Chicago - 1970

Chicago 20th Anniversary VIP Reception Guests

INROADS/Chicago opened with 25 interns sponsored by 17 companies in 1970.
By the fourth year the affiliate had grown to 98 interns and 48 sponsors which included:

Allstate Insurance; American Health Facility
American National Bank
Amar-Stone Laboratories
Arthur Andersen
Booth Fisheries
Brunswick
Chemetron
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Commonwealth Edison
Container Corp of America
Continental Bank
Convertors
DeSoto
Field Enterprises Educational Corp
First National Bank of Chicago
Walter E. Heller
Illinois Tool Works
Inland Steel
Interlake
Jewel Food Stores
Kraft Foods
Maremont
Marsh & McLennan
Midwest American Dental
Miehle
Mobil Oil
Montgomery Ward
Mueller
Nalco Chemical
Natural Gas Pipeline
Northern Trust
Packing Corporation of America
People’s Gas, Light and Coke
Pfizer
Pullman
Quaker Oats
Rand-McNally
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center
Searle
Time
Union Carbide
United States Gypsum
Universal Oil Products
Wrigley
Zenith Radio

Initial corporate Board members were:
Thomas Adair, District Engineer, AT&T Longlines
Richard Black, President, Maremont
James Brice, Vice-Chairman, Arthur Andersen
Fred Brown, VP Consolidated Foods
Jerry Butler, Community Member
Lawrence Butler, VP, First National Bank of Chicago
Silas Cathcart, Chairman, Illinois Tool Works
Gerald Czarnecki, VP Trust Operations, Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust
Dr. William Duke, Dean, Olive-Harvey College
John Foster, VP, Marcor Inc.
Charles Freeman, Associate Administrator, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center
Hector Guzman, Project Director, Spanish America Businessmen’s Association
John Hanigan, Chairman, Brunswick
Robert Knight, SVP, Marsh & McLennan
Ralph H. Metcalfe, Member of Congress, First District, Illinois
George Nichols, President, DeSoto
Fred Shanklin, Regional VP, Union Carbide
Louis Stadler, Group VP, Jewel Food Stores
Daniel Toll, SVP, Walter E. Heller