2020 February Preston Hollow

THE PRESTON HOLLOW LIFESTYLE

TREES, POST TORNADO

PHAT TREATS

LISA LOEB’S LATEST

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GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY

Holocaust survivor MAX

GLAUBEN of Melshire

Estates is the Dallas Morning News 2019 Texan of the Year. Glauben, 91, endured five death camps and spent his life preserving the memories of those who were persecuted. His efforts eventually led to the creation of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. “I felt that without profiting by it I should tell my story and do something that would keep the memory alive,” he told the Dallas Morning News. He and his wife, Frieda, have been married

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for 66 years. He tells his story of survival frequently, sometimes as many as two or three times a day. Every summer for the past 14 years, Glauben has led a group of youth on March of the Living, a tour of Holocaust sites.

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The day after the Oct. 20 tornado, 7-year-old BRINLEY SMITH walked outside to see a fallen tree blocking her family’s driveway and even more trees knocked down throughout her neighborhood on Waggoner Drive. “It made me feel sad, and I wanted to do something about it,” she says.

The second grader at Parish Episcopal School has since launched Kids with the help of her parents, Brian and Crystal Smith. They plan to partner with Texas Trees Foundation and ReTree to raise money and plant trees in neighborhoods affected by the Brinley wants to involve

children in the effort. Her ideas for raising money include launching a talent show, lemonade stands and a dance party. Kids will canvas the neighborhood to solicit donations and sign up neighbors who lost trees and want help planting new ones. While the Smiths are reaching out to private schools to coordinate efforts, the Texas Trees Foundation and Groundwork Dallas will focus on involving students in Dallas ISD schools.

“We want to make it a communitywide fundraising and planting event so that we can come together and heal,” Crystal says.

Brinley drew the concept for a Kids Luv Trees logo, which will be given to designers for development. The illustration depicts a tree surrounded by children from different countries.

“Trees are beautiful and they make oxygen for us,” she says.

For more information, visit KidsLuvTrees.org or email info@ KidsLuvTrees.org. See page 14 for more tree news.

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HEALTH CARE: $104,557,000

HEALTH INSURANCE: $69,107,000

MEDICAL SERVICES: $20,638,000 PHYSICIAN’S SERVICES: $3,934,000

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“We’re built for date night, business lunch, weekends and patio drinks with the gals,” says the owner of Il Bracco.

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Still the best part about buying the team, other than winning, is being able to go out on the floor before a game and get shots up. That is the best. By far.

– MAVERICKS’ OWNER MARK CUBAN in the Dallas Morning News

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DINING NEWS

n Slater’s 50/50, the restaurant that celebrates bacon, closed its location at 11661 Preston Road, according to Jason Berry, area director of Slater’s 50/50. The restaurant, which has been featured on the Food Network, the Travel Channel, Spike TV and Fox News, was known for pork belly. The restaurant’s location on Lower Greenville is still open. “It’s bacon-friendly,” Berry said. “We do bacon patties, bacon desserts, bacon sauces, bacon ketchup, anything.”

n Frost Gelato in Preston Hollow Village closed.

DEAL OF THE DAY

GET CULTURED

The Jesuit Dallas Museum hosts a show featuring Laura Roosevelt’s “History American Pop” through March 14 in the school’s library. Roosevelt, who is Franklin and Eleanor’s great-granddaughter, specializes in abstract mixed media painting. In addition to Roosevelt’s art, the exhibit will include the words of the former President and First Lady.

THE LARGEST RESIDENTIAL SALE in the Dallas area in 2019 was developer Mehrdad Moayedi’s purchase of a 4.3-acre Strait Lane estate that was once listed for sale at $32 million, according to a survey from the Texas Realtors Association. The 37,000-square-foot estate has 10 bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, a 10-car garage, two basketball courts and a $10 million water park. The house was built starting in 2003 by Dr. Richard Malouf. Moayedi’s Crescent Estates Custom Homes bought

NEIGHBORHOOD HEROES

DR. MARY ELLEN BLUNTZER

Someone shot darts at bobcat kittens in Frisco, according to NBC-DFW/Channel 5. Luckily, neighbor Dr. Mary Ellen Bluntzer was part of the team to rescue one of them. The kitten, shot in the eye, was named “Miracle” and is at the National Bobcat Rescue and Research Center in Terrell. Support the center at NBRR.org.

RYAN “BIRDMAN” PARROTT

Preston Hollow neighbor Ryan “Birdman”

Parrott is founder, president and CEO of Sons of the Flag, an organization whose mission is to revolutionize burn care and quality of life for veterans, first responders and families. The organization presented a $100,000 grant to UT Southwestern. The fellowship will fund the education and training for a burn surgeon for one year. Parrott is a Navy Seal veteran.

PHYLISS AND TOM MCCASLAND

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden held its Great Contributors Gala fundraising event, honoring neighbors Phyliss and Tom McCasland. They have been instrumental in the expansion of the Arboretum, funding the renovation of the Sunken Garden, providing the seed money for the Chihuly exhibit, as well as envisioning and providing funding and support for “The 12 Days of Christmas” celebration, among other things.

Calloway’s Nursery is planning a 33,341-square-foot store at the former Braniff Airways complex at Dallas’ Love Field, according to the Dallas Morning News. A development partnership that includes Lincoln Property Co., Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and aviation company The Arnold Cos. has been working on the $140-million Braniff Centre mixeduse development at Lemmon and Lovers for almost two years. O’Brien Architects designed the new building. The firm protected the front of the old buildings, which were originally designed by international architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman and local designer Mark Lemmon.

DID YOU KNOW?

Dallas Dodgeball hosts Open Play Dodgeball at the Walnut Hill Recreation Center. Here’s the deal: All balls are made of no-sting foam. There’s music, and some of the co-ed players wear crazy costumes. Players typically head to Fuzzy’s Taco Shop afterward. You must be 18 or older to play. Just show up. The cost is $6 or $1 with a Dallas recreation card. The annual fee for a recreation card is $15 for Dallas residents and $25 otherwise ($10 for those 55 and older). For more information, go to dallasparks.org.

UP FRONT

LISA LOEB’S TRICK TO HAPPINESS

The Grammy Awardwinning Hockaday grad has a new album to help you live your best life 

Interview by LISA KRESL | Photography by JUAN PATINO

Singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb has an independent streak that has served her well ever since she graduated from Hockaday in 1986. She was the first pop musician to have a No. 1 single while not signed to a recording contract. She followed that hit song, “Stay (I Missed You)” from the film “Reality Bites” in 1994, with six albums, including two that were certified gold. Loeb also created five children’s albums. “Feel What U Feel” won the Grammy for Best Children’s Album in 2018. Her latest release, “A Simple Trick To Happiness,” releases Feb. 28. Known for her cat-eye glasses, the entrepreneurial musician parlayed that passion into Lisa Loeb Eyewear.

What are your memories of Hockaday and Preston Hollow?

I went to Hockaday for 11 years, so I have a lifetime of memories. I used to love performing in the school plays at St. Mark’s, singing in the spring performances in third grade with the class, eating the famous cornbread and the doughnut cakes for our birthdays. I loved going to Write Selection and picking out stickers, the Container Store to pick out supplies and different colored plastic boxes to personalize with dottie letters. I loved buying needlepoint at Stitches and Patches, spending summer days in the library on Walnut Hill near Preston and going to summer camp at St. Mark’s Day Camp and Hockaday tennis camp.

What accomplishment are you most proud of in your career?

I’m proud of writing so many songs and continuing to evolve as a storyteller. I am also proud of my amazing fan base. Knowing they are listening and feeling their support energizes me.

What is the most challenging thing you’ve overcome?

The most challenging thing in my career is the changing music industry. All of the work that a record company used to do now falls to a small team of people and the musician who’s also creating, recording and performing the songs live. I enjoy looking at the creative and the business side of things, but it’s also time consuming and sometimes hard to focus on so many different things at once.

What misconceptions do people have about your industry?

People think that the music industry is always glamorous, and there is that element, but it’s also a grassroots, hands-on business environment in which you have to be very involved to succeed.

Besides work, what are you proud of?

I’m proud of my family — my husband and two wonderful children. They are so kind and

interesting, curious, funny, smart and a bunch of other adjectives too. Being able to balance my family with my work is no small feat. It’s always evolving, but I’m proud of the place that we’ve been in for years.

What is the best advice you ever received?

When you’re trying to do something involving others that you really want, don’t let them say “no.” A “maybe” is OK, but don’t let them say “no.”

What is the best gift you ever received?

A jewelry/music box that plays “Rainbow Connection.” My husband and daughter gave it to me on an anniversary.

Who is your greatest influence?

I love writing teacher Natalie Goldberg, author of “Writing Down the Bones.” Growing up, I did well in school, but I wasn’t always encouraged to find my own voice. She has helped me get out of my own way so that I can write without editing my thoughts before they have a chance to be.

What advice would you give to someone who wants to go into your field?

Do the thing you say you want to do. If you want to be a singer, then sing, or a writer, then write. Always keep learning to do what you do better.

Have you experienced gender discrimination?

I’ve experienced some gender discrimination when it comes to radio in the ’90s. Women musicians would often hear that a radio station didn’t want to play your song because they were already playing a song by another woman.

Given $1 million, how would you spend it on our community?

I’d love to spend money on underserved kids and their education. I have a foundation called The Camp Lisa Foundation that sends kids to summer camp who can’t afford to go. Summer camp is a place where kids learn about themselves and how to be members of the community, take chances in a safe space and have fun.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

“When you’re trying to do something involving others that you really want, don’t let them say ‘no.’”

How did the tornado affect you?

We went to the State Fair that evening with the boys, came home and turned on the Cowboys games. Then the meteorologist said, “There’s a tornado on the ground at Midway and Walnut Hill, going north, northeast at 25 miles an hour.” We grabbed the kids and the dogs and went under the stairs in a closet. My wife said, “You need to go get the lanterns in case the power goes out.” I ran back upstairs to get the lanterns, looked outside our windows and could see debris flying around. Not 30 seconds after I got back under the stairs, the power went out. We could hear the freight train noise, our ears were popping, and then the windows started to break.

Was your house badly damaged?

Yes, we’re out of our home for six months while it’s repaired. There are families that are worse off. Our whole street took a pretty hard hit. As you go down Pemberton and Orchid, there are houses that are leveled. The trees are all gone.

What made you interested in the trees?

THE TREE

AFTER THE OCT. 20 TORNADO, Brant Landry used his leadership skills and business knowhow to make a difference in our community. Saddened by the number of destroyed trees, he launched a buying program so that neighbors could come together to replace what they lost in a cost-efficient way. After City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates promoted the cause, nearly 200 homeowners emailed him to join the effort. He became the “tree guy,” a single point of contact for those who wanted help. The first phase is leveraging the purchasing power of those who need to replace trees on their properties. The second phase involves coordinating fundraising efforts to plant trees in public areas. Landry is the co-founder of a company that includes private equity real estate investment firm Reserve Capital Partners, a real estate brokerage company called Landry Commercial, and Reserve Construction, a general contracting company. He and his wife, Jenny, built a house a year and half ago on Pemberton Drive, where they live with their three boys, ages, 12, 7 and 5.

We had a 100-year-old oak tree that was taller than the house. It was a big part of our yard, and it was completely gone. I made the assumption that insurance was going to cover trees. Not too long into the process, I realized that insurance doesn’t cover trees or landscaping. We knew we couldn’t replace a 100-yearold oak tree, but to try to get something comparable was going to be expensive. The canopy over the street was completely wiped out. I never saw St. Mark’s from our house, and now I can see the entire school. In my businesses, I know that purchasing power creates leverage and usually drives down costs from vendors. That’s where I came up with the idea to create a purchasing group to try to get the pricing from these tree farms down as low as we can.

Brant Landry, pictured with son Jay, started a tree buying program after the tornado’s devastation.

Interview by LISA KRESL | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Are you hearing from homeowners who want trees or from people who want to contribute?

A little bit of both. The initiative for the purchasing group will be homeowners. The charitable kind of initiatives that are going on will be for public spaces.

How much money have you raised?

We haven’t kicked off the charitable initiative yet, so we’re still in formation mode. We’ve been meeting with other organizations like the Texas Trees Foundation and ReTree, which specializes in disasters. We’re trying to join forces so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Once we get that established, we’ll start fundraising. For the homeowner purchasing group, we interviewed five tree farms. We came to the conclusion that Texas Tree Farms out of Waxahachie was the best partner as far as discount, size of trees, number of trees, variety of trees and the willingness to work with us.

What are the next steps?

We had a town hall meeting with 100 attendees. It was more of a question-and-answer opportunity for homeowners. Now they are in direct contact with Texas Tree Farms. I’ve already planted one tree. Several neighbors have started to plant them. The best time to plant trees is during these winter months. There are many homeowners that can’t plant until the heavy construction is done on their houses a year to 16 months from now. The nice thing about Texas Tree Farms is they’re extending the discount for as long as it takes.

How much time are you spending on the tree effort?

For the first month after the tornado, it was about 20 hours a week. Now that we selected a partner, it’s less. But now the charitable piece is

starting to really pick up. Luckily, because I’m the co-founder of these companies and have supportive business partners, I have a little bit of flexibility.

What surprised you throughout this experience?

Homeowners’ strong emotional attachments with their trees was greater than I anticipated. I received long emotional emails from neighbors describing how they’ve been in their house for 20 years, for example, and how their three kids grew up with that one magnolia with a swing.

What do you like about your Preston Hollow neighborhood?

We have one of the best streets as far as community and other kids. We live in a cul-de-sac, where we host Halloween, Christmas and block parties.

What are your favorite neighborhood places?

We love everything at Preston and Royal and are sick about what the tornado did there. We go to Eatzi’s and shop at Central Market. I get my haircut at The Gents Place.

How do you relax?

I’m a big outdoor hunting and fishing guy. I grew up in Central Texas. My wife’s family has a ranch in South Texas. Now that the boys are growing up, I’m passing on the outdoor legacy to them.

How would you like to be remembered?

As a humble guy that put his family and faith first and gave back to the community.

For more information about the tree-buying program, email brant@landrycommercial. com. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

“Homeowners’ strong emotional attachments with their trees was greater than I anticipated.”

PHAT TREATS

GO FOR THE BOBA TEA BUT STAY FOR THE MOCHI DOUGHNUTS

YOU KNOW YOU SERVE SOMETHING SPECIAL when people from Houston road-trip to buy your food.

Fat Straws Bubble Tea Co. is known for its bubble tea, but the mochi doughnuts now called “chewy puff doughnuts” have neighbors here and in surrounding states swooning.

Walk into the shop with bright graphics and a whirring blender, and you’ll find customers lining up for boba. Workers spend two hours each morning creating tapioca balls that will swim and swirl in your milky tea. The drinks are all the rage

Fat Straws

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Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. fatstraws.co

on the West Coast, so it’s a pleasure to find the concoction here. Sample handcrafted beverages from classic teas to fruit smoothies and slushes.

Owners Jennifer and Terry Pham, who have three children, opened the first Fat Straws location in 2002 after years working in information technology. Their motto is “happiness in a cup.” Expect creative blends of kosher and loose-leaf organic teas. Regulars include students from Ursuline, Hockaday, Jesuit, St. Mark’s, Greenhill and Parish Episcopal School.

Story by LISA KRESL | Photography by KATHY TRAN

Fat Straws’ motto is “happiness in a cup.” The owners specialize in blends of kosher and loose-leaf organic teas.

DID YOU KNOW?

Boba tea from Fat Straws is popular for private school dances and bar mitzvahs.

The Phams test-taste their recipes with their children. “If my kids like it, then the other kids will like it,” Terry says. But the two also listen to their customers. “They say, ‘Oh, you know what I’d really like? Put these flavors together.’ We listen to them. It has to be aesthetically pleasing and Instagrammable.”

New on the menu is the “foam series,” which is a line of brewed teas, including Earl Grey, matcha and a jasmine milk tea. The recipe includes heavy cream, cream cheese and sea salt whipped into froth and poured onto the tea. Drink from a sippy lid to taste tea, cream and foam. “You get this unique, sweet and savory component,” Terry says. “That’s my new favorite. We sell a lot of it.”

Jennifer’s favorite is the matcha milk tea with salted foam. “But my go-to is the classic milk tea, which is the traditional bubble tea with black tea, cream and sugar,” she says. One daughter loves chocolate-strawberry, which isn’t on the menu. The other daughter loves mango-strawberry fresca, which is fresh mango and strawberry infused in water. Their son loves the taro. “It has a taste of a Danish butter cookie — almost a cookies and cream flavor.”

The mochi doughnuts, which are hand-dipped with glazes made from scratch, are concocted from rice flour. They have a soft, chewy texture. Envision blocks of Swiss chocolate and organic fruit as toppings. Try the sea salt caramel version. Busy times are from 2 to 6 p.m. then after dinner.

The owners created their own recipe for the mochi doughnuts.

“It has to be aesthetically pleasing and Instagrammable.”

History comes alive

Priceless recorded interviews reveal what Ursuline Academy of Dallas and The Hockaday School were like in the early days

Story by LISA KRESL

Photos courtesy of URSULINE ACADEMY OF DALLAS and THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL

Former Hockaday student Genevieve Hudson.

Sister Emmanuel: Like nun other

ister Mary Emmanuel Shea was born Oct. 4, 1893, in Effingham, Illinois. At the age of 15, she heard a sermon that changed her life. The priest said, “God never created a soul that didn’t have definitive work — get married, live the single life or have a religious vocation.” She prayed, “Oh my God, point out the way in which I

DID YOU KNOW?

Here is a list of items that boarding students at Ursuline were expected to bring with them in 1893:

• Two pairs of sheets, four pillow cases, one white counterpane.

• One mosquito net.

• Two pairs of blankets, six towels, six large table napkins.

• Six handkerchiefs, six plain linen collars, six changes of linen, two dark underskirts, three nightgowns, two bathing gowns.

• Six pairs of hose, two black aprons for the young ladies, four blue-checked aprons for the little girls, two flannel skirts, two dark sun bonnets.

• Two pairs of heavy shoes, one pair overshoes, one gossamer.

• One black cloth jacket.

• One bag for soiled linen, one bag for shoes.

• A fine comb and a coarse comb.

• A hairbrush and toothbrush.

• A furnished workbox for sewing class.

• A table service of spoon, fork and knife.

• A glass or silver goblet.

• A white dress for ceremonies.

should walk. Help me do your holy will and help me save my soul.” Seven years later, she received an answer to that prayer, asking her to come to Dallas and teach.

Sister Emmanuel traveled to Dallas thinking she would teach third and fourth grade as she had in Illinois. “Within six weeks, I knew that this was where I had been brought. I came, I saw, and I was conquered.”

Sister Emmanuel shared this memory on March 12, 1975, as part of the Lakewood Library Oral History Project. Ursuline Academy, the Catholic college preparatory school for high school girls now located on Walnut Hill Lane, was founded in 1874 with seven students. In 1884 the school moved out of the downtown area to a new brick

building located at Bryan, Haskell and Live Oak streets. That building served the academy until 1949, when the school relocated to its current site. The grammar school section was discontinued in 1976, and high school education became the emphasis.

But Sister Emmanuel remembered the early days, when she said that logic and philosophy were a priority even in 1915.

The three-story building on Bryan, which she said was modeled after a French castle, was “very imposing.” It included an auditorium and chapel. Each child had a curtained-off bed in the dormitories, and sisters slept in the corners in their own curtained-off beds.

Day students had a separate curriculum and faculty from the boarders. Sister Emmanuel remembered the older nuns talking about the issue. “They were afraid the day students would contaminate the boarders,” she said. “We felt that the boarders were much closer to the sisters than the day students because we were with them morning, noon and night. [We] didn't want them feeling that they were missing so many of the things that the day scholars would be coming in and talking about.”

Parents sent their children to the convent in the early days for two reasons, according to Sister Emmanuel. One was to make them into cultured women because of the school’s art, music and fine arts departments. Another was because parents felt their daughters needed reforming. “I resented that,” she said. “All the mistakes the parents had made were going to be ironed out by the school.”

Ursuline’s building on Bryan Street was built in 1884.

Catholicism was taught with the parents’ written permission. “In the heart of every child is that desire to know and love God,” Sister Emmanuel said. “Some [parents] would bring them to me and say, ‘I want her character formed.’ I said, ‘Well, she can't have a character formed without believing in God and living as God's child.’”

Sister Emmanuel remembered challenging times during World War I, when sugar was rationed and shoe coupons were in demand. With fathers fighting and mothers working, the school had 121 boarders. Students arrived with suitcases containing little clothing and no linens. Cots were strung in the dorms when all of the beds were taken. The sisters went to the bishop and explained that they couldn’t accommodate all of the applicants. “He said, ‘You must take every one of them because God is sending them to you for something. They are getting some help from what you're giving them.’”

Everybody made the best of a bad situation. They created their own entertainment by staging elaborate plays. The girls enjoyed doing the Charleston. “We were upset about some of the girls that knew how to do it,” she remembered. “They had to wear cotton stockings. The girls would bring silk ones in their pockets and then when they got on the streetcar right there before everybody, they changed the cotton to the silk and rode home.”

The sisters didn’t earn a salary, but their needs were met. The nuns raised their own pigs, even though some neighbors objected to the smell. Sister Martha was in charge of the chickens.

Sister Emmanuel described the early uniforms as woolen sailors suits. Students were required to wear caps with tassels that read “Ursuline Academy.” “Every time they went out for walks, they had to wear these hats,” she recalled. “They didn't like that.”

When she was interviewed in 1975, Sister Emmanuel was concerned about false values, materialism and the media. “Pleasure is the be-all and end-all of everything,” she said.

Sister Emmanuel died in 1993. Ann Thomas and Bertha Fritz conducted this interview for the Lakewood Library Oral History Project.

Genevieve Hudson: Memories of Miss Hockaday

uring the summer of 1917, Genevieve Hudson’s parents promoted her from the fourth grade to the sixth grade.

They “had more pride than wisdom,” she said. “And at the age of 9, I became instantly stupid.” Hudson, who had missed grammar and the start of fractions, was not thriving. One day, Ela Hockaday and Miriam

Genevieve Hudson

Morgan came to call at the family home, and Hudson was enrolled in seventh grade at Miss Hockaday’s School for Girls in a gray frame house at 1206 Haskell Ave. between Live Oak and Swiss. A boarding department was established in its second year.

Hudson, who was 16 when she graduated from the school in 1923, shared this memory April 24, 1978, as part of the Lakewood Library Oral History Project. Hockaday was on Haskell from 1913 until 1919, when it relocated to the Greenville Avenue campus. In 1961, students moved to the current address on Welch Road. Hudson went on to be a teacher and administrator at Hockaday. In 1978, she received the Hockaday Alumnae Association Medal for being outstanding in her field.

Here are her memories of Ela Hockaday and life at school in the early days. On her first day of school, Hudson approached Miss Hockaday with fear because the teacher was known for discipline. “Later we learned to love her. She had a tremendous sense of style,” Hudson said.

Gym was one of Hudson’s favorite classes. The girls wore hunter green bloomers and changed clothes in a playhouse in the back. The Terrill School for Boys

ABOVE: Hockaday was on Haskell from 1913-1919. BELOW: The school was located on Greenville Avenue before Welch Road.

backed up to Hockaday, and Hudson recalled watching the boys cheer on the girls while peering over a tall fence or from their secondstory window.

Miss Hockaday's inspiring talks in study hall were emblazoned in Hudson’s memory. “Miss Hockaday was absolutely electric. She had the uncanny ability to materialize when least wanted.” For a while, the girls discovered they could sneak onto the roof at night. They would pretend to sleep in their rooms then grab their pillows, slide down the banisters and head for the roof — until they were caught.

At their first dance, the girls dressed in gowns with modest necklines ready to meet young men. They stuffed tulle down the front of their gowns so “we would be what Hockaday girls should look like.”

In 1961, Hudson returned to Dallas from Knoxville for the dedication of Hockaday’s new building. Miss Hockaday had died in 1956. Hudson thought the school was so magnificent that it frightened her. Then she saw Miss Hockaday’s old desk and met some of the students.

“The girls were like all the girls that I'd ever known,” she said. “They were more sophisticated, perhaps, but they had that same look in their faces. There is a certain peace and beauty that comes into the face of a young person who is given an opportunity to develop herself and her strengths.”

This interview of Genevieve Hudson was conducted by Harriet Olmsted Weber, Hockaday’s Prep Class of 1935.

“Miss Hockaday was absolutely electric. She had the uncanny ability to materialize when least wanted.”

Ela Hockaday

LIVING BEAUTIFULLY IN PRESTON HOLLOW

ARTISTIC LICENSE

How an architect harnessed his vision and attention to detail to create his own modern dream home

STORY BY LISA KRESL | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANNY FULGENCIO

DAN ECKELKAMP IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN FATE.

He designed his 2,800-square-foot home on Sexton Lane, and he and his wife, Angie, moved into it in June 2018. The two-story, three-bedroom modern house, which was highlighted on the 13th Annual AIA Dallas Tour of Homes in November, exceeds the couple’s needs in every way.

“We’re definitely contemporary fans both in the architecture and in the art and sculpture world,” Dan says. “We wanted a calm, serene but warm modern throughout the house so that you feel comfortable living in it as opposed to having statement pieces that say, ‘Don’t touch. Don’t sit on me.’”

Dan, of Eckxstudio for Modern Architecture, found inspiration from Angie’s passion for piano. The rhythm of notes on sheet music guided his vision when he designed the pattern of batten strips on the house’s exterior. “We call it the barcode, but it’s really the way the lyricalness came off of a page of music and translated itself into the design of the façade.”

The fact that the property is on a street corner allowed the couple to place the garage in the back of the house, unlike most of the neighbors who have their garages in the front. The home’s entry opens to a side courtyard, complete with pool, fire pit and a covered outdoor living space. Large windows in the living room and kitchen make the courtyard the home’s focal point.

An architect’s finds:

• Bill’s Plastics Inc. for art displays, billsplastics.com.

• Concept Surfaces for tile materials, conceptsurfaces.com.

• Lights Fantastic for light fixtures, lightsfantastic.com.

• Lumens.com for lighting.

• ClearView TV Mirrors, clearviewtvmirror.com.

Dan works at home, so his downstairs office faces the street. Cabinetry and the powder room separate the office from the rest of the house. “I can have client meetings with a separation between the business and personal side,” he says. “I love watching the neighborhood go by. Neighbors wave as they see me

“The beauty of custom architecture is laying out each cabinet for its need.”

working away.”

Since the couple does a lot of cooking, the kitchen is outfitted with an induction cook top. The cabinets are two-tone with painted gray and sealed white oak.

The three bedrooms and a laundry room are upstairs. The master, which faces a big oak, elicits the feeling of living in a tree house. Angie, who is vice president of marketing for Nothing Bundt Cakes, uses one bedroom as her home office.

In addition to designing the home, Dan was hands-on throughout the construction process, directing the subcontractors and even pulling out his own tools when needed. He placed the patterned sidewalk by the pool himself. “Sometimes they didn’t get it just perfect, and I’m a very perfect-leaning architect,” he says.

Dan, whose father was a woodworker, even built some of the furniture himself. The living room’s white oak end table boasts an opening that allows the couple’s two cats to circulate through it. He also designed and built the marble top bar.

Red dining room chairs and the couple’s extensive art collection provide pops of color. “Most of our art is by Texas artists,” he says. “We collect what we love.”

Most whimsical is a triptych by Carmen Flores, an artist who just graduated from the art program at the University of Texas at Dallas. She makes molds for gummy bear forms, casts them and then photographs them in various scenes around the Dallas area. A sculpture of inflated steel is by Texas Tech professor William Cannings. Artist Linda Weitz folded annuity statements like gum wrappers and created a piece that dominates the stairwell. Dan’s beloved work, by Denton-based artist Paul Booker, includes 110 layers of ink and polyurethane.

“The living room with art is a favorite of mine,” he says. “I love to come here in the mornings and evenings and relax, watch the sun come up or go down and enjoy the way the light changes in the space. It’s not a cold museum-like space.”

Above: The master bath features a radiant floor heating system and a mirror TV.

BOUTIQUE LIBRARY

STEAL A LITERARY MOMENT AT BOOKMARKS WHILE SHOPPING AT NORTHPARK CENTER

UNLIKE MOST LIBRARIES, Bookmarks at NorthPark Center is loud. Kids play on computers. Children’s music blares, and moms find sanctuary. The Dallas Public Library branch, which opened in 2007, was the first children’s library to open in a shopping center in North America. Other libraries have duplicated the model.

The space, which is less than 2,000 square feet, does the same amount of business as some of Dallas’ 18,000-square-foot, full-service branches.

“This is a place I can go where if my baby’s screaming and crying, no one’s going to get upset with me,” says Jo Giudice, director of the Dallas Public Library. “The babies can go on the floor and play together while moms can have a little adult conversation. The noise level is not going to upset anybody.”

The library is meant for children up to age 12 and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day but Tuesdays, when it’s closed. Sunday hours are from noon to 5 p.m.

Giudice reflects on what makes this branch so special:

• “The programming is for the parents as well as the child. We spend a lot of time talking to parents about reading at home and playing letter and number games.”

• “Take out as many books as you want. That’s what we have to offer.”

• There aren’t books for adults, but you can request books and pick them up at this branch. You can return books there, too, but the focus is on children.

• Expect children’s performers who have been vetted with background checks. “We want professional performers that are within the standards of NorthPark.”

• The staff conducts story times. You can count on about 13 programs a week. Other Dallas Public Library branches may schedule two or three events a week for kids and families.

• Giudice’s favorite children’s book? “Pete the Cat,” by Eric Litwin.

Story by LISA KRESL | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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