The 1891 Society of the NorthShore Foundation

This year is momentous. NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore), Swedish Hospital, Northwest Community Healthcare (NHC) and Edward-Elmhurst Health are combining the best we have across our entire enterprise to become one healthcare community and one team. We’re aligning cultures, systems, processes and our shared passion for good health and wellbeing. Every team, including the NorthShore Foundation, is working diligently toward reflecting and implementing this broader and deeper reach in serving our communities. Philanthropy will play a vital role in our continued success on all fronts through myriad ways for donors to partner with us on our exciting journey toward realizing our vision to be the most trusted and indispensable health partner throughout the communities we serve.

NorthShore Foundation’s 1891 Society is named for the founding year of Evanston Hospital, when the region’s early visionaries’ benevolence and volunteerism helped create the community-based healthcare that benefits our communities today. 1891 Society members, who have committed future gifts to NorthShore, are dedicated to this shared vision of community health and wellbeing—their legacy.

NorthShore was founded as Evanston Emergency Hospital through acts of volunteerism and financial generosity with the mission to serve the medical needs of the poor. In its early years, the hospital operated almost exclusively for charity patients. At that time, no benevolent volunteer donor had a greater impact on the financial stability and survival of the young and precarious hospital than the young Amanda Louisa Buchanan Patten. She adopted the hospital as her principal charity and encouraged her husband James A. Patten, who had made a Chicago-based fortune in the grain market, to join her in her gift-giving. Amanda, her husband James and his brother, George W. Patten, made up the annual deficit, underwrote medical care for the poor, helped purchase real estate to enable hospital expansion, contributed to new construction and provided resources for the School of Nursing for many decades. Mrs. Patten served on the Board of Directors from 1898 until her death in 1935, acting as vice president for 30 of those years. She formed the first Women’s Auxiliary and was particularly devoted to the wellbeing of the student nurses. John L. Patten, her son, walked in her footsteps, continuing their rich family legacy of support for the hospital to the present day and beyond with a perpetual charitable gift that provides ongoing funding for NorthShore’s progress, growth and patient care today.

Charitable gifts often result in tangible outcomes almost immediately. However, the true impact of a generous life lived may not be fully realized for many years. Amanda Patten was driven by a heartfelt vision and invested in that future. She would be gratified and amazed by today’s NorthShore, her legacy. NorthShore recognizes and celebrates the donors who have named NorthShore University HealthSystem as a beneficiary of their hopes and charitable legacies for the future.

We are extremely grateful for these committed partners, whose philanthropic support creates such a powerful impact on the lives of our patients and their families.

Individuals

• Anonymous
• Mr. and Mrs. Hall Adams Jr.
• Mr. and Mrs. James J. Alexander
• Mr. Thomas L. Alexander
• Mrs. C. Jill Althage
• Murray and Kate Ancell
• Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Asher
• Marc Barney and Family
• Diane Bartoloma
• Dr. and Mrs. Bruce S. Bauer
• Ms. Alice M. Berger
• Mrs. Patricia K. Beyer
• Mr. and Mrs. Adam J. Bezark
• Ms. Doanne Mulvihill Biehl and Mr. John D. Biehl
• Mr. Thomas J. Blum
• Wendy Grauer Born
• Ms. Jane T. Boston
• David Boyce
• Mr. Leo Edward Bryant Jr.
• Tim and Vickie Burke
• Wiley and Jo Caldwell
• Dr. Michael S. and Denise B. Caplan
• Mrs. C. Selma Carton
• Ms. L. Joyce K. Chamberlain
• Ms. Kathleen A. Cheadle
• Mrs. Sylvia McElin Corrigan
• Dr. Jorge del Castillo
• Mr. and Mrs. Marc Dennison
• Mary and Terry Dillon
• Jill and John Doherty
• Mrs. Clarissa Y. Downey
• Beverly Dratler
• Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ehrlichman
• Mrs. Nancy E. Espenshade and Rev. David O. Kyllo
• Jeffrey Farkas and Penny Yoselle-Farkas
• Mr. Robert B. Flannery
• Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Foster
• Ms. Kim Foster
• Ms. Patricia Franklin
• Beverly Franks
• Nancy Widmer Freeman
• Neil and Marge Gambow
• Mr. and Mrs. James L. Garard Jr.
• Linda and Jamie Garard
• Nancy and Robert Gaul
• Dr. Margaret Gerber
• Dr. Robert M. Gluckman
• Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Golbus
• Mr. Robert C. Goldman
• Mary and Michael Goodkind
• Mrs. Judy K. Mogge Grace
• Mrs. Stanley D. Grace
• Bill and Libby Graham
• Ira E. Graham
• Robin Grauer
• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greene
• Mrs. Karen W. Harris
• Mrs. Judith Hayes
• Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Heyman
• Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hirsch
• Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hirsch
• Ike Hong
• Mr. and Mrs. Marc Horowitz
• Mr. Howard E. Jessen
• Mrs. Susan Julian
• Mr. Matthew I. Kaplan and Ms. Penni C. Ziers
• Judy and John Keller
• William K. Kellogg III
• Mr. Britton J. Kelly
• Dr. and Mrs. William D. Kerr Jr.
• Dr. and Mrs. Janardan D. Khandekar
• Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Kinzelberg
• Ms. Linda Kinzelberg
• Nancy Grauer Kisicki
• Marilyn J. Knilans
• Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kreuter
• Ms. Largo L. Krouse
• Dr. and Mrs. James C. Kudrna
• Ms. Deborah Kugler and Mr. Robert Ostrov
• Edward P. Kugler
• Larry B. Kugler
• Dr. and Mrs. David Kuo
• Ms. Nancy Labinger
• Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Lee
• Mrs. Phyllis P. Leeson-Cederborg
• Marc A. Leibson
• Mrs. Carole Levy
• Joseph and Allison Lolli
• Bonnie and Jay Lytle
• Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Marder
• Mrs. Carol L. Maxon
• Mrs. Lorraine Meltzer
• Jeffrey Melvoin
• Richard Melvoin
• Mr. Robert B. Merrifield
• Charles Meyer
• John M. Meyer
• Andy and Nancy Mills
• Theodore and Renee Moeller
• Mark R. and Susan C. Neaman
• Mrs. Patricia A. Freehling O’Loughlin
• Ellard Pfaelzer Jr.
• Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Pierce
• Mr. John H. Platt Jr.
• Ms. Karen E. Resseguie
• Karen L. Richards
• Alfred M. and Marion B. Rogers
• Elaine Horn Rubin
• Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
• Dr. Richard K. Santee and Carolyn F. Santee
• Lois Schneider
• Sandy and Ron Schutz
• Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schwaeber
• James L. and Lorraine G. Scott
• Dr. Robert A. Seder and Ms. Deborah L. Harmon
• Mrs. Claire M. Shannon
• Richard and Sara Silver
• Mrs. Harriet D. Simon
• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith
• Mr. Thomas A. Snitzer
• Stacy Sochacki
• Mrs. Lee Sorensen
• Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Spahr
• Mrs. Mae L. Spitz
• The Honorable Heather Steans and Mr. Leo A. Smith
• Ms. Robin M. Steans and Mr. Leonard A. Gail
• Patricia G. Steinway
• Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon J. Stillman
• Dr. and Mrs. John M. Sultan
• Ms. Pamela K. Swartchild and Mr. Daniel R. Horwitch
• Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Talamonti
• Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Targun
• Cecilia Teitell
• Mrs. Elinor R. Thaviu
• Edward and Ellen Thorp
• Mr. and Mrs. David H. Travetto
• Mr. and Mrs. Craig H. Tuber
• Virginia and Frederick Uhlmann
• Thomas G. Walder and Collin Allison-Walder
• Mr. and Mrs. Craig B. Weil
• Ms. Leslie A. Weissburg
• Dr. Oswald Werner
• Mrs. Weston K. Whiteman
• Ms. Judith N. Widmer
• Dr. and Mrs. David P. Winchester
• Mrs. Ann S. Wolff
• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Woodrow

Estates and Trusts

• Estate of Robert D. Appelbaum
• Estate of Cheryl J. Capek
• Samuel M. Cherry Memorial Charitable Trust
• Estate of Ruth A. Danke
• Estate of James E. Deignan
• Estate of Edward I. Elisberg
• Estate of Honey Kugler
• Virginia W. Little Charitable Trust
• Estate of Hilda Mayer
• Meredith Naeff-Snyder Charitable Remainder Trust
• James A. and Amanda L. Patten Charitable Trust
• John L. Patten Charitable Trust
• John L. Patten Trust
• Janet Stipp Family Trust
• The Gertrude & Walter Swanson Jr. Foundation
• Estate of Joyce M. Ventura
• Burton E. Vergowe Trust
• Estate of Barbara Huth West

Note: Current as of 01/01/2020