2020 November Preston Hollow

Floral arrangement featuring foraged foliage by neighbor Melody Dockery. Photography by Hayley Hill

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AMBOO TOILET PAPER. Mark Cuban recently invested an undisclosed amount of money in Cloud Paper, a Seattle-based startup that produces treefree toilet paper in efforts to end deforestation from traditional paper products. Cuban, along with a slew of other celebrity investors including Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher and Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition have all contributed to a $3 million funding round led by venture capital firm Greycroft. Search ‘Mark Cuban’ at prestonhollow.advocatemag.com to read more.

CITY HALL NOTES

n The City of Dallas offered forgivable loans of up to $50,000 for renovations or $160,000 for reconstruction. The Department of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization only accepted 40-75 applicants.

n Downtown building owners turned off their lights through Oct. 10 to help the birds get to their warmer southern destinations. And wildlife advocates asked residents to turn off their porch lights as part of the Lights Out.

SCENE & HEARD

Award-winning actress, director and producer America Ferrera spoke with members of Texas Women’s Foundation (TXWF) at their annual luncheon. The conversation was moderated by Laysha Ward, an executive at Target. As the principal fundraiser for TXWF, the luncheon raised more than $926,000. Roslyn Dawson Thompson is president and CEO of Texas Women’s Foundation.

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GHOSTED: An Ursuline nun named Dormilla haunts a 100-year-old home on Strait Lane. The 8,500-square-foot house, which is adjacent to Ursuline, once housed nuns. It was once home to Fred and Jerrie Smith, one of Stanley Marcus’ daughters. They reared five children in the home. Now the Brodsky family and nun Dormilla ocupy the home. ABOVE: The Brodsky art collection mixes contemporary and traditional pieces. Search “Brodsky” at prestonhollow.advocatemag. com to read more.

In Memorium

Ben Brownlee, a former Jesuit crosscountry runner, was pronounced dead Oct. 7 after being reported missing from a solo hike near Lake City, Colo. Searchers found Brownlee’s car at the trailhead of Redcloud and Sunshine peaks. Helicopters and crews on the ground searched the area where Brownlee told friends he would be hiking. Friends searching for Brownlee by private helicopter discovered a body 100 feet or so below a steep ridge near Cooper Creek Peak. The coroner pronounced death at the staging area.

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GO FOR GOLD

Nastia Liukin, a five-time Olympic gymnastics medalist, is a Preston Hollow neighbor. Liukin mentioned in her blog that she had moved back to her hometown of Dallas in May. A few of her favorite hangouts include Hide, Happiest Hour, Sixty Vines, Toasted, Halcyon and Boulangerie. Liukin’s new 4,300 square foot abode is estimated to cost around $1.4 million and boasts five bedrooms, six bathrooms, an outdoor kitchen, three-car garage and a fully landscaped backyard.

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It’s just been the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done. I finally found an idea that I feel so passionate about.

— EMMY HANCOCK, OLUNA FOUNDER

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THE FIRST-EVER KIPS BAY DECORATOR SHOW HOUSE DALLAS kicked off in grand style at the $5.75 million, 5828 Woodland French manse. A total of 27 design firms spent 11 weeks concepting and installing the rooms. The New York-based philanthropic effort transformed the 11,746 square-foot house in to an array of handcrafted wallpaper, vintage furniture and art. “Being in one of Dallas’ more affluent neighborhoods, the house had the ideal space,” spokesperson Shannon White says. “Over half of our designers are DFW-based, showing the vast design talent in the city. In addition, Dallas is known for its philanthropic efforts and charity scene.” Funds raised during the event will benefit the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club, Dwell With Dignity and the Crystal Charity Ball. If the house sells in the next six months, 10% will be donated to the charities. CLOCKWISE FROM THE TOP: Traci Zeller’s French-inspired powder room features butterflies. Jan Showers’ “Lady’s study” is fit for Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Rotte Studio’s custom magnolia floral wallpapered entry. Mark D. Sikes’ signature blue-and-white palette in a Mediterranean-inspired formal living room.

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FACE OF FAMILY LAW

GREG BEANE

Partner Greg Beane is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Special Legalization and AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell (their highest rating). Among many awards, Greg has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America© every year since 2016, and has been selected to Texas Super Lawyer© every year since 2018. “Being a husband and father allows me to better understand child custody cases, matrimonial issues and complex family legal disputes. Plus, having an accounting degree and an MBA gives me a unique insight into the complex financial issues that arise in divorce as well,” Beane says. Greg is a family man with a background in finance and accounting, which makes him the ideal attorney to have fighting for your family law case. Schedule a consultation with him today at (214) 871-2730 or online at www.webbfamilylaw.com.

THE ART OF MEDICINE

Meet first Chief of Oncology and Director of the Baylor Sammons Cancer Center

More than 100 years ago, Sir William Olser was redefining medical education. A founding professor of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Osler is considered by many to be the Father of Modern Medicine. Flash forward to 1968, when Dr. Marvin J. Stone arrived in Dallas to wrap up his postgraduate training, passionate about science and people. After what he describes as some “maturing,” he found his way into hematology and oncology, becoming one of three specialists in Dallas. In 1976, he became the first chief of oncology and director of the Baylor Sammons Cancer Center. He spent 32 years at Baylor. Osler has been one of the greatest influences in Stone’s medical career. Stone is literally the president of the

STONE

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Dr. Stone working from his home librrary.

American Osler Society. Through medical history research — heavily focused on Osler — Stone encourages a multi-faceted approach to teaching medicine. As a clinical professor of humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, his class just finished discussing Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis’ 1925 novel. Despite retiring from clinical work, Dr. Stone is still active in the Dallas medical community. He’s chief emeritus of hematology and oncology at Baylor University Medical and a professor of internal medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine. His self-published medical memoir, When to Act and When to Refrain: A Lifetime of Learning the Science and Art of Medicine, is for anyone interested in the past and future of medicine. A Preston Hollow neighbor for more than a decade, Dr. Stone shares his thoughts on how medicine should change, coronavirus and more.

Why did you choose your specialties?

It was easy to decide to go to medical school if I was accepted. Fortunately, I was. It was pretty easy to decide on internal medicine, but it took a while to settle on hematology and oncology.

What is the most difficult thing about those two areas?

They deal with patients who have serious, sometimes fatal diseases. But it’s also rewarding, because during my career we’ve been able to do a lot more for patients than we could when I started.

What do you hope readers gain from your book?

I wrote it because I consider myself so fortunate to have been able to serve as a physician. My hope is that one who reads the book would have some of my love for medicine and lifelong learning rub off.

How has the medical field changed over the course of your career?

Oh, boy. Scientifically, it has changed a lot. The

advances in immunology, medical genetics and molecular biology, as well as clinical medicine, have just been astonishing. How people react when they get sick hasn’t changed that much. People still are concerned and concerned about their family, their future. It’s the same as it was 100 years ago.

How do you think the coronavirus has been handled? It remains very difficult. We faced a pandemic without good diagnosis and treatment

What do you think needs to happen for prescription medications to be more accessible?

It’s a complex question. With companies that sell drugs, the push for profits is sometimes overwhelming. People have to pay exorbitantly high prices. If you look at the prices of similar medicines in other countries, sometimes they’re a lot lower. It would seem that there ought to be some way to lower prices so that people can afford them.

Why is “refraining to act” so important?

Sometimes you’re not sure how to act because you don’t have the information or the data to make a clear-cut diagnosis. Or if you do have a clear-cut diagnosis, you may not have effective therapy. If the course of a patient’s disease has a slow tempo and doesn’t require therapy, it’s best to step back and see how things develop. William Osler and other physicians had an old thing called “tincture of time” — that time was the best therapy for some patients.

How would you say the Dallas medical community has changed?

Medicine is a lot more crowded, in the sense of more physicians being available. For instance, I can tell you that when I started in Dallas, in hematology and oncology, there were three specialists in the whole city. Now there are probably 30 or 40 at least. We certainly

PHOTO: Marvin J. Stone, Bexley High School class of 1955

need more primary care physicians, really more than we need specialists.

How would you change medical education? I’d get rid of the debt. There might also be ways to streamline medical education so it doesn’t take quite as long and still be as effective for young doctors.

What challenges are your students facing? The applicants for medical school seem to be at or near an all-time high. On the other hand, medical student debt is a big problem. I had a scholarship offer pretty much all the way through medical school. It really was a tremendous help.

Why did you start teaching?

I got a taste of it when I was a student and a teaching assistant. I realized students teach you as much as you teach them.

Barnes ward medicine housestaff, 1964-1965, Marvin J. Stone is sixth from the left on the first row.

Dr. Stone stands with Donald W. Seldin and his statue in what is now “The Seldin Plaza” near the site of the original Southwestern Medical School shack.

What’s your favorite part of teaching?

Oh, my goodness. I like pretty much all of it. Hearing a student, an intern or resident present a case and try to figure out the diagnosis is a big challenge. It’s extremely worthwhile, sometimes very difficult and sometimes impossible.

What would you consider the most impactful moment in your career?

The interchange between teaching, research and clinical work, and seeing how each one of them reinforces the other.

What do you miss about clinical work? I still miss the patients.

Is there a patient who left a lasting impression on you?

In the book, I talk about several of them and about the challenges that we faced in trying to unravel complicated clinical conditions. They are marvelous patients to have, and I always appreciated the opportunity to try and take care of them as best I could.

Why did you stay at the Baylor Sammons Cancer Center for so long?

The Cancer Center in Baylor started at the same time I went over there. We had an opportunity to build a new department and a new unit. It was very rewarding in terms of seeing a new kind of clinical department, to attract other physicians and see that place grow. I had a wonderful time.

How did you become a member of the Royal College of Physicians?

I was inducted into that. I’m not sure why. But I am honored.

What’s it like serving on the board of trustees for the Southwestern Medical Foundation?

It has been very stimulating. Since becoming a member of the Foundation, I had the opportunity to develop some scholarships for students and to see how the Dallas community has been so gracious and so philanthropic.

This interview has been edited for brevity & clarity.

BETTER KNOW A NEIGHBOR:

DID YOU KNOW?

Dr. Stone has collected antique microscopes for the better part of 20 years. “Being a hematologist and oncologist, I use a microscope pretty much every day to look at blood smears or bone marrows.”

GRADUATED:

University of Chicago, 1963.

FREE TIME:

Roots for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He has been a Buckeyes fan since he was 4-yearsold.

QUARANTINE WATCHLIST:

Arrowsmith, Madame Curie, Yellow Jack

FAVORITE PRESTON HOLLOW SPOT:

Neighborhood Services, pre-tornado. It’s got a good burger.

TRIVIA:

His son, Rob Stone, starred in the TV show “Mr. Belvedere.”

WHERE TO GET HIS BOOK:

Barnes & Noble, Amazon. Published in 2018, revised in 2020.

TACO TALK

FROM POKÉ TO TACOS: JOON CHOE’S JOURNEY

WHEN JOON CHOE DECIDED he wanted to open a taco restaurant, he looked for a neighborhood where a small business would thrive. Preston Hollow was the first neighborhood that came to mind.

“The people are amazing here,” Choe says. “They’re very supportive, especially during COVID. If it weren’t for this community, I don’t think Public Taco would be where it is now. This neighborhood is all about supporting local businesses, and we’re truly grateful for that.”

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The spicy tuna tartare taco uses traditional sushi ingredients like spicy tuna, white rice and wasabi aioli.

FOOD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Joon grew up in Plano, where he worked at a local sushi restaurant and developed a passion for kitchen operations.

After high school, he attended Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. He worked for Jean-Georges in Columbus Circle and helped assist with restaurant openings in New York City and Miami, Fla.

Choe knew he wanted to open his own restaurant. While traveling through Asia for three months with future wife Michelle, they wound up spending most of their time in South Korea and Japan.

“Japanese cuisine is one of my favorite things,” Choe says. “[My wife and I] have family in both countries, so those are favorite places of ours to visit.”

In 2016, Choe opened FreshFin on Lower Greenville. FreshFin served poké, sushi burritos and ahi tuna towers at the height of the poké trend in Dallas. He opened a second FreshFin location inside Plano’s Legacy Hall in 2017 and closed the original Lower Greenville location shortly after.

After two years in Legacy Hall, Choe closed FreshFin and decided to shift his focus toward a lifelong favorite — tacos.

“I absolutely love tacos,” Choe says. “Ever since I was a child, tacos have been one of my favorite foods. Essentially, it’s about putting everything you possibly can into one little piece of foundation, which is a tortilla. The craft is just very captivating for me.”

As the name suggests, Public Taco offers a range of tacos. There’s the signature takorea, a corn tortilla filled with panseared ribeye, onion, cilantro, caramelized kimchi and sriracha aioli. And there’s the taco belly, a corn tortilla with twicecooked pork belly, guacamole, jalapeno, cilantro and pickled red onion.

There’s also the corn truffle, a taco that doesn’t contain meat. The corn truffle is made with huitlacoche fritter, pico de gallo, corn, truffle aioli and crispy onions.

“I think the corn truffle is one of my favorite tacos on the menu,” Choe says. “When people ask us about it, they’re like ‘What kind of meat is in this?’ and they’re always surprised when we tell them it’s vegetarian.”

As of now, Choe says he has no expansion plans. Instead, he’s focusing on making Public Taco a household name in Preston Hollow.

“We want to slowly grow this brand and be a place for the community,” Choe says. “At the end of the day, we’re hoping for Public Taco to be a ‘third place,’ in connection to work and home.”

Public Taco, 5959 Royal Lane, 214.434.1569, publictaco.com

“Chick on Fire” features creamy habanero, cabbage slaw, cotija and cilantro ranch. The menu also includes the trendy birria consomme tacos.

PANTS PERIODS

PHILANTHROPY

EVERY WOMAN has that shared experience of shame — getting a period when you weren’t expecting it. You either went home or had to ask a random person for a tampon. You were mortified.

Hockaday alumni Emmy Hancock asks: “Why is there still stigma?”

After reading an article about “period equity”, Hancock decided either women don’t talk about menstruation because of the taboo or because they feel alienated by the aggressive marketing of some advocacy groups.

“The more I found out, it just didn’t make sense,” she says.

Hancock recently launched Oluna, a Dallas-based nonprofit fundraiser that manufactures and markets pants to address menstrual equity. The company aims to fund menstrual care for homeless women, increase awareness about menstrual equity, and improve education and government policy.

The brightly branded Oluna offers a one-for-one program. Each purchase of the $69 pants also funds one year of menstrual care.

“I thought having a fun brand would be the perfect way to infuse a lighter notion to start talking about how our inability to discuss the situation is hindering our ability to fix the problems around it,” she says.

According to Hancock, the lack of access for menstrual care and education reflects women’s healthcare overall.

“When men walk into the bathroom, they have everything they need to be clean and hygienic. When women walk into the bathroom, they don’t have everything they need, even in state-run places like prisons and schools,” Hancock says.

Regulating the quality of tampons is another issue within the fight for menstrual equity. Three corporate brands are behind much of the tampon research and menstrual education messaging.

The Robin Danielson Hygiene Product Safety Act, named after a woman who died in 1998 from toxic shock syndrome, has been

brought to Congress for consideration 10 times during the past 20 years. The proposed legislation would require the National Institutes of Health to independently test feminine hygiene products and allow the Food and Drug Administration to mandate tampon ingredients be listed on packaging boxes.

The legislation has yet to be enacted into law.

Currently, the FDA lists tampons as medical devices and “encourages” brands to list ingredients but does not require the listing. New York recently passed the Menstrual Products Right to Know Act, which achieved that goal in 2019. Another win for advocacy groups is that tampon sizes have been standardized across brands after research showed that larger tampons are more likely to produce bacteria that causes staph infections.

“I think by having a more open discourse around periods in general, people will start realizing these are actually problems that aren’t that difficult to solve,” Hancock says.

Homeless women are disproportionally affected by menstrual equity, so Hancock launched partnerships with 10 Dallas homeless shelters to distribute menstrual supplies.

“Women are using the dirty rags they’re finding in the street, or they can’t go to their job interview because they don’t have access to a laundry machine,” she says. “So how can they be respected if they don’t have access to that?

“Once you phrase it like that, there’s no argument.”

A New Yorker who fled the city, Hancock moved back into her parents’ home as the pandemic began. Every day of quarantine, she picked a task to tackle on behalf of Oluna. She read books on menstrual equity. She called other nonprofits to learn about their successes.

A criminology major and film minor at University of Pennsylvania, Hancock taught herself search engine optimization and created Oluna’s website. A former editor of Hockaday’s literary magazine Bravo, she used her high school experience to design graphics and

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This Hockaday alumni tackles menstrual equity

branding.

“I honestly would have never had the time to sit down with Oluna and get this launched, so there’s definitely a silver lining (to the pandemic),” Hancock says.

Once she designed the colorful, billowy pants, the former model at Wildflower Management called a few friends to model them. A photographer she worked with 10 years ago took photos for the website. A Dallas homeless shelter is providing warehouse space. The modeling agency is considering helping distribute supplies to women.

“It’s just been like the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done. The best part about Oluna is I finally found an idea that I feel so passionate about, and it’s stuck with me now for three years,” Hancock says. “I just have a feeling that this is going to be really good.”

Hancock hopes to turn Oluna into her full-time occupation. She has invested her savings into the business. Now she’s focusing on marketing so she can raise capital, hire people and move into other markets.

“I’m scared, but I’m gonna learn so much along that road, too,” Hancock says. “I think this is such an important time for women to start businesses. I read that there’s no better time than to start a business than during coronavirus, because if you make it, you can probably survive anything.”

Her job in New York City at OnSiteIQ, a construction

DID YOU KNOW?

The name Oluna is derived from the Spanish word for moon, referencing the myth that women’s cycles sync with the moon phases.

technology software company, is now permanently remote, giving her the option to live in Dallas. That means quick access to her manufacturer, fabric distributor and a network of homeless shelters.

“Homeless shelters, when I called, they were so excited, because it’s the most requested item but it’s the least sexy to donate,” Hancock says.

Designed to be worn from all day, the pants feature a relaxed waistband and a wide-leg wrap silhouette. Oluna has three colors online and will add three additional colors for the spring season.

Hancock believes educating both boys and girls in health classes would decrease the taboo surrounding menstruation. A Hockaday student from pre-K to 12th grade, Hancock recently spoke during a social impact and social entrepreneurship course at the school.

“That was so validating. What I learned the most going to Hockaday is they were always very frank about being a woman who was intellectual or going into business,” she says.

“They didn’t really sugarcoat it. I am so thankful that they didn’t, because it gave me that foundation that has made the rest of my higher education and then on into business experience much better.”

“It’s an uphill battle, but like anything worth doing, it’s more meaningful when it is,” she says.

Floral FORAGE

2020 said forget the 250-person weddings, the lavish birthday parties, charity events and cocktail parties. Florists were especially hit hard without the traditional busy seasons.

“‘Pivot’ is the buzzword in every industry now, and we’ve been flexible with rescheduled and reimagined weddings and events,” Mad About Flowers owner Melody Dockery says.

Large weddings have turned into intimate micro-affairs. Galas have deconstructed into small, at-home dinners. People are spending a little more on floral arrangements to make their holiday decor more special.

“I’m excited that people are still celebrating while being careful,” florist Claire Rathburn says. “I hope that the community will still support their local businesses even if they’re not having a social party.”

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Apples to Zinnas

FLORAL DETAILS: This is definitely one of our large arrangements. On this one, we chose blue delphiniums, kales, gold cymbidium orchids, three colors of roses, orange tulips and red hydrangeas, finished with some magnolia leaves that are everyone’s favorite this time of year.

THIS ARRANGEMENT IS SPECIAL BECAUSE the textures and the deep colors. Many people just think orange for fall, but this arrangement goes way beyond that. We are known for our lush and timeless look when we design.

FALL FLORAL TRENDS: You can say that we are somewhat traditional and consistent in our designs, but this fall it seems with everything that people are going through, everyone wants bright and colorful

arrangements. Everyone is ready for a change and for some kind or normalcy back in their lives— aren’t we all? We are just happy we have been able to bring happiness to our clients through these challenging times.

NEIGHBORS ARE ORDERING: Since everyone has been keeping their social distance, a lot of people have been using flowers to express so much lately. We see so much love poured into each card message that goes with the flowers and people just want their loved ones to feel they are appreciated and cared for. But one thing we love at the shop is that since we have been part of the Dallas community for the last 33 years that the majority of our clients just call us and say “Do your thing.”

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features, space and design elements that will delight the ones who spend the most time there – you and your family. This is where you live your life –playing, working and relaxing. And each time you look around your home, we want you to think, “Wow. What a great place!”

If it also happens to be the envy of your friends and neighbors, well – that’s okay too.

Mad about Flowers

MELODY DOCKERY

FLORAL DETAILS: This particular piece is my signature aesthetic: free form, textural and romantic with pops of interesting organic pieces. Negative space and “movement” are important style components in our designs. Arrangement includes two types of ranunculus.

THIS ARRANGEMENT IS

SPECIAL BECAUSE Ingredients from this piece are all sourced right here in Preston Hollow. I love encouraging neighbors to find inspiration in our neighborhood. Japanese maple, pittosporum, and nandina foliage are in most back yards. For beautiful blooms, I recommend our neighborhood Central Market. Tom Thumb in our area is another good resource - especially for orchids - well priced and beautiful.

FALL FLORAL TRENDS: The fall forecast for floral trends lean toward muted neutral color palettes: soft taupe, terra cotta, dusty mauve. Dried pampas grass and bleached dried botanicals are popular this season. Nationally, minimalist designs may be trending - but I predict Dallas will pass on that one.

DIFFERENT

ABOUT TRENDS

THIS YEAR: Floral trends follow current culture. As an event florist, I’m seeing that even though weddings and corporate events are scaled back, “smaller” does not mean “less special.” Clients still want guests to experience the “wow” factor with florals and installations, such as arbors and greenery chandeliers as much as ever.

NEIGHBORS ARE ORDERING:

No matter what the current trends may be — Preston Hollow residents still love and order classic, lush florals and “light and airy” garden style designs. Floral subscriptions are more popular with folks spending more time at home.

Claire Rathbun

FLORAL DESIGN

FLORAL DETAILS: Toffee roses, majolica spray roses, red chrysanthemums, astrantia, agonis, beautyberry and pampas grass.

FALL FLORAL TRENDS: I am seeing a lot of dried and preserved materials, which kind of made a comeback in a fun way. It’s not really the dried flowers from the 80s or 90s, where they had a more farm look. They’ve just come a long way. I’m still seeing a lot of fresh and dried Pampas grass. For the holidays, I’m envisioning very sophisticated mixed greenery textures and subtle pops of color, Arrangements that are festive without being fussy.

THIS ARRANGEMENT IS UNIQUE because the beautyberry and pampas grass are foraged. I cut them myself. It’s also unique because it is in an antique family heirloom porcelain container.

PEOPLE ARE ORDERING:

Designers choice— people are trusting me just to make whatever I think is fresh and beautiful from the market that day. I’m seeing fall colors like the deep jewel tones like Burgundys or eggplant colors.

Of note: Claire Rathbun Floral Design donates 10% of profits to help support the homeless students of Dallas Independent School District.

HOW A 16-YEAR-OLD URSULINE STUDENT IS TEACHING FINANCIAL LITERACY

CASH. We all want it, need it, earn it or acquire it somehow. But a different cash— Marissa Cash— wants us to not just have it, but know what to do with it.

The 16-year-old junior at Ursuline Academy of Dallas has been spending her free time building Financial Literacy for American Futures (FLAF), a free, educational resource designed to teach lower income families financial literacy and how to better implement personal finance skills into their everyday lives.

Cash’s brainchild was born both from financial challenges she and her middle-class family experienced during her childhood and the “culture shock” she felt firsthand after transferring to Ursuline her freshman year. Cash spent many years living overseas in Thailand; her mother is Thai and her American

father works for the U.S. Embassy. She and her family moved to Virginia when she was in middle school, but a few years later her father took an embassy job back in Thailand. Feeling it would be better for her to continue her education in the states, her parents returned to Thailand but Cash moved in with her aunt and uncle in Plano.

“With the move and living with my relatives, I was living in a much higher social class. Going to school at Ursuline, specifically, I saw a lot that I didn’t realize before,” Cash says. “It’s like you’re in a different world. I think maybe it’s even harder when you don’t really know why those differences exist. I remember feeling very insecure—in my identity— because was I an outsider, and of a lower class than my peers.”

It was this disparity that prompted Cash to think

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more critically about personal finance, and she began researching the topic at length during her sophomore year, eventually leading to her creation of FLAF.

Since then, Cash has recruited her friend and Jesuit student, John Archer, to help.

“A lot of the research I’m doing — reading articles and economic reports about what financial illiteracy looks like in the U.S., what families struggle with day-to-day, what the most common problems are — all of that is very time consuming,” Cash says. “I thought it would be a bit easier if I got someone like John, who is also passionate about poverty and helping those in need financially, to assist me in researching and thinking about what is it that these families need.”

Together, the two are creating a curriculum, lesson plans and resources they hope to publish on their work-in-progress website in the next few months. Cash says the project has “definitely been a learning curve,” filled with extensive research, revision and editing— all completed in her down time as a passion project.

“Prior to starting this project, I had a certain idea of financial illiteracy in my head,” Cash says, “that the financially illiterate are the poorest of the poor, in a sense. But when I started this project and really started reading about what is it that families struggle with and what it looks like to struggle with money, it became clear to me that there’s really no one image or form that financial illiteracy takes. Anyone can be financially illiterate.”

Arming families and individuals with straightforward, uncomplicated financial information is at the center of FLAF’s mission. One of Cash’s goals with the project is to not only boost discussion around financial literacy, but to provide that information to those who would likely not learn about it otherwise.

“There’s so much information out there; however, not all of it is applicable (to someone’s individual situation) or easy to understand,” Cash says. “With financial education, it’s more about making good decisions than it is about the money itself, and instilling people with the confidence and knowledge to make those decisions.”

In a post-COVID world, Cash and Archer hope to teach FLAF face-to-face and have their curriculum implemented in spaces that provide resources for impoverished families, like shelters. They also plan on developing more childfriendly curriculum and lesson plans, tweaking their existing plans and presenting it to a younger audience in a more interactive and easily digestible way.

“It’s clear to see from reading the research and information that’s out there about financial classes in the U.S., that there’s not a lot of focus on teaching children money skills,” Cash says. “I think it’s much easier to teach children about financial literacy than it is adults because they’re more impressionable. It’s easier to educate them before they go out (into the world) and they’re an adult, where they have those financial responsibilities.”

As for Cash’s future, she’s definitely seeing dollar signs. After high school she plans on studying either finance or economics and has no plans of giving up her pet project.

“The reason I created FLAF was because I had an experience firsthand with financial education,” she says, “so it’s a very personal subject to me and something I can see myself doing for the rest of my life.”

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By MATTHEW RUFFNER

How do we face our world and claim hope?

Hope is more than feeling that something good will happen.

Ifeel like our world is anemic for hope these days. How do we stand in the face of all that is happening in our world and claim hope? By the time you read this, the 2020 presidential election will have taken place. Given the conversations I have had over the past several weeks, depending on where you are on the political spectrum, you may feel like you no longer have any hope.

Hope is often defined as a feeling of expectation that something good will happen. It’s a familiar feeling. It’s the feeling we all have before the first Cowboys game of the season. “This is our year,” we think, but then by the sixth game, our hope runs thin.

All kidding aside, how many of us haven’t felt an aching of hopelessness at some point in the past month? Who hasn’t felt a bit hopeless about COVID, or the state of race in our country, or about the economy, or schooling, or about poverty in Dallas?

It’s tempting in our world today to think of hope in economic terms. We are supposed to carry a balance of 100 hope dollars with us all the time. When we encounter fear, suffering, doubt or pain, it subtracts from our hope balance. If you have 75 dollars of fear, you only have 25 dollars of hope. But hope doesn’t play by those rules. Hope isn’t a zero-sum game.

Our differing faith traditions invite us to see and experience hope in an entirely different way. No matter what faith tradition you practice, hope is far more than the feeling that something good will happen. Hope is the deep religious conviction that God or the Divine has

not given up on us. Hope is trusting that there is a story greater than our present circumstances, and we are inextricably connected to the Divine, who will never quit on us. Hope plays by a different set of rules.

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I can think of no greater message for us during these unprecedented days. May we cling to the hope that is beyond who we may have voted for, who we cheer for, or how school is going this week. May we cling to the hope found in the deep and abiding truth that God has not given up on us, and therefore we never walk these days alone. That kind of hope is never a zero-sum game.

With great hope, Matthew

THE REV. MATTHEW RUFFNER is Senior Pastor at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church. He is husband to Sarah Ruffner and a father of two. You can follow Matthew on Instagram at @thisismatthewruffner; visit PHPC.org to watch the church’s live stream and listen to sermons.

“May we cling to the hope that is beyond who we may have voted for, who we cheer for, or how school is going this week.”

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