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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

SATURDAY OCTOBER 11 | SUNDAY OCTOBER 12 2014

SOCIAL SCENE

Peter Reed helps lift New York’s MoMA to new heights.

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SPORTS

Senior offensive lineman Matt Kaskey paves way for New Trier’s rushing attack.

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LOCAL NEWS AND PERSONALITIES OF WILMETTE, KENILWORTH, WINNETKA, NORTHFIELD, GLENCOE, HIGHLAND PARK, EVANSTON, LAKE FOREST, METTAWA & LAKE BLUFF

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North Shore Weekend NEWS 10 IN THIS CORNER

Chicago Bear Charles Tillman has been a great cornerback on the field — and his off-the-field charity work, prompted by his daughter’s rare heart disease, has been a blessing.

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A former Lake Forest resident is creating a documentary of famed children’s television star Ella Jenkins.

16 NEWS DIGEST

A summary of news that’s happened around the North Shore and a preview of upcoming events.

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LIFESTYLE & ART 20 SOCIAL WHIRL

Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

22 OUT AND ABOUT

Discover the answers our roving photographer received to our weekly question to North Shore residents.

HOME & DESIGN 30 VIEW OF THE LAKE

A David Adler gem has enjoyed a significant revival.

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REAL ESTATE 32 NORTH SHORE OFFERINGS

Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

32 OPEN HOUSES

Take a look — complete with map — of houses in the area that can be walked through this weekend.

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SPORTS 40 ELITE ELISE

Lake Forest High School field hockey star Elise Wong draws raves.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST… 54 SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Lake Forest native Peter Reed — whose great-grandfather founded The Shedd Aquarium — is making his mark at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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n Fay Peck’s high-ceilinged home, paintings galore grace the walls, some as tall as six feet. A landscape of open lands in Lake Forest rests over her right shoulder as she speaks; another hanging over the fireplace evokes the splendor of Aspen.

In her hands rests the summary of the artist’s work. “Fay Peck: American Expressionist” is brimming with colorful oil paintings, drawings, silk screens and more across 120 pages.

Originally thinking that her four children could put together a book of her works after she passed away, Fay started last year to do it herself, inspired by friend Jean Greene’s book, which features photographs of her bronze sculptures and oil paintings.

Fay’s family pitched in: granddaughter Carling Peck helped with the design, while daughters Allison Peck Hughes and Adair Peck Shea — a painter herself — contributed invaluable assistance.

“Adair I consider a genius — she is remarkable with her style,” says Fay of her daughter with whom she has collaborated on a number of works.

Growing up in River Forest, Fay says she drew pictures before she went to bed. After receiving art training at the University of Miami and learning printmaking at the University of Wisconsin, she attended the University of Oslo in Norway.

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Going the whole 100 yards Tillman’s Cornerstone Foundation helps ill children and their families tackle health challenges

■ by bill mclean The news about his infant daughter’s heart condition hit Charles Tillman like a ton of Bears six years ago.

Tillman — whose 12th season as a Chicago Bears cornerback ended abruptly after he suffered a torn right triceps injury against the San Francisco 49ers on Sept.

14 — was at Lake Forest Hospital when a

“I washed my face and gave myself a pep talk, right there in front of the mirror. I had to be strong for my daughter.” | Charles Tillman doctor informed him his daughter Tiana, then three months old, might not live to see another sunrise.

Tiana needed a heart transplant, after being diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy in 2008.

“I remember saying at the hospital, ‘Here, hold my daughter,’ ” Tillman recalls. “Then I rushed to the restroom and bawled my eyes out for 30 seconds. Next, I washed my face and gave myself a pep talk, right there in front of the mirror. I was good from that point on.

“I had to be strong for my daughter.”

His daughter received a new heart three months later, and Tiana’s overwhelmed daddy practically melted on the set of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” upon meeting the donor’s family less than a year later.

“People don’t realize we met that family for the very first time on live television,” says the Green Oaks resident and recipient of the 2013 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year for charitable efforts through the Charles Tillman Cornerstone Foundation.

“It was as real as reality TV gets. That was pure, raw, emotional.

“Tons of hugs that day … tons,” he adds.

Tillman’s foundation continues to thrive and enhance lives, having impacted more than one million Chicago-area kids since its inception in 2005. Initially established as an education-based endeavor, the foundation now also brightens the lives of chronically and critically ill children and their families.

Tillman humbly downplays his role in the foundation, claiming its dedicated board members and generous sponsors deserve the bulk of recognition and that’s he’s only “the face of the organization.”

But the 6-foot-2, 198-pound Tillman is the face, heart and soul of it.

“I was fine with that [Cornerstone’s focus on education]; we addressed an attendance problem at public schools in Chicago,” says Tillman, also the father of Talya, 9, Tysen, 5, and Tessa, 18 months. “But after my daughter was diagnosed with her heart condition, my heart went in another direction.”

“Charles’ Locker” is a Cornerstone

Foundation program that provides access to iPads, computers, DVD players and PlayStation game systems for hospitalized children to help them make time fly during the challenges of recovery and treatment.

Tillman — blessed with a magnetic, funloving, kid-forever personality — is recovering from the triceps surgery he underwent on Sept. 23. His 2013 season ended last November because of the same injury.

“I was mad when I couldn’t finish the game [the Bears’ 28-20 defeat of the 49ers last month],” admits the 33-year-old who wears jersey No. 33 and ranks first all-time in Bears history in defensive touchdowns (nine) and interception return yards (675).

“I was mad that I couldn’t help my teammates, couldn’t battle with them for the rest of the second half. That crushed me, not being able to be out there with my brothers.

“That part,” he adds, “hurt more than the arm injury did.”

But the wounded wing doesn’t even cross Tillman’s mind when he visits the children’s wing in hospitals. It’s there where perspective strikes him hard — and inspires him.

“Seeing kids with terminal cancer and other illnesses, seeing their strength and resiliency … those kids give me strength and make me appreciate life’s big picture and all that I’m fortunate to have,” says Tillman, whose wife, Jackie, serves as vice president of the Charles Tillman Cornerstone Foundation. “I can’t complain about my arm or anything else when I see what I see in hospitals.”

What one of Tillman’s neighbors, Steven Esposito, witnessed near Tillman’s home months ago made quite an impression.

It also made Esposito — senior vice president and portfolio management director of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Lake Forest — crack up.

“Charles was riding a bike while walking his dog, with his kids riding bikes alongside him. It looked like a … caravan.

“I stopped my car and started laughing.”

Esposito hosted a charity event for Tillman’s foundation several years ago.

He has also attended other Cornerstone Foundation events, including a “Celebrity Waiter Night,” in which Tillman and his current and past teammates shed their pads and donned aprons to serve food and drinks to fans. [The fifth annual edition is set for Oct. 13, at The Montgomery Club in Chicago.]

Advice for attendees: Don’t even think about passing the salad dressing caddy to a table mate when Charles “Peanut” Tillman is nearby, because he might instinctively either pick it off or punch it free.

“Charles is a very humble guy, a nice guy,” says Esposito, who invites Tillman and his kids to use the berm in his backyard for sled time in the winters. “He’s also quiet, without that aura of arrogance you see in too many professional athletes these days. I don’t see a flashy guy when I see Charles; I see a family-first man, a father who enjoys nothing more than being with his family when he isn’t playing football.”

Tillman intends to be a fixture at Bears

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practices and on the sideline during games for the rest of the season. Instead of a helmet he’ll wear three “hats,” helping out as an assistant coach, cheerleader and water boy.

“You have to be snappy,” he says of what it takes to be an effective water boy.

Tiana Tillman, meanwhile, is a happy, active 6-year-old, riding horses and

bouncing around as a gymnast and soccer player. The heart that formerly belonged to a boy from Minnesota beats inside one of the lights of Charles Tillman’s life.

“Her health is fine and she’s doing all the things a normal 6-year-old does,” Tillman says. “She’s amazing.”

For more information on the Cornerstone Foundation, visit www.charlestillman.org.■

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North Shore native creating documentary about legendary children’s entertainer ■ by simon murray The Church of the Three Crosses in the northern part of Chicago is not quite halfway between Lake Forest and the South Side. On a recent afternoon in an otherwise empty building, this meeting place is as symbolic as it gets for the two people present: one a bespectacled, younger-looking man who grew up in Lake Forest; the other a 90-year-old woman with a shock of gray hair who grew up on the South Side of Chicago.

“You don’t have to have any instrument — I’ve always felt — to make music.” | Ella Jenkins “He’s like my son,” says the woman, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, referring to director Tim Ferrin, the 33-year-old man with the boyish face seated next to her.

“Well, thank you Ella,” returns Ferrin. “I’ve been called worse — but not much better.”

“Hopefully it didn’t start with son,” says Ella Jenkins, the nonagenarian, her sharp wit ever-present. They laugh.

Together, the pair (along with the help of Smithsonian Folkways, Jenkins’ record label, and her manager Bernadelle Richter) have been at work on a documentary about Ella’s life and career as a singer songwriter of children’s music. A staple of the Ravinia Festival for over 30 years, Jenkins has also performed on every continent, was a regular guest on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and has a career that includes 60 albums.

Though Jenkins was born in St. Louis, she grew up in the predominantly lower-middle-class neighborhoods in the

South Side at a time when choirs were filled with bluesand soul-bound teenagers, and kids were emulating the top black performers.

“You’d see two or three of them on a corner,” says Jenkins, “working out a tune they just heard.”

Jenkins says her musical influences range from Bessie Smith (blues) to Ella Fitzgerald (jazz), but she says her iconoclastic style of call-and-response songs for her young audience was modeled after Cab Calloway. He encouraged his audience to sing along with his wordless vocal improvisations, known as scat singing, that were sometimes tongue-tying feats of articulation.

Jenkins — who can deftly play the baritone, ukulele, and harmonica — says her interest has always been entertaining children since volunteering at recreation centers turned into a fulltime gig as host of the Chicago public television show, “The Totem Club,” making her arguably the first black female host (possibly even the first black host) on TV in the late 1950s.

“You don’t have to have any instrument — I’ve always felt — to make music. Because we can la la la, we can loo loo loo, we can hum, we can whistle,” says Jenkins.

And through Jenkins, kids were being exposed to “a lot of people that would never have been on a children’s show,” says Richter. Such as artists like Odetta and Big Bill Broonzy, who Jenkins had grown up with seeing on stage at her local theater and had in time become friendly with herself.

Graduating with a degree in sociology from San Francisco State University in 1951, Jenkins also introduced adult themes into her work, such as environmental awareness, civil rights, social justice, and a sense of community “to try and broaden the children’s experience,” notes Ferrin.

“That didn’t exist in children’s music before. [She] really pioneered making smart music for kids.”

Which is also the reason why Ferrin was shocked to

learn that there wasn’t already a documentary dedicated to Jenkins’ life’s work. Ferrin, a transplant to the city and a recent father, has raised over $31,000 on the crowd-funding website Indiegogo — with the help of outside grants and donors — for his proposed documentary, titled “Ella Jenkins: We’ll Sing a Song Together” by his independent production company Morning Bugle.

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Ferrin just wants Jenkins to enjoy it and hopes to have the film completed by late next year. Jenkins is still performing and writing music with friends “whenever the spirit moves us.”

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Joyce Schrager ensures adult minds stay active on the North Shore ■ by s.h. sweet What do you do with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in American history from Northwestern University? One enterprising Evanston woman found the solution close to 40 years ago after teaching and raising four children – lead adult education groups discussing current events.

Over chai tea lattes at Leonida’s in Evanston one sunny morning, Joyce Schrager discussed her path.

She was recruited into adult education by one of her former college students to teach at Open University at Temple Sholom in Chicago. Knowing even then that “lifelong learning is a growth enterprise,” Schrager taught courses in the late 1970s housed at a Jewish Community Center under the auspices of Truman College. Running for alderman in Evanston cemented her love of politics and campaigning — although she was relieved to lose that election since it allowed her to teach, her real love.

“Joyce knows the name and history of every country and the leader of every country and how to pronounce all those unpronounceable names.” | Angela Stewart Attendance and the number of classes she offers each week grew. Word of mouth and praise has expanded her combination of fun and learning in more than 20 groups she facilitates.

“Just Monday,” Schrager notes, “I saw more than 200 people in several groups.”

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To keep up with the world around her, Schrager begins her day early, perusing at least five newspapers on her Kindle.

She reads them cover to cover and recommends that her students should also read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. Schrager augments newspapers with magazines, PBS news, NPR, several Sunday morning news shows, and The Economist weekly newspaper.

And when she needs more in-depth information, Schrager undertakes research on her own. According to Angela Stewart, a current events participant, “Joyce knows the name and history of every country and the leader of every country and how

to pronounce all those unpronounceable names. And she makes it look so easy – that’s why we applaud her every time she says ‘Ahmadinijad.’ ” Mardi Hackett, a long-time participant in one of Schrager’s groups in Winnetka, adds, “We feel so lucky to have someone skin tightening like Joyce lead our group in interesting, wrinkletoreduction stimulating, and lively discussions.” sun damage reversal The groups are rarely uniform in age, skin texture rejuvenation political inclination, gender, or background — and Schrager prefers it that way.

“I learn from the variety of points of view in my groups. And I, as well as members of the groups, should be willing to listen to others with different perspectives,” she says. “Everyone has something to offer. I will cut off someone who has gone on too

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long, but normally, I am fascinated by what the class has to add and enjoy the contributions everyone makes.”

Especially fascinating to Schrager are groups that include a variety of ages, both men and women, retired and working. She enjoys watching young people in their 30s learn to appreciate the wealth and depth of knowledge the older generation possesses.

“We need more opportunities to learn to appreciate each other,” Schrager believes.

She prides herself on being even-handed, respectful, and balanced.

“Joyce is never threatening. She never makes anyone think the question the person asks is dumb,” says Geena Cohen Zaslavsky of Glencoe, who has attended a variety of Schrager seminars on the North Shore over the years.

Schrager is not preachy, nor does she have an agenda or axe to grind. Rather, she frames the issues of the day for her classes — held in homes and public spaces — with a brilliance at which her students marvel.

She prefers to begin the class with this type of introduction (sometimes combining local, state, country, and world events) and then encourages discussion and comments from the audience.

Says Schrager, “Currently, we are a divided nation represented by a divided government. But the terrible point comes when people are so hardened, they cannot even listen to one another. My role as a teacher and facilitator is to be able to present at least two, and sometimes more, sides to every issue. And then encourage discussion from every angle.”

Schrager will hold a current events class as a benefit on Friday, Oct. 17 at 9:30 a.m. at Misericordia, 6300 North Ridge Avenue, Chicago. She has a class open to all at Congregation Solel at 1301 Clavey Road in Highland Park. There are two sessions on Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.; $15 at the door. ■

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The City of Highland Park’s Historical Preservation Commission and the Highland Park Historical Society shared their appreciation of architect Robert E. Seyfarth’s work by declaring October “Seyfarth Month” in Highland Park.

Tours, exhibits, lectures and activities are part of the appreciation. On Sunday, Oct. 19, Susan Benjamin will lead a discussion on the architect, his style and his role in the development of Highland Park and the greater Chicago area at the Highland Park Library beginning at 2 p.m.

On Sunday, Oct. 26, a Highland Park Historical Society House Walk of seven Seyfarth homes begins at 1 p.m. A map will be provided.

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group took residence in its remodeled 538 Chestnut Street office at the end of September.

The 5,000-square-foot office is designed with a color palette of elegant grays and maple finishes, with natural light from large windows. Flat-screen information monitors are complemented by arched windows.

An extensive renovation was done in order to create a classic space that will support a much larger and busier office.

Noted Rina du Toit, vice president and managing broker of the Winnetka branch, “The office is absolutely phenomenal.

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The Highland Park Strings 2014–15 season will kick off on Sunday, Oct. 26, featuring Steinway Artist and Highland Park resident Susan Merdinger.

The pianist will perform Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. The Strings will play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral.”

The performance at Highland Park High School is sponsored by First Bank of Highland Park.

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an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, has decided to run in the 2015 Disney Marathon in Orlando, Fla. this January.

She will look to complete the Dopey Challenge, which consists of a 5K, 10K, half and full marathon totaling nearly 50 miles over four consecutive days. Her overall goal is to use the challenge to raise $7,000 for Catch a Lift, which is dedicated to helping wounded veterans become physically and mentally fit.

WINNETKA

The Winnetka Fire and Police Departments will host their annual open house — which coincides with the end of Fire Prevention Week — on Saturday, Oct. 11 between 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

The event affords the opportunity to tour the headquarters of both departments, view equipment demonstrations, and sit in public safety vehicles like fire engines and police cars.

For more information, check www.villageofwinnetka.org.

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“An Evening of Live Tibetan Gongs and Meditation” will take place Friday, Oct. 17 at the Winnetka Community House from 6:30-9 p.m.

Orchestrated by Kenny Kolter, the rhythmic quality, harmonics, vibrations, and mystical characteristics that reside in these instruments provide a powerful vehicle for quieting the mind.

Bring your yoga mat and wear comfortable, casual clothes. The cost is $40. ■

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In the long run it’s all about helping baby cousin ■ by jake jarvi Eleven-year-old Ella Palzet of Deerfield loves running.

Both of her parents participate in marathons, she’s run alongside them and her three brothers as a family in several 5K events, and she’s one of the top athletes on her cross-country team at Shepard Middle School.

“Running 13 miles might sound really hard, but for Nora, it feels like she’s running a marathon every day just trying to breathe.” | Ella Palzet This summer, Palzet found a new reason to run: To raise money to help her infant cousin Nora Levy, who was born 14 weeks premature. After seeing her cousin’s picture and hearing about her struggle, Palzet volunteered to raise money and awareness for her by running the Chicago Women’s Half Marathon on Sept. 27. At 13.1 miles, it’s a far longer distance than Palzet had ever run before.

“Running 13 miles might sound really hard, but for Nora, it feels like she’s running a marathon every day just trying to breathe,” Palzet says. “It’s kind of hard to think about how I don’t have to feel that every day.”

Born weighing only one pound three ounces, Nora Levy is receiving care at NorthShore Evanston Hospital Infant Special Care Unit (ISCU). Nora’s campaign is called “Running for a Chance to Crawl” and so far she’s raised $1,600 for the Neonatal Research fund for her cousin and for other premature babies. Donations to the fund are tax deductible and funnel into the work being done by the 13 neonatologists in the pediatrics department at the ISCU, which provides family-centered care to more than 500 premature and specialneeds infants each year.

“It’s really been a lesson on perspective and the human spirit once you learn what these little babies go through,” says Trish Palzet, Ella’s mother. “I think this whole thing has opened our eyes to helping others and what you can do in your own small way.”

Trish was initially hesitant to let Ella sign up to run a half marathon.

“It just seems really far for an 11-yearold,” Trish says. “But our doctor said it would be okay, so I had to let her do it. I set up a 12-week training program for her.

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and eat properly.”

All those mornings of waking up before 6 a.m. paid off for Palzet as she crossed the finish line of the Chicago Women’s Half Marathon.

“It was really fun,” she says. “My mom ran with me at the beginning and then I ran ahead of her at the end, and there were people cheering for me at the sides, like my family. I’d already run 12 miles during

training, so it wasn’t much different than that. I thought it was kind of easy.”

The end of the marathon didn’t signal the end of Palzet’s quest to help her cousin.

She continues to train and participate in other runs and wants to keep running until she reaches her goal of $10,000. Interested parties can make their tax-deductible donation at foundation.northshore.org/ ellaandnora.■

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MY FAVORITE WEEKEND Andrew and Melissa find fitness and relaxation in northern Italy

After Andrew Goltra tore his Achilles tendon three years ago playing paddle tennis, the former college rower needed another outlet. He chose biking.

He enjoys it so much that Andrew and his wife, Melissa, flew to northern Italy this summer for a six-day trip that involved 60-90 miles of riding per day in the mountainous terrain of the Friuli-Venezia–Giulia region.

That is, the 12 husbands on the trip pedaled while the wives (save one who rode) enjoyed cooking classes, hikes, wine lunches and more in the quiet countryside.

“If you want to go to an unexplored area of Italy, this is it,” Melissa says. “We didn’t see any tourists.”

Staying in a cottage at La Subida Relais Hotel — which is surrounded by vineyards — the couple had fantastic farm-to-table meals. Each course would be described to

them in detail, and “everything was done with such love and care,” Melissa says.

On the fifth day, the bikers tried to ascend a mountain. At lunch, the ladies waited for news.

“We thought, ‘Do they have the energy to make it happen?’ “ Melissa notes. “Then we heard they had all made it to the top. It was emotional.” At the summit, Andrew and others received a nice surprise: they were greeted with Champagne by the owner of La Subida.

A day in Venice aboard a gondola and seeing the sights concluded the trip. But even that paled in comparison to what they had already experienced. Says Melissa, “The best part was La Subida and that beautiful area.” ■ Andrew and Melissa Goltra — who will co-chair the Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Carnaval de Paris on Saturday, Oct. 18 (lfh.org/womensboard)— enjoyed a trip to Italy this summer.

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I wrote a few weeks ago about my reunion with Archie Comics. Reading “Archie: The Married Life” on an August road trip was a guilty pleasure — but worth the ribbing I took from my copilot.

The 2011 story is split into two parts: one in which he marries Veronica, stays in Riverdale, and joins her family business.

The other part has Archie married to Betty. They move to New York so that he can pursue a music career while she takes a job at a department store.

Browsing online later that night, however, I found that Archie and his brides are in the minority. Fewer than 15 percent of people marry their high school sweethearts, according to a Harris poll. I asked NSW readers to tell me what’s been the best thing about marrying their high school sweetheart.

Heidi and Steve Mogck of Glencoe were the first to respond, in an email complete with photos taken in front of their high school lockers. They celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary earlier this summer with a toast to “three kids, one dog, good health, and a life together blessed by God.” Their story starts at their high school

prom in suburban Minneapolis in 1980.

“As teenage first dates go, ours had all the typical elements: nervousness, awkward moments, fear of not having anything interesting to talk about, concern over appearances. You name it, we felt it,” Heidi wrote in an email.

Heidi’s mom was, of course, waiting up for her to come home that night and asked how the date had gone.

“I replied, ‘It was fine, but I don’t think we will go out again.’ Her response was, ‘Steve is an extremely nice guy; you do not need to be madly in love with a boy to go out again. He could become a good friend. If Steve asks you out again, I think you should go!’ ” Heidi laughed it off.

But Steve called. They went out again, and Steve kept Heidi laughing the whole evening. They were married in 1984.

Their life together has been about making memories as they’ve grown up together: “truly knowing your spouse deeply – the good and bad, and loving them for who they are. Having the blessing of walking through all that life throws at you and knowing we have always had each other’s backs. We are grateful.”

But Heidi said she’d still appreciate reading the advice I received from a local gentleman who spent 56 years married to a girl he met in high school on the Northeast side of Chicago. He asked that his name be withheld, though.

“Names are not needed to get the idea across,” he told me.

They were 14 and became friends their first year in high school. They became a couple in 1953 and married four years later. His bride died in 2013.

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Citadel Theatre, the community theater located in Lake Forest, held its first-ever gala in late summer at the 14-acre country cottage of architect Adrian Smith and his wife Nancy. The evening featured cocktails, live and silent auction, a country-inspired dinner, and a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by actors from the troupe. The nearly 300 guests raised more than $100,000 for Citadel. citadeltheatre.org

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French culture has been praising the virtues of its complex red wines with haute cuisine — as well as the fact that they’re symbols of wealth. The legendary top chateaux can fetch more money per bottle than a startup home.

Within the last 25 years, Californian “ultraboutiques” have learned to tailor their red creations to obtain top scores by focusing on power and “jammy ripeness” favored by wine reviewers. As Screaming Eagle’s Cabernet Sauvignon broke the $500 price barrier over a decade ago, scores of others have crossed the $200 marker. Are they really worth the price? Is a Ferrari worth $300,000 more than a Corvette?

Here are some rationally priced, high-value propositions under the radar of the market.

SATURDAY DINNER 2007 Korbin Kameron Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Veeder, Sonoma, California; $38 Perched high above Napa Valley to the east and Sonoma Valley to the west, this small estate sits truly far off the beaten path of wine tourism. The brilliant mountain-top sunlight, cool climate and well-drained rocky grounds provide a wonderful condition for its grapes to ripen slowly. That permits the vines to extract a wealth of nutrients from the subsoil along with aromatic complexity reminiscent of expensive clarets.

Classic blackberry, currants, dark-chocolate notes are embraced by a distinctive acidity that welcomes rich meats, especially with a tinge of grilled smoky flavor, e.g. BBQ ribs, ribeye, porterhouse steaks, lamb shank or hearty sausages. Best 6-12 years from vintage after one hour of decanting.

MIDWEEK MEAL 2010 Trefethen Double T, Red Wine, Napa Valley, California; $28 Located at the cooler southern end of Napa Valley (due to the fog banks from the San Francisco Bay blanketing the vineyards in the morning), the Trefethen Family estate traces its roots to the late 1800s when a German family decided to settle there and pioneered wine making in the region.

The tradition-conscious Trefethens eschew the loud blockbuster bruisers so typical strutting in their neighborhood.

They favor a more elegant, food-friendly expression brimming with subtle nuances discernable in Grand Crus Bordeaux. This allows complex dishes with subtle meats — e.g. veal, pork, poultry, gamey fish, legumes, or red pasta dishes — to shine rather than to be overpowered. Soft cheeses and autumn mushroom dishes turn sublime with this selection. A veritable bargain! Best 4-8 years from vintage after half an hour of decanting.

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Evening to raise awareness of breast cancer ■ by simon murray In August of 2013, Dr. Benjamin Schlechter lost his long-time friend and employee to breast cancer.

He said when he is in surgery, he still finds himself looking to his side to see if his nurse Sylvia is there — and then he remembers.

“She was the strongest person I have ever known, she never complained, she came to work directly from her treatments and worked long days, and she never sat down during a case — even though she was visibly fatigued,” Dr. Schlechter recalls.

As a board-certified plastic surgeon who has performed numerous breast reconstruction procedures over the past 20 years, he has always supported breast cancer causes and has hosted many events at his Pennsylvania practice and med-spa. Dr.

“As plastic surgeons we have the unique opportunity to be part of the rebuilding process in the treatment of breast cancer.” | Dr. Jacob Bloom Schlechter, who completed his plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at The University of Illinois-Chicago, feels good about bringing his experience helping women regain their health following a breast cancer diagnosis to the North Shore.

He will host “An Evening of Beauty with a Purpose” at North Shore Aesthetics at 1404 Techny Road in Northbrook on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. He has chosen Bright Pink, a national

Dr. Jacob Bloom of North Shore Aesthetics photography

non-profit organization that focuses on education, risk reduction and early detection, to be the recipient of profits from the evening.

The informal format of the evening will lend itself for attendees to learn from the doctors and the representatives from skin care and laser companies. Each person will be given a passport to beauty to guide them through the stations throughout the office.

There will be brief presentations by Dr. Schlechter and his associate Dr. Jacob Bloom, as well as Kathy Hawk, a licensed esthetician. They will speak on a range of topics including the latest advances in noninvasive cosmetic procedures, the full scope of breast surgeries, and skin care.

Dr. Schlechter feels the key to the success is that the evening is fun. Catered food

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includes Garrett’s Popcorn, sushi, cupcakes and pink champagne. One of the highlights of the evening is the auction with over $10,000 in raffle prizes. All proceeds from the raffle ticket sales, and a portion of product sales are donated to Bright Pink.

Dr. Bloom, a trained plastic, reconstructive and hand surgeon who joined the practice in August, is excited to partake in the first event at North Shore Aesthetics.

“As plastic surgeons we have the unique opportunity to be part of the rebuilding process in the treatment of breast cancer.

This event will allow us to highlight our role in that process while raising awareness,” he says.

Preregistration is required to be guaranteed a special gift bag. To register, please call 847-393-4770. ■

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Adler Enjoys Splendid Revival The courtyard feels like a natural extension of the home.

photography by jim prisching

■ by thomas connors One of David Adler’s finest residences is the exquisitely realized Italianate villa in Lake Forest he designed in 1916 for Charles Pike, lawyer, banker, and supporter of the Chicago Historical Society.

Pike’s previous residence on the same site — designed by architect Charles Heun — was destroyed by fire. In creating a new home for Pike and his wife, Adler did the unexpected: He set the 15,000-square-foot house quite close to the street in order to afford the property an extensive, landscaped vista, with Lake Michigan as an inimitable backdrop.

One of the home’s greatest practical and pleasurable aspects is the courtyard Adler fashioned. Situated between the street and the house, this formally articulated space

“Our idea was to create a kind of new Italian living room using simple, modern pieces.” | Soledad Zitzewitz acts as a buffer from Lake Road, while providing both a jewel-like introduction to the home and a protected area in which to enjoy the outdoors when winds are blowing.

Neglected for a time, Adler’s artful outdoor room was admiringly revived by Craig Bergmann Landscape Design of Lake Forest in 2013.

As Bergmann notes, Adler’s design echoes the cloister, that monastic space that served as both a contemplative

retreat and garden.

“Historically, these courtyards would have harvestable plants used for medicinal purposes,” he says. “We reference that model with such plants as rosemary, sage, and Artemisia.”

At the same time, the space assumes the profile of a parterre garden, with four stone paths radiating from a central star-shaped motif and four beds defined by deciduous privet hedges. To complement this formality, Bergmann installed lilac and rhododendron standards and terracotta pots of boxwood and tulips.

In addition to curating the natural elements of this oasis, Bergmann collaborated with interior designer Paul Klug to outfit it with furnishings and decorative items, including a suite of wrought iron seating, lanterns, and impressive braziers.

“The house was so beautifully ornamented already,” says Bergmann. “So we had to be especially judicious in decorating the space.”

Interior designer Soledad Zitzewitz took a similarly discriminating approach in handling the home’s primary public space, the living room (or as Adler referred to it, the library). Although the space boasts a 15-foot vaulted ceiling and a five-foot tall fireplace, it is a fairly unfussy room.

“The house has simple lines and uses simple materials, plaster, and limestone,” relates Zitzewitz. “Our idea was to respect that and create a kind of new Italian living room using simple, modern pieces.”

Zitzewitz acknowledges Adler’s penchant for symmetry with her even-handed furniture placement (including a pair of custom-designed sofas), and in a nod to the house’s historic character, she incorporated antique occasional tables,

a finely crafted, reproduction tapestry, and a bronze buffet in a Louis XVI mode, created by Chicago artist and furniture designer Evan Lewis. While the walls, done in silver metallic with a linen texture express an unmistaken luxe, the greater share of the designer’s color palate — earth tones and muted shades of green — help strike an elegant balance between the formality inherent in Adler’s design and Zitzewitz’s desire to fashion a room a contemporary family could feel right at home in. ■

Interior designer Soledad Zitzewitz created an elegant living room that reflects David Adler’s passion for symmetry.

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32 | REAL ESTATE NORTH SHORE OFFERINGS Houses of the Week

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1170 GRIFFITH ROAD Sunday 1-4

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$959,000 Julian Harkleroad, Berkshire Hathaway 224.456.5019 GREENLEAF AVE 20 | 338 WILMETTE Sunday 1-4

$1,595,000 Taylor Lindstrom, Berkshire Hathaway 847.881.8027 NORWICH COURT 21 | 190 LAKE BLUFF Sunday 1-3

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2425 COLONY COURT

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$699,900 Kimberly Meixner, Berkshire Hathaway 847.630.0119 HARLAN LANE 27 | 1248 LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-4

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826 FOX TRAIL COURT

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$949,000 Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie 847.234.0485 E. WOODLAND ROAD 33 | 307 LAKE BLUFF Sunday 1-3

$749,000 Elizabeth Keepper, Griffith, Grant & Lackie 847.234.0816 TIMBER LANE 34 | 757 LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4

$799,000 Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie 847.234.0485

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339 E. SHERIDAN ROAD

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2 GOLF LANE

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$2,699,000 Baylor/Shields, @properties 847.881.0200

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Wong is wunderkind for Lake Forest field hockey team ■ by bill mclean

sports@northsoreweekend.com It’s a Saturday morning in Princeton, N.J., and Elise Wong answers her cell phone.

The humble-to-the-bone Lake Forest High School junior probably has mixed feelings, because she knows she’ll get to talk about one of her favorite topics in the world (field hockey) and a topic (Elise Wong) she’d rather not discuss.

“It’s been a process,” the talented midfielder says of the college-search process. “But there’s still a lot of stuff to think about. I’m looking for a nice balance of academics and athletics more than anything else.

“I’m looking at schools on both coasts.”

Princeton University is one of the schools on her list.

One of the most thrilled field hockey coaching staffs in the nation has to be the one at Princeton University.

“Elise is probably the most sought-after player in the Midwest,” Scouts coach Melanie Walsh says of Wong, a member of the Junior National U-17 field hockey team.

“She is such an interesting player. She is quiet and softspoken but will juke you out of your shoes. … She has the fastest hands and feet of anyone in the state and possibly the entire Midwest.

“Of all the players I have coached, Elise has the most promise to make it to the Olympics.”

While on the phone, Wong is informed one of her former Lake Forest teammates, University of Iowa freshman forward Emily George, recollected the countless times Wong had shared field hockey knowledge with her Scouts teammates after returning from national training sessions and events.

“We [U-17 players] keep notebooks,” Wong says. “I’m looking at mine right now. We write down details, game-play details, helpful stuff. A lot of emphasis is on using space, finding the man-up situations … the 2-v-1s. And playing with a high work rate — that’s also stressed.”

A dynamic member of last year’s state championship squad as a first-year varsity midfielder, the diminutive Wong is Lake Forest’s big-play threat every time her stick controls the ball this fall. Wong, a captain, flew around the home field against New Trier in a shootout victory on Sept.

17, performing moves every other minute that established college players covet. Her goal in the 1-v-1 shootout — after

Lake Forest High School’s Elise Wong (No. 8) is considered one of the best players in the Midwest.

an overtime session failed to break a 2-2 tie — clinched the triumph against the undefeated Trevians.

Wong goaded New Trier’s goalkeeper to lean to the left, before jabbing a shot to the right.

Wong made it look 1-plus-1-equals-2 easy.

“Elise has the best skills, and her athleticism is outstanding,” says George, who also competed with Wong for years as a North Shore-based Windy City Field Hockey club member and now plays for an Iowa Hawkeyes unit (8-3) ranked seventh in the country. “Everything Elise does in a field hockey game is amazing. She’s the player she is today because she’s always learning and putting the knowledge to use right away. Elise … she’s like a sponge.

“And I can’t tell you how many times she saved our [Windy City] team with game-winning goals or goals that got us into overtime.”

In a recent three-game winning stretch — all 1-0 decisions, against Glenbrook South, Glenbard West and Chicago Latin — Wong struck for a goal and an assist, as two-time reigning state champion Lake Forest improved to 10-2-1.

Earlier she finished with a team-high four assists in three games at the Gateway Classic in St. Louis; tallied two goals and an assist in a 6-1 defeat of Highland Park; and dished two assists in the Scouts’ first win of the season, a 5-0 defeat of Glenbrook South.

Soccer was Wong’s sport before field hockey hooked her for good.

“I really love the competitiveness of the sport, and my family was into it when I was young,” says Wong, whose brothers, Nick (26 years old) and Tim (21 and currently a professional tap dancer), played field hockey when the family lived in Vancouver, Canada. (Elise was 7 when her family moved to Illinois).

“Nick,” she adds, “was tough; he had a rugby background when he played field hockey. Tim was fast, the kind of player who liked to hit the ball far and then sprint to catch up to it.”

Wong’s parents, Michael and Cecile, met in high school in the Philippines. They usually accompany their daughter when Elise heads to Pennsylvania for Junior National Team commitments.

They set their alarms early to watch televised field hockey games together during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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“Exciting stuff,” Elise recalls. “Yes, that’s the dream, playing in the Olympics. [The U.S. women’s team] is ranked eighth in the world and took fourth at the World Cup in the Netherlands. My parents have always emphasized, ‘If you do something, do it because you love it and do it to the best of your ability.’ I love field hockey and I always try to do my best.”

The best team in the state last year defeated New Trier in the state championship game at Lake Forest High School. It marked the Scouts’ 11th state title in program history and sixth in 10 years.

“The whole season was an enjoyable process,” Wong says.

“Everybody on the team knew everybody else’s skills and techniques, and everybody was able to connect as a team.”

The nexus Wong has with her current teammates is one a several reasons Lake Forest is a legitimate threat to capture a third straight state championship.

Last year’s dutiful follower is this year’s indomitable leader.

“My coaches have given me the freedom to guide my teammates at practices and in games,” says Wong, who likes to catch up on sleep and play with her family’s dogs, Bailey and McGee, when she isn’t executing dazzling maneuvers — and “breaking” defenders’ ankles along the way — in field hockey games.

“My leadership role … it’s something I’m learning. I’m also enjoying it.”

Her field hockey IQ is something that might be too high to measure.

“The way she can eliminate a player [with her fast hands and feet] is just phenomenal to watch,” Walsh says. “But Elise is not one-dimensional. She is a threat offensively, a terrific defender and a vocal captain in the middle of the field.

“Elise,” she adds, “cares a great deal about the team and wants to help everyone succeed.”

Notable: Lake Forest’s Lindsey Close and Sheridan Weiss scored the other two goals in the Scouts’ series of 1-0 victories over Glenbrook South, Glenbard West and Chicago Latin.

Close and Katelyn Lochiatto provided the other assists, and sophomores Kerry Lawler and Hannah Metzger shared keeper duties. ■

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For his sensational efforts, Brian O’Brien will receive a special gift from

Bluff on Oct. 13..

ROAMING THE SIDELINES FOOTBALL Highland Park: The Giants had no trouble improving to 6-0 GIRLS GOLF on Oct. 2. Cole Greenberg had another big outing for the Giant Central Suburban League Tourney: Led by medalist Louise in its 42-0 win over host Maine West. The senior running back McCulloch (74), New Trier was a landslide winner in this ninerushed for 127 yards and three touchdowns. HP quarterback team meet at Sunset Valley on Oct. 1. The Trevians scored Sam Nevers completed 8-15 passes for 112 yards. He threw a 323 to easily beat runner-up Maine South (345). Highland a 16-yard TD pass to Tommy Rudman. He also had a 1-yard Park shot a 362 to place sixth overall.

TD run. Defensively, Aaron Brown, Tommy Rudman, James New Trier senior Lauren Holley shared third place (80) with Hermann, Arrie Mitchell and Jack McGuire had four tackles HP standout Kelli Ono. The Trevians also received solid pereach, while defensive back Luke Norcia scored on a 56-yard formances from Becca Lindblad (7th, 83), Lois Suh (9th-tie, 86) punt return.. and Rachel Rhee (14th-tie, 88). HP sophomore Nicole Berardi Lake Forest:: The Scouts (4-2) made things interesting in shared ninth place (86) with three other players. Emma Hanig the fourth quarter but wound up losing 27-14 to host Warren was 24th (96). on Oct. 2. Senior running back Wes Janeck, who rushed for 89 NT was scheduled to play in the Loyola Regional on Oct. 8. yards, scored a pair TDs (1 and 33 yards) in the fourth quarter HP went to the Lake Forest Regional on Oct. 8. Both teams to cut Warren’s lead to 20-14. He now has 565 yards, 11 TDs will play in the Warren Sectional on Oct. 13 at Bittersweet. for season. Fellow running Quinn Julian had 82 all-purpose GCAC Tourney: Highlighted by medalist Nina Rutkowski yards (34 rushing, 48 receiving). QB Danny Carollo threw for (76), Loyola Academy celebrated a conference championship 91 yards (7-21-2). LF’s defense was led by Jack Traynor (8 on Oct. 1 at the Glencoe Golf Club. The Ramblers, who were tackles, 3 assists, 2 tackles for loss). Francis Nicholson had 6 scheduled to host a regional meet on Oct. 8, placed six players tackles. in the top seven and won the meet going away (321). They beat runner-up St. Ignatius by 72 strokes. Nicole Wetoska claimed CHIP SHOTS runner-up honors (79), while Blake Yaccino came in third (81).

BOYS GOLF Central Suburban North Tourney: The crown went to Noah Margaret Hickey and Colleen Huffman shot 85s to finish in a tie for fourth, while Madison Banas placed seventh (97).

Apter. The Highland Park junior earned medalist honors at North Suburban Conference Tourney: Emily Young was the league meet at the Glencoe Golf Club on Oct. 2. After shootone of the standouts in this championship meet at Bonnie ing a 73 for 18 holes, Apter beat Maine East’s Orion Yamat and Glenbrook North’s Luke Oberholtzer in a sudden death Brook on Sept. 30. The Lake Forest junior shot an 82 to take third place. Teammate McKenna Shea put up a 90 (8th), while playoff. The Giants, who placed third in the team standings Lena Benjakul carded a 95 (15th). The Scouts, who were sched(316) behind GBN (307) and Deerfield (314), also received solid uled to play in a regional at Deerpath on Oct. 8 before moving work from junior Noah Fishbein, who placed sixth with a 77.

HP was scheduled to compete in the Warren Regional on on the Warren Sectional on Oct. 13 at Bittersweet, finished third in the team standings Oct. 7. The sectional will be (377) behind Libertyville at Lake Bluff on Oct. 13.

(356) and Stevenson (372).

Central Suburban South Tourney: Justin Choi was FOOTNOTES a bright spot for New TriBOYS SOCCER er. The sophomore shot New Trier: Duncan Gill a team-best 75 to place continues to find the net. third in the league meet at The senior tallied two more Glencoe Golf Club on Oct. goals in his team’s 4-0 win 2. The Trevians, who took over Lakes on Oct. 6. He runner-up honors to Glenalso had a goal in NT’s 2-0 brook South 301-305, had victory over Waukegan on five players finish in the top Oct. 1 He has a team-best 10: Jack Junge (5th-tie, 76), 17 goals on the season.

Matt Murlick (5th-tie, 76), Jackson Dunn and DanWill Connelly (8th, 78) and iel Iadik scored NT’s other Ethan Schmitt (9th-tie, 79). goals against Lakes. The NT was set to take part assists were credited to Stein the Glenbrook North Reven Childs (2), Matt Gallo gional on Oct. 7. Winnetka and Colin Egerter. Justin Golf Club will host the New Dunn earned the shutout.

Trier Sectional on Oct 13.

In the win over WaukegChicago Catholic an, Spencer Farina had one League Tourney: Five goal and one assist. JonaRamblers — Bennett Cotthan Jaggard picked up the ten, Nick Rossini, Tyler shutout.

Aldrich, John Kryscio and POOLSIDE Michael Banas — earned GIRLS SWIMMING all-Catholic League honHighland Park: Avery ors on Oct. 1. Cotten shot Spitz and Ari Cole came up a 69 to share runner-up with wins in HP’s 119-67 honors with Providence’s loss to Glenbrook North on Dom Cascino. Rossini and Oct. 2. Spitz won the diving Aldrich carded 72s to finish in a four-way tie for fourth The champ: Highland Park High School’s Noah Apter earned medal- (201.90), while Cole took place. Kryscio (73) came in ist honors in the CSL North tourney on Oct. 2. PHOTOGRAPHY BY: first in the 100 free (58.20). eighth, while Banas (75) JOEL LERNER AT THE NET was 10th. LA, which was scheduled to play in the GIRLS VOLLEYBALL GBN Regional on Oct. 7, ended up with runner-up honors Lake Forest: Sophomore libero Brigid Brennan was a stand(286), finishing four strokes in back of Providence. out at the Lake Forest Invite on Oct. 4. She was named to the North Suburban Conference Tourney: Mac Montagne and all-tournament team after collecting 44 digs in the five-match Jack Garrity scored 73s, but it wasn’t enough as Lake Forest set. The Scouts, who finished with a 3-2 record, also received ended up second (302) at the league meet at Willow Glen on good play from Jenna Dethlefsen (38 kills), Ashley Williams Sept. 30. Vernon Hills won the tournament by three strokes.

(24 kills), Ashley Amos (42 assists), Emma Patlovich (47 asMontagne and Garrity shared second place with two other sists), Meghan McGrail (28 kills) and Jackie Turck. players, while Quinn Gaughan (78), Ale Raganelli (78) and Loyola: Sparked by Christina Reed (8 kills), the Ramblers Alex Georges (80) also earned all-conference honors. improved to 14-4 with their 25-20, 25-18 win over Regina DoThe Scouts were slated to play in the Warren Regional at minican on Oct. 2.

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Loyola Academy kicker Mike Kurzydlowski watches his gamewinning, last-second kick sail through the uprights.

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Kurzydlowski celebrates the team’s 10-7 win over Providence Catholic. photography by joel lerner

EYE-PLEASING

Kurzydlowski puts finishing touches on Loyola’s win over Providence ■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northsoreweekend.com He might have gone a little too far with the eye-black.

Instead of applying it neatly in curved lines under each eye, Loyola Academy placekicker Mike Kurzydlowski — a fun guy, to be sure — splashed it on.

Nearly half of his face was splattered with black grease.

Cosmetics police, arrest this kicker.

“I like to spread it around,” said Loyola Academy placekicker Mike Kurzydlowski, helmet in hand, big smile on besmirched face. “Coaches like to make fun of me.”

Coaches also like kickers that they can count on. Kurzydlowski is in that camp.

The 5-foot-8, 155-pound senior, a threeyear varsity kicker, made the kick of his career on Oct. 4, when No. 19 made a 23-yard field goal with time expiring. His three points gave the host Ramblers (5-1) a homecoming win to remember: 10-7 over highly touted Providence Catholic.

LA head coach John Holecek, who let the clock run down to two seconds, didn’t hesitate sending Kurzydlowski out there with the game on the line.

“He’s the kicker,” said LA head coach John Holecek. “That’s what he does.”

“A real heart racer,” admitted Kurzydlowski, who shared the limelight with long snapper Bobby Walker and holder Aidan Walsh. “We practice this same situation every day in practice.

“And kudos to our offense for getting us down there,” he added. “I told Coach Holecek that if we got inside the 20-yard line, that I was 100 percent (ready).”

Providence coach Mark Coglianese did what he could. He called a timeout just before the kick to try and ice Kurzydlowski.

“Icing me? That was a hidden benefit,” said Kurzydlowski, who made nine field goals during his junior season. “I know it can affect some guys. But I like it when they do it to me. It allows me to slow everything down. To get ready.

“Kicking is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical,” he added. “For me, it’s muscle memory.”

Despite a hard rush from Providence’s defenders, Kurzydlowski’s dead-on kick went through the uprights in the north end of the stadium like a comet through space.

And then his day got … even better.

Soon after kicking his game-winner, Mike Kurzydlowski learned this — his brother, Karol Kurzydlowski, a junior kicker at the University of Chicago and a former threeyear varsity kicker at LA, also made a game-winning FG earlier in the day.

His came with 12 seconds left, and it beat visiting Rhodes College 17-14.

The kick’s distance: 23 yards … same as his little brother’s clincher.

Eerie.

And the cool part?

After his game, the 6-2, 205-pound Karol Kurzydlowski hopped into his car, hit the gas and arrived at the LA stadium just in

time — 10 seconds left on the scoreboard — to see Mike drill the winning kick against the previously unbeaten Celtics.

The two brothers have a special relationship. They help each other out.

“Earlier this year he was struggling with his form,” said Mike Kurzydlowski, whose last field goal came in Week 1, a pressurefree 34-yarder in a 44-0 victory over host Milwaukee Marquette. “He told me to go to the HUDL website and look at his kicks. I gave him some pointers. He does the same for me.”

The LA senior hopes to follow in his brother’s footsteps.

“I’m looking to go to the University of Chicago,” he said. “I have no desire to play in the NFL or anything like that, but I’d definitely like to play football in college.”

No doubt, he’ll be packing the eye-black.

Notable: Here’s a tough task: name the defensive MVP in this 10-7 win.

A case certainly could be made for inside linebacker Brian O’Brien. The sure-tackling senior was all over the field, finishing with eight tackles, including a nine-yard quarterback sack and four-yard tackle for loss.

He also had an important pass break-up.

Fellow inside linebacker Calvin Falkenhayn also graded out well. He was in on four tackles, including a seven-yard sack.

No doubt, outside linebacker Mark Nichol deserves some votes. The senior made six stops, including three tackles for loss.

Don’t forget senior defensive lineman

Thomas Dreher. No. 50 was his active self and finished the game with a quarterback sack and a pass deflection on a third-andfour play on Providence’s final possession.

And then, there’s Andrews Beniana. The senior nose tackle made a game-changing play with 29 seconds left in the third quarter. He not only sacked Providence quarterback Justin Hunniford, but he also forced — and recovered — a fumble at the Celtics’ nine-yard line with 29 seconds left in the third quarter.

“He was something else today,” said Holecek.

The turnover was a costly one for Providence, which led 7-0 at the time. The Ramblers needed just 35 seconds to tie the game at 7-7. Nichol ran it in from one-yard out following a nine-yard pass play from quarterback Emmett Clifford to Spencer Cecola.

In the end, LA’s offense came through, putting together a 7-minute, 13-play, 69-yard drive to set up the game-winning field goal. Clifford (9-10-0, 69 yards) completed key passes to Owen Buscaglia (8 and 10 yards), Bobby Walker (10 yards) and Cecola (7 yards) in the final series. Key rushes were made by Dara Laja (5, 5 and 7 yards) and Nichol (6 yards).

Lara (17-50) and starting quarterback DJ Melsheimer (7-53) were LA’s leading rushers. Cecola finished with seven catches for 48 yards, while Buscaglia had six grabs for 42 yards. ■

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Senior tackle is a tower of power on New Trier’s offensive line ■ by bill mclean

sports@northsoreweekend.com It’s impossible to miss Matt Kaskey on a football field or in a hallway at New Trier.

Or even if Kaskey happens to be riding a bike in Nepal and you happen to be resting atop Mount Everest.

The Trevians’ left tackle and long snapper, after all, stands 6-foot-7 and weighs 300 pounds.

During the search for New Trier’s varsity football coach after the 2013 season, Kaskey served on the players’ committee. Here’s how he introduced himself to one of the candidates, Brian Doll: “My name is Matt Kaskey, and I’m an offensive lineman.”

Doll’s response, a nanosecond later: “Of course you are.”

Everybody in the room burst out laughing, and the last remnant of the outburst’s echo allegedly still lives today.

Doll — he got the job — laughed again while recounting the encounter after New Trier’s 24-7 loss to host Maine South on Oct. 2.

Kaskey revisited the memorable moment the next day.

“It got our relationship off to a good start,” Kaskey said.

Kaskey’s final season in a New Trier football uniform is going quite well, as is Doll’s first season (5-1, 1-1 in the Central Suburban League South) at his alma mater. Kaskey and his fellow OL bookend (right tackle Jordan Palmer, a 6-3, 320-pound senior) are anchoring a line that creates wide corridors for senior running backs Kevin Mulhern and Caleb Roth and protects sophomore quarterback Clay Czyzynski from ornery defensive ends.

“A big man, a tremendous blocker, and he’s in great condition,” NT senior fullback/linebacker Aidan Nolan said of Kaskey, also a smart man (owner of a 34 ACT score) who has received football scholarship offers from Columbia University and Valparaiso. “You could not ask for a better lineman

than ‘Big Kask,’ a guy who will do anything for the team.

“And he’s very approachable,” Nolan added. “He might look big and a little scary at first, but as soon as you get to know him, he’s super nice; ask anybody at our school.

Everybody loves him.”

A Winnetka resident with a surplus of gregariousness, Kaskey played center for his youth football team as a sixthgrader. He shifted to guard the next year and has lined up at tackle since the eighth grade.

“I like the tackle position, mostly because it allows me to get to the open field on some plays and make more blocks downfield,” said Kaskey, who is also looking at Dartmouth, Penn, Boston College and the University of South Dakota.

New Trier’s Green Teamers — the school’s loyal, vocal phalanx of student fans (Class of ’15) — took up a sizable chunk of the visiting side’s bleachers at Maine South last week. Kaskey heard his name shouted from the section more than a few times in Park Ridge.

Green Teamer and Trevians hoopster David Hammes rooted for Kaskey, a friend since the sixth grade.

“Matt,” Hammes said, “is a big, hearty guy, a great guy and a smart guy … full of energy. In games he explodes off the line, gets that push you need. When he’s out there on a football field, he always has an impact.”

Kaskey also likes to hit soccer fields for occasional pickup battles with his friends, his brother (Auburn University sophomore Bruce Kaskey) and his brother’s friends.

Yes, soccer.

Matt Kaskey usually protects nets, which almost seems unfair. The last person a forward or a midfielder wants to see standing in a goalmouth is a massive, nimble, quick lineman.

Kaskey once made an acrobatic save with his right hand on a pitch at Duke Childs Fields, going up and getting horizontal to stop a shot blasted from 15 yards out. He fell

on his side.

He got back up.

“It hurt,” Kaskey recalled. “But it was worth it. I don’t like to lose in anything.”

Kaskey and the rest of the Trevs hope to win their final three football games this month, finish 8-1, host a playoff game and win a playoff game for the first time since a 31-10 defeat of Lane Tech in 2008.

It all appears doable, especially with a Kaskey in the trenches.

“I’m happy he’s on our side,” said a smiling Doll. “He’s competitive, really gets after it. Matt also has a great sense of humor.

“Everybody,” he added, “gravitates toward him.”

Of course they do.

Notable: New Trier outgained Maine South 244-195 yards in the first half but trailed 10-7 on Oct. 3. The Hawks (6-0, 2-0) executed a trick play — a 68-yard touchdown pass on a halfback option — and got a 27-yard field goal from Sean McNulty before the break. A lengthy lightning delay began at 6:17 of the fourth quarter, with South up 16-7.

Mulhern (17 carries, 136 yards, 34-yard TD run) and senior wideout Scott Hammes (3 catches, 78 yards) paced New Trier’s offense. Trevians junior linebacker Joe Lewis intercepted a pass at 7:13 of the third quarter, and Colin Casas, another junior linebacker, broke up a pass and stopped a Hawks ball carrier for a loss in the second half. “We played smash-mouth football tonight; I was happy with our running backs and offensive linemen,” Doll said. “I was really proud of our defense, too. We came out, played well right away. We just didn’t finish (drives) well … we have to clean that up.” … The win swelled Maine South’s winning streak in CSL South games to 67. … New Trier hosts Glenbrook South (5-1, 1-1) Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. ■

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Lethal weapon 6: Highland Park High School defensive-midfielder Zach Kohn blasts a shot in earlier action this fall. He had five goals and seven assists through 15 matches..

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sports@northsoreweekend.com The sound of a rifle soccer shot striking the crossbar of a goal interrupted one of Blake Novotny’s halftime talks six years ago.

Novotny was Highland Park High School’s freshman boys soccer coach at the time. Jordan Kohn (HPHS, ’12) was a member of the team.

“I turn away from my team and look toward the field, and I see this little kid taking shots from 25 yards out … and he’s ripping them, shot after shot,” recalled Novotny, now the Giants’ varsity soccer coach.

The kid was Kohn’s kid brother, Zach, then an 11-yearold and a sixth-grader.

“His calves were rocks,” Novotny added. “I remember thinking, ‘I can’t wait until this kid enters high school.’ ” Only one ball entered a goal in Highland Park’s home match against Maine East on Sept. 30. The ball beat Maine East’s goalkeeper at 16:40 of the second half, thanks to some significant help from a senior’s calf.

The senior: Zach Kohn, former show-stopping entertainer whose father, Stuart, had the unenviable task of serving as a goalkeeper during intermissions.

The goal against the Blue Demons upped Kohn’s goal total to five this fall, to go with his assist total of seven, for the 8-3-4 Giants (2-0-2 in the Central Suburban League North).

“Not bad for a defensive midfielder,” Novotny said of his 5-foot-6, 150-pound tri-captain after the 1-0 victory — HP’s fifth straight shutout behind senior keeper Carlos Pineda and the team’s dogged defenders. “Zach is gritty and tough, and he can really strike the ball well; he’s dangerous.

“His range as a player is better this year,” he added.

“His open-field tackling, his mobility, his leadership … all of that has improved. Plus there’s that senior mentality we’re seeing from him.”

Kohn started for HP’s varsity as a sophomore, stifling forwards from an outside-back slot. He’d been a staple in the back for two-plus seasons until Novotny moved him to the defensive-mid position last month.

Kohn’s impressive stats mean little to him.

“I don’t keep track of them,” he admitted. “Whatever they are, I want to see our forwards surpass them. I love soccer as much as I do because of the team aspect of the sport. I love my team; I love playing for it.

“I could never see myself playing an individual sport.”

The individual who has had the most influence on his soccer career is big brother Jordan, who is one inch taller and 15 pounds heavier than Zach. Jordan is a junior and engineering major at the University of Virginia.

“He pushed me, motivated me, made me tough,” Zach said. “He is still extremely fit. In our summer workouts [at Wolters Field] together he likes to say to me, ‘Let’s do some pull-ups.’ We then do pull-ups.

“My brother made sure I stayed fit between soccer seasons.”

One of Zach Kohn’s teammates back in his American Youth Soccer Association days was current HP senior forward Tony Barrios. Kohn’s approach to the sport during his tyke years was the same as it is today.

“Zach has always played soccer with a lot of heart, with a lot of passion,” Barrios said. “He practices that way, too.

The shots he takes, from 30 yards out — they’re bullet knuckleballs, fast and consistent. Some are one-touch bullets, and if they’re not goals, they at least set up chances

[for teammates to finish].”

Kohn likes sports in general and jumps at the chances to play pick-up basketball games. But he doesn’t see himself playing for a college soccer team.

He will focus on his education — instead of schooling more soccer foes — after his final match as a Giant.

“But I will still need soccer in my life, so I will play in pick-up games, intramurals or club,” Kohn said.

He later recalled those days at Wolters Field, where he made sweet, loud music by occasionally banging shots off crossbars and unintentionally disrupting his future coach’s halftime chats.

More than a handful of spectators must have stopped what they were doing in order to check out the wispy sixthgrader with the lethal leg.

If any of them reacted with an “Ooh” or a “Wow,” Kid Kohn didn’t hear it.

“I remember taking as many shots as I could before the second half started,” he said. “That was my main focus.”

Stuart Kohn’s focus, meanwhile, as he stood in a goalmouth and attempted to deal with his son’s laser shots: survival, probably.

“My dad,” Zach Kohn said, “has been great. His soccer advice to me for years has been, ‘Play hard, play smart, have fun.’ ” Notable: HP’s Giants went 3-0 at an invite held at Glenwood High School in Chatham Sept. 26-27. … Novotny, on Giants keeper Pineda: “He’s communicating well, keeping our defense organized.” … Kohn’s goal in the match with Maine East last week stemmed from a scramble following a Barrios corner kick. Barrios and senior defender Omar Rodriguez are the team’s other tri-captains. ■

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MAGIC

IN THE MIDFIELD Matousek’s arsenal features many skillful moves — including a real head-turner

X marks the spot: Loyola Academy’s Nicole Matousek drops way down to make a play.

■ by bill mclean

sports@northsoreweekend.com It does not have an official name yet.

Here’s a suggestion: “The Matousek.”

It’s a slick, signature field hockey move executed by Loyola Academy senior center-midfielder Nicole Matousek, and it usually leaves defenders feeling flustered, embarrassed and exasperated.

Some of her victims have probably wondered or muttered, “Why didn’t I go out for swimming instead this fall?

“Nicole does it at least twice a game,” Ramblers senior sweeper Hope Cummins says. “It’s her trick move.”

It’s a quick move, really, and one that’s seemingly easy to pull off: Matousek pokes the ball between a defender’s legs and eludes the duped defender to catch up to the suddenly free ball.

But it requires a combination of timing, athleticism, quick wrists.

And sleight of stick.

Matousek — an unselfish tri-captain, a third-year varsity member and a defenseman on LA’s state runner-up ice hockey team this past spring — sometimes uses the “The Matousek” to free herself from relentless pressure and create room to roam and flick a pass to an open teammate.

“Nicole keeps her stick skills razor sharp by playing ice hockey,” LA field hockey coach Annie Nimz says. “If you watch her dribble the ball, it’s an amazing feat to behold.”

But Matousek’s fancy stick work represents only a portion of her value to a team that improved to 10-2-1 when it downed visiting St. Ignatius 6-0 on Oct. 1. Her position in the midfield also demands tireless back-and-forth agility and a voice that’s forceful and helpful.

“Some of my responsibilities [as a captain] are to know when it’s time to get serious, to organize my teammates and to be an advocate for them to our coaches and the referees,” says Matousek, a Wilmette resident who helped a 17-6 LA squad place fourth at last fall’s state tournament.

“But it’s not like I’m superior to anybody. The way I look at it, we’re all teammates and no one is better than

photography by joel lerner

any other.”

Matousek has struck for some clutch goals this fall, including the decisive goal in a 3-2 overtime win over visiting Glenbard West on Aug. 28 and the goal in a 1-0 defeat of host St. Ignatius on Sept. 5.

She also tallied a 1-v-1 (shootout) goal in a 3-3 doubleOT tie with two-time reigning state champion Lake Forest High School on Sept. 23.

“Nicole is very fast … one of the fastest players on our team,” Cummins says. “She’s also strong, with outstanding stickhandling skills. As a leader she’s consistent, and her leadership transfers well from off the field to on it.

“Nicole,” she adds, “is very good at getting our spirits up, getting us ready for practices and preparing us for games.”

Loyola Academy’s first game of the season took place on Aug. 26 — some 10 months after LA fell to Lake Forest Academy in the game for third place at the 2013 state tournament.

Its foe that day: Lake Forest HS. Nimz’s crew was ready, prepared.

The visiting Ramblers edged the reigning state champion Scouts 3-2 in OT, on goals by senior attack Micaela Foley, junior center attack and returning all-stater Lindsay Getz and senior defender Riley Miller.

Ramblers senior goalkeeper Courtney Cheevers, another returning all-state pick, got the win and almost got swallowed whole afterward — by swarming and ecstatic teammates.

“We knew we had potential before the start of the season, and we capitalized on it to beat an extremely, extremely strong team,” Matousek says. “When that clock [stood at] 0:00, we all felt pure elation and ran to celebrate with [Cheevers].

“Winning that day … it felt like shock, really,” she adds.

“What an incredible, amazing win that was for us.”

Among LA’s many team strengths is its right-sideline dribbling. Matousek praises LA assistant coach Gia Lenzi for being instrumental in developing the tough-to-defend rushes. Chemistry and accurate passing, along with attempting to thwart “The Matousek”, also pose challenges for the Ramblers’ opponents.

But what’s especially comforting from a Loyola Academy perspective is the effective connection Matousek shares with Nimz.

“Nicole is such a calm, controlled person and player,” Nimz says. “As a coach, I can look to her for something and she knows what I mean or what I am going to say before I say it. She totally gets what I’m going to say and just says, ‘No problem, Coach, I’ve got it.’ It’s an invaluable trait, and it helps me out immensely.”

Three sophomores made Loyola’s senior-laden team this fall, including a midfielder named Lindsay Matousek — a certain captain’s kid sister.

“It’s been a cool experience, playing together for the same team,” Nicole Matousek says. “We’d never done that.

“We help each other.”

Nicole Matousek doesn’t need a soccer pitch to bond with her mother, Joanne. Both hit the grocery aisle together nearly every Sunday and pedal hard in the same spinning class on other days.

“I have a lot of fun doing things with her,” Nicole says.

Maybe, just maybe, another version of “The Matousek” will someday make an appearance at a local Jewel.

Picture Nicole Matousek rolling a can of soup between the wheels of a motionless grocery cart. Joanne Matousek stops the can with a foot from the other side of the cart, picks it up and places it in the cart.

Daughter smiles.

Smiling mother raises her right hand.

Daughter high-fives it.

Notable: LA defeated host Stevenson 3-1 on Sept. 29, halting a two-game losing streak. Miller, junior Kelly McKerr and senior Sarah Hagedorn scored the Ramblers’ goals. … Hagedorn scored two more goals in the 6-0 rout of St. Ignatius two days later, matching senior attack Molly Laughlin’s output. Miller and senior midfielder Laura Mahoney each contributed a goal. … Miller and sophomore Gabby Paracchini tallied the other 1-v-1 (shootout) goals in the 3-3 stalemate with Lake Forest HS on Sept. 23. …

LA’s third returning all-stater is senior defender Margaret Crawford. ■

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HE ELEVATES CURATING TO A FINE ART

■ by david sweet

last month, Reed spent an hour walking the galleries.

He watched carpenters work on an exhibit that opens Sunday Growing up in Lake Forest, entitled “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” showing the period Peter Reed loved botany, which late in life when the artist’s tools consisted of scissors and he demonstrated by plantpainted paper. He checked the space for “Robert Gober: The ing a garden in the backyard.

Heart Is Not a Metaphor” — the sculptor wanted running Architecture captivated him, water in the gallery for part of the display, and MoMA was especially his grandmother’s spending many hours trying to figure out how that would work. house designed by David Adler on Lake Road.

During the first portion of his 22-year career at the He played the piano and took a museum, Reed served as a curator in the Department of college course in world music that Architecture and Design. He put together major exhibiwas so eye-opening, it prompted tions, which take three or four years to bring to fruition, and him to take two around-the-world wrote books to complement them. After curating a show on trips — stopping in countries such as Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto — an artist so Indonesia and Afghanistan — before beloved in his country that his face once graced its currency he was 25.

— Reed was knighted by Finland’s president. He points to Despite many creative pasa 2005 show he created called “Groundswell: Constructing sions, Reed admits that he the Contemporary Landscape” — which focused on sites reclaimed from obsolescence — as a highlight. was no artist in his youth and showed little interest in the “I was responding to what was going on in the world,” genre. So how did he end up says Reed, whose book on the topic is used as a textbook as the senior deputy director in schools. “No one had pulled together a show about postfor curatorial affairs at the industrial landscapes being turned into parks.”

Museum of Modern Art After traveling the globe, Reed took a job at (MoMA) in New York, Peter Reed illustration by barry blitt The Art Institute in Chicago in 1978. He enjoyed an 85-year-old instituthe hard work and realized he wanted to be surtion whose collection is unparalleled? rounded by creative people and to help support them.

Taking art history courses from Lake Forest College After earning both a master of arts degree and a PhD in professor Franz Schulze — who taught there for nearly 40 the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, he lecyears — was a turning point in his life. tured at the Ivy League school before joining MoMA in 1992.

“I ate up everything he taught us,” says Reed, a 1977 At the moment, Reed wears many hats at the museum graduate of the liberal arts school. “If you thought art was on 53rd Street. A liaison between senior administrators frivolous, he made you realize it’s a serious enterprise. It and six curatorial departments, he also oversees the conmade it powerful. It legitimized everything.” servation department, the publications department, digital MoMA — whose motto since opening in 1929 is “Art In Our media and more.

He is proud to work for such a renowned institution.

Time” and which focuses on everything from photography “The unbelievable support from our trustees and others to performance art — is constantly changing, and the Lake allow us to be global — and to dream,” he says. “I’ve never Forest native is there to help guide its evolution. One morning

worked at a place where, even if the idea is far-fetched, we will make it happen.”

Though art museums once feared the digital landscape, worried that paintings themselves may be replaced by online images, Reed says MoMA has embraced changing technology.“Some of our innovative work is for online education courses, which is connecting people all over the world,” says the North Shore Country Day School graduate. “The hunger for art is also a social experience — it’s not an ivory tower. The digital realm is so interesting to us.”

Being part of an esteemed non-profit runs in the family. Reed’s great grandfather, John G. Shedd, founded the Shedd Aquarium.

“I love the place and its architecture. It’s pretty magical,” he says. “I’m somewhat jealous that Chicago has everything to help people explore the universe in one spot — under the sea (Shedd), the stars (Adler Planetarium), and the earth (Field Museum). If I could just retire tomorrow, I would go to Chicago and go to those museums all the time.”

In his spare time, Reed loves listening to classical music, a passion fostered by attending Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts with his mother, Marjorie, who is still a fan of the Friday afternoon performances downtown. For the last 15 years, he and his partner have enjoyed bicycling around places like Death Valley, another hobby that runs in the family — his father John and mother biked around France every summer well into their 80s.

Reed also enjoys a country home in upstate New York, which is near the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn.

Amazingly enough, a niece or nephew has matriculated there every year for the past 15, and their uncle makes sure to take them for Sunday breakfast to Chaiwalla, set in an old house in nearby Salisbury. Reed orders a waffle topped with sliced bananas, strawberries and blueberries drowning in syrup.

And when the weekend is over, he can’t wait to return to work.

“We have the most devoted, talented staff. We push each other,” Reed says. “I love my job.” ■

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