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You Know Judge Vic. Expert Experience. Highest Integrity. Conservative.

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TOUGH, HIGHLY-RATED LAW-AND-ORDER JUDGE.

• One of the highest rated Criminal Court Judges in Dallas County for over 10 years.

• Represented Dallas County before the Legislature in Austin to create an additional Family Violence Court.

• Elected by fellow jurists as Administrative Judge, managed both civil and criminal administrative matters and personnel for all Dallas County courts. 75% of County budget is criminal justice.

STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE. HIGHEST INTEGRITY.

• Lifelong Member of First Baptist Church Dallas

• 100% Pro-Life

• Lifetime Member of the NRA & Dallas Safari Club

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• Strongly Supports Traditional Family Values

Hon. Mike Cantrell

Dallas County Commissioner, Dist. 2

“As your County Commissioner for the last 24 years, it has been my pleasure to know and work with Judge Vic Cunningham. His expert experience as a highly-rated criminal court judge is a perfect match to handle the many criminal justice issues that come before the commissioners court. His success in business will serve him well in protecting taxpayer dollars. Republicans must always elect candidates with unquestionable integrity and values. Vic Cunningham is that person and I ask that you join Lorrie and I in voting for Vic Cunningham for County Commissioner in District 2.”

— Hon. Mike Cantrell

Hon. Jim Jackson

Former State Representative

Former Dallas County Commissioner

Judge Vic and his wife, Donna, have two children, Susan, an Assistant Dallas County District Attorney, and Vic, Jr., a law student at South Texas School of Law. Both were graduates of Texas A&M. Vic’s Mother, Mina, has a long history of leadership and involvement in the Republican Party.

Dr. Robert Jeffress Senior Pastor, First Baptist Dallas

In a personal letter Dr. Jeffress said:

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I’ve known Vic for many years and know him to be a good person and a dedicated public servant who will make a County Commissioner we can all be proud.”

— Hon. Jim Jackson

“I’ve known Vic for over ten years and can attest to his integrity. He is an honorable man who has had a remarkable legal career and is now a successful businessman and active civic leader. Vic and his family are longtime faithful members of my church.”

— Dr. Robert Jeffress

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Swinging for the fences: A Preston Hollow-area homeowner received a citation for a fence exceeding 6 feet even though she’s been living with the fence for almost 20 years, and it was there when she moved in. Did you know homeowners and builders must obtain special permission from the City of Dallas to own a fence that is more than 6 feet tall? The inspector cited 21 homes on two adjacent streets for not having permits, according to KTVT. The city, according to the report, gave the alleged violators seven days to “fix the problem” or pay fines in excess of $300. Dr. Marcial Oquendo received a citation for his fence. “Everyone’s already kind of mad about it, so when I got it, I was also mad about it,” he told the TV station. “We just moved here.”

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UP FRONT

‘WRITING SCARED ME’

Novelist Ben Fountain’s longtime walk to literature

Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES / Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

UP FRONT

Author Ben Fountain lives a stone’s throw from 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush in Preston Hollow, but in a ranch-style house featuring a low-key façade of neutral color and pale blue shutters. Inside, however, is an unambiguous outpouring of color in the form of Naive Haitian art. The abode is an expression of Fountain himself. Quiet and composed exteriorly, the “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” writer’s deadpan wit and nonconformity surface the minute you shake his hand, like he’s just any other dude with a pleasant smile and practical sneakers, rather than a guy who wrote a story taken to the big screen by one of the world’s winningest directors. His other mainstream-famous writing project is “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.” Fountain’s journey, like Fountain, is unconventional.

For a while you sacrificed what I assume was a passion for literature for a law practice. Why? Yes, assumption is correct. I read everything when I was young. My parents were big readers. I read stuff over my head for sure. Kids then were half feral, outside all day, or inside reading if you were me. First I was really into making film. Maybe it was “The Graduate” but all the good filmmakers or movie lovers have that one first movie where it clicks for them. That movie popped for me. And in college I discovered a knack for writing. Both those worlds — filmmaking and publishing — involved a lot of bullshit. Films needed money and so much more; the publishing world, I was not fond of. Sick of it, I decided on something hard, challenging with no room for the BS ... I drifted into law school at Duke. Also, writing scared me.

And how was law?

I didn’t like it. I found it a little dull. Like a glorified trade school. I wasn’t too mature, you see. But the knowledge I received did make it, in the long run, a little — just a little, mind you, harder for people to screw you over. I did it for five years. I tried writing at night while practicing law, and we had children. And then with the mental and financial support of my wife, Sharon, also a lawyer, I quit. I quit law, I mean. It made no sense. I just had a powerful, compulsive need to write. I realized I’d never have peace until I did this. She understood I was serious. I made a routine of sitting down to write at 7:30 each morning. For each sold and published story during those early years, I got 30 rejections. The book I wrote over a period of five years went into a drawer.

Is this a good time to ask about all the Haitian art in the house?

Every piece has a story. I went to Haiti for a change of scenery, you might say, but more to

be in a totally different type of world. I loved it there, made good friends there, including some of these artists, and have returned more than 30 times. It is like a home away from home. (Fountain’s reporting on post-earthquake Haiti was nationally broadcast on the radio show This American Life.)

You had successes during those years, but you have said it is embarrassing to say how long it took you to actually publish a book. Yes. And Malcolm Gladwell even noticed. He wrote a “late bloomer” piece for the New York Times, wherein he noted that my “breakthrough with ‘Brief Encounters with Che Guavera’ came in 2006, 18 years after first sitting down’ to write at the kitchen table.” And, quite humorously, he added that I “the ‘young’ writer from the provinces took the literary world by storm at the age of 48.”

At what point did you think about giving up, or did you?

There was a point when I was about 40, you know, when I started to feel like a failure. I mean, had I made the biggest mistake imaginable and wasted all these years? I even considered going to business school — I loved school. But then I realized no, this is what I want to do. Thanks to Sharon, I could. And she was great and patient. And at some point I became zen. I became comfortable with failure to an extent. But it was nice to be validated finally in the eyes of society. I was happy my kids could say, “My dad’s not a failure.”

“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” was, to understate it, a hit, with critics and readers alike. When, how, why did you come up with this story? I started thinking about it in the early 2000s, while at a Texas Stadium Cowboys game. In 2009, I started teaching some, and that is

“I just had a powerful, compulsive need to write. I realized I’d never have peace until I did this.”

when I began writing it. I wanted to write about things that made me mad — the war was BS, and for years, our troops have been used as props. Our culture trots them around in the most obscene ways. The idea of combat vets finding themselves in the middle of an absurd, artificial halftime show at a Cowboys Thanksgiving game, a day before they were to return to combat, grabbed a hold of me and then I saw where the story was going. The story of 19-year-old Billy Lynn and his single day at a Cowboys game, I think, captures the vast disconnect between war and soldiers and how the rest of us view it. There is a lot of feeling like: “What the hell is this?” It also touches on growing up, sexuality. But basically, to accept mainstream versions of what we are told can mean life or death. A narrative we are told could bring us to unnecessary war. My message is, “Don’t be dumb. Don’t be numb.”

And then it became a movie — how does that feel?

Oh, there was a lot of excitement, a lot of attention. Especially when we found out who would direct the movie — Ang Lee, three-time Best Director winner? Does it get better? After all these years. The red carpet. My family proud. It was surreal. Lee’s use of new technology, perhaps, or whatever it was, brought the critics down hard on the movie. But it has its moments. It was a very honorable attempt in my summation.

What are you working on now?

I am about to publish a book about the 2016 presidential campaign. It derives from a series of articles I wrote for The Guardian in real time, though 80 percent of the book is new material. It is due out in September.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

FOOD

SUSHI SOPHISTICATE

LONGTIME SERVER WOO IS THE STAR OF KU

By LISA KRESL / Photos by KATHY TRAN

WOO S. LEE greets customers at Ku Sushi like he has for the last 10 years.

The restaurant, which is tucked into the first floor of the Preston Forest Village Shopping Center, is a neighborhood favorite.

“When people come in, they ask for Woo,” says Chang Choi, who owns Ku Sushi with his brother and uncle. “He gets caught up all of the time because people want to talk to him. They really are friends with him.”

Choi and family have owned the restaurant for the last five years. The primary chef is Limwoo Lee. Like Woo, the food is comfortingly familiar. The restaurant is known for its rice-less rolls.

The Ku special boat serves three, costs $109.95 and includes miso soup, seaweed salad and tuna, salmon and yellowtail sushi and sashimi, and more. Bestsellers include the $16.95 love roll (salmon, crab meat and avocado wrapped with soy paper and tuna topped with ponzu sauce), the $15.25 valentine roll (salmon, avocado and mango wrapped with crab meat and topped with spicy sweet sauce) and the $16.95 Kristy roll (tuna, salmon, yellowtail, crab meat and asparagus wrapped with cucumber

and topped with apple ponzu sauce).

Try the $15.25 Preston roll (salmon, crab meat and cream cheese wrapped with soybean paper and deep fried with ponzu sauce).

Families have grown up coming to Ku Sushi. Parents enjoy the wine selection, which rivals that of nearby wine bars, and kids who started with fried rice and California rolls quickly became teenagers who ask for the chef’s specials.

The restaurant also serves sake, cocktails and a selection of Japanese beers.

Choi says fresh fish arrives Mondays and Thursdays. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings are less crowded. Reservations are recommended on weekend nights.

Those who work nearby know this insider tip for lunch: Get the bento box or roll combo to go. “It’s pretty quick for sushi,” Choi says.

“Woo seems shy, but he is sincere,” Choi says. “People who know us, know him. We know everyone who comes here.”

Next time you see Woo, try saying “Arigato gozaimasu” (pronounced ah-REE-gah-toh gohzai-mahss) — which means thank you very much.

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IN THE HALLS of Jesuit College Preparatory School, students walk daily with Dalí.

The Jesuit Dallas Museum features a collection of more than 500 works from five continents and 25 countries, including those by Salvador Dalí, R.C. Gorman, Georges Braque Diego Rivera and Robert Rauschenberg. Paintings, sculptures and ceramics fill the hallways, courtyards, classrooms and library.

“The museum is unique in the region and, perhaps, in the entire center of the country,” says Dallas Morning News art critic Richard Brettell, who is the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas. “At Jesuit, students can be exposed to important works of art by a wide range of artists and to works from the traditions of Native Americans. This is not true for the much richer schools in Dallas like St. Mark’s or Hockaday or analogous ones like Ursuline or Cistercian.”

The museum was incorporated in 1986 as a nonprofit institution. It shares the campus with the school but is separately chartered and has its own board of trustees.

Jesuit alumnus Frank Ribelin’s 1988 gift of largely contemporary art first established the collection. He believed that art should play a role in education and provide an escape from day-to-day pressures, Brettell says.

Museum Director Elizabeth Hunt Blanc says some of the more significant pieces on display are those by John Nieto, “Man with the Gold Tooth” by David Bates and “Navajo Code Talker” by R.C. Gorman, who has been called “the Picasso of American Indian art.” She is working on obtaining accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums.

Jesuit College Preparatory School

Year Established: 1942

Enrollment: 1,100

Tuition: $18,150

Blanc and 25 docents conduct tours and work with teachers to design hands-on projects for students. Art from the collection supplements lessons from English, Spanish and theology to math and science.

A group of 5-year-olds from the Learning Tree School recently toured the exhibit.

The museum partners with the Perot Museum of Science and Nature by lending pieces.

The museum currently features three works by the Andrew Bark Scholarship recipient, Evan Hargrave, Class of 2018. The Andrew Bark 1998 Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a rising senior who excels in the visual arts at Jesuit.

The museum is also hosting a show by Jesuit alumnus David Collins in conjunction with the Valley House Gallery. The Collins exhibit continues through May 25.

To schedule a free tour, email Blanc at ehuntblanc@jesuitcp.org.

— LISA KRESL

“The museum is unique in the region and, perhaps, in the entire center of the country.”

Jesuit College Preparatory School students benefit from studying on a campus with 500 works of fine art.

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BRENDA VACCARO THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL

Nearly every article about actress Brenda Vaccaro, 79, references her husky voice. Born in Brooklyn, she was raised in Dallas and appeared in several Thomas Jefferson High School productions. Now she has an Emmy, a Golden Globe, three Tony nominations and an Oscar nomination. Standout performances were in “Cactus Flower,” “The Goodbye People,” “Once Is Not Enough” and the 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy.” She also vamped it up on ’80s TV shows such as “The Love Boat” and “Golden Girls.”

Three things to know

1 Vaccaro’s father Mario Vaccaro, an attorney who had always been interested in cooking, came to Dallas and cofounded Mario’s restaurant.

2 She lived with actor Michael Douglas for several years before breaking it off. “There was this really strong connection — spiritually, sexually, and so overpowering I could not handle it,” she said in Closer Weekly. “Everything was different back then. There were a lot of drugs. We hung out with Angelica Huston and Jack Nicholson, and it was a crazy time. I’ve had the most amazing life!”

3 Married four times, Vaccaro’s current husband is 20 years her junior. When the California resident landed a part in Netflix’s series “Gypsy,” which filmed in New York, she jumped at the chance. “We’re married 30 years,” she told Page Six. “I told him, ‘The hell with it. Getting a job like this is fortunate. Until I get nominated, you sit in L.A. and rot.’ ”

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PRESTON HOLLOW’S Kaki Hopkins is a jewel of a volunteer at one of Dallas’ crowning glories: the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Hopkins banked on her connections, organizational skills and artistic background for the second year to chair Artscape Fair April 28-29. A juried fine art and craft show and sale, the event brought together nearly 100 artists from around the country. Hopkins orchestrated 60 people to serve on the event’s board.

How did you start volunteering at the Arboretum?

It’s the most peaceful place. (Arboretum President) Mary Brineger and I had worked together before on the board of the Dallas Opera and I loved working with her then. When the Dale Chihuly exhibit came to town in 2012, I was asked to do the gala.

What is your role now?

Mary asked me if I would reimagine Artscape and so I did. It was a blast. I had a huge committee. We started adding some features that brought more people to see it. I changed the whole look of it. I got Salvador Impastato to come up with a new layout that people could follow easily and would give the artists more visibility. These are very high-end artists.

What is your background?

I have a master’s in theater. I was at the Dallas Theater Center as an actor. I was an instructor and director of the graduate program. I have a dance and a sales background.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

I was studying mathematics as well as theater, and I was having trouble figuring out which path to take. I would say to myself, “You’re doing well with that choice.” I would also say cherish every new friend that you meet.

Tell me about your family.

I have two sons. Brett is 42 and Scott is 40. My husband, Shelton, has been the most incredible person. He’s a physician. We share a lot of interests. He has supported me on everything that I have done. I have supported him on everything that he has done at his hospital and with the Dallas County Medical Society. We both enjoy doing volunteer work. He is retired and he goes to the Vickery Meadow Learning Center to teach through Literacy Achieves. He’s on the board.

How do you like Preston Hollow?

It’s a wonderful area. I’ve been on the board of the Royal Northaven Neighborhood Association. I started out doing communications until things went to digital. I like the larger lots, and I love the various architecture styles, the trees and the wonderful people.

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Interview by LISA KRESL / Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

Interview edited for clarity and brevity.

CLOSET ENVY

Who would ever want to walk out on these secret walk-ins?

STORY BY DANIEL ROCKEY

In “Sex and the City: The Movie,” fashion icon Carrie Bradshaw asks Big to build her “a really big closet.” Well, these neighbors’ closets are bigger than Big’s. (And shhh! They want to keep them a secret, but we got a peek.)

Designer Kathleen Jacobson spent years as a television journalist and a producer for programs such as Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight and 20/20. Now she creates closets that we can all covet. Founder of The Couture Closet, Jacobson is in demand in Preston Hollow.

“Think about how much money a lot of us spend on clothes, shoes, handbags and jewelry,” she says. “We want to showcase those beautiful items.”

CLOSET TYPE: Shoe Nirvana

LOCATION: Northaven

COST: $125,000

THE DETAILS: This neighbor stores 200 pairs of shoes in her closet, which is 30-feet long and 20-feet wide. The racks for the shoes and handbags tilt slightly forward for the optimum display. A large island in the center houses jewelry, which is set off by custom blue velvet inserts. Along the back wall, the floor to ceiling window allows natural light. A recliner allows for soothing shoe sampling.

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CLOSET TYPE: His and Her (But Maybe a Tiny Bit More Her)

LOCATION: Preston Hollow

COST: $37,000

THE DETAILS: Love of lighting stands out in this twin closet. Three inset dressers are highlighted by soft toasted browns. Everything matches, from handle hardware to hanger style. What can you do today to improve your closet? Unifying hangers is one of the simplest and most affordable ways to make a closet pop, custom or otherwise, Jacobson says.

PHOTO BY KATHY TRAN

LIVING BEAUTIFULLY IN PRESTON HOLLOW

QUIRKY COSMETICS

PRESTON HOLLOW BUSINESSES TAKE FEELING AND LOOKING GOOD TO NEW EXTREMES

IT’S HARD TO PINPOINT WHEN HEALTH AND WELLNESS BECAME TRENDY. Maybe documentaries like “Supersize Me” and “Food, Inc.” persuaded us to swap a cheeseburger for a creatively named salad. We’re more likely to buy a membership to a boutique gym than a tanning salon. But it’s the quirky concepts — think vitamin infusions and vampire facials — that are becoming ever-present in our neighborhood. Whether they’re easing aches with an arctic blast or dousing your face with plasma, these Preston Hollow businesses have taken an unconventional approach to wellness.

Cold as it gets

Standing inside a tank that’s colder than Siberia seemed ludicrous until celebrities and athletes raved about wholebody cryotherapy.

Now spending three minutes in a contraption overflowing with liquid nitrogen — while only donning underwear, gloves, socks and slippers — is a common way of easing soreness and pain.

Cryotherapy immerses the body in temperatures between -147 and -202 degrees. The session, which costs between $45-$70, is reported to reduce inflammation, redirect blood flow and lead to weight loss, although research is inconclusive and contradictory.

The procedure originated in Japan as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in the late 1970s. It has been popular in Europe for decades, and its demand in the United States has grown since 2006.

Kelly Carden launched Cryo1One at Preston Royal Village three years ago.

“When I left my corporate job, people thought I was leaving to freeze dead bodies,” Carden says.

She couldn’t convince companies to distribute liquid nitrogen, and landlords were hesitant to lease property. At first, she rented a 300-square-foot space, where she crammed two cryotherapy chambers that cost about $60,000 each.

“It took two years to get a sign on the building,” she says.

As lines wrapped around the hallway, she moved the business to a larger space and partnered with one of her former clients. The duo chats with patrons during the three-minute sessions to ensure their safety and distract them from the frigid cold.

It feels a bit like working in a hair salon, Carden says, because people will tell her just about anything to keep their minds preoccupied.

Avid customers range from St. Mark’s and Hockaday athletes looking for a competitive edge to 80-year-olds

seeking pain management. Families schedule sessions together — an entertaining, albeit atypical time to bond.

“The funniest thing is the high-schoolers are better than their parents,” she says.

The hangover cure

What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but a bachelor party in Sin City sparked Matthew Burns’ fascination with vitamin infusions.

Desperate for a quick hangover cure, Burns stopped at a retail infusion store for a dose of electrolytes. He learned Nevada was one of many places commercializing vitamin infusions. The concept intrigued Burns, who had devoted his career to the oil and gas industry.

“Running a vitamin and wellness clinic is not what I imagined myself doing,” he says.

He invited his mom, aunt and a few family friends who are experienced in the medical and law professions to dinner. Five hours later, they devised a plan to launch VitaLiv.

Burns thought that most customers would be 20-somethings looking for a quick fix after binge drinking or an intense workout. Instead customers often are battling illnesses that deplete their energy levels. They visit the Preston Center business for additional relief, despite that the federal Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved the treatments.

“Hearing words like cancer, lupus, Lyme’s disease — all these different things we didn’t expect to see — is the base we’re seeing.”

Doctors oversee the Preston Center business, and registered nurses concoct the infusions and shots on-site. Costs range from $25-$200. Because of the risks that are associated with them, vitamins A, E, K and potassium aren’t available.

Burns hasn’t seen any complications, he says, although a few people are afraid of the needles.

Story by ELISSA CHUDWIN Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

“When I left my corporate job, people thought I was leaving to freeze dead bodies.”

Nip, tuck, freeze

Preston Hollow neighbor and former Real Housewives of Dallas cast member Marie Reyes has watched skin care trends come and go since she opened SkinSpaMed in North Dallas.

But the effectiveness of CoolSculpting surprised her. The treatment involves placing a vacuum onto fatty areas of the body. The vacuum freezes fat cells, which causes them to die so they’re absorbed back into the body.

It’s uncomfortable, but there’s no downtime, Reyes says.

“Some people describe it as a frozen piece of butter under their skin.”

The Food and Drug Administration approved the treatment, but Reyes doesn’t want to oversell it. It’s meant for people targeting problem areas, not people seeking dramatic weight loss.

CoolSculpting also is expensive, ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 per treatment.

Thanks to the Kardashian clan, services like the Vampire facial also have skyrocketed. Seeing faces splattered with blood across social media may appear to be a horror movie poster, but it’s part of a cosmetic procedure intended to reverse aging.

Patients’ blood is extracted from their arms. The blood is then spun to separate platelet rich plasma, which stimulates cells. It’s added to the skin with a micropen to rejuvenate cells.

As barbaric as it sounds, that hasn’t deterred patients from making an appointment.

Tweaking an ancient tradition

Acupuncture is more than 2,500 years old, yet cosmetic acupuncture is unfamiliar to most.

Modern Acupuncture, located in the Preston Center, offers cosmetic and traditional acupuncture in an unusual setting. The clinic’s dimly lit room and quiet setting is more like a spa than a doctor’s office.

“We call it the zen den for a reason,” says Bruce McGovern, who co-owns the franchise with his wife, Stephanie.

The couple have a knack for predicting trends in the industry, which is why they were one of the first to franchise Massage Envy and European Wax Center.

Cosmetic acupuncture places fine needles throughout the face, which is reported to stimulate the growth of collagen. It is supposed to fill fine lines, smooth wrinkles and improve skin tone, although studies’ verdicts on its effectiveness are mixed.

“I think people are being more responsible for their own health and wellness now,” Stephanie says. “We thought this maybe on the cutting edge of development.”

“We call it the zen den for a reason.”

Meet three graduating students whose tales of success and resilience embody what it’s like to be

BY LISA KRESL

PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

Stand and deliver

The 18-year-old stands confidently at the podium in front of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the Dallas City Council. The microphone is eye-level and members of the media are recording every word.

“I’m Mary Orsak from District 13,” she says. “I have left school today to come to City Hall in order to speak to you about the removal of Confederate monuments.”

It was March 21 and the 5-foot-tall Hockaday senior had replaced her school’s trademark off-white jacket for a black blazer. She spoke as the youngest member of the mayor’s task force on Confederate monuments. Her recommendation was to relocate the monuments to an educational facility.

This was not Mary’s first moment as a public speaker or in the media spotlight. In addition to serving on the mayor’s task force, she’s chaired the Dallas Youth Commission, created and operated a nonprofit organization, conducted summer programs in the Dallas Independent School District and presented a TED Kids talk at Southern Methodist University.

“People underestimate what’s going to be in that little package,” says Steve Kramer, Hockaday’s Upper School History Department Chair. “Mary is an outstanding history student, probably one of the best, if not the best, that I’ve had in a long career of teaching. She’s curious, she’s articulate and she knows how to bring things together.”

But Mary’s success hasn’t been without pain and setbacks. In elementary and middle school, Mary played volleyball, soccer, softball, tennis and basketball. During the seventh grade, she got a concussion when a girl accidently threw a softball at her head. Since that day, Mary had eight concussions in the span of four years. Her pediatrician and neurologist agreed that she should stop playing sports.

“I had spent all this energy trying to play club sports,” she says. “I needed to find something to do with my free afternoons.”

Mary discovered journalism, government and politics. She currently writes for the school newspaper and magazine.

After attending a leadership program at Yale University during the summer before eighth grade, she was inspired to come home and improve women’s education in Dallas. “I wanted to encourage young girls to become leaders in their fields,” she says. “My teachers always told me that I could be whatever I wanted to be as long as I worked hard enough. I knew that wasn’t the experience for every girl in Dallas. I had an awakening that I was very privileged to hear these messages and have all this support. I needed to ensure that other women have these same opportunities.”

Mary raised $10,000 to buy books by and about inspiring women and donate them to middle school libraries. She worked with the Community Foundations of Texas to get guidance about creating a nonprofit. It’s called Story Power, Inc. Next, she approached the head of libraries at DISD about the idea of using the books in a summer school program.

“I wanted to make sure that these books really got into the hands of young girls,” she says.

A few weeks later, she started working at Thomas A. Edison Middle School’s summer program. Mary continued raising money for books and conducted the session for the next four summers at Edison, George Bannerman Dealey Montessori School and T.R. Hoover Community Corp. She recruited friends to work with her. As the program expanded, she recruited volunteers from the St. Mark’s School, students from the neighborhood and anyone who was interested in helping.

During her senior year, Mary was asked to do the TEDxKids@SMU. Speakers are not allowed to bring notes on stage for the 10-minute talk. She practiced her speech, “Take Your Seat at the Table,” in front of anyone who would listen. When told she looked composed and confident, she confesses that inside she was shaking and worrying that she would mess up.

Next year, Mary plans to go to Yale, where she will major in ethics, politics and economics.

When asked what her advice is for other students, she says, “Find your passion and don’t ever hold back in accomplishing that. Get involved and continue to speak up. Never give up even if you are 13 or 15 or 18.”

“I had an awakening that I was very privileged… I needed to ensure that other women have these same opportunities.”

MARY ORSAK

Saved by song

If Ryvver Jenkins’ young life was an opera, it might be titled “The Young Maiden’s Curse.” But what began as a tragedy now shows the promise of the sweetest of arias.

The 18-year-old senior at W.T. White High School says she is a child of rape. “My mother has a lot of resentment,” Ryvver says. “She tried to love me to the best of her abilities, but sometimes she didn’t show it or have the words.”

Ryvver took out her anger at school. During her freshman and sophomore years, she talked back to teachers, skipped school and failed classes. She frequented in-school suspension.

“Everyone knows me for being wild, getting in fights, having a temper, from rumors,” she says. “I was angry. It was me trying to let it out and just in the wrong way.”

Things got so bad during the end of her junior year that Ryvver moved to San Antonio to live with her grandmother. She took online courses. When she returned to W.T. White for her senior year, she paid rent to live at a friend’s house. Her attitude had changed.

“ ‘I can goof around in high school, but then after graduation what’s going to happen?’ " she says she remembers thinking. “I was going to be the girl who messed around and didn’t get her life together. I didn’t want to be that. I was scared for that.”

Ryvver worked hard to improve her grades. She worked as a hostess at the restaurant Republic. At one point, she had two jobs with no transportation. She walked an hour to get from a job at the Galleria to the restaurant.

Her sanctuary was the school’s choir room, where she sang and studied between classes. “You never want to play favorites, but she’s one of them,” says Douglass Harrell, W.T. White’s Director of Choral Activities. “She found her way and has matured vocally, allowing music to be the release she needs.”

Ryvver says, “It showed me that I can be on my own. I can take care of myself. I can do something with my life.”

Ryvver stands on the school stage alone, wearing jeans, a simple blue T-shirt and flat sandals. Her curly hair is piled high on her head. She says her voice doesn’t lend itself to R&B or pop. It comes out sounding too proper, she says. She launches into her favorite song, Ave Maria. Her hands are clasped in front and her eyes are closed. Her face tilts up as she sings.

“Ave Maria! maiden mild!” reads the English translation.

“Listen to a maiden’s prayer!

“Thou canst hear though from the wild;

“Thou canst save amid despair.”

“Opera is really beautiful to me,” she says. “Everyone knows what you’re saying even if you don’t speak the language.”

Now, nearly a month from graduation, Ryvver jokes that the spelling of her name is a curse at Starbucks. She talks animatedly about her five brothers, ages 16, 8, 6, 4, 1. She says she broke down and cried when she received her acceptance letters to the University of North Texas at Denton and Louisiana State University.

She’s excited about attending UNT, where she plans to major in music and minor in psychology. She’s busy applying for scholarships and studying the book called “TwentyFour Italian Songs and Arias.”

The recent death of her grandmother in San Antonio was difficult, but it did not set her back. In fact, it helped heal her relationship with her mother. Ryvver plans to move home to live with her mother and brothers for the remainder of the school year.

“We had a sit down,” she says. “My mom said she could only love me how much she knows how. She had a hard life. I accepted that. I don’t want to have the regret, the way she did when her mother passed away. All I can do is love her.

“I am the product of rape. It is what it is. I’ve accepted it,” Ryvver says. “If no one can find me, I’m in the choir room chillin’.”

“I am the product of rape… I’ve accepted it. If no one can find me, I’m in the choir room chillin’.”

RYVVER JENKINS

Playing for keeps

On his first day of 10th grade at Hillcrest High School, a slim Hector Castellano Camejo stood on the school’s sidewalk alone as the son of parents new to the U.S. on political asylum.

Behind him were years of his family’s suffering under socialism in Venezuela and his own experience being bullied as a 210-pound Christian. In just three years, he would earn a 3.9 GPA, attend a summer law program at Stanford, study violin with a Dallas Symphony member and become his school’s orchestra concertmaster.

But first Hector had to learn English.

“It was one of the most terrifying things I had to face,” he says. “The lack of the English language not only took my voice, but it took my confidence.”

His first class at Hillcrest that day was math, a subject he loved. He understood the numbers and equations on the board, but when the teacher asked him if he could solve the problem, he had to say no. “That’s the only thing I could say,” Hector says. “I couldn’t communicate with him.”

In his first English class, he left behind the cultural norms of his homeland and extended his right hand to the teacher, thinking that shaking her hand was what was expected. Instead, the teacher hugged him. “I was so vulnerable that I almost cried,” he says. “I thought she was going to reject me.”

Hector says he had two options: stay behind and hate everything or give it his all. He started by joining the school soccer team and learning to play the violin. “People here were always four or five steps above me. If they were giving one, I had to give three. If they were giving two, I was giving five. I was trying to make myself get to their level.”

He says he wasn’t afraid to speak English after his sister reassured him that it was OK to not be perfect. “I told my friends to tell me if I was making mistakes and correct me.” Soon, Hector was making 90s and 100s in class. He no longer belonged in the school’s English as a Second Language program. After walking by the school’s Academy of Engineering class and loving what he saw from the hallway, he joined that division.

But school was difficult. “It was a challenge to write a whole paragraph when I wasn’t proficient to write a sentence,” he says. “I can’t deny that it was God. With the help of my teachers and God, I started doing it.”

Hector embraced community service as part of the Hillcrest’s Key Club, helping to set up a garden at Franklin Middle School. “It’s a beautiful thing to give something back to this nation.”

During his sophomore year, Hector made the all-regional orchestra. His violin is a loaner from the school. “I don’t have a violin of my own,” he says. On that day, he didn’t have the best audition. He came home devastated. His mom told him that sometimes, hard work is better than achieving a goal.

“But thank God, I got it!” he says, laughing. “I got the last spot.”

As a member of Dallas Symphony Young Strings, a program to increase the diversity of American symphonies, Hector studies under Sho-mei Pelletier, a Dallas Symphony violinist. “She is tiny, but her sound was telling me what was inside her,” he says. “I tried to transmit this same strong, confident sound.”

In addition, he represented the North Texas District Council for Fine Arts for the Assemblies of God at a national competition, participating in the Christian and Worship Band division, where he played guitar and sang.

Hector is now his school’s concertmaster. He also began a mentorship organization called Hillcrest Newcomers Union to help immigrant students new to the country. “I created this program so these kids won’t have to face all the obstacles that I had to face,” he says. “I wanted to show them that

there’s still hope, even in a new country where you don’t know anything. If I can help one person change his or her life, everything will be worth it. I know how it feels to be lonely and scared.”

His family taught him that in the face of his homeland’s adversity, it’s important to be humble, work hard and be kind. “It was out of all this misery and corruption that my dream career came,” he says. “I want to change the government. I want to be a lawyer.”

Now 18, Hector would like to attend college. He needs a scholarship, and the process is difficult. He’s not a full resident. Neither is he illegal; he has a driver’s license and a social security card. But his family’s political asylum case is pending, and as far as he understands it, he must apply to college as an international resident. “The schools don’t know what to do about me,” he says.

Dallas Baptist University accepted him and offered him a Christian leadership scholarship that pays 25 percent of his tuition. He is considering attending Richland College for the first two years. He wants to be the first in his family to graduate from college.

“I have done it and so can many others after me,” he says. “I am proof that being an immigrant is not a limitation.”

“It’s a beautiful thing to give something back to this nation.”

HECTOR CASTELLANO CAMEJO

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