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She coveted a boutique— and now she owns one By Joanna Schneider
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hen Karen Scott opened her Northbrook boutique in June, it was a lifetime dream come true. Kovet — spelled with a ‘K’ as a nod to her name — embraces a carefree, Southern California vibe while giving women an outlet to feel good about themselves, she explained. At 1036 Willow Road, the store’s swanky but laid-back atmosphere transports shoppers to a retail oasis complete with wine bar, West Coast tunes and a mix of relaxed and dressy options at a variety of price Continued on PG 12
Mom Susan Brown Burklin joins her oldest Alex (far left) and her three triplets Austin, Aaron, and Allison, who just departed for college. Photography by Joel Lerner.
A really empty nest Triplets go off to college, leaving Highland Park mom with unusual time on her hands
fter nearly 24 years of parenting, life has gotten suddenly quiet for one Highland Park mom. Susan Brown Burklin sent her youngest three children — a set of triplets — off to college within days of each other this month. That would be her special “A Team” of Austin, Aaron, Allison, 19, who also have a big brother Alex, 23. Susan’s world forever changed five weeks into her pregnancy when an ultrasound at Highland Park Hospital indicated she was carrying triplets. “I didn’t want to tell my husband over the phone, so I bought three white balloons and tied one to each bedpost. I wrote in black marker baby #1, baby #2, and baby #3 on each balloon,” Susan recalls. “When Ed got home from work, I brought him into the bedroom, and he saw the three balloons. He fell backwards on the bed screaming in a happy way. I took a picture of him and he looked like Casper the Ghost.” Once they were born, her biggest concern was how her fouryear-old son Alex would deal with the “onslaught of so many children coming in to the family,” she said. He had been an only child prior to the triplets’ arrival, so his dad spent a lot of time with Alex while Susan took care of the other three. Even when the three were
going through the terrible twos, Susan never missed a photo opportunity. She described how her house was turned upside down one evening when the triplets were left alone momentarily right after their bath. She left the room to answer a phone call, and “within three minutes the family room walls and furniture were covered with white baby handprints. They even slathered diaper rash cream all over each other,” recalled Susan. Before she put them all back in the tub and scrubbed their hair three times, she had the presence of mind to take a photo, still a treasured one to this day. Susan and Ed divorced in 2005. Later, when the triplets were 15 and Alex was 19, Susan got remarried after a five-year courtship. “They love their father very much and divorce is difficult for anyone,” she said. “My new husband Jeff has been very good with them, and they’ve adjusted well.” Teaching one child to drive is difficult enough. Susan described the triple crown of driver’s education. “Each kid needed a certain amount of hours, and it was an extraordinary time having to spend in the car with all three. We have had a white board on our refrigerator with a weekly schedule that they all have had to fill out. My rule is if you want a ride, you have to fill out the schedule, Continued on PG 12
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IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 12 g ame ready
It’s strange for a Highland Park woman to face an empty nest as all three triplets head off to college.
14 m ain street
Columnist Bob Gariano talks about how a historic Market Square building is finally getting a new roof.
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[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 17 n orth shorts
Read Mike Lubow’s brief, insightful musings about life.
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Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.
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Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.
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25 houses of the week
Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
[ SPORTS ] 36 e lite status
Lake Forest’s Finn Meeks has established himself as one of the top rowers in the country in the U23 age division. Earlier this summer, he helped the US team to a silver medal at the World Championships in Bulgaria.
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Visit is a “T hit right off the bat
his is our Fort Knox,” says Anne Jewell as we walk into a narrow room less than an hour’s drive from the nation’s gold repository. Rather than bullion, this vault is filled with wood — hundreds of Louisville Slugger bats in various sizes created for major league players from Honus Wagner to Buster Posey. “The bats used to be heavier,” says Jewell, executive director of the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. “Babe Ruth once ordered a 52-ounce one, but there’s no proof he ever used it.” Even the Bambino couldn’t swing the one a few steps away outside of the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. headquarters in downtown Louisville. That one, standing on end and made of carbon steel, weighs 68,000 pounds. For a lifetime fan, visiting the site where the official bat of Major League Baseball is made is like a Bruce Springsteen aficionado wandering into a studio to watch The Boss record a song. Strolling the factory floor, one
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“For a lifetime fan, visiting the site where the official bat of Major League Baseball is made is like a Bruce Springsteen aficionado wandering into a studio to watch The Boss record a song.”
sees the final shaping of what once was part of an ash or maple tree. Thanks to modern technology, bats can be created in a little as 30 seconds before they roll onto a conveyor belt, and they are made within 1/100th of an inch of specifications. Nearly two million depart the factory each
year for baseball at all levels, despite the dent aluminum bats have made in sales. Our tour guide holds up a bat made especially for the 2014 World Series champion San Francisco Giants. “Is anyone here a Cubs’ fan?” he asks. A few hands shoot up.
“I’ve never made one of these for them in my lifetime,” he notes. “Or even in my aunt’s lifetime.” The late Ernie Banks unfortunately knew that. Jewell shows me the contract he signed with Louisville Slugger more than 60 years ago. One signature had been removed — every contract requires two signatures, and one is seared onto the player’s bat. The roughly 300,00 annual visitors can grip bats used by everyone from Cal Ripken to Mickey Mantle. They can also test their prowess in batting cages using less-famous bats. Or they can buy a Louisville Slugger after watching the country’s most famous horse race. “On the day after the Kentucky Derby, what really takes off is the store,” Jewell says. “They all want a personalized bat.” Enjoy the weekend.
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Winnetka spot goes from hot dog to down dog by D’s Haute Dogs at 551 Lincoln Ave. The studio will he Winnetka Village offer fusion classes that combine Council introduced a yoga, ballet and pilates. The special-use permit for a storefront will have a retail comnew exercise studio in its East ponent for fitness apparel and Elm business district on Aug. accessories. 18. The village’s Director of The studio, Yogi Barre, previ- Community Development ously received unanimous ap- Michael D’Onofrio noted that proval by the Village Plan Com- the East Elm business district mission in July. has always had parking issues Yogi Barre seeks to open in for special-use business such as the space previously occupied this one. However, in this case, By Emily Spectre
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closet overhaul? comfort zone. Fashion should KS: Yes! Jewelry, scarves and make you feel happy and confipoints. Scott, who has three a cool blazer or leather jacket dent – not forced. If it doesn’t daughters and lives in Glenview, can absolutely update a ward- feel right then don’t do it. enjoys helping women of all robe. DNS: Best piece of advice shapes and sizes feel beautiful. DNS: For women who want you ever got about clothes? “They deserve it,” she said of to sport new looks but don’t KS: Best piece of advice I her customers. want to look “too trendy,” what received was to invest in accessories. Great bags and shoes. If As a perk of the job, Scott tips do you have? KS: Some trends are hard to you have a pair of ripped jeans regularly travels to national trade shows – most recently in carry off for a lot of women. For on but a great pair of Jimmy Las Vegas – to bring her North example: culottes. However, if Choo shoes or a Chanel cross Shore customers the latest and you choose a pair of culottes that body bag you will look fabulous. greatest in fashion finds. In ad- are flowy and look like a skirt DNS: In three words, what dition to chic brands including they can be really great with a is your personal style? KS: Sophisticated, feminine Bec & Bridge, Reese + Riley, pair of boots. Also, it’s important and Jetset Diaries, Scott stocks to not go too far out of your and modern. jewelry, handbags and shoes. DailyNorthShore.com (DNS) — the Web arm of The North Shore Weekend —caught up with Scott about what’s hot for fall and the best ways to wear looks naturally. DNS: What can local shoppers find at Kovet that’s different from the typical women’s boutique? KS: Shoppers can find stylish – but sophisticated, timeless and a bit edgy – clothes for all ages. They will find labels that they are not used to seeing in other boutiques or department stores and our prices are very reasonable, starting at $12 and going up to $600 at the moment. DNS: What types of trends are you seeing for fall? KS: Boho and 70’s inspired styles are still showing strong for fall. Fringe – previously incorporated in shoes and handbags – is now added to skirts, sweaters and evening wear. Tartan plaid print is also big, plus the color forest green, highwaisted pants, culottes and skinny neck ties. DNS: Any suggestions on small ways to spruce up a fall Kovet customers sport fall fashions outside the Northbrook store. wardrobe without a complete Photography by Karen Scott. BOUTIQUE Cont. from PG 1
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EMPTY NEST Cont. from PG 1 so I can get them all places and still work,” says Susan, who began working for @properties in Highland Park three years ago. As for the empty nest? Susan finds it comforting that the triplets have chosen colleges in close proximity to each other, since they’ve never been apart before. Austin is attending Illinois State. According to his mom, “Austin is politically active and interested in what’s happening in the world. Austin is very business savvy, as he demonstrated by renting out his extra closet to his sister.” Aaron is playing football at Carthage College in Wisconsin. “He turned down several offers because he wanted to stay in the immediate vicinity. Division III schools don’t have scholarships, but they offered him grant money which has helped a lot,” explained Susan. Allison is studying at Univer-
“After driving them around two hours a day, 365 days a year, I don’t know how I’m going to fill that void.” —Susan Brown Burklin
sity of Illinois. She was awarded a scholarship for her dedication to hard work, and school spirit. “Allison has a tremendous eye for fashion,” said Susan. The mom fought back the tears as she said, “It’s the natural process for them to go off to college. I’ve always tried to instill in my children that throughout their lives they will have different friends, but they will always have each other.” Bracing herself for the future, she said, “I’m trying to stay busy with work, because the kids have been the focus of my life for such a long time. The thing I worry about most is loneliness. After driving them around two hours a day, 365 days a year, I don’t know how I’m going to fill that void.” She was OK temporarily. Moving week for each of the triplets began Aug. 10. As fate would have it, Susan received a summons for jury duty on the same date.
the owners commissioned a parking study, which concluded that there would be minimal impact on parking since the classes will be limited in size. D’Onofrio also pointed out that the village’s efforts to streamline the zoning ordinance appear effective, noting that it will likely only take seven weeks for Yogi Barre to be approved. “We are looking at cutting five weeks off the process,” he said.
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Can building be saved in one Fell swoop? By Emily Spectre
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ichard Sobel is on a mission to save Winnetka’s Fell Building, which is located in the village’s East Elm shopping district and is targeted for demolition to make way for One Winnetka, a plan development by Stonestreet Partners, LLC. Sobel is the son of modernist architect Walter Sobel, designer of the Fell Building and other notable buildings on the North Shore such as Beth Enet Synagogue in Evanston, The Geico Building in Wilmette and the Wack House in Kenilworth, according to the nonprofit architectural preservation group Docomomo. “[The Fell] building is a classic modernist design. It is both simple and elegant in design, and that is why he won an award,” Sobel said. Previously home to The Fell Company’s clothing store, the building was completed in 1968 and won the Outstanding Merit Award in an international competition of the Institute of Store Planners and the National As-
“Tearing down that building would be a huge, expensive and messy task. It would be much better to build up.” —Richard Sobel
sociation of Store Fixture Manufacturers, according Docomomo. Sobel has diligently attended all of the village’s Plan Commission public meetings, urging the village and developer to consider preserving the building by incorporating it into the design. Sobel noted that his father originally designed the onestory building so that additional stories could be added with apartments. “Dad was very future-oriented,” Sobel said. Sobel also thinks the community would benefit from incorporating the building. “Tearing down that building would be a huge, expensive and messy task,” Sobel asserted. “It would be much better to build up.” But few in town appear to be interested in preserving the Fell Building. The Chicago Tribune reported that while Stonestreet CEO David Trundle recognizes the uniqueness of the Fell Building, incorporating it into the plans for One Winnetka was not feasible. Stonestreet’s six-story building is designed by architect Lucien Lagrange and is Beaux Arts in style, featuring six floors of rental apartments on the upper floors, underground parking, and retail space on the first and second floors. While many residents have spoken out against the project — objecting both to the building’s size, height and design — few have spoken in support of the Fell Building beside Sobel and his supporters.
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HistoricF building enjoys clean slate
or the last two months, tradesmen have been installing a new slate roof on the former Marshall Field’s building that anchors the western side of Market Square in Lake Forest. It is replacing the slate that has covered the roof since 1928. Field chose this location in Lake Forest as his first suburban retail store because it served wealthy businessmen who got off the trains from Chicago each evening. They could buy birthday gifts and other luxury goods on their way home. Whatever the commercial strategy, the building, designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1916, became the crown jewel in America’s first planned shopping center. Two years after the Lake Forest store opened, Field would take his company public, driven by the need to access additional capital to finance the new Merchandise Mart. Ground for the Merchandise Mart was broken during the boom year of 1927 and the building was planned to help Field reinforce their wholesale business. When the building opened in 1930 it was the largest in the world — but with exquisitely poor timing, Field’s initial public offering was issued into the teeth of the Great Depression. The slate for the Lake Forest building came from the Camara Slate Products Company in Fair Haven, Vt. Even though slate has been used as a roofing material since Roman times, it was Welsh craftsmen who developed
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designed between the building’s sand stone exterior cladding and the darker slate roof. Like the original roof, the individual slate tiles are attached to the building’s roof structure with nails driven through drilled holes in each tile. Slate roofing continues to represent certain advantages over man-made roofing materials. Even though most other roofing materials have a life of 20 to 30 years, slate roofs often last more than a century. Slate’s natural origins mean that it has a natural beauty, and the material is environmentally friendly and inherently fire proof. Slate’s immediate a tradition of slate production at eons of time, the slate formations cost is substantially higher, but the Penrhyn Quarry in central became stratified and layered. when amortized over the longer Wales and brought the material This layering allows quarries to life of the roof, slate roofing is into common use for roofing. In split the slate along its length to comparatively inexpensive. the middle of the 19th century produce wide flat slate shingles Perhaps the biggest disadvantage Welsh immigrants brought these for roofing. to slate is its weight. At 800 to skills to the northeastern United In Vermont and New York 1500 pounds per 100 square feet, States. Slate became a major most of the slate deposits lie at structures must be built to acexport from the state of Vermont. a sharp angle to ground level as commodate the weight of slate Today, slate is quarried in more the Appalachian crust has roof. Earlier this month, the scafthan 20 countries around the buckled and contorted since the world and, while man-made first deposits. This often requires folding around the former Field’s materials compete, slate is still quarries to move enormous building was disassembled rethe premium choice for universi- amounts of over burden before vealing for the first time the ties, churches, institutional build- accessing the blocks of slate that magnificent new roof. It is a roof ings, and other historic sites. they seek. Drilling and explosives that represents different histories. Slate resulted when fine clay are used to unearth the deposits The slate itself represents a time was deposited at the bottom of and large wire saws with diamond hundreds of millions of years ago lakes and riverbeds during the studs are used to cut out the when early life was first appearCambrian and Ordovician eras blocks. At the Camara quarry, ing on our planet. It also represome 500 million years ago. It more than 90 tons of earth is sents an era in the early history was during this Paleozoic Cam- moved to uncover less than 10 of our country when immigrants brian era that the earth experi- tons of slate material. were bringing their skills to enced an explosion of life forms The dark gray slate on the American industries. including the evolution of the Field’s building was carefully first mollusks, trilobites, and matched to the original color of Main Street columnist Bob corals. As the clay and ash from the slate that was removed, pre- Gariano can be reached at bob@ this period was compressed over serving the contrast that Shaw northshoreweekend.com
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Don’t be I crushed by your wife’s extramarital crush
Joanna Brown
t’s been a busy summer, and I’m not sure if it was weeks or months ago that I plucked “What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age” off a table at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka. I do know that it’s only been a week or two since I broke the spine on Renee Rosen’s novel — and about the same amount of time since I fell in love with main characters Delia and Marsh. Longtime locals might recognize the title as a play on retailer Marshall Field’s motto, “Give the lady what she wants”; that’s what drew me to the book, too. The story is set in real Chicago hotels, homes and businesses, with characters who actually walked our streets 150 years ago. But you’ll find the novel in the fiction section of your local bookstore. The book begins on the night of the Great Chicago Fire, when 17-year-old Delia Spencer meets Marshall Field, many years her senior and married, at a party in the new Palmer House hotel. The story continues with a familiar thread: there’s a spark between Delia and Marshall that they try to contain, she marries another man who offers her a good life, but Delia and Marshall continue to cross paths over the years — and the spark ignites. The plot is a familiar one in literature and film, as in life. Researchers from Columbia University, Indiana University and the University of Kentucky-Lexington found that 70 percent of
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from Columbia University, Indiana University and the University of KentuckyLexington found that 70 percent of women have extramarital crushes”
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women reported the crush did not impact their relationship; participants also reported that these crushes improved their desire for their partner.” Will this be the case with Delia and Marshall, too? I don’t know, as I’m only halfway through the women have extramarital crushes. book. Though there’s no hard They surveyed 160 women of evidence an affair took place in varying ages who are married or real life, Rosen told the Chicago in long-term relationships. The Tribune in December that studymajority kept their crushes private ing the lady’s niece’s diaries at the from their partner, and most of Newberry Library suggested a the crushes were on people from definite closeness between the two. the women’s workplaces. “There were all these refer“Women had varied experi- ences like, ‘Mr. Field is going to ences with, and diverse strategies Europe with us again!’” Rosen told for, managing crushes,” authors the Tribune. “It’s fairly clear that wrote in the study, recently pub- Delia and (her husband) Arthur lished in the journal Sex and were very dear friends, and that Marital Therapy. “The majority of Marsh did pal around with them.
They went to the opera and the theater together, and when Marsh took a group of people to Mexico in the 1880s, Arthur was part of the group. It was a pretty modern arrangement.” This gave Rosen significant license to develop her novel’s characters during a significant time in local history: the Great Chicago Fire, Haymarket Riots and World’s Columbian Exposition. The juxtaposition of the “modern arrangement” in such a historic setting makes for a great read in what’s left of our summer. Enjoy the book, and let me know what you think. ” Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown can be contacted at joanna@northshoreweekend.com.
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ou’re at a North Shore hot dog shack, a favorite around here. It’s crowded wall to wall, as usual. You and others stand shoulderto-shoulder placing orders over a chin-high glass divider wide enough to hold trays as they fill with food and move down the line. Talented short-order geniuses hustle to assemble sandwiches and other delicacies, then plunk them onto the trays which — and this is worth repeating — are about ‘chin-high.’ Your family’s hot and gorgeous order has just been completed.
Your tray’s jammed with BBQ chicken sandwiches, a char dog with the works, piles of fries. You pay and grab the tray with both hands, bringing it toward you. A tallish woman next to you sneezes. The sneeze is sudden and not her fault. She looks like a very nice lady. Plus, she’s apparently well-mannered because she instinctively chooses not to sneeze in the direction of companions who are on her other side. Instead, she quickly pivots toward you. It’s the perfect storm. An uncanny, unexpected, unkind
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Whitefish instead of salmon? Bon appétit By Simon Murray
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hitefish being used as a substitute for the traditional rustic pairing of salmon and lentils du Puy? Mon dieu! Please excuse my French, but that came as quite a shock when owner of Mirani’s Restaurant, Kaveh Mirani, handed me a torn sheet of hastily written cursive from his pad. There, on the yellow-lined piece of paper, was the recipe that called for Lake Superior whitefish — not the legume-complimenting, anadromous fish with the pink flesh that seems to grace the menus of every French restaurant these days. As I was typing out the recipe, I came across a note in the same stylish cursive: “This is a French classic dish, usually with salmon,” it informs the reader. “But this is the season for wonderful Lake Superior whitefish — so let’s have it with whitefish!”
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Let’s have it with whitefish, indeed. Mirani has been serving his heretical (but delicious) dish for over a decade at his Winnetkabased French brasserie. (Though salmon isn’t completely absent — making an appearance in two dishes: grilled over spinach and mustard crusted with French lentils.) Mirani, an Iranian-American, and his wife, Madeleine, originally from Holland — the couple met in Cambridge — serve French food because, as Mirani says best, “French cuisine is very sophisticated, very advanced, and it’s well known in the United States.” Mirani’s Restaurant gets its Lake Superior whitefish delivered by truck almost year round. “It’s a wild fish, so its supply is not 100 percent guaranteed,” explains Mirani. “That’s unlike salmon, where it is farm raised and it’s available all the time. Whitefish this time of year is fantastic. It’s always fresh.” Chef of over three years, Alvaro Chavez, advises to take your time when selecting the ingredients and making sure to prepare everything in advance. “Once you have everything in front of you, everything just sort of falls together.” Mirani’s Restaurant is located at 727 Elm St. in Winnetka. Please call 847-441-5590 for reservations.
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Socials An Evening with Ali Wentworth Photography by Nan Stein
The dining room of Sunset Ridge Country Club roared with laughter in July as actress, comedian, and best-selling author Ali Wentworth entertained the supporters of the North Shore Women’s Board of the American Cancer Society during the organization’s annual fundraiser. Ali shared anecdotes from her new book, Happily Ever After, as the crowd sat for dinner. Each guest left with a signed copy. Co-chairs of the evening were Shannon Weasler, Peggy Hopkins and Shawn Sandor.
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OPEN HOUSES 39.3010 Arbor Lane, #302 Northfield Sunday 1-3 $295,000 Beverly Smith, @properties 847.881.0200 40. 44 Meadowview Northfield Sunday 1-3 $1,200,000 Jean Wright, Jean Wright Real Estate 847.217.1906 41. 584 Thornwood Ln. Northfield Sunday, 1-3 $1,095,000 Bonnie Larson, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 42. 720 Green Bay 3A Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $665,000 Mary Anne Perrine, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 43. 385 Provident Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,149,000 Meg Sudekum, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 44. 433 Locust Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,550,000 Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 45. 263 Chestnut Street Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $3,149,900 Lyn Flannery, @properties 847.881.0200 46. 488 Ash Street Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $3,099,000 Lyn Flannery, @properties 847.881.0200 47. 479 Sunset Road Winnetka Sunday 12-2 $1,175,000 Ted Argiris, @properties 773.472.0200 48. 727 Lamon Winnetka Saturday 1-3 $569,000 Laura Henderson, Baird & Warner 708.997.7778 49. 1183 Scott Winnetka Sunday, 2 -4pm $1,765,000 Sherry Molitor,
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282 50. 757 Locust Winnetka Sunday, 2 - 4pm $1,289,000 Jeanie Moysey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.800.8110 51. 120 Bertling Winnetka Sunday 12-2 $1,069,000 Sarah Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate 847.727.4619 52. 1122 Gage Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $630,000 Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate 847.507.7666 53. 808 Lincoln Ave. Winnetka Sunday, 12-2 $1,399,000 Claudia Gaynor, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 54. 312 Bel Air Drive Glenview Sunday 1-3 $645,000 Jan Shields, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 55. 1359 Kensington Court Glenview Sunday 1-4 $1,099,000 Wendy Thomas, @properties 847.998.0200 56. 2557 Glenview Road Glenview Sunday 2-4 $419,000 Kathy Wilson, @properties 773.472.0200
60. 1514 Central Wilmette Sunday 12-2 $1,035,000 Kevin Rutherford, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 61. 1318 Isabella Wilmette Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,695,000 Kevin Rutherford, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 62. 305 Central Avenue Wilmette Sunday 1-4 $1,750,000 Alla Kimbarovsky, @properties 847.432.0700 63. 1535 Greenwood Wilmette Sunday, 12 – 2pm $649,000 Jeanie Moysey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.800.8110 64. 2130 Iroquois Wilmette Sunday, 1 – 3pm $925,000 Jim Davis, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.744.0747 65. 2100 Elmwood Wilmette Sunday, 1 – 3pm $729,000 Carol Grant and Muggsy Jacoby, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.421.7501 and 847.924.3811 66. 1218 Glendenning Wilmette Sunday, 1 – 3pm $925,000 Peter Lipsey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.606.5525
57. 214 Greenfield Drive Glenview Sunday 12-3 $335,000 Debbie Scully, @properties 847.432.0700
67. 2936 Central Avenue Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $399,000 Eugene Shin, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 312.848.6543
58. 444 Elm Street Glenview Sunday 11:30-1:30 $729,000 Connie Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200
68. 638 Hibbard Rd. Wilmette Sunday, 12-2 $299,900 Nancy Savard, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000
59. 2350 Chestnut Glenview Sunday 12-2 $449,900 Dawn Miller, Jean Wright Real Estate 847.312.8413
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523 Greenleaf Avenue Wilmette 5 Bedrooms, 4.2 Bathrooms Exclusively Presented By: Kathleen Buffington @properties 847.763.0200 kbuffington@atproperties.com This home was a total rehab a few years ago and has just been redecorated. With expansive living space, lovely architectural details, fabulous cook’s kitchen and much more, this is a delightful home for living and entertaining.
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3345 Sunset Northbrook 4+1 Bedrooms, 5 1/2 Baths Exclusively Presented By: The Marlene Rubenstein Team, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666 marlenerubensteinteam @bairdwarner.com Award-winning Orren Pickell home with floating stairs, library with barreled ceilings and builtins, ebony guest bath, formal living and dining room, smart house tech. Chef 's kitchen with stainless-steel appliances. Master suite plus three bedrooms with balconies and sitting area.
$1,549,000
630 Meadowood Drive Lake Forest 4 Bedrooms/3.1 Bathrooms Exclusively Presented By: Scott Lackie/Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors 847.234.0485 slackie@gglrealty.com Designed by David Poulton, this home is sited with vistas overlooking a 500-acre Forest Preserve, newly decorated and painted through and move-in ready. It boasts large sun-lit rooms, a large gallery and dramatic living room featuring vaulted ceilings and beautiful fireplace.
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Specializing in versatility Highland Park plans to utilize Volpentesta’s vast array of football skills BY KEVIN REITERMAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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s a youngster, Cristian Volpentesta admitted that he slammed a few too many batting helmets on the baseball field and committed a few too many hard fouls on the basketball court. He didn’t like to strike out. He didn’t like getting beat off the dribble. Eventually he tried a … different sport. One with helmets and shoulder pads. Football. He had found football. Tackling? Totally allowed. Being physical? Knock yourself out. Talk about a perfect fit. Life would never be the same for Volpentesta. “I remember thinking, ‘Why haven’t I been doing this?’ ” Volpentesta says. A few months ago, after being named as the new head football coach at Highland Park High School, Joe Horeni got all comfy and sat down — for the very first time — to watch some game film of HP’s blockbuster 2014 season. It was an action flick of a 9-1 team. And he didn’t need to be a Siskel or a Ebert or any other movie critic to give a thumbs-up to the kid wearing jersey No. 3: Cristian Volpentesta. “He jumped off the film,” Horeni recalls. “I’ve watched every game multiple times. “But you only needed to watch that first game to know how special he is. I was pretty happy knowing that he was coming back.” On Aug. 28, Volpentesta and his teammates will head to Arlington Heights to open the 2015 football campaign against Hersey High School in a 7 p.m. start. The 5-foot-10, 195-pound Volpentesta — now a senior — will be nearly impossible to miss. The returning all-league selection figures to have a ridiculously busy night — and season — ahead of him. In addition to starting at fullback and strong safety, Volpentesta will be HP’s long snapper, kick returner and punt returner. And he’ll likely line up on kick and punt coverage teams.
CRUNCH TIME: Cristian Volpentesta (No. 3), seen here teaming up with Gareth Reingold on a tackle last season in the state playoffs, figures to be all over the field, when the Highland Park High School football team takes on Hersey on Friday night. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
“We’ll try to do the best we can to limit his reps,” says Horeni, with only a slight smile. “Defensively, we don’t like to have him come off the field.” Volpentesta is not your typical strong safety. He’s more strong than safe. “He’s more like a linebacker who plays safety,” Horeni says. Volpentesta doesn’t deny that he loves just about everything about football. But that tackling part? Ahem. He really loves the part. “Playing strong safety is my favorite position,” says Volpentesta, sporting a far-from-outlandish Mohawk haircut. “I love getting after it. That’s my mentality. Do whatever it takes to win.” Last fall, he was a defensive
difference maker. He had 10 tackles for loss and three quarterback sacks to go along with 44 solo tackles, 13 assists, one interception and one fumble recovery. “I love to hit. I love to lay out (ball carriers),” the uncompromising Volpentesta says. “If anything, I’m known for being a hard hitter.” His passion for the game doesn’t go unnoticed by his teammates. “He’s relentless,” says HP senior lineman Adam Danzig. “Never stops. “He’ll do anything to be the best player on the field,” the teammate adds. “He’ll do anything to help his team win.” Last fall, when it came to covering kicks, Volpentesta’s relentlessness bordered on outrageous-
ness. Unofficially, he was the best “gunner” in the state. “Like I said, relentless,” Danzig repeats. “He’ll do anything to be the first one downfield and make the first hit.” Volpentesta also has a tendency to stick out — where most players typically don’t stick out: as a long snapper. “Long snapping just adds to his skill to set,” says Horeni. “And having him flying downfield can only help the team.” And lining up Volpentesta in the backfield? Well, that was no snap decision. More like a no-brainer. Volpentesta is thrilled to be back there — after a one-year “sabbatical.” With all-league pick Cole Greenberg being the fea-
tured back (226 rushes, 1,276 yards, 18 first downs), he carried the ball a grand total of four times in 2014. But don’t be fooled. Here’s a player with a running back pedigree. As a 5-4, 130-pound freshman playing on the freshman level three years ago, he racked up more than 20 touchdowns. “It was Cristian left, Cristian right,” HP underclassmen coach Jim Berardi recalls. Volpentesta will not be asked to carry the load this time around. He’s got a skillful sidekick in junior DJ Penick (5-10, 190), who averaged 7.9 yards per carry in limited duty in ’14 (25-197, 3 TDs). “DJ is a player to watch,” says
Volpentesta. “When he played last year, he played well. “I think our running game will be extremely strong,” he adds. “I’ll get more of the inside runs. DJ will do more of the sweeps. But we’re pretty much interchangeable.” Senior Jordan Mendiola (5-9, 190) also will get some reps. “The running game is a strength,” says Horeni. “At least, I hope it is.” The Giants’ offensive line welcomes back three starters in Danzig (6-1, 270) and all-league selections Gabe Guzman (5-11, 260) and Tucker Thompson (6-0, 235). Toby Tigges (6-2, 175) will take over at quarterback. Junior free safety David Adelstein (5-10, 170) will be the backup. “They’re a couple of good decision makers,” says Horeni. As far as future life decisions go, Volpentesta has made up his mind. Playing football at the next level is a foregone conclusion with him. Earlier this summer, he received a scholarship offer from Division II Winona State. And, despite not having the prototypical size, Volpentesta — who has yet to celebrate his 17th birthday — has sparked high interest from a number of Division I programs, including Penn, Harvard, North Dakota State and South Dakota State. This summer, he attended a ton of elite camps all over the country and showcased his skills in the EFT Football Academy. “He’s got speed, instincts and tenacity,” Horeni says. “Traits that college coaches look for.” Notable: HP’s captains — voted by the team — are Guzman, Thompson, Tigges and Volpentesta. … The team has promoted two sophomores to varsity: wide receiver/running back Justin Goodman and lineman Carson Cox. … This is Horeni’s first head coaching job. The Downers Grove South product, who played collegiately at Illinois College, had been the defensive coordinator at St. Francis High School in Wheaton.
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Rookie author from Lake Forest goes the extra yard(s) to complete football book
Editor’s Note: Jon J. Kerr, a Lake Forest High School graduate, has written his first book. He didn’t do it overnight — as he explains here.
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didn’t think it would take five years to write a book. That’s a long time in our culture. Consider this — five bad Adam Sandler films were made, Justin Bieber went from teenheart throb to most hated celebrity on the planet and, according to Amazon, sports writer and radio host John Feinstein has written six books since 2010. Six! So why did it take five years? Because writing is hard. It’s not cleaning-outhouses-for-a-living kind of hard, as my father did for a short stretch of time for his uncle in Iowa some 60 years ago. It’s more mind-game hard, like remembering to not ask for extra bread before a meal. Or, being a Cubs fan. It’s fighting with your own brain. In his book, War of Art, Steve Pressfield is talking about writers in this excerpt:
life — rewards are great for those who finish the race. And taking time for introspection, to forge a better understanding of why you started in the first place.
I am a Lake Forest High School graduate. I did not grow up on the North Shore. We moved to Lake Forest in the early 1980s when I was a teenager after my father, a naval officer, retired from the military and found a private sector job in the area. Words were always currency in our household. My parents were smart, educated people and encouraged us to be curious about the world, to form opinions and articulate what we thought. The most unassuming among my three siblings, in household debates, I was always better at listening. It helped refine my ear and interest in people. My mother first introduced me “Are you paralyzed by fear? That’s to reading. I would get lost in a good sign. Fear is good. Like self- Sports Illustrated magazine stories doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells written by Frank Deford, Ron us what we have to do.” Fimrite or Gary Smith. Sports Fear has no combatant to books by Roger Angell and David something author Ernest Halberstam expanded my world Hemingway once wrote, again view as did books like Jay McInspeaking of writers: “All you have erney’s Bright Lights, Big City. to do is write one true sentence. While in high school, I read John Write the truest sentence that you Feinstein’s Season on the Brink. I had never read anything like it. know.” It took me three drafts, four Here was a contemporary — and editors, two proofreaders and tens lustfully controversial — figure, of thousands of words before I Indiana basketball coach Bob had the final ready-to-publish Knight, written about with retruest sentences. But I finished. markable grit and bravado. FeinWhat I’ve learned to be most true stein’s barreling pace made each about writing is very much like chapter turn over like a Tom
Clancy novel. And when I read Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights while in college, I was sold. I knew I wanted to write a book someday and when I did, I vowed to write with Feinstein’s courage and Bissinger’s intrepidness. When I started working on The Boys in Brown in my 40’s, I soon learned what I didn’t know in my 20’s — that endurance matters above all else.
I had no expectations when our family moved to Lake Forest. My peripatetic childhood rendered me somewhat numb to new schools, teachers and friends. Sports provided an emotional
spark, and I was fortunate to be at a high school where teachers and coaches cared about students. Despite the fact I played sparingly in games, my varsity football coach, Tommy Myers, affirmed my hard work in practice by awarding me a varsity letter my senior year. This was a big deal to me, a teen. There’s a lot of discussion in the culture today about the value of youth sports and the recognition of participation. I’m a big believer in how sports can help form the identity of young people. Within that context, the slightest of incidents can become seismic to a boy or girl. Proper mentorship is critical in shaping whether
that incident is positive or negative. The experience I had as a 17-yearold imbued in me a belief that carries over into my writing, a catalyst for the narratives in The Boys in Brown. Although the setting of the book is not Lake Forest or any North Shore school, it could be. The values of the people in the communities in this area are reflected through the book’s characters. They are fathers, husbands, students, athletes, volunteers, church goers, Midwesterners. There is something about this part of the country that makes these stories more cogent. Maybe it’s the harsh winters, but there’s a sturdy countenance in the faces of Midwesterners. And I leaned on that collective determination to complete what I started in 2010.
While the act of writing is a solitary task, the process of publishing is not. Collaboration is the industry’s currency. I did not publish The Boys in Brown through a traditional Big Six New York-based house, i.e., Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins or Random House. My attempts were rebuffed, told by various agents the story was too “regional” or “did not have broadbased appeal.” Disappointed then, I now thank those agents. If I had sold the book to a Macmillan, the book would be different. I would have been forced to
give up some editorial control and in turn, the book would be less regional and have more broadbased appeal. By hiring my own team of editors and designers, publishing through my own imprint, Last Mile Publications, and using Amazon as a distribution platform, I remain true to myself. And most important, independent publishing allowed me to pursue and finish this project with one purposeful mission — serving my readership. I hope that intent comes across in the pages of The Boys in Brown. Five years is a long time. My next book won’t take as long, I hope. Maybe I’ll write about a World Series championship Cubs team in this century. Projected publishing date: ??? For more information about Jon J. Kerr and the non-fiction book, The Boys in Brown, visit his website at www.jonjkerr.com.
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Inside the Press Box CHIP SHOTS | BOYS GOlF Lake County Invite: Led by Connor Polender and Scott Fervert, Lake Forest won this championship going away on Aug. 25 at Shepherd’s Crook in Zion. The Scouts scored a 301, 24 strokes better than runner-up Stevenson and third-place Highland Park (lost second on tiebreaker). Polender and Fervert finished on top of the leader board with 73s. Both shot 35s on the front nine and 38s on the back nine. Polender won the playoff to take medalist honors. Jed Thomas (77) and Ale Raganelli (78) also finished in the top 10. HP was led by Noah Fishbein (76, 4th) and Ben Udell (78, 9th). Mt. Carmel Invite: Keegan Smith shot a 75 to lead Loyola Academy to a third-place showing (396) in this invite on August 22. Strong showings also were turned in by Luke Michels (76), Brennan Smith (77) and Spencer Crowe (78). Providence and Homewood-Flossmoor finished 1-2 in the team standings. Woodstock Invite: Highland Park claimed runner-up honors (339) in the Woodstock Invite on Aug. 20 at Bull Valley Golf Club. Glenbrook South scored a 331 to win the eight-team meet. Lake Forest tied St. Charles East for third place (354). HP was led by Max Golding, who claimed runner-up honors (81). Noah Fishbein finished fourth (83), while Ari Herzog shot an 87 (tied for 8th). Griffin Burstyn and Ben Udell shot 88s. Jed Thomas was the top performer for LF (5th, 84). Ale Raganelli carded an 88. Bloomington Raider Classic: Chip Savarie a shot four-under-par 68 to take medalist honors at the Den on Aug. 19. His effort helped Loyola Academy to a first-place finish (294) in the team standings. The other scorers were Connor Prassas (72), Jack McGuire (76) and Michael Banas (78).
Girls Golf Lake County Invite: Lake Forest High School senior Emily Young was one of the standouts at the Lake County Invite on Aug. 24 at Bonnie Dundee Golf Club. Young shot a 77 to finish third, one stroke behind the Barrington duo of Shivani Majmudar and Nicole Ciskowski. Lake Forest finished eighth in the team standings (369). Highland Park placed fifth overall with a 353. Nicole Berardi finished in a tie for 15th (84). Lexi Kovitz shot an 88, while Daniella Cohen carded an 89. Libertyville Invite: Lake Forest finished fifth in the team standings (371) at Pine Meadow on Aug. 20. The Scouts received a solid showing from Emily Young, who carded an 84 to place seventh on the leader board. Lena Benjakul shot an 87. Barrington Invite: Highland Park finished fifth at the Barrington Invite on Aug. 17 at Bonnie Dundee. Junior Nicole Berardi paced the Giants with a 10th-place finish (37-42 — 79). She was followed by sophomore Lexi Kovitz (38-43 — 81), senior Emma Hanig (39-43 — 82) and senior Daniella Cohen (47-41 — 88). Barrington claimed the team title with a 297. Reena Sulkar was the medalist (33-33 — 66). New Trier Quad: The host Trevians opened the 2015 fall campaign with a first-place showing. Led by medalists Penelope Tir (75) and Louise McCulloch (75), NT Blue scored a 317 to finish
Championships on Aug. 11 at Indiana University. The duo, seeded No. 1, defeated a tandem from USC in the final. Chatt (Lyons Township) will be a sophomore at NU. Earlier this summer, Lipp claimed the singles title at the ITA Summer Circuit Midwest Region event in Minneapolis. Unseeded, Lipp beat four seeded players, including No. 1 Chaira Lommer in a semifinal and No. 3 Hayley Haakenstad in the final.
Stick Nation | Girls Field Hockey New Trier: Ali Denby, who will be a senior this fall, will take her game to Middlebury College. Denby was a member of the Windy City U19 Fire, which won a bronze medal at the U19 National Club Challenge this summer. Middlebury, a Division III program, is coming off a terrific season. Last year, the Panthers finished 19-2, won a conference title and advanced to the NCAA semifinals.
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New Trier’s Louise McCulloch works out of a sand trap during the NT Quad last week. Photography By Joel Lerner in front of Loyola Academy (326), St. Charles East (380) and NT Green (389) at the Winnetka Park District Golf Course on Aug. 18. Loyola standout Blake Yaccino placed third with a 76. LA’s Margaret Hickey and Nina Rutkowski shot 80s to share fourth place. NT’s Rachel Rhee carded an 82 for sixth place.
Poolside | Club Swimming Junior Nationals CATS Aquatics: Lake Forest’s Daria Pyshnenko placed first in the B Final (ninth overall) of the 50 freestyle at the 2015 Junior National Championships in San Antonio on July 30-Aug. 3. She was clocked in 24.80. Pyshnenko also recorded career best times in the 100 free (57.17) and 100 butterfly (1:05.29) but did not place. Dylan Boyd, who will be a junior at Lake Forest High School this fall, didn’t place but came up with PRs in the 50 free (24.80) and 100 free (53.73). He also competed in the 200 free and 400 free in San Antonio. At the 2015 Speedo Sectional in Minneapolis on July 15-18, Boyd took ninth in the 200 butterfly (2:06.17). NASA Wildcat Aquatics: Grace Tierney placed 13th in the 400 free (4:18.59) at the 2015 Junior National Championships in San Antonio on July 30-Aug. 3.
Illinois Senior Championships Lake Forest Swim Club: Levy Nathan was named the Illinois Senior Swimming Male Rookie of the Meet at the 2015 Illinois Senior Championships on July 30-Aug. 2 at the University of Chicago Natatorium. The Highland Park 15-yearold finished in the top eight in three events: fourth in the 1500 free (16:44.51), fifth in the
400 free (4:12.76) and eighth in the 800 free (8:50.42). The other LFSW competitors were Patrick King (5th, 200 fly, 6th, 100 fly), Robin Bender, Kalla Sturonas, Michael Hambleton, Elyse Jacobs, Lilly Hemesath and Anna Manning. Scout Aquatics: Michael LeMay and Maria Kyle led the way at the Long Course Senior Championships at the University of Chicago Natatorium on July 30-Aug. 2. LeMay took third in the 200 back and fifth in the 100 back. Kyle placed eighth in the 100 fly. Teammate Amanda Gottschalk came in 12th in the 200 breaststroke.
The Rundown | Women’s Track & Field
Lake Forest: Pole vault star Carolina Carmichael, who will be a senior at the University of Memphis, will be competing in the Olympic Trials next summer. She earned a berth after clearing 14-9 (4.50 meters) on May 15 at the American Athletic Conference championships. At the time, that jump put her in the top four in the US and top 12 in the world. Carmichael finished the season as one of eight All-Americans in the Memphis track and field program. She took 10th in the last two NCAA Track Championships. She’s also a U.S. Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic honoree.
Drop Shots | Women’s Tennis Lake Forest: Maddie Lipp, who will be a redshirt sophomore at Northwestern University, teamed up with Alex Chatt to capture the 2015 women’s doubles title at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Summer
New Trier’s Katherine Gjertsen (class of 2017) was selected to participate in a prestigious lacrosse event — Nike’s “The Ride” — earlier this summer at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Gjertsen was the lone female from the Midwest represented in the invite-only, four-day training experience. She went up against top-level competition and worked one-on-one with former woman's college lacrosse All-American Kara Cannizzaro and Kitty Cullen. She also received instruction from the famous Thompson brothers (Jeremy, Jerome, Miles and Lyle). Lyle and Miles shared the 2014 Tewaaraton Award for most outstanding award in college lacrosse. Last spring, Gjertsen was a second-team allstate selection for the Trevians, who took third in state. As a sophomore, she led NT in goals (41) and points (50).
Honored for their Efforts Lake Forest: Brand-new New images — the fifth edition — will be unveiled on the Lake Forest High School “Images of Excellence” mural at Varsity Field on Aug. 28 during halftime of the football game against Chicago Dunbar. The Lake Forest High School Boosters announced the 19 new honorees on Aug. 20, which includes 2015 Outstanding Senior Athlete Award recipients Evan Boudreaux (basketball), Bailey Ehrens (soccer), Wesley Janeck (football/lacrosse), Katie Karahalios (lacrosse) and Jack Traynor (football/basketball). The other honorees include Laura Blake (senior class president), Quinn Gaughan (golf/volleyball), Luke Gibson (student council president), Brooke Green (basketball/soccer), Matthew Gruenes (baseball), Kate Hanson (basketball/lacrosse), Corey Knudsen (wrestling), Allison Milligan (band), Hunter Moore (soccer/lacrosse), Madeline Sheridan (pom/dance), Daniel Smith (swimming/ water polo), Abby Warren (field hockey/water polo), Clare Wieland (swimming/water polo) and Elise Wong (field hockey). All of the images were photographed by Joel Lerner (The North Shore Weekend/Sportspics).
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He’s far from Finn-ished Lake Forest’s Meeks making waves — and name for himself — in rowing world BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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he Finn Meeks Story has to start at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, in 2009, on the first day of his freshman year at the highly selective school for boarding and day students.The Lake Forest resident was a recent Deer Path Middle School graduate. He was 14 years old, suddenly a student in New England, in a foreign land. “That was my choice, leaving home at that age,” Meeks says. He was 5-foot-5 at the time, an ideal height for a coxswain in a boat full of taller, bigger rowers. “They asked me to be a coxswain,” Meeks says of the day he first met the school’s rowing coaches. “I ended up playing lacrosse. I was a middie. I wasn’t very good.” Meeks’ frame shot up to 6-1 by the time he returned to the campus to start his sophomore year in Exeter, population 14,306. Did anybody recognize him? Many people — students and coaches and faculty members — must have approached the apparent stranger and said, “Hello, you must be Finn Meeks’ older brother.” They no longer wanted Meeks to be a coxswain. Too tall, too big. Meeks’ rowing career began. He loved it. He worked hard in the boat. “I wasn’t very good at the beginning,” Meeks, also a swimmer and water polo player, admits. “But I had very good coaches, and they helped me develop.” Today Finn Meeks is 6-4, 185 pounds, a junior-to-be at Brown University. He still rows, still loves to row. Twenty-four of the top collegiate rowers in the country gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 7 for the start of a six-week camp. Coaches of the U23 National Team would pick one coxswain and eight rowers to represent the United States at the World Championships in Plovidv, Bulgaria, in late July. The coaches picked Meeks and seven other rowers. He had become very good at rowing, safe to surmise. Meeks sat and oared his heart out from a seat in the bow. The USA boat finished runner-up to Germany’s vessel. Germany clocked a 5:33.56 in the final, nearly three seconds faster than Team USA’s
HEAR THEM OAR: Lake Forest’s Finn Meeks (far right) helped the US U23 rowing team to a silver medal at the World Championships earlier summer. SUBMITTED PHOTO
time. “That was pretty brutal,” Meeks, the second youngest of the chosen eight-plus, says of the grueling sixweek selection process that doubled as a training camp. “We went through strength tests, seat racing. In the third week I was a part of a lineup … a lineup that stuck together. We had a time trial, 1,000 meters. We clicked. The coaches liked what they saw from us. “I learned a lot this summer, especially from the guys who had been to Worlds in previous years. Some are absolutely savage racers. It was cool for me to see that approach to racing.” Rowing, Meeks notes, is the only endurance sport in which the competitors execute an all-out sprint at the beginning of a race. Rowers do that because, until their boat enjoys a fairly sizable lead, they can’t see how they’re faring against the rest of the field. “A lot of people in crew say rowing is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical,” Meeks says, “and a lot of that thinking has to do with not knowing exactly how your boat is doing compared to the other boats. Halfway through a race, you’re gassed, absolutely gassed, because you’re going so hard. You have to trust your coxswain, the one in charge of strategy and the race plan, at that point and let muscle
memory take over for the rest of the race.” Before arriving at Brown in the fall of 2013, Meeks had spent about as much time in or on water as he had on land at Phillips Exeter Academy. He collected two varsity crew letters, played (as a driver) on a New England championship water polo team in his senior season and sped to a pair of third-place finishes (200- and 500-yard freestyle) and a runner-up showing (with 400 free relay mates) at the New England swimming championships in his senior season. Rowing, only rowing, interested the athlete in Meeks at the start of his time at Brown University. Hunter Leeming, a native of Sarasota, Florida, was a Brown Bears junior then, a returning secondteam all-Ivy League rower. He would make that U23 National Team, joining Meeks, more than a year later. “Finn Meeks, the athlete, is an interesting story,” Leeming says. “When he started at Brown, he was pretty small, didn’t talk much.Then, all of sudden, in the winter of his freshman year, he started getting better, stronger, finding his groove. He has been crushing it ever since.” A regular in Brown’s freshman boat for the season, Meeks was a part of an Ivy League championship and gripped and ripped oars
during a third-place effort at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) championships. The same crew nearly captured a title at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in England in the summer before Meeks’ sophomore year, bowing to an entrant from the host country in a final. Meeks sat and competed in the bow, right near Leeming, for Brown’s varsity vessel last fall. The eight-plus finished fourth at the IRA championships. Brown’s squad finished fourth overall at the national meet. Meeks also cruised in the classroom, achieving a 4.0 grade-point average in his sophomore year. “Traditionally, those in the bow, have to have a good grasp of technique in rowing,” Leeming says. “Finn has that. “He’s a great kid, still a little bit quiet,” the 2015 Brown graduate adds. “He’s also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and he’s real loyal.” Meeks’ older brother, Forster, 23, is heavily involved in the snow skiing industry, a talented, hardworking man with off-the-charts athleticism. Their little sister, University of Missouri-bound Eleanor, swam for Lake Forest High School Scouts teams at state meets. “My siblings … they both inspire me,” Finn Meeks, respect-
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ful to the bone, says. “I’ve learned a lot from my brother, and it was cool to see my sister win stuff at swim meets.” Grandpa Jack and Grandma Penny Rohrbach live in Vermont. Jack quarterbacked Brown University football teams, and Penny was an elite athlete in her prime. One of the first phone calls Finn made, after learning he had made the U23 National Team, was to his grandparents in the Green Mountain State. Tom and Holly are Finn’s parents. Tom accompanied Finn on trips to Italy and Switzerland after the son had won silver in Bulgaria. The son, all by himself,
then visited Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. The former Phillips Exeter Academy Lion and current Brown University Bear is a big Green Bay Packers fan. Lions, Bears, Packers … Too bad Finn Meeks does not have a connection to Vikings, the fourth football team in the NFC North. Wait, Finn Meeks traveled to Denmark and Sweden earlier this month, a couple of Scandinavian countries, a couple of Vikings-laden territories back, way back, in the Viking Age (7931066).
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Fear this Turtle
Relentless Maryland-bound Janeck pumped to invigorate Terrapins’ lacrosse program — after beating heart condition BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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he text message to Wesley Janeck came from Mike Gabel, Janeck’s True Lacrosse club coach. Janeck, a defensive middie/faceoff man, was a sophomore at Lake Forest High School when he read the text in the spring of 2013. Gabel informed Janeck that Brown and Harvard and Princeton were interested in Janeck, the student, and Janeck, the lacrosse player. So was the University of Maryland, the two-time reigning NCAA runner-up in Division I men’s lacrosse at the time. Janeck’s incredulous reaction to Maryland’s interest, give or take a couple of exclamation points: “Get out of here!!!!” It was true, all true. Maryland Terrapins lacrosse coach John Tillman recruits tough guys, groundball guys, athletic guys. Janeck was a tough guy, a groundball guy, an athletic guy. One day, Janeck found himself discussing all kinds of topics with Tillman on the phone. “That was intimidating at first,” Janeck, now a 2015 LFHS graduate, recalls. “I was talking with the head coach at Maryland … the head coach, not an assistant coach. He was really positive, energetic. We talked about lacrosse and football and other things. “I had never thought I was a Division-I type of player.” The courtship continued. Janeck’s interest in the new Big Ten school grew. Janeck verbally committed to the Terrapins’ program in the summer before his junior year, weeks before the start of his second varsity football season. Janeck had emerged as the Scouts’ kickoff return man the previous fall, during Lake Forest’s schoolrecord run to a Class 6A state semifinal. Life was good. Janeck’s future was set, bright. And then it wasn’t. Janeck heard “myocarditis” for the first time in his life. It’s a heart condition, and he had contracted it. A virus found its way to Janeck’s heart and settled there for a while, triggering an irregular heartbeat. Janeck had to stay in a hospital in Chicago for a while, for nearly a week. He returned home, went in
GO EAST, WES: Recent Lake Forest High School grad and Maryland recruit Wesley Janeck (left), seen here against New Trier last season, made two All-America teams last spring. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
for a checkup weeks later and then heard the last thing he wanted to hear from a person with a medical diploma: “You need to go back to the hospital.” “That,” he says, “was the low point, having to return for more tests, more needles, more wondering, tough times falling asleep again. My heartbeat was irregular again. I asked the doctors about playing sports, and they hushed me up. It was scary. I was thinking, ‘I was pretty much done as an athlete.’ ” Janeck sat out the entire football season (LFHS went 9-3 and reached a state quarterfinal) and underwent a cardiac ablation in February of 2014. He got cleared to play lacrosse and was premyocarditis Wesley Janeck all over again, gobbling up gobs of groundballs and earning All-
America status from the US Lacrosse Association. Janeck, the 5-foot-9, 180pound athlete, was not done. “Football has always been my favorite sport,” Janeck, an allNorth Suburban Conference running back for another state quarterfinalist last fall, says. “Being on teams, with older running backs, I always wanted to be and play like the older running backs. Lacrosse … there’s so much going on in a lacrosse game. I like that, and I like how fast it is. If you want to be physical in lacrosse, you can be physical in lacrosse. “My dad [Mark], he was a baseball player, but he got bored with baseball. He’s so happy I went out for lacrosse and played a fast sport.” Some 12 months removed from spending time in a hospital, his
career in athletics in doubt, Janeck took handoffs and inflicted pain on linemen and linebackers and defensive backs in the fall of 2014. The senior rushed for 1,347 yards and 24 touchdowns, with 200 of the yards (on 29 carries) and four of the TDs coming in a 42-21 round-one playoff defeat of host Belvidere North. Scouts linebacker Jack Traynor, a senior then, remembers his team’s early drives in the game. Janeck took some hits in the drives, loud hits. Traynor remembers those, too. Maybe he still hears the collisions. “Wes was getting beat up, killed on every play,” Traynor, Dartmouth-bound, recalls. “But he always got right back up, ready for the next play. He found ways to keep pounding, to keep playing hard. He was the same way in lacrosse. I was a scorekeeper for
the lacrosse team, kept stats. The relentless energy he showed in games … I could tell, anybody could tell, the opposing players around Wes did not want to be anywhere near him. Nobody out there wanted to deal with his work ethic and his drive. “He’ll have an impact [at Maryland], no doubt,” Traynor adds. Marc Thiergart succeeded Dan Maigler as Scouts varsity coach before the start of the lacrosse season in 2015, Janeck’s final lacrosse season. A luxury of every first-year coach, in any sport, is a strong captain. Thiergart got one in Janeck, usually the first one on the field for a practice, the constant motivator, the unpaid coach on the field. “Wes was a fearless player for us, a tough kid,” Thiergart says of
the four-year varsity lax member. “He wasn’t the tallest kid in games, but he was the most intimidating. He’d run through anybody. He was a great leader for us, a silent leader. Dedicated. What I like about his leadership was how often he reminded his teammates, ‘We can beat anybody.’ His teammates believed it because Wes believed it. They didn’t want to let him down.” Janeck sustained an injury in the second game of the season, a spring break game. It limited his playing time during the season. He still finished with a team-high 131 groundballs and paced LFHS, a state semifinalist, in faceoffs won (153 of 235, 65 percent). Janeck made the US Lacrosse Association All-America team, again, and was the lone Illinois representative on the National Intercollegiate Lacrosse Coaches Association AllAmerica team. A helmetless, stickless Wesley Janeck off the field is nothing like the highly competitive, unyielding Wesley Janeck on the field. The dogged groundball vacuum becomes an approachable and pleasant presence. Friendly replaces fierce. Genial supplants grit. “Not intimidating at all,” Traynor says. “Wes is a genuinely nice guy, well-liked and well-respected by all. He cares about others.” The lone Illinois resident to play for the Terrapins last spring was Culver (Indiana) Academy graduate Matt Neufeldt of Naperville. The long stick middie played in all 19 of Maryland’s lacrosse games as a freshman. He picked up four groundballs and caused three turnovers in Maryland’s 10-5 loss to the University of Denver in the NCAA final. It was Maryland’s third national runnerup showing in five years. ESPN2 aired it. “My son [Brayden, a thirdgrader],” Thiergart says, “told me, ‘I can’t wait to see Wes play lacrosse on TV.’ Wes will get on the field for that program as a freshman. Maryland coaches will realize, rather quickly, that he’ll give everything he’s got every minute he’s on a field.”
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the north shore weekend
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
Author comes out against Second Amendment with guns blazing
pealing the Second Amendment to Make America Safer and More ou have no idea how Free” — which, as you might expect, many people legally have makes him the persona non grata guns concealed on their of gun owners and the National body, right now, in this restaurant Rifle Association. we’re in,” says Lee Goodman. He might as well have painted He might as well have said, a bull’s-eye on the back of his shirt. "Do you feel lucky? He takes calls regularly at his home Well, do yah, punk?” — except (he doesn’t try to keep the number we’re not in a big-budget block- private), and the callers usually buster. We’re on the North Shore. begin by spewing vitriol at him. Georgie V’s Pancake House in People launch into angry tirades in Goodman’s hometown of North- emails. On Amazon.com, the combrook, to be exact. ments are especially nasty. Your mind wanders when pre“It is clear the author was not sented with the weight of said in- just dropped on his head as a baby, formation. You make eye contact but that his parents used him as a with another diner and quickly look ball in a full court basketball game,” at the floor. You imagine a table of writes one. In fact, all of the five-star old ladies pulling comically large, reviews were actually written by Looney Tunes-sized guns out of dissenters masquerading as “invadtheir purses on a whim. You re- ers, muggers, and assailants by trade” member the scene in Pulp Fiction praising the premise of the book: where a diner is the unlikely setting giving up the right to bear arms. Or for a gun-in-your-face stickup. those who claim to have used the You don’t want to get shot. book as toilet paper after defecating. Knowing that, the question isn’t Americans have long had a love“Do you feel lucky?” but: Do I feel hate relationship with guns. A safer or less safe? militia, wielding bayonet-fitted Goodman orders a short stack muskets, won the U.S. its freedom to enact the Bill of Rights. And it of pancakes and an orange juice. “I didn’t mean to ruin your seems — given the order of the morning,” he tells me. amendments — that “a well reguGoodman, an attorney and activ- lated Militia, being necessary to the ist, is the author of “Too Many security of a free State,” was pretty Rights and Too Many Guns: Re- high up on the Continental ConBy Simon Murray
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gress’ minds when drafting the Constitution. Since then, however, more Americans have died from the second part of the amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — than in all the wars of this countr y's history combined. And then there are the names that stick out in the mind like modernday battlefields. Sandy Hook. Columbine. Aurora, Colo. When
you compound the problem with estimations by the Congressional Research Service — a Capitol Hill think tank — that there were 310 million firearms in the U.S. in 2009, and in that same year, the Census B u r e a u placed the U.S. population at 306 million, things seem out of sorts. (Side note: It’s impossible to know, for
Lee Goodman | Illustration by Barry Blitt
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certain, how many guns are in private hands because there is no central firearms registry.) Goodman’s interest in the issue peaked in 2013. Over the course of that year, Illinois went from a complete ban on the public carrying of firearms to becoming the last state in the country to allow firearms in public. Goodman headed the state’s Stop Concealed Carry coalition and protested loudly in Springfield. Though they ended up losing the battle, the defeat just made him all the more zealous. In the process, and as he studied the issue, Goodman realized something. “We’ve been losing all along the way,” he says. “People can openly carry assault weapons in large parts of the country. There are people who are allowed to carry guns into schools. There are people who are allowed, by law, to bring guns into state legislatures.” Adds Goodman, “All of this just didn’t exist when I was a kid or even more recently.” What Goodman is referring to is a chain of landmark decisions passed by the Supreme Court. In short, between the District of Columbia v. Heller — which found that any ban on handguns on federal soil (i.e. D.C.) to be unconstitutional, and McDonald
v. the City of Chicago, which found that, at the state level, bans on handguns are unconstitutional — individuals have the right to “keep and bear arms.” (This case occurred after a 76-year-old retired maintenance engineer wanted to purchase a handgun for personal home defense after being burglarized five times by gang members and drug dealers in Morgan Park.) That brings us to today. Where even Gabby Giffords, the former Congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in the head by an assailant carrying an automatic pistol and a staunch supporter of mandatory background checks, still enjoys recreational shooting at gun ranges. Though Goodman empathizes with her, he feels mandatory background checks doesn’t push the issue far enough. There can be no central firearms registry because the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 effectively forbids the federal government from establishing one. And how did the Senate subcommittee come to that conclusion? Their interpretation of the Second Amendment. “That’s why I wrote the book,” says Goodman. “I want people to look at the fundamental core issue: Do we believe people should have the right to have guns?”
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