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585 STINSON | SOLD 6 Bed | 5.1 Bath | 5 Car | 6,196 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

7015 TOKALON | SOLD 4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Din | 2 Car | 4,251 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

NEW LISTING

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2027 EUCLID | $879,000 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 3,952 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

7126 LA VISTA | SOLD 4 Bed | 4.1 Bath | 3 Liv | 2 Din | 3 Car | 4,224 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

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6360 VANDERBILT | $525,000

$549,900 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,563 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

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CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2020 VOL.27 NO.9

UP FRONT 16 Ben Burgess GAPCo’s “Pizza Man” revealed 22 White Rock vs.

Starbucks Customers tell all

FEATURES 25 Best in show Pets that got it going on 30 Moo The dairy farm on White Rock Lake 34 Top teachers Three educators who go above and beyond

White Rock Coffee serves a variety of blends from regions around the world. Read the story on page 22. Photography by Kathy Tran

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JOE KACYNSKI

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R.I.P n Former HG Sply Co. chef Luis Dominguez

died in late July following complications from COVID-19. He was 38. Dominguez spent 18 days in the hospital and his last five days on a ventilator. The chef, who had more than 20 years of experience in the restaurant industry, also worked at Smoke and Tillman’s Bishop Arts. n Former Bryan Adams basketball player

Lenzie Howell died in July at his home in Dallas.

He was 52. Howell helped the University of Arkansas reach the 1990 Final Four. After his stint at Arkansas, he played professionally in Europe for 11 seasons.

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Meet Lisa E. McKnight: Neighborhood Family Law Specialist.

Lisa E. McKnight doesn’t back down. This past president of Dallas Bar Association’s Family Law section specializes in complex divorce cases, property disputes and child custody issues; in addition, she’s board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Featured here with Arya Stark, her rescued office dog, “She started coming in regularly during the pandemic since we are not seeing clients in the office. I think she is here to stay,” says Lisa.

Her labor of love is restoring historic houses, especially the 1909 Peak’s Suburban Addition home she uses as her law office, since 2003.

Lisa prides herself on honesty, results and client satisfaction.

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PROFILE THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

S ONGW RI T ING SUCCESS From “Pizza Man” to “Whiskey Glasses,” Ben Burgess finds his groove in the music industry 

Interview by JAIME DUNAWAY | Photography courtesy of BEN BURGESS

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ast Dallas native Ben Burgess may have written the hit country song “Whiskey Glasses,” but his first claim to fame was writing and recording the famous on-hold telephone music at Greenville Avenue Pizza Company.

Burgess has long kept his identity as the “Pizza Man” a secret because of contract reasons. When the contract ended earlier this year, the 35-year-old singer-songwriter confessed: “I am the Pizza Man.” Burgess grew up in East Dallas and attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. At 20, he went to Austin and performed at the clubs on Sixth Street before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his musical dreams. But his “twang was too loud,” and he relocated to Nashville in 2010. The Jonas Brothers cut his song “Chillin’ in the Summertime,” and other artists soon fell in line to record his work. He helped write Lil Wayne’s “Dreams,” Dierks Bentley’s “My Religion” and Morgan Wallen’s triple-platinum hit, “Whiskey Glasses.”

Burgess followed that success by signing with Big Loud Records, which represents Wallen and fellow country stars Jake Owen and Chris Lane. Burgess’ debut album is scheduled for release later this year.

What was it like growing up in East Dallas?

I grew up right behind Bryan Adams.

We used to go to Casa Linda Park. There used to be a pool back there, and we’d do hood rat things. Mamma used to take me to Flag Pole Hill and White Rock Lake. I want to make an old-school record from my days as a young buck called “Penny Whistle Park.” I think it would be cool.

What was the inspiration behind the “Pizza Man” song?

My buddy [Sammy Mandell] owns Greenville Avenue Pizza Company. He said, “I want it to be for my employees, for the people who make the pizzas.” So I said, “I’m going to have to write it from the perspective of me slinging pizzas.” It was easy to do because I used to do all sorts of crazy jobs. I just made a little beat and started freestyling. It’s a hit. People call just to listen to it. [Mandell] said I get free pizza for life, so it was worth it.

Were you surprised by the success of “Whiskey Glasses?”

It’s honestly surreal. I wrote the song like five years ago with a buddy. It’s one of those heartbreak hitters. You had to have your heart broken, and I’ve had my fair share. When

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Tell me about your deal with Big Loud Records.

The producer said, “You’ve got ‘Whiskey Glasses.’ You’ve got something to play for people. You might as well put out your own [songs].” I said, “OK. Whatever you guys think. I’m ready.” We’re working on the debut album, which will come out later this year. Things are going good, and I’m excited.

How would you describe your music?

I’m like a dirty sponge. I soak it all up. I’ve studied the greats.

I’m trying to be on the Texas troubadour path like Willie [Nelson], George Strait and Townes Van Zandt. I’m trying to make them proud. Those guys were songwriters first.

They put the blood, sweat and tears into the hustle before they got their artist stuff going. I’m ready to share my voice with the world.

“I’m ready to share my voice with the world.”

Have you always been interested in music?

My dad was a guitar man, and mamma was a DJ. Mamma had to drive herself to the hospital [when I was born]. They didn’t have a name for me, but it had to be something about music. They’d been jamming, so mom was like, “What about Benjamin?” Been jamming. It’s destiny that I’ve been jamming for people.

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it was released, it was struggling. When Mogan [Wallen] first played it, there was like one guy jamming to the song.

I was like, “Dude, you’re my hope right now.” It just didn’t stop after that. Hopefully it’ll be around forever. Maybe I’ll get some more with my voice on it.

What was it like starting out in the music industry?

I played a lot at the Curtain Club, and I had a gig at Trees. I remember being excited about it because that’s where Nirvana played. I was about to start a moving company and flip houses in Forest Hills. My buddy said, “Burgess, you’re a rock star. Don’t settle down yet.”

The rest is history. I was working with a lot of pop producers in L.A. They played me their beats, and I’d sing it. They’d say, “It’s too much. Straighten it out.

Adam Levine is not going to sing your song because it sounds country.” They ran me out of town. But I really learned how to craft songs in L.A. different than they do in L.A.

Is there anyone who’s really welcomed you in Nashville?

Jake Owen — Mr. Barefoot Blue Jean Night himself. I had a song called “Stupid.” He heard the song and wanted to cut it. He left me a three-minute voicemail telling me how much he loved the song. It’s so rare for a major artist to do that. We ended up hanging out, and we’ve been friends ever since. He’s been a bright light in Nashville who has been kind to me.

Who would you most want to have dinner with?

I want to hang out with Erykah Badu. She’s the East Dallas queen. I love her. She went to Booker T. Friends started telling me about her, and I’m obsessed. She’s got the laid-back groove, and I listen to her before big meetings.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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MEET KITTY HEART THE CAT THAT WEARS HER HEART ON HER CHEST No one thought Kitty Heart was an adoptable cat. Six months after she appeared in a cardboard box with several other feral cats outside the Operation Kindness animal shelter, she still wouldn’t come out of her cage or let people hold her. Only volunteer Daryl Davis saw her potential. “I left the door [of her cage] open, and other cats would jump in,” Davis says. “Instead of hissing at them, she would touch noses with them.

She exhibited extreme affection. I thought the diagnosis of her being unadoptable was not properly formed.” The Hollywood Santa Monica neighbor brought the cat home. Only then did he notice the beige heart on her white chest. “Everyone thinks their cat is the most wonderful and beautiful, and [Kitty Heart] is definitely in the top 2 percent as far as cuteness goes,” Davis says. The 8-year-old snowshoe and Siamese mix loves to watch squirrels and birds from her cat tree or chase ribbons attached to a string and rod. “Cats don’t care about politics or the pandemic or racial problems,” Davis says. “They just want to be cared for.” — JAIME DUNAWAY GOT A PET YOU WANT US TO FEATURE? Email your photo to jdunaway@advocatemag.com.

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DINING FOOD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

W H Y E A S T DA L L A S L OV E S W HI T E ROC K C OF F E E WHITE ROCK COFFEE takes coffee seriously. After opening in 2005, it has expanded to own a commercial bakery, roaster, warehouse and a handful of locations. Owners even bought the Jack in the Box next door to create a lab for employee training and public coffee classes. But it seems like neighbors take it even more seriously.

When a Starbucks opened next door, neighbors fumed. They frequently go online to defend White Rock Coffee. Why are neighbors fiercely loyal?

THE FOOD IS ACTUALLY GOOD Sometimes coffee shop food purchases are a last-minute grab for someone who forgot to pack a lunch. That’s not the case with White Rock Coffee. “They have good food choices in a pinch,” customer Jennifer Cluney says. “I can zip through the drive-thru and pick up a breakfast, snack or lunch.” All pastries are cooked

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from scratch in the White Rock Coffee bakery. “We have monthly meetings with our bake shop manager, and we come together with recipes,” owner Nancy Baker says. The hometown cooking even comes down to the chicken salad recipe, which is from Baker’s mother. “We always wanted to be very coffee centric, so our food is very intentional on how it pairs,” she says.

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FRIENDLY STAFF Walking into White Rock Coffee can feel like a sitcom episode in which the barista knows your name and order.

“Not only the best coffee, but a very special place,” customer Jutta Preston says. “Great personnel, super customer service.” Employees are screened for their ability to form relationships. “I’m pretty sure my family has gotten White Rock Coffee at least five times a week since the COVID-19 shelter-in-place [order] in March,” customer Michelle Ball says.

“Above all, it’s the customer service that keeps me loyal. At every location, the people serving me have always been kind, cheerful and helpful.”

IT’S LOCAL White Rock Coffee is as local as can be. “They’re a local small business, and their coffee is far superior to mermaid swill,” customer Kris Moore says. Baker and her husband, Robert, support local

organizations like White Rock Center of Hope. “They support us, and we want to support our neighborhood,” Baker says.

“It’s so cliché to say, ‘It’s like family,’ but no, it really is.”

IMMACULATE COFFEE From the White Rocker, Adam Bomb and Cinderella, White Rock Coffee customers praise the beverages. “We usually roast, package and deliver to our locations all on the same day,” Baker says.

“We source coffee from probably every coffee-growing region on the planet.” The variety of blends comes from about 34 different regions. White Rock Coffee’s tasting team meets once a week and checks for quality. The team focuses on isolating naturally occurring flavors to create a

wide selection of blends. Customers can enjoy a Costa Rica honey blend, which has hints of berries, brown sugar and plums.

Or they can enjoy the fan-favorite house blend with caramel, baking chocolate and juicy flavors. “We like to have a variety that would please a lot of different people and a lot of different palates,” Baker says.

IT FEELS LIKE HOME Over 15 years, Baker says she’s seen her fair share of proposals at White Rock Coffee. They’ve had nine baristas meet and marry. A few customers were even invited to wedding festivities. “It’s my youngest daughter’s favorite place,” customer Lucinda Cummins says. “It’s the first place she goes to when she comes home from college.” White Rock Coffee serves as a home away from home for a lot of people — whether they come to study privately, host work meetings or attend a first date.

“It’s so cliché to say, ‘It’s like family,’ but no, it really is,” Baker says.

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THE QUAKER PARROT Story by CLAIRE CROW t’s not every day that an animal gets to adopt its owner, but one wild Quaker parrot was so hottempered after being rescued that no one wanted to take him home from the clinic.

“People kept seeing his picture and wanting to adopt him,” owner Jana Hipp says. “When they’d come to meet him, he would try to murder them.”

But a near-death experience transformed this tiny, bright green parrot with a murderous spirit into a tame household pet named Snarfblat who says, “I love you.”

When Snarfblat was on his way to an animal clinic, he stuck his head through a hole in a cat carrier and couldn’t get it out. Snapping at the veterinarians trying to help, they had no choice but to sedate him. Hipp, who works at the clinic, watched as Snarfblat slept off the anesthesia.

Awaking from slumber, clinic workers prepared for Snarfblat’s routine anger. Yet something was different.

“He woke up the next morning and was in love with me,” Hipp says. “I had no plans of getting a bird, but he adopted me.”

Three years later, Snarfblat thrives in Hipp’s home. He rides around on her neck and her cats’ backs without a care in the world. He chants, “I’m awesome” and “good boy” to himself in his cage.

“He’s an absolute weirdo,” Hipp says as Snarfblat tries to kiss her cheek through her mask.

Snarfblat still has a bit of his feistiness lurking behind his new personality. He’s bossy and a master lock-picker. He even locked one of Hipp’s cats in his birdcage for fun.

“We have to put a padlock on the cage door or else he’ll open it,” Hipp says.

Maybe the anesthesia did change him, but Hipp believes the parrot’s personality switch was rooted in trust.

“Wait a minute. This woman didn’t eat me,” Hipp says. “She saved me.”

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CALLIE + PETAL

FERAL FELINES Story by JAIME DUNAWAY

pair of guards lurks amid the teeming ferns in the greenhouse at Walton’s Garden Center, waiting to pounce on intruders that dare to devour the plants.

Employee Kate Walton, whose parents own the garden center, adopted the two working cats in January through a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals program intended to clear feral felines from the shelter and help businesses solve their rodent problem in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way.

But the cats at Walton’s aren’t killers.

“We don’t really have a rodent problem. I just loved the idea of having a cat around,” Walton says. “I’m a big animal person, so I forced it on everybody — not that anyone really opposed. It’s a boost of morale

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every day when you come into work.”

Customers were equally excited about the new “employees.” Walton asked her followers on social media to help choose their names, and she received dozens of responses. Their official names are Callie and Petal, but several employees call them by alternative names. The 2-year-old cats are unsocialized, so they don’t really know their names anyway, Walton says.

The cats, a calico and a blackie, came spayed, microchipped and vaccinated. All Walton had to do was provide food, water and shelter. She set up a habitat in the back of the greenhouse and let the cats roam.

Callie and Petal spend their days hiding, and most customers don’t even notice them. But children love to look for the cats under wooden pallets or in the dark corners of the greenhouse.

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WALLY WIGGLES On one occasion, Callie made a bold dash to the nursery, where she hid in a flowerpot until employees found her and brought her back to the safety of the greenhouse. On most days, the pets don’t venture out until dusk, when customers are gone and staff members begin locking the greenhouse.

When the garden is quiet, Callie and Petal love to play with catnip toys or eat treats employees buy for them.

“My mom wanted a chubby cat that would lay around on the counter, and everyone wanted to play with them,” Walton says.

“But these are unsocialized.”

Not a cat person? Not a problem. The cats don’t really like you either. But they do love each other. SPCA volunteers noticed that the cats had bonded before being adopted, and today, they’re never far from each other, even when they’re hiding.

“I thought this was a great opportunity to adopt a pet that may not have had that opportunity,” Walton says. “It’s been joyful. We’ve loved having them.”

THE DOG MODEL ON A MENTAL HEALTH MISSION Story by SAMUEL MAUDE ally Wiggles knows how to strike a pose.

With his tongue out and a white Rolls-Royce behind him, this 2-year-old English bulldog models like Cara Delevingne.

For Wally, fame is on the horizon. One of his YouTube videos has more than 50,000 views, and other videos are rising to similar numbers. Wally has his own store with T-shirts and stickers bearing his face. He also has more than 5,000 followers on Instagram, where he tours Dallas neighborhoods and poses with Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens and other hot rods.

Wally’s Instagram has more to it than cars that belong in pop songs. The captions are filled with personal accounts of owner Brian Sullivan’s struggles with mental health, alcoholism and depression.

“Depression doesn’t discriminate. If you have a friend, coworker or loved one that’s struggling, reach out to them,” Sullivan says in a post. “You never know when your help might save someone from themself.”

Through his posts, Sullivan hopes to make a difference.

“We live in a kind of glamorous society where people don’t want to show their flaws,” Sullivan says. “My page was a soft opening to me telling my story to the world.”

A crucial part to that story was Wally Wiggles.

“At the end of my drinking, I thought about jumping in front of a train three out of five days a week,” Sullivan says. “Getting Wally in my life, spending this time together and finding purpose again — to wake up and not want to jump in front of a train — that’s a victory right there. I want to pass this on in some way.”

Followers find joy and inspiration from the account. Comments range from, “Looking good Wally! Nothing better than a gorgeous bulldog next to a beautiful car” to “I need Wally to come speak to my students!”

Maybe one day, Wally will. Sullivan hopes that he and Wally can be motivational speakers. He wants to start that journey by taking Wally to nursing homes.

“He’s a gregarious and loving dog,” Sullivan says.

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The Buhrer family migrated to Dallas in 1879. They started a dairy farm and attended school. Photography courtesy of JD Peavler

DA I RY A N D P R A I R I E The Buhrer family owned a dairy farm where White Rock Lake sits now

JACOB AND ANNA HINTERMAN BUHRER met in Switzerland. Not long after, they moved to Ellenboro, West Virginia, and decided to move to Dallas in the summer of 1879.

They had four children: Arnold, Berth, Julie and Anna.

The family lived in the area that is now Junius Street and Gaston Avenue.

Jacob acquired land and 12 milk cows. He quickly realized that the area was not viable for his cattle to graze, so he moved the family to the White Rock Creek area.

They found a meadow with water and good drainage and constructed a house and barn. Jacob purchased 350 acres. In 1890, a white, two-story home sat atop a hill on their property.

They had four more children there. Their names were Herman, Martha, Maria and Walter.

Now that the family had space, Jacob’s herd grew to 40 or 50 milk cows.

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The property owned by the Buhrer family was condemned once the City of Dallas voted to build a lake.

He also owned horses and mules. Jacob brought milk to town occasionally,” Fritz recalled her mother saying.

Uncle Paige put a bench across the back for her and her twice a day and called his business the Swiss Dairy. Both sides siblings. They watched church members sing and let the of the farm’s wagon displayed a painted scene of Holstein cows, a lake and trees. spirit take over, something they had never experienced before.

“In the distance, it showed an elevated place, which I In Dallas, there was a Swiss colony, and the family attended suppose reminded him of the alps in Switzerland where he St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church to hear a sermon had grown up,” Anna Buhrer Fritz said in a 1972 interview in German. with the Lakewood Oral History Project.

“When automobiles came, we didn’t like them and neither He rang a bell and customers came to did the horses,” Fritz said. “They had these grab the milk. little red cars with the horn on the side, and People left buckets or bottles with I suppose they thought it was great sport to tickets that determined how much milk make that racket with that horn. Our poor they wanted. Sometimes, the lid didn’t close horse would quiver, and we would have to “When automobiles came, correctly or the tickets got lost in the wind, get out and hold him until the automobile and customers left cash in the bottles for went by.” we didn’t like them and Jacob.

The Buhrer children walked about neither did the horses.”

2 miles to attend school, a one-room After returning to the farm, they milked the cows, put the milk in large cans with building near what is now the Lakewood lids and then placed the cans in a trough Theater. It had four windows and outside with cool water. Once they were placed in shutters. In the middle of the room, there the wagon, they tied wet sacks around the was a box stove to keep the school warm. cans. One can contained sweet milk and “It had a blackboard, which was always the other sour or buttermilk. fascinating to me,” Fritz said. “I would see those older children In the summer, there was always a shortage of water, so work an arithmetic problem, all those figures and algebra. I Jacob built a well. thought those X’s and Y’s must have been interesting.”

“He struck a stream that never went dry,” Fritz said. “We In school, they had recess in the morning and an hourlong always had plenty of water then.” recess in the afternoon. The students brought lunches in The family often picnicked on tables built on the pasture buckets, sacks and baskets. They played “wolf over the river,” near the deeper part of White Rock Creek. which was their version of “red rover.”

At the edge of the farm, African-Americans owned 2 or In 1904, the matriarch, Anna, died, and the children moved 3 acres, where they built a white church with a steeple and back to Dallas to attend school. As Dallas grew, citizens voted a three-room cottage. Fritz and her siblings affectionately to build a lake on White Rock Creek with a dam at the edge of called the married couple who owned the church Aunt Liza the Buhrer Swiss Dairy Farm. The farm, including the house and Uncle Paige. and barns, was condemned, and the land was designated for “We loved to go and visit her,” Fritz said. “She would always the filtration plant.

Fritz’s brother, Herman, took a few of the cattle to South have something interesting to tell. We brought them extra Dallas and later had his own dairy, which was eventually produce and milk.” bought by Borden’s Dairy.

Fritz and her siblings wanted to attend the church after hearing the singing and organ playing from their home.

Other sources: “Proud Heritage” by Berth Fritz and Dallas “If you’re quiet and don’t disturb them, I’ll allow you to go County Pioneer Association

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Education is an unrelenting field under normal circumstances, but it took a pandemic for people to realize the importance of teachers in their children’s lives. When schools closed in March, parents woke to the reality that teaching is more than the day-to-day activities of lecturing and grading. Many educators are in limbo as the debate rages over when and how to safely resume in-person learning. Yet in these moments, teachers have gone beyond the call of duty to make a lifelong impression on students. Here are just a few teachers in our neighborhood we admire.

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Shelly Thibodaux: The coach Teaching physical education during the coronavirus pandemic was a whole new ball game for Robert Hill Middle School coach Shelly Thibodaux.

When Dallas ISD mandated remote learning, traditional teaching methods, such as group games, shared equipment and handson instruction, were rendered impossible. She was forced to devise activities that students could perform at home.

Instead of badminton or dodgeball, physical activity looked a lot like household chores during the pandemic. Students who couldn’t complete the workout videos Thibodaux posted on Google Classroom were asked to get at least 20 minutes of activity a day, whether it was vacuuming, raking leaves or walking up and down the stairs to their apartment.

“I had some parents who emailed me saying, ‘Can he jump on the trampoline?’

Absolutely,” Thibodaux says. “Just get off the computer.”

No matter what format school takes this fall, Thibodaux won’t be caught unprepared again. This summer, she participated in a district-wide program to produce 30-minute workout videos for elementary, middle and high school students. Forty videos for each age group will be posted on YouTube, and a library of lessons will be ready when school resumes.

The videos are geared toward at-home learning, but they can also be used in the classroom if there is a substitute teacher.

“Data proves that learning is enhanced by physical activity,” Thibodaux says. “It makes kids function better if they can get stress out. Activity gets [them] up and feeling fresh. It’s not going to kill them. It’s fun.”

Having fun in P.E. could be a challenge when students return to in-person learning, Thibodaux says. District officials have instructed coaches to take the kids outside, but if equipment is prohibited, physical activity will be limited to stretching, walking and running. That’s not only boring, but a health hazard if temperatures reach triple digits, Thibodaux says.

The alternative is to stay in the gym, where it’s more difficult to distance. If equipment is allowed, it will be fumigated once a week, but there are other challenges in keeping locker rooms free of disease.

“All of us are concerned about our health, but if you want a job, you have to go do your job,” Thibodaux says. “If you

want to do online learning, that’s fine, but it won’t work for me. I applaud the decision-makers for giving us a couple choices and giving parents and students a couple choices.”

Thibodaux started teaching nearly 40 years ago and has dedicated her career to helping students succeed. Her own teachers set the example. Thibodaux will never forget the time she lost her shoes, and her teachers bought her a new pair so she could perform in the school play.

“It’s not just about teaching. It’s about making connections,” Thibodaux says. “I believe in giving back. I’m just the hub.

The spokes are my kids who have left Hill and gone to Bryan Adams or Woodrow or Talented and Gifted.”

Thibodaux has secured 1,500 boxes of school supplies, 1,800 backpacks and 145 iPads for DISD students through Nancy Lieberman Charities. Students who receive an iPad not only get to serve as hosts and hostesses at Lieberman’s Dream Ball Gala, the iPads are presented at her celebrity golf classic.

In 2018, Thibodaux also partnered with former Dallas Cowboy Kavon Frazier to provide Thanksgiving meals to students.

A few weeks later, the safety took students from Hill and Bryan Adams on a Christmas shopping spree at Under Armour.

Her extensive community outreach comes on top of her day-to-day duties at Hill, where Thibodaux wears many hats. As a P.E. teacher, she introduced the Partner P.E. program for students with disabilities. As athletic coordinator, she organized a district-wide futsal tournament with the winner competing at the World Cup in Disney World. And as coach, Thibodaux led the boys’ and girls’ cross country teams to their best finishes at the 2019 district meet, all through endurance workouts in the gym to avoid the summer heat.

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Jeremy Holman: The science teacher Jeremy Holman’s science classes are a favorite among morbidly curious students who love to see flesh pulled away from the human body until the bone is exposed and ready to cut.

Holman is just as excited to teach them about it.

Last year, the nine-year veteran at Lakehill Preparatory School had his jaw reconstructed after doctors found a cancerous tumor. When he returned to work, he came equipped with pictures, videos and models of his jaw. Students came with plenty of questions.

“Students ask, ‘Hey, Mr. Holman, I heard you can see the tendons in your leg. Can we see? I’m like, ‘Yeah, sure,’” he says.

Holman never forces students to look at images that could be considered graphic.

But even those without iron stomachs are curious about the pain or his new diet — only soft foods like yogurt and eggs.

“From the first diagnosis, I wanted the kids to know about it,” Holman says. “It’s educational, but it’s also empowering to not be fearful of medicine or health problems or surgery.”

In January 2019, Holman’s dentist found what he thought was a tooth infection and recommended a root canal. But Holman had just had surgery and put it off. Over the next six months, a bulge the size of a golf ball gradually emerged above his lip, causing his face to swell. It wasn’t until he had his picture taken while renewing his driver’s license that he noticed the protrusion.

“I was looking at the picture and was like, ‘Why are these always so awful?’” Holman says. “I was looking in the mirror later that day and was like, ‘Wait a minute. That’s my face.’”

He went back to the dentist, who referred him to an endodontist. The endodontist said it was a cyst, and a surgeon needed to operate. The surgeon then said it was a tumor, but it was probably benign. When the test came back, the tumor was malignant.

“The story kept getting worse and worse,” Holman says.

During a two-month medical leave, Holman had surgery to remove the tumor and most of his upper jaw. Surgeons replaced the missing bone with his fibula, a non-weight-bearing bone in the leg, and installed temporary dental implants. The process usually takes three surgeries, but Holman completed it in one day over 13 hours.

The Lakehill community rallied around

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the science teacher. A former student started a GoFundMe that raised more than $35,000 to cover nearly all the family’s out-of-pocket expenses.

“You teach because of the relationships,” Holman says. “Sometimes you wonder if what you’re doing matters. When people reacted the way they did, it wasn’t just the students in my classes. It was students I didn’t even teach. It was overwhelming to think about. Not just the money, but the love.”

Holman returned to Lakehill in January. Less than three months later, the coronavirus hit. Holman was well equipped for the shutdown in terms of curriculum, but he was not as prepared for the emotional impact.

“I have missed so much time with these students because of my cancer, and the prospect of missing another month or more is just really sad,” Holman wrote in a March email. “There are going to be two big holes that just can’t be filled. As I will tell the students though, all we can do is get up every day and start doing the next right thing.”

And that’s what they did.

Holman created videos to accompany PowerPoint presentations that he uploaded to Google Classroom. For his anatomy and physiology class, he led virtual labs on the kidneys and digestive system. For biology, he found a free video series on the diversity

of animals. Students showed mastery of the material through daily digital quizzes.

Keeping students motivated after the first two weeks of online learning was a challenge. Zoom classes are better than nothing, Holman says, but the online platform fails to foster class discussion and makes it difficult for students to focus. For the remainder of the semester, students worked on projects about infectious diseases or the biology found at national parks.

“I want to share my passion for biology, but I also talk to students about dealing with challenges in life. I get to help create leaders who will make positive change. It’s more than just science.”

When classes resume at Lakehill on Aug. 24, the first two weeks will be online, with in-person learning scheduled to start Sept.

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“I’m excited to go back,” Holman says.

“Our school and our community seem like they’ve taken this very seriously. We have plenty of safeguards in place, and I think we’re going to be OK.” The curriculum for all Holman’s classes includes a well-timed unit on infectious diseases. Not only will Holman examine COVID-19 and the new ways researchers are rapidly creating a vaccine, but he’ll also teach students about the scientific process.

“People are aggressive against science right now,” Holman says. “We come out with information and then have to go back on some of it. We’re used to seeing settled science, but we’re seeing it live now, and this is the way it works.”

Other changes include deferring labintensive curriculum to the second semester, when coronavirus cases may have decreased or a vaccine is available.

“I want to share my passion for biology, but I also talk to students about dealing with challenges in life,” he says. “I get to help create leaders who will make positive change. It’s more than just science.”

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Caitlin Schmidt: The band champ When Caitlin Schmidt became director of the J.L. Long Middle School band eight years ago, the program had about 75 students. Today, that number is well over 350.

In just her second year teaching at Long, the energetic director launched a recruiting campaign to garner interest in the program. She sent students to play at elementary schools and passed out extra band apparel to the student body. But the greatest recruiting tool is creating a place where students feel they belong, she says.

“It’s mainly about building relationships with kids,” Schmidt says. “How can I get on their level and make them feel like I understand where they’re coming from?

It’s about developing the kids into good humans, not this phenomenal band. If they’re good kids, the other will happen naturally.”

As the program grew, so did the needs.

The band moved classrooms three times in four years to accommodate growing numbers. Not only are there not enough instruments, there aren’t enough highquality instruments.

“Even if I could put an instrument in every kid’s hand, it doesn’t work half the time,” Schmidt says.

Schmidt discovered DonorsChoose, a website that allows teachers to request classroom items that can be purchased by community donors. Since posting her first project in 2013, donors have contributed

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more than $200,000 that has been used to buy instruments and send students on field trips.

Numerous teachers have benefited from her efforts. In February, Sonic helped fund DonorsChoose projects across the country by matching community donations. Schmidt had two projects at the time that didn’t get funded. A few weeks later, a Sonic representative contacted her, asking for more information about the projects.

The representative was so moved by the conversation that the company paid for all active projects at J.L. Long and contributed $100 gift cards to all live projects in Dallas ISD. Sonic also gifted Schmidt with $5,000 that she planned on using as travel scholarships to send kids to Disney World in May. “If you didn’t like Sonic before, you should like them now,” Schmidt says.

The arts department trip to Disney World, in which students were slated to participate in workshops with performers, was canceled because of the coronavirus, and the scholarship money was earmarked for future trips.

When in-person learning abruptly ended in mid-March, Schmidt delivered instruments that had been left at the school over spring break to students’ front porches. She then posted listening and recording assignments for students to complete online. Students who completed

their assignments each week were featured in an end-of-the-year video ensemble in lieu of the traditional band banquet.

Schmidt has planned for virtual and inperson learning this fall, but restrictions on tactile learning may make it difficult to teach students who have never held an instrument, she says.

“Collectively, teachers are really torn, and personally, I don’t think it’s safe for us to go back,” Schmidt says. “Most teachers want to hug our students, and that’s just not a reality. Even if we follow CDC guidelines, it’s not the school we were used to. I just hope people can be empathetic.”

The coronavirus has not only upended the school day, but also traditional fundraising methods. More students have needs because of the pandemic, and more organizations are competing for limited dollars. Schmidt may sell face masks or move the annual band fundraiser, Long City Limits, online to raise money for private lessons, which will be crucial if classes continue online.

Solving those problems, however, is part of what appealed to Schmidt about public education.

“I love the challenge of public school band directing,” she says. “This is going to be hard and challenge me every day, and that sounds exciting.”

Schmidt, whose father is a musician, grew up around music and joined the band in sixth grade. Her middle school band director was so inspiring that she began to consider a career in music education.

She had plenty of opportunities to lead as a section leader and drum major at Georgetown High School and continued her education at the University of North Texas.

Schmidt is the kind of teacher students email years later, thanking her for the life skills they learned in band. She’s the kind of teacher students see performing around town with her dad in their cover band, Acoustic Audiophile.

“This is my life. I’m here all the time, and I wouldn’t change it,” Schmidt says.

“It’s exhausting, of course, all the extra hours to do the DonorsChoose projects and find funding. But whenever we have performances or get new instruments, 10 seconds of a kid smiling, that makes it all worth it.”

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OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

The doctor is in Lex the therapy dog counsels Lakewood Heights

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ast Dallas, our collective allostatic load is off the charts. Chronic stress from the pandemic is taking its toll. Fortunately, right here in our neighborhood you’ll find a kind, patient therapist that will happily listen to your litany of woes and maybe even wag his nub of a tail. He is Lex the therapy dog.

If you’ve walked, biked or driven down Belmont Avenue lately, maybe you’ve seen the sign in the Great Dane’s front yard: “Free Therapy with Lex, Daily 6-7 P.M.” No mere novice, this highly trained pooch teamed up with his person, Jennifer Neily, over the past four years to bring comfort to the young and not-so young in East Dallas, as well as other parts of the city. It’s a pretty impressive resume considering his Dickensian beginning as an underweight stray found wandering the streets of Denton.

In 2015, he was picked up with his brother by a Great Dane rescue operation in Denton County. He was 20 pounds underweight and had a bad case of “happy tail,” a syndrome that occurs when an animal is confined to a space too small for its size and injures its wagging tail by banging it against something hard. It caused the aforementioned nub.

Neily was a fan of the breed, having adopted and fostered several Great Danes over the years. She was fostering Lex when she received word from the match committee that it might have a possible placement for him. When committee members asked if she could provide more information about him, she said, “No, I cannot.”

“I made the immediate decision to be a foster failure,” Neily says. “This guy was not leaving my home. No way. Best decision ever.”

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Lex offers free therapy nightly outside his Lakewood Heights home. Photography by Carly May

A few months later, Neily was checking her Richland College email — she is an adjunct professor there — when she ran across an announcement about therapy dogs being on campus during exam week.

“I made the immediate decision to be a foster failure.

This guy was not leaving my home.”

It was a light bulb moment, and Neily soon started training Lex, ultimately registering him through Alliance of Therapy Dogs.

“I knew he had the right disposition for therapy,” she says.

She describes him as “chill” and possessing a “quiet disposition.” However, he has a bit of ham in him. He loves posing for photos and gives high-fives for treats.

Neily and Lex have made the rounds at assisted living facilities, such as The

Plaza at Edgemere, The Bentley in North Dallas and, most often, CC Young. They’ve also worked at disaster sites, comforting the folks in temporary housing after the Houston hurricane and, just last year, victims of the tornado in North Dallas.

Of course, Lex has also been a regular at Richland College during exam week, calming students’ frayed nerves.

Lex was a busy, happy dog until the pandemic hit. Suddenly, his therapy gigs came to a screeching halt as everyone hunkered down, and special programs were suspended. It was clear that Lex missed his work, Neily says.

“We’d be walking in the neighborhood on our evening walk with Lex vying for people’s attention,” she says. “If someone was in the driveway, he’d make a beeline toward them, thinking, ‘Well, of course you want to say hello to me.’”

Neily found she had time on her hands and was hanging out in her front yard more, so she decided to make the best of the situation and posted a sign advertising Lex’s free therapy. Neighbors responded enthusiastically.

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Some of the curious who wandered by to receive Lex-style TLC became regulars. The Thormodsgards are a young family who live nearby and met the big pooch during a random walk one evening in April.

Justin Thormodsgard says his daughters, Izzy and Evy, ages 6 and 4, love Lex and have made visits with him part of their daily routine. They even told Neily, “Our night doesn’t feel complete without a visit to Lex.” “The idea of visiting a dog that’s much larger than they are is always fun and exciting,” Thormodsgard says.

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“The goal each night is to finish dinner before Lex’s hour expires,” he says. “It’s a good incentive for our girls to eat dinner.”

It’s a win-win for everyone involved. Thormodsgard says he enjoys watching his children have fun with Lex. He senses that this brand of therapy helps with his girls’ stress levels, observing that they’re “overall happier kids.”

Neily has reaped benefits as well.

“It’s been interesting talking to people and hearing how everyone is coping with COVID,” she says. “This part of Dallas is amazing. I feel privileged living here in Lakewood Heights.”

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By GEORGE MASON

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A reckoning of flawed humans Can any historical figure stand the scrutiny of our times?

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cripture says, “There is no one who is righteous, not even one.”

There are no saints who aren’t also sinners.

This presents us with a spiritual problem in dealing with statues, names on schools and streets in public places. Our city is rife with them, and now they are contested. How should we decide whom to honor, which to preserve, what to remove and how to replace?

Confederate monuments in Dallas are gone. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee elementary school names have changed.

Some say this reflects a “cancel culture” that disregards heritage. But their purpose to begin with was to rewrite history, disregarding the outcome of the Civil War and maintaining white supremacy.

Now Woodrow Wilson High School and R.L. Thornton Freeway are in the queue for review. Wilson was president of the United States, Thornton mayor of Dallas. They did good things for our country and city.

Yet Wilson re-segregated federal agencies and defended the separation of races.

He hosted at the White House a viewing of the racist film, “Birth of a Nation,” which spurred the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Speaking of the Klan, Mayor Thornton was a prominent member of the white-hooded group that terrorized Black residents of Dallas. As a banker, he presided over the period of redlining Black neighborhoods. As president of the State Fair of Texas, he limited access to Blacks.

Wilson and Thornton were men of their times. The air they breathed stank of racism. Prevailing mores limited their vision, but they ended up reflecting them more than changing them. They have been honored for decades for the good they did.

That there is a reckoning now for being flawed human beings, like the rest of us, is just. This doesn’t take away from their legacy so much as clarify it.

We are at last confronting the lingering

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Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

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legacy of racism. Can any historical figure, then, stand the scrutiny of our times?

Thomas Jefferson penned the words, “All men are created equal” but retained slaves and fathered children with one of them. Abraham Lincoln penned the Emancipation Proclamation but said at one point he would just as soon preserve the Union with slavery than lose it through abolition.

The line between good and evil passes right through every human heart.

These men were not perfect, but they pointed us toward a “more perfect union.”

They showed moral courage to stand up for principles that time has proven right, even though their ideals were unpopular in their time.

The Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn said that the line between good and evil passes right through every human heart. We should honor those who struggled within themselves to win the battle that made us all better. We should elevate and emulate those whose memory calls us to “the better angels of our nature,” as Lincoln put it.

All our faiths teach us to love God and our neighbor as ourselves. Our public squares, therefore, should inspire us to be, as our Pledge of Allegiance declares: “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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By MITA HAVLICK

Go to school or learn at home?

The choice all parents must make is neither obvious nor easy

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t seems that almost every other day this summer, I have been asked, “What are you going to do with your kids this fall?”

This is top of mind for a lot of us, and because I’m a parent of school-aged children and work closely with Dallas ISD as the Dallas Education Foundation executive director, there seems to be an assumption that I have additional insight and know the right answer.

I suppose I can peer through a lens that many of my parental peers cannot, but as for the right answer, well, that’s a bit more complicated.

Now that summer is nearly over, we are forced to make a decision on whether our kids will start the 2020-2021 school year in person or virtually. The options I’ve seen discussed on social media range from traditional schooling, homeschooling, learning pods, transferring to another school system or taking a gap year. At the base level, the question is: “Learn in a school building or at home?”

For our family, the answer was obvious.

With a child who is on medication that makes him immunocompromised, we are choosing distance learning.

For those who make similar choices, DISD is providing a computing device to every student through 12th grade, as well as hotspots for families that do not have reliable internet access at home. The district also established a technology framework over the summer to support distance learning this fall. Technology training for teachers was more extensive than what they received in the spring, so virtual instruction is expected to significantly improve this school year.

In all fairness, who knew at the beginning of last school year that we wouldn’t return after spring break?

We have friends who are emphatic that, if given the option, their children will be in the classroom on the first day, wearing a mask and a face shield and socializing with their peers. The district’s re-entry plan explains in detail the newly established safety and sanitation protocols.

What’s the right answer? It’s this: No matter what a family decides, we all must exhibit support and not pass judgment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics state that children learn best when physically present in the classroom.

Beyond academics, our kids learn social and emotional skills, as well as coping mechanisms, while at school. In addition, 86 percent of DISD students receive healthy meals at their campuses. Although counseling and mental health support can be done virtually, it’s best done face to face.

The inequities that exist within our school population have been made even more apparent during this time, with most studies showing achievement gaps have increased significantly since virtual learning began in the spring. In-person schooling is the ideal solution for getting our kids back on track.

Many families, like ours, have extenuating circumstances that dictate their

choices. So many others are filled with uncertainty and angst because, at the end of the day, the decision between their children staying home or going to school is neither obvious nor easy.

So, what’s the right answer? It’s this: No matter what a family decides, we all must exhibit support and not pass judgment.

What is not often mentioned when we speak about the fall is, “What about the teachers, administrators, support staff, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, crossing guards or custodians? What do they want to do?”

I hope we will invest the time to imagine how difficult this school year will be for them. I will guess they’re not eager to spend a chunk of their day reminding students to wear a mask or adhere to social distancing rules. Nor do they want to be in an older school building that does not meet CDC-recommended guidelines for ventilation and air circulation. We have staff in our education ecosystem who are healthy and others who have underlying health conditions. I am certain they want to return to a regular school day for our kids’ sake, but these are crazy times.

Educators and adults in our schools need to be part of our collective conscious.

If they must go back, we can help by relaying to our kids the additional burden our teachers have this year. We can remind our children every day to follow the rules, wash their hands and keep a safe distance from others. It won’t be perfect, but our teachers and others at school will need all the help they can get.

We’re all in this together.

MITA HAVLICK is neighborhood resident and Dallas Education Foundation director. Find her commentary regularly in the back pages of our print edition and online at lakewood. advocatemag.com.

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