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SPORTS

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SALUTE LUKE: Loyola Academy’s Luke Maurer races to a pair of gold medals at state swimming meet. P16

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NEWS

RED CARPET

STATE OF FLOW

A Winnetka artist reflects on her life and a recent show at Vivid Art Gallery

Lake Forest filmmaker Diane Quon gets “dressed” at an iconic Lake Forest boutique before heading out for recent Oscar Week festivities in Hollywood

BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Lake Forest filmmaker and producer Diane Quon is one of the North Shore’s hometown heroes. We’ve written about her Academy Award-nominated documentary, Minding the Gap, in The North Shore Weekend and our sister magazines.

However, the eyes of the world were upon her last week as she accompanied the film’s director, Bing Liu, to star-studded Oscar Week festivities in Hollywood.

Quon—a veteran Hollywood producer who took a break from the business to raise her family in Lake Forest—has been working as a producer with Liu and his Kartemquin Films for three years. Minding the Gap, a coming of age story of three skateboarders who bond across racial lines to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown of Rockford, was nomi-

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tices what she preaches.

The Argentinian native had been living in Chile for just over a decade working in the As a life coach, Sofia Ansaldo encourages pharmaceutical industry as a marketing people to unlock new possibilities by chang- manager. But a company restructuring inspired ing the way they view the world. She prac- her to revisit her priorities. One of the items THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

on her bucket list was getting back to painting.

The Winnetka resident was the featured artist last month at Vivid Art Gallery. Her

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Why so serious?

Because Christopher Nolan fan Ambrose reel-y loves movies The Winnetka resident writes movie reviews and pieces about movies for New Trier’s student newspaper. During movies he takes notes in the dark, using THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND only his mind. He also takes the responsibility seriously, sprinkling factoids here and there and employGraham Ambrose was 3, maybe 4, when he joined ing a lively writing style to punctuate his copy. Readers his grandmother Catherine to see Ratatouille in a have told Ambrose, “It’s like you’re talking to me movie theater. He can’t remember a movie experience when I read your review.” Ambrose has read robotic before then. movie reviews. Each got a thumbs down from His most vivid memories of the day he watched Ambrose.

Dean Richards, the WGN movie critic and enthe animated flick about a rat that dreams of becoming a great chef in an industry that detests any hint tertainment reporter, gave Ambrose two thumbs up, way up, on July 8, 2017. Ambrose visited the radio of an association with rats?

“How great the landscape of France looked in the studio on that date, thinking he’d simply shadow an movie,” Ambrose, a sophomore at New Trier High employee and learn all about knobs and sounds and School, recalls. “And how much my grandma hates the station’s mixing board. Ambrose instead spent 10 rats. She was not happy, not happy at all, that my dad minutes talking movies with Richards—on the air.

[Brian] had asked her to take me to see Ratatouille.” The kid critic and the older critic have aired their Graham’s happiest place today is a seat in a movie cinematic insights, during the same radio segment, theater. A close second is in another seat, writing a six other times. review about the movie he had just seen.

“Very funny, affable,” Ambrose says of Richards.

Or talking about the movie he had just seen.

“I saw him at Ravinia one day; he saw me. We con“I was an average moviegoer for a long time,” says nected there, too.

“I send him my movie reviews all the time.” the 15-year-old. “It was, occasionally, a weekend activity for me. Not anymore. I’m more interested in An honor student and member of New Trier’s movies, dedicated to watching them. My first review debate team, Ambrose saw all eight 2018 Best Picture of a movie, I must have been a fifth-grader when I Academy Award nominations. Last weekend’s Oscars wrote it. But it wasn’t a ‘review’; it was more of a broadcast was the sixth he had stayed up to watch at recommendation, telling the readers, ‘Go see it’, and home.

“I’m glued to the TV, every year, on that night,” giving them reasons to see it.”

from the Imperial War Museum in England.

“It blew my mind away,” Ambrose says. “I now know what it must feel like to watch a war unfold. It was a classic ‘You are there’ documentary. It was great.

See it.”

Ambrose’s favorite movie director is Christopher Nolan. The ranges of actors Vincent D’Onofrio and Samuel L. Jackson rouse Ambrose.

Some factoids about Ambrose: his mother, Julie, is a Lake Bluff native and a French teacher at Washburne Middle School in Winnetka; one of his father’s good friends, three-war veteran and Distinguished Service Cross recipient Mark E. Mitchell, taught him how to jet ski atop a lake in Wisconsin; and his uncle Pat coaches varsity boys basketball at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.

Graham Ambrose would like nothing more than to net a career in film criticism. Radio? TV? Print?

All three.

“That’s my dream job, covering movies as a hybrid journalist,” Ambrose says.

Well on his way.

Ambrose is well on his way.

The evidence is there, prevalent already, packing each panel on his young life’s storyboard.

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New Trier High School sophomore Graham Ambrose. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGELA SCHLATER

says Ambrose, who has attended two film festivals, one in Chicago, the other in Traverse City, Michigan.

“I’ll stay up until midnight, or whenever it ends.

Academy Awards night is like New Year’s Eve to me.”

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NEWS LADY LUCK Continued from PG 1 nated in the Best Documentary Feature category at last Sunday’s 91st Academy Awards.

“If you’re going to spend years working on a film, and often not making much money, then you want to make films that make a difference,” she told The North Shore Weekend last year. Directed by first-time director Liu, the feature-length film had its premiere early last year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking.

“In the indie film world, screening at Sundance gives you unbelievable credibility and exposure.

We felt so lucky to be there,” Quon said. Since Sundance, Minding the Gap had been picked up as a Hulu Original, screened at more than 100 festivals in the United States and throughout the world, had a short theatrical run in major markets, and is scheduled to be broadcast on PBS in early 2019.

While the film ultimately did not bring home an Oscar for Quon, she got to enjoy the glamour and buzz of being in Hollywood for multiple Oscar Week festivities—including an intimate luncheon at the Beverly Hills home of Diane von Furstenberg to honor female nominees at the 91st Oscars.

Ellen Stirling, owner of the Lake Forest Shop, said she and her staff worked with Quon to build a wardrobe for the red carpet and beyond.

“She wore three different dresses from the Lake Forest Shop,” Stirling said. “Two were designed

by Lourdes Chavez, one of which is for the Oscars ceremony. The other two dresses are for events before the actual ceremony—another Lourdes Chaves and a dress by Frascara.”

Stirling says she was proud to be a part of this special week for Quon, and to see her walk the red carpet in style. “She was an absolute joy,” adds Stirling. “She is an extraordinary person in every way and all of us at the shop enjoyed working with STATE OF FLOW Continued from PG 1 “State of Flow” installation was a series of abstract works inspired by her brushes with nature. “I live two blocks from Lake Michigan,” she said. “I go there all the time, it’s an amazing place to appreciate nature, especially in the winter.”

For this collection, Ansaldo resolved to work outside of her comfort zone. This meant eschewing the color orange, her favorite, and one used prominently in previous work. The paintings she created for “State of Flow” evoke wintry landscapes through the use of grays and deep blues.

Ansaldo began drawing when she was very young. Her uncle bought her an easel when she was 5. She is drawn to abstract painting, she said, as a counter to her structured personality.

“This was the space I could challenge myself

Winnetkan Sofia Ansaldo was the featured artist at Vivid Art Gallery last month.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

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her.”

Looking ahead, Quon is taking on one of her and feel free,” she says. “I am a dancer as well, and sometimes I dance with a brush stroke.”

Abstract painting has a “My kid can do that” stigma, but Ansaldo rejects that with a challenge: “Try it while creating balance (in the painting), a good sense of light and color, contrast, texture and layers.”

Ansaldo became a life coach after she had an accident that required her to receive knee surgery.

During her physical therapy, she developed thrombosis and almost died. She had to learn to walk again.

But she noticed other patients did not want to put in the work and do their exercises.

“I’ve always been the one who was there for family and friends,” she says. “I asked myself whether I really enjoyed being a marketing manager, or did I want to put myself in the service of others? That is what I really like doing.”

And so, while still on crutches, she enrolled at the Newfield Network in Santiago de Chile where she received her certification.

Ansaldo sees an intersection between being a life coach and being an artist in the sense that there are challenges to overcome in life as there are within the canvas.

“Each brush stroke offers me a completely new perspective, a challenge to overcome, a situation to let go or to contemplate,” she adds. “There are a lot of questions and not a lot of answers.”

Find out more about Ansaldo’s work by visiting asabstractart.com or follow her on Instagram at @ sofansaldo.

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biggest challenges in her re-launched career. She has optioned the film rights to the New York Times bestselling book, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by author Jamie Ford. It’s another coming of age story—this time about innocent young love told against the backdrop of World War II and the domestic internment of Japan e s e Americans.

“The book is such a wonder ful reminder that no matter what background we come f rom, we share so many more similarities than differences. I want people to come out of the film appreciating a great, universal story—a stor y that anyone who has fallen in love will enjoy,” Quon said. “I know making this film is not going to be easy, and it may not even happen, but at least I’ll know I had tried.”

Minding The Gap director Bing Liu stands next to Lake Forest filmmaker and producer Diane Quon.

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 STRUMMING ALONG: Women in the Know members.

LADY LUCK

Women in the Know nonprofit hosts benefit on International Women’s Day The kid critic held his own in a conversation about movies with an established adult critic.

It happened during a WGN Radio show on a Sunday morning two summers ago. Graham Ambrose, in studio with his family in 2017, was about to enter New Trier High School as a freshman. WGN’s Dean Richards invited Ambrose to share his takes on flicks. The segment lasted 10 minutes. “I eat, sleep and breathe movies,” Ambrose confessed to Richards.

A honor student and a debate team member at NTHS, Ambrose (now a sophomore) writes movie reviews and other cinema-centric pieces for the school newspaper. The kid has keen insights, strong opinions—musts for any burgeoning critic.

For his sensational efforts, Ambrose will receive a special gift from

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The two organizations that benefit from the “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” aim to make an impact for those suffering hardship. Bridge to Success is the only workforce development bridge organization of its kind serving both at-risk men, women, and young adults citywide in the Chicago metropolitan area. Guitars over Guns offers students from disadvantaged backgrounds a powerful combination of music education, and mentorship with professional musicians to help them find their voice and reach their potential as tomorrow’s leaders.

Bridge to Success Board Member Susan Plumer says she is honored that Women in the Know selected Bridge to Success as its “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” beneficiary. “I have been involved with Women in the Know since its inception and am a big believer in their mission to create a forum for women to discuss timely topics and world events,” says Plumer. “Amie Marks has an amazing vision and strong compassion for what she does. By gathering strong women that want to make a difference, she has created a platform that is unstoppable.”

Women in the Know has grown from its original mission to give women a voice in today’s timely topics to a larger mission of also creating a platform to facilitate women becoming more engaged and active members of their communities. “The women wanted to turn their words and discussions into action to help in-need or at-risk women and children,” says Marks. “Our second annual benefit is one way we are accomplishing that desire, and I couldn’t be prouder of what we are able to do.”

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A nonprofit with a mission to raise awareness and funds for making a difference in the lives of women and children will host its second benefit on March 8, just in time for International Women’s Day. The Women in the Know organization will present “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” at the Lake Forest Club to benefit Bridge to Success and Guitars and Guns.

This chic yet casual evening of food, fun, and fundraising will bring some 250 attendees to the Lake Forest Club to try their luck at a variety of entertaining games and bag raffles including the Treasure Chest Key Challenge, Wine Cork Pull, Heads or Tails, Golden Ticket Game, Mystery Handbag Game, and Spin-the-Wheel.

“Hosting this event on International Women’s Day is just icing on the cake. A day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women is the perfect day to highlight how and why we, as women, can—and do—change the world, one cause, one organization, one family, or one child, at a time,” says Amie Marks, wealth investment manager at Raymond James who founded Women in the Know in 2012. “The event beneficiaries are two organizations who we feel are best using resources to serve and support women and children in Chicagoland, and are full of dedicated individuals, strong visions, and proven processes, and we are excited to do our part to help.”

Women in the Know was founded to provide a forum for women to discuss timely topics and world events in an educational atmosphere. Forum participants were so engaged they wanted to make “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Lake an impact, spearheading the group as a nonprofit dedicated to Forest Club. For more information about tickets or the organization, making positive changes in people’s lives both locally and interna- call 708-524-9374.

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The Maurer the merrier Feb Four Loyola Academy junior brings joy to Ramblers Nation with his two gold-medal swims at state meet

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The gosh-golly geniality in Luke Maurer is genuine, disarming, pleasing. It’s a side the modest-to-the-marrow Loyola Academy junior trotted out last weekend at the boys swimming and diving state meet at New Trier High School, belying— strikingly—his white-hot competitiveness and the imposing dimensions (6-foot-7, 210 pounds)

“All he [Luke Maurer] cares about is being a Rambler.

He’s a Rambler first.”

MAURER POWER: Loyola Academy junior Luke Maurer sped to a pair of titles (200- and 100-yard freestyle) at last weekend’s boys swimming and diving state meet at New Trier HS. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

of his quintessential swimmer’s build.

Towering above a handful of 5-foot-something, sore-necked journalists following his second state championship (100-yard freestyle, after having topped the field in the 200 free five events earlier) on February 23, Maurer had to field questions, too many, about … Maurer. Not exactly his favorite subject. The giant with the teensy ego responded to a query about training concurrently this winter for the 100 free and 200 free events by saying, “It meshed well for me.”

He paused.

He widened his smile, slightly.

Maurer then concluded, “I guess it worked out pretty well.”

It certainly did. Seeded first in the 200 free A-Final—thanks to his blistering 1:36.45 in a state preliminary heat on February 22—Maurer clocked a 1:37.33, comfortably ahead of Fenwick senior Liam Hutchinson’s runner-up time of 1:38.16. The clear favorite in the 100 free was three-time reigning 50 free state champ Topher Stensby, the Stevenson HS senior with a seed time of 44.31. Maurer stunned the Patriot, churning and zipping to a first–place 44.33 to Stensby’s second-place 44.71.

Maurer’s 100-200 freestyle double at state matched that of his father, Erik Maurer (Loyola Academy, ’89), who bowed for first-place state medals in the 100 and 200 free twice (’87 and ’89).

“When Luke did what he did in the 100, our section [of bleachers on deck] erupted,” Ramblers coach Mike Hengelmann said after the meet. “His 44.3 … I still have goosebumps. He’s such a happy

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kid. It’s fun, watching him swim, watching him race. He swims for the team. Does everything for the team.

“Luke,” the coach added, “doesn’t care about school records, doesn’t care about any kind of individual honor. All he cares about is being a Rambler. He’s a Rambler first.”

Rambler Maurer, of Wilmette, owns the program records in the 100, 200 and 50 free events, the 50 free mark coming as the lead-off leg for LA’s 200 free relay at a sectional meet last month.

Guess who had held the previous school records in the 100 and 200?

Erik Maurer.

“My dad and I, it’s a friendly rivalry, with the occasional fun trash-talking thrown in there,” said Luke, whose mother, Lea, captured a gold medal as a member of the U.S. women’s 400-meter medley relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. “Both my parents have spent so much time in the sport. Both have helped me grow as an athlete and as a person.”

Ramblers’ arms grew this winter. LA’s swimmers lifted, lifted and lifted some more in the weight room, drenching the T-shirts they often wore, the ones with THE ARM FARM printed across the back.

“Nobody on our team shouted ‘arm farm’ louder than Luke did; he’s our farm’s most valuable swimmer, has to be,” said Ramblers junior Everet Andrew, who, as a No. 15 seed, silvered at state in the 500 freestyle in a school-record time of 4:31.17—a time that supplanted an LA mark that had stood since 1978.

“Great captain, great friend, great leader,” he

added. “Luke is all of those. Those two golds he took today? I saw them coming from a mile away.”

Maurer and Andrew swam on both of LA’s 12th-place relays at state last weekend. The two combined with senior Benjamin Dukes and freshman Lachlin Andrew for a 1:26.54 in the 200 free and collaborated with Dukes and freshman Demetrios Zemenides for a 3:09.29 in the 400 free.

Team LA also placed 12th (49 points).

New Trier HS: It’s always a good thing, if you’re a competitor, to leave the boys swimming and diving state meet a little heavier than when you arrived.

Trevians junior Pearce Bailey did just that, collecting three medals in the home natatorium February 23. The understated sprinter touched sixth in the 50 free (21.11), finished 12th in the 100 free (47.04) and swam the second leg on NT’s 10th-place 200 free relay (1:25.95, with classmate Marc Hagist and seniors Topher Shepherd and Nick Torre).

Highland Park HS: The long and short of Giants senior Andrew Vorobev’s final weekend as a prep swimmer?

He was a little long (costing him precious time) near the wall on his second turn in a 100 backstroke preliminary heat at the state meet last weekend, but he shortened the time it took him to complete the distance in a B-Final heat the next day.

Vorobev placed eighth in the 100 back in 50.42—significantly faster than his prelim effort of 51.55.

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LFHS girls hoopsters rock, roll to four playoff wins in month An Associated Press panel of Illinois sportswriters ranks high school girls basketball teams throughout each season. It publishes the top-10 vote getters each time, plus others receiving votes.

Where was Lake Forest High School in the latest rankings?

Nowhere.

Not even in the “others” group.

“The North Suburban Conference [NSC] gets overlooked,” said LFHS coach Kyle Wilhelm, who had eight reasons to smile after a victory in the Class 4A Libertyville Sectional final on February 21.

“Maybe it’s because we’re too close to the IllinoisWisconsin border.”

Those eight reasons for Wilhelm’s look of satisfaction? His Scouts had just defeated state-ranked Fremd’s Vikings 49-43, meaning NSC member LFHS and only seven other schools remained alive in the 4A state playoffs. The sectional championship was the first—girls or boys—in school history, and the 27th win represented a program record for victories in a season.

“We’re in the Elite Eight … crazy,” Wilhelm, still sporting a seemingly permanent smile, said. “I’ll take history.”

He’ll take Ellie Pearson’s fearless three-point shooting, too. The 6-foot-1 senior forward connected twice from long range, with her second trey giving second-seeded LFHS a 27-25 lead at 1:16 of the third quarter. Top-seeded Fremd (29-5) would fall behind 40-28 midway through the final frame.

Pearson’s clutch shot, launched near her team’s bench, lifted a squad that had faced a 13-5 deficit in the second minute of the second quarter.

“My ALL IN club coach [Kahleaf Russell] encouraged me to work on my three-point shot in the offseason,” said Pearson, a Johns Hopkins University recruit who will likely shift from power forward to small forward at the college level.

Pearson finished with nine points and three rebounds. Scouts junior point guard Halle Douglass shrugged off a scoreless first quarter and scored 18 points, including 11 (in 12 attempts). The program’s all-time leader in career assists also dished five assists against the Vikings.

LFHS sophomore guard Molly Fisher (nine points, five steals) hit two of three trey attempts.

Wilhelm also received significant efforts from senior forward Grace Tirzmalis (six points, six rebounds) and sophomore guard Finola Summerville (five points, five rebounds).

“We’ve become a more well-rounded team lately,” the coach said after his club improved to 27-7. “And our defense was unbelievable, relentless … suffocating.

“I knew we had this in us. The girls have been playing with so much confidence, the last month in particular. They believe. They believe they belong in the conversation.”

Run ends: LFHS lost 53-34 to Maine West in the Class 4A supersectional at Palatine HS on February 25.

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Beaming NTHS gymnasts take second at state, produce smiles galore

BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

A gymnast’s routine on the balance beam usually lasts 90 seconds.

People typically spend more time than that brushing their teeth in the morning.

New Trier High School senior gymnast Zoey Spangler competed for the Trevians on the beam— her only event—at last weekend’s girls gymnastics state meet at Palatine High School. The 5-foot, four-year varsity athlete did not come up big in her scant 90 seconds in the spotlight.

“What she did for us was huge … huge,” NT coach Jen Pistorius said of Spangler’s 9.4 routine in the meet’s preliminary session on February 15.

“I learned a lot as a gymnast, learned a lot about myself,” Spangler said. “Bad routine? All you can do after one, all you should do, is keep going, remain positive and stay focused on what’s in front of you.”

Notable: The 2018-19 girls gymnastics season was Pistorius’ 28th at New Trier, 23rd as the program’s head coach. Six of her last eight teams finished in the top eight at state. Last year’s team and her 2013 unit placed fourth. The Trevians’ 8-1 dual record this winter upped Pistorius’ overall record to 135-30-1 (.831).

Lake Forest HS: Scouts sophomore Kristin Fisch, sporting an ankle brace around her right ankle, tied for ninth place (8.75) on beam and placed 10th on vault (8.85) after tying for 23rd place in the all-around (35.975) at last month’s girls gymnastics state meet.

LFHS freshman Taylor Cekay—the reigning Stevenson Sectional champion on the balance beam—finished in a tie for 32nd place (8.325) on beam.

“I was excited to make it to state, and I was excited for how well Kristin did,” Cekay said. “She inspired me. Before the meet she told me to stay calm and be confident. Kristin also told me, ‘Remember, you’re here because you deserve to be here.’ ”

“Zoey [Spangler] was so, so, so solid.”

“Zoey’s my beam queen.”

Spangler, a quad-captain, had entered the meet only as a member of a state-qualifying team, her mid-8 score on beam at a sectional falling short of at-large status for state advancement as an individual.

New Trier’s first event in the prelims was beam.

Its first two performers fell. One hundred eighty seconds, two hiccups. Spangler was next. Another fall would have deflated the team some more.

“I was just trying to help the team,” the humble Spangler, revealing her mindset for the pivotal gig, said a day later.

She nailed the routine. Her teammates and coaches and the NT fans in the stands erupted post-dismount, most of them expressing joy, the others relief. What a way to walk away from a gymnastics career.

Spangler might still be sore, today, from the bear hugs she received afterward.

“Zoey was so, so, so solid,” New Trier junior Maeve Murdock, a beam finalist last weekend, said. “She overcame so many mental challenges on beam. Love her. I’m proud of her.

“We’re all proud of her.”

Lifted by a specialist early, Team New Trier relied on its talent and depth from there, totaling 147.325 points after the four events. That ranked second to reigning state champion Glenbard West’s 148.85. Pistorius’ crew then withstood challenges from Maine South (147.25, third place) and Glenbrook South (147, fourth) in the state finals session on February 16. NT ended up with 147.525 points—thanks to junior Avery Faulkner’s seventhplace 9.45 floor-exercise score; the two-tenths-ofa-point improvement from her prelim mark in the event got added to the team total.

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A ‘DAR’-GOOD MEET: New Trier senior gymnast Darcy Barkal placed eighth on vault and on the uneven bars at the girls gymnastics state meet in Palatine last weekend. The Trevians finished second, matching the program-best state finish set by the school’s 1992 squad.

New Trier’s runner-up showing matched the school’s 1992 showing for the best state finish in program history.

Trevians senior Darcy Barkal, a quad-captain and NT’s only other senior on its state team, advanced to the state finals session in two events, vault and uneven bars, and finished eighth in each (9.5 on vault, 9.325 on bars). She shook off a tender left knee, a year after being forced to scratch as a vault finalist at state because of a severely injured ankle.

“I did not expect to make it to finals on bars,” admitted Barkal, who bounced back impressively after falling in her first two events (beam and floor) in the prelim session. “My teammates gave me a pep talk during a break [before the team’s third event, vault], reminding me that my strongest events were coming up, that everything would be fine. They were great. They were supportive.

“All season long,” she added, “our team had constant energy and was constantly cheering.”

Murdock—the beam state co-champion as a freshman, in 2017, with Pistorius’ daughter Caleigh (then a Maine South sophomore)—finished seventh (9.15) on beam last weekend.

“We knew we could do it,” Murdock said of at least tying that NT team’s lofty state finish in ’92.

“There’s a banner in the gym where we practice, and we look at it all the time. It tells us, reminds us, how well that 1992 team did. I’m so proud of this team, of our captains (Barkal, Spangler and seniors Erin Murdoch and Ari Solot).”

New Trier’s other state competitors last weekend were junior Rachel Zun (vault, bars, beam and floor); sophomore Amelia Montgomery (bars); and freshman Maria Morabito (vault, beam, floor).

Barkal tied for 23rd place in the all-around (35.975), and Faulkner just missed advancing to the finals session on bars (11th place, 9.4, ahead of Zun’s 12th-place 9.375).

Spangler’s 9.4 beam score would have been high enough, easily, for a finals spot had she advanced to state from the Stevenson Sectional as an individual qualifier. But she’ll have to settle for performing one of her elite team’s most memorable routines at her final gymnastics meet.

Not a bad consolation prize.

Ten years from now, also 20 years, at a NTHS reunion, someone will say, Remember Zoey’s beam routine, senior year at state?

STAR-SPANGLER MANNER: New Trier senior gymnast Zoey Spangler, seen here at last year’s state meet, executed a splendid 9.4 balance-beam routine at last weekend’s state meet in Palatine.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

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S U N D AY B R E A K FA S T

Performing arts a SNAP for Fox

BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

A 7-year-old Pamela Fox sifts through albums left behind by Grandma Ida, who had moved to California. She sits in the basement at her home in Cincinnati, checking out a Chubby Checker LP, an Elvis Presley 78 RPM record. She comes across a Glenn Miller Orchestra album, removes it from its cover, pops up to connect it to the family stereo.

Needle hits “A String of Pearls” track.

Seconds later, Pamela’s heart beats faster, triggering an onslaught of tingles. Even her tingles have tingles. The music is that powerful.

“Pow! … I loved the sound, immediately,” recalls Fox, all grown up now, 45 years old, and the owner/director of Studio North Academy of the Per forming Ar ts (SNAP) in Wilmette.

“It felt like an explosion as I listened to that kind of music for the first time. I thought, ‘This is my music, my kind of music.’ I wanted to dance to it.

“I listened to ‘A String of Pearls’, over and over, on that day. An hour straight.”

Pamela later discovered the classical music station on the radio at home. The middleschool student would listen to it in the morning on school days. Raptly. I’ll have a bowl of Cheerios, with a side of orchestra. She did not miss the school bus once.

She missed it three times.

“Three times, at least,” a grinning Fox, sitting at a Hotcakes table in Wilmette, says, her order of blueberry pancakes on its way. “Never made it out the door. I couldn’t tear myself away from the classical music on the radio. Big band music, music from the 1930s and 1940s, touched my soul. It still touches my soul. I’m also a huge Mozart fan.”

Fox was an avid singer and dancer who did “a ton of theater” at Sycamore High School in Cincinnati. Artsy cubed. She portrayed a lost boy in Peter Pan and landed the lead role in the musical Into

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the Woods. She attended the University of Kentucky for a couple of years before transferring to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her first job in the arts, post-Conservatory years, was performing the lead role in Pinocchio, no lie, for a Mobile, Alabama-based theater company.

Fox owned Chicago’s first cabaret-during-the-day, pacy productions, joining music partner Cyndi Stevens and performing shows for senior citizens at park districts and senior centers and other venues. Field trips to restaurants and theater productions in the city thrilled the seniors—and pacy (short for Pamela and Cyndi). The pair accompanied as many as 80 golden agers on the memorable excursions.

“I love seniors,” Fox says, adding the unique venture lasted about four years. “I felt very sad that many weren’t able to spend time together with their friends, eating out and enjoying the arts. They had so much fun; we had so much fun. Pacy wasn’t sustainable, unfortunately.”

Founded in 2011 and located at 414 Linden Avenue in Wilmette, with an enrollment close to 450, SNAP offers music lessons and dance and acting classes. Students are as young as 2 and as seasoned as 60.

SNAP’s staff of 11 believes that a quality performing arts education prepares students for lifelong enjoyment, appreciation and continuation of the arts. The healthy characteristics it instills? Poise and confidence and readiness, to name a few.

“We emphasize discipline in our approach,” says Fox, who typically teaches 22 dance classes and six voice lessons per week— when she isn’t devoting her time to eight hours of rehearsals each week. “We have a dress code, yes.

But we’re not harsh in class; everybody has fun. We encourage our students. We’re positive at all

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Big band music, music from the 1930s and 1940s, touched my soul. It still touches my soul.

times.

“I try to be funny when I teach,” adds the soprano, a Rogers Park resident since 2009 and an educator of North Shore dancers and singers for nearly 20 years. “The young kids think I’m funny, the teens … not so much.”

SNAP’s fourth annual “Progressions” this weekend (March 3) is a dance festival with a twist.

It does not stage ballet slipper-ripping competitions between dance schools. It brings together area dance troupes—SNAP, New Trier, Joel Hall Youth Company and Millennium Dance—and celebrates the art of dance. The first performance begins at 5 p.m. at Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette.

“The festival is a highlight of the year for the community,” says Fox. “Every dancer is appreciated and honored equally.”

Fox’s first dance/voice coach was a semi-pro dancer/singer who charged nothing for lessons in the Fox family’s basement studio. Fox’s first dance/ voice coach was her mother, Boots, now 76 and a budding painter. Pamela’s late grandfather was a vaudeville performer and Paramount Pictures executive. An uncle worked as a sound engineer.

Fox’s most influential theater teacher in high school was Leslie Knotts. “Tough, in a good way,” Fox recalls. Choir director Brenda Huffines also inspired a young Pamela Fox. “I want to get back to more singing this year, more singing at private parties,” says Fox, a Roller Derby fan and an NPR listener at home. “Singing excites me. So does dancing or anything that has to do with the performing arts. I’m like Judy Garland—‘Let’s put on a show!’ A performance I’ll never forget was [the late] Marin Mazzie’s in Ragtime on Broadway, 1997. When she sang ‘Back to Before’, that feeling I got, sitting there and hearing her and watching her, moved me considerably. She was so invested during that song.”

Fox had lost an earring before the start of our interview. It did not seem to bother her too much.

Maybe that was because she still owned something more valuable than that. Something priceless.

Her ability—her blessed ability—to hear music.

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JUST LISTED! 963 ELM TREE ROAD, LAKE FOREST

461 SADDLE RUN , LAKE FOREST

420 FARRINGTON DRIVE, LINCOLNSHIRE

$2,200,000 • 963ElmTree.info

$1,399,000 • 461SaddleRun.info

$1,199,000 • 420Farrington.info

560 TURICUM ROAD, LAKE FOREST

923 TIMBER LANE, LAKE FOREST

531 SCRANTON AVENUE, LAKE BLUFF

$915,000 • 560Turicum.info

$895,000 • 923Timber.info

$799,000 • 531Scranton.info

NEW PRICE!

1041 OLMSTED DRIVE, LAKE FOREST $1,595,000 | 1041Olmstead.info

JUST LISTED!

OPEN SUNDAY! 2:15 - 4 PM

871 WOODSTREAM COURT, LAKE FOREST

OPEN SUNDAY! 2 - 4 PM

330 ROBINSON DRIVE, LAKE FOREST

202 OLD ELM ROAD, LAKE FOREST

195 MARGATE COURT, LAKE BLUFF

$775,000 • 330Robinson.info

$765,000 • 202OldElm.info

$764,900 • 195Margate.info

$1,399,000 | 871Woodstream.info

OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM

VISIT GGLOPENS.COM FOR ALL OPEN HOUSES THIS WEEK!

YOUR LOCAL MARKET EXPERTS NEW PRICE!

330 BELLE FORET DRIVE, LAKE BLUFF $1,149,000 | 330BelleForet.info

JUST LISTED!

788 STABLES COURT, HIGHWOOD

533 MAYFLOWER ROAD #B, LAKE FOREST

693 BRISTOL COURT, LAKE FOREST

$675,000 • 788Stables.info

$675,000 • 533Mayflower.info

$659,900 • 693Bristol.info

NEW PRICE!

892 OAKWOOD AVENUE, LAKE FOREST $665,000 | 892Oakwood.info

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336 CRESCENT DRIVE, LAKE BLUFF

1455 LAWRENCE AVENUE, LAKE FOREST

1083 GRIFFITH ROAD, LAKE FOREST

$639,000 • 336Crescent.info

$620,000 • 1455LawrenceAvenue.info

$610,000 • 1083Griffith.info

LAKE FOREST: 847.234.0485 | LAKE BLUFF: 847.234.0816 280 E. Deerpath Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 8 E. Scranton Avenue, Lake Bluff, Illinois 60044

THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

SATURDAY MARCH 2 | SUNDAY MARCH 3 2019 |

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Source: MRED $1 million+ sales, Chicago and North Shore, 1-1-2018 to 12-27-2018.

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