The North Shore Weekend EAST, Issue 31

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No. 31

featuring the news and personalities of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest & Lake Bluff

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10 Yawn. Stretch. Repeat It’s that time of year when senioritis afflicts local high schools. Is there any way for seniors to stay motivated once they get into college?

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14 Here’s to Mom Mother’s Day comes up on Sunday.

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 16 Sunday Breakfast Ginny Van Alyea owns Chicago Gallery News, a publication covering art, photography and more that is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

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19 Goings On About Towns Find out about the best events coming up this week in the North Shore.

22 Social whirl Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

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26 Open Houses See a list — complete with map — of what houses you can see on the North Shore this weekend.

28 North Shore Offerings Take a look at intriguing houses in our towns.

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n this era of ubiquitous iPods, symphonies often seem a relic of another era. The lengthy concert with no singers, a crowd comprised mainly of senior citizens, instruments one never hears on mainstream radio — how, exactly, have symphonies survived into the 21st century?

The answer, at least on the North Shore, is high quality. The venerable Lake Forest Symphony, which looks and sounds as good as many big-city symphonies, has been named Illinois Orchestra of the Year more than once.

The younger North Suburban Symphony, which just wrapped up another successful season on Sunday, plays beautifully with amateur musicians. And many nights at Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — one of the best in the world — regales audiences with its classic music. Symphony ticket prices on the North Shore are extremely reasonable (one could easily attend a dozen symphonies for the price of a Blackhawks playoff ticket). Bill McLean gives us the scoop in these pages.

If you haven’t realized it yet, Mother’s Day is Sunday. Some say it’s merely a Hallmarkinduced money-making venture, but how would your Mom feel if you ignored it for that reason?

There’s still time to pick up a gift to make her day. Joanna Brown fills us in on a few stores with Mother’s Day fare (and allow me to use editorial privilege to say: Happy Mother’s Day, Mom).

Senioritis may sound like a disease; it does involve laziness and apathy, and yawning and staring out a class window are symptoms.

Though it’s not contagious, it seems to afflict a certain high school class every spring, once its members know they’re in college. Angelika Labno explains how local seniors get through those final weeks before graduation.

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– Take a bow –

Violinist Alison Flores prepares during a North Suburban Symphony rehearsal at the Gorton Community Center.

Ingrid Reid of Libertyville plays the cello and Howard Martino of Lake Forest plays the bass for the North Suburban Symphony, which is composed of amateur musicians.

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Symphonies on North Shore deliver top-notch concerts ■ by bill mclean A tuba player for the North Suburban Symphony tends bar in between concerts.

The North Suburban Symphony (NSS) — based in Lake Forest and sponsored by the Lake Bluff Park District — performed its 2012-13 season’s final concert, “Italian Passion,” at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest on May 5.

Wine and cheese were served at a reception afterward.

The NSS did not have to hire a bartender — a good thing since the symphony’s annual budget is a modest $25,000.

The volunteer who had played the largest brass instrument that afternoon poured wine into glasses for patrons.

A musician one minute, a Merlot dispenser the next.

“That’s the spirit of a community symphony,” said North Suburban Symphony music director Ron Arden.

The North Shore is blessed with a number of symphonies, both volunteer and professional. Not only that, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra makes Ravinia Festival its summer home. On most any weekend during the year, North Shore residents can take a short drive to hear excellent performances.

At the North Suburban Symphony, an eighth-grader served as a violist at Gorton last weekend. A retired music teacher took bow to cello and sawed away — sometimes gracefully, sometimes ardently (the strings survived). Scott Schappe, professor and head of the physics department at Lake Forest College, got kinetic with a clarinet.

“It is a joy for me, as a cellist, to sit beside a high school cellist during rehearsals and concerts,” said septuagenarian Nancy Thorner, the retired music teacher.

The Lake Forest Symphony, meanwhile, brings joy to concert goers at a variety of venues, including its primary location at The James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts on the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake.

But unlike the North Suburban Symphony’s performers, the Lake Forest Symphony’s musicians are paid and members of a union. Its music director is Alan Heatherington, who is slated to leave at the end of this season. He is also the music director of Skokie-based Ars Viva, another professional symphony.

Ars Viva concerts, as well as concerts put on by the

Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra — a community ensemble, like NSS — entertain folks at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.

“Our professionals come from all over the Chicago metropolitan area, and they’re high-quality performers,” Lake Forest Symphony executive director Susan Lape said.

“Some also play for a variety of other organizations, like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and the Joffrey Ballet.

“Scheduling,” she added, “can get tricky at times.”

At times, a community symphony has to hire a “ringer” if, say, a violist won’t be available on a concert date or a bartender/tuba player has to work a shift for a vacationing colleague. NSS gives modest stipends to talented high school and college students to occupy its necessary chairs.

Nearly 300 patrons filled Gorton’s auditorium for North Suburban Symphony’s “Russian Treasures” concert in early March.

The Lake Forest Symphony, founded in 1957 as a chamber orchestra of volunteer musicians, chose to use professional musicians only beginning with the 1987-88 season.

That left its local amateur and volunteer musicians mute.

But not for long.

NSS was born in ’87. Its 29 founding members had been Lake Forest Symphony performers.

“The founding members recruited new members and sought competent leadership and soloists, all while staying within a limited budget,” said Thorner, a resident of Lake Bluff since ’72. “The aim of the NSS is to continue its role as a community orchestra that can provide patrons with enjoyable, affordable music performed with a high level of competence.”

The Lake Forest Symphony reached out to its Lake Forest roots last weekend, presenting a “25 under 25” recital at Lake Forest High School’s Raymond Moore Auditorium on May 5 (ticket cost: $25, of course). Young and gifted classical musicians from the Music Institute of Chicago, Midwest Young Artists, Lake Forest High School and Lake Forest College performed.

On June 9, Lake Forest Symphony heads to the Lake Forest home of John and Posy Krehbiel for its “Music in the Garden” event. Tours of the property’s gardens will be given. When it returns to its indoor facility at CLC,

the symphony produces sounds in a 600-seat auditorium.

The Lake Forest Symphony’s financial status: sound.

“We’ve been lucky. Our Lake Forest and Lake Bluff symphony enthusiasts have been loyal, and we’ve been getting tremendous support from people in the northwest suburbs,” said Lape, LFS’s executive director since September. “We’re not immune to the financial challenges so many other organizations are facing, but we’re working hard and we’re developing. It’s going well.”

The North Suburban Symphony is in the black, as is FullScore Chamber Orchestra, based in Zion and established in ’03. Many of its concerts are held at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Gurnee. Nearly all of FullScore’s musicians are professional. Unlike other professional orchestras, FullScore regularly invites talentladen students and community players to perform.

Arden, NSS’s music director, is also FullScore’s founding artistic director and conductor.

“I’ve been blessed,” Arden said. “I’m affiliated with two orchestras that are doing well, sound great and have growing audiences.”

The North Shore has been touched by the symphony/ orchestra angel for decades. World-class musicians — Itzak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zuckerman and Rachel Barton, to name a quartet — moved Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra audiences at one time or another as guest soloists; Lake Forest Symphony’s and Ars Viva’s Maestro Heatherington was named Illinois Conductor of the Year (professional orchestras) in 2005 and 2012 by the Illinois Council of Orchestras and since its inception in ’95, Ars Viva was named Orchestra of the Year twice by the same council.

The Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season (its 52nd) opens on Oct. 6, and its kick-off concert has an irreverent title that will resonate with text-happy teens everywhere: “So U Think U H8 Classical Music?”

If they go, they just might exit the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts with an IWALU (I Will Always Love You) feeling.

“The musical roots of many pop culture icons,” the concert’s description informs, “can be found in classical music.” ■

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The number of weeks left before graduation can be counted on one hand. The weather is tempting students to ditch homework and play ball instead.

With college acceptance letters in hand, the debilitating bout of laziness, known as “senioritis,” is peaking.

“At Lake Forest Academy, you will see most of the seniors outside on the blacktop listening to music, laying in the sun, playing catch with a football or playing four-square,” said senior Lauren Clamage.

“I personally don’t feel deterred from coming to school and going to class, but it’s difficult to motivate yourself to do outside-of-class homework,” said Nika Arzoumanian from Highland Park High School.

What, then, keeps seniors motivated to keep their heads in the books instead of the clouds?

Teachers offer an incentive for consistency: in most high schools on the North Shore, if students maintain above a 90 percent average in the class, they are exempt from taking the final. Doing work throughout the semester surely beats cramming for a test while everyone else enjoys the sunshine. Even stronger are the students who are not distracted from their studies simply because it is a habit to consistently perform well.

“Grades are still as important to me as they always have been,” said Emily Bartusiak of Woodlands Academy. “I do not believe age nor senior status is any justification to slack off in school.”

“After three and a half years of trying my best in school, it’s hard to just drop that mentality after receiving a letter in the mail,” said Hope Di Paolo from Loyola Academy.

Another aspect keeping seniors focused is Advanced Placement, or AP, testing. At the end of an AP course, students have the option of taking an exam. Depending on the score, the course then counts for college credit. Because of the challenging course load throughout the year, many find it hard to waste all of their hard work and skip the

exam. Additionally, students want to take advantage of the credit to either cut the costs of college or shorten their studies.

“I do not think it would be fair to me nor to my teachers if I did not study for the exams. Therefore, the real test of focus will be when my AP exams end,” added Bartusiak.

From there, the reasons to stay motivated in school split. For some, a genuine interest in class material or love for learning is what keeps their minds

“I do not think it would be fair to me nor to my teachers if I did not study for the exams.” | Emily Bartusiak engaged in the classroom. Arzoumanian explains that she simply wants to know what happened during World War I in Europe or how to say certain words in Spanish. For Di Paolo, extracurricular activities keep her focused and busy, particularly lacrosse.

Karsten Neumeister credits his parents’ expectations for academic progress as reason for keeping up with his class work.

“We let ourselves get lost in the excitement of the thought of college,” said Neumeister, a Lake Forest High School senior.

“It’s honestly pretty tough to stay motivated in class,” said Mary Therese Forsyth from Loyola Academy, “but I’m hanging in there and doing what I can.” ■

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Their business is in the bag ■by joanna brown Rushing to fit a paddle tennis game in her schedule a few years ago, Meredith Drake tossed her paddle into her tote bag and darted for the door.

When she emptied her bag later and found that her new sunglasses had fallen victim to the paddle, she pulled out her sewing machine and designed a bag to solve her problem.

Drake of Lake Forest fashioned a tote bag large enough to fit all of her personal belongings and attached a paddle-shaped pocket on the outside for safekeeping. It took more than eight hours of work over a week and a half — and it wasn’t perfect — but it solved her problem.

At a luncheon not long after, Drake told Joann Jacks about a similar bag she was making for a friend. She responded with enthusiasm.

“Joann asked if I had ever thought about doing it bigger and going into business.

I told her that I could only sew so fast,” Drake recalled.

But over numerous conversations between the friends and more than a few consultations with Jacks’s mother, a seamstress, their business was born. Paddle Bags and More by M & J produces and sells tote bags for platform tennis and squash players out of Jacks’s Lake Forest basement. Since 2008, the pair has sold more than 200 bags for North Shore athletes.

“Yes, it’s for sports, but it’s also feminine,” said Jacks, describing the bags made of upholstery weight fabric and lined with silk. “You can go anywhere and find a vinyl bag. But women are feminine and have taste. This is a sports bag, but you can still run to lunch with it.”

The market is certainly there. Paddle tennis is an outdoor racquet sport playable year-round, though it’s high season occurs in the winter. Private clubs and public facilities alike offer courts for players of all ages; thousands of players engage in competition through North Shore leagues.

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tennis or sew all that well herself, she saw the genius in Drake’s creation.

“My mother always said I should work in quality control,” Jacks admitted. The idea of mixing business with pleasure — establishing a partnership with her friend — didn’t deter her.

“We’re open and honest with each other; we trust each other completely,” Jacks said of Drake, whom she met when the two Lake Forest residents joined the Northwestern

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but you can still run to lunch with it.” | Joann Jacks Lake Forest Hospital Women’s Board. They worked together frequently to lead board programs and events; the friendship grew from there.

Today, Drake and Jacks are vendors at the holiday boutiques they once organized, and they sell their bags through trunk shows at country clubs and private homes.

They also sell ready-made and custom bags online at cartwheeldesign.co and at Gifted in Lake Forest.

They channel cookie magnet Mrs. Fields and dream of selling their bags to wider audiences, but their local success leaves them just as fulfilled.

“It’s been hard. We’ve broken a lot of needles on that machine and you’re going to get a lot more ‘nos’ than ‘yeses,’” Jacks said.

“Of course we all have dreams, but even if we stay small and continue with Web sales and custom work, that’s an accomplishment for two girls working out of a basement.”

Added Drake: “If you’re doing something that you really like, it’s always a good thing.

You’re excited, your friends will get excited and they’ll support you. I started by making a bag for my own use, and my friend wanted to be my business partner.” ■

YOur Own seCret Garden For the homeowner who loves enjoying the beauty of nature, there’s no greater pleasure than the time spent in the garden. Once you’ve planted a vegetable garden, or put in a flower box, what’s the next step to creating “your own secret” garden, a place where you can retreat from the blare of the TV, leave the phone behind and simple enjoy the undisturbed serenity of nature’s bounty? If you’re looking for something that’s truly eye-catching, you can’t go wrong with an arbor, wood pergola or a butterfly garden. An arbor or wood pergola are easy, low-cost installations that provide a place for vine plants (of the floral or fruiting varieties) to grow and add a regal flourish to a yard. Clematis, wisteria, hydrangea vines, trumpet vines, honeysuckle, moonflowers, climbing rose and dutch pipe are all great choices for an arbor or wood pergola, with kiwi, certain varieties of grape and passion fruit vines being some of the most popular fruiting vines to care for. A butterfly garden provides pleasure to the homeowner thrice over, bringing color and fragrance like any other flower garden, but with the added grace and beauty of the butterflies who will become your most frequent guests! Nectar plants such as heliotrope, common dandelion, zinnias and verbena will lure in adult butterflies, while host plants such as alfalfa, sunflowers, snapdragons and hollyhock sustain butterflies in their caterpillar stages—a great learning experience for families with kids! To add a perfect finish to your “secret garden”, visit a nature center to find a squirrel-proof birdfeeder, invest in a hummingbird feeder, or find a flat slab of stone and put out birdseed regularly—you never know how many varieties of songbirds may visit you on your leisurely afternoons in the sun!

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Watching: I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I do watch WTTW while I’m working out in the morning, and a lot of English programs. I find “This Old House” very interesting, and I like science fiction — I enjoy “Battlestar Galactica.” I tend to watch programs on DVD because I can’t stand the commercials.

Following: Most of what I follow is design-related. Houzz.com is a really great website — I’m actually featured on it as a designer, but I also use it as a resource for showing different options for how rooms can be organized, or for color choices and different kitchen backsplashes. As far as designers, I like Rose Tarlow — our design ethics are very similar: she uses a lot of antiques and woven things, and doesn’t favor an over-coordinated look. My favorite British designer is Nina Campbell. Her design esthetic has developed over time from being quite traditional to really very contemporary.

Travel is always a great inspiration, going about the world and seeing

how architecture is interpreted. I found the geometry and the use of nature in Barcelona fascinating.

Activity: My interior design business keeps me very busy. I’m working on a condo in the city, a vacation home, a bathroom, and several smaller projects in Lake Forest.

I’ve been doing a lot of repurposing of existing pieces for clients, and I find that often clients have pieces that they’ve inherited and that they want to re-use.

I find it very satisfying, helping people with their design dilemmas. I really enjoy the creative process and being able to give them ideas and see the final projects.

I also started doing some staging recently, which was exciting; the client said she sold her house in four days and was very pleased. I think people find there are so many choices now, but it doesn’t make it any easier to make a decision and put things together in a way to reflect their personality.

I’m looking forward to when my garden starts to revive; that’s another passion of mine.

Eating: I have started to make tagine. Neil (my husband) gave me a tagine for Christmas and a cookbook — it’s a Moroccan dish. And we’ve recently come back from Spain so I’m absolutely in love with tapas and I want to use more olive oil.

I also love anything with rhubarb, which I grow in my garden.

What is your favorite mistake? Clients often make an expensive mistake before they realize they need a designer. It gives me enormous satisfaction if I can help people with challenging spaces or if they’re really stuck on how to use their existing pieces. I like coming up with creative solutions without having to throw everything out and starting anew. I’m concerned about the environment and I hate to waste, so I like repurposing things. ■

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The Highland Park and Highwood Police Departments and North Shore School District 112 are working together after two separate reports of child abductions that occurred outside of Oak Terrace School in Highwood last month.

Two students reported being approached after school by an adult male asking if they wanted a ride home.

The events occurred on different days, but both students gave similar descriptions of the suspect: a white male in his mid-30s, approximately 5-foot-7, with black hair, a goatee, and a star tattoo on the front of his arm.

If you have any information regarding this individual, or see him, call 911, or the Highwood Police Department at 847-432-2152 or Highland Park Police Department at 847-432-7730.

The City of Highland Park will host a blood drive on Saturday, May 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in partnership with LifeSource.

The drive will be located at the City’s Fire Department at 1130 Central Avenue, Station #33, and all donors will receive a commemorative T-shirt and are invited to a barbecue immediately following any donation.

“Donating blood once can save up to three lives,” Fire Department Chief Patrick Tanner said. “Come prepared, drink water and eat well the day before.”

Winnetka Josh Hoeflich, a sophomore at North Shore Country Day School, received Gold Key recognition in the 2013 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. A panel of judges chose his personal essay, “Jacob and I,” to be recognized at the regional level.

The Gold Key award is the highest level of achievement for student artists and writers at the regional level.

It is given to works that best exemplify originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal voice. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford and Joyce Carol Oates.

Lake Forest The Music Institute of Chicago will expand its facilities at the Grove Cultural Campus, 40 East Old Mill Road in Lake Forest.

With the closure of its Highland Park campus this summer, the Lake Forest campus will serve as a center for lessons, classes, chamber music, and performance for students of all ages.

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Number of gifts available to brighten mom’s Sunday ■ by joanna brown Glencoe bookseller Linda Illes knows without a doubt that on Mother’s Day, Mom’s favorite gift is handmade.

“Our gifts were always handmade, and my father always gave my mother flowers,” remembered Illes, co-owner of Glencoe’s Books on Vernon. “As a child, back in the Dark Ages, I remember taking an empty soda bottle and painting it at school.” Topped with a perforated lid, the shaker was used to sprinkle clothes before they were ironed.

“No one under 40 even knows what that is anymore,” she laughed. “When my mother died at the age of 86, I found that bottle in a box of her things.”

This weekend, she’ll help countless spouses and children search for the perfect gift. She has innumerable suggestions but said that Mother’s Day shoppers most often head straight for the cookbook section.

“One of our favorites now is The Busy Mom’s Cookbook,” Illes said. “It’s well done and enables cooking really good things without a whole lot of prep and shopping. It’s very realistic.”

Lake Forest designer Mark Roberts alleviates the challenge of finding the so-called perfect gift with a design experience he’s offering this year: He’ll work with Mom to create a custom floral arrangement in her home or his studio at Mark David Designs.

“There are nice thoughts behind all the gifts we give, but sometimes they get lost,” said Roberts, who admitted to buying his mother a beautiful teapot that she’s never used. “This is an opportunity for me to teach your mom something about scale and balance and the mix of shapes. And I get to know my customers better, too.”

In addition to the floral arrangement that fits just right, Mom will get a sense of satisfaction that lasts long after the Mother’s Day brunch.

“She’s got plans to create something that she can look forward to, and when it’s over she can stand back and say, ‘I helped make that,’” Roberts said.

“Everyone likes to be proud of what they’ve done.”

In Highland Park, Style Shack co-owner Sherry Levin asks a lot of questions before she recommends a Mother’s Day gift.

“For the 70-year-old mothers, they want nothing for their homes. She has what she needs; it’s nothing more than clutter for a woman on the move,” Levin described. “She’s traveling and going out for dinner rather than entertaining as much. She wants a personal gift.”

Levin has recently been recommending for them a travel case for their jewelry — to keep things organized while they’re on the move.

“For the younger moms, anything goes,” Levin continued. “They like to adorn themselves with jewelry, and their homes are a work in progress.”

For them, Levin recommends a set of soaps shaped like jewelry. Made in Vermont, they are created by a designer from Hermès.

“They’re gorgeous for decoration, and they’re functional,” Levin said.

Illes has found over the years that children know a surprising amount about their parents’ reading habits.

“Most kids have a feeling for what their parents’ reading taste is. They know that their dad only reads historical fiction or that their mom is in three book groups so their gift for her has to be something really, really new,” Illes said.

While gift books for Mother’s Day tend to focus on decorating, she had another idea for mature customers: “Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femme Fatales” celebrates the female body in art.

“It’s been a fun and popular book for adults to give adults,” Illes said, alluding to the nudity in the featured artwork by masters like Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Warhol. ■

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To thine own self be true ■ by angelika labno New Trier High School’s Hannah Antman could have been born in the Elizabethan era. The sophisticated junior, having never performed Shakespeare before, got all the way to the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition in New York City on April 22.

Antman advanced to the finals after winning the school and regional championships, for which she was awarded $1,500 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Although she did not take home the grand prize, she left the city with unforgettable experiences: she caught two Broadway shows with New Trier theater teacher Hilerre Kirsch and took an acting

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“It was really amazing to be able to perform at Lincoln Center and watch my fellow competitors perform at the competition, who were so incredibly talented,” said Antman.

“It was such a beautiful gift to be able to share my love for theater and my newfound love for Shakespeare.”

“She has such a natural understanding of the heightened language of Shakespeare as well as a talent for both drama and comedy,” said Kirsch.

Some of Antman’s outstanding qualities as an actress, according to Kirsch, are her openness to direction and ability to explore her work from different angles. In addition to performing, she enjoys working behind the scenes with the costume crew, stage crew and in assistant directing.

The Wilmette resident’s performing career began in second grade, when she was inspired by her dancer mother to pursue dancing. She first performed her mother’s choreography of “Bye Bye Birdie” in Skokie.

Today, Antman is part of Young People’s Company, the most advanced performance ensemble for high school students within the acclaimed Piven Theatre Workshop, which she has been attending since freshman year. She describes Piven as story theater, her favorite kind of theater, as she enjoys adapting a story in her own creative way.

Additionally, Antman participates in school plays and musicals, like the current Spring Plays Festival, and is a member of the International Thespian Society.

She runs her own radio show at New Trier with friend Claudia, which covers Broadway news and show tunes. One of the highlights has been interviewing Broadway.com Creative Director Paul Wontorek for the show. While in New York, Antman tweeted

at the talk show host and ended up meeting him for lunch.

“He has a very interesting perspective on the New York theater scene,” said Antman.

“It was cool to hear his opinions on shows and things surrounding Broadway.”

Antman says she enjoys Broadway because of the different interpretations and facets of productions and counts it as

“It was really amazing to be able to perform at Lincoln Center … it was such a beautiful gift to be able to share my love for theater and my newfound love for Shakespeare.” | Hannah Antman a learning experience to follow the various shows. Her favorite production is “Into the Woods.”

She does not limit herself to acting. In school, she is interested in psychology and social work, and is working on recording people’s oral histories for a project. During the summer, she is a summer camp counselor at the Jewish Community Center.

The interest for people’s cultures and lives comes from her involvement in New Trier’s Integrated Global Studies School.

“You can focus on the things that you are interested in, so it’s a more creative environment,” said Antman. “I want to learn as much as possible and do as much as possible in my life. I want to explore.” ■

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Owner guides gallery magazine to new heights

■ by david sweet Once she graduated from Hamilton College in New York in 2002, Ginny Van Alyea expected to enter the world of children’s books. Moving to Chicago, however, jobs in the industry were scarce.

A contact at Simon & Schuster in New York, Tracy van Straaten, suggested she get hold of her mother, Natalie van Straaten, who had published Chicago Gallery News since 1983.

“When I talked with her she said, ‘Work for me two days a week until you figure out what you want to do,’ “ recalls Van Alyea. “I basically didn’t have a clue what I was getting into when I was 22 and began working there. I was just thrilled there was someone so kind who would take me on two days a week and pay me.”

Eleven years later, Van Alyea is the owner and publisher of Chicago Gallery News, a thrice-annual publication that covers galleries, museums, events and more in Chicago and on the North Shore.

“The Gallery News is sort of a cheerleader publication for embracing the visual arts,” says Van Alyea, who was born in Lake Bluff. “I haven’t encountered anything like it in another city. I’ve thought about creating another publication, but I think I’d have to clone myself.”

When Van Alyea bought the publication in 2007, she created a five-year plan. That was quickly altered as the economy soured.

“It was a wild time,” she said. “A lot of things had to be tweaked for economic reasons. I learned a lot — trial by fire — about how to streamline things.”

She was able to accomplish much despite the troubled times. Non-profit directory pages were moved to the Web site. Regular profile series were introduced.

“That expanded our reach. They wanted to read about people’s personal art stories,” Van Alyea said. “Before, it had been a resource for people who knew what they were looking for (rather than for those wanting to discover new information).”

Chicago Gallery News — which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year — looks as much like its initial iteration as a Renior looks like a painting of dogs playing poker. Back then, it was a four-page leaflet, covering 16 galleries in an area artists hoped would be known as SuHu. Even when Van Alyea started in 2002, the magazine

errors. I learned very quickly that being organized and being meticulous about accuracy and clarity were critical to producing a good publication.”

Today, more than 125 galleries are covered in the glossy color pages of Chicago Gallery News. Van Alyea says coverage of the North Shore “is one of our larger sections, ” including The Art Center of Highland Park, the Evanston Art Center, the Deerpath Art League and more.

“There are a variety of centers that have popped up there in the last few years,” she said. “They’re able to do a few things at once — have classes as well as exhibits.”

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illustration by barry blitt had not entered the computer age.

“We still put it together in a sort of old-fashioned way with a paper dummy, since our graphic designer was in North Carolina and we had to tape up mock-ups first to demonstrate the layout,” said Van Alyea, who digitized production soon after buying Chicago Gallery News. “Then we’d have proofreading powwows where we’d (all 3 of us) compare our red-marked pages to see who caught the most

Aside from subscriptions, the publication — which is not sold on newsstands — is distributed at galleries, downtown hotel concierge desks, art conferences and more. Van Alyea said circulation has increased since 2007, and she has introduced a twice-monthly e-mail newsletter to keep aficionados up to date.

Though the image of a magazine publisher may be full of glamour, with fancy dinners and powerful trappings, Van Alyea says the reality is more down to earth.

“I certainly haven’t had any ‘Devil Wears Prada’ moments here in 11 years (I don’t think I have on the boss side of things either),” she notes. “I’m not sure I’d want a bunch of minions running to and fro getting coffee and answering a dozen phone lines, while trying not to run into sharp-cornered furniture in a big high-rise corporate tower.”

Though she never made it into children’s books, she couldn’t be happier with how her career worked out.

“I love working for myself. Because it’s a creative field, there’s a lot of freedom to listen to other ideas and do something with them,” she said. “I do layout for the magazine — if I want to make something blue, I can do it.” ■

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A new album offers exquisite lullabies via violin ■ by gregg shapiro “An ambassador for classical music,” as well as a violinist, Rachel Barton Pine was well on her way to becoming one of the most gifted violinists of her generation when tragedy struck.

A terrible accident involving a commuter train in 1995 on the North Shore, resulting in the loss of one leg and severe damage to the other, threatened to end her promising career. A woman of great faith and talent, Pine persevered and continues to perform and record today to much acclaim.

Starting a family with husband Greg Pine, she welcomed daughter Sylvia in 2011. With a young child in tow, it makes perfect sense that motherhood would be the inspiration for her latest recording, the soothing Violin Lullabies (Cedille). Performing works by Brahms (naturally), Ravel, Schubert, Strauss and even Gershwin, among others, Pine (with Matthew Hagle on piano) has created one of the most beautiful and tranquil recordings of the year. “Violin Lullabies” is an ideal Mother’s Day gift for all the mothers, regardless of age, in your life.

Gregg Shapiro: Violin Lullabies opens with Brahms’ “Wiegenlied (Cradle Song),” perhaps the best-known and most-beloved lullaby of all time. Was it always your intention to begin the CD with this selection?

Rachel Barton Pine: Oh, yes. It was a song that my mom sang to me and that her mom sang to her. So it’s been in the family for a long time as I’m sure is the case with many people’s families. But then a unique and special personal connection is that my violin – when I say my violin, it doesn’t belong to me [laughs] of course, it’s been on generous loan from my patron since 2002 – I play a 1742 (Joseph) Guarneri “del Gesu.” That particular Guarneri was selected by Brahms himself for one of his protégés, one of the rare women violin soloists from the 19th century, Marie Soldat. She frequently played chamber music with Brahms and was one of the first champions of the Brahms violin Concerto.

As I said, Brahms himself chose this instrument for her use and found an aristocratic family to buy it for her.

To play any music of Brahms on the instrument with the voice that Brahms obviously preferred, especially to play the Brahms lullaby on this Brahms violin, is incredibly special.

GS: What was involved in selecting the remaining 24 lullabies that you included on the CD? RBP: This actually goes back to long before I had a baby. I have a great passion for collecting sheet music, especially historic, out-of-print kinds of things. I’d noticed many years ago that various composers had written lullabies. Sibelius, Ravel, Faure, Respighi, Stravinsky. I was intrigued by this and I noticed that a few violinists had made albums of romances over the years, meaning not just romantic sounding music but every single composition on the album was romance, romance, romance by this guy and that guy [laughs]. I thought, wouldn’t it be a fun thing to do with lullabies. I always have dozens of repertoire projects going at any given time. I thought, wait until I have a kid someday and then I’ll explore that idea of the violin lullabies.

When I got pregnant I thought it was a chance to delve into that area of repertoire that I had been so intrigued by.

Some of the pieces on the album are historic transcriptions by violinists of the past. They were lullabies that were, in some cases either originally for solo piano or for voice.

In the majority of the cases, these are lullabies that were not sung; they were written for the violin. The way that you approach the instrument to play these little, simple, soothing pieces is quite a bit different than the way you would normally play the violin with passion and flair and a lusher sound. It’s delicacy, it’s subtlety. Exploring that end of the spectrum with these short, yet very sophisticated compositions, as an artist I found that to be very fascinating. As a parent, the idea of being able to play this music to comfort my own child, and hopefully many other babies, was something very close to my heart.

GS: How did you whittle them down?

RBP: Out of the 150, it turns out that I was unable to get the best ones because so many were so beautiful. So I can’t say that these 25 were the 25 best, I can only say that they were 25 of my favorites, at least that day [laughs]. Each of these is really a gem and so much contrast, not only

Rachel Barton Pine was inspired by motherhood to create Violin Lullabies.

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between different countries of origin and ethnic flavors of the composers, but also different moods that are created within the genre of the lullaby. Some are more warm and comforting, like you’re rocking a baby to sleep. Some are very dreamy and transparent, almost as if they are describing the sleeping baby. Then there are others that are almost like describing the dream itself, otherworldly and mysterious.

GS: Have you composed your own lullaby for Sylvia?

RBP: I haven’t written her any melodies yet [laughs].

You know, I hadn’t even thought of that. There are so many great ones that already exist. (Such as) that Appalachian tune “Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby” from the O, Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. I sing to her Schubert’s “Who Is Sylvia?” [laughs], which is not actually a lullaby but for her it is. There are lots of lullabies to sing her that already exist. “Hush Little Baby,” “All The Pretty Horses,” and of course the Straus, the Schubert and the Brahms and the Mozart. Can you believe the Mozart one didn’t make it on this album? It was one of the runners-up.

But I did actually write her some lyrics with the young, Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz in New York, one of the very exciting young classical composers on the scene today. He’s gotten commissions from Carnegie Hall and many important orchestras and has been written up lots of times in The New York Times and the BBC did a feature on him. He wrote me an amazing five movement unaccompanied Sonata just two years ago which happened to be when I was pregnant. He was inspired by the creation of new life, both the human being and the piece of music [laughs], to make the last movement a lullaby for Sylvia.

It has a gorgeous Arab- inspired melody written for violin. But because it was written for Sylvia and it’s a very singable tune, I actually put some lyrics to it. I sing her Mohammed’s lullaby with her words. It’s really gorgeous but I would be way too embarrassed to sing it to anybody but my daughter [laughs].

GS: Would you say that lullabies know no age – that they are as effective for adults as they are for children?

RBP: Absolutely! So many people have insomnia these days. Who knows what the reason is? Too much blue light in our lives during the evening hours affects our melatonin? Or maybe our dietary habits? For whatever reason, a lot of people have insomnia and after this album was released some of my friends said to me that in addition to being a wonderful recording for parents and children, people should try this instead of some Ambien and see if it does the trick [laughs]. Even if it’s not specifically about falling asleep, there’s something about the short beautiful pieces that is so relaxing. ■

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Pine has several upcoming concert dates, including May 18, 7:30 p.m. at Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave. in Evanston; a CD release Kids’ Concert in the Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall at Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln in Chicago on May 19, 11 a.m.; and August 17 and 18, 6 p.m. at Ravinia.

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Events to attend on the North Shore in the week ahead

Nili Yelin, The Storybook Mom Madame ZuZu’s Teahouse | 682 Rogers Williams Ave Highland Park | 1pm | Free |

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Lake Forest Showhouse and Gardens Home Tour Through May 19 | 9am-2pm weekdays; 10am-4pm | weekend Tickets $35 online, $40 at the door | lakeforestshowhouse.com

Using an interactive and highly amusing style, Nili Yelin’s storytime is founded on the principle that children like to see a grownup act silly. Yelin entertains a hard-core audience of two-years olds—and their fatigued moms and dads. She delivers a full performance of the written word, even though the words are few, rhyming, and surrounded by pictures.

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Faces Forward & Crazy Quilts The Art Center – Highland Park | 1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park | 10am–4pm | Free |

Joy Horwich Gallery +2, comprised of Chicago-area art gallerist Joy Horwich and daughters Jill Bernstein and Penny Keeshin, presents Faces Forward, an exhibition featuring over 20 emerging and established artists. A show featuring the crazy quilts of Highland Park resident Addie Davis is also available for viewing. Exhibit open through June 2.

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Misericordia Home | 6300 N Ridge Avenue, Chicago | 7pm | Suggested $25 donation/$10 for students with ID | lexyandstephany.com or 847-814-3862 Teen soprano singing sisters Lexy and Stephany Prodromos of Winnetka, and their friend tenor Christian Ketter, will present their fifth annual “Concert for Misericordia” on the Chicago campus. The “Heartbreakers” dance group composed of Misericordia residents will also perform. Misericordia houses 600 developmentally challenged individuals and provides vital services for hundreds more.

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A David Adler estate has been chosen for the 2013 Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens home tour. Known as the Pike House, this Italian Villa is situated on the shores of Lake Michigan. Proceeds from the home tour will benefit The Angel Harvey Infant Welfare Society of Chicago Community Health Center, located in the Logan Square Community.

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This exhibition explores the life and career of Martha Weathered, one of Chicago’s most luxurious fashion importers, whose shop opened on Michigan Avenue in 1922 and operated until its closure in 1971. The costumes collection of the Cuneo Mansion contains examples of evening gowns, daytime ensembles, and sportswear. Through Sept. 8.

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always find, especially for the person who cooks at home, if there’s not good photographs, you’re not Brian Bishop is the chef at Bluegrass in Highland inspired to make it. That one does a very nice job, Park. it’s well-written and precise and it has beautiful How did you start cooking? I started cooking way photographs. It’s easy to navigate, one of those indisback in the day in high school. At the time, the run- pensable cookbooks.

Favorite vegetable? Asparagus, by far. When it’s ning joke was, my mom was such a horrible cook that my life goal was to be a better cook than her. We had in season, it’s unbelievable. a couple of food and nutrition courses; I was able to Most memorable kitchen incident? One of the lesget out of school early and I ended up working at a sons I learned when I was working at that French little French bistro, on a stage [an unpaid internship bistro. I dropped a plate and was visibly upset about or apprenticeship]. The chef really took me by the it. The chef came over and grabbed another plate and hand and showed me a lot of things. tossed it on the ground and said, “Look, these things Years cooking? Coming up on 20 years. happen.” It was okay. You don’t sweat the small stuff.

What made you decide to become a professional chef? It was a passion of mine to cook even before I Recipe: Bluegrass Crab Cakes: Sauté 1/3 cup worked in the bistro, but once I got into it, cooking finely diced onion and 1/3 cup finely diced green in restaurants was where I belonged. It was neat, it pepper on low heat for 5 minutes. Add the ½ teawas different. I’m very left-brained, but it gave me spoon minced garlic, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, and a way to explore the artistic side of my personality. pepper to taste and sweat for 5 minutes longer until onions are translucent. Set aside to cool.

Best recipe change? My philosophy is almost everything has already been done. The key is just In a separate bowl combine 2 beaten eggs, 2 ½ doing it better than anyone else. If you are going tablespoons mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons Panko to do it, do it better than the next guy. I worked at crumbs, 1 teaspoon creole mustard, ½ teaspoon Tru, and it seems like a small thing, but we cooked Worcestershire, 1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning, beans in a way so that they remained intact. The 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, ½ teaspoon kosher method that I came up with was to wrap them in salt and 1/8 teaspoon cayenne and mix thoroughly. cheesecloth, so they cooked as one big mass instead Add the cooled onion/pepper mixture and 1 pound of as individual beans. of lump crab meat and fold together gently until Signature dish? Maryland-Style crab cakes. just combined. Portion the crab cakes into 4 oz.

Favorite food to make? I love cooking seafood. It’s balls. They should be slightly wet, and almost one of those things that require a lot of skill. You can falling apart. Do not mash them together with go from really, really good to horrible in a matter of too much pressure. Coat each one on top and bot30 seconds, just based on your technique. tom with panko crumbs, pressing down enough to form a “hockey puck.”

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Citadel play is enchanting in many respects ■ by jill soderberg Anyone looking for a salve to Chicago’s slow-to-come spring would be advised to spend an evening at “Enchanted April,” a play about possibility and transformation currently in performance on the Citadel Theatre stage in Lake Forest.

In Matthew Barber’s adaptation of an early-20th-century novel by Elizabeth von Armin, director Scott Phelps has assembled a cast who delights in their characters’ journeys; and if the romantic comedy genre’s characteristic triteness and predictability are present on stage, nobody minds.

The story, set in post-World War I London, is launched when Lotty Wilton, a repressed housewife with a poet’s soul, spies a newspaper ad offering an Italian castle for monthly rental. Captivated by the promise of wisteria and sunshine, she invites the God-fearing, unhappily married Rose Arnott to join her. Rose resists and is as doubtful as Lotty is enthusiastic.

“I assure you I am a most happy individual,” she asserts, sounding not at all happy.

Lotty is insistent, and Rose, whom she terms “a disappointed madonna,” relents. To share the rental cost, the co-conspirators enlist Lady Caroline Bramble, a young aristocratic bohemian, and Mrs. Graves, a Victorian moralist, old enough to have known Tennyson.

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Jamie Lee Kearns, Kelly Farmer, and Katherine Biskupic take the stage in “Enchanted April.”

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a cast who delights in their characters’ journeys; and if the romantic comedy genre’s characteristic triteness and predictability are present on stage, nobody minds.” pointment or loss, travel to Italy where they are rejuvenated by the villa of San Salvatore and its magic. When the husbands arrive on the scene, there is comic complication, but they too blossom in the Italian sunshine.

Christine Kneisel’s set and Erica Burger’s lighting combine to fully capture the characters’ emotional transformation. Act I’s dreary London rooms drawn in a dark palette give way to a sun-drenched castle amid floral profusion in the resplendent Italy of Act II. The aural landscape, created by sound designer Bob Boxer and composer Elliott Delman, vividly underscores the action. Drizzling rain and thunderclaps emphasize London’s gloominess, and surely the hymn, “Take It to the Lord in Prayer,” inspires Rose to embrace the Italian adventure with Lotty.

As the second act opens, stirring music signals that something grand is in store —heaven, or “paradiso,” as Lotty learns. Lisa Hale’s costumes, apt for each character, will quicken the heart of any vintage clothing enthusiast.

When the formerly grim Rose appears in a glorious white lace dress and stunning shoes, even the highly critical Mrs. Graves has a compliment for her.

With the play’s opening monologue Jamie Lee Kearns’s radiant Lotty endears herself to the audience in one of the few moments when the script allows her to be contemplative rather than exuberant. As Rose, Kelly Farmer convincingly moves from dour to dazzling. Similarly, Marilyn Baldwin’s Mrs. Graves, the London battle-axe, assumes a comic twinkle at the castle as she comes up against Rita Simon in the role of Constanza, the maid who speaks only Italian but makes herself fully understood.

Constanza also presents problems for Lotty’s husband Mellersh, played by Ross Frawley, in a scene involving a

Kelly Farmer and Gerald Nevin appear in the play set during post- World War I London.

photography by daniel kullman bath, a covering towel, and shameless physical comedy eliciting laughs all around. While Katherine Biskupic’s Lady Caroline, with her world-weary air, effectively evokes one of Waugh’s “bright young things,” her bearing of ennui fails to shift to sadness when she reveals her loss. Gerald Nevin as Rose’s husband Frederick Arnott and Matthew Gall as the castle’s owner Mr. Wilding complete an engaging cast of characters whose journey of self-discovery is well worth taking. ■

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Palmer reigns supreme in New Trier’s record-setting season / ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com In a water polo game last year, New Trier High School’s Jordan Palmer, ball in hand, had to deal with three defenders at the same time.

Two arms versus six. The odds — and limbs — were against the first-team all-stater, now a senior. He appeared to be trapped inside a fleshy version of a diver’s shark cage.

“All three were dunking him,” Trevians senior goalkeeper John Friesen recalled after a game earlier this month. “But he held on to the ball, resurfaced and scored.

“He never misses,” the keeper added.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Palmer has never played on a New Trier polo team other than the varsity. He scored 11 goals as a freshman — in a game.

“His best quality as a player isn’t his offense,” Trevians coach David Goodspeed said. “It’s his defense. No one in Illinois can do much against him. No one. He can cover two guys at once.

“Jordan,” he added, “is clearly our most skilled player, and a lot of that has to do with the experience he got in several summers before his freshman year. That kind of experience is unusual, and it makes a big difference.”

Palmer wanted to play football back in the fifth grade.

His parents vetoed that want.

“They thought I’d get paralyzed,” Palmer said. “My older brother [Aaron] played water polo; he introduced it to me.

I liked the sport immediately. So, water polo it was.”

Water polo isn’t football-violent. But it isn’t tiddlywinksgentle, either. It’s one of the most physical sports around.

It’s like rugby in many ways — without rugby shirts.

“You’d be amazed at what goes on during games, what goes on underwater,” said Palmer, the leading scorer on a 28-3 team this spring and a perennial poloist in New Trier’s North Beach summer program. “It’s an aggressive sport.”

It’s a sport perfectly suited for Palmer, who raced for the Trevians’ state swimming and diving championship team in the 2012-13 season, placing 14th in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.7) at the state meet in February. He has speed, size, toughness.

Palmer — with an Aroldis Chapman fastball and an Aaron Rodgers cool — whipped in a game-high five goals in New Trier’s 16-6 defeat of Glenbrook South in the Central Suburban League championship game on May 4.

At times he looked like an ocean liner navigating around a pool of dinghies.

“Jordan,” Friesen said, “is such a leader in the pool, such a presence. He knows what he’s doing at all times, and he does everything so well. He’s credible. When we were freshmen, he was demonstrating things for the rest of us during practices. I remember thinking, ‘OK, this guy has definitely played water polo for years.’ ” Palmer will continue to play polo (club) at the University of Illinois, where he plans to major in industrial engineering. His ACT score wasn’t perfect, but it was close (35). His grade-point average isn’t perfect, but it’s close (4.9/5.3 scale).

He’ll also be close to his brother after his NTHS days.

Aaron, a senior architecture major at Illinois, will purse his master’s degree in the field in Champaign.

“I’ve always drawn inspiration from my brother,” said

Armed and dangerous: New Trier High School senior Jordan Palmer prepares to fire a shot in recent action.

photography by joel lerner Palmer, of Glencoe. “We text each other daily, we Facebook, and we talk on the phone at least once a week. We have the same tastes in a lot of things.”

Music, for one thing. Jordan’s favorite song — surprise, surprise — has a watery title. It’s “To See the Ocean,” by Down the Line.

“I like all kinds of music, mostly rock,” he said.

Following New Trier’s 16-5 defeat of visiting Chicago Latin on May 1, Palmer stood poolside at his school’s natatorium. It was Senior Night. The polo force and the rest of NT’s seniors gathered to pose and smile for parents’ cameras. When the clicks stopped, Friesen chirped — about Palmer.

“The first thing that pops into my mind when I think of Jordan is ‘role model,’ ” he said. “He’s that kind of guy in the pool and out of the pool. You see him in the hallway at school, he’s friendly, always friendly. He has no ego. He’s very humble, very approachable.”

Notable: Goodspeed’s boys set a program record for wins in a season (26) when they defeated Maine West in a CSL Tournament opener on May 3. The old mark was set by last year’s squad (25-7). … The Trevians captured their fifth straight CSL Tournament title last weekend, matching the number of consecutive tourney titles won by NT teams in the 1990s. … Senior Joey Ryan (a fourthteam all-stater last spring) and junior Matt Weiser each scored two goals for New Trier in last weekend’s CSL Tournament final. Trevs senior John Schulz added two.

Friesen allowed only one goal in the first half; Trevs senior Dimitrie Stefanovich played goalie for most of the second half. … NT earned the top seed and Loyola the No. 2 in the Glenbrook North Sectional. NT was scheduled to play its sectional quarterfinal on May 9, against either Maine West or the host school. The championship game will start Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ■

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Loyola Academy’s Brittany San Roman gobbles up a shot during her team’s recent shutout against Lake Forest High School.

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IIII Returning to center stage IIII Severe injury can’t keep Loyola’s San Roman from having another stellar season

■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Brittany San Roman heard the snap late last spring.

It wasn’t pleasant.

It wasn’t the kind of sound that some cheery cereals make after getting doused with milk.

“My (right) knee had turned in,” Loyola Academy’s senior soccer goalkeeper recalled last weekend. “I didn’t want to believe I was injured.”

San Roman hobbled off the field in the Class 3A sectional final match against New Trier. But the undefeated goalie returned shortly thereafter. She lasted about 10 more painful minutes, before exiting for good with the score knotted at 0-0.

A brave San Roman had returned to action — with a torn right ACL and torn right meniscus. Loyola’s Ramblers would end up losing 1-0 without their all-state keeper.

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injures. But he didn’t want to tell me what he knew the day of the injury.”

San Roman underwent surgery two weeks later. Reality hit her hard when she watched her soccer club team, FC United, compete without her.

“That drove me. That motivated me. That made me want to come back as quickly as possible,” she said. “That position was mine. I pushed myself during rehab. My mom (Audrey) and dad pushed me and encouraged me throughout the whole process.”

The Glenview resident was good to go — and good to play goalie again — seven months after the injury. The 5-foot-6 San Roman has protected the nets this spring for the 18-2-1 Ramblers, who defeated visiting Edgewood (Wis.) 4-0 on May 4. Other recent results include a 0-0 stalemate with Fenwick, a 3-0 win over New Trier and a 2-0 defeat of Lake Forest.

“Brittany takes care of business back there,” Loyola coach Craig Snower said. “She’s allowed something like 10 goals in two seasons. Only 10. She’s aggressive back there, On May 2, Drew Fischer allowed only five hits and one earned run in a 7-1 victory over visiting Maine South. Frank Nicholas had two hits.

On May 6, in an 11-6 loss to Lake Forest, Adam Kost and Logan Wible had two hits apiece. Jack Cloud had a two-run triple, while Klenovich doubled and scored.

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Baseball: The senior right-hander struck out 10 and tossed a one-hitter in NT’s 11-1 victory over visiting Maine East on May 4. The offense was led by Grant Klenovich (2 hits, 4 RBI), Nolan Stojentin (2 hits, 2 runs) and Ernie Roth (2 hits).

The Trevians (11-11-1) also put 11 runs on the board on May 3, when they defeated host Notre Dame 11-1. Matt Blanchard, Matt McCaffrey, Josh Katz, Roth and Stojentin had two hits each. Grant Stern was the winning pitcher.

Baseball: The sophomore had a three-hit outing on May 6, when the host Scouts defeated New Trier 11-6. The Scouts banged out 16 hits in the win. Hub Cirame ripped a pair of long doubles. JR Reimer, Connor Hanrahan and Liam Howe also had two hits each. Robert Kesman had a two-run single to cap off a six-run third inning.

On May 1, the Scouts allowed three runs in the bottom of the seventh and dropped a 5-4 decision to Stevenson. Sam

with a strong personality. You need that kind of personality from your goalie. It’s a unique position.”

The talkative keepers are the most effective keepers.

In matches, the Indiana State-bound San Roman talks to her defenders, orders them around, alerts them and shouts compliments. It’s a perfect blend of intensity and reinforcement. A sampling, heard on May 4: “Clean it up, clean it up!”

“Careful!”

“Push up! Stay with her, come on!”

“Good, good, good!”

“Win this.”

San Roman’s Match Day voice is comforting — an audible security blanket, in a way — to her line of defenders in front of her. Action in soccer can get chaotic at times. It’s not easy to see the big picture in a busy sequence when you’re a defender and a dribbling forward is to your immediate right and another forward is hustling to your left.

A keeper in soccer is like a catcher in baseball. Both see everything. Both see things unfold better than anybody else on the field does.

“I like hearing instructions from Brittany,” Ramblers sophomore center-back Katie Taylor said. “They’re always helpful. I can count on her.

“Brittany,” she added, “is quite good with her feet, too.

She’s a very good all-around goalie.”

She’s not a bad theater crew member, either. San Roman has a knack for making stages look attractive for productions at Loyola. Last fall, she and her crew cohorts traveled to the University of Illinois in Champaign, were they were recognized for the outstanding work they did before the staging of plays and musicals at LA. San Roman’s boyfriend, Michael Calk, is “a sound guy in theater,” she said. They hit it off in October, while she was rehabbing her knee and strengthening a right quad that had atrophied.

“I had a lot of time to do other things after my injury,” she said. “I met Michael, for one. I also went on a religious retreat, where I made a lot of new friends. I will always be thankful for that opportunity.

“You could say a lot of good came from the injury,” she added.

A healthy San Roman is what’s good in soccer circles these days. She’s poised and eager to survive an entire postseason this spring.

“My dad likes to say to me, ‘Live in the moment,’ ” San Roman said. “Making a save — that’s a moment, and it’s a moment I love, a moment I live for. There’s nothing like the adrenaline rush I get from stopping somebody from scoring.”

San Roman also credited her father for making a critical suggestion on the eve of Loyola’s soccer tryouts in 2010, her freshman season.

“He said, ‘Raise your hand,’ if coaches ask who would like to play goalkeeper,” recalled Frank’s daughter, an experienced field player as a grade-schooler.

San Roman raised her hand that day. She’s been using both of her trusty hands for the Ramblers ever since.

Notable: Loyola freshman forward Devin Burns scored a goal in last weekend’s 4-0 defeat of Edgewood (Wis.), upping her season total to 28. The program record for goals in a season is 29, set by Allison Suhey in 2009. Burns scored two goals in each of LA’s recent wins over New Trier and Lake Forest HS. Her sister, senior Corey Burns, tallied the other goal against NT. … Sophomore forward Kathryn Cichon and senior midfielders Emily Affinito and Colleen McClintic netted the Ramblers’ other three goals against Edgewood. … LA went 7-0 in the Girls Catholic Athletic Conference to win its fifth straight conference title. ■ Templeman, Peter Gruenes and Hanrahan had two hits each.

Sullivan had a double.

On April 30, LF lost 12-6 to visiting Stevenson despite getting two hits each from Luke Johnson, Reimer, Hanrahan, Gruenes, and Templeman. On April 29, the team fell to Zion-Benton 5-1.

Henry Erzinger had a double and a single.

And in non-league action on May 4, the Scouts topped Kenosha St. Joseph 9-1. Kesman had a single, triple and three RBI. Howe had a double and drove in two runs. David Keaton was the winning pitcher.

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Quintessential ace

Allison Quigley of the Trevians delivers a pitch during earlier action this spring. The junior is 12-0 with a 0.54 ERA.

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Quigley putting up remarkable numbers for Trevians ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Before the start of New Trier High School’s softball game against visiting Downers Grove South last weekend, NT junior ace Allison Quigley and senior teammate Carrie Rodman chatted.

Rodman, the Trevians’ center fielder, led off the discussion.

“What are you thinking of doing in the game?” she asked.“Line drive,” Quigley replied. “I’d like to hit a line drive.”

In the bottom of the fourth inning,

Quigley hit a line drive. Had the secondbase bag not slowed the drive down considerably, the ball might have done what championship gophers do. It would have burrowed forever below the middle of the infield, and it would have forced the grounds crew to put in some serious overtime.

The screaming single drove in the gametying run in New Trier’s 2-1 victory on May 4.

“I knew she’d do that,” Rodman said afterward. “That didn’t surprise me at all. She’s a poised player. She never gets rattled.”

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But it is Quigley’s pitching that earns her the most ear-rattling raves. The 5-foot-11 right-hander from Wilmette also put her arm to good use in the win in Winnetka.

She four-hit the Vikings and fanned eight to improve to 12-0 (0.54 ERA, six shutouts) for the 17-1 Trevians, five days after needing only 62 pitches (45 for strikes) to toss a perfect game in a 5-0 defeat of Glenbrook South.

She has struck out 108 batters in 77 innings this spring. She has two one-hitters.

Batters are hitting an Antarctic .114 against her.

“There’s such a composed nature about her,” NT coach John Cadwell said after the DGN game, on a day in which his club also beat visiting Lincoln-Way Central 4-2. “She struggled at times today, but she got out of several tight situations.

“What she did against Glenbrook South,” he added, “was remarkable. She was overwhelming and incredible, from start to finish.

Rodman thoroughly enjoyed the Quigley’s gem from her ideal vantage point in center.

“I love watching her pitch, especially when she’s pitching like she was that day,” Rodman said. “The movement of her pitches, the lateral movements. … She sure knows how to make it tough for batters.

Allison has made so much progress, as a pitcher and as a batter.

“I’m so happy for her.”

As a grade-schooler, Quigley participated in a couple of clinics for catchers before discovering pitching would pave her path to steady softball success for the Trevians’ travel club and NT’s varsity. As New Trier’s No. 2 pitcher a year ago, Quigley went 7-3 with a 0.79 ERA for a 31-6 team.

“Catching — that didn’t work out,” said Quigley, who was batting .375 with seven RBI after last weekend’s pair of games.

“And my parents (John and Susan) weren’t too fond of the thought of me playing the position.

“Pitching is something I love to do. Maybe it’s because I like the feeling of control in games. It is kind of nice, I guess, knowing that I get so many chances to help my team when the ball is in my hand.”

The ball was in her hand as she prepared to deliver warm-up pitches before the start of an inning against DGN last weekend.

Cadwell, having served at the Trevians’ third-base coach the previous half-inning, was nearby. He had stopped in the pitcher’s circle, site of his customary layover before completing the second leg of the trip to his team’s dugout.

He and Quigley, who turned 17 last week, went over the tendencies of the Vikings who were due to bat. But there also was time to discuss less serious matters.

Cadwell has always appreciated 1-on-1 time with “Quigs,” a guard-forward who started every game for New Trier’s undefeated JV basketball team in 2012-13.

“It’s so much fun talking with her, no matter what the topic is,” the coach said.

“She’s often ebullient and delightfully irrepressible, with so much optimism and positive energy.

“Allison,” he added, “is a terrific young woman.”

Notable: NT junior Megan Neuhaus knocked in the winning run with a single against DGN last weekend, shortly after Quigley’s clutch hit in the bottom of the fourth inning. Earlier on May 4, in NT’s 4-2 defeat of L-W Central, Trevians junior Lauren Secaras retired 18 of 21 batters after allowing two runs in the first inning. Central’s Knights got only one more hit after the first frame, as the 5-foot-11 Secaras improved to 4-1 and lowered her ERA to 3.20. … NT routed host Maine South 10-0 on May 2, puffing its Central Suburban League South mark to 7-0. ■

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Playing catch-up is an adrenaline rush for Highland Park’s speedster

Highland Park High School’s Nyjah Lane drives to the finish line in the 100-meter prelims during the CSL North Meet on May 2.

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■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northshoreweekend.com She’s comfortable living in the fast lane.

She should. She spends enough time there.

But what Nyjah Lane really loves is that tough moment. The Highland Park High School junior is at her best — and her

happiest — when she’s facing an uphill climb.

Starting a race — 100 meters and 200 meters — and leaving everybody behind is one thing for Lane. Anchoring a relay and blasting to the finish line is the best thing.

“I like to play catch-up. I like making up distance,” said Lane. “It’s an adrenaline rush for me.”

“She enjoys a chase anytime,” HP head coach Sarah Palmberg said.

Lane put her talent on display at the Central Suburban League North meet on May 3 at Deerfield High School. She led the way as HP defeated two-time defending champ Deerfield 162-158.

The powerful speedster turned in strong showings to win the 100 meters in 12.56 and 200 meters in 26.72.

In the 4x100 and 4x200 relays . . . Lane turned heads.

She made up all kinds of ground in the 4x200, which also featured HP legs Emily Korman, Kaitlyn Hummel and Courtney Bartelstein. The Giants won by a nanosecond (51.58) thanks to Lane’s late rush and lean at the finish line.

“I had to come up with something extra,” Lane said. “I just pushed myself.”

“I’ve never seen her run that fast,” said teammate Kenzie Horberg. “I was like, ‘Wow.’ “She’s just unreal. She’s so good,” Horberg added.

Moments after the relay, as Lane was putting her sweats on, a couple of HP assistants had words for her.

“Can I tell you? You are my hero,” said assistant Ric Sutherland.

“Keep it rolling,” assistant Andy Butler chimed in.

Lane’s favorite race of the night was the anchor leg of the 4x100 relay, when she teamed with Horberg, Hummel and Bartelstein.

“It was the most intense,” said Lane, who

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eventually ran out of real estate and lost to Niles North’s anchor.

Despite her mad dash to the finish line, she lost in a photo finish.

“Right there, you just saw the competitor in Nyjah Lane,” Palmberg said. “And that’s the thing with Nyjah: you see her competitiveness come out at the most critical moments.”

Lane, aka “The Nyjah-ator,” has been a dominating figure in the CSL North during her two seasons at HP. A move-in from Lansing, Kan., she now has earned seven golds and one silver in outdoor conference meets. Last season, she claimed wins in the 100 and 200 as well as the 4x100 and 4x200 relays.

With the sectional at Loyola Academy on May 9 and the IHSA state meet looming, Lane is aiming to improve her careerbest times (12.38 in the 100 and 25.80 in the 200).

Can she go faster? She’s planning on it.

“I try not to set limitations on myself,” she said.

Notable: Maddie Dolins, Savannah Sledd and Kiera Thorpe were HP’s other individual standouts at Deerfield.

Dolins raced to a pair of first-place finishes in the 1600 (5:35.5) and 3200 (11:35).

“Maddie is just running great,” said Palmberg, who also saw her senior standout take first in the 3200 at the Lake County Invitational a week earlier. “There’s been a change in her confidence level.”

Sledd placed first in the shot put with a season-best distance of 37-0. She added a fourth in the discus (91-5).

Thorpe, a sophomore, took first in the 400 (1:00.35). “The Thor-pedo” — as she is known — also teamed with Korman, Amy Rogin and Horberg to win the 4x400 relay (1:50.74), which capped off the team’s first-place finish. ■

Ready for the stretch drive Determined Schlachtenhaufen shines at conference meet, points to sectional

■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northshoreweekend.com Helen Schlachtenhaufen is at her best down the stretch.

That’s when her determination takes over.

“She puts everything into her races,” said her Lake Forest High School track and field teammate, senior Elle Chody.

“She’s the absolute definition of determination.

“You might not hear it in her words,” Chody added. “But you’ll see it in her eyes.”

At this point in her running career, Schlachtenhaufen is defined by the 1600-meter run. She has been, if you will, virtually letter perfect — five vowels, 11 consonants — in the four-lap race.

On May 2 at the North Suburban Conference meet at Stevenson High School, the LF senior captain successfully defended her 1600 title with a strong kick. She ran a 5:20.0.

Libertyville standout Kristi Delprato checked in with a 5:21.4.

A week earlier at the Lake County Meet at Grayslake North, Schlachtenhaufen rushed to the finish line in a bestever and winning time of 5:13.72.

“What she has done is nothing unexpected,” Scouts track coach Nathan Sweet said. “The biggest thing with her this spring is her consistency.

“Last year, she needed maximum effort (to run a good time),” the coach added. “Now it’s almost easy for her.”

Even though she is considered one of the top distance runners in Lake County, Schlachtenhaufen, who will run at Colgate University, is just starting to scratch the surface of her potential. She hopes to have a breakout performance at the Palatine Sectional on Friday night.

“I really, really want to break five (minutes),” said Schlachtenhaufen, who became a serious distance runner during her sophomore year at LFHS. “It might be out of my reach, but I at least want to get as close to five as I can.”

Sweet, a former star runner at Mundelein High School, is setting no limits on his distance ace.

“Her training and her workouts say yes,” he said. “She ran a 5:14.4 in a dual meet against Zion-Benton (on April 15). She lapped a couple of runners. And she wasn’t even breathing hard after the race.

“She has the right mentality and determination,” Sweet added.

At the NSC meet, Schlachtenhaufen was one of the team’s workhorses. She wound up first in the 1600 and second in the 800 (2:18.33) while also competing in two relays (1st in the 4x800, 4th in the 4x400).

“We put her in four races and we wanted to run just fast enough to win,” said Sweet. “We weren’t looking for her to show off or blow anybody away. We wanted her to repeat that mentality four times. We wanted her to score as many points as possible. Our focus is to be conference champions (LF finished runner-up), and we put our elite girls in four events.”

Teaming up with Elise Wong, Caroline Marwede and Lisa Bennatan, Schlachtenhaufen’s true colors came out in the 4x800.

Running in the anchor position, Schlachtenhaufen let the lead slip away from her when Mundelein standout Marisa Perreault shot past her with 300 meters left.

No panic. Schlachtenhaufen regrouped down the final stretch and ended up winning the race by more than six seconds.

Her fast finish didn’t surprise Chody.

“With Helen, you just know that she’s going to pull through,” said Chody.

Schlachtenhaufen has good bloodlines. Her great grandmother, Ellen Brough, was a star sprinter. Growing up in New Jersey, Brough qualified for the 1928 Olympics in the 220-yard dash and 440-yard relay.

Lake Forest High School’s Helen Schlachtenhaufen anchors the 4x800 relay at the NSC meet.

photography by joel lerner Notable: The Scouts, who scored 75 ½ points to place second behind Warren (109) at the NSC meet, also were led by Carly Schmidt. The senior star won the pole vault (12-0), took second in the long jump (16-1 ¼) and third in the 200 (26.86). She also teamed up with Erin Malles, Kathryn Bertram and Elizabeth Woidat to finish second in the 4x200 relay (1:49.66). Bertram added a second-place finish in the 200 (26.38). ■

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headliners >> from 31 drove in four runs, while Charlie Elias earned the win.

On April 30, Brett Shimanovsky was the winning pitcher in a 9-5 victory over host Niles North. He had 10 strikeouts.

In other recent action, the Giants lost to Warren 5-1 on May 6 and Niles West 1-0 on May 4.

the 400 meters (51.74).

The Scouts had two solid relay showings, finishing fourth in the 4x100 (43.96) and third in the 4x200 (1:32.69).

Jessica Ackerman New Trier

Gymnastics: After turning in solid work at the Mundelein Sectional on May 3, the junior will be competing in two events at this weekend’s IHSA state meet at Lincoln-Way East. He gained at-large berths on the parallel bars (8.60) and pommel horse (7.10).

Fellow juniors Dylan Abbott (7.60, pommel horse), Mitch Berkowitz (8.50, parallel bars) and David Robbins (8.30, parallel bars) also earned at-large berths.

Track (Girls): The senior standout picked up a pair titles — 800 meters (2:24.22) and 1600 meters (11:21.33) — to help the Trevians to a first-place finish (154 points) at the CSL South meet at Evanston on May 2.

The other NT champs included Mimi Smith in the 1600 (5:14.13), Nicole Karabas in the pole vault (9-6) and the 4x800 relay of Kathleen Keene, Anna Sanfilippo, Kelly Frenzel and Oona Jung-Beeman (10:02.81).

The runner-ups were Abby Compernolle in the 200 (27.18), Claire Egerter in the pole vault (9-0), Caitlyn Fry in the 3200 (11:41.95), Sheila McCain in the 800 (2:28.78), Kelli Schmidt in the 1600 (5:26.02), 4x200 relay (1:49.87), 4x100 relay (52.56) and 4x400 relay (4:17.66).

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Jackie McDonnell/Sarah Kelley

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Badminton: As the singles champion, Mang helped the Trevians to a first-place team finish at the Deerfield Sectional on May 2.

NT, which edged the host Warriors 15-13, also had a pair of runner-up finishes: Jill Lurie in singles and Tristan Peters and Lexi Smolyar in doubles.

This foursome will be compete in the state tournament this weekend in Charleston.

Track Track (Girls): They were part of parade of top finishers at the GCAC championships on May 4 at Loyola.

McDonnell won the 800 (2:21.62) while Kelley was second in the race (2:22.22).

The Ramblers, who took second in the team standings (198 points), also had 1-2 finishes in the triple jump with Shannon Gorman (33-4 ¼) and Eloise Hawley (32-10) and in the pole vault with Stacey Weaver (10-1) and Alexis Nino.

The other winners were Erin Rooney in the discus (976) and the 4x400 relay of Emma Thomas, Rose McBride, Hannah Hess and Jenny Franzen (4:07.56).

Runner-ups were Kathryn House in the 3200 (11:50.58), Francessca LaTorraca in the shot put (32-9), Hawley in the high jump (4-10), Kelley in the 1600 (5:12.21), Hess in the 300 hurdles (47.69) and Thomas in the 400 (59.82).

The 4x200 relay (1:48.62) and 4x800 relay (9:51.98) also earned seconds.

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Kiara McKinley Woodlands Softball: She hit a home run in both ends of a doubleheader as Woodlands swept Francis Park 10-0, 8-0 on May 3. McKinley now has seven HRs for the season.

Allie Vela also starred at the plate — hitting safely in five of six at-bats.

Hayley Lovell excelled on the mound, tossing a pair of no-hitters. She had nine Ks in the nightcap.

In other action, WA beat Morgan Park 13-1 on May 2, Willows 31-4 on May 1 and Christian Liberty 10-0 on May 6. Vela had three hits and five RBI against Morgan Park, while Lovell fired a two-hitter. Against Willows, McKinley smacked two home runs. Abby Kendall, Lovell and Vela also went deep. And in the win over Christian Liberty, the Wildcats (10-2) broke a 0-0 tie in the sixth on singles

by Lexi Gonzales, Bitsy Ustaski and Vela.

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Jack Duffy/Sam Danneker Lake Forest Volleyball: The LF middles led the way as the Scouts went 3-1 and placed fifth at the York Tournament on May 3. The duo combined for 27 kills. Duffy had a kill percentage of 55, while Danneker had a kill percentage of 65.

The team (15-18) claimed wins over Romeoville, Hinsdale Central and Hoffman Estates.

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Tennis: The junior captured the No. 1 singles title at the Deerfield Invitational on May 4, while NT’s Michael Weller and Drake Weyermuller defeated teammates Wyatt Mayer and Corey Schwartz to take first in the 3-4 doubles flight.

The Trevians scored 60 points to tie Lake Forest for the team title.

Volleyball: His four kills helped the Ramblers take down Mt. Carmel 25-13, 25-12 on May 1. James McCabe added three kills.

On May 3, LA improved to 17-3 overall with a 25-11, 28-26 victory over Niles North. David Wieczorek (11 kills) and Sean Barry (6 kills) led the way.

John Zordani/Scott Christian

Kyle Strobel/Jack Considine

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Tennis: This tandem went 4-0 to claim the 1-2 doubles flight at the Deerfield Invitational on May 4. The Scouts, who shared the team title with New Trier, had third-place finishes from Peter Tarwid at 1-2 singles and Parker Marsh and Craig Campbell at No. 3-4 doubles.

Water Polo (Boys): Strobel and Considine played major roles in LA’s first-place showing in the MCAC Championships. In wins over St. Rita 21-5, Brother Rice 10-9 and Fenwick 7-5, Strobel finished with a 28 saves and allowed just 19 goals. Considine led the offense with 10 goals. George Finn and Cameron Shewchuck had six goals each, while Jack Nickele added five goals.

The Ramblers won the league title for the first time since 1978.

Jonah Hanig Highland Park Track (Boys): The HP distance standout came up two solid efforts at the Lake County Invite at Lake Zurich on May 3. Hanig raced to runner-up honors in the 1600 (4:25.54), while he placed third in the 3200 (9:26.09).

HP’s Andrew Sledd was third in the 100 (11.20), while Eddie Smoliak took third in the pole vault (12-6). The Giants, who finished 11th with 36 points, placed fourth in the 4x800 relay (8:16.76).

Dejon Brissett Lake Forest Academy Track (Boys): The sophomore was an easy winner in the triple jump (43-3 ½) at the Lake County Invite on May 3.

He also set a school record by clearing 6-1 (8th place) in the high jump. The other school-record breakers included Nick Frystak in the 200 (22.71, 7th place) and James Paige in the 1600 (4:27.92, 4th place).

Nick Giordano Lake Forest Track (Boys): He had the team’s top individual finish at the Lake County Invite on May 3. He took fourth in

Alexana Astor New Trier Water Polo (Girls): She came up with 12 goals to spark the Trevians (24-6) to a first-place finish in the CSL tournament. In the championship, Astor had three goals in an 8-6 victory over Maine South. She scored five times in a 17-5 win over Glenbrook North in the semifinal round.

And she had four goals against Highland Park 22-0 in the quarterfinals.

Evan Swenson/Marta Considine Loyola Water Polo (Girls): Both players have reached the century mark in goals scored this spring. Swenson has scored 106 goals, while Considine has put 102 shots into the net.

The Ramblers (20-10) placed fourth in the Catholic League Championships on May 4, falling to Mother McAuley 16-6 in the semifinals and Fenwick in the thirdplace game. Meredith O’Brien registered 49 saves in the three games.

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In June last year we went with two other couples to Napa Valley. It was for our 25th anniversary and another friends’ 25th. We had always wanted to bring friends there — we went there on our 10th anniversary.

We flew into San Francisco. We stopped at Ram’s Gate Winery in Sonoma — we had never been there before. It was very beautiful — we sat outside and had wine flights with pairings of food.

We stayed at the Oak Knoll Inn. What we loved is it’s a small family-owned bed and breakfast with a pool. We were served a two-course breakfast on the patio — fresh strawberries, fried zucchini blossoms, all fresh from their garden.

The first day we went to Colgin Cellars. We took this long, winding road that took us up a mountain. We got to the gate — it was a place right out of Architectural Digest. My husband buys wine from small vineyards like that, so they’re good about setting up private tours. We were on this massive balcony overlooking Napa Valley. It was very, very good wine, and the view was unbelievable.

We went to Merus Winery in St. Helena. That’s a wine

“We took this long, winding road that took us up a mountain. We got to the gate — it was a place right out of Architectural Digest.”

Charlotte Monhart, co-chair of the Lincoln Park Zoo Ball, and her husband Jim picked up fine wine during their trip to Napa Valley.

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we buy a lot of, so it was fun to see it. We had our anniversary dinner at La Toque in Napa. It was very good, very fresh.

The next day we went to our beautiful breakfast and then went to Seavey Vinetard in St. Helena. We bought a double magnum of wine from there during the Lincoln Park Zoo Ball last year, so we bought one there that will be at the silent auction this year (July 12). Every night before dinner, they would bring in a local winery to taste wines and have appetizers.

On the final night we had a book club discussion since we didn’t want the trip to be all about drinking and eating. We read “The Art of Fielding.” Some started it on the plane there — it was 350 pages. We went out to get bread, cheese and beer — we were tired of fancy dinners by then.

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