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LakeForestLeaderDaily.com NEWS<br />

the lake forest leader | November 14, 2019 | 13<br />

Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 1 day ago<br />

Highland Park native Jim Murphy is acknowledged in the crowd at the Daniel Murphy<br />

Scholarship Fund’s annual gala, Sept. 28, in Chicago. Photo submitted<br />

Lake Forest man’s charity raises more<br />

than $1.5 million at annual gala<br />

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In a room filled with<br />

supporters and donors of<br />

the Daniel Murphy Scholarship<br />

Fund, Jim Murphy,<br />

a co-founder of the scholarship<br />

organization sat<br />

proudly, watching as the<br />

organization raised more<br />

than $1.5 million to help<br />

fund private high school<br />

education for students.<br />

Murphy, a Highland<br />

Park native who graduated<br />

from Wilmette’s<br />

Loyola Academy personally<br />

felt the impact of a<br />

private high school education.<br />

He believes that by attending<br />

Loyola Academy,<br />

he was able to receive a<br />

better education, which<br />

helped further him in his<br />

life. He wanted to be able<br />

to offer that opportunity<br />

to other children who are<br />

beginning to think about<br />

Donors Justin (from left) and Erin Foley, of Lake Forest,<br />

smile with fellow donors Brian and Colleen Gelber, of<br />

Winnetka at the event.<br />

the high schools they may<br />

want to attend.<br />

“They’ve worked hard<br />

to get into the position<br />

where they could use a<br />

better education,” Murphy<br />

said.<br />

So 30 years ago, Murphy,<br />

along with his brother,<br />

Lake Forest resident<br />

Robert Murphy, founded<br />

the Daniel Murphy Scholarship<br />

Fund, naming it after<br />

their father — the man<br />

who afforded the brothers<br />

the opportunity to attend a<br />

private high school.<br />

Murphy said although<br />

Highland Park High<br />

School is a good school,<br />

his father wanted to give<br />

his children the opportunity<br />

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