Communication Prof. Barbara Butts believes stage management requires a diverse set of leadership skills, and she wants her students to be able to use them both inside and outside the theater. BARBARA BUTTS: What stage management really is is, it’s leadership, it’s management, it’s organization, it’s communication and it’s problem-solving. Those are the big things.
Explore some of Evanston’s boba shops on today’s episode of Everything Evanston. [nat sound: entering boba shop] SHAE LAKE: In a college town, it’s not unusual to see a bright, bubbly storefront where students love to gather to get bubble tea. In downtown Evanston, there are at least seven. We’re going to explore a few.
Daily staffers Samantha Powers, Jacob Wendler and Beatrice Villaflor discuss what they’ve seen in their reporting on the pro-Palestine encampment at Deering Meadow. [nat sound of student activists chanting] CARLOTTA ANGIOLILLO: On Thursday morning, about 50 student activists began setting up tents on Deering Meadow in an effort to pressure Northwestern to divest from companies.
Emily C. Jackson, after living a long and loving life, passed away on April 27, 2021 at the age of 95 at Landis Homes, Lititz, surrounded by her children and friends.
Emily was born in Vermont, Illinois to the late Harry Franklin Chick and Roxanna Johnston Chick. She attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois for two years during World War II. It was at Knox that she met her future husband, Roderick Jackson, an Army Air Force pilot from South Carolina, at a USO dance. The dance led to wartime correspondence and to marriage when the war ended. Emily and Rod shared 58 years of marriage and four children: Margaret Egli married to Charles, of Kennett Square, PA; Rod Jackson and wife Crystal of Florida; Emily Guerra of Texas; and Jeffrey Jackson of Lancaster. Also surviving are five grandchildren: Charlotte Angiolillo, Charles Jackson Egli, Christine Egli, Keegan Jackson, and Rick Jackson. Additionally, she has four great-grandchildren: Fred and Carlotta Angiolillo and Bridget and Barr