Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, one of my favorite clients, asked me to produce their annual Amicus Certus video about the great work with Post-Adoption, Adoption Preservation, Search and Reunion Services and Birth Mother’s Support Groups.

When a cholera epidemic hit Northwest Illinois over 150 years ago, Lutheran congregations rallied together responding to the needs of children who’s parents had died. On October 31, 1867, the doors of a new orphanage opened in Berlin, Illinois to receive these children. This small step marked the beginning of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois legacy of service to people in communities across the State.

Throughout it’s 150 year history, LSSI has followed the mandate of it’s mission, to respond to the Gospel by bringing healing, justice and wholeness to people and communities.

This 2017 Amicus Certus (Latin for “True Friend”) video tells the story of LSSI’s on-going Adoption Services program.

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Giovannini gained fame in the 1950’s through appearances on the Dave Garroway Show. He also served for two years as music director for the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television show.

In the 1960’s and 70’s he played piano on many movie soundtracks including The World of Henry Orient (1964), Wait Until Dark (1967), The Fox (1967), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Shaft’s Big Score (1972) and Raid on Entebbe (1976).

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How’s this for a selfie? Working on a documentary on the history of WCFC TV38, I unearthed these vintage 1980’s stand-up’s featuring your’s truly as a cub reporter on the weekly news magazine, Page Two. We covered all kinds of stories, often with a conservative bent that makes me cringe these days. Thanks to Wade Bobbitt, David Oseland and Clark Gray among many others for help getting my career launched and not making too much fun as I played “reporter.”

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I produced this video with Steve Rusk from Meyer Partners and Susan Greeley from LSSI.

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This is an interview I did several years ago with two of my aunts, Merc Bruss and Ione Driggs. They share some family history and talk about growing up in the depression in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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