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30 | April 19, 2018 | The glencoe anchor Faith glencoeanchor.com Faith Briefs North Shore Congregation Israel (1185 Sheridan Road, Glencoe) Feed the Homeless Feed the Homeless volunteers prepare and deliver meals for the hungry and food-insecure across Chicagoland from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 22. For questions or to sign up please email FTH@ nsci.org. Mindful or Mindless Life Join the congregation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25. Are you searching for deeper meaning in your life and in the world? Through the congregation’s experience of ancient Jewish teachings, it can strengthen the capacity to live with awareness, generosity and compassion. Each session will include study, discussion and meditation. JBaby Wiggleworms Sing and dance at North Shore Congregation Israel Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. from April 21-May 19 with this classic program from the Old Town School of Folk Music. Siblings of all ages are welcome. Register at www.juf.org/jbabyWiggleworms AA Meeting Do you struggle with addiction? Do you want or need support? North Shore Congregation Israel is a host site for a weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. AA is an anonymous Twelve Step Program for people who struggle with alcohol or other substances. Please enter through the door on the southernmost front side of the building. The next meeting is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in the Abe and Vera Cohen Family Room. Midday Mondays Perhaps the greatest tension for a democratic Israel is between national security and civil liberties. The church will use materials from the Center for Israel Education to explore how Israel can balance these objectives at 11:30 a.m. Monday, April 23. Am Shalom (840 Vernon Ave.) Ruach Choir and Shir Chadash Shabbat Shabbat services are held weekly at 6:30 p.m. and run approximately 75 minutes. Journey to Europe and Israel Explore Jewish history and life in Europe with Rabbi Steve and Craig Taubman and observe Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vienna before traveling to Israel to celebrate Israel’s birthday. Register on the congregation’s website. The event takes place on Thursday, April 19. Pack & Deliver Shabbat Bags One Friday a month, the congregation delivers Shabbat bags to congregants who have been ill or lost a loved one. The group meets at 9:15 a.m. at Am Shalom to pack and is on its way within a half hour. This month’s event takes place Friday, April 20. Earth Day Grab your gardening gloves and join the congregation at the Glencoe Community Garden from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Sunday, April 22. Volunteers ages 13+ are needed. Comedy, Food and Cooking Tour Join the congregation Sunday, April 22, as it explores Chicago, has lots of laughs, and eats delicious food. It will have tacos and grilled cheese at local Chicago faves, followed by a trip to comedy sports, and then dessert surprises. The group will be leaving Am Shalom at 1 p.m. and returning at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP on the congregation’s website to let it know you are coming. St. Elisabeth’s Episcopal Church (556 Vernon Ave.) Spring Cleanup Day Have you ever wondered what was in some of the dark, mysterious closets at St. E’s? Did you ever dream of “working the land” on the lovely triangle block? Now is your chance to make a difference in your church! On April 28, the church will go from 9 a.m. -noon (or until it’s done). Wear your work clothes and come help out with light cleanup, yardwork, and some general maintenance. It is a great time to reconnect with friends, make our church a little cleaner, and eat some free tasty treats. For more information, contact Rod Zimmerman. Orientation to A French Dip A dozen visitors from Nantes, France will be arriving in Glencoe for an exploration of religion in America on Oct. 17-29. St. Elisabeth’s will be the hosts for this intercultural exchange. Hall Healy, Susan Newcomb and Daphne Cody will be holding two identical information sessions at 11:30 a.m. April 22 or 7:30 p.m. May 1 to share the French group’s goals and interests, to offer a breakdown of tasks we need for welcoming them, and to respond to your questions. If you choose the April 22 option, France-themed coffee hour treats will be featured. Spaghetti Dinner The spaghetti dinner will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, April 23. This is one of the troop’s largest annual fundraisers, with a portion of proceeds going to local charities, including the New Trier Food Pantry. Adult tickets are $8 each, and student tickets are $5. Misericordia Candy Days Misericordia is home to one of St. Elisabeth’s members, Sarah Cline. Sarah is Linda and Skip Cline’s daughter and Polly Baur’s twin sister. She has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair but regularly attended St. Elisabeth’s growing up. The Cline and Baur families support Misericordia through their fundraising efforts for Candy Days and this year they will be collecting at St. Elisabeth’s on April 29 and welcome anyone that would like to contribute. Submit information for The Anchor’s Faith page to m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia. com. In Memoriam Catherine Bowyer Catherine Bowyer, a New Trier graduate, was born on March 8, 1970 and died April 9. Bowyer was a resident of Illinois at the time of passing. After graduating from New Trier and Denison University, and receiving an MBA from Emory University, she met Andrew Bowyer and quickly realized this was the man for her. a wake was held April 13 at Donnellan Family Funeral Services and a funeral Saturday, April 14, at Saints Faith, Hope & Charity Church. To those interested, commemorative donations may be made to: Northwestern Memorial Foundation 251 East Huron Street, Suite 3-200 Chicago, IL 60611 (please include, “In Memory of Catherine Bowyer,” in the memo line) or you may donate online at foundation.nmh.org/bowyer. David Sterrett David Brooks Sterrett, a Glencoe resident, lived his life with signature candor and humor that has left an indelible mark on his loving family and friends. He died peacefully on April 4 from a heart attack after enduring years of decline from dementia. Sterrett spent his career as an Army officer, an international banker and a small business owner. He was loyal to the Illini right to the end, treasuring his days as a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He met his best friend and beloved wife of sixty years, Midge Becherer, when they were seniors at New Trier High School. Their great joy was raising four children. He was born in Kenilworth to Dave and Marcellite Sterrett. His father ran a family business founded by his maternal grandfather, Louis Melind. He attended elementary school at Joseph Sears and high school at New Trier, accumulating a wide circle of friends whom he held close always. His grades and his swimming prowess earned him a scholarship to the University of Illinois. After graduating from Illinois as an All-American freestyler with a degree in business administration, he served in the Army for two years on Nike missile bases in Maryland and Texas. He returned to Chicago and joined the Continental Bank, where he worked for more than 20 years. His standout professional and personal adventure was assuming international banking posts in Singapore and the Netherlands in the 1970s. Traveling the world with his family inhabited a very special place in his memory. A voracious reader, Sterrett also had discerning taste in films. He is survived by Midge, his sweetheart of more than 60 years, and his children, Jody Sterrett Johnson (Jeff), Jill Sterrett, Brooke Sterrett Steinhoff (Cal) and Chip Sterrett (Jenny). He also leaves eight grandchildren, Drew and Remy Johnson; Grey Beaudin; Jane and Charlie Steinhoff; and Aidan, Ryan and Finn Sterrett. He is also survived by his two sisters, Mary Lou Smith and Betty Sterrett. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. May 3 at the Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Ave., Kenilworth. In lieu of flowers, and in honor of his faithful dog Cubbie, contributions can be made to Orphans of the Storm, 2200 Riverwoods Road, Deerfield, IL 60015, or at orphansofthestorm.org/donate. Have someone’s life you’d like to honor? Email Michael Wojtychiw at m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia. com with information about a loved one who was part of the Glencoe community.
glencoeanchor.com Life & Arts the glencoe anchor | April 19, 2018 | 31 ‘Chappaquiddick’ movie brings back memories for longtime reporter Alan P. Henry Freelance Reporter Alan P. Henry, longtime reporter for 22nd Century Media and The Anchor, covered the Chappaquiddick story for Boston Herald American in 1969. He reviews the new movie, “Chappaquiddick” and reflects on his experiences in this week’s edition. Alan P. Henry/22nd Century Media For 60 years, much of the American media has treated the Kennedy family name with reverence bordering on hero-worship, handled family shortcomings with kid gloves, and kept the high-minded fires of Camelot burning bright. All of which makes the well-crafted movie, “Chappaquiddick,” a rare, rude and refreshing awakening. Nearly 50 years after the fact — and packaged for the first time for mass consumption on Main Street — the movie efficiently exposes the brutal truths of how the Kennedy family and inner circle pulled strings and manipulated events in the week following the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne off Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969. They did so, as the movie lays out using sourced materials, as a means to stymie criminal inquiry and to cynically salvage the future political ambitions of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Throughout the movie, Kennedy (Jason Clarke) oozes an outsized sense of entitlement and stunning moral indifference. The audience learns, many of them most likely for the first time, that Kennedy fled the scene of the accident, went home, slept it off, and did not report it to the police for ten hours, and only then after contacting trusted advisors. “I am not going to be president,” is the first thing he says to the first person he talks to, cousin Joe Gargan (Ed Helms), who months later became the only insider to walk away from the family. When Kopechne’s body is recovered the next morning, it appears she may have not drowned, but rather died of suffocation, which means she could possibly have been saved if help had come quickly, but the Kennedy team blocked an autopsy so that is speculation. At Kopechne’s funeral, he wears a fake neck brace, telling advisers, “I am winning back the sympathy of the people.” As he attempts to paint himself as the victim, the list of self-serving behaviors goes on. But equally chilling, or perhaps even more so, is the movie’s portrayal of Kennedy’s willing, even enthusiastic, accomplices in coverup and deceit. They include JFK confidant Ted Sorensen and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and remind the public that the powerful and the connected are very good at circling the wagons to protect their own. That goes double for the family patriarch, Joe Kennedy Sr., who twice barks out one word of advice: “Alibi!” The gang’s biggest coup: On July 25, one week after the accident, the networks give Kennedy the national stage to work his Camelot magic. “If you do it right you might even be more electable,” said McNamara when the scheme is hatched. In the end, the inquest goes nowhere. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and receives a suspended sentence of two months. Power trumps truth. And the waters close over. More than a movie to me I had a personal reason for wanting to see the movie “Chappaquiddick,” that depicted the July 18, 1969 death of young campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne and the subsequent coverup and reframing of events by Sen. Edward Kennedy and his faithful posse of powerful insiders. I wanted to see how they depicted what I found and reported in the Boston Herald American. In the official inquest into Kopechne’s death, and consistently thereafter, Kennedy said he and Kopechne left a party around 11:15 p.m. on Chappaquiddick island to catch the last ferry back to Martha’s Vineyard. Once on the main road, they took a “wrong turn” onto Dyke Road that led to Dyke Bridge, where he lost control of his car, they plunged into a tidal pool, he escaped and she didn’t. He had taken the wrong turn, he swore under oath, because he had never before been on the island and was therefore “unfamiliar” with the road back to the ferry. The movie made a fleeting reference to the claim, his spokesman reiterated it four years later, and not until January 1980 did anyone publicly contradict it. That’s when I, as a reporter with the Herald, as well as a reporter from the New York Post, went to Chappaquiddick and independently talked to the four people who came forward to state that Kennedy had been on the island on numerous previous occasions. They were the Chappaquiddick ferry operator, an island realtor, the Chappaquiddick Beach Club manager and a club member. But my story made a far more damning observation, as well. The socalled inadvertent “wrong turn,” which I recreated numerous times, was next to impossible to make by mistake. The main asphalt road was banked and curving to the left at the point where it intersected with Dyke Road on the right. A reflecting arrow directed motorists to the left, as the movie correctly portrays. But Dyke Road was not a smooth road easily accessible by an easy turn from the main road, as characterized in the movie. Rather, it was a narrow, rutted dirt road with a steep drop from the main road, surrounded on either side by reeds. To make the 90-degree turn onto Dyke Road would have required the driver to first make an almost complete stop. After writing my story, I was dispatched by my editor to Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, home of Mary Jo’s parents, Joseph and Gwen Kopechne. They had received a $141,000 settlement from Kennedy’s insurance company and subsequently moved to the unincorporated community of Swiftwater. I followed a trail left by several hillside residents until I reached their small, isolated home. The front door was blocked by weeds and brush. Walking around to the kitchen door, I first saw a yellowed three-byfive card taped to the doorframe telling reporters to leave them alone. The screen door was closed but the wooden door was open. Inside, in a small kitchen, Joe was cooking on the stove. I identified myself, told him I had talked to four men who said Kennedy was lying about never having been on the island and reminded him that he had always said that he would talk to the press if ever any new evidence came to light. His wife suddenly appeared, told him not to say anything and walked toward the door to close it. But before she did, Joe said: “I knew he was there, no matter what he says about it.” Not Pulitzer Prize material, to be sure, but more than anyone else had gotten out of him to that date. As a postscript, the Kopechnes said in 1994 that Kennedy had never apologized directly to them over his role in their daughter’s death. They both died over a decade ago. As for me, I’d seen and heard everything I needed to know about the “Lion of the Senate.”
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