About Our Host

Susan and Harlow Higinbotham

Susan has been a member of the Women's Board since 1996 and sat on the Projects Committee in 1999. She currently serves as a member of both the Music and the Social Sciences Visiting Committees of the University. In 2007, Susan was a member of the Graham School's Know Your Chicago Committee. The realm of her professional activity includes banking, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Harlow Higinbotham is a graduate of the University of Chicago, having received his AM (1972) and his PhD (1976) in Economics. He also studied at the London School of Economics. He currently sits on the University's Visual Arts Visiting Committee. Mr. Higinbotham is an economist and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with NERA, an international consulting firm which provides economic analysis and advice to corporations, governments, law firms, regulatory agencies, and international agencies. Prior to joining NERA, he served as A.T. Kearney's Chief Economist and led A.T. Kearney's Economics Group.

Please join us for a tour of Harlowarden Edwardian-era Japanese Tea Garden and Prairie School Home of Harlow and Susan Higinbotham.

Members of the Women’s Board are invited to visit the Edwardian – era Japanese Tea Garden and Prairie School home of Harlow and Susan Higinbotham.  We will have a short orientation to the property at 10:30 am, a tour of the gardens and a talk by Women’s Board member Susan Higinbotham in the Tapestry Room about the Higinbotham family’s close ties to the University of Chicago. Susan’s husband’s grandfather helped guaranty the notes that John D. Rockefeller issued to finance the University, and she has put together a program about that involvement.  We will converge in a special tent on the grounds for a buffet lunch at noon and conclude the day at 1:30 p.m. Weather permitting we will be provided with  baskets and scissors and allowed to cut and take home as many peonies as we wish. We will provide bus transportation. Also, Harlowarden is a 30-minute drive from Hyde Park and there will be parking available on the lawn for those who chose to drive.

When: Wednesday, May 28th
Location: Harlowarden
Joliet, Illinois
 
Orientation and Tour — 10:30 a.m.
Lunch — 12:00 noon
Cost: The cost is $65 per person, members and guests

Please respond by Monday, May 19, 2008

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