Women's Republican Club

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                      of Lake Forest & Lake Bluff

Contact us at:

womensrepublicanclublfandlb@gmail.com

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Our Current Leadership

Officers

Hilary F. Till is the President.  She is also the Chairman of the West Deerfield Township Republican Organization and serves on the Executive Committee of the Lake County Republican Federation.  In addition, she is a past 4th Ward Chair of the Lake Forest Caucus.  Professionally, Hilary is a principal of a Chicago-based futures trading company. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree with General Honors in Statistics from the University of Chicago and a Master of Science degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics where she studied under a private fellowship administered by the Fulbright Commission.  Hilary’s husband is a physician at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, and their teenage daughters attend Lake Forest High School.

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Michell Parnell is the 1st Vice President.   

Lisa Roti is the 2nd Vice President.  Lisa's interest in grassroots politics began when she became a Heritage Action Sentinel in 2015. She serves as a  precinct committeeman in Libertyville Township.. As an eleven year member and current president of the Libertyville Junior Woman's Club, Lisa has initiated many fundraising and community enrichment events. She is also a catechist for her children's religious education program at St. Joseph Church, Libertyville. Lisa earned a BA in Political Science from Loyola University (Chicago) and is currently a program manager for a large social service agency. She resides in Libertyville with her husband of twenty years, their two children and Louis, their black Lab rescue dog.

Angie Sage is Recording Secretary.

Susan Somberg is Treasurer.  Susan is also Treasurer of the Lake Forest Symphony Guild, and co-treasurer of the Lake Forest Women’s Club. Currently Susan works for Academic Pharmaceuticals as office manager and manager of the Editorial Office of the American Journal of Therapeutics, published by The American Institute of Therapeutics in Lake Bluff, IL. Susan attended Graham College in Boston and took several courses in everything from music appreciation at Harvard night school to tidal pool ecology at the New England Aquarium. In 2014 she enrolled and completed “Coursera” on-line courses in archaeology, animal behavior, nutrition and the fall and rise of Jerusalem. She and husband John, have two daughters, Iris, who works in Washington, DC. and Trudie, who is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Advisory Board:   Former WRC Presidents Peggy Siebert, Jennifer Neubauer & Kim Madden in addition to members Kirsten Howe and Betsey Thurman

Advisory Board Emeritus:  Pat Kammerer, 2016 Winner, WRC "President's Award."

Our Members

Membership in the Women's Republican Club of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff is open to all women and men in our area and all federal and state GOP officeholders.  Dues are $30 per year or $250 for a lifetime membership. Many of our members are GOP committeemen and local and even state-wide office-holders.

Our Free to the Public and Other Events

 Our Annual Meeting is held in January, but we have several meetings, candidate "meet & greets" and other events throughout the year.  Member benefits include discounts on priced events and the knowledge one is underwriting free events that spread the GOP message.  

Examples of free events for the general public held in the recent past were presentations on Sex Slave Trafficking in Lake County and Chicagoland and a debate on Common Core, PARCC testing and governmental "womb to tomb" data collection.  Other free events included Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA's discussion on the erosion of free speech on college campuses and how his group spreads the GOP message to the younger generation. We hosted a free reception for Bruce and Diana Rauner, a cocktail party at Onwentsia Club for then U.S. Senate candidate and Illinois State Senator Jim Oberweis, and  a luncheon lecture from Maggie Gallagher of American Principles Project at Exmoor Country Club.  Dan Proft, Radio Personality and Political Pundit keynoted our December 2015 Christmas Party and generously answered many guest questions.  Michael Lotus, co-author of America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century: Why America's Greatest Days are Yet to Come (Encounter Books, 2013) then keynoted our January 9, 2016 Annual Meeting which was also free and open to the public. Our officers have assisted former Congressman Robert Dold with public outreach on religious persecution in the Middle East and worked with many local GOP candidates on events and voter outreach.  

Your membership and donations support these types of events and have allowed us to expand our outreach to non-traditional GOP voters.  For example, you helped us donate a  table to the Lake County Republican Federation Dinner featuring African-American GOP U.S. Senator Tim Scott(SC) for Pastor Corey Brooks and other leaders in the local African-American community.  We were all edified and encouraged by Senator Scott's "rags to riches" personal story and his expression of the Republican values he learned as a young man when a Chick Fil A franchisee took him, a high school drop-out, under his wing (pardon the pun) and taught him the values of fiscal and personal responsibility. 

In short, our members and their dues and donations are what make the WRC work!  Join Us!