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11 Common bond

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12 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 18 Social Whirl

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Soup-to-nuts overhaul for aging gem is a great move

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, for one, am glad to know The Deer Path Inn will undergo a massive renovation, as our story inside details.

There is a difference between charm and tired, and The Deer Path Inn in Lake Forest needs a facelift. The Bar is lively and thankfully will stay open during the construction (as will The Pub), but the rest of the beloved hotel will benefit from the five-star makeover.

My association with The Deer Path Inn is slightly different than most. My grandmother lived there for 25 years. Before you think she was simply a hotel guest who overstayed her welcome, let me explain that she rented an apartment, an option available to a few elderly ladies of the time.

I visited often, sometimes for a meal in The English Room. When I ordered French onion soup, she was displeased, thinking the unruly combination of cheese, bread and more made too much of a mess. If I didn’t have a drink, she asked if I had become a teetotaler. When I walked her back to her apartment, she unfailingly reminded me to crook my arm like so, the best to ensure no fall would occur.

Her apartment (now named the Frederick Suite for inn guests) was cozy. She read relentlessly, especially anything about the former King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and watched the Chicago Cubs (she enjoyed Harry Caray’s game calls). All in all, she loved The Deer Path Inn, where she could order a grilled cheese sandwich and a Coke for just about any meal, fight against any rent increase she

deemed excessive and celebrate her 100th birthday in quiet style.

For the first time since she died in 1999, just short of living in three different centuries, I walked into the Frederick Suite recently, thanks to Jay Mendiola, the human resources director there who remembered my grandmother. The long-time employee was in his teens during her stay, and she’d talk with him about the stock market, an early education about an unknown entity for him. I had shown up asking if our family could have the Frederick Suite sign, which we thought might be disposed of during the renovation. Jay said they are planning on keeping the same name for the suite when the inn reopens.

Aside from a shower replacing the bathtub and the carpet being removed to expose fine-looking wood, the suite looked just about the same. Would my grandmother approve of the overhaul if she were still living there? It’s doubtful, as she was perfectly content with what she had. But I am excited about the new look for this North Shore gem, which was originally constructed in the 1860s a few blocks from its present location. Maybe they’ll even find a way to make the French onion soup easy to place on a spoon.

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Inn with the new

Historic Lake Forest spot poised for makeover ■

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Warmth is synonymous with the historic Deer Path Inn in Lake Forest. It is what Matt Barba feels each time he enters the stuccoed Tudor-styled hotel on Illinois Avenue.

But not because the inn — born in the 1860s before moving to its present location in 1929 and modeled after a mid-15th century Manor House in Chiddingstone, Kent, England — features stone fireplaces.

“I get this warm feeling as soon as I get here,” says Barba, interim general manager at the Deer Path Inn. “There’s something about it, something special. It’s positive. It’s cozy. I enjoy seeing the friendly faces everywhere I look, the nooks and crannies, the visuals and the feels of an old Manor House.

“There’s an energy about it.”

For 15 months, starting in early January, Lake Forest’s quaint, charming inn will undergo a multimillion-dollar renovation that will enhance the experience for its guests. The lead architect is Mark Knauer.

The banquet facilities, meeting rooms and all 54 guest rooms (including 27 suites) will be closed for the duration of the substantial refurbishment. The bar and the White Hart Pub will remain open to the public.

Each starts daily service at 4 p.m.

“Keeping the bar and pub open allows the community to come in and ask questions about the renovation,” Barba says. “We don’t want to lose touch with the community. The Deer Path Inn serves as the living room and dining room of the community.

“I’m looking forward to the renovation.

I’m looking forward to seeing and hearing the reactions of the renovation.”

Each guest room — individually decorated — will, finally, have state-of-the-art HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) that 5-star hotel rooms have, so travelers can control the temperature.

Among the project’s other plans: reconfigure and design guest rooms; refurbish the Hearth Room and English Room; update

the Garden Room and banquet facilities, and add a passenger elevator for access to the upper and lower floors.

Changes to the hotel’s exterior won’t be recognizable, much to the delight of folks who want the inn to retain the “Old” in “Old English.”

One of the folks is Ralph Hansen, a Lake Forest resident and owner of a sports and entertainment marketing company. He has been frequenting the Deer Path Inn for 30 years. He figures the number of times he has visited is in the thousands.

He placed his son in a White Hart Pub booth when his son was little. His son now has a daughter.

“My granddaughter … guess where she sits when she’s at Deer Path?” Hansen says.

“The booth where my son always sat when he was young. I have a long history of going there with my family. My wife [Joyce], it’s her birthday [Dec. 12]. We’re going to celebrate it at Deer Path.

“We have a traditional home. We like traditional things. The Deer Path Inn is as traditional as it gets.”

Jay Mendiola stands in the lobby area of the inn’s entrance. Lobby areas in hotels are typically bright, shiny, somewhat cold.

Not here. The lighting is dim, set permanently at a pleasing den-at-home-at-twilight setting. The floors and walls are dark but not too dark.

“The Deer Path Inn’s main competitors?” asks Mendiola, the director of human resources at the Deer Path Inn. “Let’s see.

I’d say a house … in Lake Forest. This is a unique place, a special place. It feels like a home. I know it feels like a home to our employees. These next 15 months, they’re all going to feel like it is their house that’s getting renovated.”

Six months after ownership changed hands last December — it is now owned by a subsidiary of Abbott — inn’s management and staff teams met for several hours on consecutive days. Plans for the renovation were presented. Another item on the agenda:

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the inn’s DNA. Management assured the attendees that what made the Deer Path Inn endearing — and enduring — would not be compromised at any point of the upgrade.

“People will notice a more pristine version of this place, but the charm and the essence of it will not be lost at all,” Barba says. “The lead architect [Knauer] is fantastic, up on all of the nuances and all of the aesthetics. It was time. It was time to modernize.”

There was a time when Paul Newman visited the Chicago area. To act in movie.

Or to do something related to his other passion, racing cars. Or to see friends, business associates.

One of the late actor’s favorite destinations on the North Shore was the Deer Path Inn. Hansen’s company represented Newman’s racing interests.

“Paul Newman,” Hansen recalls, “went to Deer Path a number of times. He absolutely loved it. He found it a pleasure. He could come and go, eat at the inn, and nobody ever

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The inn’s staff treated Newman as it treats the understudy of the lead actor in a middle-school play: enthusiastically and attentively. The inn’s staff has always impressed Hansen.

“Such high-quality people,” Hansen says.

“They treat everybody with respect. They respond to your needs, too. I remember one time, at a birthday party there. Maybe it was on another occasion. Somebody at our table wanted to order sweet potatoes. But that wasn’t on the menu. Well, somebody ran to a grocery store and purchased the ingredients. The kitchen prepared the order. The order of sweet potatoes made it to our table.”

Hansen, like others, is looking forward to the day — in early 2016 — when he will get to feast his eyes on the Deer Path Inn 2.0.

“They will get it right, no doubt,” he says Visit the hotel’s website at www.dpihotel. com for periodic updates about the renovation. ■

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Sexters, others often sentenced by teen juries ■

by sam eichner

This fall, a dozen male students from New Trier High School became ensnared in an investigation involving the transmission and proliferation of nude photos of their underage peers via text messages, Facebook, and other forms of social media.

This isn’t the first sexting scandal to rock North Shore schools — one in Lake Forest a few years ago took down a principal. It is, however, arguably one of the more notable cases to be referred to the New Trier Township’s Peer Jury — a program that has become increasingly prevalent in small-town areas, both statewide and nationally, over the past 20 years.

The peer jury (or “teen court”) system is an informal alternative to traditional juvenile court, normally run by a coalition of police departments, townships, and school districts.

Rather than send a juvenile offender to court, police will, in certain cases (like criminal damage to property, underage drinking, or sexting) pass offenders who’ve plead guilty to their corresponding peer juries instead. If they complete the sentence handed down from their peers — oftentimes community service and/or letters of apology — they’ll leave the jury with a clean record.

New Trier Township’s Community Service Administrator Brian Leverenz has been supervising the program since its establishment in 1998. All high school students with a grade point average above 3.0 are welcome to apply to serve as a juror, and cases are referred from any of the township’s five police departments: Glencoe, Winnetka, Wilmette, Kenilworth, and Northfield.

“It’s one thing for an adult to say a kid has done something wrong,” Leverenz says. “But when your peers are telling you something, in theory it has a lot more power because this message is coming from people your own age.”

In the traditional system, Leverenz adds, a first-time offender with a minor offense may get screened out of juvenile court; even if he or she does step in front of a judge, it’s unlikely that the offender will receive anything more than a brief admonishment.

“Instead of five minutes in front of a judge,” Leverenz says, “kids are going to spend 15-20 minutes in front of their peers.”

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An offender’s attitude, level of remorse, and general presentation during the questioning from his or her peers all factor into the jury’s collective sentencing. Moreover, participants are required to check in on a consistent basis with the court to keep them abreast of their progress.

“The good thing about the teen courts immersion program,” says Lake Forest Police Department’s School Resources Officer Brett Marquette, who’s been involved in their version of the system for five years, “is that you’re holding that teen accountable. They have to answer all the questions, they have to do all the community service, and they have to write the letter of apology.”

“I think most, if not all, of the people we gave sentences to were grateful for not having it on their record,” Carrie Rodman says. She’s a former peer juror with the New Trier Township program and currently a sophomore at Georgetown University.

“It takes a negative experience and turns it into something very meaningful, or at the very least a good learning experience.”

One of the biggest challenges for Rodman, as a juror, was actually espousing advice to her peers, some of whom may have been older than her at the time. And though there is a strict confidentiality agreement for what goes on in court — and jurors who know the offender personally must recuse themselves — she notes that it certainly can be strange to run into the subject at school or around town afterwards.

“It definitely took some getting used to,” she says.

The sensationalism of the New Trier sexting case could well intensify this awkwardness — for students on both sides of the table. Still, Leverenz contends that it’s far better to try these offenders in front a jury of one’s peers than in juvenile court.

“Kids don’t understand the notion of privacy anymore because of technology, and that’s the message the police want to get out there,” Leverenz says. “The students are going to learn their lesson [here] without damaging their lives.”

Rodman, from a former juror’s perspective, seems to agree.

“For sensitive cases I’ve had in the past, it can be emotional and hard at times,” Rodman recalls. “But we always approached it with respect, and a lot of positive and productive discussions came about from cases like this.” ■

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It’s raining cats and dogs as Leslie Mendoza Temple looks out the window.

But even with a Biblical deluge threatening everyone

without an ark, inside Temple’s new juice bar, Mingle, the sky stays light blue. The decorative birds never leave their perch. And it’s always the right season for blending.

Luckily, the power doesn’t cut out in Glenview, and the juicers keep whirling vigorously. As an integrative medicine physician and owner of a juice bar in The Glen Town Center, Temple’s credentials are being put to the test with a question: How long can a person go on juices alone?

“We can go for stretches at a time without any food,” says the Highland Park resident, noting that humankind has evolved to be inherently nomadic in nature. But that doesn’t mean the extreme juice cleanse made famous in the movie “Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead” is recommended for everyone.

“We’re targeting the people who already juice but also the people who are not familiar with it but who want to get healthy,” says Temple. “Maybe they’ve heard of this juicing thing, but it’s intimidating. I have to admit, I was intimidated when I first started. ‘What do I put with what?’

It’s tricky.”

Temple, the medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, completed a two-year fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Weil — a pioneer of integrative medicine — after she realized, firsthand, that modern Western medicine wasn’t the only means to achieving total health.

Four years ago, Temple became curious about juicing after hearing about it from her patients. Since Temple does everything — from chromotherapy to acupuncture — before prescribing it, she felt obligated to try it for herself.

Her friend Kim King, also of Highland Park, joined her, and together they started coming up with creative ways to enjoy blending fruits and vegetables.

“I was amazed at how delicious her creations were,” admits Temple. “[Kim] has an amazing sense of what tastes good together and what doesn’t.”

Now, Temple and King are business partners that have adopted a “clean” model for success. It all boils down to a ratio: 80-20. For each juice, 80 percent of the mix is vegetable and 20 percent consists of fruits or sweeter tasting ingredients (but always organic and locally sourced as much as possible).

Committing to that equation and broadening it to encapsulate all areas of her life (80 percent strict dieting: 20 percent moderate indulgence), King was able to shed 100 pounds drinking one juice a day for two years. She says she was inspired on this path by Joe Cross, the man behind the documentary “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” who invited her to his first ever “reboot” camp in Rhinebeck, N.Y. King’s creations now litter Mingle’s menu with inventive names that playfully hint at their ingredients (I Don’t Carrot All; Give Me the Beet Boys). And in honor of Temple’s friend Billy Corgan, frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins: DJ Ivory Tower and Mellon Collie.

“Like a really good chef, [Kim] just knows how to improvise,” says Temple.

The storm dissipates and the juice bar — which also serves seasonal food including hot organic soup, fresh baked bread, and gluten-free desserts — fills up with customers who make the trek in rain or shine for their daily healthy serving.

“It’s the most important thing in my diet,” says Lola Delic, who started juicing eight years ago. “It’s like a gateway to vibrant health. Once you start juicing, you give up the coffees, the caffeine.”

Sitting across from her, Joanne Boufis, a first-time customer at Mingle agrees, although she sheepishly admits she had asked for coffee when she first walked in. But goes on to say the Lite My Fire (carrots, beets, orange, limes, jalapeño) is a good replacement.

“I do feel like I’m getting a boost. I like when you can feel it,” says Boufis. “No Red Bull — just jalapeno.” ■

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Most of the students at Sonrise School who lost one or both parents during the Rwandan genocide — which claimed more than one million lives 20 years ago — are enrolled in upper grades or have graduated.

“They come because they know that the school cares and provides,” said the Rt. Rev. Laurent Mbanda, bishop of the Shyira Diocese in the Anglican Church of Rwanda, speaking at a benefit sponsored by Church of the Redeemer in Highland Park.

Held by one of the Sonrise founders at Highwood Bocce Club, almost $26,000 was raised.

“It is good to be known for the fact we take care of kids spiritually and socially—plus we perform very well in the country,” he added.

Lake County

The Lake County Community Foundation announced board changes.

Anne Reusché assumed the role of chair. Reusché, daughter of founding board member and former Northern Trust executive Robert F. Reusché, takes the role after A. Stewart Kerr’s two years of service.

“This foundation meant the world to my father and means the

world to my family,” she said.

Other changes include Miah H. Armour, who will serve as vice chair, along with Thomas P. McMenamin, who has served in the role for two years.

Judy Armstrong was elected as board secretary and Larry Connolly treasurer. Former Treasurer Horacio Lopez will serve out his term as a member at large on the executive committee.

The Friends of Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Foundation member Rick Amos presented a $100,000 check to the Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Board last month.

The funds presented were instrumental in the planning and construction of the Friends Park Pavilion, dedicated in 2010.

“These funds are a result of the hard work by our foundation along with the support of many within the Parks and Recreation Department,” says Amos.

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Lake Forest

During a black-tie dinner/dance at the Metropolitan Club in New York City last week, The Garden Conservancy honored John Kaul Greene of Lake Forest.

He was recognized for his strong philanthropic leadership, including serving for six years as a member of the Garden Conservancy’s board of directors.

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The Wilmette Rotary (noon) Club donated 15,000 books to needy inner-city schools.

Books came from McKenzie, Romona, Harper and CentralSchools, Highcrest and Wilmette Junior High, Marie Murphy, St. Joseph and St. Francis Xavier Schools — all in Wilmette — and St. Athanasius School in Evanston.

Participating high schools were New Trier, Regina Dominican and Loyola Academy. Book donations also came from public libraries in Wilmette, Northfield/Winnetka, Glenview, Skokie and Lake Bluff.

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Redhot & Blue, Yale University’s oldest co-educational a cappella group, will appear in Wilmette Jan. 3-4.

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The first appearance will be at Michigan Shores Club, co-hosted by the Yale Club of Chicago, on Saturday, Jan. 3 at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $20.

On Sunday, Jan. 4, the group

will perform at Trinity United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. The suggested donation is $10/adult, $5/child, and under 6 is free. ■

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■ by johnson ho Since the 1980s, the modern wine elite has blossomed to encompass the New World.

A generation of scientifically trained and internationally groomed winemakers has been jet-setting globally to share insights into best practices. The biggest beneficiary of this development has been the California wine country.

Here are three stars in different orbits: 2011 Opus One, Napa; $228 A chance encounter in the 1970s between Baron Phillippe de Rothschild, owner of Bordeaux’ Chateau Mouton Rothschild, and Robert Mondavi, legendary innovator of super-premium wines in Napa Valley, brought together an Old World and a New World visionary to usher in a new era of progress.

The Rothschilds would contribute the expertise gained from centuries of production and half of the capital while Robert would provide the finest grapes, local talent and technological sophistication for the Opus One project. The resulting vintages caught the attention of the gourmet world.

Elegant and harmonious in its appeal, Opus One stood far apart from the typical rustic blockbuster fruit bombs of Napa Cabernets.

Its food friendliness with Continental/French cuisine has made it a safe and prestigious choice for a luxury meal at top restaurants for the past three decades.

Best 8-15 years from vintage and after one hour of decanting.

2006 Cain Five, Napa; $90 Founded by an ex-professor at the University of Chicago, Cain Cellar pioneered mountainside vineyards with optimal sun exposure, cooler temperature and great drainage high above Napa Valley. Its model focused on Bordeaux’ traditional blend of five grape varieties (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot), which provides a winemaker with a wider pallet of aroma, flavor and texture options for the wine than with just one grape type.

Cain Five has been consistently sought after by value-conscious veteran wine lovers who prefer a more complex and distinctive style of red wine to complement mild meat dishes or just sipping over a great book or symphony.

Best 8-16 years from vintage and after one hour of decanting.

2011 Field Stone Winery Convivio, Alexander Valley; $15 Tucked away in the bucolic Alexander Valley northwest of Napa, this organic wine producer has some of the oldest vines of California. The proprietor, Dr. John Staten, was an ex-theology professor at the University of Chicago whose wife inherited the estate, and they moved there four decades ago.

Passionate about quality and natural balance (but also lacking deep pockets), they sold most of their fabulous grapes to wineries like Jordan, a next-door neighbor, Robert Mondavi (whose reserve wines depended on the rich concentration of the old vines) and many trophy boutiques. As the decades-old vines had to be replaced, the less-concentrated juice of the young vines with their short roots became the “second label” for casual enjoyment at a bargain price. Wonderful with hamburgers, skirt steak, hearty pasta or country buffet, it is a trusted versatile gem.

Best 4-8 years from vintage and after 30 minutes of aeration.

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The evening, chaired by Renee and Lester Crown of Wilmette, featured a video tribute from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and was emceed by Kathy Brock. Funds raised will go to support the organization’s programming, filling the after-school hours in some of the city’s most challenging neighborhoods. bgcc.org

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All-butter pastry dough

1 1/2 cups half-and-half

1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

10 ounces (1-inch-wide) broccoli florets (with 1 to 2 inches of stem attached)

1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Equipment: a 9 1/2-inch deep-dish pie plate or a 9-inch (2-inch-deep) round fluted tart pan with removable bottom; pie weights or dried beans

2 large garlic cloves

1/4 teaspoon cayenne

6 large eggs

5 ounces extra-sharp Cheddar, coarsely grated (2 cups)

1. Preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle. 2. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin into a 13-inch round. Fit dough into pie plate, letting excess hang over edge. Fold overhang inward and press against side of pie plate to reinforce edge. Prick bottom all over with a fork. Chill until firm, about 30 minutes. 3. Line pie shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake until pastry is set and edge is pale golden, 20 to

25 minutes. 4. Carefully remove foil and weights, then bake shell until deep golden all over, 15 to 20 minutes more.

Put pie plate in a 4-sided sheet pan.

Leave oven on. 5. While shell bakes, cook broccoli in a 3-quart pot of boiling salted water 4 minutes. Drain broccoli and rinse under cold water to stop cooking, then pat dry. 6. Mince and mash garlic to a paste with a generous pinch of salt. 7. Whisk together garlic paste, eggs, half-and-half, nutmeg, cayenne, and 1/4

teaspoon salt in a large bowl until smooth.

8. Pour filling into pie shell and add broccoli, then sprinkle with cheeses. 9.

Bake quiche until custard is just set, 45 to 50 minutes. (Center will tremble slightly; filling will continue to set as it cools.) Cool at least 20 minutes. Serve quiche warm or at room temperature.

COOK’S NOTE: Quiche can be baked one day ahead and chilled. Reheat, uncovered, in a 325°F oven, for about 25 minutes.

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Elizabeth Fernandez, Lake Forest Being the first person in my family to go to college.

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For the holiday season — along with the Walnut Room and the beautiful windows in the store formerly known as Marshall Field’s — a favorite stop in Chicago is the Art Institute’s installation of 68 miniature rooms by Narcissa Niblack Thorne (18821966), wife of James Ward Thorne.

This year, Thorne Rooms’ addicts also can enjoy a new book

by Sally Sexton K almbach, “ M rs.

Thorne’s World of Miniatures” (Chicago: Amp&rsand, Inc., 2014).

Priced as a stocking stuffer at $18.95, Kalmbach’s illustrated, wellr e s e a r ched , a nd important small book is a treasure trove of surprises about this great North Shore innovative artist and her work. Letters attesting to the signifSally Sexton Kalmbach’a new book icance of her lifetime’s achievements include ones by the Chicago Tribune’s cartoonist and author John T. McCutcheon, a summer Lake Forest resident, and New York architect William A. Delano — with David Adler a leading classic designer of the early 20th-century Federal style McGann house on Deerpath in Lake Forest and the Chateau-esque Olmsted house on Cambridge in Lake Bluff.

The shape of Mrs. Thorne’s fascinating career is fleshed out in Kalmbach’s lively text and in the photo and archival illustrations. The story begins with little Narcissa collecting miniatures as gifts as a child and continuing later with historic architecture and design rare plate books and watercolors. She built an accurately detailed French Louis XIV period house in Lake Forest in 1910. The architects were former Jenney partner William A. Otis and his young partner Edwin Hill Clark, both Winnetka residents and designers of homes there.

By the 1930s, having raised two sons, Mrs. Thorne took up the creation of miniature rooms in earnest, and they were displayed in New York and at the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. Later, the painstakingly accurate period rooms on a scale of one inch to one foot toured all over the country.

The architecture of the first 12 rooms were designed by Edwin Hill Clark’s firm, setting the template, which Mrs. Thorne followed working with Eugene Kupjack. In 1941 she donated three sets of rooms to the Art Institute, but the first formative group were not kept and ended up in the Phoenix Art Museum by the 1960s. But the rest, the work of her major phase, still can be enjoyed at their Chicago home.

“The shape of Mrs. Thorne’s fascinating career is fleshed out in Kalmbach’s lively text and in the photo and archival illustrations.”

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For the next quarter century until her death, Mrs. Thorne made shadow boxes from cutouts from prints, miniatures and flowers for friends and for sale to support her favorite charities, including Northwestern’s hospital in Streeterville. Nobody knows today how many such elegant shadow boxes, wastebaskets and the like were made.

Many were wedding and other gifts or bought for charity.

The Thorne Rooms’ curator, Lindsay Mican Morgan, would welcome news of examples in private hands or in local history museums, aiming to produce one day a catalogue raissone of Mrs. Thorne’s work. Some of these have Mrs. Thorne’s card attached, while others may show signs of one having been attached or can be attributed to her based on her characteristic style. They show up at auction form time to time, especially at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, and condition is important.

Still working in the Mrs. Thorne mode are Eugene Kupjack’s sons, Henry and Ray, creating a few rooms per year at their studio near Chicago. They could also be consulted about conservation of shadow boxes in North Shore home collections. ■

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Books with marriage as linchpin are often engaging ■

by joanna brown

“Where The Sidewalk Ends,” Shel Silverstein’s great collection of poetry and drawings — which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year — begins with an invitation to readers.

“If you are a dreamer, come in,” he wrote. “If you are a dream, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…”

It was a call to young readers to see that poetry is not intimidating and for adults to slow down and find through his work the joy that children experience. It seems to me that the same invitation could be made to people entering a marriage.

And so these days when the thermometer drops and the grocery store shelves are stocked with fresh apple cider, I’ll reach for a good book (though it will be hard to find one I enjoy as much as Silverstein’s). I asked local experts for their recommendations with a marital spin: something about a great couple, a story of “how-we-got-together,” a married team of murder investigators, even. They didn’t disappoint.

Jon Grand, store manager at Winnetka’s Book Stall at Chestnut Court, had several recommendations collected from his colleagues. Grand admitted that he prefers books from the history and non-fiction shelves, but he usually has three or four books going at any given time. He has since he was a child.

For fiction fans, Grand recommended “Us,” by David Nichols. When his wife asks for a divorce after 30 years of

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marriage, Douglas finds himself on a long-planned family trip to Europe examining parenthood, relationships and his own expectations as he works to save his marriage.

Another fiction recommendation from The Book Stall is “We Are Not Ourselves” by Matthew Thomas. Readers will follow multiple generations of an Irish-American family in pursuit of the American Dream. Their interests in better jobs and bigger homes are not shared, and the effects ripple through every member of the family.

For non-fiction fans like Grand, he recommended “Eleanor and Franklin” by Joseph Lash. The Roosevelts create a powerful political partnership in spite of their differences: she was shy and awkward, while he was a charismatic politician, and their marriage was crumbling. Their public persona, however, is a memorable part of American history.

And what is marriage if not humorous. “My Planet” by Mary Roach looks as marriage as the subject of a scientific study. The author is a respected science writer who previously examined human sexuality and cadavers in similarly comedic fashion, with great success. This collection of articles published in Reader’s Digest puts life in perspective.

Lake Forest Book Store manager Maxwell Gregory recommended two others.

“The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion tells the story of a socially inept genetics professor who sets out to find a wife scientifically. He is sidelined by a woman who fails his intake survey but intrigues the professor with her quest to find her biological father. Chaos ensures in this romantic comedy.

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In “The Storied Life” of A. J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin, the title character owns a bookstore on the decline after the death of his wife. A baby left at his store and a new sales rep inspire him to turn things around, with great humor for the reader.

But like Grand recommended, trust your local team of booksellers to speak knowledgeably about great reads for every taste. Pick their brains for book in your preferred genre, and then spend an hour nosing around in another couple’s adventures.

E-mail Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown at Joanna@northshoreweekend.com ■

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Revamped kitchen

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The remodeled kitchen offers a sleek look.

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by simon murray For one couple in Glenview, entering their

previous kitchen was no day at the beach.

Although relatively new — the home was built in 2001 — the kitchen featured both

an island and peninsula in its cramped layout. During get-togethers with friends or family, quarters that should’ve been airy and open were instead causing bottlenecks.

It was time to bring down the sledgehammer.

“It was very dark, and the space was not well laid out,” recalls Jennifer Rahaley, an interior designer with the DDK Kitchen and Design Group, who was hired by the homeowners after a neighbor recommended the Glenview designer’s services.

Adds Rahaley, “They mostly wanted lighter and brighter: top-of-the-line finishes and features, and, most importantly, a better lay out. They entertain and cook a lot, so they wanted to be able to really use the kitchen to its fullest capabilities.”

If it were up to the homeowners, everybody would have room to hang out in the kitchen while they were cooking — be it for the holidays, with their large extended family, or just hanging out with friends.

“Entertaining is a big part of our lives,” says one of the homeowners (who didn’t want to include a name). “Although the footprint of the kitchen remained relatively the same, we were able to maximize the storage space while giving the renovated kitchen a more functional and airy effect.

“It is much more conducive to prep for

cooking while entertaining guests.”

Rahaley and DDK contracted E.D. Enterprises to install the custom cabinetry and interior remodeling. They also utilized the work of Tithof to fabricate the countertops and Etched in Stone for the tiles. The three companies are businesses in Arlington Heights, Northbrook, and Glenview respectively.

Rahaley, with more than 14 years of interior design experience, oversaw the remodeling project, which included eliminating the peninsula in favor of creating a bigger island, opening up the space to the eating area and family room, and installing new appliances.

The cabinetry is now Dutch Made, inset maple and cherry with paint and glaze, injecting lighter tones and colors. Counters are lined with Taj Mahal Quartzite, and the appliances — including the refrigerator and oven — are from Sub-Zero and Wolf.

A butler’s pantry is also featured in what Rahaley calls an “appliance garage,” which includes a beverage center (with Sub-zero refrigerator and freezer drawers), pocket doors that fold within themselves, housing a coffee machine, and designated areas such as a cleaning area with a sink and dishwasher; refrigeration area; beverage hub with dual zone wine refrigerators; a separate cooking area; microwave drawer, “which we do very frequently these days”; and a steam oven under the counter.

The kitchen was one of a handful of living spaces the homeowners were looking to redesign. Creating a place where they could congregate was an important first step in realizing their perfect home.

“It was an amazing learning experience with an end product we love,” says the homeowner. ■

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30 | SPORTS

The puck stops here: Liam McCann of the Highland Park Giants makes a save during earlier action this season. He has 20 of the Giants’ 24 wins. photography

Great McCann-ics

by joel lerner

There’s no masking the talents of Highland Park’s goaltender ■ by bill mclean sports@northshoreweekend.com His goals against average is 1.31.

His save percentage is .932.

He has recorded five shutouts.

His record is 20-3-1.

Liam McCann’s stats, all of them.

Then there’s this: three assists. Liam McCann, senior hockey goaltender for the Highland Park Giants, has three assists.

Perhaps you’re thinking: Giants coach Sean Freeman must have given McCann a couple of chances to suit up as a defenseman. Or a forward. Or a center.

You would be wrong, wrong, wrong.

McCann delivered each of the assists from his home on the ice, the goal crease (population: 1 masked, heavily padded boy].

“He’s not only very good at stopping shots,” Freeman says. “He’s also very good at handling the puck. Liam can pass. His passes, the ones that turned into assists … they were like Nolan Ryan fastballs.”

A baseball reference from a hockey coach. How fitting.

McCann is a first-year Giants goalie after having played seven years of triple-A hockey. His last AAA team was Mission, based in Lisle. He ceased crease time for that organization in order to spend more time on baseball — the sport he wants to play in college. But the middle infielder is not thinking about gloving grounders and nailing base runners these winter days and nights.

Gloving pucks with his left glove and backhanding threequarters-of-the-rink assists with his right arm are on his

mind. The right-handed McCann bats lefty, meaning the one-handed stroke he uses with a hockey stick is a smooth one, a familiar one.

“There is not much of a drop-off from triple-A hockey to high school hockey,” the 5-foot-9, 180-pound McCann says.

“The pace, the skill … they’re similar. I’m enjoying this.

Highland Park Giants hockey, it’s been very good for years.

I will do whatever I can do to help the team.”

What he did late in the third period of HP’s 5-1 defeat of visiting Maine on Dec. 14 had to be seen to be believed, to be appreciated. Shortly after the Giants survived Maine’s 5-on-3 advantage, McCann made save after save after save, with two of them coming while he had a seat on the ice. He stood on his head, too, during the barrage. Figuratively. He tilted right, tilted left. He almost could have passed for a human windmill, denying Maine’s laser shots from a variety angles in the game’s most gripping sequence.

The victory improved HP’s record to 23-7-2, 11-0 in the North-Central Division of the Illinois High School Hockey League’s Champions Conference.

“Liam is incredibly skilled,” Giants junior forward Simon Zaslavsky says of the alternate captain. “Does things out there that make your jaw drop. He’s also an unbelievable leader, a great role model. The first day Liam walked into our locker room, I knew he’d be a great leader for us. I knew he’d be captain material. I knew that because of the way he talks, the way he carries himself.”

The half-Irish, half-Italian son of Michael and Joann McCann credits his parents and his half-Irish, half-Italian brother, Brendan, for the way he talks and carries himself.

Brendan McCann is 26 years old and a senior financial

analyst for a major insurance company.

“My brother,” Liam says, “always wanted a little brother.

I would not be the athlete I am today had I not been able to grow up with him around. So many times we’d be in our yard, playing catch or working on ground balls. Being together … he helped me, encouraged me, influenced me, taught me the importance of leadership in sports.

“My father and my mother, they gave me great advice.

They told me to never be afraid to be a positive influence no matter what I’m doing, no matter which sport I’m playing.”

Before games, at the edge of a rink, McCann likes to stand near an entry/exit gate, with his right hand up. Teammates, one by one, tap McCann’s right glove before skating to a spot for the start of the warm-up session. The gate closes.

McCann glides to a crease.

Home again.

Notable: McCann finished with 24 saves in the 5-1 home win over Maine at Centennial Ice Arena on Dec. 13. Giants forward David Shapiro scored two goals and assisted on another. Andrew Krug, Gavin Proeh (assist) and Garrett Collopy tallied HP’s other goals. Other assists came from Dylan Abt and Kieran Jagadeesh. … Shapiro had a monster game on Dec. 14, netting three goals and providing three assists in a 6-2 defeat of Crystal Lake South at Leafs Ice Centre in West Dundee. Jagadeesh finished with two goals and two assists. Proeh found the net once and dished an assist. Krug and Jason Block each contributed an assist.

The win was HP’s 13th in 15 games and improved its overall record to 24-7-2, 12-0 in the North-Central division of the IHSHL Champions Conference. ■

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THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Making his mark: Lake Forest High School’s Evan Boudreaux puts up a scoop shot in his 31-point outing against Lake Zurich. Three nights later, he set the school’s all-time scoring record with 21 points against Libertyville.

photography by joel lerner

Evan-sational

Boudreaux breaks Lake Forest’s all-time scoring record ■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northshoreweekend.com Move over, Matt Vogrich.

Lake Forest High School senior center Evan Boudreaux broke Vogrich’s all-time scoring record with a 21-point outing at Libertyville on Dec. 13.

The 6-foot-8 star eclipsed Vogrich’s school record (1,496 points), when he hit two free throws with 10 seconds left in his team’s hard-fought 39-33 North Suburban Conference Lake win.

With only seven games played this season, Boudreaux figures to add plenty more points to his current total (1,497).

“This is huge for me,” said Boudreaux, who play his college basketball at Dartmouth College, “especially since there have been a lot of great players who have come through Lake Forest High School.

It’s indescribable.”

Growing up, Boudreaux was a big fan of Vogrich, a 2009 LFHS graduate who went on to play Big Ten basketball at the University of Michigan.

“I remember going to Lake Forest games, when he would drop 25 (points),” said Boudreaux. “He was an awesome player for Lake Forest and Michigan.”

Steve Vogrich, Matt’s younger brother, is a senior on the Scouts (7-0). Sidelined with an illness, he had a front-row seat at this record-breaking event.

“I’ve been expecting this for a while. It’s not surprising,” said the 6-7 forward. “I feel a little sad for my brother. But I know Matt will be glad for him.

“Evan is a great guy,” he added. “So, if anyone was going to break it …”

It was a night for Boudreaux to celebrate.

Immediately after leaving the trainer’s room, he walked into the main gymnasium at Libertyville and was met by applause from members of his family, players, coaches and fans. It was one of those spontaneous gatherings. He also was awarded the official game ball.

And yet, it was something of a trying night for

Boudreaux and his teammates. The Scouts didn’t shoot well, and they committed 20 turnovers.

And, there was a major scare. With 6:20 left in the fourth quarter, Boudreaux hobbled off the court with a sprained left ankle.

Give the Libertyville trainer, Ron Russ, an assist.

He re-taped Boudreaux’s ankle in quick fashion.

“I thanked him for getting me back on the court,” said Boudreaux.

In less than (game clock) three minutes, he was back on the floor.

And Boudreaux went to work immediately. First, he scored inside off a feed from Danny Carollo. Then, on LF’s next possession, he drove the lane and made an off-balanced scoop layup.

He scored seven of his team’s final nine points, including those record-tying and record-breaking free throws which put the Scouts up by four points, 37-34, with 10 seconds on the clock.

LF coach Phil LaScala loved the fact that the record was broken in an important game situation.

“How cool is that?” said LaScala. “He broke the record when his points meant something. They came in a clutch situation.

“He’s the guy you want having the ball at the end of game,” the coach added. “He’s an imaginative player. He finds ways to get open. He finds way to finish plays.”

Notable: In other action, the Scouts topped previously unbeaten Lake Zurich 60-54 on Dec. 10.

Boudreaux paced LF with 31 points and 15 rebounds.

Noah Karras finished with 10 points, while senior guard Scott Dent had a career-high eight assists.

This game also served as a fundraiser to benefit Coach Steve Johnson’s family. His daughter, Lexie, is battling Lymphoma. The combined efforts of the Booster Club, the Athletic Department, the boys and girls basketball programs, and the faculty, student body and community participation in a variety of activities, has raised $10,000 for the Hope for Lexie Foundation. ■

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O’Grady, grandson of a hockey legend, leads Loyola Gold’s attack ■ by bill mclean sports@northshoreweekend.com Danny O’Grady started playing hockey at the age of eight. Late. That’s late.

That’s especially late for the grandson of the late Jack O’Grady, the “O’Grady” in the annual Loyola Academy O’Grady Cup Thanksgiving hockey tournament in Wilmette.

Grandpa Jack served as a volunteer Loyola Academy Gold coach for decades.

His son and Danny’s dad, Dan (LA Class of ’82), was a Loyola Gold puck boy before becoming a Loyola Gold center.

“When me moved back here [from Pennsylvania], I was interested in soccer, basketball, football. Not hockey,” recalls Danny, a Glenview resident. “But I became intrigued when my dad told me stories about his dad, when my dad told me hockey stories about my grandfather, a big sports guy after [World War II]. One day I went up to my dad and said, ‘I want to play hockey.’ ” The rookie skater started where most start: in a house league. Danny O’Grady, son of a former puck boy, loved moving a puck, loved shooting a puck.

Stuck … on the puck sport.

Today? Danny O’Grady, a junior right wing, paces Loyola Gold (9-6, with one shootout loss, in the Scholastic Hockey League, through Dec. 15) in goals (nine) and points (14). The second-year first liner had a goal and an assist in a 5-0 defeat of Rockford at Heartland Ice Arena in Lincolnwood Dec. 12.

“Great kid, energy kid,” LA Gold coach DJ LaVarre says of O’Grady, a sophomore on a line with two seniors last winter. “He’s a meat-and-potatoes player, no flash. You look at him on the ice and you think, ‘OK, that kid works hard.’ He gets it. He gets Loyola Academy hockey, understands what we’re all about.”

O’Grady began the 2013-14 season as a fourth-line winger. One day, suddenly, he found himself skating with Gold’s first line. One of his advocates behind the promotion was John LaVarre, DJ’s brother and a Loyola Gold assistant coach.

After the elevation, O’Grady’s play on the ice slipped. John Lavarre noticed it.

O’Grady felt it.

O’Grady graded himself.

“I hit a valley,” O’Grady recalls. “I had a talk with John. John continued to support me, continued to encourage me. I look up to him. He has been a big influence. He gave me my edge as a player.”

O’Grady scored twice in Gold’s 6-3 win over reigning state champion New Trier Green at last year’s annual Quad Header.

Out of the valley.

Hello, peak … one of O’Grady’s peaks.

Graduation 2014 wasn’t kind to Loyola Gold. One of the last year’s seniors, forward Axel Lifvendahl, hummed atop the ice. He also was instrumental in selecting the music in Gold’s locker room after games, a job O’Grady holds this winter.

Lifvendahl blared rap music. O’Grady prefers trap music, a multi-layered genre popular among fans of electronic music.

“We lost a lot of talented players,” O’Grady says. “This year we’re young. We rely on each other. We have to rely on each other.

It’s a big difference compared to last year.

But we’re coming together. Ryan Hill, my center … we’re clicking.”

O’Grady’s style atop blades is part

Dandy Danny: Loyola Gold junior Danny O’Grady has a team-high 14 points (9 goals) in 16 SHL games. photography

blue collar, part no-nonsense. And all relentlessness.

“I am not a player who’s known for his hands, his dangles,” he says. “I like to get deep [in the opponent’s zone], crash the net, put the puck in. I’m a garbage man.”

He’s an O’Grady, a Loyola Gold hockey player. It looks right. It sounds right.

It makes perfect sense.

Notable: LA Gold lost 2-0 to host Glenbrook North on Dec. 10. LA’s Devin

O’Brien made 31 saves. … Michael Gonzalez, Jake Boersma, Ryan Nolan (power play) and Benjamin Odle also scored for LA Gold in its 5-0 defeat of Rockford on Dec. 12. Assists came from Hill, Eric Lifvendahl, William Brault, Parker Ray, James Hess, Mathew Szafoni and Daniel Arcus. Gold goaltender Nicholas Bolino stopped 37 shots. …

O’Grady and Nicholas Bartuce scored the goals in LA Gold’s 3-2 loss to Stevenson at Heartland on Dec. 13. Arcus, Gonzalez and Lifvendahl dished the assists. … Hill ranks

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second among teammates in points (13 — eight goals, five assists) behind O’Grady, through Dec. 15. … Lifvendahl led Gold in assists (six) after 16 SHL games. … Bolino (7-1) played in nine of Loyola Gold’s first 16 league games. He had a save percentage of .958 and a goals against average of 0.83. … Second-place Loyola Gold (9-6, one shootout loss) trailed SHL leader New Trier Green (13-1) after last weekend’s action.

Glenbrook North (8-2, two shootout losses) was in third place. ■

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A few years ago Sheridan Clayborne — now a senior at Highland Park High School — wondered what happened to the clothes that people put in the donation bins outside of a big department store in Highland Park.

“They always have these signs on them like ‘Help Support,’ but they never talk about what you’re actually supporting,” Clayborne says. “I come from a family of six, so I understand the necessity of handing down clothes. I thought it would be a great idea to start District Duds.”

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Cool Lake Forest Scouts’ Newtown is glaringly good on the ice ■ by bill mclean sports@northshoreweekend.com

Mary Claire Newtown, with a puck at her stick, is skating, weaving, zipping effortlessly past and around other hockey players. It almost seems unfair.

The Lake Forest High School senior defenseman is going all NASCAR on ice, while practically everybody else is riding along on a second-hand lawn mower, stuck in first gear.

Newtown is 17 years old, stands 5-foot-7. She must have mastered the art of skating well before figuring out what to do with a sippy cup.

“When I’m here [at Lake Forest College’s rink, the Scouts’ home icebox], my mind is off everything else,” Newtown admits. “Hockey … it’s a great stress reliever. My whole family is a hockey family. My dad [John] played at Clarkson University [N.Y.] My brother, Jack, plays club hockey at Dayton. I have a cousin who’s on the Boston Bruins’ farm team. When I was younger, I remember saying to him, ‘Wow, you’re almost a pro.’ That was so cool.”

Newtown was named captain before the start of the 2014-15 season. She thought that was so cool, too. Maybe the “C” on her jersey stands for “captain” and “cool”. The designation means she will have a say in the selection of the next two captains, per the program’s tradition. She does not take the responsibility lightly.

She is already making mental notes.

“I’ve got my eye on people,” Newtown says, breaking into a blueline-wide smile following a 1-1 tie with visiting Latin School on Dec. 9.

Soon after Latin knotted the score at the 5:36 mark of the third period, Newtown glided toward Scouts goaltender Corynn Salazar, a sophomore at Stevenson High School. Newtown stopped inches from her teammate, eager to ask a question.

“Did I screen you?” the concerned captain queried.

“No,” Salazar replied.

Newtown then delivered the same advice she has been giving herself since the start of her final prep season on skates.

“I told her, ‘Don’t let it get into your head,’ ” Newtown recalls. “I let that happen to me too often last year, when I went up against great players, fast players. Some players, they scared me to death. I don’t let things like that get into my head anymore.”

Through Lake Forest’s 2-1 defeat of Fenwick on Dec. 12, Newtown had scored six goals and assisted on two others for a 6-2-3 club. Two of her goals came in a 5-1 defeat of Warren on Oct. 21. But the numbers don’t define the player; Newtown’s skating ability and ice sense and Alps-high hockey IQ do.

‘C’ her skills: Mary Claire Newtown of the Lake Forest Scouts pushes the puck up the ice during a 1-1 tie with Latin on Dec. 9. photography by george pfoertner

Against Latin last week, she briefly gloved a high-flying puck late in the third period. The puck dropped near her blades as she got in a position to wrist a pass.

In a second, the puck reached saucer status, flying above at least a pair of Latin Romans before landing at the stick of a wide-open Scout. Newtown would later label it a “rainbow” pass.

LF did not score on the possession.

A clever Newtown, though, had given her team a sound chance to break a 1-1 tie.

“One of our smartest players,” Scouts coach Liz Zorn says of Newtown. “And she isn’t just a great player on defense; she’s also one of our better offensive players. She gets this look in her eye when she is alone and has the puck near our net. Mary Claire then takes a look [at me] as she skates up the ice. But I don’t have to tell her what to do. She puts her head down and skates, end to end.

“Sometimes,” the coach adds, “she shoots from the point, and sometimes she dekes, then shoots.”

Zorn is in her third season behind the Scouts’ bench. One of the first players she met before the start of her first season was Newtown. Newtown made the new coach feel welcome. Instantly.

“Very personable, very talkative,” Zorn says of her initial encounter with Newtown, only a sophomore at the time. “She showed me the ropes. Great kid, great leader. We love her leadership, her attitude, her energy.”

Scouts senior defenseman Alex

Kazarian remembers hearing Newtown yell something on the ice one day. The something was … nothing.

“She just felt like yelling,” Kazarian recalls. “No words. That’s Mary Claire.

That’s Mary Claire having fun. She is a genuinely good person, which is hard to find. She’s nice to everybody. The freshmen — she talks to them, makes them feel good. But as soon as she hits the ice, she gets really serious.”

Newtown is looking at the University of Vermont and the University of Delaware. College club hockey interests her. So does psychology, as a possible major.

The TV series “Orange is the new Black” entertains her.

Blue and gold? Newtown wears those colors when the Scouts play hockey, when the players wearing the other set of colors on the ice attempt to keep up with her, when Newtown’s speed reduces her foes to virtual statues.

When Newtown entertains her fans.

Notable: Scouts forward Shannon Miller, a senior at Libertyville High School, scored the goal in the tie with Latin on Dec. 9. Newtown and sophomore forward/defenseman Kyra Mangasarian provided the assists. LF outshot Latin 18-7. … Newtown and freshman forward Tori Soukop scored the goals in LF’s 2-1 defeat of Fenwick at The Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville on Dec. 12. Mangasarian and Delaney Weiss delivered the assists on Soukop’s tally. Salazar stopped 17 shots.■

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At Courtside

Girls Basketball

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Lake Forest: Sparked by Grace Torkelson’s double-double, Lake Forest earned a 53-48 victory over host Warren on Dec. 12. With the win, the Scouts moved their record to 6-4.

Torkelson, a senior post player, finished the game with 14 points and 12 rebounds.

Senior guard Brooke Green added 14 points for the Scouts.

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The other place-winners include John Frauenheim, Andrew Tuttle and Caleb Durham. Frauenheim (170) was third at BG and fifth at R-B. Tuttle took sixth at 126 at R-B, while Durbin was sixth at 126 at BG.

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Boys Swimming & Diving

Lake Forest: Scouts diver Alexander Streightiff has reached new heights.

The junior, a state qualifier last year, opened the season in sensational style on Dec. 6 in a dual-meet win over visiting Fremd 100-85.

His six-dive score of 336 was good enough to set a school record and LFHS pool record.

Andrew Marsh, a two-time state placer who graduated in 2013, had held the previous mark (278).

New Trier: This one had plenty of drama.

Thanks to the late heroics of junior Kathryn Pedi, New Trier came out a 42-39 winner at Hersey High School on Dec. 13.

Pedi hit a game-winning three-pointer with two seconds left in regulation.

With the win, the Trevians kept their undefeated record intact (9-0).

FLIPSIDE Jeannie Boehm led all scorers with 18 Girls Gymnastics points. Haley Greer finished with eight points, while Pedi ended up with six points.

At Spartan Classic: Glenbrook South took On Dec. 12, the Trevians topped host the team title, while New Trier’s Sam Stoddart Maine South 58-42. And they defeated was the individual star in this 14-team meet Ever-ready Pedi: New Trier’s Kathryn Pedi, seen here against Evanston, came up with the visiting Evanston 57-35 on Dec. 9. at Glenbrook North on Dec. 13.

Stoddart, a senior, took first in every Against Maine South, Greer led NT game-winning shot against Hersey. photography by joel lerner event on her way to the all-around title with 20 points. She hit three three-pointers and went 5-for-6 from the foul line.

(37.50). Her other winning scores were PINACLES Boehm produced 16 points. She was good (12 points) paced the attack.

9.45 on floor exercise, 9.20 on balance beam, Wrestling on 6 of 7 free throws.

Prior to the tourney, the Caxys upended 9.45 on uneven bars and 9.35 on vault.

Against Evanston, Greer led New Trier’s Holy Trinity 67-39 and CICS-Longwood Lake Forest: Two Scouts, Gage Griffin Teammate Claire Egerton came in third balanced scoring attack with 14 points. 82-40. Foust had 16 points against Trinity, and Corey Knudsen, claimed first-place in the all-around (35.550). Her best event Pedi and Jackie Welch had 13 points while Diago Quinn added 10 points. medals at the Buffalo Grove Invite on was vault (3rd, 9.25). apiece, while junior center Jeannie Boehm Dec. 13. That same duo also earned tourMeanwhile, GBS scored a 139.35, finished with 11 points to go along with 10 At Loyola Academy: Junior Brandon ney titles at Richmond-Burton on Dec. 6. which was more than enough to beat the rebounds and six blocks.

Danowski went 4-for-9 from the three-point With the two titles, Griffin (120 pounds) Trevians (136.925). Glenbrook North was line and scored a team-high 19 points in improved his record to 9-1. Knudsen (145) third (132.150).

Loyola Academy’s Claire Sullivan was At Loyola: The Ramblers improved to Loyola Academy’s 57-43 victory over host is now 8-1 on the season.

5-3 on Dec. 15, when they downed host Brother Rice on Dec. 12.

Cory Barth, at 220, also medaled at the fourth in the all-around (35.50). Her best Regina Dominican 45-26. Liz Satter (9 The Ramblers (5-2, 2-1) also received two invites. He took runner-up honors at score came on floor (9.050, 3rd place).■ points) and Sarah Elston (8 points) led solid work from Michael Mangan (10 the team. points, 6 assists), Ramar Evans (9 points, On Dec. 9, Mary Cormier’s basket off 8 rebounds, 3 assists), Peter Poggioli (8 a rebound at the buzzer lifted the host points) and Ricky Cenar (6 points on 2-for-2 Ramblers past Resurrection 50-48. LA had three-pointers). three players score in double figures: Cormier And, paced by the 24-point performances (10), Elston (11) and Statter (10). Elston also Mangan and Danowski, the host Ramblers had eight rebounds and two blocks. topped St. Francis De Sales 69-50 on Dec. 9.

At Regina: Maggie Palmer had a big Mangan also had five rebounds and four game in a losing cause. In her team’s 66-37 assists, while Danowski made 6 of 12 from et Your Secrish AFTER BEFORE setback to Trinity on Dec. 9, Palmer put beyond the three-point line.

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“This win gives us strength mentally,” At Lake Forest Academy: There’s said senior Sean Boyd, who finished with plenty to watch with this team.

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It’s fitting a Chicago Bulls game is brightening two television screens as T.K. Gore describes life at Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

The work of the senior director of digital at the regional sports network — whose once-somnolent Web site, csnchicago.com, has been revitalized by Gore — is intertwined with those broadcasts.

“Our audience is high during Bulls broadcasts. People want instant gratification,” says Gore, a Lake Bluff resident.

The decade-old network — owned in equal parts by NBC Universal, the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks — transmits hundreds of games a year. During and after those contests, insatiable fans flock to companion site csnchicago.com to check out in-game highlights and more.

“If Patrick Kane scores a 360-degree goal, we publish it,” says Gore, who notes the site’s traffic has increased each year since he joined Comcast SportsNet Chicago in 2009.

“We have exclusive video with the TV relationship. We have the best offerings around.”

Though this Gore didn’t claim to invent the Internet, he is making it more enjoyable for Chicago sports fans. And the battle to lure them is endless. The business models of WSCR 670 The Score, WGN Sports, ESPNChicago.com — not to mention a decent part of those for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times — are based on capturing the eyes and ears of these passionate people.

“It’s a competitive marketplace, and sports is a commodity business,” Gore says. “You want the news here and now. It’s a tough value proposition.”

Aside from exclusive video —a huge growth area in the past decade as consumers have jettisoned dial-up modems —he has also introduced original content to csnchicago.com. He launched a “Hard Knocks”-type series on local high school football teams; Comcast SportsNet Chicago is embedded with a squad each year at practices, games,

and in the locker room. He brought aboard entertain Chicago sports fans.” veteran sportswriter John Mullin As well, many misinterpret the to cover the Chicago Bears importance of a Web site’s home along with hiring up-andpage. Gore — an inveterate tweeter — notes much of coming journalists. csnchicago’s traffic comes Producers edit their copy and package it through social media side with photos, tweets doors, such as Twitter, and saleable merchanFacebook and Instagram. dise, from jerseys to Growing up, Gore was a tickets. competitive tennis player “We believe in origin the Philadelphia area inal content because and was a die-hard fan we can sell it,” says of all of the pro teams Gore, who adds, “I there. have a passion for “I was a geek who couldn’t get enough of the sports business sports media,” recalls — creating content, selling it, distributGore, noting he was a fan ing it.” of the “George Michael After being recruited Sports Machine,” which ran five years ago from on Sunday nights for years Universal Sports, where when access to sports highGore served as director of lights was scant.

A few years after gradmarketing and PR, he helped build a 24/7 uating from George Mason University digital content armed with a studio which now features bachelor of arts 25 employees deg ree in at C omc a s t English, he SportsNet joined AOL. Chicago (a Gore eventudivision ally became of NBC senior manager of AOL Sports) and Sports during made sure the Web site was his eight-year tenpromoted during broad- T.K. Gore illustration by barry blitt ure, back when the casts. He forged partnerInternet giant was so ships with the University of Notre Dame, mighty it merged with 20th-century media Chicago Bears, and others. powerhouse Time Warner — in what proved The 42-year-old points out that, in this to be a disastrous corporate marriage. day and age, storytelling and analysis are But at least one good one came out of AOL. key differentiators in sports media.

He met his wife, Shawn, at the Dulles, Va. “Breaking news has lost value — a lot campus. They now have three children: of sites post it and link to it,” he says. “We Campbell (7), Beckett (5) and Sloane (3). want to tell you the news and tell you what When their dad appeared in a commerit means. Our mission is to inform and cial with Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose

a while back, “the kids thought it was the coolest thing,” Gore says. But it wasn’t his first brush with publicity.

That came when C. Everett Koop, the only surgeon general to ever become a household name, performed a rare operation on him as a boy. A bone in Gore’s chest was in danger of hitting his heart. Photos of Gore and Koop appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere.

Twenty years later, AOL cut a deal with Koop.com. Koop came to speak at the media company, and he walked up to Gore, whom he hadn’t seen since the operation.

“You’re going to introduce me,” he said, minutes before his talk to thousands of employees.

“It was an absolute thrill to introduce him,” Gore recalls. “It was awesome to thank him face-to-face in front of my peers.”

One peer at AOL, Jimmy Lynn, had a profound influence on Gore’s career. Lynn — a former AOL executive with whom Gore co-taught a sports marketing class at Georgetown University — instilled in him the principles of treating everyone from the receptionist to the chief executive officer respectfully and fairly, to stay positive and to mentor the next generation, which he now takes to heart at Comcast SportsNet. “What I am today is because of him,” Gore says.

For Sunday breakfast, Gore prefers eggs and bacon with a coffee and tomato juice at Egg Harbor Café in Lake Forest. When he finds a spare moment, he enjoys running.

In fact, he ran his first marathon because Shawn bet him he couldn’t (he completed it) and in 2008, he finished the Boston Marathon.

“That’s one of my Top 10 sports moments,” says the man who also includes being at Camden Yards when Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken both tied and topped Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-game streak in that category.

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