The Newsletter of The Cliff Dwellers

ON AND OFF THE CLIFF

Volume 40, Number 4 July-August 2018

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Strolling Dublin Streets with Mr. Joyce in Mind By Richard Reeder CD’13

This year my wife Anne and I celebrated Bloomsday in Dublin, and it

was wondrous and oh so much fun. We began our day early in the morning at

an 8:00 breakfast and performances of snippets of episodes from Ulysses at the

James Joyce Centre. The actors were in rare form, and the forty of us in the

room were simply enthralled with delight by the meanderings and shenanigans

of Molly, Poldy and Stephen. Even the serious-faced Lord Mayor of Dublin,

sitting at an adjacent table, occasionally broke out with a smile and a laugh.

Immediately after leaving the Joyce Centre, we caught a train to the town

of Sandycove, a suburb of Dublin which is the home to the Martello Tower

that is featured in Chapter 1 of Ulysses. Now, the tower serves as a Ulysses-

themed museum year-round, with readings from the book scheduled on its

deck for most of Bloomsday.

We tortuously climbed the narrow and winding stairs of the tower, finally

reaching the deck. The volunteer in charge and I began a conversation. He told

me that the scheduled readers had taken a lunch break. I mentioned to him that

I taught Ulysses back in Chicago and that I was thrilled to be in Dublin today

experiencing Bloomsday. Since there were about a dozen visitors milling

around the deck, he suggested that I do an impromptu reading during this

interlude. How could I say no?

The volunteer lent me his copy of the book and directed me towards the

raised platform in the middle of the deck. There I stood, atop the tower

overlooking the bay, as I began reading Chapter I with the words “Stately,

plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on

which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.” I continued reading through the third

page of the book. These were truly magical moments for me, as I read the

words of Joyce from the very space where the great writer once stood himself

over a century ago.

Returning to Dublin City Centre, we capped off our Bloomsday evening

by attending Dermot Bolger’s splendid cabaret performance of Ulysses staged

at the historic Abbey Theatre. The staging was Spartan--consisting of a bar, a

few chairs and a bed. Puppetry was cleverly interwoven into a good number of

scenes, enhancing the surreality of much of the text.

The play ended, and so did our memorable Bloomsday 2018. Dear

memories to be cherished forever.

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The Cliff Dwellers Say Hello to the Kitchi Gammi Club By Tom Thorson CD’15

There are at least two things that Chicago, Illinois, and Duluth, Minnesota, have in common. First, both

cities are located on the inland seas, Lakes Michigan and Superior. Second, they are homes to two great,

historic clubs...The Cliff Dwellers, and its new reciprocal club, The Kitchi Gammi Club.

With a sense of exploration, five members of our Club ventured out on a weekend in early June, flying

into the Lake Superior port city of Duluth, to say hello to The Kitchi Gammi Club. Our Kitch Gammi Club

hosts met us at the Duluth airport and introduced us to this westernmost Great Lakes port city and its history in

words and architecture.

We were surprised to learn that our esteemed founding Club member, architect Daniel Burnham, had a

hand in designing the beautiful neoclassical ensemble of buildings, the Duluth civic center. The hillside of

downtown Duluth containing the civic center overlooks the city’s active working and recreational harbor and

Lake Superior. Also overlooking the largest of the Great Lakes in downtown Duluth, is the beautiful and

historic Kitchi Gammi Club. Kitchi Gammi is the Native-American name for Lake Superior.

Reflecting the dynamic growth of wealth found in the forestry and mining industries, the magnificent

Kitchi Gammi clubhouse building, designed by architect Bertram Goodhue in 1911, reminds one of a great

English manor house. Built of stone and brick, the clubhouse contains leaded windows, magnificent fireplaces,

numerous dining rooms, a great hammer-beamed banquet hall, drawing rooms and meeting rooms...most with

views of Lake Superior. Original furnishings, light fixtures, paneling, stenciling and art work contribute to the

“manor house” feeling of the club.

The Cliff Dwellers were entertained by our Kitchi Gammi Club hosts in the beautiful, wood-paneled club

library and a dining room with a massive fireplace and a long table set with Club china. We celebrated our two

great clubs in an evening of toasts given by our Club presidents, good conversation and laughter. This was a

Club evening to remember!

Our Duluth hosts graciously provided tours of their clubhouse, the astounding Glensheen estate, and Lake

Superior north shore destinations Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse. A late afternoon was spent

relaxing in the 1930’s log house of our hosts on the rugged French River and Lake Superior. Dining venues,

besides the elegant Kitchi Gammi Club, included charming north shore of Lake Superior roadside cafes and

restaurants overlooking the great lake. Let it be known that these people enjoy wonderful food and dining!

A short Sunday afternoon direct return flight to Chicago by most of The Cliff Dwellers ended this

delightful Club outing. Promises from our Kitchi Gammi Club hosts to visit us in Chicago followed a hearty

thank you from The Cliff Dwellers for a “Superior” weekend.

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The Cliff Dwellers dining with their hosts

at the Kitchi Gammi Club, Duluth, Minnesota, June 8, 2018. Photo provided by Tim Counts

The Cliff Dwellers President, Eve Moran, waves from the front door and terrace of the Kitchi Gammi Club, Duluth, Minnesota, June 8, 2018.

Photo by Tom Thorson

The Cliff Dwellers touring the historic Glensheen Estate,

Duluth, Minnesota, June 9, 2018. Tour guide, Dennis Lamkin, right. Photo by Tim Counts

The introduction to Duluth lunch atop the Raddison Hotel, June 8,2018. Cliff Dwellers President Eve Moran, CD Past President Leslie Recht,

CD VP Joan Pantsios, Kitchi Gammi Club host Mike Lazaretti, CD Director Tom Thorson, CD Secretary Bill Drennan. Photo by host Tim Counts

The Cliff Dwellers on the stone bridge at the historic Glensheen Estate, Duluth, Minnesota, June 9, 2019. Photo by Tim Counts

The Cliff Dwellers at the Duluth harbor entrance,

Lake Superior, June 10, 2018.

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Malta and Its Monuments By Margery al Chalabi CD ‘85

Knowing my regard for and fascination with monumental antiquities, two long-time friends, who now make an

annual, get-out-of-town-in-winter visit to see their son in Malta, invited me to visit them while they were there. Not a bad

idea, leaving Chicago in February, its worst month, and returning, with spring, in March.

I had lived with monuments while earning my master’s degree in Athens many years ago. My husband and I had

visited treasures along the Mediterranean and into Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq (his birthplace). It was the discovery

of Gobekli Tepe, in South Central Turkey, though, that turned me into an amateur archaeologist. With presentations made

to The Cliff Dwellers and the Chicago Archaeological Society, I had begun adding photos and descriptions of other

Turkish antiquities and monuments that I had visited. In gathering this additional data, I had come across familiar designs

of altar-like structures, circular temples, and female figures that greatly resembled those I knew from Central Turkey; but

from Malta. That piqued my interest. I accepted the invitation.

Malta is a tiny island nation in the center of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the largest island of an archipelago

consisting of three islands (two, inhabited) and a few even-smaller islets. The earliest traces of humans on the island still

are being debated. Recent theories suggest that they could have been visited by hunter-gatherers, with permanent

settlement, about 7,000 years ago, by people familiar with farming. The temples for which Malta is famous were begun

around 3,500 B.C.E.; the temple culture came to an end around 2,500 B.C.E.

While my friends and the ancient artifacts were the main draw for my visit, there are many delights in the old cites

built by Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Aragonese, and the Knights of St. John, both settlers and

conquerors. Valletta, the capital, is lovely and recently was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Cities of

Medina (the original capital) and Rabat retain all their Arab charm. The latter is built over the St. Paul catacombs; St.

Paul was said to have been shipwrecked there. And the affluent coastal cities of Sliema and St. Julian’s, abutting

Valletta, are filled with shops and restaurants. Both my friends and I stayed in St. Julian’s – I, a short walk from their

marina-side condo.

Aware that its iconic antiquities are a major draw, Malta has made visits to their scattered sites easy. With an

inexpensive one-day pass, there is access on a loop to all major sites on the main island. A trip to Gozo is a short, tranquil

boat ride, passing by Comino, the smallest of the three islands.

Malta was given to the Order of St. John by Charles V of Spain, in 1530. Valletta, with its harbor and massive

fortifications (a buttress against Ottoman siege), is a splendid sight by day and night. Its building began in 1566.

Designed by Pope Pius V’s military architect, Francesco Laparelli, its buildings are Renaissance and, later, Baroque. The

city is built on a grid-iron plan surrounded by a ditch, a massive waterless moat. The pedestrian approach from the harbor

is via a tall elevator opening into the City Center. It’s a very impressive entry.

The National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta contains many of those sculptural pieces that resembled the

earlier pieces I’d seen in Central Turkey: The Venus of Malta and a seated, corpulent nude were found at Hagar Qim; the

sleeping Lady, from Hal Saflieni; along with numerous female figurines and stick figures.

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One of the earliest sites is the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, an underground complex. Excavated into live rock, it was

begun around 3,500 BCE (Cave sites in many parts of the world pre-dated free-standing structures). At this site was

found the Sleeping Lady.

The Tarxien Temple is a complex of at least four temples, the earliest dating from 3,200 BCE, is built of small

stones; later ones are built of large, carved stones. The temples have open semi-circular courts (or apses) that open onto a

main entrance. The walls are decorated with spirals and, some, with animals.

The setting of two of Malta’s prehistoric temples are idyllic and awe-inspiring. They have made the Maltese Islands

a distinctive holiday destination. Standing at the top of a ridge above the sea, Hagar Qim must have been a conspicuous

landmark. Built around 3,300 B.C.E., Hagar Qim does not follow the usual Temple plans, due to additions over the

centuries, which disrupted the original plan. The rooms (apses) are accessed through rock-cut holes. Found, here, is a

decorated pillar altar, a free-standing altar decorated with small, indented thumb-prints, shallow holes drilled into the

surface and a tree; also found are a great number of fat lady statues, including the Venus of Malta.

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The Mnajdra Temple, visible from Hagar Qim, is 500 meters downhill, above the southern cliffs to the sea.

Walking down a paved pathway, Mnajdra differs from Hagar Qim in that it sits in a natural hollow and is situated to view

the Equinox sunrise from an elaborate porthole entrance. Again, we see the drilled holes of the thumb print surface –

some in a linear pattern said to be linked to the rise and setting of certain stars. The entire temple seems to have been built

to mark the Equinoxes and Solstices.

A pleasant boat trip to Gozo brought us to the Ggantija Temples, past the Village of Xaghra and overlooking the

sandy beaches of Ramla Bay, with its Calypso Cave, where, according to legend and Homer, the nymph Calypso kept

Odysseus (Ulysses) from returning to his wife for seven years. The Ggantija Temples are far-more primitive than those

we’d seen before. Besides a few dressed corner stones, others are left in their raw state. As such they are more akin to the

Cyclopean style of the Bronze Age.

After all these excursions, food and drink were high on our list of needs – and excuses to rest our tired feet.

Fortunately, the food in both St. Julian’s, where we stayed, and the cities we visited, was outstanding with fresh-caught

fish and refreshing wines. The local restaurants along Portomaso Marina, a few minutes walk from my hotel, offered

many opportunities to enjoy the evening.

The trip to Malta was coming to an end before I’d seen everything I wanted to see. But, I was off to London and its

countryside to see family, to enjoy its theater, its museums, its galleries – and, yes, its food and wine. But, that’s another

story.

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Three Project Onward Artists Showcased on the Cliff This Summer By Bonnie McGrath, Project Onward Board of Directors

The three young women who have their art displayed at the Club this summer are artists at Project

Onward, a very special and interesting art studio and gallery at the Bridgeport Art Center on the near south

side.

Project Onward supports the professional development of artists with exceptional talents—who also

happen to have challenges ranging from autism to mental illness. The studio provides more than 50 artists with

disabilities with workspace, materials, professional guidance, exhibition opportunities and access to markets to

sell their work and advance their careers.

At Project Onward, art has become a unique medium for comprehensively and constructively discussing

mental illness and developmental disabilities—by reframing the discussion around the artists’ abilities.

Shows in the Project Onward gallery change frequently. And, each new exhibit showcases a variety of

artists and an interesting theme. All the work is for sale.

All sales revenue benefits the artists, contributing to the cost of work space, materials, creative guidance,

promotional support and exhibitions. Each sale provides a critical source of direct income for the artist, as well.

Project Onward was founded in 2004. And since that time its artists have gotten national and international

recognition from galleries, collectors—and numerous media outlets in Chicago and around the world. In 2008,

the organization moved to larger quarters at the Chicago Cultural Center; and in 2013 moved again to larger

quarters at the Bridgeport Art Center.

One of the artists in the Club’s current exhibition

is Safiya Hameed who has been an artist at Project

Onward since 2007. Smart and determined, Safiya

always has new ideas and new projects. Her artwork

reflects her interest in nature. Colorful flowers, trees,

animals, and the sun radiate positive energy, as do the

portraits she does of her favorite singer, Stevie

Wonder.

Also in the show is artist Molly McGrath, who

joined Project Onward in 2006. Her extensive body of

work ranges from pen and ink drawings to painted

bottles. Her work directly responds to her

environment; her everyday experiences become her

starting point. Her current concentration has been

dolls done in colored pencil, pinpointing a moment in

time that is often communicated in the expression she

gives to the doll’s face.

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Lucy Woodhouse, the third Project Onward

artist whose work is on display this summer, joined

the studio in 2010. She uses abstraction to visually

reduce her subject matter into stark black and white

designs. Her drawings in pen of plant life, textile

designs and the human figure demonstrate her broad

range of interests—coming from a place of deep

concentration and attention to patterning and contrast.

Project Onward is a nonprofit organization that relies on contributions to carry out its mission. The

studio/gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 11am-5pm, and on the 3rd Friday of each month

until 9:30 PM. Everyone is welcome to visit and interact with the artists while viewing their work. The studio

is located on the fourth floor at 1200 W. 35th Street.

For more information about these three artists and their work, as well as other artists at Project Onward,

visit the studio’s website at projectonward.org, email the studio at info@projectonward.org or call the studio at

773 940-2992.

Visit my blog: http://www.chicagonow.com/mom-think-poignant

President’s Note:

Our deck is alive with colorful flowers and shrubs. This fabulous display

is the creation of the Club’s gardening crew.

Here is a warm "Thank You" to Karen and Stan Cielec (CD’05), Sandy

and Mike Deines (CD’03), George Gabauer (CD’94 ), and Leslie Recht

(CD’03). The end result of your hard work and dedication of time on May

19, 2018, fills us with great delight!

Zivio,

Eve Moran

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A Remarkable Man - A Riveting Introduction By Eve Moran CD’10

On June 14, 2018, I took my seat in the Sullivan

Room and, along with others, was warmly greeted by

John Notz, Jr. CD’97. He had arranged for a presentation

by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, distinguished

professor emerita of education at the University of South

Carolina. Chaddock is the author of the recently

released Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener,

First Black Graduate of Harvard College (2017).

Curiosity had brought me to attend this program.

Who was Richard Greener I wondered, and why had I never heard of him? In Chaddock’s hands, a fascinating

account unfolded of a gifted intellectual, scholar, and activist. Here was a man whose story deserved to be

brought to light, studied, and celebrated for a multitude of reasons.

Yes, Greener was the first black graduate of Harvard College. And, he was the first black faculty member

at a southern white college, i.e., the University of South Carolina. Greener was also dean of the department of

law at Howard University. Further, he was the first black US diplomat to serve in Russia. But, there was so

much more to contemplate as Chaddock spoke of both Greener’s intriguing personal and political life, all set

among the harsh realities of his time.

According to Chaddock, a notable event that added to Greener’s legacy happened here in Chicago. At

some point in 2009, a cleaning crew working in an abandoned house on the City’s South Side found documents

and other materials that belonged to Greener. News of this discovery (including Greener’s 1870 Harvard

diploma, law diploma and law license) was first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times but soon spread across the

country. Greener lived in Chicago from about 1909 and until his death in 1922. He is buried in Graceland

Cemetery at 4001 N. Clark Street.

It is amazing to think that a man was able to achieve all that Greener achieved in a single lifetime (and, I

cannot write of everything here). It is sad that I come so late to this revelation and appreciation of Greener’s

rich and complicated life. But, at least now, I can read the book.

“Thank you” to Katherine Reynolds Chaddock and John Notz, Jr. for bringing this riveting presentation on Richard

Greener (1844-1922) to The Cliff Dwellers.

Author Katherine Chaddock Richard Greener

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Discount Parking Benefits Club Members By Leslie Recht CD’03

One of the most useful benefits of a Cliff Dwellers membership is the discount parking available at the

three Millennium Park garages located near the club. Two of the garages covered by this discount are the Grant

Park North Garage and Millennium Park Garage (Grant Park South), at $15 for up to 12 hours anytime, with

entrances in the middle of Michigan Avenue. This discount also covers Millennium Lakeside Garage, $11 for

up to 12 hours anytime. Monthly rates are also available at these garages.

Get your discount by filling out a form, available from our manager Don Santelli. You will get a card to

swipe when you enter and leave the garage, which automatically charges your credit card.

You may have seen that the escalators in the North Garage have been blocked and will be removed.

Elevators will continue to be available in each garage, at Randolph and Michigan, at the Park Grill, at Monroe

and Michigan, Van Buren and Michigan and in the Art Institute garden east of Michigan Avenue.

Please contact Don Santelli or Vivian if you have any questions about these parking discounts. Discounted

parking also continues to be available at the garage on Adams between Wabash and State after 4pm weekdays

and all weekend, with a coupon from the Club.

Faces in the Crowd!

The Class of ‘68

Proud Cliff Dwellers Carla Funk CD’16 and Loren Chernoff CD’09

posed in their caps and gowns prior to marching in the June 22, 2018

Convocation Procession at Northwestern University

as 50-year alums!.

Go Cats!

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Cliff Notes—

Since our last publication 3 individuals interested in the arts have become new members of The Cliff Dwellers.

Henry DeZutter, Michele Kurlander , and Benjamin Madeska

We welcome them all and look forward to their active participation in Club activities and events.

ZIVIO! To Cliff Dwellers who sponsored resident and trial members during the first months of 2018.

We hope to see you Thursday, July 19 for another evening of Live Jazz on the Cliff featuring the

gypsy jazz group, Djanghost, led by Sam Shepard on guitar. Also featured are Nico DiDonna, second

guitar, Jordan Maier, bass and Yali Amit, violin. Cocktails starts: 4:30 p.m. First set: 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Second set: 7:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

$10 cover, $25 optional buffet dinner (reservations are requested: reservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080.

Two printed Club copies of On and Off the Cliff are now available on the magazine shelves near the

fireplace. Enjoy reading the Club newsletter while waiting for friends and guests, but leave them in the

Club for others to read. Enjoy!

Enjoy a good read and a grand ride with Richard Reeder CD’13.

Nearly a century has passed since Ben Hecht wrote the last of his 1001

Afternoons in Chicago columns for the Chicago Daily News in the early 1920s.

Now in 2018, our Richard Reeder pays literary homage to Hecht in 1001 Train

Rides in Chicago, sixty-four short fiction vignettes of ordinary people who ride

the eight rail lines of the CTA. Richard creatively weaves a written social

tapestry of contemporary Chicago depicting its heterogeneous population and

diverse neighborhoods. Leonid Osseny’s illustrations add a striking

impressionistic dimension to the book.

Friday, July 27: Jan Stilson will visit the Cliff Dwellers for a reception and presentation on the

ongoing restoration of Lorado Taft's sculpture, The Eternal Indian, also called Blackhawk.

Tuesday, July 31: Richard Cahan will present on his new book, Un-American: The Incarceration of

Japanese Americans during World War II.

The best days of summer lie in front of us. Come to the Club with family and friends and have a Blast!

WE NEED YOUR INPUT!

MEMBERS WISHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO ON AND OFF THE CLIFF

CAN SUBMIT STORIES, REFLECTIONS, ARTICLES, POEMS, PHOTOS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE ARTS TO

NEWSLETTER EDITOR MIKE DEINES by email mjdeines@yahoo.com

Share Current, Past, and Future Stories about The Cliff Dwellers.

Our next issue of On and Off the Cliff will arrive shortly after Labor Day.

August 30, 2018 is the deadline for submissions. Plan ahead!

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Chicago architect Wilmont Vickrey, founder of firm that helped

reshape Navy Pier, dies at 92 By Blair Kamin Chicago Tribune

Chicago architect Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, CD’90 Emeritus, who founded

and led the firm that would become VOA Associates, died July 10, 2018,

at the Admiral on the Lake retirement home in the Margate Park

neighborhood on Chicago's North Side. He was 92. (Stantec)

Wilmont “Vic” Vickrey, who founded and led a Chicago-based architectural

firm that helped revive such landmarks as Navy Pier and designed hotels, hospitals,

education buildings and theaters around the world, died Tuesday at the Admiral at the

Lake retirement home on Chicago’s North Side. He was 92. The cause of death is not

known, said his wife, Bonnie.

In 1969, Vickrey began what would become VOA Associates, which grew to a staff of more than 300 with offices

in five U.S. cities (Chicago; New York; Washington; Orlando, Fla.; and Highland, Ind.) as well as Beijing, Shanghai and

Sao Paulo.

In addition to the 1995 renovation of Navy Pier, which was led by Benjamin Thompson & Associates of

Cambridge, Mass., VOA’s most prominent Chicago buildings include Roosevelt University’s Wabash Building, a 32-

story South Loop tower; Navy Pier’s Shakespeare Theater; and the recent renovation of Wrigley Field.

Genial but determined, Vickrey “was passionate about design. He was a genius when it came to selling,” said former

VOA Chairman Michael Toolis, who now heads the Chicago office of the Edmonton, Alberta-based global design firm

Stantec. Stantec acquired VOA in 2016.

Vickrey “loved the hunt for business. The joy was getting the job,” his wife said.

Born in 1926 in Terre Haute, Ind., Vickrey was raised in Indianapolis and Texas. He graduated from the University

of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1949. Two years of Army service during World War II

interrupted his education.

“He talked the (Army) eye surgeon into letting him pass, because his eyesight was so bad,” Bonnie Vickrey said.

Vickrey spent 18 years at the Chicago firm of Perkins & Will before striking out on his own in 1969. He opened offices in

both Chicago and Orlando, the latter two years before Walt Disney World’s debut made the Florida city an entertainment

capital. At the time, his son Paul recalled, there was a building slump and Vickrey’s first wife was battling breast cancer.

But “he had a vision and, by golly, he was going to make it work,” Paul Vickrey said. Vickrey served as VOA’s

president, chief executive officer, chairman, and chairman emeritus. He kept coming to the office until two years ago,

Toolis said.

Under Vickrey’s leadership, VOA expanded its early specialty in interior design to a broad scope of architecture.

The firm’s clients include the U.S. Department of Defense, Disney, La Rabida Children’s Hospital, the Old Town School

of Folk Music and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute.

“He used to tell all his associates that there was a sign outside of town that said ‘Vic Vickrey was born here.’ But the

people never could find it,” his wife said.

As Stantec, the firm is working with Chinese architect Ma Yansong to design the under-construction Lucas Museum

of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Vickrey served on the board of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. A longtime

member of Chicago’s Union League Club, he introduced a resolution in 1986 that led to women being admitted to the

club. In addition to his wife and son Paul, survivors include two other sons, Christopher and David; two daughters,

Melinda Golub and Texanne Corrigan; and 12 grandchildren. Vickrey’s first wife, Jean Kirby, his high school sweetheart,

died in 1969, Bonnie Vickrey said. The family is arranging a memorial service.