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NORTHWESTERN GRADUATE JESSICA PULLER IS GETTING KNOWN IN THE THEATER WORLD FOR HER COMPELLING PLAYS. P.46

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THE ANTIQUES + MODERNISM PREVIEW PARTY DRAWS A CROWD BEFORE BIG EVENT. P23

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 STRONG FOUNDATION

With the state budget shot and city budgets strained, will other North Shore towns follow the lead of the Lake Forest Police Foundation to update equipment?

14 RELIVING THE HORRORS

The author of a debut novel about the dark side of Gaddafi’s Libya, “Chameleon in the Garden,” will appear at the Book Stall in Winnetka, where her daughter now lives.

15 NEWS DIGEST

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

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 23 SOCIAL WHIRL

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

25 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWNS

The North Shore’s Carpet Cleaning Experts

Find out about the best events coming up this week in the North Shore.

HOME & DESIGN 29 IT’S IN THE DETAILS

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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 38 STATING THEIR CASE

Loyola Academy’s football team came up short in its Class 8A state playoff game against Stevenson, while Lake Forest High School and New Trier keep their postseason hopes alive with second-round victories.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST… 46 SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Northwestern graduate Jessica Puller is getting known in the theater world for her compelling plays.

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Many kids are dreaming of playing in the NHL — especially for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Achieving that goal is mind-numbingly tough. In the Chicago area, only two have ever achieved it: Eddie Olczyk and Chris Chelios.

The latter grew up living for the golden teams of the early 1970s featuring Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and others whose retired numbers now hang from the rafters. And after shining eventually as a defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens, Chelios joined his beloved team in a controversial 1990 trade that sent popular center Denis Savard to his hometown of Montreal.

“I grew up dreaming to be a hockey player,” says Chelios, who graduated from Mount Carmel High School. “Every kid in the neighborhood skated in the park. To find myself playing in front of friends and family in Chicago Stadium, not many people get that chance.”

By 1992, he helped lift the Blackhawks into the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in nearly 20 years. Facing the great Mario Lemieux and the upand-coming Jaromir Jagr, the Hawks were disposed in four straight by Pittsburgh.

“Probably the worst moment of my career is that I couldn’t win a championship in Chicago,” says the 52-year-old, who captured three Stanley Cups with Montreal and Detroit along with a silver medal in the 2002 Olympics (“any athlete would give an arm

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Foundations, grants crucial to buoy North Shore police departments ■ by bill mclean Residents from Winnetka piled into squad cars and fire trucks, infiltrated the village’s 911 communications center and outnumbered the uniformed protectors of the community last month.

But anarchy hadn’t run rampant on the North Shore.

Winnetka’s police and fire departments hosted their annual open house for curious citizens. “ The event was well-attended,” Commander Marc Hornstein of the Winnetka Police Department says. “It always is. People want to know about the departments’ equipment. People enjoy seeing equipment demonstrations.

“The village,” he adds, “has always been very responsive to our need to make sure our equipment is up-to-date.”

City of Lake Forest defibrillators reached the awkward age of 13 this year. That’s a precarious age for a class of vital devices — too precarious for Lake Forest resident and Lake Forest Citizen Police Academy graduate Terry Rozdolsky and others who had heard what the formation of a local foundation could do for a police department that earmarks most of its budget for salaries and benefits.

“Commander Robert Copeland [of the Lake Forest Police Department] attended a

seminar on how to set up such a foundation and told me about it,” Rozdolsky recalls.

“It had been talked about for a year in our community.

“I was interested because I gained new respect and appreciation for what police officers do through the Citizen Police Academy.”

“Police departments are finding creative ways to provide funding because [state] government funding … that’s been drying up.” | George Pfutzenreuter The Lake Forest Police Foundation — a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization — launched in June, with 18 founding donors each contributing $5,000. Donors contacted businesses, and the fund to help the Lake Forest Police Department purchase top-of-the-line equipment and restore programs and specialty training eventually grew to $80,000.

The Chicago Bears signed on recently.

More than two dozen state-of-the-art defibrillators — at a combined cost of $40,000, Rozdolsky notes — arrived in boxes last

week.

“If a new defibrillator saves one life in Lake Forest, it would be worth it … well worth it,” Rozdolsky says. “The foundation also brought back the police department’s self-defense course that had been cut from the budget years ago.”

But there’s more to the Lake Forest Police Foundation than its mission to supplement the police department’s budget and save lives. It will bring the police force closer to the city’s residents.

“Most of Lake Forest’s police officers don’t live in Lake Forest, and I can think of only one firefighter who lives in Lake Forest,” Rozdolsky says. “I’m confident a foundation like ours is an ideal way to help our officers connect better with the citizens because of the increased community involvement.”

Highland Park is a city without a police foundation like Lake Forest’s. But it benefits from police benevolent causes — as do other cities and villages on the North Shore — and it boasts a Community Emergency Rescue Team (CERT), comprised of between 60-80 volunteers who assist salaried officials during disasters and parades.

“Police departments are finding creative ways to provide funding because [state] government funding … that’s been drying up,” Highland Park Deputy Chief George Pfutzenreuter says. “Our police canine

funds come from a charitable organization. We sometimes seek 50/50 grants — a grant like that has helped us purchase bulletproof vests.

“We assess the needs of our police department each year and budget for those needs.”

It’s paramount that police departments adopt a forward-thinking stance when it comes to budgeting for technology in their squad cars and buildings. Newfangled gadgetry at the consumer level these days, it seems, becomes obsolete quickly.

“It’s important to look two, three, four years down the road, when equipment will have to be replaced,” Hornstein, the Winnetka commander, says. “Equipment has a life cycle; you maintain your department’s technology through strategic planning.”

The Lake Forest Police Foundation plans to help brighten kids’ lives at Lake Forest’s 31st Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony Nov. 28. Underprivileged children from other communities will get to head home with unused toys.

“We’ve been overwhelmed with the positive response to the foundation, along with the tremendous support from many people,” Rozdolsky says, adding the foundation will stage its first fundraiser either next spring or summer. “It took the right people to come together and get this thing launched, and we’re grateful it’s doing as well as it is.” ■

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A word to the (Plum) wise Start-up recommendation site attracts busy North Shore folks

■ by bill mclean Evanston residents and former University of Michigan dorm mates Alex Buck and Meg Newman have more than a zip code and an alma mater in common.

Each also has three children.

The ages of Buck’s kids are 6, 5 and 2.

Newman’s offspring?

They’re also 6, 5 and (cue eerie music) 2.

“As I was leaving the hospital [with her youngest, after giving birth], Alex was entering it,” says Newman, who lives about two miles from Buck.

The busy professionals and mothers — Buck has more than 15 years of legal, business and technology experience; Newman has more than 15 years of legal, marketing and sales experience — are raising a unique recommendation site together these days.

It’s called Plumwise, a private, selective online community born in May 2013, devoted to saving members time and headquartered primarily in Buck’s kitchen. It connects members to the best-of-the-best service providers after Buck and Newman receive recommendations from Plumwise members (based on first-hand experiences) and then investigate all recommendations before selecting up to three Plumworthy providers in any given category and neighborhood.

“Most of our members are looking for quality, not deals, and we don’t seek or collect recommendations for restaurants, hotels

and products — the market is too crowded with such sites,” says Buck, the venture’s CEO. “We’re interested in informing members of the best medical professionals, personal stylists, masseuses, caterers … service providers.

“We know what our members need because we have similar needs. Meg and I were frustrated with conflicting reviews on other sites, and nobody wants to spend three hours looking for the best service providers. We can help.”

A full-time professional and mother of young children had just moved to Evanston.

She wanted to find a top-notch preschool daycare provider but did not know where to start. Plumwise did.

“We collected recommendations and contacted schools for her,” says Newman, Plumwise President. “Then we let her know what was available.”

Another busy mother/professional on the North Shore sought to hire a food truck to help her host a feast for her son and many of his teammates after a successful competition. It was a last-minute effort — one that probably didn’t seem promising at first.

But Plumwise came through again. A packed food truck got into gear and delivered the goodies.

“I go to Plumwise because I trust what I read there, trust the recommendations,” says Highland Park resident and Plumwise member Lisa Pattis, a mother of three and executive vice president, general counsel and

corporate secretary at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont.

“The recommendations,” she adds, “are made by real people. The best part, though, is Plumwise’s use of an intermediary. That’s huge and incredibly valuable, knowing the services you read about on the site had been vetted. It’s a fabulous idea … their [the co-founders’] execution of it has been tremendous.”

Another appeal of Plumwise is its refusal to accept compensation from providers in exchange for being recommended on the site.

Plumwise members also like the site’s commitment to privacy. Say a member wants to ask the Plumwise community to either recommend a plastic surgeon for him or her or recommend a child therapist for a son with a behavioral disorder. The member can do both anonymously.

Plumwise also organizes exclusive networking events that bring members and service providers together.

“One personal stylist,” Buck says, “got 21 appointments in two hours at one of our network events.”

Plumwise membership increased from 160 in January to 365 by late October, Buck notes. The number of the site’s service providers stood at 500 in late October.

Lynda Ross is president of The Caterist/ Rent-A-Chef, Inc., in Evanston. It’s a Plumworthy provider because of its consistent attention to detail, presentation and personalization.

Alex Buck and Meg Newman

photography by joel lerner “We don’t cookie-cutter anything,” Ross says.

Buck doesn’t do anything halfway.

Buck and Newman met some 20 years ago in Huber Hall on the south quad at the University of Michigan.

“I remember seeing Alex and immediately thinking she’s crazy — but in a great way,” Newman says. “She has an amazing amount of enthusiasm, and she’s always zealously committed to everything in life. It’s exciting to be around her kind of energy.”

For more information on Plumwise, visit www.plumwise.com. ■

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Rare book dealer believes he’s found link to the Bard ■ by katie rose mceneely

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George Koppelman, a rare book dealer from New York, will present a lecture on a copy of John Baret’s “Alvearie” — which Koppelman believes is annotated by William Shakespeare — at Lake Forest College on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 4 p.m.

Reading: I really find the books I read intensively in college and right afterward are the ones I keep returning to. I started collecting books as an undergraduate, and there was a good amount of time where I wasn’t an active collector. I did wind up spending about 28 years working as a research staff member at IBM’s research division, but I kept collecting books mainly in modern fiction and poetry.

When I left that job I decided to try my hand at becoming a book dealer, because I’d been collecting for quite a long time. Since I got started with Shakespeare when we got the dictionary in April of 2008, I spend a lot of time reading about the period — basically the mid-Elizabethan era.

Listening: I barely know what a scale is, but chamber music!

Following: When I started doing this, basically it was all printed — dealers would print one or two or three catalogs a year and mail them out. In about the late 1960s (I’m really aging myself), there were antique book fairs and auctions and catalogs. In a way those are still the main ways of keeping in touch, though of course now there’s the Internet. If you’re in a particular field you know the dealers who specialize in those books.

Activity: John Baret’s “Alvearie” [Latin for ‘beehive’] — I was the one who got on eBay and found this [annotated Elizabethan dictionary published in London in 1580], and I immediately sent the listing over to a book-selling

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colleague, Daniel Wechsler, and he was interested in it. We bought it together and have been working on it together. We were very interested in the annotations just because of the period of it — 1580 is really at the beginning of Elizabethan drama, where companies were coming together and people were starting to write plays for them. It just seemed to me one of the most exciting things — I didn’t know there were Elizabethan dictionaries.

If you look at a dictionary today, it’s mostly usages of words, but this dictionary came out at a time where real literature and scholarship was still done in Latin. The idea was to take hard words in English and see how they were used by classical authors.

The editor of the dictionary uses the term vide, which means “go look at this” — if he’s defining ‘scabbard’ and he’s also defined ‘sheathe,’ he’ll say ‘vide sheathe,’ since it will point to other usages. We’ve spent almost seven years looking at it, and it seems clear to us that Shakespeare did use this dictionary, because there are certain usage examples in this dictionary which are in Shakespeare’s writing — if you see three or four hundred examples like that, it’s not coincidence.

People have been looking for manuscripts Shakespeare annotated for 400 years now and haven’t found one; were this book to become widely accepted as Shakespeare’s dictionary, it would be an earthquake.

Eating: In New York, we do a lot of takeout. My wife and I, since we retired from our day jobs, we’re busier than ever and don’t have as much time to cook. I used to be so good at hollandaise sauce! It didn’t matter if it curdled, I could rescue it. I haven’t done it in so long, I probably lost the skill.

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■ by angelika labno The effects of living in an oppressive society stayed with Nita Nicholson long after she had left Libya. It was not until decades later that her silence, enforced under Muammar Gaddafi’s rule, finally took refuge in the pages of her debut novel.

The British author will be in the North Shore and in Chicago promoting her book “Chameleon in My Garden,” which is drawn largely from her experience of living in Libya and visiting her Libyan husband, a political prisoner, in Tripoli and Benghazi prisons. Winnetka Library will host an event Dec. 16 at 7 p.m., and The Book Stall in Winnetka will feature the author on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m.

Set in Libya during the 1970s, the novel describes the oppression of the Gaddafi regime towards its own people. It focuses on a family whose son, a medical doctor, has been imprisoned for dissent. His family, including his English wife and their two children, are faced with challenges and obstacles in the quest for the missing son, and communication and trust among them break down. The family’s one place of refuge is the garden, where the chameleon hides.

“I think that if you live in a very oppressive state, in order to survive, you have to close down your feelings,” Nicholson explains. “In my final draft [of the book], I realized I hadn’t explained how anybody felt.

I then began to understand there was more, and I had to rewrite the novel again.”

Multiple perspectives are woven into the story, as Nicholson believed it was important to illustrate the situation not only through the author’s eyes.

“For my husband’s family to have this English woman in their midst — when Gaddafi had made marriage to foreigners illegal — I was a burden to that family,” Nicholson says. “I was an additional cross they had to bear, but they surmounted it.”

Nicholson’s daughter, Sehaam Caselberg, lives in Winnetka with her family. She was between two and eight years old when she lived in Libya, and she thanks her mother for sheltering her from much of what was going on. She says that reading the book helped her reframe her experiences of people and see them in another light.

“She gave me a way to see another side to somebody that I maybe found challenging when I was growing up,” she said. “I’ve come to appreciate her ability to connect to and have that compassion for people, even though what she’s going through is pretty horrific.”

Nicholson describes the writing process as a difficult experience of reliving such a dark time in her life. The family moved to Libya in 1969 when her husband, a talented surgeon, was called to be a director of health for the Green Mountain region. He was imprisoned, along with other intelligentsia, in 1973.

Nicholson stayed in the country until 1979, when she

took her family back to the United Kingdom. There, she campaigned for her husband’s release, which was eventually granted in 1984.

“When he came out of prison, he realized Libya was an entire prison,” said Nicholson. “If anyone decent puts their head above the parapet, it’s high risk.”

She believes there is an altruism among the Libyan people, whom she also describes as moderate, tolerant, sane and good people, but that outsiders might have little understanding of a society that lacks institutions for help.

Caselberg would argue that her parents are similarly altruistic, putting their own lives at risk for the sake of doing what is right.

“This is a story of endurance and an important record of the atrocities that happened under Gaddafi’s watch,” she notes.

Now that she’s retired from teaching, Nicholson

Nita Nicholson

has opened the floodgates to her inner artist. She is working on a new novel, and she also enjoys writing poetry and taking ceramics. She is most interested in the conversations that may take place surrounding her first novel, especially the feedback from Libyans. She cautions against one presumption, however.

“I don’t think my book is about Libya or me and my experience,” Nicholson says. “It translates to many different parts of the world. The book was about me finding my freedom of speech.

“I feel I have survived — writing has helped me to survive.”

Sample chapters and more about the author can be found at www.nitanicholson.com. ■

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The voices of rising opera stars at Northwestern University will be heard in the new Shirley Welsh Ryan Opera Theater.

The rehearsal and performance space will be housed inside the Music and Communi-

alumnus Patrick G. Ryan, has made a leadership gift of support to Northwestern’s $3.75 billion fundraising campaign.

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Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital announced that it has received the Lake Forest home of Nancy L. Hughes — widow of the late movie producer John Hughes —to help in the development of its new hospital building, which is scheduled to open in 2017.

Hughes is contributing her 11,233-squarefoot-home and surrounding two-acre property on Westminster as a charitable gift.

“John loved the beauty of Lake Forest; I love Lake Forest,” said Hughes, whose husband was widely known for such 1980s blockbusters as the “Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and the “Home Alone” franchise. “So when the opportunity to help advance the hospital presented itself, it was an easy decision to make.”

Proceeds from the eventual sale of the home — whose estimated value is $4.5 million, according to Zillow.com — will benefit the new $378 million facility, which is the largest economic project in Lake Forest history.

called for expanded parklands, greenways, and trails in northeastern Illinois. In 2012, the Chicago Botanic Garden awarded him the Hutchinson Medal.

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The Lake Forest Civic Orchestra will have guest conductor Lawrence Eckerling on the podium for its Sunday, Nov. 16 concert at Christ Church beginning at 4 p.m.

Eckerling is one of four guest conductors chosen for the orchestra’s 2014-2015 season. He currently serves as music director of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra. The LFCO will chose one of its guest conductors

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Jazz and Western classical music will unite in a “Turn Out the Stars” performance on Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. New Trier High School.

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Documentary explores tragic story of an Internet wunderkind ■ by patrick z mcgavin The digital age promotes a world where, theoretically, everything is permitted and nothing denied. The individualist looms large, as entrepreneur, radical thinker and self-creator.

The story of Highland Park’s Aaron Swartz is one of triumph and tragedy, a young man blessed with extraordinary intelligence, whose early life played a transforming role in how the Internet shaped public and private life through his work on the web-feed format RSS and the social news site Reddit.

His impulse was not to be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. He was too prickly and unpredictable a person. He channeled his energies and talents into writing and

“Some of the most haunting material in the film reveals the true precocity of (Aaron) Swartz, reading at age two and playing with his first computer at the age of three.” political and social activism.

His story is told in the sharp and engaging documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy.” Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger adroitly mixes archival footage, Swartz family videos and interviews to relate its subject’s astounding, moving and finally devastatingly story that ended with the young man committing suicide in January of 2013 after federal prosecutors rejected his plea arrangement.

The movie premiered this January,

almost a year to the day of his death, in Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival. Like many specialized works, the movie has cut a serpentine path into the marketplace, playing multiple festivals, earning awards and playing specialized theaters and museums.

Fittingly, the movie has found its greatest reach on video on demand (VOD) platforms and digital downloads, like iTunes.

Swartz grew up in Highland Park, the third son of Robert and Susan Swartz. In the movie, Knappenberger deftly alternates between journalism and intimate portrait.

Some of the most haunting material in the film reveals the true precocity of Swartz, reading at age two and playing with his first computer at the age of three.

One of the great achievements of the film is to humanize Swartz and place his great gifts in context. The movie’s subtitle is “The Story of Aaron Swartz.” It could just as easily be “A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.” Much of the first third of the film is set in Highland Park, where Aaron was born in November, 1986.

A few months after Swartz’s death, Knappenberger approached the Swartz family about the film.

“We were honored and humbled that [Knappenberger] was interested,” Robert Swartz said.

Every documentary is implicitly about the relationship of the filmmaker to its subject. Knappenberger spent several days in Highland Park, interviewing the family members. The act of memory and remembrance provides a sharp emotional counterbalance to the legal imbroglio after Swartz was arrested and charged with two counts of wire fraud and multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he was discovered allegedly illegally downloading millions of documents from JSTOR, a subscription-based digital library of academic

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The film offers testimony from Swartz’s own lawyer and independent legal observers about the nature of the government’s actions, of judicial overstep and the validity of the government’s charges given JSTOR eventually dropped its own charges.

“I think Brian did a very good job of telling the story,” Robert Swartz said. Aaron Swartz’s older brothers Noah and Ben help draw out a complicated and complex personality, his dazzling intellect masking a social introvert. The mix was a combustible one, especially growing up.

At Highland Park, his abilities were daunting. Aaron’s natural bent was to challenge authority and often ask impertinent questions. In high school, Swartz

often collided with his teachers and school administrators.

The Swartz family has been supportive of and connected to the film, attending the premiere at Sundance. Robert Swartz conducted several post-screening sessions when the film played commercially at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center in late June.

The question of mourning is not easy to answer.

“All of this has been has been incredibly difficult and hard,” Robert Swartz said. “The film has been very important to helping people understand the things that Aaron stood for, and what he was trying to accomplish.

“Our hope is that something like that won’t ever happen again.” ■

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Boutique to kick off holiday shopping season

As a mother, Lake Forest resident Sam Davie knows her path will inevitably intersect with Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

“We all have kids and families, and we’ll all use the hospital throughout our lives,” said Davie, explaining her involvement with the Women’s Board of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

“The Women’s Board has always been the voice of what’s going on at the hospital for the community. With the new hospital that’s coming, especially, it’s important that we spread the word about it.”

It’s for that reason that Davie has teamed up with Julie Thauer and Susan Weninger to co-chair the Women’s Board’s annual Holiday Boutique. Thirty-five vendors from across the country will convene at the Lake Forest Recreation Center Nov. 20-22 to kick off the holiday shopping season.

The lineup includes 10 vendors making their first appearance, as well as a few local favorites. The Women’s Board will also have its own booth offering paper goods from Caspari, treats from Harbor Sweets, and personal and monogrammed items from the Women’s Board collection.

“It’s a really festive atmosphere, starting with the wreaths and holiday plants at all the doors,” said Thauer of Lake Forest.

Added Davie, “The vendors bring all different things, from jewelry to clothing,

through fundraising and volunteer efforts.

For 70 years the board has provided grants, scholarships and direct support to hospital programs through its fundraising efforts.

“Any kind of major surgery, you’ll be able to access at this hospital – you won’t have to go to another facility,” Davie said. “You can do it all locally and with a real sense of security.”

For Thauer, the hospital is a beneficiary close to her heart. The mother of three boys has made numerous trips to the hospital campus for a variety of reasons.

“It’s a really festive atmosphere, starting with the wreaths and holiday plants at all the doors.” | Julie Thauer Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Holiday Boutique co-chairs Samantha Davie, Julie Thauer and Susan Weninger. photography by joel lerner

swimwear to home goods, and holiday décor.

I love going because it’s always been for me a great place to find holiday gifts from different boutiques across the country, and some of the money goes to rebuilding the hospital.”

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earlier this year launched a three-year campus revitalization plan. The new hospital will include 114 private inpatient beds, 72 outpatient care spaces, eight operating rooms, and 483,500 square feet of new construction on the 160-acre campus.

The Women’s Board supports the hospital

“My parents and my sons have always received excellent care, especially in light of the hospital’s affiliation with Northwestern, all five minutes from our home,” she said. “It’s a local treasure, and we’re lucky to have it here.”

In addition to the regular boutique hours, a party called Mistletoe and Martinis on Thursday evening, Nov. 20 will feature holiday music, food and specialty drinks. Guests can shop at the boutique during the party.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit lfh.org/womensboard. ■

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Antiques + Modernism Winnetka kicked off the weekend-long event with a Preview Party on Nov. 6. Presented by The Woman’s Board of the Winnetka Community House, the evening featured a cocktail buffet and music, setting the tone to allow collectors, designers, and hobbyists to get a first glance of the show’s offerings. thewinnetkashow.com

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WINES OF THE WEEK ■ by johnson ho As root vegetables and recipes with rich gravy or sauces displace the last summer harvests, most people think of red wines. However, charcuterie, smoked or brined fish, poultry and meats fare much better with opulently fruity (as in aroma) white wines.

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2008 Les Plantiers du Haut Brion, White Bordeaux, France; $63 This obscure lrelative to the prestigious and expensive Chateau Haut Brion Blanc (about $1,000 a bottle) always charms the senses with its understated elegance and soothing harmony sophisticated oenophiles prize over brash intensity. Mid-tier wine experts have read about the flagship version, but they probably have never had the opportunity to savor it.

If you wish impress or surprise some cosmopolitan dinner guests, this tiny production gem will define the term serendipity. The Sauvignon Blanc grape contributes the citrusy and herbal bouquet, while the Semillon grape adds a layer of plum and sub-tropical dimensions. When you seek a silky smooth, delicious complement for grilled wild salmon, ahi tuna, swordfish, bouillabaisse/cioppino, braised dark meat of poultry, shoulder cut/chop of heirloom pork or veal scallopine, this aristocratic virtuoso will oblige. Best 3-8 years from vintage with 30 minutes of decanting.

2007 Dr. Buerklin Wolf Estate Riesling, Rheinpfalz, Germany; $19 German wines have suffered from a bad rap for more than 60 years because GIs fell in love with the cheap sweet wines while stationed there after World War II. From Blue Nun to Blue Max, the ubiquitous cheap Liebfraumilch have flooded the market and sold for less money than Perrier water.

However, a mere century ago, German Rieslings fetched prices comparable to the most elite Bordeaux, especially in Victorian England.

To prove that not all German Rieslings are sweet or merely inoffensive, this estate has persevered in yielding sublimely succulent and palate-pleasing Rieslings that Chancellor Otto von Bismarck called “monstrously great” prior to World War I. A stellar choice for salty, smoky, spicy or gamey dishes — e.g. ham, sausages, goulash, and Sechuan/ Hunan/Thai/Vietnamese/ tongue burners. Best 6-12 years from vintage.

2011 Condesa Eylo Verdejo, Rueda, Northwestern Spain; $15

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WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?

McCormick Auditorium at Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest 7:30-10 p.m. lakeforest.edu Faculty panel discussion bookends airing of the 1993 film, starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, as part of the 11th annual Brain Awareness Week at Lake Forest College.

TERRY LONCARIC READING & OPEN MIC

The Art Center 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park 8 p.m.. highlandparkpoetry.org Highland Park Poetry welcomes Terry Loncaric and celebrates the publication of her first poetry chapbook, “Crashing in Velvet” from Finishing Line Press.

Poets are invited to bring up to six poems to share.

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GARDEN OF EDEN

Eve J. Alfillé Gallery & Studio 623 Grove Street, Evanston 1-7 p.m.

Evejewelry.com Eve winds back the clock to the Creation with her latest jewelry series Garden of Eden. Come to see the new work and enjoy prizes, raffles, champagne, live music, and other treats.

EXPLORING VODKA

North Shore Distillery 28913 N Herky Dr, Unit 308, Lake Bluff 5-8 p.m. northshoredistillery.com This celebration of vodka is part of North Shore Distillery’s 10-yearanniversary activities. Highlights will include: An all-vodka cocktail menu, experimental vodkas made at North Shore, historical discussion, special

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16

A 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ELLA JENKINS WITH FRED KOCH & FRIENDS

The Art Center 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, 4-6 p.m.

RSVP on Facebook: facebook.com/ events/533057676829574/ The Art Center Highland Park is hosting a free concert event that will feature live music, refreshments, and guest of honor, Ella Jenkins. Fred Koch has assembled a group of Chicago music luminaries who will play Ella’s tunes, and then support the guest-of-honor in her own set.

RELIC OF THE BARD

Allan Carr Theatre, Hixon Hall, Lake Forest College 555 North Sheridan Road, Lake Forest 4 p.m. lakeforest.edu George Koppelman, a rare-book dealer who believes he purchased William Shakespeare’s personal dictionary on eBay, will speak

with Dustin Mengelkoch, assistant professor of English and chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Koppelman’s visit coincides with the theater department’s staging of”As You Like It,” which will use the original Shakespearean script in a modern setting.

“INCHWORKS” FINE ART

North Shore Art League-Winnetka Community House 620 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka 6:30-8 p.m. northshoreartleague.org.

The eighth annual Small Works Show includes images no larger than 144 square inches in size. The show will be on display — with most artwork for sale — through Monday, Jan. 12.

Want to submit your North Shore event to Goings On About Towns? Send an email with the subject heading “GOAT” along with the particulars — Event Name, Event Location/Sponsor, Event Address, Event Time/Date, Event Cost, contact information (web or phone) and a 30-word description of the event — to katierose@jwcmedia.com at least 14 days before publication, and we will do our best to get it in.

Style

Up close with Pascal

How to maintain healthy and beautiful hair during a Chicago winter!

Now that the winter months are upon us and the days are much colder, it’s time to start thinking about ways to protect our hair from the damage that winter elements can cause. Here are a few tips that will help you maintain healthy, beautiful hair this season 1. Static can be a real problem when conditions are cold and dry. A great way to combat static is to use a good heat styling product for blow drying, such as Moroccan oil treatment, which can be used on dry hair before using a curling or flat iron.

2. During the winter months, it’s a great idea to treat your hair once a week to a deep conditioning regimen. This will help to replenish the moisture which tends to get depleted from things such as dry heat in your home and cold winter air. I

recommend Kerastase fusion treatment to fit your hair needs or bumble & bumble quenching masque. These products provide a quick and easy way to lock moisture back into your hair.

3. One alternative to consider, depending on your specific hair type, is to use a hair oil like Oribe Gold Lust Hair Oil after shampooing. It is like a liquid gold that nourishes dehydrated or color-treated hair and can be used on wet hair to blow-dry, or as a smooth and shine treatment on dry

hair.

4. I also find that if you can keep hairwashing to a maximum of two to three times a week in the winter months, this will prevent your hair from drying out too much. Also, make sure to dry your hair well before leaving the house. Not only will you help yourself avoid catching a cold, but the moisture in your hair combined with the cold air can add further damage to your hair by making it more brittle and dry.

5. A regular trim is a great way to keep

your hair healthy during the winter months. A light dusting of the ends every 4 to 6 weeks will help reduce the chance of dry splitting ends.

“You need to combat the dryness brought on by winter, both indoors and out, with extra deep conditioning treatments.” | Pascal

6. Finally, one unexpected secret to keeping hair looking good in the winter is to invest in a humidifier. I know you’re thinking that humidity equals frizzy hair, but when you have the heat on, the air in your home becomes very dry. I find the humidifier helps stop your hair and skin from feeling dry and staticky.

The bottom line: Be good to your hair, especially during these months when you can’t stop dreaming of that sun-drenched beach…anywhere!

Next month: The Best Look for that Black Tie Affair Please submit your questions and comments to: style@pascalpourelle.com. ■ —Pascal

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Evanston’s hardest-working man in rock ■ by gregg shapiro Evanston native Jason Narducy is a oneman walking history of local and national rock music.

As a child of 10, he played in the Chicagobased punk band Verboten. Since that time, Narducy has been involved in the bands Jason & Alison and Verbow (both with Alison Chesley), as well as been an indemand touring member of bands led by Robert Pollard (of Guided By Voices), Bob Mould (of Husker Du) and many others.

Narducy’s latest project, Split Single, has released a CD titled “Fragmented World” and is performing in concert on Friday, Nov. 21 at Lincoln Hall in Chicago.

Gregg Shapiro: Beginning with Verboten, you’ve been in rock bands since you were a child. What advice would you give to a child who wants to be in a rock band?

Jason Narducy: I think nowadays there are so many more resources for young people to be in a rock band, such as School of Rock in many major cities. It was sort of hard, back in the day, to find different musicians to play with.

Verboten was fortunate in that we were all fans of punk rock. You could sort of tell who liked punk rock based on their t-shirts.

I guess that’s still the way people find their clan. Honestly, I don’t know how adult musicians find each other to form bands. It’s difficult to find people you feel comfortable to collaborate with and who have the same taste in music and who have schedules that allow for practice and then to even find a place to practice. (Even) to be able to afford strings [laughs]. Anytime a band gets all of that happening is impressive to me.

GS: You are one of the interview subjects in the Chicago segment of HBO’s “Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways” program. What was it like to be featured so prominently, and what does it mean to you to know that your band Verboten was an inspiration to Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters)?

JN: I had no idea, and I had nothing to do with how much of my interview ended up in the final cut. I can tell you that I hadn’t

seen it until it first broadcast, and I was shocked [laughs].

I did that interview with Dave last January, and we talked for about 90 minutes. I honestly couldn’t remember what we talked about [laughs]; general ideas. It was sort of like we were talking for the first time because it had been so long.

Within an hour, Dave did a really good job of presenting a love letter to the city of Chicago, the music of the city of Chicago, as it pertains to his and the band-members’ relationship with the city. It just so happened that Dave and I met when we were kids. There’s this weird story about this punk rock band (Verboten) that I started when I was 10 years old that was playing Chicago clubs and his cousin (Tracy) was the singer. It’s a very strange turn of events.

We lost touch. I had no idea while he was in Nirvana that the drummer was Tracy’s cousin as we had lost touch. It wasn’t until Dave did an interview with Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune in 1995, around the time of the first Foo Fighters tour, that he talked about my band. I remember sitting at my kitchen table reading the article going “What?” [laughs]. I drive down to the Riviera (Theater in Chicago) and, because I knew the tour manager, got to talk to him again. It was already strange that I had a band when I was that young; it’s even stranger that it inspired a guy that so many people are familiar with.

GS: Did the name of your former band Verbow, which featured you and Alison Chesley, derive from Verboten, with, say the bow from Alison’s cello added for good measure?

JN: I think I didn’t catch the Verboten reference at all. That was something that was maybe deep in my cranium and I wasn’t recognizing it because people do bring it up, how similar they are. It was definitely a reference to the cello.

The Spanish word verbo means to take action. We added the w as a tip of the hat to the fact that we were a rock band that had strings in it.

GS: Over the years, you have earned a reputation as an in-demand session and touring musician, joining a multitude of

bands including Bob Mould’s and Superchunk. Would it be fair to say that you play well with others?

JN: I try to. It’s definitely a goal of mine.

I think it’s helped that I’ve played so many different roles in so many bands. When I got the call, whether it was for Bob Pollard or (Winnetka native) Liz Phair or Bob Mould or Superchunk, any band, my goal is to be a good team player and supportive of the wishes of the leader of the band. I think even more so than the playing, actually.

GS: How so?

JN: There are plenty of people who are better players than I am. I mean, I’m not even a bassist. I’m a guitarist and I’m finding my way through the bass and I think I’m doing OK. It’s more like the other 23 hours of the day. You’re touring together, you’re traveling, you’re flying, you’re driving, you’re staying in hotels, you’re sitting in the backstage area. It’s important for me to be a positive energy to a group of people that is, honestly, already going through some intense situations every day. They’re great situations. I mean, who doesn’t want to be in a rock band? It’s the best job ever! It can be grueling and tiring. People want different things from you. My goal is to be a really good band member and hopefully I’m batting .700 or something.

GS: Your latest personal music project is Split Single. What is the genesis of the name?

JN: It wasn’t taken [laughs]. The whole idea of the band is that I would write and play the songs with other musicians. It’s my vision for the music, but it’s collaborative as far as presenting the songs. I like that split singles were also a collaboration, a way for two different bands to share an audience and present ideas together, so it ties in with the concept for the band. I do like the alliteration.

GS: Do you consider Split Single, and the Fragmented World disc, to be a solo project with you performing under a different name or is it a band?

JN: It’s absolutely a solo project. All of the shows I’ve played, except for one, have been with the same drummer. I guess by definition it’s not a band. It’s a solo project

Jason Narducy

with a band name.

GS: Do you think at some point there will be a Jason Narducy album?

JN: Why? GS: Just asking.

JN: It’s a tough last name [laughs]. It’s good for (internet) searches, because there aren’t many of us, but that’s about it.

GS: What can people expect from your upcoming Split Single show at Lincoln Hall?

JN: I’m really excited about that. We have a great band from Chicago called Bailiff playing with us; a fantastic band. Split Single is going to play most of our record, plus some b-sides and we’ve got at least three new songs that we’re going to play.

Lincoln Hall is a beautiful room. We’re so thankful that they’re having us headline a weekend show there. We’re very thankful to WXRT and Goose Island for promoting the show and sponsoring it.

GS: As a musician who spends a great deal of time on tour, do you still call Evanston home?

JN: I live in Evanston. The schools are great and I have young kids. That’s probably the biggest thing. And I have family in Evanston. There are two excellent sets of grandparents to my kids and that’s really important to us. I love being near the lake.

Listen, after going to Evanston Township High School and then moving away for college, it didn’t take long for me to realize how fortunate I was to grow up in a great city like Evanston. It’s open-minded, progressive. You go to other places and you realize that most people spent their high school years in a basement watching football. I had the city of Chicago as a resource. Evanston feels like my home for the long haul. ■

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An English Tudor returns to grandeur

Jeff Harting (Gensurg, Toniolo Harting Architects) designed and oriented the recent additions to showcase the magnificent rear yard and gardens. Of note are the two octagonal bays designed for the breakfast room and screen porch. photography by tom harris for hedrich blessing photographers

■ by ann marie scheidler Looking at Jim and Carol Hansen’s handsome, treeshaded home in Winnetka, it’s hard to bTucked quietly off of Ridge Road in Lake Forest is Whitehall — an estate established in the late 1920s on about 30 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Serafine purchased this property in the 1950s and still own this property today.

Almost 30 years ago, their daughter Jan Serafine — an interior designer by training — built an English Tudor with her husband, general contractor Alan Eisenberg, on two acres of Whitehall. Some years later, as the couple’s needs for the home had evolved and changed, they turned to longtime friend and architect Jeff Harting of Gensburg Toniolo Harting Architects to help them incorporate historically correct architectural details into the home — inside and out.

To walk through Serafine and Eisenberg’s home today, there’s a sense that the home has more history than its 30 years. And one would never know that the newer wing off the back of the house wasn’t there from the beginning.

“Jeff has been absolutely incredible in this collaboration,” Serafine says. “He has a fabulous eye for creating linear passages. I could never have done any of this without him — his ideas are phenomenal. I don’t know how he comes up with the ones he does, but he always has them and has worked incredibly hard to give us exactly what we wanted.”

There is serenity to the home’s interior that comes from the soft palette of blues and grays carefully selected by Serafine.

“I had a feeling in mind that I like certain colors better than others,” she explains. “I always head towards blues and softer colors. A home has to look lived in. It can’t look just like a model home.”

To achieve this look, Serafine artfully displays her lifetime of collections.

“I don’t know how people make a house look like a home without collections of something,” she says.

In her library, behind glass in softly lit hutches, are treasures from the family’s rich history in the skating world.

Some of the most intriguing are antique lanterns that ice skaters once used when skating on frozen ponds.

Across the room, Serafine points to a fan.

“I brought that home with me on the plane after a trip to China,” she says. “Some of my best finds came from my travels when I could bring anything and everything back

with me on the plane. You can’t really do that any more.”

Just steps from the luxurious library is the kitchen that the homeowners renovated three years ago —making it one of the home’s grand focal points today.

“Everything I had before was very modern, very contemporary. Not sure why I did that in the 1980s, but I did,” Serafine says with a smile. “So when we redid the kitchen, I wanted it to have long-lasting qualities, where all we’ll ever have to do is repaint.”

The team started with French Blue LaCornue range as its inspirational launching point for this space. In the kitchen’s center is a large wooden island with a piece of stone inlaid at the top. Just above the sink is a strategically placed television that you’ll likely miss unless someone points it out — true to Serafine’s vision that while every space should be beautiful, it must also be functional.

“We cook a lot, and we love to sit here at the island with family and friends. Most nights my husband, and I will eat dinner here and watch something on TV.” As part of the renovation, the dining room was moved to where the library was once placed, making the synergy between the dining room and kitchen much more harmonious. This change also allowed for the addition of a butler’s pantry, perfect for entertaining, punctuated with a first floor wine cellar. The cellar’s door was once an exterior door of the home retrofit to become the entrance for the cellar.

The arch of the doorway mimics the same archways of the window adding to the authenticity of the home’s architectural details.

This is a theme pervasive through this English Tudor, where one design element will live in many different forms within a space. On the couple’s three-season porch, Serafine took a detail from the trim of the home’s outdoor water fountain and incorporated it into the creation of the porch’s fireplace.

“Once your eye learns to discern these details, and you have the commitment to see them through, it’s the only way you’ll ever approach a space,” Serafine adds.

As if the wall treatments, furniture choices, and lighting weren’t enough to captivate your attention while walking through this home, you must always glance upward.

“I think of ceilings as the fourth wall — it can’t be forgotten,” she says. “I have yet to create my favorite ceiling.”

But quite possibly the family favorite part of the home are the gardens outdoors.

“When we originally built this house, it had quite possibly the ugliest backyard ever,” Serafine recalls. “But over the years, we’ve experimented, we’ve added, and we’ve enjoyed it immensely. When our house was full of dust from the renovation, I would come and work outdoors. These gardens restored by sanity.”

As the homeowner’s near the end of their renovation projects (only an upstairs bathroom remains), they do so with mixed emotions.

“This has been a labor of love in every sense,”Serafine says. “But part of embarking on a project like this is also knowing when it’s finished. I think we’re nearly there.” ■

A leaded glass door with Gothic arch, custom designed by Jan Serafine, adorns the butler’s pantry and provides the perfect entry to the 1,000-bottle wine cellar. photography

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$895,000 Peg O’Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 DEWES #B 02 | 1777 GLENVIEW

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$238,500 AG Krone, Berkshire Hathaway 847.732.3055 KING MUIR 11 | 440 LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3

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$849,900 Laura Henderson, Baird & Warner 708.997.7778

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$2,350,000 Roberta Miller, Berkshire Hathaway 847.615.5012

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$599,000 Laura Henderson, Baird & Warner 708.997.7778

1489 SHERIDAN ROAD

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$749,00 Brunhild Baass, Baird & Warner 847.804.0092 WOODLAND 07 | 128 LAKE BLUFF

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Buckley Rd

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$775,000 Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie 847.234.0485 85 SHERIDAN ROAD 14 | ​9HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3

$2,750,000 Karen Skurie, Baird & Warner 847.361.4687​ LAMPTON 15 | 1040 DEERFIELD Sunday 2-4

$730,000 Marlene Rubenstein, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666

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$439,000 Marlene Rubenstein, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666 ROSEMARY 17 | 1280 NORTHBROOK Sunday 11-1

$599,000 Marlene Rubenstein, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666 PICARDY 18 | 4051 NORTHBROOK Sunday 2-4

$788,000 Marlene Rubenstein, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666 SYLVESTER 19 | 1655 HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 2-4

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PARK AVENUE 20 | 132 WILMETTE Sunday 12-2

$1,135,000 SFC Team, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000

NORTH POND 28 | 1795 LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3

Vera Purcell, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000

CRANSTON COURT WAVELAND 21 | 3125 29 | 1120 WILMETTE LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4

$700,000 Florrie Hershkowitz, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000 LOCUST ROAD 22 | 530 WILMETTE Sunday 2:30-4:30

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MARVEL-OUS Ramblers turn in X-traordinary efforts to advance to state tournament

Storm-ing the court: The Ramblers celebrate after beating Schaumburg in the Maine East Sectional final. The team also beat De La Salle to earn a trip to the state tournament.

photography by george pfoertner ■ by bill mclean sports@northshoreweekend.com

Loyola Academy volleyball coach Mark Chang’s words to his Ramblers before the start of the Class 4A Evanston Supersectional last weekend drew more than a few quizzical looks.

“Play like mutants,” Chang urged the best team in program history before it faced De La Salle for a berth in a state semifinal.

Chang had X-men on his mind, particularly Marvel Comics character Wolverine and his accelerated healing power.

“It was a cheesy analogy,” Chang admitted after his real-life heroes edged De La Salle’s Meteors 17-25, 25-21, 25-22 on Nov. 8 to secure the program’s first state semifinal appearance. “But Wolverine responds and recovers well whenever he gets wounded in a battle, and I wanted my team to be able to do that in case it had to against De La Salle.”

De La Salle scarred Loyola Academy in the first set at a venue that should have felt cozy — LA plays at Evanston every year; De La Salle, a Chicago school, does not.

“De La Salle’s fans had a quite a presence in the gym; we felt it and heard it after De La Salle won points,” Chang said, adding the Ramblers’ cheering section wasn’t as vocal as it would have been had LA’s football team not been at Stevenson for a state playoff game at the same time.

“I did not see fear from my team after the first set. I saw frustration, a sense of, ‘We know we can play better than we did.’ ” The Ramblers returned to the court and did their best collective impersonation of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine mutant — minus the Ginsu-knife claws, capable of reducing any volleyball to a deflated, useless piece of leather.

It also helped that Chang had reminded his players of a number before the start of set two: 212. Water doesn’t begin to boil until it reaches 212 degrees.

“That’s been a centerpiece [rallying cry] for us all season,”

Chang said. “Things start to get going, things start to change when it gets that hot. I wanted our intensity to improve, and it did. We’d been too lukewarm [in the first set].”

Junior outside hitters Christina Reed and Olivia Van Zelst and junior middle Kate Pillion began to cook near the net.

Each would finish with four kills, with Reed (eight digs) and Pillion also contributing three blocks apiece.

“Those [attack] numbers are not impressive, but our setter [junior Katie Randolph, 24 assists) did a very good job of spreading the ball around,” Chang said. “That kept De La Salle guessing.”

Randolph also paced the team in digs (15). Ramblers junior libero Lauren Stadler finished with eight digs and two aces.

“I think Lauren is one of the best liberos in the state,” Chang said. “Her two aces … against an excellent servereceive team like De La Salle — those were huge.”

Right after LA (27-9) clinched match point and a spot in the second state semifinal (9 p.m.) against Libertyville (34-6) at Redbird Arena in Normal Nov. 14, Chang raised both arms, jumped several times and embraced an equally ecstatic assistant coach Raul Maniquis.

Two nights earlier — following his top-seeded squad’s surgical 25-17, 25-13 defeat of second-seeded Schaumburg at Maine East for the program’s first sectional championship — a proud, appreciative Chang pointed to his players’ season-long commitment to each other. It paved the way for the opportunity to make girls volleyball history at the school.

“They were determined tonight, all of them were,” Chang said. “The intensity they showed, the ability to finish this … what a great group of girls, a great team without one go-to player.

“After practice [the day before], I looked at my team, not knowing exactly what else to say. Then I said, ‘You got this?’

They responded, ‘Coach, we got this.’ ” Reed got busy — and highly productive — in the front row against Schaumburg’s Saxons (25-14), pounding a

match-high 10 kills to go with eight digs and five aces.

“Stay aggressive and keep it in,” she said of her service strategy.

“From the beginning,” she added, “we put the hammer down and got a complete team effort.”

LA did not have to recover from either a lull or an extended run of points from Schaumburg.

“The energy we had — that got us going and kept them from getting momentum. We didn’t have a low point.”

Randolph lofted 25 assists, and LA sophomore middle Natasha Borkowski smacked four kills and popped for two blocks. Van Zelst totaled a team-high 11 digs; Stadler and senior Caitlyn Bahmandeji contributed six apiece.

“Our defense came together,” said Randolph, one of five all-Girls Catholic Athletic Conference picks (along with Pillion, Reed, Stadler and Van Zelst). “Everybody was sacrificing themselves all over the court, hitting the floor and getting bruises.

“The atmosphere here,” she added, “reminded me of a college match. It was that intense, with the way the court was set up and how the crowd got into it after every point.”

Notable: LA defeated Rolling Meadows, Elgin Larkin and Evanston in straight sets before facing Schaumburg in a sectional final Nov. 6. The most competitive of the six sets in the first three rounds of the state playoffs was a 25-17 second set against Evanston in a sectional semifinal Nov. 4. Randolph averaged 20.3 assists in the victories and delivered four aces against Evanston’s Wildkits. Van Zelst (eight kills) and Pillion (four blocks) also stood out against Evanston. … Randolph, on setting: “It’s about communicating and knowing how to interact differently with the team’s personalities.” … Randolph, on Chang: “He likes to reflect on what we’re doing, and he’s very good at getting us mentally prepared. There are two things going on when we play out there — the mental game, which is about 90 percent, and the actual [competition]. Our coach makes sure we’re ready before match, especially mentally.” ■

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PARALLEL UNIVERSE Unsung Athenson, unheralded Scouts propel past two tough playoff foes

The gang’s all here: Lake Forest High School nose guard Nicholas Athenson (No. 99) tackles Glenbard South’s Jimmy Ebbole during second round state playoff action.

photography by joel lerner

■ by kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com Nicholas Athenson, who proudly wears jersey No. 99 for the Lake Forest High School football team, plays a pretty good game of gotcha.

At 5-foot-6, 210 pounds, it’s easy for this undersized senior nose guard to blend into the scenery. He doesn’t create a lot of fanfare or bring a lot of attention to himself.

Athenson, one of the rare two-year starters on defense for the Scouts, simply is good with just getting the job done.

Fair warning: you take him lightly — and he’s gotcha.

“I’m the short guy out there,” Athenson said. “They underestimate me. And I use that for motivation. I make up for my lack of size with drive and passion.”

“He doesn’t do anything spectacular out there, but he does everything right,” added Lake Forest head coach Chuck Spagnoli.

See the parallel?

Like Athenson, the Scouts, who have been underappreciated for most of the season, have come on like gangbusters in the Class 6A state playoffs. Seeded No. 13, they shocked No. 4 Belvidere North 42-21 in the opening round and then overcame a 14-0 first-quarter deficit to stun No. 5 Glenbard South 42-28 at Varsity Field on Nov. 8.

No doubt, these undaunted Scouts (8-3) will be huge underdogs when they meet host Nazareth Academy (110) in the quarterfinals — LF’s third straight Elite Eight appearance — on Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. The LaGrange Park school, which took first in the East Suburban Catholic and has a high-powered offense, averaging 45.5 points per game.

“We’re right where we hoped we would be,” said Spagnoli.

“But the deeper you go in the playoffs, the harder it gets.”

As usual, No. 34 — senior inside linebacker Jack Traynor — and No. 24 — senior running back Wes Janeck — carried

the day for the Scouts in their win over Glenbard South.

The highly touted Traynor finished with 12 tackles, including one for a loss, and made an interception.

Traynor nearly had two INTs. But he dropped what could have been a pick-6 late in the first quarter.

He was … not happy about that.

Traynor’s “hard-on-himself ” reaction didn’t surprise Athenson.

“Jack is the rock of our defense,” said Athenson. “He always wants to come out on top.”

“He’s a competitive guy, who’s never ever out of position,” added Spagnoli.

The same is true of Janeck. He was a runaway locomotive against the 8-3 Raiders, winners of the Metro Suburban West conference. The 5-10, 191-pound speedster carried the ball 18 times for 151 yards. Following the blocks of Thomas Kennedy, Jack Boyd, John McArthur, William Conover and George Kohl, he had TD runs of 1, 49 and 54 yards.

“He put the game away for us,” said Athenson.

Janeck’s numbers could have been off the charts. He had two TD runs (84 and 6 yards) nullified by penalties.

The block of the night belonged to senior wide receiver Michael Christensen. He erased a would-be tackler along the perimeter which sprung Janeck on his 49-yard TD run with 2:25 left in the first quarter, cutting Glenbard South’s 14-point lead in half.

Christensen (3 receptions, 32 yards) also had one of the top catches of the night, when he leaped high and snagged a perfectly placed 9-yard TD pass from quarterback Danny Carollo (8-for-23, 169 yards) with 9:44 left in regulation.

Fellow wide-out Mateo Hargitt was the other offensive star for the Scouts. He followed up a 3-catch, 60-yard game against Belvidere North with a 3-catch, 117-yard performance.

Hargitt’s first TD catch in the second quarter was a thing of beauty, when he ran under a Carollo pass and raced 54

yards into the end zone. Eight minutes later, he hauled in a wide-open 20-yard TD reception after Carollo successfully avoided a quarterback sack.

The game didn’t start out very promising for the Scouts.

They trailed 14-0 with 4:16 left in the opening quarter.

“That first quarter,” said Spagnoli, who is in his 12th season with the Scouts, “was poorly coached by me. I got too smart for my own good with that fake punt (which led to Glenbard South’s second TD).

“When you screw up as a coach, you can only hope that your kids bail you out,” Spagnoli said. “Our kids did. We were able to straighten things out.”

A couple of three-and-outs did wonders for the Scouts.

“We just had to toughen up our defense,” said Athenson, who finished with four tackles. “We weren’t worried at all.

They were doing some frivolous stuff on offense. Running jets, spreading things out. We just had to stay true to our defense.

“We’ve been through the fire,” added Athenson, a versatile musician who plays piano, trumpet and tuba. “We play in one of the hardest conferences in the state (Stevenson and Libertyville are still alive in the state playoffs). Losing some of those earlier games is helping us now.”

Notable: Spagnoli and his staff like to use the whole roster. Nineteen different players saw meaningful minutes on defense in this win. Sophomore outside linebacker Cal Wonham and junior safety Jonathan DiValerio finished the game with eight and seven tackles, respectively. Junior outside linebacker Francis Nicholson came up with a forced fumble and quarterback sack. The other sacks belonged to Wonham (two), Jaxon Mills, Trevor Morcott, Parker Ferris and Charles Yale. … Running back Quinn Julian had another solid game (6 rushes, 75 yards). His 32-yard gain at the start of the third quarter led to Janeck’s 1-yard TD run. ■

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ADVENTURES IN RUNNING Highland Park’s Nawor caps eventful season with historic showing at state

■ by kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com

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Things didn’t always go according to plan for Highland Park High School’s Charlotte Nawor this season.

At the Hinsdale Invite in September, the junior cross country runner lost one of her shoes during the first mile.

Think pigskin.

Think running back.

Think quick thinking.

Nawor picked up the loose shoe (the vital one with the chip-timing device in the laces) and carried it to the finish line like she was (HP running back) Cole Greenberg. She ended up 26th overall.

At the Libertyville Regional in October, she mistakenly took a wrong turn along with several other runners during the first half-mile.

Think uh-oh.

Think potential “oxygen debt.”

Nawor lost precious steps — and seconds. But, despite expending herself and playing catch-up, she still managed to power her way to a 14th-place finish.

“She had a full season of adventures,” said HP head coach Andy Butler.

But her biggest — and best — adventure came on Nov. 8 at the Class 3A state meet at Detweiller Park in Peoria. This was Nawor’s day in the sun as she ran a near perfect race to claim all-state honors (21st, 17:18).

For the Giants, it was one for the record books.

Prior to this season, a female runner from HP had never qualified for the state cross country meet.

“That’s not something that we’re real proud of,” said Butler. “But I’m glad that we’re catching up with the times.”

Nawor erased 37 seconds off her previous best time in the three-mile.

“She ran out of her mind,” said Butler. “She got out fast, put herself in a good position and held on.

“I’m so happy that she was able to put it all together when it counted the most,” the coach added.

Nawor, who took first in the CSL North Meet and ninth in the Schaumburg Sectional, truly was running under the radar when the season started.

She was sidelined with a stress fracture during her freshman year, while she was unable to compete last year due to illness.

“We tell our kids you run the first mile with your head. Run Smart. Don’t do anything crazy. In the second mile, you run with your strength. Trust your training. And in the third mile, you run with your heart,” said Butler.

And that’s what Nawor did — to near perfection.

Lake Forest This could be only the beginning.

Under the direction of coach Steve Clegg, Lake Forest captured runner-up honors (165 points) in the Class 2A state race in Peoria on Nov. 8.

Led by the all-state performances of two freshmen — Emma Milburn (14th, 17:50) and Brett Chody (17th, 17:55) — the Scouts beat everybody except Yorkville (79 points).

Talk about eight seconds of separation.

The team’s third all-stater was junior Katie Condon. She came in 25th in 17:58.

The hardest part of Saturday’s meet? Playing the waiting game.

“It took them (meet officials) about 45 minutes to announce the final team finishes,” said Clegg. “You have to wait around. It can be pretty nerve-racking.”

Clegg has been through these rigors before. Lake Forest took third in state in 1999 and third again in 2004.

“Six of our runners ran their best times ever,” said Clegg, referring to Milburn, Chody, Condon, senior Etta Eckerstrom (18:51), freshman Mary Gregg (18:55) and senior Hannah Flagstad (19:04).

“And that’s so rare. Usually, you don’t see six girls to run the race of their lives all at the same time.”

The future is bright. Deer Path Middle School eighth-graders Lauren Garriques (IESA champion) and Courtney Schmidt (3rd at IESA meet) will be added to next year’s team.

In the Class 2A boys race, Lake Forest’s Matt Mekaelian and Mark Myers were two of the stars.

Mekaelian, a senior who will run at Xavier, picked up all-state honors (16th, 14:58) for the first time.

Myers, meanwhile, became a two-time all-stater (17th, 15:00). The junior finished 24th (15:23) last fall.

New Trier Senior Mimi Smith didn’t quite match last year’s first-place showing in the Class 3A state meet.

But the Wake Forest recruit once again was one of the state’s top performers. She cruised the threemile layout at Peoria’s Detweiller Park in 17:05 for eighth place.

The Trevians ended up in seventh place in the team standings (229 points). Sophomore Caroline Fix ran No. 2 for NT (56th, 17:52).

Meanwhile, in the boys race, senior Josh Rosenkranz (32nd, 15:55) missed earning all-state recognition by five seconds and seven slots. Austin Santacruz finished in 15:06 for the Trevians, who finished ninth (267 points).

Loyola Senior Jack Carroll, who took first in the Chicago Catholic League last month, capped his stellar season by claiming all-state honors (23rd, 14:50). The Ramblers finished 15th as a team (349).

In the girls race, junior Kathryn House came in 41st in 17:40. ■

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Highland Park’s Cullather just misses 400-point mark at league diving meet Happy, happy: Highland Park High School’s Erin Cullather (right) hugs teammate Avery Spitz following the diving competition at the CSL North Meet.photography by joel lerner

■ by bill mclean sports@northshoreweekend.com When Erin Cullather was five years old and living in Virginia, she wanted to dive off boards and pierce water.

She asked her parents, Kevin and Chrysa, for permission.

They didn’t hesitate — to deny her.

Their daughter hadn’t taken one swimming lesson before the request.

More than a decade later, Cullather — now a senior at Highland Park High School — is diving and resurfacing safely and regularly. She finished runner-up at the Central Suburban League North swimming and diving meet at Niles North Nov. 8, earning a personal-best 397.55 points.

She had set her previous high mark of 359 at the Glenbrook South Invite Oct. 25.

“We worked together as a team,” Cullather said, nodding to the value of support from Giants divers Avery Spitz and Kendall Robbins during the meet. “We kept each other up between our dives … and even the Deerfield divers rooted for us.

“It was a good atmosphere [behind the boards],” she added.

A University of New Hampshire recruit and the sister of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (N.Y.) junior diver Maggie Cullather (HPHS, ’12), Erin enhanced her diving techniques significantly in the offseason with the help of Glenbrook Aquatics coaches. She added a reverse-one-anda-half to her list.

“Erin tries hard, listens and makes every change you suggest to her; she’s very coachable,” said HP first-year diving coach Jonathan Roby, a two-time state runner-up

in diving (2008, 2009) at Glenbrook North.

“Always solid, too, especially with the little things,” he added. “She stands up her jumps, kicks out tight … things like that. We stress fundamentals a lot, do a ton of basics.”

Cullather threw steady dive after steady dive at the CSL North meet, staying with eventual champion Lindsay Guare (403.15 points) of Deerfield for the bulk of the 11-dive test.

Not much separated the two after eight dives, with Guare holding a 292.75-292.05 edge.

“Erin has perfect form and is very consistent,” said Spitz, who placed third with a personal-best score of 363.65. “She’s been diving for so long, and she understands it so well. And she’s fun in practice; if she makes a mistake, she’ll get right back up on the board with a laugh.”

HP’s divers and swimmers practice separately, thus making it difficult for the two sets of athletes to bond between meets. But Cullather, a captain, makes sure the groups stick together.

“Erin bridges the gap between our swimmers and the divers,” HP swimming coach AJ Block said. “You want that from a captain.”

Like her older sister, Erin Cullather put her swimming lessons to good use for the good of the Giants. She swam the butterfly as a freshman and competed as a member of a relay unit this fall.

Maggie Cullather swam a leg for HP’s 200 freestyle relay at a sectional meet.

“Maggie and I … we’re kind of different, kind of similar,” Erin said.

Erin Cullather had no problem assimilating to life at HPHS as a freshman — thanks to what the Giants’ swimming and diving program provided.

“An automatic group of friends,” she said.

Three years later, Cullather’s friends/teammates are still grateful she landed cleanly (little or no splash) in the Land of Lincoln after living in Virginia as an eager diver-wannabe.

“Erin is super nice, super bubbly,” Roby said. “Her attitude … it’s always great. Her personality is a contagious one; it’s like a magnet to her teammates.”

HP returns to Niles North to vie for state berths at a sectional Nov. 15.

Notable: HP finished third (290 points) behind Deerfield (314) and champion Glenbrook North (382) at the CSL North meet last weekend. Two other Giants entries joined Cullather as collectors of silver. The 200 medley relay team of sophomores Julia Solem and Caroline Kane, junior Sam Lask and freshman anchor Ari Cole took runner-up honors with a time of 1:55.2. Solem later touched second in the 100 backstroke (1:02.27). Lask contributed third-place points in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.13), and HP junior Natalie Gelberg finished third in the 500 free (5:35.08). … Every member of HP’s crew achieved a personal-best effort at the CSL North JV swimming and diving meet on Oct. 7.

Freshman Hannah Wander won the 100 breast in 1:14.2 after entering the meet with a seed time of 1:17. She missed the JV meet record in the event by six-tenths of a second.

Freshman JV diver Aliana Velick took second with a point total of 301.45. … Seeing double, a lot: Four sets of twins compete for HP’s swimming and diving program this fall. … Roby competed for the University of Minnesota’s swimming and diving team for one season. As a 20-year-old, he finished 19th in the 3-meter segment (senior division) at the USA Diving Championships. ■

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A real helmet-scratcher Classic rematch turns into a confounding playoff loss for Ramblers

■ by kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com There were some “bizarro” moments in this one.

How ’bout them refs?

The five men in stripes huddled together near midfield and took longer than a Geneva Convention to determine a ruling late in the third quarter.

Okay — it was a critical call. Did the Loyola Academy quarterback fumble? Or, did he not fumble?

But first … a word from our sponsors.

This locally televised Class 8A state second round game at Stevenson High School was different from most high school football games.

Can you scream TV timeout?

Gee whiz. This game had more stops of action and delays than Friday night rush hour on the Edens.

Indeed, it was a classic match-up — Loyola defeated Stevenson 15-14 on this field in last year’s state semifinals — but it had plenty of flaws, bells and whistles: the refs called 16 penalties, including six defensive pass interferences (five on LA).

And then, there’s this little puzzler.

Loyola, which ended up losing this showdown 24-21 on Nov. 8, certainly started the game in a strange way. The Ramblers, who fell behind 17-0, went nearly 22 minutes before picking up their first first down.

“They did a good job of taking us out of our game,” Loyola head coach John Holecek admitted.

As you might expect, there was plenty of applause from the LA side, when trusted wideout Owen Buscaglia caught a 22-yard

pass over the middle from senior quarterback Aidan Walsh.

“In the midst of a game, I wasn’t thinking about that (no first downs),” said the 6-foot-3 senior receiver. “But, it’s a little bizarre (that it took so long).”

LA’s faithful roared even louder when Buscaglia capped a 2-minute, 20-second drive — 8 plays, 72 yards — by catching a wide-receiver screen and turning it into an 18-yard touchdown to trim Stevenson’s lead to 17-7 with 28.8 seconds left in the first half.

It was his ninth TD catch of the season.

“We ran it (WR screen) more last year than we did this year,” said Buscaglia, who has received scholarship offers from Bryant University and Valparaiso. “But it’s a game plan thing. It works best against certain defenses.”

Buscaglia’s TD catch had a ripple effect.

Similar to the their 37-20 win over Warren in the opening round of the playoffs on Nov. 1, the Ramblers (8-3) looked like a different team in the second half.

They ramped things up.

“We’ve been a second-half team (this year),” said Buscaglia, who finished the game with four catches for 56 yards.

Walsh came out of the locker room on fire and engineered an 18-play, 80-yard drive, completing 7 of 9 passes (51 yards) and converting four third downs. He capped the possession by lofting a perfect 6-yard strike to a leaping Spencer Cecola (4-35) in the left corner of the end zone to cut Stevenson’s lead to three points, 17-14.

“I love watching him (Cecola) make plays like that,” said Buscaglia.

Three points wound up being the margin of victory as both squads added one TD each.

‘Owen’ it: Loyola Academy’s Owen Buscaglia races into the end zone just before halftime with his team’s first score. LA lost to Stevenson 24-21 in the second round of the Class 8A state playoffs..photography by ting shen

Set up by an interception by Emmett Russell, LA’s final TD of the game was scored by Mark Nichol on a 3-yard run with 8:28 left to play. The Ramblers had two possessions in the final 3:39 of the contest but came up empty each time.

“We played with fire, but so did they,” said Buscaglia. “Credit Stevenson. They’ve got a great defensive front. And they’ve got great defensive schemes. You can’t make mistakes against them.”

As far as that “critical call” in the third quarter? It could have gone either way (check the Comcast telecast). It was borderline.

And the jury? It’s still out.

Notable: LA’s season is not over. The Ramblers will host St. Rita in the Prep

Bowl on Nov. 15 (1 p.m.). … Nichol and Ryan Zinkula led the team in tackles with seven each against Stevenson. … Nichol had one of the plays of the game late in the third quarter. In addition to sacking Stevenson quarterback Willie Bourbon, he also stripped him of the ball and then recovered the fumble. …

Defensive tackles Ben LeRoy and Andrews Beniana also recorded sacks, while Russell had two tackles for loss to go along with his interception. … All-conference cornerback Mark Dowdle also came up with a sensational interception. … In addition to his 178 passing yards, Walsh carried the ball 22 times for 77 yards. Six of his rushes went for 10 yards or more. ■

WHAT A RUSH!

Casas, Trevs advance to Class 8A state quarterfinals ■ by tj brown sports@northshoreweekend.com It was the blitz heard — at least — around the North Shore.

In the first overtime of New Trier’s Class 8A second round state playoff game Nov. 8, visiting Curie High School opted to go for two and try to win rather than kick the extra point and force another overtime stanza.

Curie quarterback Mike Goldsmith attempted to connect with receiver Eren Jenkins on a quick slant, but he was hit as he threw the ball by a blitzing Colin Casas.

The ball bounced incomplete, and New Trier escaped with a 28-27 win.

The win sets up a state quarterfinal game with undefeated Stevenson Nov. 15 in Lincolnshire (1 p.m.).

“I don’t think I can (describe the feeling) with words,” said Casas, an outside linebacker who moved to the middle slot when

starting middle linebacker Joe Lewis exited the game with an arm injury. “It was just amazing. Very unique. It was almost the same as last spring when we won state in lacrosse.

“The feeling is just derived from all the hard work put in and finally getting some good to come out,” he added.

The win capped a game that saw the Trevians lose the football on the opening kickoff after a bad lateral, tie the game twice in the first half, including with 12 seconds left in the half, take a third-quarter lead, only to see Curie tie it in the fourth.

“We need to have years of consistency of being in the playoffs and in tight games, so our kids understand how to play in tight games,” NT coach Brian Doll said. “This is by far the tightest game we’ve played in all year. It was interesting to see how we responded.”

Casas (five tackles, one for loss, two

assists) was just one of many who responded as the Trevians (10-1) had to play without senior Will Francke, who learned he had mononucleosis a day before the game, and later Lewis, who tallied four tackles and two half-tackles before exiting the game in the fourth quarter.

“Initially Joe took over leadership at the beginning of the game,” Casas said. “But once he was out, everybody stepped up.

Everybody had a voice. There was a lot of good teamwork all around.”

The Trevians had to step up offensively, too, as running back Kevin Mulhern played but was slowed by some nagging injuries, while starting right tackle Jack Palmer (6-foot-3, 320 pounds) left the game with an apparent ankle injury. Senior David Raynes took his place on the right side, while left tackle Matt Kaskey (6-7, 300 pounds) and left guard Nick Balch (also a starter on defense) helped give sophomore quarterback

Clay Czyzynski enough protection to complete 11-of-18 passes for 209 yards and four touchdowns.

“He’s a leader you wouldn’t expect from a sophomore,” said senior Scott Hammes, who had a career day of his own, catching all four touchdown passes. “He’s very fast, mobile can extend plays, and has a pretty good arm.”

Hammes and Czyzynski connected on a 97-yard TD pass to tie the game at 7-7 in the first quarter.

“It was supposed to be a post, and then Clay had to roll out some because he was under a lot of pressure,” Hammes said. “So I rolled out with him to the outside. He threw it, the DB kind of bit and it went over his head.”

The pass play came moments after linebacker Corey Nagel (four tackles, one for loss and six half tackles) recovered a Goldsmith fumble, which was forced by senior safety Charlie Schoder. ■

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Junior makes hay, helps Trevians claim another CSL South championship

Hope floats: New Trier’s Hope Hayward drives to a first-place finish in the 200 IM at the CSL South Meet. photography by joel lerner

■ by bill mcclean

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New Trier’s Kami Grochowski did not think she would have to climb more than the steps on the team bus on the day of the Central Suburban League South swimming and diving meet last weekend.

She ended up hiking a podium often — as a three-time champion at Glenbrook South Nov. 8.

“Insane!” an excited teammate shouted in Grochowski’s face after Grochowski lopped nearly five seconds off her seed time to win the 200-yard freestyle in 1:54.41. The swift sophomore also motored to first place in the 500 free (5:12.81, or nearly nine seconds faster than her seed time) and swam the anchor leg of the Trevians’ victorious 400 free relay (3:37.76).

“I didn’t expect any of this … I didn’t expect to finish in the top six [in her individual events],” said a smiling Grochowski, clutching the team trophy poolside after NT outpointed runner-up Evanston 489-363.

“I was nervous this morning.”

The league meet in Glenview was Grochowski’s “taper” meet, meaning her first varsity season ended when she climbed out of the pool after the 400 free relay.

“Kami killed it today,” said New Trier junior Hope Hayward, who did some slaying of her own in the water, clocking a meet-best time of 2:10.24 in the 200 IM and zipping on a pair of winning relays (200 medley, 200 free).

“I’m happy for her … we all are. The girl worked so hard, and I knew she’d taper well.”

Hayward swam quite well under the guidance of Andrew Hodgson as a member the New Trier Swim Club in the offseason. The sister of former Trevians standout Riley Hayward (NTHS, ’13) also touched second in

the 100 breaststroke (1:06.58) at the league meet. Their father, Wally, videotaped Hope’s win in the 200 IM and texted it immediately to Riley, now a sophomore swimmer (200 IM, breaststroker) at USC. “I totally look up to her; she’s my role model,” Hope says of the runner-up in the 100 breaststroke at the state meet in 2012 — the season NT captured a third straight state team championship. “I enjoyed watching her at state meets, at the [2012 Olympic] Trials, whenever she swam.”

Hope Hayward showed little joy as she walked toward Trevians coach Mac Guy after winning the 200 IM last weekend. Bigger meets (sectional, state) awaited, after all.

A grinning Guy gave her a thumbs up with his left hand and then raised his right arm to receive a high five from Hayward.

“She’s coming off a great summer, and she’s real competitive,” Guy said. “When it matters most, Hope races fast.”

Practices matter to Hayward, too. She puts her head down at each, swims lap after lap — and motivates her teammates along the way.

“She’s very inspirational,” Grochowski said. “And at meets like this [CSL South], she’s on top of it.”

Guy praised Grochowski and the rest of the Trevs who swam their final competitive laps this fall, including the CSL South champion JV members.

“It was nice, sweeping [the varsity and JV meets] this weekend,” he said. “It gave all of our girls [not on the sectional team] a huge confidence boost.”

New Trier junior Samantha Adams, freshman Vivian Wu and senior Caroline Good preceded Grochowski on the 400 relay; Wu, senior Hannah Warden and sophomore Lydia O’Connell joined Hayward on the 200 medley relay (1:49.26).

A New Trier quartet also won the 200 free relay (1:38.09), with senior Brittany Bishop serving as the anchor after legs

from O’Connell, Hayward and senior Nicole Retondo.

Bishop had bowed for a first-place medal in the 100 free (53.3) two events earlier.

Junior Sophie Conley earned the Trevians’ first gold on Oct 8, amassing 452.9 points in the morning’s diving segment.

NT’s other top-three efforts: Bishop (2nd, 50 free, 24.63); junior Julia Green (2nd, 200 free, 1:55.76; 2nd, 500 free, 5:15.52); 400 free relay (2nd, 3:39.05 — Green, sophomore Mia Haggerty, Retondo and Bishop); Retondo (3rd, 200 IM, 2:10.84; 3rd, 100 breaststroke, 1:07.02); Haggerty (3rd, 500 free, 5:15.8); Adams (3rd, 100 butterfly, 59.87); Good (3rd, 100 free, 54.02); and O’Connell (3rd, 50 free, 24.75).

Four-time reigning state champ NT vies for state berths at the Niles North Sectional Nov. 15.

Lake Forest You go, Jo. Scouts sophomore Jo Annin did that — and then some — at the North Suburban Conference meet at Vernon Hills Nov. 8, clocking a third-place 58.68 in the 100 fly to help LFHS capture the team title.

“We had some standout swims from swimmers who had been teetering on something great,” Scouts coach Carolyn Grevers said, alluding to Annin and sophomore Olivia Lomax (third place, 500 free, 5:18.1).

Jo,” she added, “had an exceptional swim, and Olivia had a breakthrough.”

LF (318 points) bettered runner-up Libertyville by 33 points to avenge a 10680 loss in a dual meet Sept. 23.

“The team did really well and got the confidence boost [it] needed before sectional and state meets,” Grevers said.

Junior Reilly Lanigan went 4-for-4 for the Scouts, topping the 200 IM (2:08.27) and 100 fly (57.88) fields and motoring on two winning relays (200 free, 400 free). Classmate

Haley Nelson swam the second leg of the 400 free relay, won the 100 back (58.23) and finished second in the 200 free (1:54.91).

Another Scouts junior, Carmen White, overwhelmed the diving segment with a firstplace total of 432.4 points.

Sophomore Daria Pyshnenko sped to first place in the 50 free and joined Lanigan, Lomax and sophomore Maddie Smith on the 200 free relay (1:38.54); Smith and sophomore Ella Needler completed the other legs of the 400 free unit (3:34.59).

The 200 medley relay of Nelson, Annin, Pyshnenko and sophomore Kayla Smith took second (1:48.17). Maddie Smith silvered in the 100 free (53.53) and bronzed in the 50 free (24.6).

Junior Elise Vondra touched fourth in the 500 free in 5:18.81 — a scant 0.71 behind Lomax.

The Scouts host a sectional meet Nov. 15.

Loyola LA’s Ramblers won the Metro Catholic Athletic Conference meet at the University of Illinois-Chicago Nov. 2, downing runnerup Rosary 386-372 and claiming eight titles.

Loyola sophomore Olivia Andrew touched first in a pair of events (200 free, 1:53.66; 100 free, 52.72) and helped two relays (200 free, 400 free) finish first. Senior teammate Libby Jardeleza emerged victorious in the 100 fly (57.61) and 100 back (58.06) races.

Ramblers senior Grace Tierney and junior Maria Kyle each swam on two winning relays. The pair joined Andrew and freshman Cassidy Coughlin on the 200 free (1:38.29) and connected with Andrew and sophomore Ella Tierney on the 400 free (3:32.64).

Coach Mike Hengelmann also received first-place efforts from seniors Katie Rourke (diving, 472.3 points) and Claire Rushin (50 free, 24.74).

LA also vies for state berths at the Niles North Sectional Nov. 15. ■

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46 | SUNDAY BREAKFAST SHE WORKS HARD, THOUGH THE END RESULT IS CHILD’S PLAY ■ by sam eichner The Nite N’ Gale, with its dimly lit dining room, is packed, alive with a level of chatter for which the space seems unprepared. As we take our seats, Jessica Puller is a little concerned I might not be able to hear her.

She needn’t be, though.

Puller’s voice is forceful and direct. Her projection may be a vestige of her experience on the stage, a bi-product of her passion for theater, or both — what is plain is that hers is a voice that wants to be heard.

As a playwright and aspiring novelist, Puller fractures and channels her voice through the characters she creates on the page. A Northwestern University graduate, with a bachelor’s degree in theater and a master’s degree in elementary education, Puller has written more than 20 plays, several of which have been published. She cites so many during our conversation — ranging from mythological adaptations to cleverly disguised meditations on death — that I wonder aloud how she finds the time to write so prolifically with a full-time job.

“That’s why I want to write plays — to have them make an impact on someone’s life.” | Jessica Puller “Nights, weekends, on the train,” responds Puller, whose favorite Sunday breakfast consists of scrambled eggs with hash browns and a bagel with strawberry jam.

“And on the bus once, which was hard.”

These days, Puller writes primarily with a children’s or young-adult audience in mind. When asked why,

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“I found I was having more of an emotional connection to the children’s theater pieces,” she says, “than the adult stuff.”

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Puller’s latest play, which will run at the Citadel Theatre from Nov. 21 to Dec. 21, is called “From the Heart,” and it’s a mash up of two holiday stories: “The Gift of the Maji” by O. Henry, and “A Christmas Memory”

by Truman Capote. It too features a young protagonist — a modern-day child inundated with modern-day technology, to whom Puller reintroduces a theme she holds dear.

“The Citadel show allowed me to return to a convention I really love, which is the convention of storytelling,” she says of “From the Heart.” “It’s this idea that telling stories is the most important, amazing gift you can give someone.”

Indeed, Puller claims that one of the most rewarding moments of her career occurred in South Bend, when an audience member at one of her plays seemed to really identify with the story unfolding onstage.

“A guy who was sitting in the audience walked up to me and shook my hand and said, ‘Thank you for writing this play,’” Puller recalls. “It’s a very small thing.

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