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SPORTS
Glenbrook South’s Sebastien DesRoberts (seen here) and Rohan Gupta take fourth in Class 2A state tennis tourney. P14
SOCIAL SCENE
The Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium held its 15th annual Women in Space Science Award Celebration. P9 FOLLOW US:
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North Shore Chamber Music Fest a star-studded attraction that’s close to home BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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ighland Park may host the star-studded Ravinia Festival concert series each year, but just a few miles west the Village of Northbrook regularly holds its own popular summer music event featuring world-class performances by some of chamber music’s bestknown artists. The 7th Annual North Shore Chamber Music Festival, founded by the Northbrook-based globetrotting husband and wife duo violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe, will showcase the nationally acclaimed ProMusica Chamber Orchestra from Columbus, Ohio, led by rising young Austrian conductor Dan Danzmayr. Also on the program are performances by the Escher Continued on PG 6
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Adler board honors Northbrook native BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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s a student attending Glenbrook North High School in the late 1980s, Northbrook native Beth Moses remembers the day she was given a brochure describing the long list of specialties and occupations available to scientists at NASA. “My eyes landed on the words ‘aerospace engineer,’” she recalled. “I knew when I read those words it expressed what I wanted to learn and do and be.” Fast forward three decades, and this determined young dreamer and former NASA aerospace engineer is now blazing trails as a designer and chief astronaut instructor at Sir Richard Branson’s bold new venture: Virgin Galactic – the world’s first commercial spaceflight company – where Moses works with a team of engineers, astronauts and visionaries – including her husband, Mike - developing the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft that will provide future suborbital spaceflights to tourists. Now based out of the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles, Moses returned to her Chicago roots on May 11 to receive the Adler Planetarium’s 15th Annual Women in Space Science Award. Sponsored by members of the Adler’s Women’s Board, the annual award honors
Scott Swanson, chairman of the Adler Planetarium Board of Trustees, and Beth Moses, Women in Space Science Award honoree. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB CARL
pioneering women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) whose achievement and vision inspire others. Moses accepted the prestigious award at a charitable luncheon held at the Drake Hotel and attended by more than 400 Adler supporters, who together raised nearly $160,000 towards Adler’s ongoing STEM education programs, including a gathering Moses attended at the
planetarium later that same day. There, Moses spent an afternoon interacting with 225 7th-9th grade girls from middle schools across greater Chicago who had gathered to participate in science workshops and hands-on experiments led by the planetarium’s astronomers and teachers. “Our goal with this annual award and STEM workshop is to reach young girls at a critical time in their education,” said
Adler spokesperson Jennifer Howell. “Middle school is typically a time when students begin choosing coursework that could impact their future college and career plans.” Among those in attendance was Moses’ former GBN science teacher and “friend for life,” Lynne Zielinski, who taught at the high school for three decades before retiring in 2011. “Beth’s desire to understand the nature of science and space
was infectious,” said Zielinski. “Her bright personality brought an enthusiasm that motivated those around her.” After graduating from Glenbrook North in 1987, Moses went on to study aerospace engineering at Purdue University. In 1989, less than two years out of GBN, Moses landed a job working for NASA as an intern, eventually rising to oversee Continued on PG 6
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