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2007
Private party in Winnetka introduces many potential members to REP.
One of the nicest REP events in years took place in September at the Winnetka home of Charles and Geraldine (“Bean”) Carroll. The Carrolls joined their friends, Hope and King Poor and Suzanne and John Canfield, in hosting a party to introduce their friends and neighbors to REP. Among those who attended were Congressman Mark Kirk (a member of REP’s Honorary Board) and State Rep. Beth Coulson, both of whom spoke glowingly of REP. President Martha Marks and Membership and Development Director Rob Sisson also attended, as did Al Pyott and REP director Dr. Barbara Struthers. New members who signed up that evening included Susan and Michael McGill and Joan DePree. Several others who were there joined in the following weeks.
While she was in Illinois that weekend, Martha met with five of the chapter’s ExCom members: Dr. Bill Holleman, Stan Perrin, Dr. Richard Benkin, Henry Eilers, and Steve Langley. And Martha and Rob enjoyed lunch with a long-long-time Chicago REP member, Judy Peyton.
Martha Marks, Judy Peyton, and Rob Sisson
Chapter Holds 2007 Annual Meeting in Bolingbrook
Above left, standing: Henry Eilers, Steve Langley, Stan Perrin, Dave Herrington, Gail Koveski, and Mary Perrin.
Seated, Chapter President George Gore and Dr. Bill Holleman.
Above right: Former Illinois Chapter President Dave Herrington, right, receives award from President George Gore.
Chapter-Sponsored Mercury Forum a Success
The Illinois Chapter was a sponsor of a bipartisan Mercury Forum in Highland Park. The forum organized by state Representative Karen May of Highland Park and a committee that included REP board member Barbara Struthers, Ph.D., a board-certified toxicologist.
Speakers touched on many aspects of mercury toxicity, including autism, mental retardation and other neurotoxicities thought to be or known to be related to mercury.
A speaker from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency reviewed sources of emissions, including the fact that most of the environmental mercury in the Midwest is from coal-fired power plants. The difference in the Bush administration's “Clear Skies” act and its much slower reduction of environmental mercury over Great Lakes states compared to Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards was one of the topics discussed.
Approximately 400 people attended.The Illinois REP literature table was attended by Dave Herrington, Dorothy Camp, and Barbara Struthers. The REP mercury policy position was available, and that and the C.E.P Quarterly appeared to be the most popular pieces of literature on the REP table.
Other sponsors of this event included the Illinois chapters of the Sierra Club, Izaak Walton League, and Trout Unlimited; Auto and Truck Recyclers of Illinois, Prairie Rivers Network, Nucor Steel, Fluorecycle Inc., Illinois Association of Park Districts, Illinois Park & Recreation Association, and several groups whose main interest was autism and thimerosol-containing vaccines.
2006
Chapter Staffed Table at Energy Fair
Chapter Vice President George Gore staffed a REP table at the Illinois Renewable Energy Fair, August 12-13, 2006 in Oregon, IL. He talked about REP's mission with visitors and handed out REP materials.
REP honored Congressman Tim Johnson
National REP Director Robin Tyner, a native of southern Illinois, presented Congressman Timothy Johnson a certificate honoring him for his high score in the 2005 REP Congressional Scorecard. Johnson, a member of REP's Honorary Board, scored 87.
State and national REP thanked Congressman Kirk for protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Republicans for Environmental Protection members attended a Valentine's Day thank-you event for Congressman Mark Kirk. .
Donnie Dann, the Arctic Polar Bear, three REP directors—
Lake County Board Member Carol Calabresa, Dr. Barbara
Struthers, and Dr. Martha Marks—and Congressman Kirk,
Chapter-Sponsored Mercury Forum a Success
The Illinois Chapter was a sponsor of a bipartisan Mercury Forum in Highland Park. The forum organized by state Representative Karen May of Highland Park and a committee that included REP board member Barbara Struthers, Ph.D., a board-certified toxicologist.
Speakers touched on many aspects of mercury toxicity, including autism, mental retardation and other neurotoxicities thought to be or known to be related to mercury.
A speaker from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency reviewed sources of emissions, including the fact that most of the environmental mercury in the Midwest is from coal-fired power plants. The difference in the Bush administration's “Clear Skies” act and its much slower reduction of environmental mercury over Great Lakes states compared to Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards was one of the topics discussed.
Approximately 400 people attended.The Illinois chapter's literature table was attended by Dave Herrington, Dorothy Camp, and Barbara Struthers. The REP mercury policy position was newly available, and that and the C.E.P Quarterly appeared to be the most popular pieces of literature on the REP table.
Other sponsors of this event included the Illinois chapters of the Sierra Club, Izaak Walton League, and Trout Unlimited; Auto and Truck Recyclers of Illinois, Prairie Rivers Network, Nucor Steel, Fluorecycle Inc., Illinois Association of Park Districts, Illinois Park & Recreation Association, and several groups whose main interest was autism and thimerosol-containing vaccines.
2005
REP held its National Conference at the Westin on Michigan Avenue in Chicago
Oct. 1, 2005 - The Illinois chapter held its annual meeting during a special session of the national Annual Conference in Chicago.
Illinois REP members at the 2005 annual conference are,
standing, from left, Jeffrey Schlachtenhaufen, national REP Director
Dr. Barbara Struthers, Bill Calabresa, ConservAmerica Director Rudy Rasin,
Chapter President Dave Herrington, John Walther. Seated, from left,
Dr. Bill Holleman, national REP Director and Lake County Commissioner
Carol Calabresa, state Representative Paul Froelich, and Brian Haag.
Chapter president met with Congressman Kirk's staff to talk about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Illinois Chapter President Dave Herrington joined a group of conservationists for a meeting with Eric Elk, staff for Congressman Mark Kirk, regarding the upcoming budget reconciliation legislation, which could open the door to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Also present at the meeting were representatives of the Sierra Club, Illinois PIRG, Alaska Wilderness Coalition, and The Nature Conservancy.
2004
Chapter Annual Meeting
Leaders and members of REP's Illinois chapter met in October 2004 at Lake County's beautiful Ryerson Conservation Area.
Shown are Bill & Sheila Lebensorger, David, Alice and Henry Barkhausen,
Lake County Board Member Dr. Ann Maine, Mary and Stan Perrin,
Claudia Emken, Dr. Bill Holleman, Chapter President Dave Herrington, and
George Gore. Also attending was national director Dr. Barbara Struthers.
Chapter leaders George Gore and Stan Perrin tabled for REP at Prairie Fest
George Gore and Stan Perrin
Chapter members and national REP staff participated in "Clean Air Workshop" in Deerfield
2003
Chapter hosted a thank-you reception honoring Congressman Mark Kirk
On November 22, 2003, in Lake Forest, Illinois, Republicans for Environmental Protection and Illinois Republicans for Environmental Protection jointly hosted a recognition reception for Congressman Kirk. Nearly 100 "green Republicans" and VIP leaders of other environmental organizations gathered to thank Mark for the wonderful pro-conservation, pro-environment record that he has built during his first three years in Congress.
Above left: REP president Martha Marks presents Congressman Kirk
our 2003 "Rising Star" award and receives a kiss in return.
Above right: Congressman Kirk addresses the crowd gathered in his honor.
Above left:
Cameron Davis, Katelyn Varhely, Chris and Harry Chandler, Verena Owen
Above center: Highland Park Councilman Pete Koukos, Peg Koukos, Lake County Board Chairman Suzi Schmidt, Bob Schmidt
Above right: Lake County Board Member Carol Calabresa, Lake County Forest Preserve President Bonnie Carter, Former Illinois Lt. Governor Corinne Wood
REP published op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times
Policy Director Jim DiPeso's "Global Warming is no Idle Threat" was featured in the February 1 Sun Times.
2001
REP President Martha Marks gave a talk entitled "The Precautionary Principle: A Conservative Way of Thinking," at the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable conference in Chicago.
1995
The same summer that Martha Marks and two other women were laying the foundation for the organization that would become Republicans for Environmental Protection, she published an op-ed, "The Endangered Species Protects Us!", in the Chicago Tribune. Martha was a Lake County Board member at the time, and this essay can be considered the first ever published in the REP era.
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