We want to remind all members that if you have an address change or anything else we should know about please notify us.  We are always glad to hear from you.  We recently received an undelivered newsletter almost one year after we mailed it out.  It was floating around in the U.S. postal system because it was undeliverable due to an incorrect address.  There was much speculation at the museum about where this letter had been for a year!  So you see it is important that you notify us of any changes so there are no interruptions in your getting the newsletter.
       Welcome to the following new life members:  Tony Arduino, David Swanson, Carole McCarthy, Donald Nowak, and George Milkowski.  
       Yearly dues for the SECHS are due in January.  Please make sure you dues are up to date.  Yearly membership is $10.  A lifetime membership is only $100.  This is a great deal and you will never have to worry about paying dues again.  We hate to nag about dues but we are even more reluctant to remove you from membership for non-payment of dues.  
       Please remember our current mailing address:
       The East Side Chamber of Commerce will continue to accept phone calls for the society and museum at 773-721-7948.

       Are you looking for a gift for that special person in your life?  Our museum is extending a special sale on the book,  Chicago’s Southeast Side Revisited . Regular price is $19.99 but you can buy it until further notice for $15.  We have a limited supply so hurry and get your copy at this special price.  Historical photographs also make unique gifts.  Choose from our extensive collection of historical photos of the Southeast Side and purchase an 8x10 or 8.5x11 unframed black and white print for only $10.  

       Don’t forget to visit our museum to see our current exhibit which was part of the “Chicago Artists Month 2.0" program promoted by the city of Chicago. Our Artists Month exhibit incorporates two themes. The first is using the community as a source of inspiration for art.  The other theme is how local artists use technology to create and distribute their work. In case you have not seen our previous exhibit on the Burnham Plan, there is still an opportunity to do so since many items from the exhibit are on display at the Vodak East Side Library.
       Have you seen the photo display in the lobby of Citizens Financial Bank in Hegewisch?  There are numerous pictures related to early Hegewisch history, all of which came from our archives.    
       Our collections are a valuable resource for many different researchers.  Granta, a literary magazine based in London, requested a picture of General Mills for use in an issue focusing on Chicago.  The BBC has requested several pictures related to the union election campaign of Ed Sadlowski for an upcoming documentary program.  An author working on a book about Croatians in Chicago visited the museum on several occasions for information and pictures.  We look forward to the publication of the book.  The History Fair is around the corner so students are researching topics for their projects.  A graduate student from the University of Chicago is working on a paper about South Works. 

       Have you looked at the street signs on 114th Street between Avenue L and Avenue N recently?  On October 24, 2009 the street in front of Washington High School was dedicated as Honorary Helen Buoscio Way.  Helen, who is a life member of our society, was a teacher, counselor and administrator at Washington school.  She was there as a math teacher when the doors of the new, innovative K-12 school, under a single principal, opened in February 1957.  She continued at Washington High School, after a separate elementary school of the same name opened in 1973, as a high school counselor and eventually an assistant principal until her retirement in 1994.  She continues to volunteer her services for various programs and activities at the school and in the community.  She was inducted into the Chicago Senior Citizens Hall of Fame in 2001.  
       A new archbishop was recently appointed to head the Milwaukee archdiocese.  Jerome Listecki is the first archbishop of Polish descent to serve in this position.  He also is a native of the Southeast Side who grew up in the “Bush”and attended St. Michael’s Elementary School and Quigley South High School.  He was ordained as a priest May 14, 1975 and most recently was the Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin.  He is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves.  Congratulations to Archbishop Listecki.
       On a sad note we were sorry to inform our readers of the death of Georgia Christy, who was the owner of Harmony Hamburgers, an East Side institution.
 
       We have finally solved some technical problems and now have the video footage from our helicopter trip over the Calumet area last August.  It is available for viewing at the museum.