Pictured above from left to right: Lorraine Clark, Barry Clark, Rick Roberts, Anna Lloyd and Ron Bernardi The Northbrook and Deerfield Rotaries helped make the 44th Annual Coat Off Your Back campaign a huge success! Representatives Rick Roberts, CCIL Senior Director of Strategy & Communications, and Anna Lloyd, A Safe Haven, spoke during the Tuesday, November 24, 2009 meeting at Mission Hills Country Club. At least $1,100 was raised at the luncheon and a truck filled with more than 60 bulging bags of clothes was transported to the Chicago Christian Industrial League (CCIL).
Art Wolter from Deerfield and Chet Bloden from Northbrook originally started the Coat Off Your Back campaign 44 years ago. Both were Rotarians and directors of CCIL. The campaign really started to gain momentum the past 11 years under the direction of the late Rotarian Ken Thiel. Thiel set up a number of collection places in various communities and was integral in spreading the word about CCIL. Lorraine Clark, former CCIL Board Member, her husband Barry Clark, Deerfield Rotary and Ronald Bernardi, Northbrook Rotary are now the driving forces behind the campaign.
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