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Wednesday • February 5, 2025

Genealogy Society celebrates Black History Month with free program by noted speaker, Janis Minor Forté. South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society celebrates Black History Month on Sat., Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. Noted genealogist Janis Minor Forté presents a free program, “Seven Proven Strategies for Identifying Slave Ownership and Reconstructing Slave Era Families.” On January 21, 1861, in Alabama, Meshack Ross, a person of color, petitioned the Mobile County Court to become a slave. However, he was born a free person of color and was never a slave. Researchers studying African Americans before the 1870 census are confronted with the scarcity of documents that were specific to names and kin groups. This program aims to help participants continue their genealogical pursuits by providing strategies for family reconstruction and identifying slave owners. Janis Minor Forté is an experienced genealogist, lecturer and writer and has presented at national, state and local genealogical conferences including RootsTech, NGS and Ohio Genealogical Society conferences. She is also a Track Coordinator for the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI). Her presentation specialties include methodology and problemsolving techniques, skill building and case studies. She is also skilled in on-site and online research. Forté is a graduate of the University of Chicago with a Masters Degree in Social Service Administration.

Janis will present at in the Senior Auditorium at the Martin J. Kauchak Public safety Building, 3000 W. 170th Place, Hazel Crest, Ill. 60429. Those who wish to view the presentation on Zoom must register at https://zoom.us/ meeting/register/EdXdmcMTfuO232gXHzC-g About South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society: Since 1968, South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society has assisted people tracing their family history and local history. The society maintains a genealogical research library in Hazel Crest that is free and open to the public. SSGHS also conducts classes in genealogical research; offers free public programs on genealogical and historical topics; offers research services; and publishes a monthly newsletter and a twice-yearly journal. The society actively collects materials regarding the townships of south Cook and north Will counties, plus Chicago’s Roseland and Pullman neighborhoods. Information is at ssghs.org or by calling (708) 335-33340.

The Towle Theater opens their 1st show of their 22nd season with a humorously touching musical, The Mad Ones! The Towle Theater is pleased to open their 2025 Season with The Mad Ones by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk. The production is Directed by Dion Stover, with Music Direction by John Phillips. The production is exclusively sponsored by Hammond Horseshoe Casino. The Mad Ones follows 18-year-old Samantha Brown, as she sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she sits in the driver’s seat, she faces a choice: will she follow in her mother’s footsteps, or take the dare of her impetuous best friend and chart a new path? Making their Towle debuts are Elizabeth Bushell (Wilmette,IL), Tony Calkins (Chicago, IL), Madison Meeron (Chicago ,IL ), and Lauren Reece (Chicago, IL).

The Mad Ones runs February 28th, March 1-2, & March 7-9. Friday performances are at 7:30pm, and Saturdays & Sundays are at 2pm. The box office opens 1 hour prior to performance time. Tickets are $24 in advance and $28 at the door. Reservations must be paid for in advance. They are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Group rates are available. There is no late seating. Please arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to curtain. If you arrive after curtain, you will not be seated until intermission. The Towle Theater is located in beautiful downtown Hammond at 5205 Hohman Avenue. Due to major renovations happening in Downtown Hammond parking is available right in front of the building on Hohman Avenue as well as the gravel lot located on Sibley. For more information call 219-937-8780 or visit www.towletheater.org.

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Trinity Christian College presents The Calvin and Inès Seerveld Art Collection, show opening February 6th Trinity Christian College is pleased to announce the official opening of The Calvin and Inès Seerveld Art Collection. The collection of 80+ art works–including two stunning sculptures– have been bequeathed to Trinity. The collection includes art works acquired by the previous two generations of Inès’ family in Europe as well as works by contemporary artists whom Cal and Inès have encouraged. A portion of the collection will be on display from February 6- 27, 2025 in the Seerveld Art Gallery on Trinity’s campus. Friends of the College and former students count Professor Seerveld as the major influence on their own and Trinity’s formative years. He left an enduring legacy by helping design Trinity’s original curriculum, giving his early academic career to encouraging students to think Christianly about their culture and their academic

disciplines, establishing social action seminars for students and community, and presenting many chapel meditations, later collected in Take Hold of God and Pull and For God’s Sake, Run with Joy. His books on aesthetics are still used by art and philosophy majors at Trinity and elsewhere. The works from the Seerveld collection were mostly gathered from the walls of their home. Cal’s deep interest is in showing the place art can have in the ordinary life of a Christian. Or of a Christian college. “It is our hope that the collection of art will give coming generations of students a pleasing instruction on the imagination-stretching gift of art. The artistry here can challenge a person to reflect on matters in God’s world and possibly gain a few grains of wisdom. We trust that the Inès and Calvin Seerveld bequest will be a blessing to Trinity Christian College in its outreach to be redemptive somehow in the imaginative life of students, neighbours and visitors,” wrote Cal Seerveld in his correspondence about the bequest. This bequest follows many other demonstrations of the Seervelds’ love for the College: lectures for students and

alumni, dramatic performances of the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, the dedication of the Seerveld Art Gallery, the establishment of the Seerveld Arts in Society Fund, and now the Seerveld Art Collection. Alumnus Peter Enneson has worked tirelessly on the Toronto end to make this gift possible. Emeriti Professors Brad Breems, John Bakker, and MichaeI VanderWeele, stewards of the Seerveld Arts in Society Fund, have worked steadily on the Trinity end to prepare for it. We invite you to help us celebrate at the Opening Reception on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. CDT in the Seerveld Gallery, located in the Art and Communication Center on the campus of Trinity Christian College. The opening will feature comments by President Aaron Kuecker, reading of a commissioned poem by Alumnus John Terpstra, and a lecture by Emeritus Professor John Bakker. Light refreshments will be served.


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