Governance
A five member volunteer Board of Directors governs Pistakee Bay Charitable Foundation. Each brings their unique talents, perspectives, interests, skills and most importantly, motivation for serving others.
Mary Lou Hutchinson
For the past twenty years, Mary Lou has been actively engaged with various volunteer and civic organizations. She currently serves on the Advocacy and Communications Committees of the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society and is a Trustee for the Village of Johnsburg. In addition to balancing her personal life and professional career, Mary Lou is a social entrepreneur whose passion is deeply rooted in the belief that change is effectuated one person at a time. Recognizing the need for additional financial support for local worthy causes, Pistakee Bay Charitable Foundation was formed with a spirit of giving and building relationships with people who share her vision of community stewardship.
Marc Ulanowski
With a myriad of philanthropy experience, Marc Ulanowski brings to Pistakee Bay Charitable Foundation a wealth of social and professional networks. Marc has been involved with the Equestrian Aid Foundation for over ten years and was recently nominated to the Board of Governors. He has actively raised funds and hosted several functions for the Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse. He recently served on the committee for the La Rabida Children’s Hospital creating awareness and support for the Child Advocacy Center. As an entrepreneur for 20 years between Florida and Illinois, Marc is committed to bringing together a community focused on the power of the volunteer and the importance of charity.
Mark S. Wicks, M.D., Ph.D.
Mark S. Wicks, M.D., Ph.D. is the founder and lead entrepreneur of Dependicare which he helped grow from a startup to a successful Home Medical Equipment (HME) business with a Top 16 ranking in home care providers in Home Care Magazine’s Year 2000 issue. He also is a founding investor of The Service Center, which provides preventative maintenance for Respiratory and Home Medical Equipment, and America’s Sleep Network (www.asninc.com), developer of health care related software, where he serves on the Board of Directors.
Dr. Wicks attended LSU Medical Center and completed his Internship and Residency at Northwestern University. Specializing in Pulmonary Medicine, he completed his Fellowship at Hines VA Hospital in Maywood, IL. Dr. Wicks is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. Four times he has received “Tutor of the Year Award” at LaGrange Memorial Hospital where he was on staff. Dr. Wicks previously held the positions of Medical Director of the Respiratory Therapy Department, Chief of Medical Staff, Secretary/Treasurer of Medical Staff, and Vice President of Medical Staff, all at LaGrange Memorial Hospital. He is currently on the Physicians Advocacy Committee at Hinsdale Hospital. During his career Dr. Wicks researched and published “Use of Respiratory Magnetometer in Diagnosis & Classification of Sleep Apnea” and “Diaghramatic Function and Body Position in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease” along with numerous other publications. Dr. Wicks recently retired from Suburban Pulmonary and Sleep where he practiced since its beginning in 1978.
In January 2008, Dr. Wicks was selected for induction into the prestigious Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, by The University Of Illinois At Chicago. He was chosen from the many thousands of entrepreneurs in the Chicago area, by the university’s students, faculty, distinguished judges and world-class sponsors.
Dr. Joel Elkes
Dr. Joel Elkes is Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, the John Hopkins University, and Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, the University of Louisville. Between 1963 and 1975 he served as Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the John Hopkins University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
Educated in Lithuania and Switzerland, Dr. Joel Elkes came to England in 1931 and studied medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, London. Beginning in physical chemistry and pharmacology, he moved into psychiatry, and, in 1951, founded the Department of Experimental Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham (UK), the first of its kind in the world. The Department emphasized the continuity between basic laboratory research and clinical psychiatry. Since coming to the United States in 1957, he has built three major research centers for the Brain Sciences as they relate to mental illness. He has contributed significantly to the founding of the new science of Psychopharmacology, a science dealing with the play of chemical influences on mental life, and the place of drugs in the management and treatment of the mentally ill. He is a Founding Fellow and Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
From a young age, Dr Elkes has also fostered his craft in watercolor painting. The art of Joel Elkes has been acquired by major collectors of contemporary art. Past exhibits have included the Cosmos Club in Washington DC, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, and The Kalamazoo Institute of Fine Arts in Michigan.
Sally Ruth Lucke-Elkes 
After being blessed with a life in the historical Pistakee Bay area, Sally Ruth Lucke-Elkes greatly expanded her reach with experiences lecturing at Harvard Museum of Modern Art. She is a scholar at the National Gallery and personally created a school for the gifted and a High School of Visual & Performing Arts in Sarasota Florida. Lucke-Elkes is the Vice President of Hermitage at the Holocaust Museum and is presently founding a library on Holocaust Genealogy and reconciliation at New College where she also founded the Museum of Botany to the Arts. Sally Ruth Lucke-Elkes often returns to the Pistakee Bay area to relive old and loved memories with new acquaintances and dear friends.