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The Annenberg Challenge 1999 Report

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Raise your hands if you knew Barack Obama was President of the Board for the Annenberg Challenge for four and a half years? Not seeing too many hands but here it is right FROM the Annenberg Challenge. And wait, there is Bill Ayers serving right along side him but he didn't know him of course.

Leadership of the Board of Directors also underwent change with the resignation of Barack Obama from the Presidency of the board due to his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Obama remains on the board but chose to step aside from his position as President in which he served for the first four and one-half years of the Challenge. He is the founding President of the Challenge. At the September 1999 board meeting Edward Bottum was elected President of the board and Victoria Chou was elected Secretary-Treasurer to fill the position previously held by Mr. Bottum.

Edward S. Bottum, 68, of Winnetka, a man committed to his family and community, a mentor to many and with a zest for life, died unexpectedly of cerebral hemorrhaging, Friday, May 24, in Muskegon, MI following a heart attack. Ed was Managing Partner for Chase Franklin Corporation, recently named Chairman of Underwriters Laboratories, and previously with the Continental Bank (now Bank of America), retiring as Vice Chairman. He is survived by his wife of nearly 45 years, Joyce Bixler; three sons, Roger (Susan), John (Dr. Jon Karakowski), and Sam (Melanie Domer), one daughter, Carroll Bottum Ritter (Robert Ritter); and four grandchildren, Hannah and Sam Bottum and Jack and Kendall Ritter. A memorial service will begin at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday at Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth. In lieu of flowers, donations would be most appreciated to The Rush Presbyterian Institute of Mental Well-Being, 1700 W. Van Buren Street, Room 250, Chicago, IL 60612.

Published in a Chicago Tribune Media Group Publication from May 26 to May 28, 2002

THE MAROON, LINK:

The Maroon became more political over the following decades, prompting the Dean of Students to force the removal of Editor-in-Chief Alan Kimmel in 1951 and hold a university-wide election for the position. The newspaper continued to be highly political in the 1960s, and was even considered militant. During a campus sit-in after the firing of a radical sociology professor, Marlene Dixon, in 1968, The Maroon published daily and editors met with University President Edward Levi in his house while his office was being occupied by students.

SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI:

The University of Chicago has produced a number of notable journalists and writers, many of whom were Chicago Maroon staffers. •David Auburn (A.B. 1991) Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winning playwright of Proof •David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and chief strategist •David Brooks (A.B. 1983) Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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CHARLES T PAYNE.LINK

Charles T. Payne, 89, assistant director for systems at the University of Chicago Library until his 1995 retirement, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma August 1. Payne joined the library in 1964...

CHARLES T PAYNE WAS THE BROTHER OF MADELYN DUNHAM, MOTHER OF STANLEY ANN DUNHAM.

OBAMA LECTURES - 'RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON SELF INTEREST'