1. “FromShrimp Marc to Eli’s Cheesecake”
A Family Tradition of Entrepreneurship
Hospitality & Community Service
Marc S Schulman
S.
Northwestern University Law School
Small Business Opportunity Conference
February 20, 2010

2. Thank Yo
You
1. Jennifer E i
1 J if Ervin and the SBOC Student
d th St d t
Committee.
2.
2 Dean Van Zandt and Esther Barron
3. Today’s Sponsors—Goldberg Cohen,
Sullivan & Cromwell and the NU JD
MBA Association
4.
4 To the prior speakers at this program,
program
Buzz Ruttenberg, Howard Tullman,
long time friends
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3. Highest Honor
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1. Event is open and accesible to the
community---free
comm nit free & affordable
2. Location in Lincoln Hall
3. The growth and success of the Small
Business Opportunity Center- A
Role for Entrepreneurship at the
Law School
4. This year’s focus on the Socially
Conscious Entrepreneur
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4. Chicago Avenue from
Michigan Avenue to the Lake
“My Bl k Since 1966”
“M Block Si

5. Development of the Chicago Campus and the Law
School Came at a Challenging Time in the
Economy—Vision of a “Greater Northwestern”
Greater Northwestern
Nathan MacChesney v James Patten
v.

6. Life on the Chicago Campus of
Northwestern always important to me

7. Life at NU Law and at Eli’s
Thompson, Valukas, Starkman, Flaum, Inbau,
Haddad

8. Eli’s in the Restaurant/Food
Business in Chicago since 1940

9. Eli’s Ogden Huddle on the west side of Chicago
near Herzl College
“If you have no money, we will feed you free”
“Charity will never bust You”

10. Taste of Chicago Launched
Eli’s Ch
Eli’ Cheesecake--1980
k 1980

11. Eli s
Eli’s & Celebrities

12. Eli & That First Big Cake
Royal Wedding Day (7/29/81)

13. Eli s Chicago s
Eli’s is Chicago’s Big Cake Baker

14. Eli’s Creates the 150th Birthday Cake for
Northwestern University in 2000
October 21, 2000

15. Eli’s Creates Northwestern Law School’s
150th Bi hd Cake in 2009
Birthday C k i

16. Eli’s Creates the Presidential Inaugural
Cheesecake-1993,1997
Cheesecake 1993 1997 and 2009

17. Eli’s Creates the Big Cakes for the
Arbraham Lincoln Bi-Centennial
Bi Centennial
Celebration in Springfield-2009

18. Seneca Park & the
Eli M. Schulman Playground

19. Community Engagement—the Greater North
Michigan Avenue Association and The
Magnificent Mile Lights Festival

20. Greater Chicago Food Depository &
The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival

21. Dedication to Illinois History &
Preservation
Henry Horner State Monument
Rededication

22. Supporting the Chicago High
School for Agricultural
Sciences

23. Dr. Rajiv Shah at CHSAS & in Haiti
“In my travels around the world,, the
y Chicago High School for Agricultural
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Science has the best young leaders to solve issues of food, water, animal science
and agriculture

24. Partnership with Wright
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College

25. Senator Durbin & President
Obama at Wright & Eli’s

26. Eli’s & Wright Campus is a Special Place
Visit by the Imperial Chinese Commissioners
to Dunning Institution on January 19, 1906
Wright hosted 100th Anniversary Celebration on January 19 ,2006

27. Pedro DeJesus comes to Wright & Eli’s
“Aspiration Leads to Success”
From Allied Health at Wright College to
F Alli d H lth t W i ht C ll t
Northwestern Law School to Business & Civic
Leadership

28. Eli’s/Wright College
Farmers’ Market
F ’M k t

29. Eli’s Cheesecake Festival Benefiting the
New Horizon Center and the Greater
Chicago Food Depository

30. Thoughts
• How far you can take a dream!
• The power of connecting
• The power of Northwestern and the Chi
h f h d h Chicago
Campus
• Chicago is the best City in the World!
• “Charity Will never bust You”—Eli
y
• “It’s a Helluva’ Cake--Eli

31. Thank You Northwestern University Law
School & SBOC!