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innetka resident Cy Rosengarten spends the most wonderful weekends with his daughter, Wynn. They start with a four-mile walk before they tidy up around the house and then maybe go out for lunch. Wynn shares plenty of hugs before she heads back to her home at Libertyville’s Lambs Farm, where Cy says Wynn has thrived in the nearly 40 years that she’s lived there. Lambs Farm is a nonprofit organization which helps people Continued on PG 13
RALLYING AROUND HER New Trier’s Beto persevering, thriving with the help of her teammates
had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. It made a mundane act — pulling her hair up before the start of a practice or a match — a painful act. She would have to deal with blisters, more pain. She would have to undergo periodic treatments lasting six to eight hours. There was good news: Nicole Beto would not have to be Nicole BY BILL MCLEAN Beto, former volleyball player. he most surprised person She would get to block and spike on Nicole Beto Day last and celebrate points and wins month was Nicole Beto. with her teammates in 2015. Her New Trier volleyball “We wanted to show her that teammates gave her all kinds of we’re here for her,” New Trier gifts on her big day, brownies senior outside hitter Erin and Kit Kat bars and Sour Patch Denham says of the spirit Kids candy among the sweet behind Nicole Beto Day. “She’s goodies. Halloween had arrived strong. She’s handling it well.” early for the Trevian. New Trier’s volleyball team is She also received coloring 29-5, strong and talented. It is books. And personal, thoughtful, seeded first in the Class 4A encouraging notes, the hand- Maine South Sectional, schedwritten kind, the best kind. uled to face Niles North in a A couple of days earlier, Beto, Conant Regional semifinal on a 6-foot-5 senior middle blocker Oct. 27. The Trevians produced and a Glenview resident, had an 18-match winning streak this informed her teammates of a fall. In the 18th match of the medical condition she had. She run, a 25-19, 25-17 defeat of
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visiting Maine South on Oct. 7, Beto pounded six kills, tying her for team-high honors with junior middle Callie Fauntleroy. Beto popped for a team-best five blocks in a win over host Niles West on Oct. 15. “She’s been a differencemaker for us, an impact player,” Trevians coach Hannah Hsieh says of the Wildcat Juniors (17 Purple) club player. “Her size forces others to hit difficult, weird shots. The girls on our team, they all love her, love how hard she works, how much she contributes. “Nicole,” the coach adds, “is sweet … that’s the word that best describes her off the court. And she’s pushing through this challenge she’s facing.” Before her junior season on varsity last fall, Beto lived life in a shell, a seemingly impenetrable one at times. She was shy. She was insecure. She probably wanted to be 4-foot-something, not 6-foot-something. Books STILL RISING: Despite dealing with a health condition, Nicole Continued on PG 12
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homas Schaffner was on a business trip to California when he received a call that made a pit
in his stomach. On the other end of the call was his wife, Julie: she was back at their home in Wilmette. “She said, It looks like I might have
Beto has been an inspiring and impactful player for the New Trier volleyball team. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
cancer,” remembers Schaffner. It was late May of 2009. Soon after, they learned it was ovarian cancer. But Thomas knew very little about the disease. As they went through the process, he learned more; like how ovarian cancer is rare—it accounts for about 3 percent of cancers among women—but it’s insidious: causing more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. It’s known as a “silent killer,” in
part because it lacks specific, concrete symptoms. Many times examinations reveal it by happenstance. At the time, Julie was COO of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. A lifelong nurse and caregiver, Julie had joined the staff at Lutheran General, in 1986 as Assistant Vice President, Nursing. For nearly two Continued on PG 12
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