The North Shore Weekend EAST, Issue 81

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We ask North Shore residents to talk about what they’re reading.

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Photography is a snap for Kerri Sherman.

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High school seniors share the lengthy process of getting into college.

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local news and personalities of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, evanston, Lake Forest, Mettawa & Lake Bluff

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North Shore Weekend news 08 Moving on up

Their college choices have been made.

What are five North Shore seniors looking forward to regarding their new life that starts in the fall?

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The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Association is ready for its big event, Spring Marche.

Standout Student

Dylan Cable of New Trier High School is a distinguished mathematician in the state of Illinois. And he’s heading to a distinguished university — Stanford.

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Sunday Breakfast

Since receiving a camera on her birthday a few years back, Kerri Sherman has discovered a passion for photography.

Social whirl

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

Goings On About Towns

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

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North Shore Offerings

T wo intriguing houses in our towns are profiled.

Open Houses

Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

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Need more than the old college try to be accepted

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he world has greatly changed since Animal House’s Bluto donned a sweatshirt stitched with one memorable word to explain where he went to school.

Not Harvard, not Kenyon — not even Faber. It simply read: College.

When that 1970s film (which was set in the early 1960s) was made, even a guy like Bluto could get into college (staying there, though, was another matter). There were fewer applicants, partially because the Common Application didn’t exist, and colleges were happy to admit a large number of those who did apply. Today, it’s quite a bit different.

Stanford University set a new low this spring, admitting only 5 percent of its applicants. In other words, 95 percent of the 42,000-plus who applied were deemed unworthy to attend. According to The New York Times, only a decade ago, the University of Chicago welcomed more than 40 percent of applicants; that dropped to 8 percent this spring.

This week, we’re highlighting five high school seniors from across the North Shore who, after a rigorous process taking 18 months or more, have been accepted into high-quality colleges. Included

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CHICAGO In addition, our Standout Student, Dylan Cable 773 404 2020 of New Trier High School, has an interesting story to tell. A while back, he watched online videos created by Stanford University to learn more about computer science. Cable later achieved a perfect score on the AP Computer Science A Test — one of4.14 BSM NSW Concierge.indd 1 18 students out of 26,000 in the world to achieve the feat.

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The hardest school to gain acceptance to in the land, Stanford University.

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North Shore seniors open up about the process of getting into college ■ by bill mclean Students up and down the North Shore have one eye on finishing their senior year of high school with a flourish this spring and the other on starting college in the fall.

We asked five local collegebound students to discuss what it took to get into college — and the excitement of finding out they were accepted.

Alex Lopez Loyola Academy

• Extracurricular activities: soccer, wrestling, Arrupe Service Program, volunteer tutor at Immaculate Conception School in Chicago • College choice: University of Illinois • Intended major: mechanical engineering Why Illinois? I’d originally tried to earn an ROTC scholarship to attend another school. But this worked out really well for me, getting accepted [and earning three academic scholarships] to attend one of the best engineering programs in the country.

Describe the day you were accepted and how you reacted.

I wasn’t as shocked as I should have been. I almost took Illinois for granted, which is ridiculous.

In hindsight I should have been happier than I was when I found out [on his phone] after a wrestling practice.

Why did you choose the topic you wrote about for your college essay? I described the environment in which I was perfectly content, and mine is my church [ Immaculate Conception in Chicago]. My faith has played a phenomenal role in my interactions with people, and going to church each week has brought me closer to my parents. That one hour in church on Sundays … it makes me reflect and changes my mood for the better each week.

Describe your “This is where I want to go!” moment when you visited Illinois. I had visited

spectacularly beautiful campuses [Duke, North Carolina, Notre Dame] when I went down to Illinois. I wanted to make sure I didn’t have a negative or bad feeling about it. I didn’t. Walking along the engineering quad, I saw a bridge, a stream and two grassy hills. I told my mom it was like I was in a different world.

What was the most challenging part of the college application process? Discovering what I want to study. I tended to listen to my peers’ thoughts on what I should pursue instead of myself. I want [a career] that will combine engineering and business, and I’m comfortable with that. The college decision, think about it … it’s one of the biggest ones we’ll ever make, and we’re all making it at a young age.

What advice would you give a junior going through the college search process? If I could go back to my junior self, I’d walk up behind myself, tap myself and say, ‘Alex, it’s going to be all right.’

Work hard and be true yourself; success will likely follow.

What will you miss most about Loyola Academy? Loyola has been a second home for me, considering the relationships I’ve made with students, faculty, coaches and administrators. The people who work at Loyola Academy — so many of them — are incredibly genuine and interested in the development of students.

Halle Frain Lake Forest High School

how homey it was.

Describe the day you were accepted and how you reacted.

That day I felt such relief. From the time I applied [Oct. 15] to the day I opened the letter [Feb. 1], it seemed like such a long time. My mom was close by when I opened it at home. We both smiled and then we hugged. We were both so excited, and our dog, Duke [also the name of the school that happens to be UNC’s archrival], was going crazy because he didn’t know what was happening.

Why did you choose the topic you wrote about for your college essay? I wrote about my faith and how important it is in my life. It wasn’t that hard to write; it’s also wasn’t that easy. Writing it made me realize how lucky I am to be where I am.

Describe your “This is where I want to go!” moment when you visited North Carolina. Walking along a street on such a nice weather day [in March 2011], noticing the buildings and the kids being normal … I thought, ‘This would be perfect for me.’ I just felt it was the place I could call home.

What was the most challenging part of the college application process? The recruiting process. Before every field hockey tournament, I would write letters to all these coaches and ask them to please watch me. I also called coaches to set up interviews on campus. The third time I visited North Carolina [September 2012], the head coach [Karen Shelton] offered me a spot on the team. At that point I was so overcome with joy.

What advice would you give a junior going through the college search process? Keep all of your options open. Try to get the attention of as many schools as possible, so you have a lot of options.

What will you miss most about Lake Forest High School?

Everything. The great support I’ve had at the high school, my friends, the great teachers and all of my coaches … everything.

Michael Sernus New Trier High School • Extracurricular activities: field hockey, Student Athletic Leadership Team • College choice: University of North Carolina • Intended major: business or journalism Why North Carolina? When I was a freshman and sophomore, my mom [Patti] and I visited schools near my field hockey tournaments. Always, in the back of my mind, was, ‘UNC, UNC, UNC.’ But I never wanted to say it out loud. I loved the feel of the campus when I visited, the architecture,

• College choice: University of Dayton • Intended major: business Why Dayton? I’d been recruited for football since my junior year.

When I visited the school I could tell football and academics are both taken seriously. That was important to me.

Describe the day you were accepted and how you reacted.

I got my letter of acceptance last summer, informing me I had received a roster spot. [He signed a national letter of intent on Feb. 5]. I thought that was really cool.

Why did you choose the topic you wrote about for your college essay? I went to a Catholic grammar school (St. Joseph School in Wilmette], and I graduated from an eighth-grade class of 30 kids.

So I went from that size to a class of 1,000 at New Trier my freshman year. I wrote about the big transition I would have to make.

Describe your “This is where I want to go!” moment when you visited Dayton. I don’t remember a specific moment. The campus felt comfortable and it had a friendly atmosphere.

What was the most challenging part of the college application process? Probably having to decide on a college after getting contacted by coaches during the recruiting periods, beginning with the spring of my junior year. Eventually my gut told me to go to Dayton and I’m really happy with the decision. My brother [Anthony, a freshman in college] plays football at Denison, which isn’t too far away from Dayton.

What advice would you give a junior going through the college search process? If you’re an athlete and contacted by a school, go to the campus and meet the coaches. Establishing good relationships with coaches is important. If you get it down to a couple of schools, go with your gut feeling.

What will you miss most about New Trier High School? Friends and teachers mostly. It also was great meeting so many random people through the years. My class, we never lost a football game to [archrival] Evanston.

Emelia Karkazis Deerfield High School

• Extracurricular activities: football, religious retreat leader, New Trier Young Life

• Extracurricular activities: basketball, softball, National Honor Society, Academic Resource Center aide.

• College choice: Marquette University • Intended major: biomedical science [pre-dental scholar program] Why Marquette? It’s close to home, and Milwaukee is an awesome city. My brother [Alex, a freshman] goes there, and I want to be a dentist like my dad [Frank].

I am so excited about the opportunity to complete Marquette’s [seven-year] pre-dental program.

Describe the day you were accepted and how you reacted. I was at an airport in Orlando, getting ready to return home from [Deerfield’s] softball spring break trip. I’d applied early decision to Northwestern but was turned down [in December]. That was heartbreaking. I was in complete shock when I saw I’d been accepted [via email] into Marquette’s pre-dental program while standing in line at the airport. I just looked at the email, thinking I was dreaming.

Why did you choose the topic you wrote about for your college essay? I wrote about softball because I’ve been playing it since I was 6. So much of what I’ve learned while playing the sport [has carried over] into other parts of my life. Teamwork, putting others before yourself … things like that.

Our coach [Susan Johnson] told us before a season that her main goal for the season was to make us better people. I’ll never forget that.

Describe your “This is where I want to go!” moment when you visited Marquette. I’d been to the campus numerous times to see my brother and loved it each time I visited. It’s so inviting, so friendly, so welcoming.

What was the most challenging part of the college application process? I put all my eggs in one basket. I became completely fixated on getting into Northwestern.

What was challenging was having to rethink and start from scratch.

But the guidance counselors at my high school helped me so much when I knew I had to move on and explore other schools.

What advice would you give a junior going through the college search process? Keep your options open, take it from me. Look at every school with a new view.

Take into account what each school you’re considering has to offer and use all resources available to you at the school. At Deerfield there are so many, and I will always be thankful for all of them.

What will you miss most about Deerfield High School? Deerfield is an amazing school with amazing teachers. I’ll miss seeing the friendly faces of my friends. My class is small and there are very college >> page 20

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Artist-designed clothing a hit for duo ■ by sam eichner

Art can be abstract, hard to grasp and enigmatic — but it doesn’t have to be.

Since 2006, Kathy Sackheim and Linda Brodson’s Art wear unlimited has been dedicated to making art more accessible in the form of “wearable art”: one-of-a-kind, can’tfind-this-at-your-department-store, artistdesigned clothing and accessories.

“My goal has always been to put artists first and foremost. I think for us it’s always really paid off.” | Linda Brodson Sackheim is a former handwriting analyst, with her own needlepoint business; Brodson is a former corporate art consultant. Together, they crisscross the country in search of the most well-crafted items to feature in their bi-annual shows on the North Shore — including one this spring.

“People care how they look,” Sackheim says. “And our women in particular want to look like individuals. They don’t want look like everyone else.”

“It’s a conversation piece,” Brodson adds, referring to their items. “A feel-good piece.”

With the economy still trying to bounce back, the duo has been forced to adjust their focus, evolving from “dressy, high-end clothing,” to pieces that are “more casual.”

Though Sackheim and Brodson concede that

this has been a challenge, they’ve also had more success, which means the same for the artists they represent; while Art wear unlimited (www.artwearunlimited.com) gets a certain percentage of each sale, most of the profits go directly to the artists.

“Artists are not well treated,” Brodson says, speaking from years of firsthand experience. “My goal has always been to put artists first and foremost. I think for us it’s always really paid off. They like to work with us. We really respect their abilities and who they are.”

In this way, Sackheim and Brodson don’t look for one piece at a time; rather, they’re interested in an artist’s entire body of work, and, if they like what they see, will usually receive 20 to 40 pieces from that artist to sell at their show, which begins April 29.

Forty or so artists will be featured: Suzi Click travels around the world looking for exotic fabrics to use in her ornate, colorful pieces; South Street Linens offers stylish overcoats made from eco-friendly fabrics; another artist crafts scarves and accessories with an interesting, albeit peculiar, “dog bone” aesthetic.

The spring show, which will take place from April 29 to May 1 at Highland Park’s Lakeside Congregation, will be complete with mannequins and two or three models.

Art wear unlimited’s primary goal is to connect consumers with their select group of talented artists.

“Somebody said to me once in kind of a derogatory fashion: who does this show benefit?” Brodson recalls. “And I looked them straight in the eye and said, ‘This show benefits our artists.’ Because that’s exactly why we’re doing this.” ■

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Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Association Spring Marche committee members (from left) Ann Papesch, Monica Toczycki, Mary Samyn, Barb Moore and Tracy Barrett are getting ready for the May 1 event.

photography by george pfoertner ■ by sheryl devore When Ann Papesch of Lake Forest learned a few years ago that her 4-year-old daughter had Rett syndrome, she discovered the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Association (LDA).

When Barb Moore of Lake Bluff found out her 11-year-old son had difficulties reading several years ago, she discovered the same organization.

Both say that group gave them comfort as well as the power to help their children. Now they serve as co-presidents of the nonprofit organization, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

“Through LDA, parents, educators and professionals get together for support and education — and we provide resources for our children and each other,” said Papesch. In addition, the group raises funds to provide local schools with software and equipment to help children with learning differences.

She and Moore of Lake Bluff recalled when they first learned of their children’s special needs, they heard about IEPs — but had no idea what they were.

LDA helped them navigate through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which required schools to provide individualized education programs (IEPs) for their children.

Their children are doing well today. Papesch’s daughter just won an award for using a communication device called a Tobii.

“She uses it with her eyes. She cannot use her hands, and she cannot speak at all. It’s pretty new technology,” Papesch said.

Moore’s son, now 11, is attending Cove School in Northbrook and working one-on-one with teachers and loving it, she said.

“We are here to support each other,” said Moore about LDA. For example, “when one parent has a meeting at school about an IEP, we send other parents with them so they can take notes.”

The group also sponsors the Make a Difference Grant program, started about five years ago. Funds are raised for the program every other year at

Spring Marche, an all-day shopping and ladies’ night out event that is slated for May 1 this year.

Through the program, “we go to schools and give presentations to teachers and ask them to submit a grant request. It’s not limited,” Moore said. In November 2012, LDA funded more than $46,500 in grants to elementary, middle, junior high and high schools in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff.

Grants helped purchase physical education equipment such as a tandem bicycle for a high-school cycling course, allowing students unable to independently steer a bicycle to participate.

“Funds also pay for items that can be used in the classroom — iPads, smart boards, stand-up desks,” said Papesch. “A stand-up desk is for a child who can learn while standing — they can use what’s called a fidget board.”

Stand-up desks are designed to help students with learning differences such as attention deficit disorder and sensory integration challenges.

Interestingly, Lake Bluff and Lake Forest elementary school districts are finding that these desks are helping all their students, Papesch said.

Moore recalled that at first, some officials and parents were reluctant to use the stand-up desks.

“They didn’t want the kids to stand out as being different. But once they saw how it worked, then a lot of mainstream kids wanted it,” she said. “It helps kids pay attention more.”

Moore said LDA is now working with the Lake Forest High School Foundation and Spirit of 67 Foundation to fund items. For example, a climbing rock wall at Deer Path School was funded by the Spirit of 67 Foundation and the LDA. “It was exciting to see one of the mainstream fundraising groups say this is good for everybody,” Moore said.

Spring Marche will be held May 1 at the Lake Forest Club, 554 Westmoreland Road. It will feature a shopping boutique and silent auction from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by a ladies’ night out. For more information, visit www.lflblda.com. ■

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Michael Belsky — Highland Park’s mayor from 2003-2011 — has helped to establish a Center for Municipal Finance at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

The purpose of the center will be to produce a forum for discussion and research on major financial issues facing state and local government.

“Issues such as privatization, pension reform, government consolidation, and new revenue generation are all options to deal with fiscal stress. The Harris School is a great home to launch this type of effort,” says Belsky, who holds a master’s degree from Harris.

Secure Futures, which focuses on risk management, moved its office to Northfield from Chicago.

“It was time to move where our clients live,” says Secure Futures’ CEO Reginald Rabjohns, who consulted with President William Ieuter, a Winnetka resident, on the move.

With the new location, the company — whose roots trace back to State Mutual Life, which opened in Chicago in 1850 — also launched a new website at www.securefutesil.com.

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Online bidding for silent auction items — such as four VIP tickets to a Los Angeles taping of Conan O’Brien’s TV show — is one way of participating in the 41st annual Congé fundraiser, Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart’s largest campaign to support ongoing academic and student financial aid programs.

Online bids can be made as the silent auction takes place at the event, which begins with cocktails at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, at the Glen View Club. Dinner and the program, including a live auction with a paddle raise for scholarship funds, begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are $200 each and can be purchased on the Bid Pal website.

For the latest list of silent auction items, visit www.bidpal.net/Congé.

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Winnetka’s spring cleanup will be held Monday, April 28 – Thursday, May 1.

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Nursery School, is departing after 36 years at the close of the 2014 school year.

On May 4, students, parents, alumni and other community members will be thanking and celebrating her years of service at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park. The free event will take place from 2-4 p.m.

In addition to teaching, she is a marathon runner and has completed the Chicago Marathon eight times. She also enjoys reading and gardening. Hechtman has three adult children and three grandsons.

Tower Road to Pine Street; Wednesday, April 30: Pine Street to Willow Road; Thursday, May 1: south of Willow Road.

Public Works employees will remove from the parkway anything that two men can reasonably lift into a truck. Banned

electronics, construction materials/debris, yard waste, logs, dirt, stone, and liquids such as paint will not be picked up. Items should be placed on residential parkways the evening before the scheduled pickup, or no later than 7 a.m. the day of the pickup. ■

Standout Student

Cable is wired for success in math and more ■ by angelika labno

In sixth grade, Dylan Cable wanted to learn more about computer science.

After coming across Stanford University videos online, he became absorbed in watching lectures, reading textbooks and even doing homework assignments in courses such as programming methodology and natural language processing.

Years later, he achieved a perfect score on the AP Computer Science A Test — one of 18 students out of 26,000 in the world to achieve the feat.

Cable’s journey has come full circle — he plans to attend Stanford in the fall.

The New Trier High School senior is a distinguished mathematician in the state.

He was named North Suburban Math League All-Conference for the past three years. Cable qualified for both the USA Junior Mathematics Olympiad and USA Mathematics Olympiad under the American Math Competition (AMC) and consistently scored high on AMC tests. Under his leadership, the New Trier math team won the individual Illinois State Math Competition two out of the past three years.

If that weren’t enough, in his last year at New Trier, Cable took five mathematics and computer science courses at Northwestern University.

“Among a group of well prepared and highly motivated students from around the world, Dylan stood out as one of the best,” said NU Math Professor John Alongi of Cable’s performance in Math 321 MENU Real Analysis, an advanced study in math and its applications across a range of disciplines.

Cable was fascinated with puzzles and riddles at a young age, but in eighth grade, his interest in math spiked on a different level while he attended the University of Chicago’s Young Scholars Program. He developed a working relationship with Dr. Paul Sally, a math professor and director of undergraduate studies for 30 years. Every other Saturday for the following five years, the duo spent three hours on a given topic.

“The biggest difference between that kind of math and what you do in school is that in school, you’re given a question and the procedure for how to do it,” explained Cable.

“At U of C, it’s much more about exploring and asking questions.”

A program that shaped Cable was the Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC) at University of California-Berkeley, a selective program for 20 of the nation’s top math and science students. The program focuses on probability, statistics, economics and other math topics, but it is also balanced with teaching everyday skills.

“One of the main goals is to encourage students to be more altruistic, think about how you’re spending your time and how it impacts the world at large — not just you and your immediate surroundings,” said Cable. “That’s something I’m going to try to pursue and set my goals according to those principles.”

Cable is undecided as to what he will study, but he is interested in cognitive science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, or, “new and exciting fields that are developing the frontier of knowledge,” as he puts eloquently. A real-life application that

Dylan Cable

Cable is currently working on uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Cable is developing a system that will monitor tweets about football player injuries and consolidate the injury information into a phone app.

“To look at what someone posts on Twitter and extract information from it is what humans are good at, so you need to train a computer to do it,” he said. “If a tweet reads, ‘He hit the floor hard, and it looks ugly,’ a

photography by joel lerner computer wouldn’t be able to tell that the player got injured. The human language is really ambiguous.”

Whatever Cable ends up tackling, he is adamant about doing it for the greater good.

“I’m not concerned about making money or a position of power — that’s not what keeps me motivated or gets me excited. I’m lucky to be talented in technical areas, and there are a lot of problems in the world that need attention.” ■

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He has designs on helping organizations with needs ■ by katie rose mceneely Evanston’s John Syvertsen is the senior principal at CannonDesign, a global firm.

Reading: I’m reading a novel called “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton. I’m halfway through it, but it’s a fabulous interweaving of people’s lives during the New Zealand Gold Rush around the turn of the century.

I tend to switch back and forth between fiction and history. I try to find good books that are well written.

Listening: We rarely miss “Prairie Home Companion” and of course “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” Those are two fabulous programs. I also listen to all kinds of music on my iPhone.

Watching: I’ve been watching “Downton Abbey.” Actually, I missed almost the whole last season, but if I could have watched it, I would have.

Following: There are some tweets and blogs I follow in the area of architecture and design in the United States — the American Architectural Foundation sends out some quite good ideas about building sustainable cities. Archeworks (archeworks.org) is a great school in Chicago.

Activity: Like many design firms, we do take seriously the idea that the purpose of our work is to improve people’s lives. That covers a wide swath of subject matter from wellness and learning to work and athletic environments.

The question we asked ourselves about seven years ago was, “Isn’t it [good] for us to learn about the contexts in which people live?”

If it’s important to learn as much as we can,

we can’t do that inside of an office; we need to become engaged in the communities in which we live and work. Overlaid on that, public interest work has always been on the periphery. There had to a better way to integrate social impact, pro bono work. So we started Open Hand Studio, a virtual studio, a movement or call to action, that says we are responsible to engage with the people and places we work in. It’s a professional responsibility to address the significant needs of people.

It started as a way to connect individuals with opportunities outside of the office.

We also took on very specific design projects for organizations that had significant needs but didn’t have the wherewithal to do it. It’s grown over the last six or seven years, and we are working hard now to say, if we have a potential client, we can say, chances are the client has a public outreach program, and we can share information and combine our resources. That’s the next generation of Open Hand Studio, where it becomes more fully integrated in our work.

We’re working with the Anixter Center — we’ve done some elegant transformations of their entry lobby. We’re also helping to analyze their long-term real estate strategy.

Eating: We go to Wisconsin quite a bit. I eat bratwurst and way too much fried fish.

Not good. I can’t not eat the scotch eggs.

What is your favorite mistake?

Maybe the scotch eggs. My kids have a theory: when we cross the state line into Wisconsin, my IQ plummets, and it’s not restored instantly when I come back.

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The force is with this illustrator ■ by jenna schubert

Author and illustrator Jeffrey Brown got his start drawing comics during lunch breaks for his job at the Barnes & Noble in Deerfield, where he worked for seven years.

Today, the Chicago resident has made writing and illustrating humorous children’s books and comics a full-time gig. His most recent book, Kids Are Weird: And Other Observations from Parenthood (published

by Chronicle Books), was just released.

“Kids are already inclined to like Star Wars. So being able to tap into that and to draw on my own middle school experiences — I think kids really relate to that.” | Jeffrey Brown Raised in Michigan, Brown came to Chicago in 2000 to study painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute.

In 2002, he self-published his first graphic novel for adults, called Clumsy. The book — which is a story about the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship — was eventually picked up and published by Top Shelf Productions.

After publishing several other books, Brown was presented with a unique opportunity. He received a call from the lead person on the Google Doodle team (which recruits

artists to create the illustrations that appear on Google’s home page for specific holidays).

Brown was asked to create a doodle of an everyday interaction between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker for the Father’s Day Google homepage. At the time, Brown’s own son, Oscar, was four years old; so, when creating illustration options for Google, he portrayed Luke as a four-year-old.

Then, the news came that Google was pursuing a different concept, and Brown’s illustrations were no longer needed.

“I was already really excited about the idea, so I was disappointed that they weren’t going to use it,” Brown says. “But I realized I could take it and turn it into its own book.”

So in 2012, Brown published Star Wars: Darth Vader & Son — a quirky illustrated book about the humorous interactions between parents and children, as demonstrated through Darth Vader and Luke’s conversations. The book, though written from a parent’s perspective, garnered positive feedback from adults and children alike.

“The response from kids has been just incredible,” Brown says. “Kids are already inclined to like Star Wars. So being able to tap into that and to draw on my own middle school experiences — I think kids really relate to that.”

The success of Darth Vader & Son led Brown to write and illustrate two other Star Wars-related books: Vader’s Little Princess and Jedi Academy, which were both published last year. Jedi Academy, which tells the story of a middle school set in the Star Wars universe, was especially popular; Brown is set to publish a second book for the Jedi Academy series this summer. He will also complete another book, Goodnight

Jeffrey Brown

Darth Vader, this year.

His most recent release, Kids Are Weird, focuses on the zany things that kids often say. Brown’s own son, Oscar, inspired many of the ideas in the book. His younger son, Simon, who just turned one, has yet to add his input for his father’s books.

“He makes funny noises, but that’s the

extent of it,” Brown says.

Jeffrey Brown’s books are available for sale at Barnes & Noble in Deerfield, on amazon.com, and at most comic book shops.

Brown will appear at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) on Sunday, April 27, and at AW YEAH Comics in Skokie on May 4. ■

Deli serves up a side of authors ■ by kevin beese

Richard Reeder had seen area literary groups examining the work of Irish authors, African-American authors and Latin authors.

He suggested to his cousin — who owns Max and Benny’s restaurant in Northbrook — that they start a Jewish authors group.

The series started in a back room at what might be the most popular sit-down Jewish deli in the Chicago area (Manny’s in Chicago is a cafeteria, Reeder points out) and drew 15 or 20 people for the first three events.

Then last year, an event featured Mark Cohen, biographer of comedic songwriter Allan Sherman, and more than 200 people signed up, moving the event from the back room to taking up the whole restaurant.

The popularity of the series was evident when author Scott Turow packed the house in March.

“It’s been great,” Reeder said of the series.

“It’s been well-received by the community.

It gets authors who may not be that well known in front of a larger audience.”

The series, which for the most part draws an older audience, started as an infrequent gathering – four or five months between events – but now meets every two months.

That may increase to every month this summer, Reeder said.

At the age of 68, Reeder is in a position to have some flexibility and can pursue some of his passions. Those include teaching non-credit classes for seniors at Oakton Community College, writing and putting together events like the Jewish Authors series.

An avid reader, for the last six years Reeder has read and reviewed all the Booker Prize nominations for followers of his blog, aliteraryreeder.wordpress.com. Last year, he

averaged more than a book a week, finishing 53 works. 77 percent of which were fiction.

For Reeder, the magic of reading includes turning the pages of a book.

“My wife is a librarian and she uses a Kindle,” Reeder said. “I’ve tried to use one, but when I do it I do not enjoy it. To me, reading is having a book and flipping the pages.”

Reeder, having written the book “Chicago Sketches,” says not every book by a Jewish author gets to be part of the series. He said he has been approached by a couple of authors whom he rejected because of mistakes in the works.

The free series keeps growing in popularity, with a plethora of authors wanting to address the group. The homey feel of the programs has attendees and authors alike raving of the event.

“Ninety percent of the people love being there for the food,” Reeder said. “Most of the people order food. People all say how they enjoy the family feeling at the restaurant.

Authors said they enjoy the community feel.”

The next series program at the restaurant will be at 7 p.m. May 5 when Roberta Stern Dietzen talks about her book, “Gypsy Music Street,” written about a 2008 trip to Hungary and the Ukraine, where her mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, grew up. It is a trip that her mother always wanted to make.

“It is a book about a trauma that never ends,” Dietzen said. “And it was a trauma that she passed onto her children. I don’t think I articulated that to myself until recently.”

The book chronicles her mother’s pain from her family being on the last transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dietzen also examines her mother’s grief, growing up in an immigrant home, a poor struggling

Roberta Stern Dietzen

household, where she always felt different.

“I also looked back and it strengthened me,” Dietzen said. “My mother was an inspiration. She kept going.”

Dietzen said her mother, who left for the United States at age 26, always harbored resentment toward her parents for taking her out of school when she was in the second grade.

“She said she felt it her whole life. She never forgave them,” Dietzen said. “She resented that they did that to her. Her dad ran a timber business and they didn’t know any better. Jewish boys got the education; they wanted her to help at home. She was one of

nine children, but there was no excuse for taking her out of school.”

The book also addresses Dietzen’s own struggles to get her mother’s acceptance.

“You could never get her approval,” Dietzen said. “My former brother-in-law was a physicist. They wrote about him in Time magazine. When my mother heard, she said, ‘Vell (she pronounced ‘w’s as v’s), he wasn’t on the cover.

“You couldn’t impress her. Tact was not in her vocabulary.”

To reserve a spot for the May 5 program, email Richard Reeder at richardreeder34@ gmail.com. ■

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sunday breakfast Her frame of mind is to focus on studio

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chicken wire rather than resting under glass. “I’m not traditional. I like to experiment.”

Celebrating a milestone birthday in 2010, Kerri With four others as part of her Bloom & Focus Sherman received a Canon camera with a zoom team, Sherman presents a number of classes. “Lattes lens from her husband, Derek. Once her children, and Laptops” helps those intimidated by technology Noah and Sage, were dropped off at to learn to edit photos. Adults can choose from two summer camp, she hurried to the art offerings: “Coffee & Canvases” (daytime) and Chicago Botanic “Cocktails & Canvases” (evening). For six Ga rden in weeks this summer, she’ll run a photogGlencoe. raphy class for children 7 and up, while “I combed Tara Eggers will teach art classes for through kids. Evenings can find Sherman every inch of guiding a documentary group, a the gardens. bring-your-own-bottle affair where I remember she calls up certain segments of enjoying the the chosen work — such as process of “Searching for Sugar Man” — on being lost a large screen for discussion. shooting,” A fter graduating from says Eastern Illinois University Sherman, with a major in television, who snapped radio and film — during up to 1,000 which time she enjoyed an photos a day internship at MGM Studios back then. in Orlando — Sherman Today, became a film editor for Sherman Skyview and Red Car, runs Bloom working on television com& Focus, a mercials for a decade while two-yearliving in Chicago. Moving to Lake Forest eight years old studio ago, she quickly embraced whose name was inspired the “world-class beach” while being thankful by that stirChicago is only a short ring photo excursion. drive away.

Since She shoots portraits, she’s taken oversees up the photo-editing camera, Sherman classes, hosts prihas been vat e a r t featured at parties, disRe-Invent plays exhibGallery in its on her Lake Forest, walls and where two yea rs ago her more.

Kerri Sherman exhibit “Coveted” Recently, her illustration by barry blitt drew a crowd. An wood-floored space off of Market Square in inside look at the making of the Oscars — the movie trophies that are created Lake Forest, which opens to a brick terrace, featured by workers at a Chicago factory — comprised the for the first time her own photography, a collection lion’s share of that presentation. entitled “Souls of Nola.” During a trip to New “I love to document people who use their hands for Orleans, she visited the French Quarter, Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (whose shots crafts and are passionate about their tools. I see beauty are mounted in an old window frame). One color even in dirty, industrial spaces,” says Sherman, whose photo from the French Quarter reveals the backs exhibit “Go Outside” is on display at Heller Nature of three well-dressed men, musicians walking to Center in Highland Park through June 2. their next show.

Though her studio (www.bloomandfocus.com) is a hub of artistic activity, “I go at my own pace,” says the jill of all trades. “I have it because it’s “I’m very run and gun — if I see manageable to me. It works for my life. My family is my priority.” a photo, I capture it. You have That family enjoys Sunday breakfast at home to be ready.”

— even though it may not be the prettiest picture. | Kerri Sherman “It’s my husband cooking, it’s pancakes and bacon, and it’s always the smoke alarm going off,” “I call them three cool cats,” says Sherman.

Sherman says.

It was about that chaotic when she hustled her “There’s so much soul in New Orleans.”

Her shooting philosophy is: don’t hold back. children to the exhibit by Vivian Maier — the North “I’m very run and gun — if I see a photo, I capShore nanny whose photographic excellence was ture it. You have to be ready,” says Sherman, situnearthed posthumously — at the Chicago Cultural ting at a table in the heart of her studio. “I really Center in 2011. love spontaneous moments — my style is natural “I took the kids the last hour on the last day,” candid.”

Sherman recalls. “They were like, ‘Mom, what are Her eye is also drawn to curating photography you doing?’ “ exhibits.

But photography has that effect on the self-taught “There’s an art and science to hanging and putentrepreneur, who embraces the medium’s stillness after ting together a show,” notes Sherman, whose “Souls a career in moving images. Says Sherman, “Pictures of Nola” includes a number of pictures clipped to really do slow time.” ■

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love & marriage Get me rewrite: Gift of flowers better than I thought

No sooner did Peter Cottontail hop on down the bunny trail than my local retailers started unpacking cases of Mother’s Day cards.

I know that holiday on Sunday, May 11 will prompt many (myself included) to pick up a bouquet of flowers over the next couple of weeks, and I was encouraged to reconsider my long-held opinion that flowers are the procrastinator’s gift of last resort.

I wrote shortly before Valentine’s Day that men have it easy on Feb. 14. They stop at most any drug store, grocery store or gas station to grab a bedraggled bunch of daisies on their way home from work and arrive looking like a hero. Women have to work a bit harder for the Wow Factor.

I heard soon after that from Lake Forest resident Eileen Weber, who agreed that buying daisies at the grocery store or a single rose at the gas station is not the most intimate way of saying “I love you.”

But, she corrected me, “thinking about your purchase — what is my wife’s favorite color, what flowers were in her wedding bouquet — and speaking to a local flower shop and having them deliver the bouquet is a well-thought-out gift.”

Weber is vice president of Lake Forest Flowers — a position that she said allows her to deliver emotions to her clients for birthdays, anniversaries, apologies, and in cases of loss and illness.

“I even encourage my clients to surprise their significant other by making flowers part of a gift or celebration. Valentine’s Day (was) on a long weekend this year. So before you skip out of town, send some flowers to their office and say ‘Looking forward to a great weekend!’ ” Weber recommended the buying guides at www.aboutflowers.com, which include information about flower trends and research on how flowers affect people. I checked them out, and found a lot of good advice as we all prepare for Mother’s Day (as well as summer anniversaries and Father’s Day, if you think flowers fit the bill for that, too).

With a nod to my distaste for the generic Valentine’s Day bouquet, the website calls flowers the easiest gift to customize. There are hundreds of sizes, shapes and colors to make the recipient smile if you stop to consider their personality before you grab a bunch. In my mind, a custom arrangement changes everything.

Consider how flowers become symbols of milestones in your life as a couple. Weber pointed to the flowers the bride chose for her wedding, but there are also those that a woman received from a new boyfriend at the beginning of a relationship and the bouquets a young wife buys to spruce up your first home together. Reimaging those bouquets years later will have a great impact.

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If you’re drawing a blank, consider your recipient’s personality and the message you want to send before you select a bouquet. People who are casual and outdoorsy, for example, might prefer flowering and green plants with woodsy accents. Romantics – generous, spontaneous and extravagant types, the website says – go for soft colors with light fragrances and accents of lace or ribbons. People who are trustworthy, family-oriented and prefer classic styles (socalled traditionalists) appreciate lush arrangements with a great variety of flowers.

And if your intended recipient is a man, the research says men are stimulated by color, and typically prefer vivid yellows, oranges and reds. Talk to your florist about contemporary, linear and natural styles of bouquets, and consider highlighting a favorite hobby by tucking a sleeve of golf balls or a travel magazine into the mix.

The research that stuck with me, though, is this tidbit: 96 percent of women like to receive flowers when they’re not expecting them. Your local florist will be open many days between now and May 11. Don’t be a stranger.

Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown can be reached at Joanna@northshoreweekend.com. ■

Where are you leaning, Harvard or Stanford? Harvard.

They’re great schools and they’re so different. Harvard students know all about the polar vortex; Stanford students get to enjoy 200plus days of sunshine each year.

Wherever I end up going I’m interested in a field of study that integrates the disciplines of math and the humanities.

Describe the day you were accepted by Harvard and how you reacted. It was in the middle of December. I opened my computer to check my email. I saw, ‘Dear M r.

Choi’ a nd ‘Congratulations!’ It took some time before I realized what I was reading. It didn’t feel real and it took a while to process. Even a week later, I thought, ‘Wait, I got into Harvard?’

Why did you choose the topic you wrote about for your college essay? I described the place in which I’d be perfectly content and why. It’s anywhere I have the opportunity to converse with people. Debating a topic in a classroom setting, discussing subjects w it h f r iend s — t ho s e

opportunities have meant a great deal to me.

What was the most challenging part of the college application process? The essay. I generally don’t like writing about myself. I feel it’s frustrating to get introspective, to write about a favorite memory, a pivotal moment.

What advice would you give a junior going through the college search process? The college process is important. That said, it’s not the be all end all. You will not be defined by what college you attend. Even if a student goes to his or her fourth choice, that student will generally fall in love with the college wherever it is.

What will you miss most about Glenbrook North High School? I have only good things to say about Glenbrook North.

Looking back at the classes I took, as well as the teachers, they were overwhelmingly terrific. The teachers at my school … very engaging. I’ll also miss the traveling [as a debate team member], though I will probably forget about the stress involved at the debate competitions. ■

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Held at Michigan Shores Club, supporters of Family Service of Winnetka-Northfield gathered for an evening of cocktails, auction, dinner, and dancing, all to support the not-for-profit.

More than $15,000 was raised, going toward Family Service’s mission to provide quality, affordable counseling and psychotherapy on a sliding scale to anyone who lives, works, studies, or worships in Winnetka or Northfield.

Jeanne Ebersole, who served as the benefit chair, worked closely with the committee of Esther Berry, Judy Harmon, Carin Chapman, Diane Goodwin, Tina Schiele, and DeDe Kern. Dancing to Dr. Bombay—of whom two band members, Cari Alexander and Geoff Koss, are Family Service supporters—went well into the night. familyservicewn.org

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Alliance says oui to grand fundraiser ■ by joanna brown

If it’s 4 p.m. on Dearborn Street, it is time for a snack. Those expecting a simple plate of cookies will be surprised.

Dozens of high school students gather on weekdays to enjoy classically prepared French foods and engaging French conversation with a member of the Alliance Francaise de Chicago in its headquarters.

These students come to the Alliance after classes (including a French class) in their public school to continue their education in the Alliance’s French immersion program.

Explains Veronique Bushala, a member of the Alliance Francaise, “This is a deeper, richer experience for the students in a very individualized program in which their teachers encourage them to follow through all year, even though they are traveling long distances from underserved neighborhoods after full days of school. They are eager to learn, and this helps many of them to go on to higher education.”

The program is one of many that will benefit from a May 10 fundraiser, Red Carpet at the Monte Carlo Casino. The gala at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is hosted by the Women’s Board of the Alliance Francaise to support the Chicago institution. Chicagoans Bushala and Lisa Bailey serve as co-chairs of the event, with Betsey Pinkert of Highland Park involved as an honorary co-chair.

Guests will arrive to find a promenade lined with palm trees, a red carpet and paparazzi, Bailey says. They may enjoy a showing of the new film “Grace of Monaco,” a biography of Grace Kelly during a time of political unrest in the early 1960s. The film will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

about the same time as the Alliance’s gala.

There will also be live and silent auctions, dinner with champagne and red-wine pairings for each course, dancing, and a casino for roulette, baccarat and trente et quarante, among other games.

Staging this night of French culture is commonplace for the Alliance Francaise, which has been promoting the language and culture in Chicago since 1897. Nearly 4,000 students of all ages and abilities take study the language at the Alliance year-round, and still more participate in the cultures programs offered, focused on film, literature, the decorative arts and history, among other topics.

Alliance members, Bushala says, are largely Americans with interest in the French culture. Pinkert is a perfect example.

Growing up in Pennsylvania, she studied Latin — but switched to French as soon as she heard it spoken. This was about the same time that film star Grace Kelly was engaged to Monaco’s Prince Rainier, and their love story dominated American media.

Pinkert continued her study in college and graduate school and spent her career teaching French at Evanston Township High School and Chicago’s Latin School.

She has supported the Alliance Francaise for 40 years, in part because of its focus on bilingual education.

“The number of French speakers in the world is exploding,” she says, “some 220 million people speak French in France, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, and the African nations where we are seeing tremendous population growth. We need to have young people who can communicate with the people of this continent in the future. “ Find more information and purchase tick-

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Veronique Bushala (left), Betsey Pinkert and Lisa Bailey are part of the committee putting on the May 10 fundraiser for Alliance Francaise de Chicago. photography by joel lerner

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Personal care for cancer patients is just what the doctor ordered ■ by sheryl devore

Dr. Bruce Brockstein recently attended a wedding of one of his patients.

“I shed more tears than her family did,” he recalled.

That story would come as no surprise to Dr. Brockstein’s patients and colleagues.

His philosophy in treating cancer patients is not only to listen carefully to their symptoms but also to pay attention to their emotional and spiritual needs, as well as talking to family members to understand their needs and thoughts.

Dr. Brockstein is the medical director of the Kellogg Cancer Centers at NorthShore University HealthSystem. The physician will be honored for his achievements in the field of oncology at the 18th Annual Myra Rubenstein Weis Health Resource Center Luncheon to be held May 7 at the Highland Park Country Club, 1201 Park Avenue West, Highland Park.

Dr. Brockstein said he tries to “acknowledge the normalcy of a cancer patient’s emotional response. You give them time and attention, listening and looking at the patients as an individual. That’s the main thing — doing exactly for that individual what you would do for your family member.

“That approach is what every physician should do,” he added, acknowledging that “sometimes it’s hard in a fast-paced setting.”

Dr. Brockstein’s desire to work with cancer patients arose after he started studying

mechanical engineering in college. Soon he decided to go to medical school, thinking he would work with heart pump mechanics or another technical aspect of the field.

But, he said as he learned more about patient care, he realized his calling.

“There are many dimensions of caring for cancer patients — their physical needs, their emotional needs,” he said.

“He sees some of the most difficult-to-treat cancers — they have very aggressive treatments, they can have lasting effects,” said Dr. Carol Rosenberg, Director of the Living in the Future (LIFE) Cancer Survivorship Program at the NorthShore University HealthSystem.

“Dr. Brockstein is very good at talking about all those things, explaining to the patient and linking them with resources.

That’s what survivorship is all about.”

Dr. Brockstein specializes in head and neck cancer, and he knows that treatments such as radiation have side effects that “really impact lives.”

Dr. Brockstein worked with a musician, telling him every step along the way what he could expect during the treatment. He understood the man wanted to be able to play his instrument even after his treatment.

“It was a difficult challenge,” Dr. Brockstein said. “You need to do everything you can to support them through their treatment.”

Today, the musician is performing again.

Dr. Brockstein worked with the patient, whose wedding he attended, for several years

Dr. Bruce Brockstein (center) will be honored at the 18th Annual Myra Rubenstein Weis Health Resource Center Luncheon on May 7. photography by joel lerner

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She required several surgeries and treatments. Today, she’s married and doing well, he said. Said he, “She’s such a nice person and it was so nice of her to ask me to her wedding.”

Proceeds from the luncheon honoring Dr. Brockstein will provide funding for Living in

the Future (LIFE) Cancer Survivorship Program. The keynote speaker will be Dr. James Mastrianni, Director of the Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders at the University of Chicago.

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Restaurant owner specializes in top-notch Chinese food ■ by katie rose mceneely Sandy Chen is the owner of Koi Fine Asian Cuisine and Lounge, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in Evanston.

What inspired you to open Koi? My first restaurant was in Chicago on North Clark. The reason I opened Koi was a lot of my customers had families on the North Shore, so I wanted to bring amazing Chinese food to them.

What led you to this industry?

My first job was as a busgirl when I was 16, when I was attending Highland Park High School. After I went to college, I continued working in the hospitality industry. I have so much passion not only for entertaining the guests, but I have spent tremendous hours in the kitchen, working with the chef to use traditional Chinese cooking techniques on Western ingredients. This is my 30th year in the industry! I love the people.

Do you cook? I do! I grew up in a very small village in China, and I have a really big family. We had a huge house and we all lived together, and we did a lot of communal dining. I was the oldest, so I always helped my grandma and my mom and my dad.

Signature dish? Our sesame chicken dish.

There are eight regions of Chinese food on your menu; what’s your favorite? Personally, I’m more focused on Zhejiang and Cantonese cooking, but we feature the eight most popular cuisines of China, because it’s such a vast

country. I have one chef from Sichuan Province, and my executive chef is from Canton province.

Can you tell me about the new Dim Sum brunch? It’s like Chinese tapas. Dim Sum originally came from Canton — travellers and farmers who worked really long hours would sit down to rest and eat some small bites and go back to work or hit the road.

We have over 60 items on the menu — it’s very traditional.

What do you eat at home? I braise pork for a couple hours and then use Chinese five-spice powder, soy sauce, garlic and ginger and sugar. It doesn’t make a mess, and the flavor is amazing.

Favorite vegetable? Baby bok choi.

Another vegetable I love but that’s kind of a luxury is Chinese peapod sprouts.

We don’t get them all the time; that’s really seasonal.

M ost m e m o ra b le ki tch e n incident?

Twelve or 13 years ago, one of my chefs got into an accident and he couldn’t work. I was never the designated chef — I usually just supported.

But our restaurant was fully booked, and I had to step in. We served 250 people that evening and we made it. I was like, “Wow! I am capable!”

Koi Fine Asian Cuisine and Lounge is located at 624 Davis Street in Evanston.

For more information, visit koievanston. com or call 847-866-6969. ■

Sandy Chen

Recipe: Sesame Chicken Breast

Coat ½ pound sliced chicken breast with 1 egg white and yoke, 1 tablespoon cornstarch and ½ tablespoon of minced garlic. Heat 6 cups vegetable oil in wok at high heat. Drop the chicken into the wok and cook until well done. Pull the chicken out of the wok and drain on a dry paper towel to absorb excess oil.

Spicy honey garlic sauce

Clean out the wok. Add 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in wok. In the wok stir together 1/3 cup chopped green scallions, ½ teaspoon finely minced ginger and ½ teaspoon minced garlic at moderate heat. Add ½ tablespoon soy sauce, 4 tablespoons white vinegar, 6 tablespoons sugar, ¼ tablespoon spicy pepper sauce (mixture of dried, crushed chili peppers and vegetable oil) and stir until sauce thickens. Be careful not to overcook the sauce. Place chicken back in wok and toss until coated with honey garlic glaze. Garnish with sesame seeds.

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“What are you Reading this Week?” photography by robin subar

GRAND OPENING

Robin Levy, Deerfield “The Art of Healing Heartbeats” It is about not letting negativity stand in your way.

Ramaa Krishnan, Wilmette Owner of Full Bloomed Lotus “The Mystic Heart” by Wayne Teasdale.Discovering a universal spirituality in the world’s religions.

Julie Butler, Wilmette USTA Magazine! I’m reading an article about strategy in doubles by Chris Evert.

The Hemphill family from Wilmette: Jennifer, Eric, Maya & EJ Maya and EJ are reading “Lola at the Library” — they like it because it is about picking out books and getting treats

Dayna Hardin, Glencoe & Dana Kite, Highland Park Dayna is reading “Lean In” because she is a full-time working new mom Dana is reading “How Children Succeed” by Paul Tuff about 21st century skills to be successful such as teamwork and resiliance.

Mike Meyers from Wilmette & Rick Richker of @ Properties in Winnetka Mike was just reading a column by David Burnstein and Rick reads any David Baldacci he can get his hands on in order to give his mind a rest!

Kate Van Vlack, Winnetka Since Kate just joined the Garden Guild, she is currently reading up on floral arrangements.

Jessica Sheehan & Jacob (moving to Deerfield) Jessica speaks on behalf of the two of them and says she is reading “The Book Thief” because her Mom recommended it.

Mick DeBartolo of The Michael Stone Group “Shining Bright Lie” by Neil Sheehan because of his interest in America’s involvement in Vietnam.

Claire Zimmerman, Winnetka Claire is reading “The Tale of Two Cities” at New Trier and says it is hard to decipher but once you do, it is very interesting with the two cultural backgrounds.

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goings on about towns Author Visit with Marcus Sedgwick

Spring Marché

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

Commemorative Concert

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie 6:30-8 p.m.

Tickets: ilholocaustmuseum.org/ events

The Book Stall 811 Elm Street, Winnetka 4:30 p.m.

847-446-8880 Sedgwick has won the Printz Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in the United Kingdom. He will be touring the United States for his latest novel, “She is Not Invisible” (Roaring Brook Press), which is told through the point of view of Laureth Peak.

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On this day in 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago. It celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the New World. The exhibition inspired a multitude of achievements, including alternating current electricity; Pabst Blue Ribbon

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Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Association Lake Forest Club 554 N Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest Boutique from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. lflblda.com This year’s Spring Marché will include a free-to-enter shopping boutique from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The evening program at 7 p.m. will offer a raffle, silent auction, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. All proceeds benefit the LFLB Learning Disabilities Association “Make a Difference” Grant Program.

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Nichols Concert Hall 490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston 7:30 p.m.

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34 | business main street New Rolls-Royce is a spirited coupe

■ by bob gariano Visiting Steve Foley’s car dealership in Northbrook, a customer walks past the row of Cadillac sedans and sport-utility vehicles to a special showroom where the RollsRoyce automobiles are exhibited.

It is quiet and subdued in that room, with mirrored walls that reflect the shiny vehicles on display. Even if a person is not interested in cars, they would want to stop and look at the new 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith Coupe in the showroom. It is a piece of rolling sculpture.

The numbers for the Wraith are astonishing, even if statistics hardly tell the whole story, any more than a chemical description of pigments describes the Mona Lisa. This vehicle weighs 5,200 pounds and is more than 17 feet long but can reach 60 miles per hour from a standstill in 4.4 seconds. Top speed is governed at 155 miles per hour.

With 624-brake horsepower generated by the 6.6-liter twin turbo V-12 engine, the Wraith is loafing along at that speed. The eight-speed automatic gear box — guided by a satellite interface — and the four-corner air suspension means that the four lucky occupants are treated to the legendary Rolls-Royce magic carpet ride.

The ZF eight-speed transmission is the first to use a satellite uplink to provide the mechanism with information about the terrain and road configuration coming up. This allows the car to alter the shifting points to

accommodate and predict torque requirements. This is a car that can literally see around the next corner.

Larry Balkin, Foley’s Rolls-Royce special accounts manager, is responsible for helping customers specify and commission their new Rolls-Royce vehicles. Balkin met with me and showed me the new Wraith.

“My father died when I was five years old and my mother did not have a driver’s license,” he says. “Growing up, I fell in love with cars, even though our family never owned one. I bought my first car, a Ford Mustang, when I was a teenager.

“After college, I became an accountant, but never had stopped being a car enthusiast. Two years ago I met with Steve Foley Jr. when I was returning a leased car. We talked about the dealership and the Foley family’s commitment to luxury vehicles. I joined the dealership two weeks later.”

The Wraith (which means ghost or specter) joins the other two Rolls-Royce platforms, the Phantom introduced in 2004 and the Ghost introduced in 2010. The Wraith is available only as a coupe (pronounced in the British fashion ‘coo-pay”). Rolls-Royce introduced a whole new vocabulary in advertising the new vehicle. Balkin quoted some of that copy: “With the Wraith, it’s not how fast you go, but how you go fast.”

So far Foley has delivered four Wraiths that have been commissioned since the new model’s introduction. The dealership has been allocated only five more Wraiths

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Each Wraith is commissioned with a broad expanse of options so each vehicle must be custom built. The Wraith combines such contemporary technical advances as active cruise control, heads-up display, night vision, and 360-degree awareness camera vision. That’s not to say that the car ignores traditional Rolls-Royce craftsmanship. The Rolls- Royce tradition of excellence continues with 60 skilled workers lavishing 450 hours on each vehicle, fashioning the aluminum, steel, wood, and natural grain leather into a unique personalized vehicle.

From commissioning until delivery usually takes a period of several months.

The Wraith is the first modern RollsRoyce to be designed as a driver’s vehicle — and that means that the market is aimed at younger drivers. The four Wraith automobiles delivered by Foley this year all went to buyers under 40. These are affluent people

who can afford the purchase price that, with options, usually amounts to more than $330,000. These are not vehicles that compete with any other cars. The buyer is usually adding to a stable of other vehicles, and the Wraith becomes a keystone in that garage.

To introduce such a driver’s car, RollsRoyce has allowed Foley to use several vehicles for driving tests this spring for potential buyers. These factory vehicles include a Wraith and a Phantom drophead coupe.

Standing in front of a new silver and black Wraith with its inimitable coach doors and iconic “Spirit of Ecstasy” hood ornament, I was impressed with the fluid lines and the beautiful proportions of this latest Rolls-Royce. It is a vehicle that embodies a history of craftsmanship and design. The Wraith will make a statement of exclusivity, success, and achievement for its fortunate new owner.

Main Street columnist Bob Gariano can be reached at bob@northshoreweekend.com. ■

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Dentist office is set up like a home away from home ■ by jake jarvi Since they opened their doors five years ago, husband-and-wife team Dr. Derek and Dr. Anokhi Bock built Forest Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry to make everything easier.

Designing the décor to feel more like their patient’s homes than a medical office makes it easier for a child to feel comfortable.

Beginning each visit at the tooth-brushing station makes it easier to keep track of a patient’s personal oral hygiene habits. The fact that the tooth-brushing station has two levels — one child-sized, the other young adult-sized — communicates that this practice was built specifically to cater to the needs of their young patrons.

“We designed the practice to feel like home,” says Dr. Derek. “Too many dental practices are on a medical model, where it’s sterile and cold. We wanted to design our practice to feel like they’re strolling into their living room.”

Their use of the advanced technology in the field is also built for speed and convenience. Patients sign in for appointments via fingerprint scanner. Large screen televisions cover every wall and

“We wanted to design our practice to feel like they’re strolling into their living room.” | Dr. Derek Bock decorate the ceilings of every private room playing Blu-rays or streaming movies, making sure there’s plenty for the kids to focus on during their appointment. Perhaps the most convenient aspect is having children’s entire dental history under one roof from their first appointment at age two through any orthodontia they might need. If, for example, a child gets braces with Dr. Derek and Dr. Anokhi is his or her dentist, cleanings and adjustments can be scheduled for a single visit.

“It’s important that we embrace and utilize technology to make things easier and more comfortable for patients,” Dr. Derek explains.

On the orthodontics side, for example, Dr. Derek makes digital scans of teeth instead of the old alginate impressions. Using a wand, the teeth are scanned into exact, 3D, computer-generated models from which he can plot each specific tooth adjustment and order custom Insignia Damon Braces. The precision and customizability of the process can take up to six months treatment time off of the process.

For Dr. Anokhi, who grew up in Lake Forest, it was important that they build their business in a community she cared about.

“I always knew I wanted to live here,” she says. “We develop a lot of personal relationships because, having a 6-year-old, a 4-yearold, a 2-year-old, and a 7-month-old, we share a lot of commonality with the young families we treat. Our kids are in school with their kids. We’re really living the same family life in the same community as the parents of our patients.”

The Bocks are involved in several causes and organizations close to home. Every year Forest Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry sponsors two holiday events at the Lake Forest Recreation Center, the Easter egg hunt and the Halloween hayride. They’ve also sponsored other community events with Lake County Cares and LEAD (Linking Efforts Against Drugs). Perhaps their biggest sponsorship is with the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). When the organizational costs associated with field rental and player expenses rose, the Bocks partnered with AYSO to keep player costs affordable so as many kids as possible could go out on the field.

To parents, it seems like all of the advanced technologies and charitable outreach are secondary to the gentle touch the Bocks have with their young patients.

“Everything from putting on kids’ movies, to having them wear sunglasses when they’re under the lamps, to the way the staff treats them with such kindness and respect,” says Melissa Goltra of Lake Forest, listing a few of the reasons she brings both of her daughters to Forest Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry.

“It’s a really child-friendly environment.

My kids like going to the dentist, which is great.” | Melissa Goltra Forest Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry is located at 840 S. Waukegan Road, Suite 107 in Lake Forest. For more information call 847-615-KIDS (5437) or visit them at forestorthopedo.com. ■

(Above) Dr. Derek Bock and Dr. Anokhi Bock get together with their four children. (Below) Dr. Anokhi talks about caring for one's teeth with two young patients. photography by joel lerner

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Cahill finds a home at center-midfield for undefeated Trevians ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Goldilocks and New Trier senior soccer player Molly Cahill have something in common other than the hue of their hair.

It took a couple of tries before the intrusive Goldilocks found a bowl of porridge, a chair and a bed to be “just right” in a house belonging to a trio of Bears in a fairy tale.

Cahill started her soccer career at NT as forward, scoring 26 goals for the freshman team in 2011. The sandy blonde played primarily defense as a sophomore and junior.

Her position this spring for the Trevians is center-midfield — and it’s just right.

For her and NT, which improved to 13-0 when it edged Loyola Academy 1-0 in a PepsiCo Showdown semifinal April 19 at Olympic Park in Schaumburg.

“She’s a natural [at center-mid],” Trevians coach Jim Burnside says of the team’s designated free-kicker and one of his returning all-Central Suburban League players. “Molly is solid, solid, solid there, and one of her many strengths is anticipation … it’s so athletic.

“You can’t teach that.”

The 5-foot-9 Cahill had no idea Burnside would deploy her at such a pivotal position in the preseason, but the assignment thrilled her and she’s been handling the new responsibilities like an old pro.

“I love it. It gives me the chance to play offense and defense and see the field from the middle,” says Cahill, who played all 80 minutes in New Trier’s 1-0 defeat of visiting Huntley in a PepsiCo Showdown quarterfinal on April 17.

A third-year varsity soccer member and former ice hockey center, Cahill has overcome serious injuries, including a pair of concussions in her first two years at NT. She sat out seven weeks of last year’s soccer season with a broken right foot that required two surgeries in the offseason.

Her favorite color is pink. Check out her headband during most soccer matches.

“Pink is her color,” says New Trier senior midfielder Meg Wozniak, who plans to play soccer at Denison (Ohio) University. “You should have seen her when she played hockey [before high school]. Molly wore pink socks and a pink helmet.”

But most see red when they see Cahill after soccer contests.

“She’s always bloody after we play,” Wozniak says. “She’s tough and she’s such an integral part of the team. Molly took down what must have been eight players when she had the ball [during a sequence in a recent match]. The way she barreled through almost an entire team, it was amazing, and then she blasted a rocket shot from about the 18-[yard line].

“What great vision she has,” Wozniak adds. “And she knows where to be at all times.”

Cahill will be at Miami (Ohio) University at this time next year, near the end of her freshman year. At the moment she is more committed to becoming a nurse than she is to competing for the school’s soccer program. Her cousin Mimi is pursing a nursing degree at Texas Christian University.

But nobody would be surprised if Cahill finds the time to battle as a club soccer player if she chooses not to play for Miami’s RedHawks.

“She’s competitive … so competitive all over the field,” Burnside says of the Schaumburg-based Academy United SC club member and fan of U.S. women’s team star Abby Wambach. “But here’s the thing about her: Molly is easygoing and intense. That’s a rare mix.”

And it’s an ideal combo trait — make that, a “just right” one — for a senior leader on a varsity with seven sophomores and a freshman. It doesn’t take long to conclude Cahill is

Senior Molly Cahill (No. 9) dribbles past a Downers Grove North player during second round action of the PepsiCo Showdown.

The Trevians will face Buffalo Grove in the championship April 27 at Toyota Park. photography by george pfoertner

a sturdy and reliable presence for New Trier’s booters.

“Molly,” Wozniak says, “is always there to help the younger players. She also does such a great job for us in the center, stepping up when we need her.”

Notable: Trevians sophomore forward Kelly Maday scored the lone goal exactly two minutes after the opening

kick-off in the 1-0 defeat of Huntley in a PepsiCo Showdown quarterfinal last week in Northfield. Sophomore Dani Kaufman was the winning goalkeeper … NT senior forward Maddie Mulford tallied the goal in the 1-0 win over Loyola Academy (12-1) in a Showdown semifinal on April 19. NT faces Buffalo Grove (14-0) for the PepsiCo Showdown championship April 27 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview. ■

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With Kevin Reiterman & Bill McLean

Roaming the Sidelines Football

New Trier: Brian Doll has been hired as the school’s new head football coach. He replaces Dan Starkey, who resigned in February to take the head job at Lockport High School.

It figures to be a smooth transition for Doll, a 1995 NT grad. Prior to becoming the head coach at Elk Grove High School (2009-11), he served on the NT football staff for nine seasons. He had stints as the varsity team’s defensive coordinator and head sophomore coach.

At Elk Grove, he put together a 24-9 record. All three of his teams qualified to the state playoffs.

His vita also includes working with the National Football League’s European growth initiative for the past two years.

Poolside

Boys Swimming New Trier: Athletics director Randy Oberembt called the hiring of Josh Runkle “the consensus choice.”

Runkle officially was named as the Trevians’ new head boys swim coach

on April 21, replacing Mark Onstott who is retiring. He also will serve as Aquatics Director and assist the girls swim program.

The Western Illinois graduate, a former assistant coach at NT (1996-98), had been the head coach at Glenbrook North. Under his guidance, the Spartans claimed six Central Suburban League North championships.

Runkle also has been a head coach at Highland Park High School.

Pinnacles Wrestling

Lake Forest: Senior Regis Durbin has signed a national letter of intent with Northwestern University. He became a hot recruit after winning the 195-pound IHSA state title with a 41-0 record.

He will be following in the footsteps of his dad, a former grappler at NU .

Between Innings

Girls Softball New Trier: The softball field at Glenbrook South has to be one of

Allison Quigley’s favorite playgrounds.

The NT senior right-hander pitched a perfect game against the host Titans on April 17. She finished the five-inning 10-0 win with 10 strikeouts. A grand slam by Lauren Secaras keyed an eightrun fourth inning.

For Quigley, it was a repeat performance. She also tossed a perfect game on the GBS field last year.

Quigley also was dominant the previous day. She fired a no-hitter in a 13-0 win over Niles West and helped her cause by hitting a home run and driving in four runs. Teammate Abbey Boyd went 3-for-3, while junior Laura Bagan homered and knocked in four runs.

In other action, the Trevians (9-1) swept a nonconference doubleheader over Sandburg on April 19. In the 7-4 win, the Trevians were paced by Lilly Novak (3 hits, 2 RBIs) and Amanda Howell (2 hits, 4 RBIs). In the 5-3 win, Howell hit a solo homer, while Novak went 3-for-3. Bagan drove in two runs.

Circling the Bases

Baseball Highland Park: Senior right-hander Liam Carter came up with an ace performance on April 17 when he fired a three-hitter in HP’s 6-0 win over Waukegan. The 6-foot-7 Carter had 12 strikeouts. He recorded 17 firstpitch strikes. David Joseph (3 hits, 2 RBIs), David Hochstadt (2 hits, 2 RBIs) and Zach Nankin (2 hits) led the offense.

On April 16, the Giants fell to Evanston 6-4. Sophomore Justin Mills had two hits and two RBIs. On April 21, Bradley Kaplan worked six strong innings in HP’s 7-0 win over Niles West. Owen Spungen (3 hits), Matt Lowy (2 hits), John Simon (2 RBI) and Nankin (2 RBI).

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Boys Volleyball Loyola: Sparked by senior David Wieczorek, a Pepperdine University recruit, the Ramblers (11-1) defeated Deerfield 25-22, 17-25, 25-12 in the championship of the Lake County Invite at Vernon Hills on April 19.

Wieczorek finished the match with 22 kills and three aces.

Wieczorek also was instrumental in the team’s semifinal victory over the host Cougars 25-14, 25-24. He had 18 kills and two aces.

The team went 3-0 in pool play, earning two-set victories over Stevenson, Lakes and Waukegan.

Jakub Mazurek had eight kills against Stevenson. Max Haberkorn had five kills in the win over Lakes.

On April 16, the Ramblers were led

by Mazurek (6 kills) in their 25-10, 25-17 win over Mt. Carmel.

New Trier: Led by Dante Chakravorti (22 assists, 3 kills),

Peter Hindsley (9 kills), Brian Hammes (9 digs), Jack Serrino (4 kills, 3 blocks) and Andrew Sommer (4 blocks), the Trevians topped Warren on April 17.

And they beat Waukegan 25-18, 25-11 on April 21 to improve their overall record to 13-3.

On April 16, NT edged Glenbrook South 25-22, 25-23 behind the strong play of Chakravorti (23 assists, 3 blocks), Hindsley (7 kills) and Hammes (5 digs).

New Trier: The Trevians scored 24 points to finish in a fourth-place tie at their Featherfest on April 19. NT’s lone title came at No. 3 doubles with Emma Regnier and Molly Fischer. They beat a duo from York 22-20, 21-17 in the final.

Poolside

Girls Swimming Lake Forest: Hillary Rancap will be swimming at the next level. Earlier this month, the senior signed a national letter of intent with St. Louis University.

She qualified to the IHSA state meet in the 200 backstroke and 200 medley relay last fall.

Stick Nation

Girls Field Hockey North Shore Country Day: Alyssa Dudzik has been named the new head field hockey coach for the Raiders.

She is a 2009 graduate of Amherst College, where she was a three-time All-American.

The Rundown

Track North Shore Country Day: Junior Tonya Piergies and senior Rory Kelly highlighted the Raiders at the Luther North Invite on April 19. Piergies won three events (long jump, 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles). Her winning time (16.73) in the 100 hurdles set a school record.

Kelly broke two school records, winning the 1600 meters in 5:33.1 and placing second in the 800 meters in 2:29.0.

Meanwhile, NSCD boys were paced

by Peter MacCarthy (2nd, 110 hurdles).

Hot Ticket

Girls Lacrosse New Trier: Don’t look for middle infielders at Wrigley Field on April 27.

Look for middies.

New Trier’s girls lax team faces Lyons Township at 1 p.m. at the home of the Chicago Cubs, a day after Northwestern University’s women’s team battles USC at the 100-year-old venue. Admission is free.

New Trier (9-0) is ranked second in Illinois by laxpower.com; LT (5-4) is 17th. ■

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Highland Park’s Biagi has eyes on postseason success ■ by jeff davis

sports@northshoreweekend.com Highland Park High School senior Greg Biagi constantly thinks about the state gymnastics meet.

Last year’s and this year’s.

Biagi is motivated to make a big return to the state meet on May 16-17 at Hinsdale Central.

Last year was a near miss for him. He placed 12th on the parallel bars with a 9.05 — and missed a final berth by an agonizing .05.

“I think about it every day,” admitted Biagi, who also took 28th on pommel horse (7.9).

“It’s a mixture of what could have been and how I can get there.

“I definitely want to make top 10 this year. That was my goal last year, and I want to make it this year.”

Highland Park coach Doug Foerch believes Biagi is capable of his goal.

“He can certainly move up from where he was last year,” Foerch said. “Top 10 is tough, but if he can knock at the door … .”

Biagi is working hard to perfect his parallel bars routine.

“I feel like the thing that I want to focus on now that could make me get better in the long run is always form,” Biagi said. “It’s all about form and execution. (There are a) couple things here and there that I still need to work on.”

Biagi scored an 8.5 in the event in a triangular on April 17, finishing behind Deerfield state finalist Brian Spinello (9.0). His efforts that night helped the host Giants (133.7) outscore Deerfield (132.1) and Glenbrook North (124.4).

Biagi also placed third on pommel horse (7.6), while he recorded a 7.6 on vault and 7.4 on floor exercise.

“Greg is always very solid Uplifting: Highland Park High School’s Greg Biagi works the parallel bars on April 17. He has on parallel bars and horse,” high hopes for next month’s state meet. photography by joel lerner Foerch said. “He hit both rouNotable: HP senior Dylan Abbott tines pretty well. He does the other on any event. events more to help the team out. “(That took) a lot of coaching,” he won pommel horse with a season-best “He’s one of the captains,” the coach said. “It wasn’t easy.”

8.2 against Deerfield and GBN. Junior added. “He is a good leader. He’s very This season, Biagi has helped Jeff Brewer, who missed all of last even keeled. He knows how to pres- Highland Park improve its team score year with a stress fracture in his back, ent himself, whether it’s in a meet or by more than 15 points from 2013. continued his impressive comeback by whether it’s talking to someone. He’s “I’m very team oriented,” said finishing second on still rings (7.4) and very mature as a competitor and as a Biagi, who is considering becoming tying for third on high bar (6.2). Junior teammate.” a cheerleader when he attends Drake Andrew Kaufman placed third on Biagi has come a long way since first University, which doesn’t have a gym- vault (8.5), tied for fourth with senior competing in gymnastics as a fresh- nastics program. “I want to make the teammate Mitch Berkowitz on floor man. He earned all-league honors last (state) finals and keep on progress- (8.3) and tied for fourth on still rings season after placing third at the CSL ing as a team, keep on getting that (6.9). Senior David Robbins took third Meet with a 9.1 on parallel bars. It score up.”

(8.4) and Berkowitz (7.8) was fourth was the first time that he scored a 9.0 on parallel bars. ■

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Emily Cavalaris of the Scouts (right), seen here in earlier action this spring, tallied seven goals in her team’s recent win over Warren. photography

■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Emily Cavalaris didn’t need a stick or a ball to deliver one of her biggest assists for Lake Forest High School’s girls lacrosse team this spring.

And the recipient of the senior middie’s assist — Cat Catanzaro — isn’t even a Scouts player. Catanzaro is Lake Forest’s lacrosse coach, who guided Blue Devils at Warren before taking the post at LFHS this spring.

Her Scouts traveled to Warren for a game in Gurnee on April 9.

“That was tough for me personally,” Catanzaro recalls. “But what made it easier for me was Emily and the way she stepped up and took control of the team.

“Emily,” she adds, “was great, making sure the team was focused from the moment we got off the bus until the end of the game. Emily also had a lot do with the outstanding sportsmanship our girls showed that night.”

Cavalaris, a tri-captain and team’s leading scorer (18 goals), was a force with her stick that night, pouring in a career-high seven goals in Lake Forest’s 20-11 victory. Warren’s defense had a tough time containing the swift, ambidextrous Scout with the proficient stick skills. “[Catanzaro] is one of my favorite coaches, a coach I respect tremendously,” says Cavalaris, whom Catanzaro coached when Cavalaris was a freshman field hockey player at LFHS. “That was a difficult decision for her, leaving Warren to coach our lacrosse team.

“We wanted to make her proud for choosing to dedicate herself to our program, and we showed a lot of class. We toned down the celebrations after our goals. Warren, I have to say, played an awesome game.”

Afterward, when the team huddled, one of the first things a delighted Catanzaro said to her team was, “Thanks, girls.”

Lake Forest is 3-3, with two of the losses

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coming to reigning state champ Loyola Academy and New Trier, which finished third at state last spring. The Scouts are ranked 18th in Illinois by laxpower.com.

Look for that ranking to climb, as Cavalaris — a member of Lake Forest’s state champion field hockey team the past two seasons — and her mates near the start of the state playoffs in May. “Emily is a huge team leader for us and one of the fastest people I know,” says LF senior middie Payton Mickey, who will play field hockey at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. “She’s super positive and an amazing player, a teammate who knows how to get all of us pumped up.

“I’ve seen two players try to defend her at once, and you know what she usually does in such a situation? She blows by both of them.”

Cavalaris has three brothers, including Connor, who has two years of football eligibility remaining at the University of Notre Dame as a cornerback/special teams player. John Cavalaris, 23, played lacrosse and football in high school, and Christopher Cavalaris is an eighth-grader who plays football, basketball and lacrosse.

“Never a dull moment with three brothers,” says Emily Cavalaris. “I love having three brothers. They’ve made me tough and competitive in sports, and they have never stopped encouraging me.”

Lax players on this year’s girls squad are receiving similar support from the brothers’ sister.

“It’s important to lead vocally and by example,” says the fourth-year varsity member. “I try to get the team emotionally invested in the sport and make sure we have the necessary intensity at our practices and in games.”

Cavalaris has until May 1 to decide where she’ll attend college. She has been accepted by the University of Illinois (engineering) and Boston College. Her lengthy lists of pros and cons for each school rest on a kitchen table at home.

Some of the plusses and minuses had to be written on the back of each sheet of paper.

Catanzaro would need reams of paper if she had to jot down Cavalaris’ strengths as a player and leader.

“Emily’s versatility impresses me,” the coach says. “She has the ability to take over a game with her speed, stick skills and scoring, and she’s playing with a lot more confidence this year while willing to try different things. She’s one of our most skilled players and she’s our emotional leader.

“Emily,” she adds, “is awesome, funny and smart … the type of person you’d want your child to be like.” ■

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New Trier’s Casas brings it, disrupts offenses with his hard-nosed play ■ by bill mclean

likes to play golf, battle with teammates in card games of Hearts and partake in Super Smash Bros., a video game.

“An awesome guy, a really nice guy, a bro,” says New Trier middie and 2013 first-team all-Central Suburban pick Matt Solberg, who led the New Trier Green hockey team in scoring this past winter and helped it successfully defend its state championship in March.

“He’s always there to back you up as a friend.

“Chad,” he adds, “has really good footwork for a guy his size, and he’s smart back there [on defense], knows how to push kids around.

I remember what he did to an attack coming from the opposite side. Chad laid him out [with a clean hit], wrecked him.”

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The backbone of New Trier’s boys lacrosse team has a balky … back.

Senior long stick defenseman Chad Casas sustained a couple of ruptured discs, derailing a football career as a linebacker his sophomore year.

But the 6-foot-3, 205-pounder is poised for what looks to be another all-Central Suburban lax season this spring.

“You just have to deal with it,” Casas says of back pain that crops up in games, like it did in the first half of New Trier’s 15-3 defeat of visiting Wheaton Warrenville South on April 19.

Casas, a second-team all-Central Suburban pick last spring, took himself Notable: Trevians junior Kevin Mulhern out of the game for a spell, stretched along scored a team-high three goals in New Trier’s a sideline and returned to action.

15-3 rout of visiting Wheaton Warrenville “Football was fun,” he says. “But so is South on April 19. NT’s Michael Riordan, lacrosse. I like the mixture; there are so Dan Maentz and Ben Connelly tallied two many different requirements in the sport goals apiece, as junior goalkeeper Jonathan — conditioning, strength, good eye-hand Anastos got the win. The Trevs led 7-1 at the coordination, footwork and endurance.” half. “We wanted to come out with energy against an athletic team, and we did that,” When he’s not making life difficult for any Herrala said. “I liked our balance; a bunch attackman who dares to venture near him, Casas occasionally dodges middies while Hanging with Chad: New Trier’s Chad Casas (No. 4) ventures upfield against Wheaton Warren- of guys scored for us.” WWS struck for two goals early in the third quarter, narrowing toting the ball past midfield to help set up ville South on April 19. photography by joel lerner matters on offense.

NT’s lead to 7-3. But the hosts scored the next “That’s exciting for me, the chance to make eight goals, including a pair in the final 1:07 things happen [at that end],” says Casas, who might play Maine South and Glenbrook South had scored only one of the third quarter when only 21 seconds separated goals club lacrosse at either Tulane University (where his brother, goal apiece against Casas and his fellow defensemen on from Riordan and Mulhern. “We worked for shots and took junior Connor Casas, attends) or SMU. April 10 and April 12, respectively. a lot of good shots,” Casas said. … New Trier (5-5) has won Last year’s state runner-up improved to 5-5 with its win “Big, strong kid,” New Trier coach Tom Herrala says three of its last four game and is ranked sixth in Illinois against the Tigers (3-2) last weekend. It marked the third of Casas, a captain. “When he’s fired up, he’s as good as and 23rd in the Midwest by laxpower.com. … Reigning time in the last four games that a New Trier opponent had anybody on the field.” state champion Loyola Academy edged New Trier 8-6 on been limited to three or fewer goals.

Off the field, he’s an approachable, friendly teen who April 15. ■

Lake Forest's Turelli showing great promise ■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northshoreweekend.com There’s no Hub Cirame.

No Luke Johnson.

And yet, the Lake Forest High School baseball team has held its own during the first four weeks of the season. The Scouts are 8-7 after 15 games.

The left-handed hitting Cirame, who started at third base last spring, chose not to come out for the team. Losing the speedy senior is a major loss.

“We knew he was going to focus more on football,” said LF head coach Ray Del Fava.

The star running back will play football at Davidson College in the fall.

Johnson, meanwhile, has been sidelined all season with an injury: stress fracture in his back. He’s a hard guy to replace.

The Bucknell recruit, a returning allconference middle infielder, hit .297 and drove in a team-high 22 runs last spring.

“Not having him has caused a domino effect,” said Del Fava, who has inserted junior Cal Kropke into the shortstop position.

Kropke has done solid work. The same goes for several other juniors: catcher George Karkazis, outfielders Charlie Sullivan, Cole Digman and Matt Gruenes and pitchers Mark Turelli and Bryan Bund.

Turelli certainly has been a nice varsity addition. He’s been outstanding in his latest mound appearances. He threw a shutout in an 11-0 five-inning victory over host Freeport in the Pretzel City Classic on April 12. He went the distance on a three-hitter.

Turelli was equally impressive on April 19 in a nonconference 1-0 loss to host Glenbrook North. He walked two and limited the Spartans to three hits.

“I don’t overwhelm hitters,” said Turelli.

“I throw a lot of off-speed pitches. I try to keep hitters off-balanced.”

His velocity, which sits in the high 70s and tops out at “82 miles per hour,” is not off the charts. But he’s got plenty of stuff.

He throws four pitches, including a twoseam changeup, which serves as his bread and butter.

“It’s an effective pitch,” said Del Fava, “especially if he can locate his fastball and get ahead of hitters.”

Turelli had a little Houdini in him on Saturday. He figured to be in a heap of trouble in the third inning, when the Spartans loaded the bases — two hits and a walk — with no outs.

“Tough situation,” said Turelli. “But I was able to minimize it, which was key. I didn’t let the it get out of control.”

After allowing a run on a wild pitch, Turelli was able to retire GBN’s No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 hitters in succession.

“Getting out of that jam should have been a huge momentum shift,” said Del Fava.

“But it wasn’t.”

The Spartans benefitted from an umpire’s overruling in the fifth inning. The Scouts had a run nullified, when the home-plate ump called runner’s interference at a play at second base.

“Looking back on this game,” said Turelli, “that’s the one play you’ll think of.”

“It shouldn’t have come down to that,”

Lake Forest High School's Mark Turelli delivers a pitch against Glenbrook North. photography

by joel lerner

Del Fava added. “But in a 1-0 game, one call can be magnified.”

Notable: JR Reimer, Jack Kauss, Gruenes, Digman and Kropke had hits in the loss to GBN. … In the 11-0 invite win over Freeport, Reimer hit a home run and drove home five runs. In a 15-8 win over

Harlem, Reimer, Gruenes and Digman also had three hits each, while Karkazis had two hits and three RBIs. And, in a 12-4 victory over Marengo, Michael Szeszol, Gruenes, Reimer and Kropke had two hits apiece.

Five guys — Karkazis, Sullivan, Reimer, Kropke and Kauss — knocked in two runs each. ■

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Mounds of talent — in the pool Former pitcher Shewchuck still throwing heat for LA’s boys water polo team ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Cameron Shewchuck chucked baseballs as a freshman pitcher/outfielder at Loyola Academy in 2011.

It upset his older brother Tommy and older sister Elizabeth, a pair of former Loyola water polo players.

“They didn’t talk to me much my freshman year,” Cameron Shewchuck recalls with a laugh. “They pushed me to play the sport, and my mom [Pat] was on their side.

“But my dad [Mike] was hesitant, because of all the years I had played baseball.”

Water polo eventually pulled the little brother in, and he’s been throwing wet fastballs — they’re legal in the sport — since his sophomore season.

“I’m not a patient person and I like a sport that’s physical,” says the 6-foot, 175-pound senior and illpolo.com first-team preseason all-stater. “Water polo has been a good sport for me.”

And Shewchuck, a Glenview resident, has been sensational for this spring’s 19-4 Ramblers, ranked third in the state by illpolo.com. The attack/2-meter defender has a pair of seven-goal games, with one coming in a 10-3 defeat of New Trier and the other in a 10-7 defeat of fourth-ranked St. Ignatius.

The latter victory followed two one-goal losses to St. Ignatius.

“The big, strong shot he has comes from his baseball background,” Ramblers coach Daniel Hengelmann says of the Fordham University recruit and Olympic Development Program player. “Cameron is not a ball hog.

He really buys into the team approach and knows, when he’s double-teamed, there’s a teammate open who’s ready to shoot and very capable of scoring.

“I have also been impressed with his will and determination. He dedicated himself wholeheartedly in the offseason, swimming a lot and lifting a lot. And he played water polo as often as possible.”

Shewchuck tried out for the freshman basketball team at Loyola in 2010. He got cut, but it was a kind one — for the school’s swimming and water polo programs.

“My mom encouraged me to go out for another winter sport after I got cut,” he says. “Swimming was the sport. That first day of swimming practice … it was pretty hard. I remember doing sets in a lane, sets I could handle easily now. But I was so out of shape then.”

He capped his swimming career at the state meet this past winter, helping the Ramblers’ 200- and 400-meter freestyle relays to 16th-place finishes as the second leg on each.

“I got a great base of friends from being on swim teams,” Shewchuck says.

But two of his best friends know only the doggy paddle. Their names are Bailey and Biscuit, Golden Retrievers that live with the Shewchuck family. Bailey is 13 and Biscuit is 7.

“They’re like … humans, and I love fooling around with them when I have the time,” says Shewchuck. “Bailey knows how to push the button on a water fountain at a park.

“They’re the best; they both jump all over me when I get home.”

Shewchuck jumped into Stevenson High School’s pool to play in the fourth quarter of a state water polo semifinal as a sophomore in 2012. LA beat Lockport 15-6 but lost 14-6 to Lyons Township in the state final, a year

‘Cam' do Kid: Loyola Academy standout Cameron Shewchuck prepares to flick a pass during last week’s action against Glenbrook South.

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after LA placed third at state.

Last spring Shewchuck helped the Ramblers reach a sectional final, where they lost 11-9 to New Trier’s Trevians. The loss snapped LA’s streak of consecutive sectional championships at three.

The current edition of poloists under Hengelmann won’t settle for anything short of another Elite Eight berth next month.

“We don’t have one go-to guy this spring,” says Shewchuck, the Ramblers’ leading scorer whose 50-yard freestyle time is

22-flat, according to his National Collegiate Scouting Association profile. “We have a lot of equally good weapons.”

Fordham’s Rams will enjoy one of them this fall. Water polo is a fall sport at the school in Bronx, N.Y. “The coaching staff there emphasizes academics and the school is good at helping students find internships,” says Shewchuck, who was accepted into Fordham’s business school. “My brother [Tommy, a 2009 Loyola grad who attended Dayton] regretted not

playing college water polo, and I know he didn’t want me to feel the same way.

“I will always be thankful that he pushed me to play water polo at Loyola and pushed me to think seriously about playing water polo in college.”

Notable: Other Ramblers named to the 2014 illpolo.com preseason all-state teams were George Finn (second team), Jack Nikele (third team) and Matt Kearney (fifth team). ■

46 | perfect weekend jeremy and carrie take a shine to Russian River Valley

For their 10th anniversary, Carrie and Jeremy Diamond of Wilmette wanted to go somewhere quiet and romantic, a spot that didn’t require days of travel to an exotic land.

They chose the Russian River Valley, part of Sonoma County wine country in California.

But unlike most visitors to the area, tasting wine was not the principal attraction.

“We lead very busy lives managing our sixyear-old (Jack) and four-year-old (Morgan), and we didn’t want to be scheduled during the trip,” says Carrie.

“The trees are majestic.

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That meant hopping into their rented convertible and heading, for instance, to redwood forests up the coast on Route 1.

“The trees are majestic. Taking a picture doesn’t capture what you’re looking at,” Carrie notes. “And the drive on the coast was breathtaking, all the cliffs and rocks.”

They also traveled to Healdsburg — only 10 miles from their hotel — where they visited art galleries and enjoyed an Italian restaurant called Scopa, which seats only 10 tables.

Staying at the Farmhouse Inn, a luxury boutique hotel tucked in the hills, the Diamonds sat at the pool and read books and enjoyed a couples’ massage. The weather last September was spectacular, they agree, as was the inn’s restaurant, run by a Michelinstarred chef.

Did they join the wine tastings at the Farmhouse? No interest.

“You drink wine all day there if you wanted to,” Carrie says, “but we wanted to follow our noses.”

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