today.”

“Zuzu’s is located in Highland Park and it’s a place where people can come in from all walks of life from anywhere in the world and be welcomed,” Corgan says. “It's unpretentious, it's warm, and it's a little quirky.”

Corgan notes that Zuzu’s was one of many businesses that are located at the crime scene, and he’s been touched by the response to the shooting from the business community.

“We were shut down while the perimeter of downtown Highland Park was shut down.

The day we reopened I stood outside because I

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Long-time residents and members of the Highland Park community Billy Corgan and his partner, Chloé Mendel, will host a livestream benefit show at their plant-based teahouse and performance space, Madame Zuzu’s, on Wednesday, July 27, with all proceeds going to the Highland Park Community Foundation July 4th Shooting Response Fund.

There will be a performance by Corgan, alongside fellow Chicago resident and Smashing Pumpkins' bandmate Jimmy Chamberlin, jazz saxophonist Frank Catalano, and other special guests at 8 p.m. CDT. The performance will be livestreamed via The Smashing Pumpkins YouTube channel where viewers will be able to donate. All proceeds will go to the Highland Park Community Foundation and be directed to its July 4th Victims Response Fund.

“It’s really been difficult to watch what (the shooting) has done to our community, and I think that's why we want to do this benefit concert because we want to be part of the healing process,” Corgan says. “We're so touched by our friends and neighbors, both what they went through and are going through.”

Corgan says he and Mendel were motivated by the fact that the tragedy was local and took place in the community in which they live, and he was moved by those coming to the community to pay their respects. He also sees a connection to the gun violence issue in Chicago and an opportunity to put Highland Park in the center of a national conversation.

“On the national level. I think you become motivated because you start to personally connect to the fact that not only have we lived with the scourge of gun violence in the Chicago area for the last decade or so, but also the inability of any particular agency to somehow curtail it,” he says. “Combined with the fact that now we have this personal focus, you put those pieces together and you say, ‘I want to be part of something that brings people together so that we can start to have a deeper conversation in this country about how we're going to stop it’.”

Corgan says the people of Highland Park have expressed a sincere concern about gun violence in Chicago for more than a decade.

“This community, in particular, is motivated along those lines and now, having it on our doorstep, I think you put those pieces together,” he says. “It may be the Highland Park community that helps change the national conversation because of the level of investment here.”

Corgan says the primary message he and Mendel want to send by hosting the fundraising event is unity, and the community coming together to heal.

Music, he says, can make a difference.

“I personally believe that music is most effective as a unifying force,” Corgan says. “Mu-

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sic has a powerful place in society and unity is probably the highest ground that music can stand on.”

Proceeds from the benefit will go toward a special fund set up by the Highland Park Community Foundation in response to the shooting. Mendel says the foundation has the experience and community knowledge that potential donors can trust to invest their dollars wisely.

“We’ve chosen to partner with Highland Park Community Foundation because we felt like it was the most transparent in helping those in need in our community,” Mendel says.

“Anyone who identifies as a victim can contact them, even if you were there and may not be a Highland Park resident, and let them know that you've been affected and need help.”

In addition to direct donations to the community foundation, merchandise featuring the art of Gary Baseman will be sold at togetheragainhp.com with proceeds going to the fund.

Corgan says the decision to do a virtual event is designed to leverage the national and international profile of the Smashing Pumpkins as well as the broad interest in the

Highland Park community since the shooting. A private, in-person event will be held at Zuzu’s for the show.

“We want to raise as much money possible at the venue the day of the show and then everybody else will have access to the event on YouTube. Then, if they want to donate and buy merchandise be encouraged to do so,” Corgan says. “The hope is obviously to raise a lot of money. We're also talking to some corporate interests possibly provide matching funds.”

Terri Olian, Executive Director of the Highland Park Community Foundation, says that while it’s only been a few weeks since the shooting, plans for distributing the donations raised through the victims are coming together.

She’s speaking with other communities who developed similar funds after mass shootings.

“It’s unimaginably tragic and not just for the victims. We’ve been lifted up, supported, and strengthened by our neighbors, businesses, and foundations as far away as Singapore and India,” Olian says. “We’ve been in touch with national experts and other communities, listening to all of the advice.”

The foundation is developing a website to

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wanted to see how it was going to go,” Corgan says. “Will it be the Highland Park I remembered? There was a level of warmth and kindness and people thanking us for being open.”

Corgan says it’s especially important now for businesses to open, for people to be able to work, and that, while the events of July 4, 2022 in Highland Park will never be forgotten, the healing begins when a sense of normalcy is restored.

“We come together and go back to living and celebrating and taking care of one another,” he says.

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RAPID RESPONSE JUST HOURS AFTER THE TRAGIC 4TH OF JULY PARADE SHOOTING IN HIGHLAND PARK, AUDREY GRUNST MOBILIZED HER MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THERAPIST NETWORK TO PROVIDE FREE HEALTH SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY.

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Audrey Grunst, left, organized therapy services in the wake of the shooting on July 4.

I walked away from that meeting just knowing that I had the capacity to deploy 20 therapists just among my network of friends,” she says.

“I got a call at 10:30 at night on July 4 from the Assistant Principal of Highland Park High School, Alesia Margetis, and she said, ‘Whatever you can give, just bring it to us’.”

Immediately after, Grunst reached out to all of the therapists who she keeps on standby and just told them to show up at the high school the next day at 9 a.m. at the main entrance. She says she wasn’t sure what they were going to do other than provide counseling to support students.

“We had a small conference room of 20 or 30 therapists at that point and we just created a system where someone walked in and took the patients and we assigned them to an office or sent then to a classroom,” Grunst says.

“Initially it was for students, but it escalated to anyone who needed help.”

In the ensuing days, the community need for counseling grew exponentially. By Saturday, July 9, more than 700 therapists had served 3,000 residents in crisis, including residents of communities surrounding Highland Park.

“I sent out an email through Simply Bee and then made one Facebook post and just said, ‘Please Facebook message me if you are available to volunteer from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.,’ and then the post went viral,” she says. “One woman, Dr. Danielle Lane, came up from Florida.”

Grunst points at that those most in need of mental health services are those that lack the resources or insurance to pay. Under resourced communities are particularly hard hit by tragedies such as the one that happened on July 4.

“They need government assistance for

Audrey Grunst was at the Lake Bluff 4th of July Parade a few weeks ago when news began to break about the shooting in Highland Park. A counselor and owner of Simply Bee Consulting, with offices in Vernon Hills and Northfield, Grunst knew early on that Highland Park and the surrounding communities would need mental health support in the wake of the event.

“I was at a friend's house around 12:30 and she told me about the shooting, and I was really shocked because I was at a parade so close in Lake Bluff and Highland Park is such a similar parade,” Grunst says. “It scared me, and I just got fed up. I was like, ‘I'm not going to live in this world anymore’.”

Grunst hopped into her car and called the superintendent of Illinois School District 128 (Libertyville and Vernon Hills), Denise Herrmann, whom she had served on a subcommittee with that discussed what everyone’s actions would be in the case of a mental health crisis.

“During our committee meetings, I said I know that I can give you 20 therapists in a matter of hours to be at a high school and serve our community in case it's Volunteer therapists provided critical mental and emotional support at Highland Park High School to those impacted by the parade tragedy on July 4. a suicide or accidental death, and THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

medical bills, help with transportation, and attorneys to fight for FMLA. The trauma isn't the blood and the bullets; the trauma to me is the social economic disparity between those who have resources and those who don't,” says Grunst. “It was so powerful to be there and get services to those people because they would have been forgotten.”

While Grunst’s involvement in the counseling efforts ended on July 15, it continues under the direction of the FBI and the Red Cross.

“I want to find a mission in this whole thing to provide social work. People talk about trauma therapy, but this isn't trauma therapy,” she says. “This is socioeconomic trauma, it's a systematic trauma, and that's really what we saw after July 4.”

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SWANKY SOIREE THE WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S ANNUAL GALA RAISED CRITICAL FUNDS TO HELP THE ORGANIZATION MEET ITS MISSION.

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After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Winnetka Historical Society raised more than $120,000 at its annual gala, “The Twenties Roar Again—Swanky Soiree,” on June 25.

The event was attended by 130 supporters at 5 Indian Hill Road in Winnetka, a historic home originally owned by Thomas H. McInnerney—founder of the National Dairy Products Foundation, which became part of Kraft Foods.

The history of 5 Indian Hill Road begins with its first resident, Thomas H. McInnerney, a successful businessman best-known for establishing the National Dairy Products Corporation. After moving to Winnetka, McInnerney hired noted California-based architect Reginald D. Johnson in 1922 to design a sprawling estate on the northern edge of the Indian Hill Club’s golf course.

The fascinating history extends beyond the house itself onto the surrounding grounds, which were originally designed by famous landscape architect Jens Jensen. Since Thomas McInnerney sold the estate in the 1940s, the property has had several owners

including Daniel and Debra Gill, who added 9,223 square feet to the home after purchasing it in 1999. While much has changed, the character and magnificence of Johnson’s original design remains.

The event came together somewhat serendipitously.

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The current homeowners, Patrick and Kelly Heneghan, who moved to Winnetka in 2019, wanted to throw their house a 100th birthday party. A former board member of the historical society, Becky Hurley, who had attended a fundraiser in the home 20 years ago, suggested to the Heneghans that hosting the gala might be an appropriate occasion given the society’s mission.

It was a match.

“We were very, very fortunate to have such generous homeowners donate their house and their yard for the event,” says Mary Trieschmann, Executive Director of the Winnetka Historical Society. “The dinner was outside in the yard, and we had about 130 people for a sit-down dinner.”

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Funds were raised through a sponsorship from @Properties/Christie’s International Real Estate in Winnetka, individual sponsors, ticket sales, a live auction, and donations to support the mission of the historical society. That mission is to honor and preserve the village’s heritage, gather, and share the artifacts and stories of its past, and foster meaningful connections among Winnetkans and the broader community. The nonprofit Winnetka Historical Society is primarily funded by individual donors.

The funds raised from the gala is a significant portion of the society’s annual budget and will be used to upkeep and operate the Schmidt Burnham house, Winnetka’s oldest structure, which the society now owns, and to maintains the organizations at 411 Linden.

“We’re a small nonprofit so the funds we raise from the gala help us do our work to preserve Winnetka’s history for past and future generations,” Trieschmann says.

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March Fourth March Fourth is an organization that took roots following the Highland Park, Illinois Fourth of July mass shooting that used an AR-15 assault weapon.

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A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN NEXT MONTH’S WESTERN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP AT EXMOOR SHINES A SPOTLIGHT ON THE WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION AND EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION—TWO THINGS THAT MEAN THE WORLD TO LAKE FOREST’S TOM KEARNEY.

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The golf bug bit Tom Kearney at Beverly Country Club in Chicago more than six decades ago. He was 11 and a first-year caddie, making $3.75 per loop.

Or about 21 cents per hole.

The primary casualty of what would turn out to be a lifelong passion was Kearney’s baseball glove.

“I was a Little Leaguer before I discovered the joys of golf,” the 75-year-old and longtime Lake Forest resident recalls.

Kearney has golf to thank for three of the most meaningful parts in his life: wife Susan, education, and career. A Brother Rice High School graduate at the age of 16, he attended the University of Illinois on an Evans Scholarship—a prestigious full housing and tuition college grant offered to high-achieving caddies with limited financial means—and met Susan at the Urbana-Champaign campus while serving as the head waiter at an Alpha Phi sorority gathering.

And the man, the late Tom Nessinger, who recruited Kearney to work for the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, owned a golf bag brimming with clubs that a young Tom Kearney carried around Beverly’s course.

“Outside of being a part of my immediate family,” Kearney insists, “the best thing that has ever happened to me was being named an Evans Scholar.”

What goes golf-glove hand in golf-glove hand with the Evans Scholarship Program is the Western Golf Association (WGA), of which Kearney has served as a director since 1990. The WGA organizes the Western Amateur Championship, and this year’s 120th edition of the third-oldest amateur golf tournament in the world will be staged next month in Highland Park at Exmoor Country Club—Kearney’s home club since 1978.

Reigning champion and Stanford University junior Michael Thorbjornsen, along with 155 other top-notch amateur golfers, will tour Exmoor’s iconic, Donald Ross-designed track August 1-6. Exmoor, with roots that date back to 1986, welcomed Western Amateur Championship fields in 1904, 1952, and 2012.

This year’s tourney begins with stroke play (72 holes, August 1-3, to determine the Sweet 16) and ends with match play, including semifinals and the final on Saturday, August 6. At least 400 Exmoor members will serve as volunteers during the six-day event.

Other former Western Am champions include Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Michelson, Ben Crenshaw, Justin Leonard, and Curtis Strange.

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“It’s such a grind for the golfers,” Kearney, a former Exmoor CC golf chairman and treasurer, says of the championship’s format. “But it’ll be a treat for the spectators. Our course is a classic layout. I’m a Donald Ross fan, because he designed challenging courses, including Exmoor’s, across topographies that don’t harbor contrived playing holes.”

Kearney, who’d often drive golf balls at Exmoor’s driving range before driving to work in Chicago, finished runner-up at an Exmoor Men’s Club Championship in the early 1980s, falling on the second playoff hole after he and the eventual champion finished with matching scorecards after 36 holes and parred the first extra hole.

The result still stings Kearney.

“My opponent bogeyed the second playoff hole,” he says, with a halfsmile and full head shake.

“What did I do? I doubleb o geyed t h e hole.”

B u t he’s been an ace off the links ever since. The former Arthur Andersen tax manager and current partner with the real estate

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learned during your years as a caddie?

investment firm Moran & Company served a three-year term as president of the Daniel Murphy Foundation— it provides high school scholarship assistance and educational support to Chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds—and was a 2021 Donald D. Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award honoree for his support of the WGA and Evans Scholarship Foundation.

“I love education,” says Kearney, a former Lake Forest Elementary School District 67 board member. “Education is the greatest equalizer in the world; it opens many doors for people.

The wonderful mission of the Daniel Murphy Foundation is to look for inner city students who have that fire in the belly to succeed and then

help them maintain that drive by backing them financially. We once raised $2.4 million in one day.

“The Evans Scholarship Program,” he adds, “is just as amazing. I’ve had the honor, and the pleasure, of interviewing Evans Scholarship candidates. They never fail to impress me, with their determination, their life stories, and their answers to my question, ‘What have you learned during your years as a caddie?’ ” More than 11,500 young men and women have graduated from colleges as Evans Scholars. Nearly 1,100, including 14 Exmoor caddies, were enrolled in 21 leading universities nationwide during the 2021-2022 academic year. The scholarship program is named after Charles “Chick” Evans (1895-1979), who became an Exmoor member in 1909 and won the Western Amateur eight times from 1909-1923.

The WGA and Exmoor CC—a charter member of the WGA in 1899—have supported the Evans Scholarship Program since 1930. Exmoor members and event sponsors exceeded the club’s goal to raise $500,000 to support this year’s Western Amateur and to fund two more endowed Evans Scholars in the name of Exmoor.

And they reached the lofty goal in January— in record time.

Kearney played one season of Illini golf as an Evans Scholar and accounting major. Tom and Susan’s first date, a double date, started with a round of golf at a par-3 course near the University of Illinois campus and ended with dinner at a pizzeria.

Pars and pepperoni.

Slices outside; slices inside.

Tom and Susan got married in 1969 and moved to Lake Forest in 1979. They raised two daughters, Erin and Melissa.

“We were the youngest people on our block in Lake Forest 43 years ago,” a chuckling Kearney says. “Guess what we are today?”

Kearney’s recollection of an Evans Scholarship Foundation interview also makes him laugh. The candidate had caddied at South Bend Country Club in St. Joseph Country, Indiana, where his loop boss for the day was then-Vice President Joe Biden.

“When I ask caddies what they’d learned while on the job, I usually get responses like, ‘Responsibility,’ ‘How best to talk with adults,’ and ‘Teamwork,’” he says.

“The young man who had caddied for Biden told me, ‘Never run behind the Vice President of the United States while holding a 9-iron. You’ll get tackled by Secret Service agents.’ ” Exmoor Country Club is located at 700 Vine Avenue in Highland Park. For more information, call 847-432-3600 or visit exmoorcountryclub.org.

Learn more about the Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholars Foundation at wgaesf.org.

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