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A group gathers in a corner conference room to discuss the challenges of how to bring its business idea MeltWell, a throat lozenge in the form of a thin strip that dissolves on the tongue, to market. This small group is facing issues common to entrepreneurs looking to create the next big trend, such as developing a prototype and raising capital. But in one way this group is different than most found in business incubators like Chicago’s 1871 — each member is a junior at Lake Forest High School. The students are enrolled in the school’s business incubator class, which was first piloted four years ago through a partnership between the school and Lake Forest High School Foundation. The yearlong class aims to teach students entrepreneurial skills through the development of a business that is pitched, Shark Tank-style, at a pitch night at yearend. “This class is the most like the real world, where they are getting skills they will use in their business career,” Michelle Gramza, business incubator co-chair for Lake Forest High School Foundation, told DailyNorthShore. The class has turned out to be wildly popular Continued on PG 10

MODERN ENGLISH North Shore Anglophiles Fete Royal Wedding BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

There was hope for those not fortunate enough to snag an invite to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding last weekend at Windsor Castle. Enthusiastic North Shore residents found creative, fun-loving ways to celebrate the big day with viewing parties in their homes, local pubs, country clubs and downtown hotels. And watch they did, from sea to shining sea: When the royal wedding kicked off at 12 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time – 7 a.m. Central Time, 29.2 million people in the U.S. tuned in, according to Nielsen – which, Vanity Fair pointed out, is about 6 million more than Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011. British expat Luke Mutter, who moved to Lake Forest in 2011 with his wife and three children, woke up early Saturday morning, May 19, to watch the royal wedding alongside his ginger-haired dog, aptly named “Harry.” “If I can get up to watch live rugby, I think I can get up for this,” said Mutter prior to the Big Day. Mutter, a realtor with Koenig Rubloff, has been celebrating Prince Harry and Meghan’s engagement at his open houses, where he brings cardboard cutouts of the royal couple to greet prospective homebuyers, who often pose for selfies.

Mary Tilson of Winnetka poses with likenesses of Prince Harry and his betrothed, Meghan Markle.

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11 yiddish is trending

A pop-up program explores Yiddish through literature, music and film.

12 redford returns

The Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods is honoring Robert Redford and his wife for their environmental leadership.

LIFESTYLE & ARTS 16 north shore foodie

Ravinia Festival’s new Dining Pavilion will debut with the summer season.

17 social scene

Ragdale supporters enjoyed a weekend of meals and meet-ups with prominent authors and artists.

REAL ESTATE 18 open houses

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SPORTS 22 finishing strong

Sparked by Lauren Voss, Loyola Academy takes fourth at girls water polo state tournament.

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disappointment, but also how they learned that not among students, with more than 90 students everything comes easily, and registered for the class next year. “It just speaks to discovered their ability to the reputation of the class. These students take work through obstacles. these skills with them forever,” Nikki Rhomberg, Ultimately, the team came business incubator vice chair for Lake Forest High up with a business plan for School Foundation, said. a device that will identify if The classroom itself is styled after a flexible a food contains gluten, for workplace concept that is popular among start-ups, people suffering from celiac Joe Pulio, who has taught the class from its disease or gluten sensitivities. inception, explained. There is space for presentations, As the year comes to a as well as comfortable chairs and couches that can close, students are working be moved around — perfect for a breakout session. toward an academic pitch By the door sits a wall of cubbies, where students night, where the top teams immediately drop their backpacks and “go to work,” are chosen to proceed to the Pulio said. final pitch night. Students From the outset, students learn about teamwork, are also actively seeking when they are divided into teams based on skill private investors to attend sets at the beginning of the school year. Each team the pitch night, upping their must identify a problem and come up with a chances to win a sizable sum business idea to solve it, going through all of the to start their business. steps required to establish a viable business. “It is Students can also enroll really mirroring business,” Pulio said. in a continuum of the class Mentors from the community guide the students their senior year, where they throughout the year, providing knowledgeable work to get their business feedback. ideas up and running, or are “As a community we are all educating these kids hired to work for a business together. It’s the power of everyone,” Pulio said. if their idea wasn’t selected One team initially came up with 100 different at pitch night. From left: Sean Ramsey, Brooke Faller, Lily Fitzgerald and Ainslie White work on a MeltWell, a business making cough drops problems. The team ultimately narrowed it down Pulio, who has taught in using thin film technology. All are students in Lake Forest High School’s Incubator class. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER to a nonprofit called Battle Buddies that connects the high school’s business students with young people battling cancer, which comfort zone a lot,” Jacqueline Schlosser said. But challenges that inevitably arise when starting a department for 25 years, finds the innovative they hope to market at a local corporate fair that ultimately, many students spoke of how much they business. One team discovered mid-year that their approach exciting. “You have to take it a day at a a student’s father helped facilitate. learned working through problems as a team. “I’ve initial idea was too costly — it would require time. You are learning with them,” he said. Some students found working in a team for an never been pushed this much in a class,” Ashley millions of dollars to license a patent — forcing entire year, with people they didn’t get to choose, Bufe said. Pitch night is open to the public and will be held at them to pivot and come up with a new idea. challenging. “It definitely puts you out of your Along the way, students learn from the myriad Members of the team spoke about their Lake Forest High School on June 1 at 7 p.m. MODERN ENGLISH Cont. from PG 1 “I’ve met so many Americans who love the royal family, and are huge fans of the wedding,” said Mutter. “My mum brought me the cut out in her suitcase when she last came over.” Many on the North Shore opted to wait till later to watch a taping of the royal procession. Winnetka resident Mary Tilson got into the royal spirit with an evening viewing party in her home, where British flags emblazoned with the royal couple’s faces decorated the walls, a two-tiered wedding cake and champagne was served, and guests dressed the part. “Hats are fabulous,” read Tilson’s invite. “I love a wedding,” said Tilson, who also hosted a royal wedding party seven years ago when Prince William and Kate Middleton married at Westminster Abbey. “If I had nothing to do on a Saturday night, I’d opt to go to a wedding and reception.” And just as Meghan and Harry asked for charitable donations in lieu of wedding gifts, so too did Tilson ask that her party guests consider a contribution to a Deerfield-based non-profit that’s near and dear to her family’s heart. After the Tilsons adopted their son, Thomas, known to family and friends as “T,” nearly 13 years ago through a private agency, they began supporting Gift of Adoption Fund, an organization whose mission is to fill the void that separates child from family – through adoption assistance grants that give vulnerable children a permanent home and the chance to thrive. Tilson’s husband, John, has served on both the charity’s Illinois and national board of trustees. “Gift of Adoption provides grants to families willing to adopt special needs kids and supports single parents and gay couples who want to adopt,”

said Tilson. “Other adoption organizations don’t do that.” As much as she loves a royal wedding, Tilson admitted it’s unlikely she’ll host viewing parties if Prince George, Princess Charlotte or Prince Louis wed in the distant future. “I expect my daughters to take up the reigns,” she joked. A more formal viewing party was held downtown at The Drake Hotel, where a special Royal Wedding Screening Party took place on Saturday in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Tickets included the exact luncheon menu served to Princess Diana during her visit to the hotel in 1996, when she spent a night in a room the Drake rechristened The Princess Diana Suite. Later that evening, The Drake hosted a Royal Wedding Reception Gala featuring a 17-piece orchestra and a three-course meal. Winnetka resident Caroline Betsill - who is British - joined a large group of “mums” from her daughter’s 2nd Grade class at Greeley School who purchased a table at The Drake’s viewing party. The friends made a pact to wear gloves, hats and wedding attire to the event. It was more than just curiosity and patriotism that prompted Betsill to watch William and Kate’s royal wedding in 2011. Betsill’s brother participated in the wedding’s royal procession as member of The Scots Guards, one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. “We were looking for him as we watched,” said Betsill. And what do local residents wish for the British monarchy’s newest royal couple? “They need to know that it doesn’t matter what other people think,” said Luke Mutter. “They just need to focus on themselves and be happy!”

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Vus Machs Da at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership? BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

Spertus Institute is hosting Yiddish Yesterday and Today, a pop-up program exploring Yiddish through history, literature, music and film. The program runs through June 13 at various locations in Skokie and Evanston. “Our goal is to reach lots of different folks within and beyond the community that Yiddish is an interesting topic, because there’s a traditional element and also a new-age contemporary feel to it,” said Dr. Dean P. Bell, Spertus Institute provost and vice president. “It’s something that speaks to a religious practice on the one hand and literature and culture on the other hand, so it has multiple dimensions to it.” Is Spertus Institute reviving what was once considered a dying language? “It’s sort of reviving itself and that’s one of the interesting things that we thought about,” said Bell. “You have an older demographic that spoke Yiddish in their daily life and was part of their religious practice, and you have a whole new group of people, particularly in large cosmopolitan cities in North America and Europe, who are engaging in the study of Yiddish and Yiddish culture not so much for those kind of personal or traditional reasons, but simply because they find it to be kind of hip and maybe have some interest in Klezmer and other aspects of Jewish culture.” Bell added that there’s a generation of younger people interested in Yiddish who may or may not be Jewish. Many today are learning the language

The cast of Shtisel, an Israeli television drama series that often includes Yiddish dialogue.

for the language’s sake, while some are also going back to traditional pieces of literature and theater. He said there’s an upsurge of people who are interested in Yiddish music and poetry who had no personal connection to it, yet they find it meaningful by being retro in some ways and contemporary in others. “Yiddish is having a renaissance in its own way and we’re trying to reflect that in the programmatic offerings,” he said. One of the goals of the Yiddish Yesterday and

from May 30 to June 13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Evanston. “We’re looking at Yiddish through the mini course post-Holocaust from the ‘50s and ‘60s and what happened to it in the ‘90s and early 2000s,” said Bell. “We’re using it as a bridge between traditional literature and Yiddish poetry.” For an example of Yiddish today, Shtisel is an Israeli television drama series that follows the storyline of a fictional ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jewish family living in the Geula neighborhood of presentday Jerusalem. The suspenseful series has won 11 Israeli Film Academy awards including Best Television Drama, and often incorporates engaging Yiddish dialogue. A screening and discussion of episodes 1 and 2 of Shtisel will be held on May 29 at 7 p.m. at Mayer Kaplan JCC in Skokie. There will be a post-show discussion after the presentation. A sing-along Fiddler on the Roof will be held on June 7 at 7 p.m. at the Skokie Theatre. “We’re trying to give people a sense of the range of offerings there are in the Yiddish theater these days, and we go from contemporary sing-a-longs from Fiddler on The Roof for people from a particular demographic to something that’s fresher and a little more contemporary,” said Bell.

Today program is to reach a cross section of the community. The pop-up program will host a three-part mini course, “Itzik’s Midrash: Bridging Past and Present through Modern Yiddish Literature,” presented by The Yiddish Yesterday and Today pop-up series is Dr. Karen Underhill, assistant professor of Polish presented by the Chicago Adult Jewish Learning and Yiddish literature and Polish Jewish studies at Initiative, a partnership of local Jewish organizations the University of Illinois at Chicago and a member spearheaded by Spertus Institute and JCC Chicago with of the Board of Directors of the YIVO Institute for funding from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Jewish Research. Chicago. To reserve space for Yiddish Yesterday and The course will be held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Today, visit: spertus.edu/Yiddish.

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Brushwood Center Honors Two Extraordinary People BY ADRIENNE FAWCETT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

Heartthrob, actor, director, producer, catalogue merchant, environmentalist – Robert Redford is all these and so much more, and there’s another thing we can add to this list, at least for one day: Nearby. On June 1, Robert Redford and his wife, Sibylle Szaggars Redford, will be in Lake Forest and Riverwoods to accept an award for environmental leadership from the Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods. The same night, the couple also will present the Chicago-area premiere of The Way of The Rain – Voices of Hope, a multi-disciplinary performance that includes symphony, dance, choir, film, art and the spoken word. The performance is a collaboration of Artistic Director Szaggars Redford and Music Director and Composer Tim Janis. Tickets are available for the June 1 event, which has three main components: 1. The performance of The Way of The Rain – Voices of Hope will begin at 4 p.m. at the Gorton Community Center’s John and Nancy Hughes Theater, having been underwritten by Nancy Hughes. 2. The Smith Nature Symposium & Benefit will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Riverwoods, with a cocktail reception and opening exhibition of Rain Paintings by Szaggars Redford

Robert Redford and Sibylle Szaggars Redford.

3. And at 7 p.m., guests will sit down to the dinner program, moderated by Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra with the Redfords as honored guests. The Smith Nature Symposium & Benefit is a celebration of nature, the arts and luminaries who have made a meaningful contribution to the science of conservation and deepened our

understanding of the natural world. Catherine Game, executive director of Brushwood Center, said Redford and Szaggars Redford are an inspirational couple who use their voices and artistic talents to call attention to the importance of nature. “They are champions for nature by protecting land, speaking out on issues like climate change, and using the arts to inspire all of us,” added

A. Gail Sturm, Brushwood Center board member and chair of the planning committee. “They use their extraordinary talents to inspire, educate and reach people to evoke action to care for our earth, vital to life’s existence.” In addition to his work as an actor, director and producer, Robert Redford has been an environmental activist since the early 1970s. He has been an advocate for climate change awareness and clean energy for more than 40 years. In 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom f rom President Barack Obama. He has served as trustee for the Natural Resources Defense Council and is the co-founder of The Redford Center with his son Jamie. “Bylle & I are honored to receive this award at Brushwood Center, a place that, provokes thought and provides inspiration to protect our natural world,” said Redford. Szaggars Redford has worked as a multimedia environmental artist for more than three decades, raising awareness through her art of environmental unsound practices. Since 2012 Szaggars Redford has created art performances as homage to planet Earth and in 2015 founded The Way of the Rain, Inc., a nonprofit to promote public awareness about climate change. All funds raised from the Symposium directly benef it Brushwood Center’s nature-inspired art, wellness and education programs. To purchase tickets to the event, visit www.brushwoodcenter. org.

Book It: Professor Plum in the Library BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

While most people enjoy a visit to the library — how great would it be if the library came to visit you? That is what the Wilmette Public Library is proposing with its new book bicycle. “We love being a part of the Wilmette community, and the book bike is a wonderful tool to bring the library out to the community. And it is fun,” Jennifer Bartel, creative experiences coordinator for the library, told DailyNorthShore. Just recently the bicycle was officially named “Professor Plum,” after the library held a bikenaming contest. The library received more than 300 suggestions and over 250 people voted, Bartel said. The winner received a goody bag and a photo op on the bicycle. “The community has been really supportive so far,” Bartel said. Professor Plum is a bicycle with a large purple box on the front to house library materials. Bartel said a staff member would ride the bicycle to scheduled events throughout the village such as park story times, the Wilmette French Market and Summerfest. The bicycle’s box will be filled with books that are appropriate for each event. For example, some cookbooks might be chosen

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for the French Market or children’s picture books for the story times. An iPad will be used to checkout materials on the spot, and residents can also sign up for new library cards. That’s because the target audience is not only people who frequent the library, but also residents who may not be as familiar with what it has to offer, Bartel said. The book bicycle was a community building initiative of Heather McCammond-Watts, the library’s previous director, who recently stepped down, Bartel said. A task force of six staff members has been working to iron out the logistics and schedule for the bike. The calendar on the library’s website will post the various events that Professor Plum will be attending in the new few months. Since Bike to the Library Day was on May 19, Professor Plum was on hand, filled with goodies, Bartel said. Over time, she envisions the book bicycle will expand beyond the library, such as taking it to Wilmette schools. Staff members also plan to take the book bike out periodically for a ride through the village, weather permitting. So on the next beautiful day, you may want to keep you eye out for Professor Plum, who just might be cruising down one of Wilmette’s streets. “We are excited to see what the future holds for Professor Plum,” Bartel said. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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NORTH SHORE FOODIE

Options Abound At Ravinia’s New Dining Pavilion BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

When Ravinia Festival kicks off the 2018 season with Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys and Ozomatli on June 1, guests will have the opportunity to feast on a variety of epicurean delights at the renovated Dining Pavilion. Levy Restaurants (Spiaggia, River Roast, Wrigley Field and more) will run the new Dining Pavilion, which will be overseen by Executive Chef Michael Tsonton. “It’s a $10 million project and there’s still a lot of construction to be done before the June 1st opening, but we’re getting there,” said Tsonton. The Dining Pavilion has restaurants on two levels. The first floor will be divided into three areas: the Lawn Bar, the Festival Shop, and Ravinia Market. Tsonton said the Lawn Bar is a retro-American casual restaurant. “Lawn Bar is a really fun, open air space with an outdoor and indoor bar,” he said. The menu offers bar bites, such as house-made potato chips made with dill pickle seasoning and served with French onion dip, sandwiches such as a lobster roll and braised beef, as well as shared plates from chicken wings to Korean short rib skewers. The dishes have a Cali-Pan Asian, homey Deep South, or vegetarian influence. Lawn Bar’s mission is to provide quick service with all food and drinks. For diners who have a late start or are hungry for seconds, Tsonton added that Lawn Bar will be the first restaurant at Ravinia to remain open throughout the show during pop concerts. Tsonton described Ravinia Market (the concessions area) as being 40 percent larger this year. He said the Market took over the old gift shop, which now is in a new space. “The new Festival Shop is in between Lawn Bar and Ravinia Market, and the whole floor has opened up so you can flow right through it,” said Tsonton. “What’s cool about Lawn Bar and Ravinia Market is the design and approachability.” Ravinia Market will serve pre-packed sandwiches, salads, snacks and cold beverages, as well as five hot food stations. “All of this is set up so people will have more options,” said Tsonton. “People can eat at Ravinia Market, Lawn Bar or have a picnic on the lawn.” To make picnicking easier, diners needn’t carry tables and chairs from home, as these items can be rented from the Festival Shop. “The chair rental is a big part of how the Ravinia Women’s Board raises money for ... Ravinia’s REACH*TEACH*PLAY education programs,” he said. Tsonton described some of the offerings inside Ravinia Market’s hot food stations: • Smokehouse 1904, is a more traditional Texas barbecue featuring smoked baby back ribs, whole chickens and brisket. In addition, Smokehouse will offer chicken drumsticks that are smoked

and fried crispy. Diners may choose from three sauce options. • The new 847 Burger named for the North Shore area code, is 8.47 ounces of Angus beef topped with smoked brisket, melted cheddar, BBQ sauce and a fried pickle on a brioche bun. “We also built panini, pizza and taco stations, and creative salads are offered in eight- and 16ounce containers to augment your picnic,” he added. Tsonton said the difference between these and other food stations is that Ravinia Market, as well as all of the restaurants in the Dining Pavilion, cook food from scratch. The second floor will be divided into two restaurant spaces, the current Park View and the new Tree Top and Porch. Tsonton described Tree Top as a “re-imagined modern chef ’s table with a globally influenced menu.” There will be a large induction line where quests can view the chefs preparing dishes. “We’re opening with a country French menu. We’ll match menus with things that are influenced by the shows,” said Tsonton. “Last year, we did a big Spanish table when Gypsy Kings performed,” he said.

Above: Ravinia Food Pavilion guests gather around the bar in the Treetop Room. Right: Executive Chef Michael Tsonton at the Ravinia Food Pavillion. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

Park View has had the least amount of change. An over structure was built for both restaurants, so their patios are now covered for inclement weather. Tsonton said Park View has more traditional dining with a full course, sit-down dinner. Reservations are recommended for both Tree Top and Park View. “The big change for me as a chef is we’re really focused on cooking micro-seasonally throughout the whole park,” said Tsonton. “You’ll see asparagus in our operations until there’s no more asparagus coming from Michigan, which means the third week in June or first week in July.” Tsonton said he’ll cook with the items that his produce purveyor gets from the five Midwest states around us, because diners want to eat what’s growing now and have the freshest food possible.

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Tsonton is a Cleveland native who moved to Chicago about 20 years ago. He loves working at the oldest music festival in the country, and looks forward to making a grand entrance at Ravinia’s June 1 season opening on his 1999 Ducati 996. “Summer is really the best time, when chefs have all of the fun,” he added. For more information visit: ravinia.org/Page/ diningoptions THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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Ragdale welcomed a stellar line-up of celebrated authors and artists for a weekend of creativity and conversation starting on Friday, April 27 with Novel Affair’s School Day, part of a growing Ragdale in Schools program. On Saturday, April 28 more than 175 people attended a cocktail party and book signing hosted by Phoebe and Tad Turner at the elegant Shoreacres in Lake Bluff. Many continued on to intimate dinners with featured authors and artists in private homes. This year’s featured authors were: Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nickolas Butler, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Lan Samantha Chang, Jamie Ford, Min Jin Lee, Achy Obejas, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Megan Stielstra. They were joined by conceptual artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and design leaders Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams. More than $75,000 was raised to advance 200 artists’ residencies, 30 Ragdale in Schools fellowships, and more than 50 public programs. The 12th annual event was coordinated by Ragdale’s Events Committee, chaired by Jeanna Park and Rosemary O’Connell, and the Novel Affair Curatorial Committee. ragdale.org

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Happy Gilling Ebullient Highland Park High School junior brings joy to many with her pair of electric medal efforts at state track and field meet BY BILL MCLEAN SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

A genuinely happy teen with the delightful habit of giggling in mid-sentence no matter who happens to be around her, Taylor Gilling was all business when it was time to race at the Class 3A girls track and field state meet in Charleston last weekend. The Highland Park High School junior sped to runner-up honors in the 200-meter dash (school-record 24.37 seconds) and a fourth-place finish in the 100 (school-record 11.89) on Eastern Illinois University’s campus May 19. “So happy; Taylor is a such a happy person,” Giants track and field coach Sarah Palmberg said. “Her teammates and coaches laugh all the time at how often she laughs.” The feel-good story for HPHS last weekend — in addition to Gilling’s swift efforts, sophomore teammate Stephanie Kriss’ fourth-place

fourth) last weekend. Only one other, Jocelyn Hayes, had silvered (in the 100 hurdles, in 1984) in program history, and none has ever captured gold. “The plan at state for Taylor this year was, ‘Just do what you’ve been doing,’ ” Palmberg said. “We had talked, from the very beginning of the season, about what it would take to get to the finals. We talked strategy; she followed it. “Taylor,” the coach added, “has natural talent, but she works that talent to get everything out of it that she can. She competes with confidence, but she displays humility, too. You can’t ask for a better combination from an athlete than that.” Kriss bettered her 2017 state finish in the 800 by four spots last weekend. Eighth in the event (2:16.84) as a freshman last spring, Kriss clocked a 2:14.55 in a preliminary May 18 and then pared more than a second (2:13.36) off that time in the finals session the next day. “Stephanie got boxed in during her finals heat last year, leaving her without any options,” Palmberg said. “She learned from that. It was great to see her development as a runner, with the way she analyzed, and she analyzed things well this year.” Happy Gilling was happy for Kriss, too. “Stephanie practices and works so hard,” Gilling said. “So determined … amazing.” Before heading north for the ride home after the state meet, Gilling and Kriss stood arm in arm for a camera, held by a proud Palmberg. Each athlete sported a mile-wide smile for their coach. Gilling must have performed an impromptu giggle concert while posing with her teammate. “I’m going to remember that for a while,” Palmberg said. “The joy I saw on their faces was something else. “And that joy,” she added, “was well-deserved joy.”

“Nyjah came up to me and said, ‘Oh my, Taylor is powerful; I could feel her incredible power as she left the block.’ ”

showing in the 800 (2:13.36) and the Giants’ program-best 10th-place (20 points) state finish — was Gilling’s starting-block holder: Nyjah Lane. Lane, a 2014 HPHS graduate, dashed for the women’s track and field team at … EIU. The sprinter hustled to fourth in the 100 and helped HP’s 400 relay unit place eighth at the 3A state meet in 2013. And she sprinted to an eighth-place finish in the 100 in the 2014 state meet. “I saw her run when she was in high school,” recalled Gilling, about to begin her second year with TNT, a track and field academy in Mount Prospect. “I looked up to her. Her name was all over our school’s record board. That was a great surprise, Nyjah being there for me at the state meet. She gave me pep talks and helped me calm down before my races.” Former Giant Lane addressed the current Giants at a team dinner in Charleston, Gilling noted. One of her messages was, “Feeling nervous

TGIF—TAYLOR GILLING IS FAST: Highland Park High School’s Taylor Gilling, seen here at a sectional, earned two state medals at the state meet in Charleston. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

before a race can be a good thing.” Gilling listened to the message. Gilling couldn’t wait to hit the sky-blue track inside EIU’s O’Brien Stadium and explode past fellow state qualifiers. After one of Gilling’s races last weekend, Lane shared an impression of Gilling’s ability with Palmberg. “Nyjah came up to me,” Palmberg recounted, “and said, ‘Oh my, Taylor is powerful; I could feel

her incredible power as she left the block.’ ” A slight left-knee fracture, incurred at the end of Gilling’s 2017 indoor season, sapped her attempt to qualify for the outdoor state meet for a second straight year last year (Gilling made it to state in the 100 and 200 as a freshman but did not advance to the finals in either event). An individual girl qualifier from HPHS hadn’t scored as many points at a track and field state meet as Gilling did (8 points for second, 6 for

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Notable: Two other HPHS state entrants (400 and 800 relays) competed at the Class 3A girls track and field state meet in Charleston last weekend. Neither advanced to the finals session. Juniors Annelise Van Den Akker, Taylor Edelchik and Taylor Gilling (anchor) joined sophomore Ketura Liberius in the 400 (48.6 — 0.16 faster than the quartet’s time at the Niles West Sectional May 10); seniors Allison Antman and Riley Williams combined with Liberius and Gilling (anchor) for a 1:49.88 in the 800. … The school gave Highland Park High School’s girls track state qualifiers quite a send-off last weekend. “We were overwhelmed,” Giants coach Sarah Palmberg said. “Drums, cowbells, balloons, people cheering for us … special. It was special.” THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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Eye catching Loyola Academy — behind captain and serial winker Voss — matches program-best fourth-place finish at girls water polo state tournament BY BILL MCLEAN SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

All it took for Loyola Academy girls water polo coach Kim Przekota to feel reassured during her team’s challenging regular season and inspiring run to the Final Four was a wink from Ramblers offensive-defensive standout Lauren Voss. Voss, a senior, liked to deliver the quick eye gesture to her coach at the end of each timeout. “That was her way of telling me, ‘Hey, we’ve got this; we’re good,’ ” Przekota said of the LA tri-captain (with seniors Nicole Kielba and Sarah Pinkerton). Przekota’s crew enjoyed a considerably betterthan-good season, entering the postseason with 12 losses but finishing it with a fourth-place trophy at state last weekend. LA (20-14) lost 11-9 to Naperville North in the game for third place at Stevenson May 19, a day after downing a 29-4 Conant team 11-5 in a state quarterfinal at Stevenson. The fourth-place showing tied LA’s 2009 edition for the best state finish in program history. Ramblers assistant coach Nicole Pinelli played for that Rich Schici-coached squad. Voss scored a team-high 14 goals last weekend in Lincolnshire, including six in the tournament’s final quarterfinal. The Chicago resident and Santa Clara University recruit tossed in three tallies in a 17-9 semifinal loss to Fenwick and beat Naperville North’s goalie five times in her final prep game. “You can’t rattle her,” Przekota, a former defensive stalwart in water polo at Iona (New York) College, said after the semifinal May 19. “She doesn’t get overly excited, and she never gets down. Lauren plugs away, plugs away, plugs away. “Her style of play,” the coach added, “frustrates opponents and calms down her teammates.” Her wont to wink — in good times, in tough times — was but one example of the positivity she exuded throughout the 2018 season. Voss’ words also filled her audience with optimism. “Lauren was our driving force, the one who motivated us and kept us motivated, the one who always liked to shout, ‘Come on, let’s go!’ ” said Pinkerton, a Park Ridge resident, one of LA’s shut-down defenders and a threat to score a goal or two each game. “She gave great speeches in the locker room, even when they were on the fly.” Voss’ toughness and steadfast demeanor in a highly physical sport allowed her to draw gobs of kick-outs and the 20-second power play that comes with each exclusion foul. She also invariably impacted games at the other end of the pool. Voss scored her team’s first three goals in the third-place game against Naperville North (249-1) last weekend. The right-hander used her dominant arm to notch the first two and then used her left arm to loft a knuckleball changeup above the outstretched arms of Huskies goalie Grace Raquel for her third goal.

CAPPING A FINE SEASON: Flanked by Aidan Koconis-O’Malley (No. 3) and Nicole Kielba, Loyola Academy’s Lauren Voss is all smiles during a team huddle at the state water polo tournament. The Ramblers placed fourth. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

The dainty shot descended slowly behind Raquel and splashed quietly inches beyond the goal line, knotting the contest at 3-3 in the second quarter. Naperville North tallied three of the next four goals in the frame and secured a threegoal lead four times in the third quarter. A goal by LA junior Aidan Koconis-O’Malley narrowed North’s lead to 11-9 with 2:07 left in the final quarter. Neither team would score again. “Amazing,” Voss said of her team’s thrilling Final Four season. “None of us, at the beginning of the season, thought we’d be able to get this far. But, as the season progressed, we meshed more and more as a team and did a lot of things together, like watching the movie Miracle.” Przekota pointed to two regular-season results — a win and a loss — as pivotal, confidenceboosting junctures. LA beat rival New Trier 5-4 and lost 9-7 to perennial power Fenwick, the eventual state runner-up. “Beating New Trier, I remember that as the day we thought, Wow, we have a strong team,” the coach said. “Then, after we played Fenwick and lost by only two, we realized we can compete

with an elite team. “Our girls played with a lot of heart all season, and we had a really hard schedule. We took our lumps [five losses in a seven-game stretch against top-notch foes in April], but we got better and better. Our senior class … amazing. Nice girls, good girls.” Przekota tapped senior Shannon Kearney to be her designated sprint girl for the outer-lane swim-off at the start of each quarter. The runnerup in the 100-yard backstroke and 10th-place finisher in the 50 freestyle at the state swimming and diving meet last fall, Kearney had played in only 15 water polo games before last weekend’s state quarterfinal against Conant. “A month, only a month — that’s about how long Shannon has been a water polo player,” Przekota said of the North Carolina State-bound scholarship swimmer who scored two counterattack goals in a 9-7 defeat of Evanston April 24. “In big pools like Stevenson’s, Shannon’s speed is quite noticeable. She wanted to play the sport, give it a try, after spending all those months last year and this year as a serious competitor in high school and club swimming.

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“Shannon,” Przekota added, “never felt pressure in water polo, and that made her time with us such an enjoyable one for her.” LA’s team had to kill about three hours in between its semifinal loss and the third-place game. Kearney lives in Deerfield, about the distance of a dozen pool lengths from Lincolnshire. The team ate, napped and relaxed at Kearney’s house before facing Naperville North. “Taking fourth at state went beyond, way beyond, any of our imaginations,” Voss said. “And to end up as one of our program’s best teams made this weekend even more special. The memories I have from our two days at state will stick with me for a long time.” Notable: LA senior tri-captains Sarah Pinkerton and Nicole Kielba each had two goals in the state semifinal; Ramblers junior Aidan KoconisO’Malley took only three shots in the third-place game but scored twice; LA junior goalkeeper Mary Kate Lopez made a combined 29 saves in the three state games last weekend; and LA junior Grace Kern struck for a goal in the 11-5 state quarterfinal defeat of Conant. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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

Shakespeare fan in love — with art center’s impact BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

James Lynch taught acting to local nonactors at The Art Center-Highland Park (TAC) when the organization was known as the Suburban Fine Arts Center. One of his students was a woman, whose confidence grew with each session. “ You know what else improved?” Lynch s ay s a t a C o u n t r y K i t c h e n b o o t h i n Highland Park. “Her tennis game. Yes, her tennis game, all because of what learning to act did for her overall outlook. “ The arts should be fun, accessible,” adds the 61-year-old and 18-year resident of Highland Park. The executive director at TAC, since March? Lynch. Advantage, North Shore residents — and budding tennis players of all ages. TAC is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to education in the contemporar y visual a r t s t h ro u g h c l a s s e s , o u t re ac h programs, galler y exhibitions and e vents. A 70-year-old f rom Highland Park enrolls in a potter y class at TAC; a p a re n t f ro m W i n n e t k a registers her 8-year-old son for a painting c lass at TAC; a 20-something f rom Lake Forest wants to learn all about animation in another class at TAC. “ My pr imar y focus for 2018 is the idea of c o m m u n i t y, ” s a y s Lynch. “ The Art Center is the heart of Highland Park. W hen people ask me about The Art Center, I first br ing up the c lasses, the wonderful classes, and our passionate f ac u l t y m e m b e r s . M y second day on the job, as I ’m a b o u t t o l e a ve f o r home, I hear voices f rom a classroom. About 10 people were taking a ceramics class. One of them said to me, ‘Come in. ’ S o I did. I talked with the students. I got to see people recharging themselves through art. “I thought, ‘ W hat a great way to end a day of work.’ ” The 13th of Tom and Sally ’s 14 children, Lynch, who was born in New York City, attended St. Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, F lorida. He was a f reshman when future tennis great Chris Evert was a senior at the school, and he hung out with the surfing crowd. Lynch wanted to

James Lynch

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be a writer in his first year at the Universit y of Texas at Dallas, but he kept landing plum theater roles, including h i s ve r y fi r s t : R om e o i n Romeo and Juliet. Lynch also was the man in a one-man Hamlet run. “ I ’m a big S hakespeare guy, ” say s Ly nch, also an executive and entrepreneur coach, as well as the author of The Hamlet Secret: A SelfD i r e c te d ( S h a k e s pe a r e a n ) Wo r k b o o k f o r L i v i n g a Passionate, Joy-Filled Life (AuthorHouse, 2009). Ly n c h s p e n t 2 0 ye a r s acting in plays and directing plays. Audiences applauded his work in New York, Texas and Chicago. “I was Cyrano for a national tour,” recalls Lynch, w h o e a r n e d h i s M FA i n theatre at DePaul U n i v e r s i t y. “ S p o k e m y lines in French.” Lynch asked a Highland Park High School graduate named Riv to marr y him, and she said, “O ui.” Riv Lynch is director of admissions at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield. James and Riv have three c hildren: Hannah, 20, Liam, 18, and Uma, 15. A past twoyear chairman of the Cultural Arts CommissionCity of Highland Park, Lynch launched the H i g h l a n d Pa rk Cultural Arts Network (HPC AN), dedicated to mutual support for local cultural arts groups, f a c i l i t a t i n g partnerships and acting as a coordinator and conduit for arts information and resources. “I’m into forming partnerships with

businesses and other arts organizations,” says Lynch, who ordered coffee, oatmeal and a f ruit cup at Countr y Kitchen. “ The Art Center [born in 1960, as the Suburban Fi n e A r t s C e n t e r ] a n d o t h e r a r t s organizations in the area — we’re all in

I got to see people recharging themselves through art.

this together, generating ideas and sharing them, finding ways to best market ourselves. I called Ravinia Festival, one of the first phone calls I made [as TAC executive director]. I did so because I wanted to learn all about what the organization is doing. I mean, how lucky are we to have Ravinia in our community? “My goal is this: Make our art center the best art center.” TAC held its annual fundraising gala in ear ly May. The spot-on theme was “Art Awakening: Making Art Available to All.” A couple of TAC’s future exhibits include “Musicality : The Interplay Between Music and the V isual Arts” ( June 28-August 20) and “Food Glorious Food ” (also June 28August 20), with Jonathan P lotkin and Mar y Barnes-Gingrich scheduled to ser ve as guest jurors for the former and L os Angeles-based contemporary artist Amanda Oleander set to judge works for the latter. Lynch shares another anecdote about one of his non-actor students at the S ubur ban Fine Ar ts Center. This one featured a mother, the student, and her daughter. “ The mom acted out a scene at the c e n t e r, w i t h h e r d a u g h t e r w a t c h i n g a l o n g s i d e o t h e r s , ” Ly n c h re c a l l s . “ I remember the daughter say ing, ‘ I was forced to come here.’ But she also told me, ‘ I ’m g l a d I ’m h e re. I t g a v e m e t h e oppor tunit y to see another side of my mom.’ ” The Art Center-Highland Park, (847) 432-1888, is located at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. For more information about TAC, please visit theartcenterhp.org THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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