Local Legends Benefit
We are thrilled to announce Don Pierson as our 2023 Local Legend!
Don Pierson covered sports, primarily pro football and the Bears, for 40 years with the Chicago Tribune. Chosen by the Bears to co-author the team’s Centennial Scrapbook in 2019, he also collaborated with Mike Ditka on the 1986 autobiography, DITKA. He served on a 40-person selection committee for pro football’s Hall of Fame and in 1994 won the Dick McCann award displayed at the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, for long and distinguished reporting of pro football. In 2009, he won the Ring Lardner Award for excellence in sports journalism. Don and his wife Kathy have lived in Lake Forest since 1974, the year before the Bears moved in.
Local Legends Patron Sponsor Roll Call
$5,000 Wide Receiver Sponsorships
Tscharner and Thomas Hunter IV
Anne Hunting and Ari Mintz
Robin and Sandy Stuart
$2,500 Running Back Sponsorships
Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel
David and Pamela Waud
$1,000 Linebacker Sponsorships
Prue and Frank Beidler
Winnie and Bob Crawford
David and Molly Forlow
Susan and Scott Garrett
The Family of Roy Gregory
The Hale Family
David and Pamela Henkel
Eugene Hotchkiss III
Jeanne and Fred Jackson
David Seleb and John Cialone
Mary and Bob Shaw
James Stirling
$500 Tight End Sponsorships
Anonymous
Charlie and Calvine Bowen
Kathryn and Steven Cole
Kathy and James Dasso
Knauz Auto Group
Gertrude Hart
Andrew Park
Jim Phelps
Barbara and Alain Wood-Prince
Tom and Susan Strachan
Special thanks to our 2023 media sponsor
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2023: Don Pierson |
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 2022: Ed Wehmer |
2021: Hon. Susan Garrett |
2020: Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss |
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2019: Jack Schuler |
2018: Marian Phelps Pawlick |
2017: Ryne Sandberg |
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2016: Ellen Stirling |
2015: Franklin and Mark McMahon |
2014: Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra |
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2013: Richard Marx |
2011: Adrian Smith |
2010: Captain Jim Lovell |
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