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Contributed by Emily Clott, Class of 2012 As our celebration of 50 years of the docent program winds down, let’s give the last word to the most significant movers and…

Dear Docent Family, I am an accountant by trade, and I’m good at it.  I would make a terrible salesman.  If forced into sales, I might just crawl into bed…

By Joan Stewart, Class of 1995 and Russ Seward, Class of 2005 The Palmer House:  is it only a hotel, or is it a “museum” that is also a hotel? …

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 After retiring from a successful 40-plus-year career as an engineer and manager, you’d think that a newly minted docent would be content to, well,…

By Ed McDevitt, Class of 2010 After months of work on the Aon Building’s south plaza, the dedication of the plaza took place on September 23, 2021. Matt Amato, General…

By Marcia Matavulj, Class of 2008 Editor’s note: Marcia's story originally appeared in CAC@Home. Docents and volunteers contributed twenty stories to CAC@Home last year. In case you missed them the…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 The decade -- called the 20 Tens or the Teens. The years of 2010-2020 highlighted change on all levels, from the U.S. reacting to…

Emily Clott, 2012 Greetings, I teach a course on Chicago economics at DePaul. I’m on the River Cruise architecture boat tour as I write this now, with my freshman class.…

Dear Docents: Have you ever seen the musical “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”?  There is a wonderful song in which the Peanuts gang must write a book report on…

Editor's note: Norma Green, class of 1978, served as the Docent News editor from 1979-1984. During that time she compiled Tour Tales, the recollections from various docents of “interesting” tours…