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WHEREAS, Mildred J. "Milly". Zysman, a prominent Chicago civic leader and philanthropist, will celebrate the joyful occasion of her Eighty-Fifth Birthday on August 30, 2011; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of this event by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, Raised in the Albany Park neighborhood, Mildred J." "Milly" Zysman was the daughter of Walter Jacobson, a veteran manufacturers representative in the housewares industry and one of the first tenants of the Merchandise Mart; and
WHEREAS, Dancing and archiving figured prominently in Milly's early years and from the ages 11 to 14, each day after school and on Saturdays, Milly and her sister Gladys would take the CTA's elevated line to the Loop to study with. Muriel Abbot, whose dancers performed in the Palmer House's Empire Room during the 1930s and 1940s; and
WHEREAS, Milly's obsession with systems and archiving collections began as the choir librarian at Sullivan High School, where she catalogued all of the sheet music; and
WHEREAS, She also worked at Mrs. Roberts' Lending Library at the Sheridan Beach Hotel where she met her first husband, Robert Litvin, while they were both in high school; and
WHEREAS, Milly participated in several committees at Sullivan and represented the high school as chairman for the Midwest at a conference in Washington, D.C. in 1943; and
WHEREAS, She was awarded the American Legion Award for Outstanding Girl Graduate in 1944; and
WHEREAS, At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Milly studied dance with Margaret H'Doubler, who considered dance an art and science. She taught avant-garde theories which" Milly still remembers to this day, such as "be objective about the subjective and subjective about the objective"; and
WHEREAS, After her marriage in 1947, Milly began an extensive career as a volunteer in the Jewish community; and
WHEREAS, At the Temple Menorah of Rogers Park and at the North Shore Congregation Israel of Glencoe,, Milly served on fu...
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