March 20, 2017 was named Jerry Witkovsky Day in the Village of Deerfield, to honor the long time Grandparenting Activist’s 89th birthday. Mayor Rosenthal invited the public to join her at Deerfield Village Hall, 850 Waukegan Road, on March 20 at 7:30 p.m for the ceremony. Read more about the honor and Jerry in the Chicago…
“I learned from my grandpa what a traditional date was supposed to look like and how we were doing it all wrong,” said school Principal Kathryn Anderson in her welcome to 300 grandparents and special guests who attended the annual Grandparents Day program at Deerfield High School on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. While it was…
Why have a grandparents program? A number of years ago I was visiting my daughter Ellen and her family, and I volunteered to pick up her younger daughter, Kathryn (who we mostly call “Katie”), then 13, at the end of her school day. “So how was school?” I asked her, by rote. This time, Katie…
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” – Rachel Carson “In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners,…
