The North Shore Weekend EAST, Issue 20

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08 Pizza perfect Who makes great pizza on the North Shore, and how do they do it?

10 History in the making Area historical societies face a number of challenges, but all of them continue to thrive with the help of generous donors.

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14 Giving thanks E-mail is far easier, and some public schools don’t even teach cursive anymore. Will the thank you note survive in the 21st century?

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 16 Sunday Breakfast Glencoe resident Holly Rozner has published “Trade Secrets,” which is heavily based on her days at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

20 Goings On About Towns Find out about the best events coming up this week in the North Shore.

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

30 Open Houses See a list — complete with map — of what houses you can see on the North Shore this weekend.

32 North Shore Offerings Take a look at intriguing houses in our towns.

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The North Shore is blessed with dozens of fine joints, a number of which are featured in this issue. The range of pies they can create is phenomenal.

Back in the day, I not only was a consumer of pizza — I made it. I toiled at a Little Caesar’s on the North Shore. To be honest, I don’t recall what prompted to me apply for a job there, beyond the idea that maybe I’d get a free pizza every day after spending hours stirring vats of dough.

One Sunday, Little Caesar’s ran a 2-for-1 pizza advertisement in the Chicago Tribune, back when it was a rare deal. I manned the phones that evening, and they wouldn’t stop ringing. I probably answered them “Pizza!

Pizza!” just to add levity to the stampede of calls.

For some reason, I told everyone to show up around the same time rather than spacing orders out. At 7 p.m., a line crawled out the door. The frantic manager asked, “Who told everyone to show up at 7 p.m.?” I turned in my smock soon after.

That pizza place decades ago never sent me a thank you note for my countless days of service (well, three days to be exact), and in this issue we ask: Is the handwritten thank you note dead? Fortunately, it looks as if it will survive, even in the age of e-mail. Angelika Labno interviews a North Shore etiquette consultant and others about the future of this always-welcome missive.

Thank you notes won’t become history – nor will, thankfully, historical societies. Our area is blessed with many fine institutions, which rely heavily on the generosity of donors to help them survive. Joanna Brown writes about the challenges they face and exhibits they present in these pages.

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U p p e r c r us t On the North Shore, variety is the spice of pizza ■ by

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The reaction to the taste of one of The Silo’s specialty pizzas made the co-owner of the Lake Bluff restaurant chuckle recently.

A team of youth hockey players (sans sticks) had just begun devouring slices featuring a variety of toppings in the party section on the second floor.

Co-owner Sandy Pike was standing nearby when she heard, “Dude, have you tried this? You have to try this.”

What “this” was: deep dish Classic Reuben. The teen was sold immediately on a medley of flavors normally associated with a deli sandwich and folks older than 30. The teen couldn’t wait to bite again into pizza containing corned beef and sauerkraut smothered with Thousand Island dressing and Swiss cheese.

“It was a funny hearing him say that,” Pike said. “It’s a popular selection. But most people, when they first look at a Classic Reuben say, ‘Really? That’s what’s on it?’ ” The Silo, co-owned by Pike’s husband, Larry, also offers a Bacon Double Cheeseburger pizza.

“That choice,” Sandy said, “comes with mustard and dill pickles.

“You want crazy toppings?” she added.

“We have them, as well as the traditional toppings.”

Piero D’Ascenzi was 5 years old and living in Ferentino, Italy, when he took his first bite of pizza. His mother, Costanza, had made it for him and he’ll never forget what was on the thin piece of crust.

“Tomato sauce — only tomato sauce,” D’Ascenzi recalled.

D’Ascenzi had $20 in his pocket when he arrived in the U.S. in 1974. He now owns two Ferentino’s Pizzerias in Lake Forest and Marco Roma Pizzeria in Winnetka.

Ferentino’s baked the original deep dish

pizza of the North Shore in 1980.

“Our most popular is our deep dish with spinach, onions, mushrooms and green peppers,” D’Ascenzi said.

These days that pizza lovers sometimes feel like eating tomato sauce, sometimes feel like eating barbeque sauce.

Or extra virgin olive oil. Or curry pizza sauce. Or green tomatillo sauce.

“Pizza places are looking for all kinds of ways to attract customers, and offering different and sometimes unusual toppings is one way to do that,” said Lake Forest Academy principal Chris Tennyson. “I’m originally from the East Coast, so I prefer thin crust pizza. I know Gino’s (East) in Chicago is supposed to be the best place to order deep dish.

“But I consider that a tourist attraction in the city. There are plenty of good places that make deep dish pizza in the suburbs.”

Frank Guagliardo’s favorite specialty pie is spessa, a famous pizza sold at his Piero’s restaurants in Highland Park and Northbrook. Spessa toppings rest on a fluffy bread crust similar to focaccia bread.

“I like artichoke hearts, Canadian bacon and spinach on mine,” said Guagliardo, in the pizza business for nearly 25 years.

Some three years ago doctors who frequented Piero’s brought up the topic of celiac disease with Guagliardo. Celiac disease damages the lining of the small intestine due to a reaction to eating gluten.

“The doctors told me more and more kids have it,” Guagliardo recalled. “It was then that we started looking into offering glutenfree pizza. When we put it on our menu, moms of kids who have the disease were appreciative because so often their kids felt left out when they attended pizza parties and couldn’t eat the regular pizza.”

Ordering a heart-shaped pizza has been the rage at The Big Tomato in Wilmette since Feb. 1. Owner Alberto Martinez

Jaime Moreno tosses pizza dough in the kitchen at Big Tomato in Wilmette.

Deep dish pizza with fresh spinach is served at Piero’s Pizza in Highland Park.

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said 128 of them had been sold through Valentine’s Day. Kids, though, love requesting Teddy Bear-shaped pizza. Other menu options for the younger set include dinosaur-, butterfly- and spider-shaped pizzas.

“With dough,” Martinez said, “you can do just about anything. We’ve even customized a skull-and-bones pizza for customers.”

Martinez was born and raised in Mexico, and he’s been peddling pizzas for 20 years.

He opened The Big Tomato two years ago after working at pizza chains and small pizzerias in Chicago. The Big Tomato, which also sells beer and wine, is quaint and cozy inside, with paintings and photographs covering most of the walls.

“Our spices and sauces are imported and we use 100 percent mozzarella cheese,” Martinez said. “When people ask me to recommend a pizza I tell them to try our stuffed spinach with four cheeses (two mozzarella cheeses, Parmesan and Romano).”

Nearly 300 patrons belong to The Big Tomato’s Upper Crust Club. Members get to purchase specialties, like an Asian Style Chicken pizza. The six 10-inch Christmas specials Martinez sold in 2012 contained Alfredo sauce, smoked salmon and caviar.

When New Trier High School athletic director and Highland Park resident Randy Oberembt has a hankering for a deep dish pizza, he always ends up at a Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria.

“We’re all Malnati’s people,” he said of students, staff and faculty members at New Trier. “There’s history and there’s tradition with Malnati’s.”

Rick Malnati, son of the late Lou and a New Trier West High School graduate, coached varsity boys basketball team at NTHS from 1996-2008 and now serves as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Loyola University. His older brother, Marc, joined the family business shortly after his father’s death in 1978.

Highland Park High School graduate Jim Straus lives in Deerfield and likes to consume pizza in Northbrook (Barnaby’s), Glenview (Pizano’s) or at any of the 34 Malnati’s locations.

“If I had to pick one pizza I’d have to go with the cheese and sausage deep dish at Malnati’s,” he said. “But right behind that is the Rudy Special at Pizano’s. It’s a deep dish, made to order. I get it with sausage, onions, green peppers and mushrooms.”

Arturo Barbosa, a culinary student at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, works as a waiter at The Silo. He came up with a specialty pizza that was a hit on Fat Tuesday; it boasted caramelized onions, roasted red peppers, fresh Jalapenos and grilled shrimp.

Sandy Pike likes to tell the story behind another of The Silo’s specialty pizzas. The Pikes’ information technology guy noticed a gap in the menu under “Specialty Pizza.”

“He then said to me,” Sandy recounted, ‘You know what I could really go for right now? A pizza with bacon, ricotta cheese, garlic, mushrooms and sausage.’ ” The “Specialty Pizzas” gap on the menu was filled with the addition of the Country Italia shortly thereafter. ■

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“It is important to remember what this community looked like 100 years ago or more,” says Patti Van Cleave, director of the Winnetka Historical Society.

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Historical societies adapt in ever-changing world ■ by

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Did you ever wonder who lived in your home before you, what they dressed like and what they liked to do on a Saturday?

Thanks to historical societies, a good picture can be painted of life on the North Shore during its earliest days.

Today, the societies are coping with the changing world of information while enduring a lack of state and federal funding.

“Historical societies are a unique American institution,” said Nancy Webster, archivist at Highland Park Historical Society, who added that funding for such non-profits is often a struggle. “They have evolved to being a community resource and the curator of the community’s history.”

Several historical societies in the North Shore were founded in the first quarter of the 20th century, more than 100 years after the earliest of such societies in America.

Each town had the same motive — to preserve artifacts significant to its history and to educate people on the past.

Many historical societies provide a window to life in an early settlement, be it through pictures or displays of costumes. Winnetka was given the 1837 Schmidt-Burnham Log House in 2001 and features costumed docents to interpret what pioneer life was like in the mid-1800s. Its research center and headquarters are in a historic 1859 Victorian Gothic home, which it purchased in 2001.

“Our society has changed so dramatically in the last 100 years, so what life was like even 50 years ago is a mystery,” said Patti Van Cleave, director of the Winnetka Historical Society. “It is important to remember what this community looked like 100 years ago or more.”

While America still places importance on preserving history, fixed exhibits are no longer enough to hold the public’s interest. The societies have to reinvent themselves to offer something unique to the public. Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) reopened at the end of 2012 after a $90 million renovation and features a 1919 Boeing aircraft hanging from the ceiling, interactive storytelling screens and priceless artifacts. After a month, it drew more than 30,000 visitors, according to MOHAI’s Facebook page.

The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society has

focused on strengthening its online presence with major website reconstruction, earning an award from the Illinois Association of Museums in 2012. Because of the easy access to records and past exhibits, the society works on ways to attract people to events. In April, it will re-create the “murder trial of the century,” according to Janice Hack, its executive director. In 1916, the mysterious death of a Lake Forest girl made headlines across the nation, even knocking war coverage off the front pages. The audience at the event will vote on guilt or innocence.

“Every year, we come up with great new ideas on interesting stories to tell,” said Hack, adding, “One thing that hasn’t changed is that there is a core group of people that really value history and what the historical society does.”

The Highland Park Historical Society boasts a railroad exhibit featuring toy model trains and the history of the North Shore Line. In June, it will hold a reading of Civil War letters. Like Winnetka, Highland Park owns and operates a log cabin built in 1847, the city’s oldest standing building. This past June, the society held a fundraiser that raised over $3,000 for preservation of the Stupey cabin.

A vintage auto show will run in August.

“One of the biggest changes is emphasis on research collections instead of being a static house museum,” said Webster.

Renovations or additions would not be possible if it were not for a broad range of financial support. Funding for the societies comes from membership, individual philanthropy and local organizations. Societies also run annual fundraisers, and sometimes secure grants for programs.

Winnetka received a grant from the National Archives in 2011; the same year, the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff institution received a restricted grant of $100,000 from The Hunter Family Foundation.

The quality collections in the North Shore’s historical societies are of national — and sometimes international — significance. Whether it’s research for a World War I book or tracing back one’s genealogy, the institutions get requests from across the country and the globe.

“We’re all sort of kindred spirits,” said Hack, speaking for what the societies hold in common. “We’re in a unique position to pull these local resources and share them.” ■

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Historic design find yields new insight on McCormick mansion ■ by arthur h. miller

Chicago manuscript expert Mary Beth Beal suggested that Dr. Shawn Post, a Wilmette resident and Chicago dentist, contact the Lake Forest College Special Collections department about his just-discovered roll of 20 ink-on-linen plans from 1913.

The house in the plans was Walden, the home of Harriet Hammond and Cyrus H. McCormick II, originally built in 1896 in a New England shingle style. The creation of architect Jarvis Hunt, the massive structure’s gambrel roof over two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half stories stood overlooking the lake on 100 acres in Lake Forest. Harriet —a founder in 1912 of the future Lake Forest and Winnetka Garden Clubs, then combined into one — died in 1921 and Cyrus in 1936; the house was demolished in 1956 by the second Mrs. McCormick.

But while it was known that work was done to fireproof the house in 1913 by Prairie School master designer Hugh M. G. Garden, of the Chicago firm of Schmidt Garden & Martin, the extent and character of those changes had been forgotten for a century. Until Dr. Post’s plans showed up.

In photos in the 1924 book Landscape Art: Past & Present by the late Mrs. McCormick, the details of the first floor of the house as it looked by the 1920s are obscured by the lush vines. These served to integrate the large-scaled home into the informal landscape of the Walden estate, its lush vegetation artfully placed by Boston-based landscape architect Warren H. Manning, who visited each spring for 40 years to attend to the plantings. Earlier photos reproduced in Landscape Art show the 1896 original house design by architect Hunt, a nephew of New York architect Richard Morris Hunt. In these Walden photographs of the mid-1890s the details of the house’s south and east side porches and west side entry porte cochere are in the distinctively Newport shingle style mode, with slim, regularly spaced columns.

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Gone are the days of mystery meat slopped onto a plate by the ubiquitous school lunch lady.

Far from that bad scene from a movie, North Shore high school students today enjoy input on their cafeteria environment.

“Different communities have different levels of involvement,” said Lake Forest High School Environmental Club co-sponsor Mary Beth Nawor.

“We’re trying to make a difference at our school.”

The food served, it seems, has evolved in the same way that major restaurant chains have. The cafeteria line has been replaced with stations for sandwiches, salads, made-to-order pasta, and a quesadilla bar among other entrees, and smoothies and coffee drinks. Highland Park High School menus list gluten-free and vegetarian options, too, and the staff posts nutritional information on the walls for students to reference before they make any selections.

“We’ve gone a la carte. It looks more like a courtyard,” said Mary Voicka, general manager of the Highland Park and Deerfield High School cafeterias. “It’s not like when I was in school 30 years ago.” Vodicka works locally but is employed by the district’s food services contractor, Sodexo.

Staffers do their best to meet every request, Vodicka said – but that can be challenging when all students are required to remain on campus during their lunch periods. Peanut-butter sandwiches are prepped for the grab-and-go counter ahead of time, she said, so that the work surface can be scrubbed down to keep students with nut allergies safe.

In Lake Forest, where the cafeteria is managed inhouse, students similarly choose from food stations.

Lake Forest High School Principal Jay Hoffmann said the soup line is always the longest, but the taco salad with a crunchy tortilla shell bowl is also a popular choice.

“There are always students who bring their own lunch, some who will eat fries every day, and some who are very disciplined eating a small salad every day. But there are healthy choices at every station,” he said (private school Woodlands Academy in town goes a step further in terms of choices, offering a cappuccino machine and sundae bar).

Students at LFHS pay for lunch through their ID numbers, which are linked to a debit account.

Their parents can request an itemized accounting of their expenses if they want to see what their kids are buying every day, Hoffmann said. Seniors may petition for permission to leave campus during their lunch periods, making nearby fast-food joints popular destinations.

At New Trier High School, food contractor Aramark offers menu items that meet School District 203’s nutritional guidelines. Established in 2008, the guidelines limit the sugar, calories from fat and sodium in various items, and mandate that half of all grains served will be whole grains. Nutritional information is provided for students on menus.

“When Aramark became our food services provider in 2011 and saw our nutritional guidelines, their managers worked with students and staff to revamp their offerings. This year we’ve found they’re really hit their stride,” said District 203 Director of Communications Nicole Dizon. Entrees like orange chicken re-create on campus the flavors that students seek when they go out to eat with their friends.

Juniors and seniors may leave campus on foot at lunchtimes.

Aramark works with New Trier’s student government to solicit feedback, just as Lake Forest and Highland Park cafeterias organize formal advisory committees. It was these students who brought slushies back to the New Trier cafeterias last year and a dedicated gluten-free fryer for French fries on demand in Highland Park. But in Lake Forest, the student advisory board worked with the Environmental Club to better manage cafeteria waste.

A water and ice station allows students to fill their reusable water bottles, rather than buy disposable ones daily. Students walk through the kitchen daily to collect food prep waste from containers and mix it with sawdust from the woodshop for composting; the result feeds a courtyard garden on campus. And the addition of recycling receptacles on the trash cans in the cafeteria have increased green practices among students.

“We found that if people have to walk somewhere else to recycle, then it’s probably not going to happen,” Nawor said. ■

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Christian Heritage junior is a true Renaissance man Josh Groza’s chalk drawing of Ronald Reagan (closest to him) won first place at the recent Glenview Youth Art Fair

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“It is incredible to see a young man of high character who is so incredibly gifted in an array of areas.” – Dirk Pogue ■ by

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As a junior at Christian Heritage Academy, Highland Park resident Josh Groza already boasts a resume a college graduate would envy. He is effortlessly talented at almost anything he tries, and yet nothing stands in the way of excellent academic standing.

“It is incredible to see a young man of high character who is so incredibly gifted in an array of areas,” said CHA guidance counselor Dirk Pogue, who deems Groza a Renaissance man.

While Groza takes a breather this year to focus on college preparations, he reflects on the achievements that have helped shape him, beginning with his passion for soccer.

“I’m Romanian, so it’s kind of ingrained in me,” said Groza. “My dad was really good at soccer, so that’s what he’s taught me.”

Having only previously played the sport for fun, Groza decided to take it up seriously as a freshman in high school. He made one of the top clubs in the state, Chicago Magic, and continues to play with them as a center mid. CHA initiated the first soccer team this year, and Groza said he’s been excited to be a leader and help train the team. He hopes to pursue the sport into college.

Groza has performed off the field as an actor in school theater productions since fourth grade, his repertoire including “Oliver Twist,” “The Music Man” and most recently, “The Sound of Music.” Art instructor Brooke Collins raves about Groza’s artistic abilities as an artist and painter. His work has been entered in art shows outside of school, and he won second place for architecture at the Glenview Art Show his freshman year. Groza will participate in an upcoming school fundraiser, as one winning bidder will have a portrait drawn by Groza.

“Whether he is drawing a portrait, painting a landscape or creating a sculpture, he does them all with precision,” said

Collins. “He is growing as an artist each year and discovering new mediums with each project.”

His music talents, on the other hand, have been cultivated the longest, since childhood. Groza has played the piano since first grade and performs in many school and church functions. He counts competitions as a good experience for him, and he took home gold medals from almost every Northwestern competition he participated in.

In eighth grade, Groza took up classical percussion and began playing tympani with Logos Symphony Orchestra, a part of the Romanian Baptist Church that Groza worships at. From there, he was introduced to the conductor of Protégé Philharmonic Orchestra, one of Chicago’s best youth orchestras and played with them. He continues to play with Logos, and went on a Romanian Christian tour with them last summer. They played in churches throughout Europe, including classical music capital Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and Madrid.

“The mission that we had, proclaiming God’s love and His gospel, was really important to me,” said Groza. “We were able to impact peoples’ lives and spread joy to others while doing what we love.”

Of all of his devotions, faith is of highest importance to Groza, who has preached at his church a couple times. He is extremely humble of his gifts, which he heartily attributes to God. “I am thankful, and recognize I’m the way I am only because of what He’s done in my life,” said Groza. “It’s hard to explain to someone who may not share my religious beliefs.”

Pogue, a former pastor at a North Shore church, was so amazed at Groza’s insights in his eighth-grade Bible class that he would sometimes quote him in his sermons.

“I attributed the quotes to a ‘Romanian biblical theologian,’” he said. “No one ever caught on.” ■

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Stephanie Helander writes a thank you note to a customer at Helanders Stationers in Lake Forest. The handwritten, cursive note has become endangered in the digital age — but many tout its importance.

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Barbara Kehoe is a historian focused on British history; she’s actively involved in the historic preservation of notable gardens in America. She lives in Wilmette with her husband.

Reading: I don’t read much fiction. I’m a British historian, and I read a lot of British period history, especially about the Tudor period. I didn’t do that much reading about that when I was working on my degree, but I’m fascinated by it now.

Listening: I don’t listen to much music.

I like it quiet in the house, and I like it quiet when I drive.

Watching: “Downton Abbey,” naturally!

The new season is on PBS. The other one I watch is “Call the Midwife.” It’s strange, but I’ve gotten addicted to it. It’s just an interesting story about these young midwives right after the Second World War. It’s kind of charming — I’m sure their lives were much grittier than actually portrayed, but it’s very charming.

Following: I’ve been following the debt ceiling. I watch the news every night. When I go to New York, I look to see what’s in the museums, but I usually do that just before I go.

Activity: I’m very involved in the Garden Club of America. I have been president of my local club and I’ve had some

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south and west elevations of the house on its first floor level had been substantially reworked. The drawings reveal a new mainfloor dining room addition on the east and with the exterior spaces re-envisioned in a more solid, masonry-supported Prairie style. This was a design palette defined in an October 2012 architectural tour booklet of architect John Van Bergen’s work, Highland Park, by the Historic Preservation Commission there under chair Jean Sogin. It was the first “truly American style” by Frank Lloyd Wright and associates, who “sought

national positions. That’s what takes me to New York. I’m also involved with the Women’s Board at Chicago Botanic Garden and the Garden Conservancy, an organization that preserves America’s significant private gardens, although not all of them (gardenconservancy.org).

Eating: Seasonally. I cooked a number of family-favorite desserts over the holidays, but now I’m trying to get back to regular eating. I just bought a risotto machine. I’m figuring out how it works, but I may need to experiment with it more. I’m trying to get me and my husband to eat a little less meat, and it’s more interesting for him if it’s risotto instead of “rice and vegetables.”

I’m not entierly sure how a risotto maker differs from a slow-cooker, but I need to experiment a little more.

What is your favorite mistake? Not going to study abroad in college. I let my family talk me out of it. It was much more difficult to do in those days, and my father wasn’t really happy about the idea. I’ve learned now to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves and not necessarily let other factors dissuade me from an opportunity that seems like the right thing to do. For instance, later on I took an internship at the White House one summer, even though I didn’t get paid for it. It would have been such a mistake if I hadn’t done it. ■

to create an architecture that functioned in concert with the landscape,” typically with “a massive quality, as rooted to the earth.”

More than just a stylish face-lift, though, the 1913 house renovation did address fireproofing, with architect Lawrence Buck associated who was integrating this requirement in North Shore houses then. But mostly the 1913 work on Walden was an expansion east, a redecoration of the dining room, a new billiard room, and a reconfiguring of the second floor for larger bedrooms with en suite baths, along with the renovation of the first floor porches and covered entryway in the Prairie manner. ■

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An elegant, handwritten thank you card may well be an ancient art form. What’s the point, really, when one can tap into Lucida Calligraphy and Edwardian Script font and enjoy the efficiency of e-mail?

The women at Helanders Stationers of Lake Forest believe the world of handwritten thank you notes has evolved from being the norm to now being a way of distinguishing oneself. Although they may not be selling as many of the less expensive notes that are sold in bulk, they sell as many — if not more — of the quality pieces.

“The stationery used to be more utilitarian, because the only way of communicating would be to write someone a letter, where now I think it’s become special — almost a gift in return,” said Mary Lee Helander, who runs the business with husband Chuck, son Casey and daughter-in-law Stephanie.

“We’re selling more to men than we ever did because of ‘Thank you for the interview,’” she said, with Stephanie adding, “It sets you apart — an e-mail is expected.”

Mary Lee added that the touch and feel of the concept is something brides look for, or people celebrating major birthdays or anniversaries. Helanders sources out to calligraphers for those who choose to do the addresses on a wedding list for a larger mailer, and calligraphy pens are available at the shop.

Patricia A. O’Brien is an etiquette consultant on the North Shore who runs Manners, Please. She thinks handwritten thank you notes will survive among certain sets.

“In the business world and among more affluent people, it is here to stay,” she said.

“An e-mail or text message is perfectly fine to send immediately after a job interview or gift, but it should be followed up by the written/printed note.

E-mails and text messages are deleted and out of the receiver’s mind in an instant, whereas a written note will sit

Though not as prevalent as before, the handwritten thank you note should survive

on a desk, be seen and re-read.”

Emily Post, famous for writing about etiquette, was an avid proponent of thank you notes, especially handwritten ones. The Emily Post Institute offers several articles on thank you notes on www.emilypost.com, from how to teach kids of different age groups to when different kinds of thank you notes should be sent. For example, a wedding thank you note should be sent within three months of receiving the gift.

Going hand-in-hand with thank you notes is penmanship. While most schools on the North Shore still introduce cursive writing, the scope of instruction has changed. More time is devoted to developing keyboarding skills, as the mode of communication is increasingly technological.

Wilmette Public School District 39 teaches keyboarding in second grade; cursive is introduced in third grade.

The district’s administrator for Curriculum and Instruction Melanie Goffen Horowitz said, “This type of debate surfaces frequently in education, and you will often find educators lining up on both sides.”

Former Montessori teacher and published writer Rebecca Makkai Freeman of Lake Forest said Montessori students are taught cursive before print and can learn calligraphy once they master cursive. Being able to ornament their work instills a sense of pride that they were able to create something from their imagination and not from a computer, she says.

“I can trace back my emotional connection to writing with this feeling of ownership,” said Freeman. “I felt really connected to it, and that certainly must have had an impact on what I chose to do with my life.”

Says Ingrid L. Wiemer, principal at Everett School in Lake Forest, “I write students handwritten notes from time to time recognizing them or thanking them. I often write in cursive to the older students to stretch them to read it!” ■

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NEWS DIGEST REVIEW Highland Park Fourteen Highland Park High School students are participating in the first “Artist in Residence” program for HPHS FOCUS on the Arts 2013.

HPHS alumnus, film editor and producer Bradley Ross is spearheading a filmmaking project that will produce five documentaries. Some of these documentaries will premiere at FOCUS’ Movie Night on Friday April 5. Residing in New York, Ross meets with the students and Tim Conway, the faculty advisor for the project, by Skype weekly.

Lake Forest Breast surgeon/oncologist Tara Breslin has been named medical director of the breast care program at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital and has joined the staff of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation.

She has performed more than 1,500 surgeries in her 13-year career and her research has been widely published in health journals and publications.

Wilmette Beverly and Marshall Fleischman along with Kathy Lerner in the Wilmette office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, have been named outstanding award winners for January, according to Karen Arenson, managing broker of the Wilmette office.

In January, Beverly and Marshall Fleischman received recognition for being the top agents in both the number of homes sold and the dollar volume amount sold (contracts written).

Also presented with an award for her exceptional achievement of highest closed dollar volume was Kathy Lerner.

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Wilmette The 7th annual Going Green Matters Community Fair will take place Sunday, March 10 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Wilmette, 930 Greenleaf Ave. Learn about saving energy, lowimpact gardening and landscaping, green home products and more from over 100 exhibitors and sponsors. Stop by the “Let’s Talk” area to meet with Village policy makers and ask questions or share ideas.

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As Holly Rozner approached her 70th birthday, there was one gift she wanted above all — to publish a book she had started writing nearly a quarter century before.

“I said, ‘I don’t want this to die on the floor of my closet.

I’d rather let it die on Amazon,’ “ the Glencoe resident related.

Today, the novel “Trade Secrets” has been downloaded more than 25,000 times (mainly free of charge) on Kindle and enjoys a strong sales ranking among thrillers on Amazon.com since its October debut.

The story draws upon Rozner’s career owning a seat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Part of it focuses on the stock market crash in October, 1987, which she witnessed firsthand.

“I saw people lose all of their money and others make a fortune in a few days,” recalled Rozner, who was involved in the index and option market. “That was quite a drama.”

A little too much drama, in fact, for the theatre major from Northwestern University. She decided to lease her seat soon after the tumult and write a novel about being one of the few women on the floor. Then, in 1989, workings at the Merc and the Chicago Board of Trade exploded onto front pages, prompted by an FBI sting. Twenty traders pled guilty. That provided more grist for the book.

“I was so intrigued,” said Rozner over a breakfast of a poached egg, toast and coffee at Country Kitchen in Highland Park. ‘I went to one of the trials. It was so fascinating. One day I thought they were all guilty – the next day I thought they were innocent.”

After procuring a New York agent, the novel — then titled “Open Positions” — drew interest from Simon & Schuster. Thinking she was on the verge of a hit, she was stunned when an editor rejected it by explaining, “This is a woman’s book, and they don’t know anything about the stock market.”

Dejected, she put aside the book for about two decades before reworking it and spending about $20,000 to publish it. “Trade Secrets” — the story of two female traders — was recently featured in Crain’s Chicago Business.

Still, she knows it’s not perfect. “There are errors in the book that drive me crazy,” said Rozner. And her beloved grandchildren can’t read it yet — because of the sex scenes.

“I used sex to move the clock forward, not the way ’50 Shades of Grey’ was.

Unlikely people get involved with each other — it’s a trigger in the plot,” she said.

Rozner grew up in Hyde Park and attended the private Faulkner School For Girls until high school graduation, when she was class valedictorian. After a year at University of Michigan (“I was the singular person who did not like Michigan — it was too big for me”) she transferred to Northwestern. Rozner has worked at both New Trier High School and Highland Park High School, where she taught a speech class.

Her interest in writing was spurred when, as a certified public accountant, she was assigned to write about the taxation of trusts.

“It was compelling. It was fun to be buried in the research,” she said.

Ironically, Rozner had bought the seat on the Merc in the 1980s never intending to use it. She wanted to lease it and make money that way. But she couldn’t find a taker.

“I was losing money because interest rates (on loans) were so high,” she said. “So I went down there. I’d go around at first and watch them screaming – I didn’t know what they were doing.”

She stumbled onto the index and option pit, filled with only 50 people rather than hundreds. She loved learning about options and became so adept that she made money during the ’87 crash.

The septuagenarian — who is hoping “Trade Secrets” can be optioned to Hollywood — is working on her next book about a woman who is betrayed by her children. The theme is similar to a movie she loves, “Mildred Pierce,” which featured Joan Crawford in an Academy-Award-winning performance.

But the recently minted life master in bridge knows she needs motivation to complete it.

“It’s so easy not to write,” she said. “I can be distracted by anything.” ■ Holly Rozner

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Glencoe Historical Society Annual Dinner The Steinback Residence | 859 Valley Rd., Glencoe | 6:30pm | Tickets $60 at door Email to rsvp@glencoehistory.com The Glencoe Historical Society annual dinner will honor Peggy Hamil, executive director of the Glencoe Public Library and recipient of the 2013 Shubart Award for Outstanding Community Service. Enjoy a special President-themed dinner and a special program about the venue home, presented by owner Adam Steinback. The William Wood Turner House was built in 1926 and is on the Glencoe Registry of Historic Homes.

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Under the direction of Wayne Mell, Citadel Theatre Company presents “God of Carnage.” As winter wears thin, so will the tempers of the characters presented on Citadel’s Stage. Yasmina Reza’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful play depicts, through savage and cutting comedy, a darker side of the human condition.

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Soup’s on at inaugural Art Center event by jenna schubert The Art Center of Highland Park will host its first Soup & Art Night event Wednesday, Feb. 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The evening is open to families from Highland Park and Highwood who belong to Family Network and will include a complimentary dinner of soups, salads, bread, and dessert. Families will also enjoy art activities and live music from The Music Institute of Chicago.

Sunset Foods will provide the soup for the event, and artists will use the remaining soup cans to create uniquely embellished art items. Those items will be up for auction at The Art Center’s annual Spring 2013 Gala, “Celebrate Art…Canvas, Cocktails, & Cuisine,” which will take place on Thursday, May 2. Past galas have featured embellished cigar boxes, blank canvases, vintage glove molds, plates, and more.

Based in Highland Park and Highwood, Family Network supports local parents by providing a variety of services– from parent-child programs and parenting consultations to after-school activities and dual language services. The organization also plans special events for the community, such as family picnics and children’s concerts.

The Soup & Art Night is one of many events hosted by The Art Center. As a not-for-profit community art center, it is provides art education for local people of all ages. Each year, The Art Center holds more than 400 classes and workshops, taught by 60 teachers. The center also plans 18 exhibits and the annual Festival of Fine Craft, which is attended by more than 20,000 people. ■

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Whether it’s been five years, 10 years or 30 years, can you remember the advice you got before your wedding?

I do but little of it has done me any good.

I remember the saleslady telling me to add as many items to my wedding gift registry as I could muster so that even the worst procrastinator wouldn’t have to freelance when shopping for us. She urged me to avoid the mistake that netted her a crystal buffalo from a generous and no doubt well-meaning distant relative.

And there was the volunteer at my church-mandated pre-wedding counseling who discouraged my husband and I from comparing each other to our parents, especially when we’re angry.

I remember a former colleague, happily married for decades, telling me that no

matter what she was doing on any particular day, she invariably made time to change into a clean shirt, wash her face, and reapply her make-up before her husband returned from work. She always greeted him with a fresh appearance.

My long-time friend Susie recalled the popular adage, “Never go to bed angry.”

But she added recently, “But sometimes you are angry because you are both exhausted.

Go to sleep!”

And my friend Annie will not forget her conversation with her mother only moments before she walked down the aisle in 2011: “Are you sure you want to do this?” (It’s a family tradition; Annie’s grandmother asked the same of Annie’s mother on her wedding day.)

I don’t remember any crystal mammals

that crossed the threshold to my home, and I’m absolutely certain that I’ve never applied fresh makeup for dinner in my own kitchen. But should I? Does my inability to find time for make-up in between wiping yogurt off the kitchen table and updating my employer’s Twitter account make me a substandard wife?

Even more basic: What makes a woman a good wife?

I shouldn’t be surprised that a Web search returned dozens of articles with the heading “how to be a good wife” or “how to be a good husband.” After disregarding the ones that were unhelpful, I turned to WikiHow.com for questions. A wiki, you’ll note, allows users to modify the content – kind of like putting too many cooks in the kitchen. For my purpose, however, it was exactly what I was hoping for.

A staggering 68 users contributed to the article “Three Ways to be a Good Wife.”

The list includes: Communicate effectively. The article advises women to express their feelings and needs using “I” messages, pick their battles, and talk to their spouses, rather than about their spouses. Admit when you are wrong.

Prioritize your sex life. Kissing passionately and accepting your body lead to greater intimacy, which expresses the strength and depth of your love for your spouse when words can’t or don’t.

Other best practices (I did not make up this ridiculously vague heading). Having realistic expectations and managing stress responsibly are legitimate, but I’m having a hard time with the advice “Win your husband through his stomach…Try to cook every day.” One of the most loving marriages I’ve ever known was shared by two

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In contrast, only 14 users contributed to “Three Ways to be a Good Husband.”

Be a man of principle. Respect, chivalry, honesty and fidelity were helpful.

Show affection. “Find little ways to

“A staggering 68 users contributed to the article ‘Three Ways to be a Good Wife’… in contrast, only 14 users contributed to ‘Three Ways to be a Good Husband.’ ” make her feel great” and “show support in her honest endeavors” were good reminders of things it takes to be a good friend, not only a spouse. Though it sounds like a deodorant ad, the final item underscored the importance of regular date nights and the significance of anniversaries: “Put the ‘man’ back in romance.”

Put it all together. Trust her completely, reveal your personality, take pride in your appearance and consider the Golden Rule.

Think you can do better? Email the best advice you’ve given or received to Joanna@ northshoreweekend.com, and I’ll share it in a future column. ■ Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown can be reached at Joanna@northshoreweekend.com

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■ by katie rose mceneely Juan Ruelas is a chef working at Trifecta Grill in Winnetka along with his sous-chef and brother, Mario. Juan answered the questions with Mario’s assent.

Years cooking? I’ve been cooking since 1996.

Did you cook growing up? I started in a restaurant in Chicago, cooking pasta in an Italian restaurant. I spent two months working as a dishwasher—worked my way up the line. Mario started as a dishwasher too — he took a little more time, but he likes to prep food. He’s probably been cooking 14 years. He came up to prep and he’s been prepping because that’s what he likes.

The funny thing is, when I started

working in the kitchen, I really liked it. We didn’t cook at home. A chef started showing me a lot of things, starting from the basics.

The more I learned, the more it got interesting for me and I got more into it.

Best advice? Have passion. Doesn’t matter if you have knives or equipment, but if you have passion, everything will come together, and you will love your job.

Favorite dish on the menu? My favorite is the tuna appetizer, because I love tuna. It’s my favorite fish. We serve it really rare with pickled cucumber and honey mustard — it’s really good for summer when it’s hot outside.

Favorite food to make? When I cook at home, I like pasta. It’s probably because when I started working in the kitchens, I

kept the bones and the carrots, but I got rid of the broth. It was my fifth day working at restaurant.

How’s working with a sibling?

I’ve been working with my brother Mario pretty much since we started. He’s a really good helper, and I trust him. He does whatever needs to happen for success. I know a lot of people don’t like to work with brothers, but with him I get along really well. He helps me out and backs me up. He makes my job much easier.

What are you proudest about at Trifecta?

I can put my ideas on food and what I know into the menu. I can do specials and basically it’s a part of me in the menu. I worked with Italian food. When I do a party, really have passion for the kitchen; I came I make it with some cream sauce or a cold from a big company, and it’s really different. pasta for summer.

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by Jean Wright, President/Broker Owner CRS,GRI HOME MAINTENANCE TIPS For all you happy homeowners, maintenance of your property is a must. Whether it’s your first or fifth home, remembering to perform routine maintenance tasks in your home can help you avoid big problems later on, by taking care of the areas of your home that are most likely to have small problems from routine use. With simple maintenance and regular checks, you’re good to go! Happy home owning!

Be aware of life spans for your home.

Below are some ballpark figures for the life spans of some of the things in your new house. Make sure that you know when each of these items was installed or serviced, so that you can make sure you plan ahead for repairs that may be headed down the pike.

Furnace: 15-50 years Water Heater: 7-15 years Roof: 13-15 years Keep the wet out.

Water is a natural enemy of your home. Check each season for any signs of water damage. Loose flashing can let water seep under a roof or inside walls which can turn to mold, so that is the number one thing to check.

Get to the bottom of things.

Check your home’s foundation for cracks or gaps that can let in water or critters or indicate settling. This can indicate possible damage and doing any major landscaping work can also cause changes to the ground’s pitch that allows water to flow toward the house.

Look UP! Chimneys take a lot of abuse from the weather. Visually inspect them each year for signs of loose mortar or bricks. Have the inside of the chimney cleaned every two or three years. Also check your roof for loose shingles and dangling gutters.

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34 | business main street Northwestern’s genetic center is global leader in innovative research ■ by

bob gariano

Much has been made of the development of digital information technology over the last two decades.

Cell phones, Internet connectivity, massive centralized data bases, and satellite communications have all changed our world. During the same 20 years another information technology has rapidly emerged. It is, if anything, even more complex and revolutionary.

It is molecular rather than electronic and its invention was natural not manmade. The emergence of genetic engineering and research has revealed a natural system that sometimes makes our own digital management of information look

somewhat primitive.

In the mid-1990s Craig Venter and his team of researchers at the Institute for Genomic Research completed the first entire genomic sequencing of a free living organism, the rather mundane microbe known as H. influenzae. This microscopic rod shaped single cell bacterium was mistakenly considered to be the cause of human influenza until 1933. A member of Venter’s research team had been studying the genetics of the organism and it became a natural subject for their enquiry.

In spite of its tiny scale, each H. influenzae was found to have a genome that consisted of almost 2 million base pairs of DNA in a single circular chromosome. This chromosome contained 1740 protein coding

genes, 58 transfer RNA genes, and 18 other RNA genes. This genome is a complex and comprehensive chemically encoded data base of information that allows the bacteria to pass on its characteristics to succeeding generations while adapting to new influences in the environment. Venter’s team used a sequencing protocol known as whole genome shotgun and the results of their work were published in Science in 1995.

The 1990s brought other historic progress in genetic research, these discoveries occurred in diverse fields. Early in the decade, the human genome project was initiated to map the entire human genetic code. In 1993 genetically engineered crops were first introduced as commercial products for agricultural application. Later in the decade, DNA began to have wide spread use as a tool for criminal investigations. In 1997, the media reported that the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, had been cloned two years earlier from a single adult somatic cell at the Roslin Institute in the United Kingdom. It raised a firestorm of conjecture and debate.

During the late 1990s, medical researchers at Northwestern University were planning a major genetic research center here in Chicago. The Center for Genetic Medicine was founded in 2000 and it has emerged as a global leader in the field. The center is a collaboration among Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Lurie Children’s Hospital.

The center includes more than 140 faculty members from 19 university and hospital departments across these institutions.

Northwestern’s Center for Genetic Medicine is known throughout the world for innovative and practical research into the fundamental genetic mechanisms of human disease. For instance, one initiative, the NUgene Project, has established a collection of genetic and medical records from 20,000 volunteers to provide researchers with a bank of information about diseases and their genetic causes. Another resource, the Transgenic and Targeted Mutagenesis Laboratory (TTML) offers services to study the cryo-preservation and recovery of mouse embryos.

The Center for Genetic Medicine is also committed to improving public understanding of these new technologies. The Silverstein Lecture Series, made possible by grants from the Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein Medical Research Fund for Genetic Medicine, twice a year brings experts from around the world to speak here on the North Shore. This past week, Marc Williams, the director of the Geisinger Health System Genomic Medicine Institute, was at the Northwestern Evanston campus discuss personal genome sequencing and how it can change the future of healthcare. ■ Main Street columnist Bob Gariano can be reached at bob@northshoreweekend.com

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Joanna Rolek, executive director of the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce, started the North Shore Home, Health & Business Expo as a home and garden show in 1989.

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The Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce will offer more than 100 booths — where attendees can browse products and ask questions — during the 18th North Shore Home, Health & Business Expo at Deer Path Middle School on March 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“In this increasingly virtual world, businesses are looking for the most effective means for reaching their consumers,” said Joanna Rolek, executive director of the chamber. “They like the idea of having the face-to-face contact, being able to create a relationship and establishing trust.”

Free admission allows people to browse around, ask questions and see new products. Rolek describes it as a “professional show and tell.” Home experts will be available to discuss restoration, landscaping, interior design and remodeling. Amongst them is landscape designer Rene Heynssens of Heynssens + Grassman and Grace Ragsdale of Ragsdale Inc., which provides painting and decorating.

This year, there is a particular focus on health and wellness, as the Village of Lake Bluff has declared March 2 “Community Wellness Day.” Major sponsors Rosalind Franklin University and Health System and Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group will offer an array of presentations, including osteoporosis and blood pressure screenings and nutritional information.

Fitness businesses and a mental health agency will be represented as well.

“We’re trying to promote wellness education to the community,” said Dr. Julie McLaughlin from the McLaughlin Chiropractic Clinic. She will be conducting a full screening — resting heart rate, blood pressure, percent body fat, core flexibility, strength testing and posture evaluation — and placing those values in a wellness score like a “grade on your health.”

Rolek started the expo as a home and garden show in 1989 when she was with Griffith, Grant and Lackie Realtors, and it even won an award from Better Homes and Gardens in 1995. In 2000, she wanted to bring it on board at the chamber, only this time embracing all types of businesses, creating a true expo. It ran until 2005 until the chamber decided not to compete with the bigger home show companies coming in to Lake County. After a seven-year break, the expo is back by popular demand, with organizations spanning from the arts to travel to massage therapy.

“Our mission is to work side by side with businesses and work for their vitality, so we’re thrilled to do this again,” said Rolek.

Attendees have the chance to win door prizes and enter a drawing for a $1,000 shopping spree in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff. There will be free onsite parking at the school, and for those who want to take the train in, the chamber has sponsored a trolley that will do a circuit to and from the expo. ■ For m ore inform a t i on , vi sit www.lflbchamber.com or call 847-234-4282.

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36 | sports Clinch &

shout Loyola wins Chicago Catholic North title with rip-roaring win over Chargers ■ by

kevin reiterman

Vocal chords may have been strained, but there were no broken hands to report.

Enter the visitors’ locker room, nestled in the basement at St. Joseph High School.

Hear the ruckus. Feel the roar.

It was party time for the Loyola Academy boys basketball team, which held on to defeat the host Chargers 43-42 on Feb. 15 to clinch the Chicago Catholic North championship.

During a wild night in Westchester, the red-hot Ramblers (20-5, 9-2) — winners of 13 straight games — let their emotions run … well, wild.

“I thought we came out tremendously focused,” | Tom Livatino Standing outside the doorway of the locker room, here’s what you heard: singing (the Loyola Fight Song) and banging (hands slapping against lockers).

Loud. Raucous. “We’ve brought back the Loyola Fight Song. We sing it after every game,” said LA head coach Tom Livatino.

“These kids are establishing a legacy of their own. Singing that song is a tribute to past teams at Loyola.”

“It’s a tradition — now,” junior guard Chris Sullivan added. “It feels good every time we sing it.”

The clanging?

“That’s coach Mike Sneed’s idea,” said Livatino. “He likes the noise.”

On the court, the game’s top noisemaker was Loyola’s Jack Morrissey.

Loyola Academy’s Richie Wehman, Chris Sullivan, Austin Morton and Jack Bryne (being drenched) celebrate their conference title with sparkling grape juice in the St. Joseph locker room on Feb. 15.

photography by j.geil It was Jack being Jack.

The junior sharpshooter got into one of his zones in quarters No. 1 and No. 2, when he erupted for 22 of his game-high 24 points by hitting five of six from beyond the three-point arc.

“It was all about getting into a rhythm,” said Morrissey, “Being aggressive, moving without the ball and looking for a shot.”

Morrissey’s hot shooting allowed the Ramblers to take a 31-23 advantage into halftime.

“I thought we came out tremendously focused,” said Livatino. “St. Joe is St. Joe and they have some ridiculously good talent. Four or maybe even five of their guys

Trevians unable to lock up league title ■ by

bill mclean

Midway through the fourth quarter of the Maine South-New Trier boys basketball game last weekend, Maine South’s raucous visiting fans chanted, “Let’s play football!”

Maine South’s Hawks were up by a “safety” (41-39) at the time, in a highly anticipated battle for the Central Suburban League South title on Feb. 15.

Perhaps Trevians senior forward Steven Cook’s blocking ability got them in a grid

mood. But the 6-foot-3 Cook erased Hawks shots, not linemen.

“I don’t care who you are if you try to go 1-on-1 against Steven,” NT coach Scott Fricke said. “He’s going to block your shot.”

Cook swatted seven shots. Each block simultaneously muffled Maine South’s faithful and erupted New Trier’s faithful.

Nobody, though, could prevent Maine South’s fans — clad mostly in head-to-toe black — from rushing the court to celebrate after the Hawks’ 49-46 overtime victory.

will be high majors (college players). To beat them, especially here, was a challenge.” In the second half, Morrissey the Marked Man was hounded on defense and he cooled off.

Ramblers junior guard James Clarke (10 points, seven rebounds) and two guys named Sullivan — Matthew and Chris — stepped up in the second half.

In the final five minutes, senior center Matthew Sullivan pulled down a couple of key defensive rebounds and made the assist of the night when he fed Clarke on a backdoor pass to put LA ahead 43-40 with 4:45 left to play.

Chris Sullivan, meanwhile, came off the bench and knocked down a huge three early

in the fourth quarter.

“My teammates trusted me. I had to step up. Take the shot. Make the shot,” said Sullivan.

Sullivan’s other big play on this big stage was diving on the floor for a loose ball at midcourt on a long rebound.

“Every guy on our team would’ve done that,” said Sullivan.

Defense essentially won the game. The Chargers (15-11, 9-3), who will share second place in the Chicago Catholic North with St. Ignatius, scored only two points in the final 6:08 of the game. Horton had his 15-footer from the right corner rim out at the buzzer. ■

“That was a very good high school basketball game,” said Fricke, whose club (23-5, 8-2) lost in OT to Maine South (25-3, 9-1) in the teams’ first meeting.

The hosts raced to a 13-2 lead, getting five consecutive points from Cook (10 points) in a 32-second span. South answered with an 8-0 run and suddenly it was, “Game on.”

The visitors led 25-23 at the break and appeared to be in control when they went up 37-28 at 2:36 of the third quarter. NT got right back in it, thanks to a trey and field goal from senior forward Stas Banas (13 points) followed by a pair of free throws from senior point guard Reid Berman with 0:00 on the clock.

A flu-ridden Berman fouled out with 1:02 left in the fourth quarter and his team leading 43-41.

“He couldn’t practice at all (last week),” Fricke said. “But he played like a champion tonight.

“He can’t even walk right now,” the coach added.Each team scored only six points in the fourth quarter. NT senior reserve forward Aaron Rosen and junior reserve guard Ricky Samuelson tallied the six, with Samuelson netting four of them.

“Those two did some nice things for us,” Fricke said.

Rosen (six points) nailed a three-pointer in OT, paring Maine South’s advantage to 47-46. The Hawks hit two free throws in the final 19 seconds and Rosen’s three-point attempt rimmed out at the buzzer. “(Rosen) took a good shot; I’ll take a shot like that from him in any game. He was great tonight.”

New Trier got the No. 3 seed in the Class 4A Glenbrook North Sectional. The Trevians will play either No. 14 Lane Tech or No. 19 Schurz in a St. Patrick Regional semifinal on Feb. 26. ■

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One twine night Welch, Panthers turn in standout performance, win regional crown ■ by

bill mclean

Regina Dominican’s girls basketball players received permission to wear their hoops jerseys at school on Feb. 14.

The rest of the student body had to don polo shirts because of the school’s classroom dress code.

The athletes’ fashion statement was an attentiongrabber and it essentially screamed, “Watch us play in Norridge tonight!”

Regina’s Panthers faced St. Viator’s Lions for the Class 3A Ridgewood Regional title on Valentine’s Day. Hours after distinguishing themselves in hallways in Wilmette, Regina’s girls stood out on a basketball court before a vocal contingent of Panthers fans and netted a 51-41 victory.

“We’re going to wear our jerseys to school again tomorrow,” Regina senior guard Lindsey Welch said after scoring 14 points, grabbing eight rebounds and collecting three steals.

“We played with energy tonight, and when that’s there we all get excited and benefit from it.”

Welch’s all-out hustle for a lengthy offensive rebound kept a key possession alive midway through the fourth quarter, after Viator had hit a trey to cut Regina’s lead to 41-35. She skidded near midcourt to secure the basketball and then passed it to a teammate.

“Lindsey does so many things for us, and she always plays with a very stoic, determined look,” second-year Regina coach Kerry Durham said.

“All of our girls,” she added, “played with grit, heart and determination tonight.”

Third-seeded Regina (21-8), a six-win team last winter, was scheduled to face 10th-seeded North Chicago in a Vernon Hills Sectional semifinal on Feb. 19.

While breaking down Regina’s effort in the program’s second regional championship in four years and 12th in program history, Durham received a piece of one of the nets from a beaming Panther. The

coach knew exactly where it would hang for a while.

“On my keychain,” she said.

Welch said she’d place her victory twine under her pillow for an indefinite number of nights.

“I’ll probably do the same thing,” said Regina senior Erin Gavin, who scored all of her game-high 17 points after the first quarter and had three steals.

Viator appeared sleepy at the outset, falling behind 8-2 at 5:10 of the first quarter. But the Lions from Arlington Heights scored eight points in the final 4:30 and trailed only 12-10 heading into the second quarter.

Gavin poured in Regina’s first six points of the second quarter and senior Caroline Adamczyk capped the scoring in the first half by drilling a three-pointer with eight seconds left.

Regina led by 10 points twice in the third quarter and enjoyed its biggest advantage (39-27) at 7:27 of the fourth quarter.

“This was one of our goals, winning a regional,” Gavin said. “We all decided last summer that we were going to work hard and play together. We’ve cleaned up a lot of things since the summer, and our defense has really improved.”

Welch noted the team gained valuable game experience throughout a summer camp at Marquette University.

Durham noticed steady success from her Panthers in the offseason, as well as their ability to “buy in,” particularly on defense.

“My defensive system is a difficult one because a lot of it has to do with getting a feel for the game at that end of the floor,” said Durham, also a Cook County probation officer. “I’m proud of the way we played tonight and the sheer determination we showed. That was a dogfight and we played as hard as we possibly could.”

Regina sophomore Maeve Degnan finished with 11 points and eight boards, while classmate Maggie Palmer blocked two shots and collected two steals. ■

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Lake Forest High School’s Katherine McKeon swings through her uneven bars routine at the state meet on Saturday.

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‘Taking it all in’ ■ by

bill mclean

Before the final tumbling pass of her stellar gymnastics career at last weekend’s girls state gymnastics meet at Palatine High School, Kylie Carlson took a deep breath.

The Lake Forest High School senior also made sure to do something else near the end of her floor exercise routine in the championship finals on Feb. 16.

Lake Forest’s Carlson, McKeon savor final routines at state

“I told myself, ‘Take it all in, take it all in,’ ” Carlson said of the atmosphere, which included bleachers packed with spectators and screams of encouragement from her teammates.

The three-time state floor medalist then executed the pass and completed the routine shortly thereafter. The music stopped.

Cheers ensued.

Carlson then exited, stage left — make that, mat left — to receive a series of hugs

from coaches, teammates and competitors from other teams. The best all-arounder in school history would finish third in the event (9.625), after finishing second, second and third on floor at her first three state meets.

“On a podium, with a medal around her neck — what a perfect way for Kylie to end her career,” said Lake Forest coach Robin Straus, who was named Illinois High School Girls Gymnastics Coaches

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Association coach of the year in her 34th and final year as a Scouts coach.

“Kylie’s floor routines (in prelims and finals) were gorgeous both nights,” she added. “What a great night (Feb. 16); our team’s two strongest routines resulted in medals.”

Senior Kat McKeon earned the Scouts’ other state medal after performing a 9.35 routine on the uneven bars, clean enough for fifth place. It was the second straight state meet in which she had to go first on bars — for many, the least enviable slot.

“It didn’t bother her at all,” Straus said. “When she found out the order, she shrugged and said, ‘That’s OK.’ ” McKeon capped her career with a flawless double-back dismount.

“I love that skill on bars,” said McKeon, who placed fourth at state on the balance beam as a sophomore. “I choked up a little bit (after the dismount). I cried, but they were happy tears.”

Carlson and McKeon, along with their teammates, made Straus beam throughout the state prelims on Feb. 15. The Scouts had entered the eight-team state meet ranked eighth, based on their at-large score of 142.45 at the Stevenson Sectional on Feb. 7.

But they vaulted a pair of teams to place sixth with a 143.675-point total.

Carlson tied for eighth place (37.275) and McKeon finished 14th (37) in the all-around on the first night of the state meet.

“The kids, all of them, did everything they set out to do,” Straus said. “They knew what to expect and focused on what they needed to do.”

Senior Carly Schmidt, junior Brittany Moccia and sophomores Laura Blake and Tabby Jeffers also competed for a program that had advanced to state for a fourth straight year.

The Vanderbilt-bound Carlson will graduate as the only Scouts gymnast to perform for four state teams. She upped her individual state medal haul to five last weekend.

But individual glory has always meant very little to Carlson, and her words backed that up after her final routine at state.

“What I’ll miss the most about gymnastics is the feeling of going out there and competing for my team,” an emotional Carlson said. ■

That’s a wrap: New Trier’s Scafidi earns two state medals ■ by

bill mclean

It was impossible to miss New Trier High School’s gymnasts as they marched in on the first day of last weekend’s state meet at Palatine High School.

Each wore a green, blue and yellow plaid scarf. Tobey Scafidi, Trevians senior Kerry Scafidi’s mother, had purchased the neckwear and handed the scarves out to the team on Feb. 15.

“My mom wanted to contribute something to my team in my final season,” Kerry said.

Kerry Scafidi got to wear other things — significantly heavier things — around her neck the next day: two state medals.

She bowed for a fourth-place medal in the all-around (37.825) and earned another fourth-place award after performing a 9.55 floor-exercise routine.

“I did not expect to go 4-for-4,” she said a night after hitting all four of her routines in the state preliminaries on Feb. 15. “My mindset on the first day was to help the team.”

Her team ended up in fourth place (145.375), a year after NT placed eighth at state. Trevians coach Jennifer Pistorius knew Scafidi had finished in the top 10 in the all-around as soon as Scafidi hit her vault — the Trevians’ final event in the prelims.

“I looked at the results in the all-around (from behind an official at the scorer’s table) before they were announced,” Pistorius said. “I then tried to get Kerry’s mom’s attention in the stands. I sent her some hand signals. She thought my ‘four’ signal referred to our team’s place. But one of Kerry’s brothers, sitting near Tobey, figured it out that I was relaying Kerry’s allaround finish.

“Kerry,” she added, “had a great weekend.”

Scafidi’s all-around state finish ranks second in program history behind Kathie Orwig’s runner-up showing in 1985. The last Trevian to medal in an event at state was Julie Gaynes, who placed fourth on the balance beam in ’09.

“To end with a bang, that was kind of

nice,” Scafidi said after the last routine of her prep career; her 9.55 floor score was 0.025 higher than her prelim score and boosted NT’s team score.

Scafidi nailed her first floor pass — a double-back pike — both nights.

“It made a good thud,” Pistorius said of the sound Scafidi produced when she landed the pass perfectly in the prelims.

compliments from other coaches.

“Our plan for the day was to keep it simple and take it one trick at a time.”

Benishay finished 25th in the all-around (35.875). Freshman Taylor Kwok also competed at state for New Trier, as the Trevians’ lead-off vaulter.

Scafidi hasn’t made her college choice, but she wants to compete at the next level.

“My mindset on the first day was to help the team.” | Kerry Scafidi Scafidi also placed eighth at state on the uneven bars (9.025).

Scafidi, NT juniors Elana Benishay and Stephanie Steen, and sophomores Claire Egerter and Samantha Stoddart hit their beam routines to highlight the Trevians’ team effort in the prelims.

“Absolutely wonderful,” Pistorius said of the 5-for-5 display. “Our kids got a lot of

While sitting in the stands in Palatine’s main gym, moments after descending a podium following the presentation of floor awards, she reflected on her prep career — and the team’s thoughtful scarf giver.

“My mom,” Scafidi said, “was always there for me, was always there to give me a pat on the back.” ■

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During a postgame interview, Teri Rodgers, a psychology teacher at New Trier High School, reached into her handbag and pulled out a basketball net.

There it was … old, worn, limp … the prop of the night.

The Trevians’ head girls basketball coach had used the net — a “trophy” from a previous championship — as a pregame visual, before her team took on higherseeded Loyola Academy in an IHSA Class 4A regional title game on Feb. 14.

Prior to her team’s trip to Mather High School, Rodgers took the twine out of her office and stuffed it into her bag.

Read: Show-and-tell project.

“I showed it to them before the game,” the veteran coach said. “Then, I told them this is how you do it. This is how you properly cut down a (victory) net.”

It worked … like a PowerPoint training video.

The No. 5 seeded Trevians (16-14) then went out and pulled off a mild upset over No. 4 Loyola 42-33.

The net result: This was New Trier’s first regional title since the 2008-09 season and 19th all-time.

This was a particularly good night for

New Trier senior Carrie Rodman. She not only advanced in the Three-Point Showdown along with senior teammate Marisa Fear, but she arguably played her best game of the season.

“One of my favorite things is seeing a player work and work and work and then get rewarded,” said Rodgers. “It’s so nice when it’s validated in that way.

“Carrie has been an unbelievable leader for us,” the coach added. “And she gives us every ounce of effort.”

Rodman, a three-year starting center fielder for the NT varsity softball team, was at the top of her game during the third quarter when she netted seven of her eight points.

“I reset myself at halftime,” said the 5-foot-10 Rodman. “I reassessed what I needed to do to help the team.”

On NT’s first possession of the third quarter, Rodman scored a layup on a backdoor pass from junior point guard Megan Neuhaus.

It got better from there. She nailed a rare three-pointer with 5:39 left in the third, and then —76 seconds later — she added another bucket off a feed from Neuhaus.

“We all wanted this game badly,” said Rodman, who also had four rebounds and three assists. “We kept our focus the whole

game. We played hard for 32 minutes.”

The team’s top scorer (12 points) and rebounder (eight) was freshman Jennie Boehm. Junior guard Alexa Czyzynski added 10 points and five assists, while Neuhaus had seven points, four rebounds and three assists.

After the game, Mather didn’t bring out

a net-cutting ladder. No worries.

“We’ll find a ladder at school,” said Rodgers, hinting of a private net-cutting ceremony.

The Trevians were scheduled to play No. 1 seed Evanston in the Loyola Sectional on Feb. 19. ■

Carter Bass Lake Forest High school Boys Basketball: This four-year varsity player highlighted the Scouts (18-7) in their regular-season final win over Lake Forest Academy 49-41 on Feb. 16 at Lake Forest College. The senior forward led the team with 17 points. He also went airborne when he rattled the rim an end-of-the-game dunk.

Teammate Ben Simpson had four steals and two dunks. Dejon Brissett (16 points) and Daniel Joseph (14 points) paced LFA (13-10).

On Feb. 15, the Scouts completed their NSC Lake schedule with a 54-26 victory over Lake Zurich on Senior Night. Evan Boudreaux (17 points, eight rebounds),

Sam Downey (12 points) and Cal Miller (10 points) led the way.

Sam Shrago Highland Park Boys Basketball: He showed off his shooting range in HP’s 54-42 victory over visiting Maine West on Feb. 15, when he hit three three-pointers and finished with a team-high 11 points. With the win, the Giants (12-13 overall) finished 5-5 in the CSL North.

Maggie Nick Loyola Academy Girls Basketball: The junior standout tallied 17 points and seven rebounds in the regional championship, a 42-33 loss to New Trier on Feb. 14 at Chicago Mather.

Teammate Anna Schueler scored seven points with three rebounds and three steals, while Egan Berne pulled down nine rebounds

for the Ramblers who ended the campaign with an impressive 21-8 record. Schueler was one of four shooters to advance in the Three-Point Showdown.

Lena Munzer Highland Park Girls Basketball: The senior star tallied a game-high 27 points but it wasn’t enough as the Giants (16-11) fell 49-47 to host Grayslake North in a Class 4A regional semifinal game on Feb. 12.

A night earlier, Munzer had 24 points in her team’s 69-38 victory over Waukegan in the regional quarterfinal.

Munzer, a Yale recruit, finished the season with 662 points (24.5).

Chris Alcock New Trier Wrestling: The senior took sixth at the IHSA

Class 3A state tournament in Champaign on Feb. 16. He dropped a 4-0 decision to Plainfield Central’s Nick Nasenbeny in the 126-pound fifth-place match. Alcock went 3-2 at state to finish the season with a 31-8 record.

Ben Laedlein Highland Park Swimming: He will be swimming at the IHSA state meet this weekend at New Trier after making the state cut with a 53.67 clocking in the 100 backstroke at the Glenbrook North Sectional on Feb. 16. Laedlein also teamed up with Allen Tran, Jack Tresley and Eddie Kochman and narrowly missed winning and qualifying in the 200 medley relay. Their time of 1:40.75 is the fourth fastest time in school history. Laedlein’s time in the 200 IM (2:01.63) missed state qualification but it ranks second all-time at HPHS.

Members of the New Trier High School girls basketball team celebrate their regional title at Mather.

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Eardrums took a beating. But it was all worth it, especially for the Lake Forest High School boys swim team.

The packed crowd at Vernon Hills High School was at a fever pitch, when the meet’s final race — the 400-yard freestyle relay —turned into a high-octane, high-voltage event.

“I remember,” said Lake Forest senior Colin Rowe, “it was loud like that for the 200 medley relay three years ago, my freshman year, at the Lake Forest Sectional.

“But today … today was even louder. It was double (the sound),” he added. “And that’s saying something.”

Dangerous decibels aside, Rowe and his mates — Bogdan Balteanu, Daniel Smith and Peter Grumhaus — raced to an electrifying first-place finish (a pool-record 3:08.70).

It was just enough to beat a fast-charging Libertyville quartet, which was clocked in 3:09.06.

By winning the 400 free, the beat goes on for the Scouts.

They edged Libertyville 263-256 on Feb. 16 to win an IHSA sectional for the 16th time in school history.

“Wow! That race put an exclamation point on the meet,” said LF head coach Cindy Dell, noting that the Scouts held a one-point advantage heading into the 12th and final race of the sectional. “It was loud. It was amazing.”

Peter Grumhaus put the finishing fingerprint on the meet. In the anchor lap of the 400 free relay, the LF senior staved off Libertyville’s Matt Harrington. “ ‘Grummy’ always pulls it out,” said Rowe.

Rowe led off the race and went up against Mundelein stalwart Connor Black.

“I’m going up against a 6-foot-5 kid, who has been to the Olympic Trials and who will be swimming at Stanford,” said the 5-foot-11 Rowe, who also qualified to this weekend’s state meet at New Trier in the 100 free (2nd, 47.53),

200 free (3rd, 1:44.35) and 200 medley relay (2nd, 1:35.82) along with Smith, Grumhaus and Balteanu. “When you race, you have to forget all about that. I just try to zone in and make myself equal to the guy next to me.”

Grumhaus’ amazing season continues. In addition to the winning relays, the senior also captured first-place medals in the 200 free (1:40.61) and 500 free (4:35.31, pool record).

Balteanu advanced in two individual events: 100 free (3rd, 47.80) and 100 breaststroke (3rd, 1:00.49). Smith also made it out in the 100 back (4th, 53.28).

Scouts diver Andrew Marsh will be gunning for a state title after earning runner-up honors (453.8) to Vernon Hills’ Alex Zuniga (470.80).

Meanwhile, Peter McCormick didn’t advance in the 500 free (2nd, 4:54.36; 6th, 100 fly) but he did play a key role in the Scouts’ win. The same goes for Drew Stoll (9th, diving), Michael LeMay (6th, 200 IM; 6th, 100 fly), David Hayes (7th, 50 free), Rasmus Kull (7th, 200 IM, 6th, 100 breast) 200 free relay of Brian McKeon, Hayes, Kull and McCormick (4th).

Dell was named the VH Sectional coach of the year. ■

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New Trier junior Jae Park churns his way to a pool-record time in the 100 breaststroke at last weekend’s Glenbrook South Sectional.

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Brian Walsh undersold himself at last weekend’s Glenbrook South boys swimming and diving sectional in Glenview.

Minutes after helping New Trier High School’s victorious 400-yard freestyle relay set a pool record (3:08.44) on Feb. 16, the senior captain sounded like he had simply made a cameo appearance in a starstudded film.

“I just wanted to be part of the mix, a functioning cog,” Walsh said after the twotime reigning state champion Trevians easily captured the sectional title (372 points), set five pool records and amassed 19 statequalifying berths.

But he was much more than a bit part.

Walsh also swam on another pool-recordsetting quartet, motoring as leg No. 3 in the 200 medley relay (1:34.82), and advanced to the state meet with third-place efforts in the 200 IM (1:56.36) and 100 butterfly (51.82).

Both times in the individual events were faster than his seeds time, and he sped to two season-best relay splits. Plus he wasn’t even fully rested; Walsh figured his taper was between 30-40 percent.

“My adrenaline was real low at the start of the meet,” he admitted. “But that changed when I noticed everybody on the team was overachieving.

“This team,” Walsh added, “has the perfect mix of camaraderie and speed. It’s a perfect potion, really.”

After being encouraged to come up with a name for the concoction, Walsh delivered quickly.

“Call it ‘Coach O Speed,’ ” he said.

Coach Mark Onstott’s NT club of capwearing speedboats — and junior diver Reiker Seiffe — dominated from the start of the swim segment, bettering the previous pool-best time in the 200 medley relay by nearly two seconds. Junior Jae Park and seniors Jack Mangan and David Schriesheim collaborated with Walsh for the swift win.

Walsh, Mangan, Park and senior anchor Reed Malone swam more than three seconds faster than the previous pool mark (3:11.55) in the 400 free relay. Park supplanted two GBS pool marks all by himself on Feb. 16, while Malone set another. Park graduated from emerging standout to A-list status in the Titans’ water, touching first in the 200 IM (1:53.2) and first in the 100

LOYOLA ACADEMY At last weekend’s Glenbrook South boys swimming and diving sectional in Glenview, Loyola Academy senior Jack Considine did not have to utter, “O brother, where art thou?”

Older brother T.J. Considine, a Northwestern University water polo player, was in the stands above the Titans’ pool on Feb. 16.

Jack looked up and saw T.J. after qualifying for the state meet in the 50-yard freestyle with a fourth-place 21.65 — nearly one second faster than his seed time.

The siblings exchanged respectful nods.

“I didn’t know he’d be here,” Jack said.

But Jack Considine knew why he dropped significant time in the 50 free. The Wilmette resident and tri-captain directed his nod this time toward Ramblers coach Mike Hengelmann.

“My coach has the best taper program; he knows exactly what he’s doing,” said the 6-foot-2, 180-pound Considine, who also helped Loyola’s 200 free relay set a pool record (1:25.68) and swam on the runner-up

400 free relay (state-qualifying 3:08.78).

Hengelmann had to deal with a soaking-wet maroon team shirt for most of the sectional. It got that way from giving congratulatory hugs to his just-out-of-the pool state qualifiers.

Hengelmann unofficially gave more bear hugs at the fast sectional than Smokey the Bear executes at Wildfire Prevention conventions.

“All good kids and hard workers,” Hengelmann said of Considine and the team’s captain-heavy 200 free relay legs (freshman Christopher Kearney and senior captains Andrew Jovanovic and Blake Morgan). “Fast, that was fast.

Kearney, Considine, Morgan and Jovanovic would have sped to another pool record in the 400 free relay had New Trier High School’s Trevians been shipped to a different sectional. NT’s victorious quartet edged Loyola’s 3:08.44-3:08.78 to easily eclipse the previous GBS pool mark of 3:11.55.

“I care more about the relays than I do about individual races,” said Considine, who had qualified only as a relay member before his senior season. “Doing well (in an individual race) is a confidence-booster, but with relays you have more guys and the chance to score more points.”

Two-time reigning state champion NT established five pool marks and totaled an impressive 372 points to capture the 11-team sectional. Runner-up Loyola tallied 214 points.

Northwestern-bound Jovanovic, last year’s state champ in the 100 butterfly, won that event in a pool-record 49.91 at the sectional and later touched in a pool-record 50.33 in the 100 backstroke.

Loyola backers had another reason to applaud after the 100 back. Ramblers junior Matthew Kearney qualified for state with a fourth-place 54.41 — from the penultimate heat of the race and with a seed time of 57-flat.

Loyola’s other state-qualifying efforts came from sophomore Ryan Nash (second place, diving, 424.75 points); Morgan (fifth, 200 IM, 1:56.63; and sixth, 100 breaststroke, 59.68); and Christopher Kearney (fifth, 100 free, 47.85).

The state meet starts Friday afternoon at New Trier. The consolation and championship finals will be held on Saturday. ■

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He ranks third among state qualifiers in each event.

Malone lowered the pool record in the 200 free to 1:41.17 and won the 500 free in 4:39.22.

One of the intriguing races at the sectional was the 100 backstroke, featuring Michigan-bound Mangan and Northwestern-bound Andrew Jovanovic of Loyola Academy. Mangan silvered in the event at last year’s state meet, where Jovanovic topped the 100 butterfly field.

Jovanovic needed a pool-record 50.33 to beat Mangan’s 51.66 at the sectional.

Mangan also qualified for state in the 100 free (second place, 46.76). New Trier’s other state-qualifying efforts were: Schriesheim (second place, 50 free, 21.6); senior Denver Freeman (second, 200 free, 1:43.97; and fourth, 500 free, 4:45.08); senior David Tao (third, 50 free, 21.62; and 100 fly, fifth, 52.51); Seiffe (third, diving, 408.5 points); 200 free relay (third, 1:26.91, Tao, Schriesheim, junior Conor Fotsch and Malone); senior Murphy McQuet (fourth, 100 free, 47.61); and senior Jordan Palmer (fifth, 100 breast, 59.61).

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When in Rome Ann & Ray found much to enjoy

A number of years ago, we were part of a dinner club with three other friends. Each month, a restaurant was suggested. It was our turn to choose. We asked the others if they wanted to join us in Rome for the weekend.

As we pulled into The Grand Hotel (now St. Regis) in Rome, we encountered soldiers with machine guns at the ready. There were more in the lobby. Kurt Waldheim (once secretary general of the United Nations) was staying there.

We called a friend, the archbishop at the Vatican. He offered us tickets to an edification mass at St. Peter’s Basilica by Pope John Paul II on Saturday. It was extraordinarily exciting as we walked into St. Peter’s, and we followed an usher. We walked and walked, even past the foreign diplomats in white tie. We were sure they were going to walk us out the back door! But our seats ended up right next to the main altar.

We spent the day walking around Rome seeing some

“It was extraordinarily exciting as we walked into St. Peter’s, and we followed an usher. We walked and walked, even past the foreign diplomats in white tie.”

Ann and Ray Geraci get together at their Highland Park home. Ray, a Lake Forest College graduate who is the former mayor of Highland Park, served as the play-by-play announcer for the radio broadcast of the 1971 Super Bowl.

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sites we hadn’t seen before, such as the Forum. We went to a restaurant the archbishop had recommended that night.

The food was sensational — the waiters were all dressed in black tie, white shirts and long aprons.

On Sunday we saw the Pope again on the balcony in Vatican City. There were thousands of people there.

Afterwards, we thought Ray had gotten lost. Then we went to a restaurant we had discussed eating at. There was Ray, drinking a glass of Chianti.

That night we went to Tre Scalini, a very famous restaurant on a piazza. There were huge fountains; people sold their wares. They used to have some type of racing there in the early days. Tre Scalini is known for its great chocolate dessert.

One of the dinner club members has passed away, but the other couple we still have monthly dinners with. That weekend is still memorable for all of us. ■ Ann and Ray Geraci, as told to David Sweet

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