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Resident recalls historic march, racism on North Shore By HOLLY MARIHUGH

or a $35 bus ticket, she got a front-row seat to history. Fifty years ago, North Shore resident Nina Raskin boarded a chartered bus in Evanston for Selma, Ala. after she and her friends and neighbors, all civil rights activists, responded to Dr. Martin Luther King’s call to Americans all over the country to step up and march. This past Sunday, many who witnessed history that year along with Raskin, 82, gathered on the Village Green in Winnetka to Continues on page 11

Biting back

North Shore towns spend millions of dollars to battle mosquitos Lincolnwood. • Southlake MAD: $490,000 Communities covered: Highhe recent discovery of West Nile virus in mosquitos from land Park, Highwood, Deerfield, test batches in Glencoe, Bannockburn, and Riverwoods. • Lake Bluff MAD: $173,200 Winnetka and Lake County emphasizes the importance of fightCommunities covered: Lake ing the slender fly. Bluff plus parts of Shields TownAll but one of the North Shore ship and Libertyville Township. suburbs are members of taxfunded Mosquito Abatement Just what are Mosquito AbateDistricts (MAD). Lake Forest is ment Districts? They are a unit of the exception, as it manages insect government funded by property control through its Forestry De- taxes and overseen by volunteer partment. It also spends consider- boards whose members are apably less on mosquito manage- pointed by county or township ment compared to its neighbors. leaders. Annual mosquito abatement The Illinois General Assembly spending: enabled residents to create the • Lake Forest: $17,000 districts decades ago when muCommunities covered: Lake nicipalities didn’t want to or didn’t Forest have the money to reduce mos• North Shore MAD: $1.7 quitos themselves, said Robert million Masini, attorney for Southlake Communities covered: Wil- MAD and Lake Bluff MAD. The mette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Southlake district was created in Glencoe, Northbrook, Glenview, the 1920s; Lake Bluff in the Northfield, Evanston, Morton 1950s. Grove, Golf, Niles, Skokie and “The statute was set up at a By ADRIENNE FAWCETT

North Shore Mosquito Abatement District’s Christopher Xamplas collects mosquito specimens from traps throughout the area and tests them for West Nile virus. Photography by Joel Lerner

time when, you can imagine, there was a public health situation from mosquito-borne diseases,” said Masini. Southlake Mosquito Abatement District Southlake has a reserve of $1 million, according to the district’s tentative annual budget report. The Southlake district’s tax levy declined in 2013 to $262,144 from $560,000 the prior year and

then increased more than 90 percent to $500,000 in 2014. “Southlake had been levying for a number of years at an amount that got its reserves higher than they wanted them to be, so two years ago they dropped the levy,” Masini explained. “Trustees would have liked to have kept the levy down, but if done a second year they would have been caught way too low.” Both Southlake and Lake Bluff

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[ NEWS ] 10 q uite a bite

How do North Shore towns handle the annual problem of mosquitoes? Do the millions of dollars spent provide enough protection?

10 n orth shore announcements

Find out what’s happened and what will happen in our towns.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 12 north shorts

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Book gets unexpected boost; next stop Hollywood?

For decades, Woodbridge gave it little thought. In 2005, while watching TV at his Lake Forest home, the longtime Trinity University professor heard about a Hitler rifle for sale, jarring his memory. After many phone calls, much research and recruiting Chicago Tribune Pulitzer Prize winner Maurice Possley to help tell the story, he crafted “Hitler in the Crosshairs,” published by Zondervan four years ago. The engaging book encompasses a little-known German uprising hen John Wood- near the end of World War II bridge’s father, which received U.S. support, the Charles, escorted storming of Hitler’s apartment the 6-year-old to by American troops in Munich his office in the 1940s, the and how Woodbridge’s father, a youngster expected the worst. Presbyterian minister, landed the “I didn’t know what I had Fuhrer’s favorite gun, the done wrong,” Woodbridge German leader’s cherished 50th birthday present. recalls. That was the end of the story In their Savannah, Ga., house, he was shown sheets of per- until last month. Woodbridge sonal stationery, a name em- received a brief e-mail from the bossed in gold at top. Introduced editor at his publishing house. to a golden gun, he noticed the Out of nowhere, his work had initials AH. reached the 19th spot on The The paper and the weapon had New York Times’ list of bestbeen the property of Adolf selling nonfiction e-books. Hitler. Amazon had put a special

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discount rate on the book, and no doubt the word “Hitler” in the title helped spur sales. Rick Kogan hosted co-author Possley on his WGN program afterwards and said “Steven Spielberg, this should be your next movie.” Though Spielberg hasn’t called, Hollywood is showing interest. Woodbridge says Carla Robinson, whose credits include “Battlestar Galactica,” offered to write the screenplay on spec recently after seeing Woodbridge’s and Possley’s movie proposal, which includes potential actors (such as Vanity Fair cover boy Channing Tatum) for the main roles. “The interest in a good World War II movie apparently is pretty high right now because the Greatest Generation is disappearing,” Woodbridge says over coffee at Starbucks. “And from what I’ve heard, The New York Times bestseller list cachet kicks things up in Hollywood.” Woodbridge, who has taught history at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Northwestern University, believes the little-known story needs to be told. About 400 Germans — led by German

Army Officer Rupprecht Gerngross, who broadcast messages urging resistance of the regime — helped cripple Nazi control in Munich in April, 1945. That allowed the Allies to arrive in the city almost unscathed before heading to Berlin, where hundreds of thousands of Russians had been killed. The soldier Ira “Teen” Palm — a great friend of Woodbridge’s father — had been tapped to enter Hitler’s Munich apartment with other soldiers and assassinate him; instead, Palm gathered the stationery and gun from the empty abode and gave them to the Presbyterian minister, who had led him to his faith in Christ. To his surprise, Woodbridge wasn’t punished on that long-ago day in his father’s office. Instead, a memory of a golden gun is putting the silver screen in his crosshairs almost 70 years later. Enjoy the weekend.

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BITING BACK Cont. from PG. 1 first confirmed indicator of the disease’s presence in the county this year. Clarke manages Southlake’s mosquito management process from start to finish, including survey and mapping; surveillance; larval control; and adult control, according to Southlake’s website. Adult mosquito control, also referred to as adulticiding, is an additional expense and costs vary depending on the type of treatment required. SLMAD’s 2013 contract with Clarke, which was obtained by Highland Park resident Dean Mouscher under the Freedom of Information Act, put communitywide or partial residential neighborhood truck treatments of streets at $74.25 per

mile; adulticiding of the Highland Park ravines (5.1 miles) by a handheld device was $2,771 per application. When additional treatments are called for, the Southlake district draws from its reserve, Masini said. Lake Bluff Mosquito Abatement District Lake Bluff MAD also contracts with Clarke to manage its mosquito program. Masini said Lake Bluff ’s district has a $99,000 reserve. North Shore Mosquito Abatement District NSMAD does all of the work itself and has a lab in its Northfield offices where it tests mosquitos. The agency estimates that

“We weren’t killing three fourths of the mosquitos because we weren’t reaching the woods behind the houses or the gardens or the patios in the back yards.” —Peter Gordon

90 percent of its effort is on larval control — killing mosquito larvae or preventing their ability to grow into adult mosquitos. Last summer, NSMAD sprayed adulticide over targeted areas 10 times throughout the season. The agency also uses a barrier treatment on shrubs that will stay in place until it rains for specific public events, such as Glencoe’s movie night or Wilmette’s July 3 celebration. The goal is to make the events safe and more enjoyable for residents, said David Zazra, NSMAD spokesman. NSMAD reported that mosquito test pools in Winnetka tested positive for West Nile virus on June 24. West Nile also has been found in Glencoe and Skokie this summer.

“It has really become a pubic health issue,” said Zazra. “It has also become an economic issue because people wouldn’t want to come here without mosquito abatement.” Lake Forest Lake Forest handles its mosquito abatement program inhouse under the direction of City Forester Peter Gordon. He said Lake Forest’s mosquito program focuses almost exclusively on larval control. The city treats over 8,500 public and private catch basins as well as ditches, detention ponds, right of ways, railway easement and private properties. The city does not spray adult mosquitos based on nuisance complaints — though residents do complain

about mosquitos, and many hire private firms to spray their yards. Lake Forest does spray certain public areas for special events such as the Festival & Fireworks on July 4. Gordon said that when he joined the city staff 25 years ago, crews would drive from street to street spraying insecticides to manage the mosquito population. Now, using garbage scooters, crews primarily drop mosquitokilling briquettes in storm drains around town. “Here the houses are set back, and we’d be lucky if the treatment made it to the front door,” he said. “We weren’t killing three fourths of the mosquitos because we weren’t reaching the woods behind the houses or the gardens or the patios in the back yards.”

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The Village’s Natural Resources Commission was honored recently by the Chicago Region Trees Initiative with an Urban Forestry Award for Most Innovative Urban Forestry Program. This award recognizes the efforts of the volunteer commission, which annually conducts several work and cleanup days; organizes the Green Table at the Glenview Farmers Market; staffs Arbor Day, Earth Day, and the Summer Festival booth; runs the Heritage Tree Program; launched the green infrastructure bike tour and sign program, and reviews project plans and policies.

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Kids Summer Reading Club ended on July 31 at the Northbrook Public Library. Adults are reminded to ensure their children’s reading logs are turned in to Youth Services for their chance to win a prize. The Adult Summer Reading Club runs until Aug. 31. Those participating can turn in their reading logs at Reader Services for a chance to win a weekly raffle and an entry for the Grand Prize drawing: an iPad mini.

Enjoy food, wine and beer stages, and musical acts. All of the net proceeds from the festival go back into the community, providing grants to many Northbrook non-profit and social service agencies including the Village, Park District, Public Library, Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook, Northfield Township Food Pantry, and North Suburban YMCA. For more information, please visit northbrookdays.com/#home.

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Members and nonmembers of the Northbrook Chamber of Commerce & Industry are invited to meet at the Beer and Wine Tent at Village Green Park to mix and mingle with Chamber friends and Northbrook Days organizers on Aug. 5 from 5-7 p.m. Attendees will enjoy hot dogs, brats, corn and funnel cakes and learn more about the Civic Foundation and the funds raised by Northbrook Days including scholarships and numerous grants to non-profit and social service organizations. Admission is complimentary for members and $20 for guests.

The free event includes DJ entertainment, hot dogs and drinks; McGruff the Crime Dog; games and raffles; the use of the pool; in addition to information about safety and crime prevention tips. Jeffrey’s Climbing Tower will be open for demonstrations. National Night Out is a community-wide event, sponsored by the Northbrook Park District and the Village of Northbrook, designed to promote partnership between local police and the community. National Night Out provides residents with an opportunity to talk with Northbrook Police, meet the Police Chief and Village Board members. For more information, call 847664-4427. In the event of rain, the program will not be rescheduled.

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Glenview plan commissioners approved a recommendation to village trustees for plans by TenNinety Beer Company last week to open a microbrewery and tasting room at 1015 Waukegan Road near Lake Avenue. The meeting brought supporters of the proposed microbrewery and residents with concerns. If approved by village trustees, Ten-Ninety would be the first microbrewery in the village. The issue is expected to come up for a first consideration by village trustees at the Tuesday, Aug. 4 village board meeting.

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On Saturday, Aug. 8, from 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., residents with special needs and their immediate families are invited to enjoy carnival rides and entertainment at Northbrook Days. Reservations are required. Attendance is limited to residents with special needs and their immediate family or caretaker living Northbrook in the same household. On Tuesday, Aug. 4, all are Participants must call 847invited to join the Northbrook 272-5050, extension 4260, or Preview Police, the Northbrook Park Dis- email nbkdays@gmail.com to trict, and the citizens of North- register in advance. brook in celebrating the 12th Northbrook Days will be Northbrook From Aug. 5-9, the North- Annual National Night Out at closed to the general public brook Civic Foundation presents Meadowhill Aquatic Center, during this time. Purchase of a Northbrook Days Festival, which Waukegan and Maple Roads, Northbrook Days Grand Prize is 100 percent volunteer run. from 6-9 p.m. Ticket(s) help to fund this event. CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Board Member Mike Ditka will be hosting the Chicago Lighthouse Charity Golf Tournament on Aug. 31 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. In addition, former Chicago Blackhawks players will be in attendance. Proceeds raised will support The Chicago Lighthouse North in Glenview bringing the same programs and services of The Chicago Lighthouse to people of all ages in the north and northwest suburbs who are blind or visually impaired. Fo r i n f o r m a t i o n o n tickets, sponsorship and underwriting opportunities, contact events@chicagolighthouse.org, call 847-510-2060, or go online to chicagolighthouse.org/ditkagolf15.

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RASKIN Cont. from PG. 1

their realtor told them, “You wouldn’t be happy in northwest mark the 50th Anniversary of Evanston.” At that time in the King’s historic visit to that place early 1960s, Jews weren’t welcome in the heart of the village. Five in that area on city’s map. decades ago, people sat patiently So the Raskins scooped up on picnic blankets or in lawn their two-year-old daughter, chairs, listening to one of the Nancy, and three-week-old baby, most profound leaders of the last Julie, and unloaded their boxes century talk about why the and furniture into a house on the mostly white lakeside communi- east side of town on the corner ties should care about civil rights of Clinton Place and Ridge for African Americans. Avenue. Raskin’s journey to Selma There were four movie theaters dates back a bit further than in Evanston in the late 1950s. 1965. She recalls visiting Dallas Raskin also recalls that while in 1955 as a 21-year-old newly- three were integrated, one, the wed and bearing witness to a bus Valencia, was not. driver telling a young African“Black people had to sit in the American man, “Go to the back balcony,” Raskin says. of the bus.” In a quavering voice As a girl from the Bronx, full of emotion, Raskin demand- Raskin wasn’t naïve. But the open ed of the driver, “And you call racism she found in Chicagoland yourself an American?” She later knocked her back a step. reflected, “It was my first faceThose moments, frozen in to-face experience with what it time because of their stark lifewas to be a black person and to defining impact, propelled be considered inferior.” Raskin to stand at the forefront Raskin also recalls that when of local civil rights campaigns. she and her husband, Nathaniel, “It was 1962, and I was active scouted Evanston neighborhoods in the League of Women Voters,” for their very first house to buy, Raskin says. “Things were

brewing in Evanston and across the country.” As a member of the League, Raskin went door-to-door conducting a survey about attitudes about race. At her side was her two-year-old younger daughter, Julie. “In those days, people answered their door,” Raskin remembers. “It was a well-designed study, and what turned out was that people were pretty open to school integration.” The issue that remained a stickler though, was housing. “It was bad enough for Jews,” Raskin says from her firsthand experience. “But it was much worse for black people. They could only live in a certain area. Landlords wouldn’t rent to them. Realtors wouldn’t show houses to them.” Raskin and her friends, all young married couples of the 1960s, created an organization, North Evanston Neighbors. “We were devoted to promoting fair housing,” Raskin says. “We picketed realtors and held silent vigils and marched.”

They also opened their purses and checkbooks and bought a building. “We bought an apartment house in southeast Evanston on Sheridan Road to demonstrate that it’s possible for integrated housing to be economically viable,” Raskin says. “We rented units to black families. The white people didn’t move out, and everyone lived there in a completely harmonious way.” The Selma to Montgomery March took place in March, 1965. Raskin’s friend, Grace Mertz, inspired them to charter a bus bound for Alabama. “We were mostly housewives from Evanston,” Raskin says. “There were a few men who were clergy. You know who else was on the bus? Stud Terkel’s wife, Ida.” They gathered near Raskin’s house at Clinton Place and Ridge Avenue. Husbands and children waved good-bye to the 24 young moms. Women from an AfricanAmerican Church in Evanston brought the group containers of fried chicken for the long ride.

“On the ride down we trained people how to behave,” Raskin says. “If they were confronted by angry mobs, we said to hold your hands over the back of your neck to protect it.” After a night spent sleeping in bus seats, the group pulled into St. Jude Educational Institute on the outskirts of Montgomery during the early morning hours. “It was very exciting because we got to talk to people from all over,” Raskin says. Indeed, there were about 25,000 marchers gathered that day, waiting in the wet red clay and cueing up to march. “First we marched through black neighborhoods,” Raskin remembers. “There was such a welcome, and some people joined in. “Then we marched through white neighborhoods. Either there was silence or such vile things were said to us.” When the group of young Evanston mothers finally reached the State Capitol building in Montgomery, they spread a blanket on the green for specta-

tors. “We were very far away from Dr. King, but there was a great feeing of joy that we were part of a big mass of humanity all there for the same purpose,” Raskin says. After the high of marching, the Evanstonians managed to board the right bus and get out of town, but not without Alabama state troopers accosting them at a rest stop in Birmingham. “They told us, ‘Stand up against the wall! You outsiders are just causing trouble!’ Then they left. It was just to frighten us,” Raskin says. Sobering news hit them like a slap on the face the next morning after another long night of bus riding home. “Viola Liuzzo had been killed by the Klan,” Raskin remembers. “She was a mother from Detroit, and she’d been a civil rights worker. She was driving marchers back to Selma and her car was ambushed, and she was shot. We were all young mothers and that could have happened to us.”

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Online dating boosts gradually evolving love

Joanna Brown

First, there are folks who have receive a fair amount of mail from readers of this column, read the column and explain to and it generally falls into three me how the topic has played out categories. in their own lives. I’ve heard

wonderful stories about weddings, as well as great advice for the next generation of married couples in this way. Then comes the constructive criticism. Many readers have taken time to disagree with me, and I enjoy those notes just as much as the complimentary ones. The perspectives you share are insightful and keep me thinking long after I log off my laptop. And then there is the occasional note from a reader who suggests a topic for an upcoming column or who recommends a new resource for my research. And so it was that I opened my mail last week and found a clipping from the June 30 issue of The New York Times on gradually evolving love. A former colleague and trusted friend reads the paper cover to cover and generously shares with me that which he knows I miss (usually with a self-deprecating sticky note tagged in the corner). In this case, New York Times reporter John Tierney reported on a study at the University of Texas at Austin that asked students to rate the romantic appeal of their opposite-sex classmates in order to assess how superficial we can be when we look for potential mates. “At the beginning of the semester, the students pretty much agreed on who in their class was the most desirable. But when they were asked again three months later, after spending a semester in a small class together, their judgments varied widely on who was hot and who was not.”

“Registered adults use the Internet and email to get to know someone before they ever meet in person, often starting a relationship with someone they wouldn’t necessarily approach at a party.” Thus, the psychologists concluded, perceptions of mate value change the more that people spend time together. The idea of a gradually evolving love is a popular theme in books and movies, The New York Times explained; consider couples ranging from Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth

Bennet to Adam Sandler and pretty much any of his leading ladies. But I would argue that gradually evolving love also explains the popularity of online dating. Registered adults use the Internet and email to get to know someone before they ever meet in person, often starting a relationship with someone they wouldn’t necessarily approach at a party. Match.com, one such site, reported in its annual study of singles (not just sites users, but a representative sample done through a professional research firm) that 31 percent of U.S. singles met their last date online, while 25 percent met through a friend and 6 percent met their last date in a bar or club. The Pew Research Center

broke it down further: 22 percent of 25-34 year olds and 17 percent of 35-44 year olds have used an online dating site or mobile dating app. Of note, 45-54 year olds are just as likely to date online as are 18-24 year olds; 8 percent of 45-54 year olds and 10 percent of 18-24 year olds are online daters. The system must be a good one, for Match.com to be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. And yet, only 5 percent of Americans who are in a marriage or committed relationship say they met their significant other online. Are you one of the five percent? Tell me about your experience with an email to joanna@northshoreweekend.com

North Shorts T

he word “genius” is similar to “generous.” Not that they rhyme, but still, there’s a family resemblance. Both start with “gen” and end with “us.” What caused this musing? Poe the poet. A guy you met in school but hadn’t thought about until just the other night.

A thunderstorm rolled across the North Shore waking you at three in the morning. Trees outside the house shook and scratched your window. In between lightning flashes, darkness was total. It had a creepy vibe that seemed to want in. As you lay there ignoring the tapping on your window,

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you found yourself remembering American Lit and Poe’s famous “The Raven.” That bird also tapped, wanting in. But, it was just made up, right? Something symbolic that teachers crowed about while you doodled. Now, for the first time, you appreciate how perfectly Poe com-

municated a moody mood by animating it with this metaphor he hoped you’d understand. And you think: “The guy was a genius.” Then you think, (and by the way, all this thinking is good, because now you’re getting sleepy...) you think, well, maybe he wasn’t.

Geniuses are guys like the Northwestern math professor you hang around with. Guys who paper their walls with equations you’d never understand because you’re no genius. No, maybe Poe was simply “generous.” He had the big idea that a raven could artfully repre-

sent an unwelcome, implacable presence. Then he simply shared this insight. That doesn’t necessarily make him a genius. But the sharing does make him generous. Genius and generous sound pretty similar, as we said. Poe would’ve liked that. He liked words.

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North Shore Foodie

Man of many hats brings new meaning to phrase ‘chop chop’ In August of last year, the Wilmette Chop House opened here is a sign on the way on the very spot where the to the kitchen of the bakery that made the first Wilmette Chop House Midwest Girl Scout Cookies that purports to break was located. Since the opening, down the culinary hierarchy they’ve featured succulent into one tyrannical, easy-to- choice, prime, and certifieddigest maxim. Angus steaks; at least seven “The chef is always right,” sides; daily seafood specials, the sign not so much says as and two soups every day. The declares in big, bold letters. space is cozy — remember, it But what if that very same used to be a bakery — and chef is also the owner, head brings to mind a Parisian bistro waiter, bartender, and food abutting a moonlit cobblestone runner? More on that later. street. Lawrence Hulseman is the chef of this outfit. Hulseman wears many hats — actually, wears all the hats. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, you’ll generally see him by himself, a one-man culinary dynamo. When service ramps up towards the weekends, he employs a handful of waitstaff and chefs to service the 12 tables inside and five outside. One helper is his 17-year-old son, who has ambitions to become a chef like his father. The phone rings. Hulseman hustles to get it. “What could I do for you?” Chef Lawrence Hulseman he asks rhetorically. “I can have By Simon Murray

champagne waiting for you or make a specific dessert for you or an individual plate — I’m happy to do that as well.” He gets off the line, intimating it was a call concerning an anniversary meal. They may well order the Double-Cut Smoked Pork Chop, which is certainly a decadent treat for a special occasion. “It’s really succulent. It’s got a lot of great flavor by itself, but this pork chop is smoked for such a long period of time that it has a holiday ham quality to it,” notes Hulseman. “It falls right off the bone. When you’re doing it with the bananas, you’ve got sweet and smokiness together. It’s just a great combination.” Sweetness and smokiness is an apt way to describe Hulseman, as he disappears, almost in a cloud of smoke, to tend to something in the kitchen. The magician pulling the levers and ringing the bells, making food appear with a smile and a wink. Wilmette Chop House is located at 1162 Wilmette Ave in Wilmette. Call 847-278-2462 for reservations.

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Liz of the party Teammates, coaches find Loyola’s Satter — a Penn recruit — fun, engaging and highly skilled BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

t is a typical school day at Loyola Academy, hallways abuzz with students going this way and that way between classes. Student Bailey Busscher hears a student’s voice. It is an unmistakable voice from above, an animated and genuinely friendly one. The voice belongs to 6-foot-2 basketball player Liz Satter. “Hey, Bailey!” Satter, a smile spreading under dancing eyes and light strawberry blonde hair, shouts. “How’s your day going?” Busscher’s day gets better and sunnier, instantly, because she’s near the good friend she first met when both were in the fifth grade. “I remember that day,” Busscher, a Ramblers basketball player and lacrosse player, recalls. “My dad introduced me to Liz and Liz’s dad. She was this bright ball of energy, a happy and confident girl. Still is.” The girl is a senior-to-be at Loyola Academy now, a University of Pennsylvania-bound hoopster with an uber-positive disposition and an undying penchant for making to-die-for desserts for her loved ones and friends and teammates. Satter spreads joy. Satter spreads icing on cupcakes. “Sweet, pleasant,” Satter’s AAU Illinois Rockets coach, Drew Ondik, says of his second-year Rockets forward. “She’s always upbeat and excited and engaging. All of that is becoming, endearing … endearing stuff. She’s talkative, too. She’s a talker. She has all of the qualities you want your coach on the floor to have. Teammates look up to her, look to her for leadership. Liz points things out to me during timeouts. Liz suggests things to me.” Satter, a Glencoe resident, had been a Full Package AAU player when she joined Ondik’s U17 Rockets, a Naperville-based team, in the spring of 2014. Her split from Northfield-based Full Package was an amicable one; she still trains with Full Package basketball trainer Steve Pratt and plays pickup games with Full Package players. Satter, a transfer student from New Trier High School, was coming off her first year (2013-14) as a Ramblers

HEART OF THE SATTER: Loyola Academy’s Liz Satter drives the lane against Evanston during a regional title game last winter. She will play college hoops at the University of Pennsylvania. PHOTOGRAPHY BY George Pfoertner

varsity member, having averaged 3.5 points and 3.2 rebounds per game as a sophomore for a Class 4A regional champion. “She came to us as a young player with a young player’s skills,” Ondik recalls. “She was not a phenomenal player then. Liz was trim, athletic, long. She ran well. But she had limitations. Liz had a good summer, not a great one. We then analyzed her game and told her she would need to improve her ball handling and shooting in order to attract the attention of Division I schools.” A flashback is in order here. Back when she was a 5-foot-8 sixth-grader, Satter went online to find out if she had made Full Package’s top team for her age group. She cried that day. Ann Satter noticed her distraught daughter and asked, “Did you get cut?” Liz Satter, happy and shocked, shook her head. “I somehow made that team,” Satter says. “Who knows why? I

sure don’t. I was awkward. My coordination was awful.” Her coordination improved, just like her ball handling and shooting would after her first season with the Illinois Rockets. Her junior season arrived at Loyola Academy. Satter ended up pacing the team in points (10.7 ppg) and in rebounds (6.4 rpg) and, unofficially, in smiles. She shot 51 percent from the field (inside three-point range) and 72 percent from the freethrow line for a 17-12 squad. She made two holiday all-tournament teams (hosts Mundelein and New Trier high schools) and earned All-Girls Catholic Athletic Conference and team MVP honors. “She did some nice things for us,” Ramblers coach Jeremy Schoenecker says. “What I liked a lot about her last season was her demeanor on the court. It stayed the same … even, steady. It never changed. Whether she was playing well or not so well, I saw the same Liz. She got tougher, too. She got

tougher, physically and mentally. “Liz,” he adds, “kept her teammates up and became a great leader. She’s a fantastic kid, a funloving kid.” Satter’s second AAU season with the Rockets arrived this past spring. Ondik noticed a different Satter, a different player, a better player. Others noticed what Ondik had noticed. “The coach [Bill Gibbons] from [College of the] Holy Cross told me that in all of his years in evaluating and scouting players, he had never seen a player improve, from the end of one AAU season to the beginning of the next, as much as Liz had,” Ondik says. “She showed vast amounts of improvement. It was eye-popping. She now catches the ball, puts it on the floor and blows by girls, either to the right or to the left. She’s now decisive, very decisive, with the ball. Confidence helped make her decisive. Liz no longer hesitates — her hesitancy had given the advan-

tage to the player guarding her. And her three-point shooting form … it’s perfect now. “I see her as a stretch-four [a sharpshooting power forward] at Penn.” Before a rib contusion reduced her minutes, Satter averaged 15 points, 7.5 boards, four assists and two blocks for the U17 Rockets (23-14 through July 16, with a couple of tournaments remaining this summer). “I was not a flashy scorer [for Loyola Academy in 2014-15],” Satter says. “I was a quiet scorer, hit the occasional three [22 treys, third among Ramblers]. Toward the end of the season, I became more of an assertive player.” It is the midpoint of Satter’s summer before her senior year, her AAU season winding down, her other commitments abundant and all-important. She serves as a co-director of Eat.Play.Learn, a youth development program in Evanston for third-, fourth- and

fifth-graders. Some of the program’s counselors are older than Satter is. She reports to Eat.Play. Learn program head Rick Kolsky, a Full Package basketball coach, her first AAU coach, who saw heaps of promise from an awkward Liz Satter more than five years ago. She works out under the supervision of performance (strength and conditioning) trainer Chris Truex at the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Highland Park. An early riser — “I’m a morning person, usually up at 6 a.m.,” she says — Satter cherishes every minute with her family, reads books and gushes about her little sister, 5-foot-10½ Celia Satter, a hoopster and a f reshman-to-be at Loyola Academy. “We look and act alike. She’s a mini-me,” Liz says. “She grew late, so she has guard skills. She also makes killer chocolate chip cookies. They’re amazing; she puts love into her baking.” Liz and Celia (their brother, John, is an Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy graduate and a sophomore-to-be at the University of Illinois) live in the house in which their mother lived as a youth. Ann Satter’s old room is now Liz’s room. Ann, the eighth of nine children, had shared the room with siblings. Ann Satter’s favorite story about Liz is a story she has shared with everybody she knows. Liz was five years old, heading to the first day of a summer camp in Glencoe. Mom was driving. Liz found out all of her fellow campers would be strangers. Daughter looked at mother and declared, “I’m going to make a new friend today.” Can you hear her saying it? Many can. “I don’t remember saying that,” Liz, with another one of her smiles lighting up another room, says. Liz Satter, ever so friendly and outgoing, probably didn’t make a friend at camp that day. She more than likely made friends, accent on the ‘s’, a number higher than the number of her fingers and toes. Combined.

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

She’s a pro at knowing what reporters want

By Simon Murray

obert Matthew Van Winkle, better known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, wanted something that was almost impossible. He was scheduled to go on Windy City Live’s midday show, which started at 11 a.m. His flight, if he had it his way, would land at O’Hare at 9:30 a.m., only 90 minutes until showtime. But that left open the possibility for disaster — in the form of thunderstorms, grounded planes, missing white rappers — to loom too large for some. “It’s cutting it really tight,” warned Anne Kavanagh, trying her best to be diplomatic. The founder of MediaPros 24/7 was in her daughter’s car — hers was in the shop, much to the chagrin of her daughter — a blue Ford Fusion with her MacBook Pro thrown in the back, talking on speaker phone with the concert promoter from Kankakee Valley Park District’s BBQ Fest. “Like we say in news. Deadline: If you don’t make it, you’re dead.” Not only would Vanilla Ice be performing at the festival (“Vanilla Ice is back!” proclaimed the flyer) but so would other 1990s groups like grunge duo Local H, post-grunge alt-metal band Puddle of Mudd, and Queens, N.Y. hip hop trio SaltN-Pepa. A man billed simply as “Goat,” from the TV show Full Throttle Saloon, would emcee. As the Kankakee County

“Try to do something nobody else is doing. I always try to use that philosophy.” —Anne Kavanagh Convention and Visitors Bureau was one of her clients, Kavanagh was in the unique position of making sure all the artists were placated, overseeing their lodgings, needs, wants, desires, and, maybe most importantly of all, their media rounds. Salt was most definitely in to appear on radio, but Kavanagh and the concert promoter were still waiting to hear back from Pepa. And what of Spinderella, the group’s DJ? He would have to check. Would the radio show’s hosts need to know their real names? Again, that was up in the air. In the driver’s seat, Kavanagh barely moved, but the nimble mental juggling I was witnessing was impressive. Once ensconced in a calm booth at Jasper’s Café in Glenview, Kavanagh orders scrambled eggs with diced ham, hash browns, and wheat toast — “and it’s well worth the calories,” she laughs, adding “if you’re going to sin, you better sin in the right place.” When people ask Kavanagh if traditional media is dead, she

tells them flatly: No it’s not. Even after leaving an Emmy award-winning reporting position at Fox News Chicago (one she held for over 23 years) to start her own communications and film company in 2010, Kavanagh is still singing its praises. Her reason? A long-winded example: the city of Kankakee was once infamous for being declared the worst place to live in America by Places Rated Almanac. In 1999, David Letterman pounced on it, giving the town its own Top 10 list and donating two gazebos as a prank. Last year, juniors at Kankakee High School were ready to return the favor and show the world that their hometown was no longer the worst city in America. Gaining the city’s permission, they demolished the gazebos,

Anne Kavanagh | Illustration by Barry Blitt

repurposing them into a rocking chair that would be sent as a retirement gift to the host of the Late Show. But when they sent a letter to the producer, they were politely denied a segment in the show’s final months. Kavanagh leapt into action. First, she positioned the story in front of the media machine; reaching out to Mary Schmich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Chicago Tribune. When she agreed, Kavanagh

blew up social media with the story. Eventually, she found spots for the students on WLS Radio and on CBS (the Late Show ’s parent company). From there, the Associated Press picked it up. Says Kavanagh, “And then it went everywhere — all over the world.” At the end of the day, when they could ignore it no longer, the Letterman producers (sheepishly?) said yes, they would like to do something. The students got their six-minute segment showcasing their hometown, and Letterman got his rocking chair. A graduate of DePaul University and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Kavanagh got her first big break after her story on the four-sport student-athlete Jean Ponsetto (now athletic director of DePaul University) won a Columbia University sports writing competition. She could’ve written about the men’s basketball team (then a Final Four team), but she chose instead to highlight an athlete finally given a chance thanks to Title IX , which was still fairly new at the time.

“What it showed me was, if you pick a topic that’s different and new, you will get attention,” says Kavanagh. “Try to do something nobody else is doing. I always try to use that philosophy.” Kavanagh’s experience in the newsroom puts her in a unique position: MediaPros 24/7 offers media training, crisis management, publicity, video content production, event planning, and website consulting. She coaches people looking to enter politics, experienced politicians, business leaders and other high-profile professionals on how to speak to the media. She leverages her media contacts to get stories in front of the right outlets. And she works with a team of professional reporters, producers, and writers to get authenticity in each story. “Too often public relations companies promote an event or promote an individual,” notes Kavanagh. “Many times they don’t understand reporters want good stories — the more compelling and trendsetting, the better.” She’s also adroit at planning ahead, at covering every detail. Vanilla Ice would, indeed, miss his plane. But not to worry. With two minutes to go until showtime, Salt-N-Pepa — Cheryl James and Sandra Denton —surprised the host at Windy City Live. They ate cheesecake with the audience. And Kavanagh successfully coerced Vanilla Ice into apologizing on video to the hosts, because nowadays, public image is everything.

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