Local Legends Benefit

Each year, the History Center presents a new Local Legend, honoring someone who has contributed significantly to our community and the world.

This year we are proud to celebrate Dr. Hugh C. Falls as our 2024 award recipient, marking our fifteenth Local Legend.

Please join us on Sunday, September 22nd at 4:00 pm to honor Dr. Falls’ dedication to this community. He will be interviewed by friend and colleague, Dr. Michael Bauer, Medical Director of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. The setting is an intimate interview that encourages the sharing of little-known stories, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and insights missing from standard biographies. An exclusive Patron Sponsor cocktail party will be held at an historic home on Friday, September 6th at 6:00 pm. Details will be sent out to all sponsors as we get closer to the event.

Dr. Falls joins the ranks of Jim Lovell, Adrian Smith, John Bryan, Richard Marx, Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra, Mark and Franklin McMahon, Ellen Stirling, Ryne Sandberg, Marian Phelps Pawlick, Jack Schuler, Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss III, the Honorable Susan Garrett, Ed Wehmer, and Don Pierson.

Local Legends 2024

We're excited to announce Dr. Hugh C. Falls as our 2024 Local Legend!

Over the course of fifty-plus years, Dr. Falls delivered between 11,000 and 12,000 babies – most of them at Lake Forest Hospital. A progressive physician who combined his love for patient care with education, Dr. Falls also taught at Northwestern University and helped steer the hospital’s Education Committee even after retiring in 2019. His thousands of patients thank him, above all, for being kind.

 

 

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list of patron sponsor levels

 

Local Legends Patron Sponsor Roll Call

$10,000 "Grown Up" level

Amy Falls Rogers and Hartley Rogers

Robin and Alexander Stuart

$5,000 "Teenager" level

Tsch and Tom Hunter

Anne Hunting and Ari Mintz

Mary Ann Wells

$2,500 "Kiddo" level

Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital 

Elaine and Stephen Timbers

Pamela and David Waud

$1,000 "Toddler" level

Prue and Francis Beidler

Anne Searle Bent

Maddie Dugan

Susan and Scott Garrett

The Hale Family

Pamela and Dave Henkel

Eugene Hotchkiss III

Judy and Bill Inglese

Liz Kinney and Lisa Smyth

Jan and Mike MacDougal

Medical Staff of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital

Katharine and James Morris

Marion Searle

David Seleb and John Cialone

Jill and Leif Soderberg

James Stirling

Carol and Kirk Sweet

Jaqueline and Fred Wacker

$500 "Newborn" level

Lori and Kent Baker

Calvine and Charles Bowen

Mary and Charles Brennan, III

Marina Carney-Puryear and Jim Puryear

Amee and Stephen Christ

Kathleen Conley and Paul Schuster

Gwen O. Conzelman

Alicia and James Crawford

Marleana Cross

Kathy and Jim Dasso

Kristina and Mitch Engel

Jeanne and Fred Jackson

Ann and Greg Jones

Kitty and Robert Lansing

Elizabeth Lekberg

Heidi Ogden

Mary and John Ormsby

Susan and Philip Merlin

James Phelps

Richard Price

Deborah and Mark Saran

Tricia and David Sweet

Barbara Wood-Prince


 

2024 Local Legend Dr. Hugh C. Falls

Don Pierson

 

2023 Local Legend Don Pierson

Wehmer

 

2022 Local Legend Ed Wehmer

Susan Garrett Patron Sponsor Invite

 

2021 Local Legend Susan Garrett

Gene Hotchkiss

 

2020 Local Legend Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss

2019 Local Legend Jack Schuler

2018 Local Legend Marian Phelps Pawlick

2017 Local Legend Ryne Sandberg

2016 Local Legend Ellen Stirling

2015 Local Legends Franklin and Mark McMahon

2014 Local Legends Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra

2013 Local Legend Richard Marx

 

2012 Local Legend John H. Bryan

2011 Local Legend Adrian Smith

2010 Local Legend Captain Jim Lovell