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 GBS  Recognizes Alumni! 

Glenbrook South High School
4000 West Lake Avenue
Glenview, IL 60025
Phone: 847-729-2000
Fax 847-486-4462
Alumni Recipients...
  • Each year, during the annual awards assembly, 
    Glenbrook South recognizes an alumnus for his/her 
    outstanding contribution to society.
         1983 Dr. James E. Wiss Class of 1968 Associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois-Urbana and a member of a Nobel Laurate team in physics
1984 Pamela A. Bruce Class of 1966 Vice President and head of government, unions, and services division at the First National Bank of Chicago.
1985 Dr. William H. Shaw Class of 1966 Associate professor of philosophy at Tennessee State University and former Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare.
1986 Nancy E. Valenta Class of 1976 Executive producer of KNBC-TV news and winner of three Emmy awards from the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1987 Victoria Hamburg Class of 1970 Independent film maker and free lance television producer and writer selected by Glamour magazine and acknowledged at the White House by President Reagan as one of the “Ten Outstanding Working Women of 1986.”
1988 John Joseph Robberson Class of 1969 Professional firefighter, paramedic, and chief of the fire department for the Village of Glenview.
1989 Richard A. Martin Class of 1967 Special Representative of the Attorney General at the United States embassy in Rome, Italy and formerly the lead prosecutor in the infamous “Pizza Connection Case” in New York where he secured convictions of thirty-five members of organized crime in a money laundering and drug trafficking scheme.
1990 Linda Christensen Appleby Class of 1973 Volunteer developer of an inner-city educational motivation program in Cincinnati recognized by President Bush.
1991 Robert Nichols Flint Dille Class of 1973 Producer, story editor, and writer of a wide gamut of books, comics, video games, interactive videos and motion pictures.
1992 The Honorable Kathleen J. Kroll Class of 1972 A lawyer by training and the youngest person (at age twenty-nine) ever to be elected to the bench in the State of Florida when she became a county court judge in West Palm Beach, Florida.
1993 Thomas C. Nelson Class of 1980 General partner and founder of Wakefield Group, a North Carolina-based venture capital firm, and former participant in the White House Fellowship program where he served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Projects.
1994 Scott Buzard Class of 1969 Teacher of social studies at Glenview’s Springman Middle School and recipient of the prestigious Golden Apple from the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching.
1995 Dr. Julie Tetel Andresen Class of 1968 Assistant professor of linguistics and language theory at Duke University and an award-winning author of historical romance novels.
1996 Stephan J. Swanson Class of 1970 Environmentalist, naturalist, and director of The Grove, Glenview’s national historic site.
1997 Jeffrey P. Huard Class of 1972 Senior musical supervisor for Livent, Inc., of Toronto, Canada producing major musical performances in the United States, Canada, and England, and the conductor for such productions as Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spiker Woman, Show Boat, and Ragtime.
1998 Kathleen A. Casey Class of 1976 Founder and director of Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, a volunteer charitable organization formed to provide for unfulfilled wishes of pediatric patients as well as grants for cancer research.
1999 Eric R. Gilliland Class of 1980 Award winning TV writer/producer of   situation comedies that have included The Wonder Years, Who’s the Boss, and Roseanne.
2000 Philip M. Gattone Class of 1981 Founder and director of the Center for Epilepsy Education and presently the director of education for the Epilepsy Center at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago.
2001 Steven E. Levitan Class of 1980 Emmy Award winning TV writer/producer of Fraiser and creator of Stark Raving Mad and Just Shoot Me.
2002 Ambassador Mark G. Hambley Class of 1965 Senior Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. State Department, and former Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon.
2003 Mark Steven Shapiro Class of 1988 ESPN's executive vice-president for programming and production.
2004 Chris E. Krueger Class of 1976 Respected Dentist and Humanitarian in the Community.   Active Volunteer with the American Cancer Society and the Chicago Dental Society.