Mary Mulcrone
Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Program


The purpose of the Mary Mulcrone Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Program is to be a self-supporting adjunct to Chicago Hearing Society’s interpreter referral service by providing professional development for experienced freelance interpreters, Deaf interpreters and newly working interpreters.  The techniques used will provide opportunities to gain knowledge, develop specific skills and acquire expertise within particular settings in the field of interpreting. 

The mentorship program will match interpreters seeking to broaden their skills with a peer mentor who can guide that skill development.  This will be accomplished over a period of six to twelve weeks through observation, interpreting, professional research or training off-site, feedback and discussion with the peer mentor and with consumers.  For more information about the mentorship program, please email AskCHS@anixter.org

We are very pleased to name this program in honor of Mary Mulcrone.  She was the first certified interpreter in Illinois and the mentor of untold numbers of interpreters.  Illinois’ first interpreter referral service began in her kitchen.  Later, it was transferred to the Catholic Office of the Deaf where her son, Father Joseph Mulcrone, and his secretary Shirley Stefanski took over the service until CHS received a grant for a part-time coordinator.  The interpreter referral service moved to CHS in 1979 where it has grown to become one of the largest in the country.  Our mentorship program is modeled on the example set by Mary and the most recent strategies for successful mentoring.

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions received in support of the mentorship program.  These contributions will help to cover the costs of training mentors, orientation for new mentees and reduced fees for mentees.  Many donors made contributions in honor of their mentors, colleagues or friends.

Donor
Sherry Alford
Sheila Antosch
Colleen Bajalis
Jenna Baughd
Allan Bergman
Marcey Berman
Juan Bernal
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Rosemarie Carsello
Rosemarie Carsello
CHS Advisory Council
Barb Ditscheit
Theresa Grueneberg
Gail Partridge Harvanek
Illinois R.I.D.
Joan Fiske
Florence Kaplan Foundation, Inc.
Sheila Kettering
Sheila Kettering
Sheila Kettering
Terry and Pam Kohut
Linda Koss
Sally Koziar
Sally Koziar
Jan Kreft
Scott Litsinger
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Tim Mahoney
Marian Matthews
Laird Mintz
Jean Modry
Rev. Joseph Mulcrone
Mulcrone Family
L.J. Myers
L.J. Myers
L.J. Myers
L.J. Myers
Trudy Gustafson Ray
Deborah Sampson
Louis Scott
Susan Teplinsky
Diana Thorpe
Diana Thorpe
Diana Thorpe
Diana Thorpe
Darlene Washington
Elaine Weathers
Arlinel Weddington
Shirley Wehking
Adelaide Whitehouse
Adelaide Whitehouse
Leandra Williams
Leandra Williams
Leandra Williams
In honor of
Darlene Washington

Diana Thorpe
Sherry "the Best" Alford
Mary Mulcrone

Tim Mahoney
Adele Belgrad
Maureen Dunn
Mary Mulcrone
Sherry Alford
Chris Skoczynski
Wally Skoczynski
Winnie Stapleton
Arlinel Weddington
Winnifred Lowery
Nancy Huber
Leandra Williams
Mary Mulcrone
Mary Mulcrone



Dale Izenstark
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Rita Taccona

Mary Mulcrone

Maureen Dunn
Mitchell and Laurel Raci
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Mary Mulcrone
Leslie Evans
Cheryl Moose
Chicago Club of the Deaf
Paige, Austin and Dani Bernal
Juan Bernal
Barbara Gurga
Eugene Curtin
Windy City Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf
June Prusak

Diana Thorpe


Our mother Mary Mulcrone

Anna M. Koziar
Wanda Alyinovich
Mitchell and Laurel Raci
Mitchell Raci

Emily Slobodecki
Minnie & Norman Glazer
Gail Bedessem
Rosemary Lucafo
Mary Mulcrone




Mulcrone Family

Frances Whitehouse
Donna Reiter Brandwein
Theadora McNeil
Arlinel Weddington

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