The North Shore Weekend East, Issue 120 by JWC Media

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Krissa Skogen, a conservation scientist, helps guide policy decisions at the Chicago Botanic Garden. P.35

There’s one game left. Who will win the Super Bowl? P.20

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Sports

New Trier High School’s Jackie Welch’s sports résumé is jam-packed with W’s. P.26

local news and personalities of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, evanston, Lake Forest, Mettawa & Lake Bluff

Never give up The story of the Johnson family — which has been riddled by leukemia and a heart defect — is one of love, hope and community. P8

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North Shore Weekend NEWS 08 Family ties

The story of the Johnson family — which has undergone heart surgeries while enduring other illnesses — is one of love, hope and community.

12 Pizza pies

Bill Borneman and Bake 425 are becoming a hit on the North Shore.

14 Social Media

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Highland Park’s Alan Mayer is a veteran of World War II and the author of “The Fix,” a novella about boxing.

LIFESTYLE & ARTS

16 Goings On About Towns

Find out about the best events coming up this week in the North Shore.

20 Out and About

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An incessant gusher rumbled outside. The water main break not only flooded our street; it shut down water to all homes and businesses across Highwood. Restaurants were hampered, restrooms were closed, and public workers dug a massive hole after fixing the pipe, plugging what we in the office were calling “Old Faithful.” We even made news — sort of. An NBC News truck sat in our parking lot and shot footage of us walking into the building. Telemundo appeared, and a stage light and video camera were propped up for hours in the cold before an on-the-scene report ensued. To my knowledge they didn’t ask any North Shore Weekend workers our thoughts. Had a microphone been stuck in my face with a demand for a comment, I probably would have uttered “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink” before hustling inside. We know gathering news isn’t usually as easy as opening a door and describing what’s going on outside. We caught a break. But no matter how it’s compiled, hope you like the new news page inside

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■ by bill mclean Lexie Johnson was in Ohio last month when hundreds of fans at a Lake Forest High School basketball game and fundraiser chanted, “Lex-ie John-son, Lex-ie John-son, Lex-ie … .” The 14-year-old heard every singsongy syllable, thanks to a live internet feed of the game on Dec. 10. Amy Johnson was in Cincinnati, too, sitting next to her daughter and hearing the same pulsating, encouraging sounds. Both saw a sea of cheering students and adults wearing lime-green T-shirts at the game. On the front of each

shirt, in blue letters: “HOPE FOR LEXIE”. Lexie Johnson is one of five daughters of Steve and Amy Johnson. They live in Wauconda. Steve is the special education department chairman and a freshman basketball and golf coach at LFHS. Lexie and Amy have to call Cincinnati their second home until August because Lexie is receiving treatment for precursor B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (a rare form of leukemia) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. It is a familiar hospital to the Johnsons. Too familiar. Mackenzie Johnson, Lexie’s 12-year-old sister, was diagnosed with the same rare form of leukemia shortly after

her first birthday. She spent six months at the hospital. One of their older sisters, twin Lindsay, was born with a highly complex congenital heart defect. Doctors said she might live until the age of three. She is 19 years old today, a survivor of more than 10 surgeries and a sophomore at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. She received a pacemaker last month. One of her classmates at GCU is her twin sister, Taylor. Heart defect, leukemia, leukemia. Three strikes, but they are not out. The three Johnson sisters are still at the plate, still battling, still hopeful. The most resilient

family in Lake County has to be the Johnson family. The Johnson family is redefining resiliency. Daily. “There’s a reason we’re going through what we’re going through,” says Steve, whose other daughter, Kali, is a senior at Wauconda High School and plans to enroll at Grand Canyon University in the fall. “We’re not sure what that reason is, but we’ll find out. Our faith is strong.” The Lake Forest community raised $10,000 for the Johnson family at that basketball fundraiser at LFHS last month. The school’s booster club, athletic department, basketball programs, faculty and student body, along with residents and hoops fans, contributed to the total. Referees happily left the gym with lighter wallets. Other schools offered to buy what was left of the lime-green Lexie T-shirt supply of 600. What was left, after the final buzzer of the basketball game: zero T-Shirts. Lake Forest High School’s gymnastics team held a fundraiser for the Johnsons at its Straus Invitational on Jan. 10. “No one deserves what Steve’s family is experiencing,” says Joe Busse, a faculty member in the the Wellness Department and a football coach at LFHS. “Steve is a special guy, a great family man. Looking at the way he is handling these challenges, the way he is going about his life, the way he is during school hours, you’d never know his situation at home. How he’s facing what he has to face is a tremendous lesson for all of us. “Whatever we can do as a community, with money, with support, with anything … we’ll do it if it helps Steve and his family sleep better each night.” One of the Johnsons’ neighbors in Wauconda, Jen Slago, set up a donation site for the Johnson family at gofundme.com late last year. It took only two months for more than 400 people to donate a combined $63,000. The funds helped the Johnsons pay CoolSculpting is the non-surgical body contouring treatment t for medical bills that reached astronomical staeliminates fat from your body. No needles, no surgery and be tus years ago. The funds helped the Johnsons

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in the news the cafe also offers an assortment of baked goods from Evanston’s Tag’s Bakery, as well as yogurt, oatmeal and fruit. The Rock House plans to be open weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. ~ Emily Spectre

Demolition applications soar

of demolition permits that were requested and granted in all of 2014. All of the applications reviewed were for single-family homes older than 50 years: three were on the east side of the village and one was for the Keck & Keck-designed Blair House at Crabtree Farm. National builder D.R. Horton Cambridge Homes is involved in two of the demolition applications and also is building two other homes in east Lake Bluff.

east Lake Forest Train Station, Conway Farms, Woodlands Academy and the Gorton Community Center. In Lake Bluff most of the headaches will come from construction along the Village’s major arteries, including the building of Target.

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The Rock House has opened at the Wilmette Metra station.

Commuting from Wilmette just got a little bit hipper with the opening of The Rock House at the Wilmette Metra train station. “Business has been great. We are really pleased,” said Tyne Lowe, Rock House barista. The small space is an extension of The Rock House’s main location on Central Street. The train station cafe is painted a deep red and maintains its musical vibe with electric guitars adorning the wall. Music plays in the background and many of the same warm drinks as the Central Street location are offered, including drip coffee, cafe au lait, chai latte and an assortment of teas. The single origin coffee is freshly roasted by The Rock House and includes decaf. For those looking to grab a quick snack

Squishy orange construction cones were the table decorations the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce used at its Business & Government Annual Breakfast Meeting on Jan. 16. “There is going to be a lot of construction activity in 2015, a lot of cursing at times, a lot of inconveniences – but it is all for good things,” Lake Forest City Manager Robert Kiely Jr. told the audience at Lake Forest Club. “This is why you have on your table those construction cones – if you start The Blair House is a mid-century modern lake- to feel your blood pressure going up during this presentation, grab your cone and front home in Lake Bluff constructed of brick, squeeze it.” glass and steel. The home was built for Edward Added Lake Bluff Village Administrator McCormick Blair, who died in 2010 at age 95. Drew Irvin: “The work in Lake Bluff touches every major arterial road. So if you are walking, biking, driving – you will Lake Bluff ’s Historic Preservation be impacted.” Commission considered applications Lake Forest’s 2015 construction projects for four demolition permits at its first touch most of the city’s iconic brands – including Northwestern Lake Forest monthly meeting of 2015. That’s one fewer than the total number Hospital, Market Square, Deer Path Inn,

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Writer aims for a knockout with new book ■ by katie rose mceneely Highland Park’s Alan Mayer is a veteran of World War II and the author of “The Fix,” a novella about boxing. Reading: I read mostly The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Architectural Digest, and The Week magazine. I haven’t really had the chance to sit down with a novel in the past year or so. Listening: My hearing is not that good and I’ve lost some tone value, so when I hear music it all sounds the same. It’s just the result of old age. It’s not enjoyable because I can’t hear the melody. Watching: I watch the news, I watch different shows once in a while — I spend more time on my computer. I’m writing a new book, a mystery. I spend most of my time writing the new book. Following: I have references that I look at when I’m writing — I usually do Google. Whatever you want to know, you type into Google. They cover every field. I never found an answer I couldn’t get from Google. Activity: “The Fix” is part fact and part fiction — the first part of the book is about my early life, when I was a boxer. The second part is about the later years, which were not so important, so I made it fantasy. It’s about two boxers who got involved in a criminal fight that resulted in the death of one of them. I started writing it when I read about the

bullying taking place all over the country. When I was a little kid, I was a coward who was being bullied. I had a history teacher who told me he wanted me to join the boxing club, or I’d flunk history. So I joined the boxing club, and that man changed my whole life. I owe him my life. That’s why I wrote the book. I joined the U.S. Air Force in 1942. When I came out of the service in 1946, I got married; she died in 2012. It was a blow. We met in high school. I have a couple of kids who live here, a couple of daughters. They take good care of me. I had four cancers — lymphoma, colon cancer, melanoma, and something else. All of them, I managed to overcome and survive. After I came out of the service, from 1946 to 1978, I owned 16 different companies. I work out five mornings a week at the Equinox club with a group of young guys in their 60s. What is your favorite mistake? When I was 13 and I was fighting in New York in the cheap clubs, you got $5 if you won, $2 if you lost. A lot of people who had no income would go in and fight to make money. I was fighting guys who were 30 and 40 years old. People say, “That’s ridiculous.” Well, they were just guys off the street trying to make money, and I had been trained. I was in pretty good shape at that time. That changed my life — whether it was a good move or a bad move, I don’t know. ■

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The Lake Forest High School Varsity Dance Team won the North Suburban Conference Championship held at Stevenson High School on Jan. 17. The 18-member squad is coached by Nikki Lazaretto and consists of seven seniors, five juniors, five sophomores and one freshman. During the weekend of Jan. 30, the team will travel to Florida to attempt to defend its national title of Large Varsity Pom champions. ■

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Bake 425 grabs a piece of the action ■ by jake jarvi

Bill Borneman opened his first Bake 425 location in August. Today, the design-theperfect-pizza concept welcomes customers in Lake Forest, Highland Park, Winnetka, and Evanston. “I fell in love with the model,” says Borneman. “You can have pizza right out of the oven and with fresher ingredients. We decided to come up with a similar concept but to go organic and source local farms.” He found Parisian-trained pastry chef

cherry peppers, arugula, short ribs, caramelized onions, fresh basil, and parmesan. “We also have your basic stuff, because the kids don’t want a gourmet pizza,” Borneman says. “They want a cheese pizza or a pepperoni pizza. But our pepperoni has no nitrates, no fillers. It’s night and day compared to generic pepperoni.” Bake 425’s pizza dough is made with organic wheat flour and live yeast cultures. Instead of rolling out their dough, they stretch it by hand, keeping the air in to produce a fuller flavor. They source all of

“We’re not trying to compete with Pizza Hut; we’re trying to keep it smaller and more personal.” | Bill Borneman Ambrose Erkenswick to create a new pizza dough and marinara sauce and develop a menu of gourmet pizzas to run alongside staples like pepperoni, margherita, and the customer-designed pizzas. Creations include the Duck Sausage & Leek pizza, with béchamel sauce, shredded mozzarella, portabella mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, truffle oil, Yukon potatoes, fresh basil, and parmesan; the Butternut Deluxe, with butternut puree sauce, shredded mozzarella, smoked mozzarella, cremini mushrooms, kale, walnuts, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, and parmesan, and the Braised Short Rib, with tomato/rib sauce, shredded mozzarella, ricotta, pickled

their vegetables from local farms in the region, and they get their mozzarella curd from Caputo’s in Chicago before cooking and stretching it themselves. “We’re not trying to compete with Pizza Hut; we’re trying to keep it smaller and more personal,” Borneman says. “We’re getting involved in the neighborhoods — we’re going to get involved with the schools. “The whole persona of Bake 425 is a mindful approach to food. Slowing down and enjoying the people around you and giving back. Kind of a principle-based approach to things. We’re trying to do something that we feel good about.” ■

Bill Borneman photography by jim prisching

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The City of Lake Forest invites high school students who are residents to serve on either the Library Board or on the Parks & Recreation Board. Students who will be high school seniors during their year of service will be appointed by the mayor in May and will work alongside other community adult volunteers. Applications are due at City Hall on Friday, March 6.

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Lake Forest Baseball Association will be hosting it’s annual fundraiser, LFBA Carnival Night, on Saturday, Jan. 31 at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. The party will feature adult carnivalstyle games, buffet dinner, open bar, and live and silent auction items. The evening’s proceeds will be used to provide a travel baseball experience to all qualified children, as well as assisting 12-year-olds in their journey to Cooperstown, N.Y. this summer. Event tickets are $75 at www.lfba.net or $85 at the door.

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The board of directors of Mothers Trust Foundation hired Jody Ortiz as the foundation’s new executive director. Ortiz, a lifelong resident of Lake County, has experience in the education of both children and parents, having served as a long-term substitute teacher. In addition, her business background includes property

Carol Cook

The Chicago Philharmonic continues its 25th anniversary season, “Celebrating The Senses,” with a program inspired by the sense of taste on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. at Nichols Hall in Evanston. Artistic Director Scott Speck and David Perry, concertmaster and soloist, share leadership roles. The afternoon begins with Speck conducting Darius Milhaud’s lighthearted Le boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof). Next, concertmaster David Perry leads a performance of Bohuslav Martinu’s one-act comedic ballet La revue de cuisine, where kitchen utensils such as a pot lid, dishcloth, and mop come alive in a romantic culinary soap opera. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola follows, with soloists David

Perry, leader, and Carol Cook. To close, Scott Speck returns to the podium to conduct Johann Strauss II’s Champagne Polka.

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The Glencoe Junior High Project will present “Shrek the Musical” starting Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. “Shrek The Musical” is part romance and part twisted tale. Director Adam Busch leads the cast and crew of 70 sixththrough-eighth-grade Glencoe middleschool students. Four performances will be held in Central School’s Misner Auditorium, 620 Greenwood Avenue. Tickets are available at www.gjhp.org. ■

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keep their home in Wauconda. Steve and Amy, on advice from administrators at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, established residency in Ohio in order to qualify for Medicaid. People from Illinois and Ohio are in the Johnson family’s corner. They plan to stick around for more rounds, for however long it takes to help a Johnson daughter knock out another session of chemotherapy or absorb another heart surgery. “I am so proud of how our community has rallied behind Coach Johnson and his family,” says Anne Skinner, mother of two teens who attend LFHS. “Everyone at Lake Forest High School knows Steve Johnson. He is one of the nicest, most humble people you will ever meet. We are moved by his family’s story and our community’s reaction.” Barbara Jane England moved to Lake Forest from Mariemont, Ohio, nearly four years ago. Mariemont is located near Cincinnati. She remembered meeting members of a Johnson family from Illinois when Mackenzie was a patient for six months at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati. England called various schools in and near Lake Forest years later, gathering information about academic programs ahead of her family’s move to the North Shore. A Steve Johnson from LFHS — the Steve Johnson she had encountered in the Buckeye State, the Steve Johnson with a daughter named Mackenzie — returned England’s phone call. They reconnected. “It’s incredibly heart-wrenching, what the Johnsons are going through,” England says. “They’re brave. They’re strong, incredibly strong. They’re brave and strong while Steve stays here and Amy and Lexie live in Ohio for a while. I love seeing our community, especially the kids, show support, show empathy. The kids are looking at what the Johnson daughters are enduring and thinking, ‘Hey, that

could be me.’ It’s a real-life issue. They’re realizing what’s important, what’s not important.” Steve Johnson struggles to find the right words to express his feelings for the outpouring of support his family has received. He knows “Thank you” is too generic, too incomplete. Lexie, back in Illinois for a brief visit, received too many hugs to count from gymnasts at that LFHS gymnastics invitational/fundraiser earlier this month. “I saw that,” Steve says. “Amazing, awesome. It was another neat display of the community doing something special for Lexie, for all of us. They didn’t even know Lexie.” They know Steve Johnson. They know the Johnson Family Story. That was plenty. At last month’s basketball fundraiser at LFHS, basketball players signed their names on a basketball for Lexie. Some added heartfelt messages. A Lake Forest resident, who had grown up in the Cincinnati area and would soon drive there for a visit, offered to transport the ball to Lexie. The offer was accepted. The basketball traveled some 325 miles for what had to be the lengthiest pass in hoops history. “It’s been tough for Lexie in Ohio, being away from her friends and doing all she can to keep up with her schoolwork,” Steve says. “Her treatment … it’s going well. She’s doing well. She’s responding. Her spirits are good. “As a family,” he adds, “we keep going on, keep waking up the next day. It wouldn’t do any good for any of us to wallow and cry in a fetal position. You have to persevere. We’re persevering.” To read more about the Johnson family, visit lettistrong.blogspot.com. To donate to the Johnson family, visit gofundme.com/ helpjohnsonfamily. Lexie Johnson’s email address is LexieLou40@gmail.com. ■

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Vive le France — and its onion soup

Braulio Patzan and Gabe Viti

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Soupe à L’oignon gratiné — what we refer to in the United States as French onion soup — isn’t too common outside of bistros and appetizer menus. Which is a shame, because it’s simple enough to prepare and rewarding to make — especially in the winter. While the star ingredient of this dish is the onions, there are a lot of complementary players that go into a satisfying French onion soup that, when in harmony with each other, evoke a robust broth. Gabriel Viti, the owner of Miramar in Highwood, has been serving his version of the classic baked onion soup for more than 11 years. An unabashed Francophile, Viti enjoys a good bistro so much that he actually swam across the English Channel to France in August.

T OTAL TIME: Approximately 2 ½ hours SERVES: 8-10 Soupe à L’oignon Gratiné: 10 yellow onions, halved and thinly sliced

“The heart of the French kitchen is in the bistros,” says Viti, “that’s why I feel like this dish represents Miramar perfectly as a great bistro.” In Viti’s recipe, which is created by chef Braulio Patzan, he opts out of the more traditional beef stock in favor of chicken stock. “It’s lighter — not as heavy,” he notes. Another key difference is the cheese. “Our secret is we use about a pound of cheese. In fact, I think some times people come in just to eat the cheese.” Viti’s advice: serve your soupe à L’oignon gratiné in a crock bowl, with croutons on top that are cooked with parsley, garlic, and olive oil. And don’t forget to liberally add the fromage (parmesan, gruyere, or Swiss) for a tasty appetizer that can double as an entrée.

1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 oz. sherry Fresh ground pepper 4 tablespoons flour 6 liters brown chicken stock (reduced to 3 liters)

1. In stockpot melt butter and add onions, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf, and black pepper. Cook on low to medium for 1 to 1 ½ hours until the onions begin to caramelize. Add brown sugar and cook 5 minutes. 2. Deglaze with sherry. Add the flour and cook 2 minutes.

¼ tablespoon unsalted butter ½ t ablespoon fresh thyme leaves ½ tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves (wrapped in cheese cloth) Salt to taste

3. Add reduced chicken stock and simmer for at least half an hour. Season to taste with salt and pepper. 4. Garnish with croutons topped with parmesan, gruyere and Swiss cheese and place under boiler until brown. ■

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309 Park Avenue, Glencoe, 5-7 p.m. (847) 835-8500 Anne Loucks Gallery is opening an exhibition of new paintings by Northern Michigan artists Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman. Both Parke and Kooyman capture the vistas surrounding their studios in styles both distinct and enduring.

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Northeastern Illinois University 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25 http://neiu.edu/jewelbox A blend of sound, precision, lightness and wit.

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Supporters of the English Speaking Union (ESU) rang in the 2015 with a bang at the Casino Club in Chicago. The 220 black-orwhite tie clad guests enjoyed dinner, dancing, and, of course, the countdown. Courtney Pitt of Winnetka and Brian White of Chicago served as co-chairs. The ESU celebrates English as a shared language to foster global understanding and goodwill by providing educational and cultural opportunities for students and educators. esuus.org/chicago

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Driving Miss Welch: New Trier High School’s Jackie Welch, seen here during earlier basketball action this season, is a top performer in two sports. Her teams — soccer and basketball — have amassed 155 wins during her prep career. photography by joel lerner

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sports@northshoreweekend.com The reigning Central Suburban League South Female Athlete of the Year danced briefly on a basketball court last weekend. New Trier’s fun-loving senior guard, Jackie Welch, was not called for traveling, because the impromptu performance took place during the warm-up session before a game at the McDonald’s Shootout at Willowbrook High School. The moves surprised nobody. It was Jackie Welch being Jackie Welch, a superb athlete with a healthy perspective on sports, on life. As she danced before the NT-Champaign St. Thomas More game on Jan. 17, the 5-foot-11 Trevian beamed a three-point-arc-wide smile. “That pretty much sums up Jackie, captures her personality,” NT junior guard/forward Kathryn Pedi says of Welch’s impulse to cut a rug on hardwood and have a blast while doing so. “She gets even crazier on the bus. She dances and sings on the bus. She has a good voice.”

She has a fear of clowns, too. A Ronald McDonald — in a garish yellow-and-red outfit, under a mop of red hair, wearing layers of white face paint — bopped around and posed for pictures with players at last weekend’s shootout in Villa Park. He mingled with fans in the bleachers. He attracted others in the lobby area. “I kept my distance,” Welch says. “I’m scared of clowns. I’m scared of a lot of things.” But Welch plays sports with a fearlessness, on basketball courts and soccer pitches. A center-back for the reigning Class 3A state soccer champs, she makes an impact at both ends of the playing surface in her winter sport. Welch’s height and tenaciousness on defense make life difficult for opposing shooting guards and small forwards. She is a threat on offense, capable of nailing the occasional trey and delivering the occasional behind-the-back pass on a fast break. Her averages for a 19-1 team are 6.3 points and 2.5 assists per game.

Welch tallied five points and grabbed four rebounds in New Trier’s 54-36 defeat of reigning Class 2A state champion St. Thomas More on Jan. 17. Soccer is Welch’s main sport. Basketball is her fun diversion, her chance to show everybody she’s pretty adept with her hands, too. In a win against reigning Class 3A state champ Montini earlier this month, Welch got creative near the bucket, normally foreign territory for her when the Trevians are running their half-court offense. She collected an entry pass, faked left, dipped, scored. Against a 6-foot-5 post player, no less. “Basketball is not her primary sport,” says Trevians basketball coach Teri Rodgers, who accepts that reality. “She brings an energy, a nice energy. She plays the kind of basketball … it’s relaxed, fun basketball. Her teammates see that, and they like that. They also know Jackie has played in some big games, big soccer games.” Rodgers’ hoops squad played in a series

of significant games last year, reaching a Class 4A supersectional and finishing with a mark of 27-5. Welch played a pivotal role throughout the season, averaging nearly 20 minutes per game (third on the team) and exactly 6.9 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.3 steals. New Trier’s primary leadership last year emanated from point guard Alexa Czyzynski (Class of ’14). Welch serves as a leader in her final hoops season. One of the leaders. “We realized leadership doesn’t have to come from one person,” Welch says. “A lot of us are chipping in.” Welch has had a hand and foot in a lot of wins in her seasons as a booter and hoopster at New Trier. A total of 155 victories, through Jan. 17. Her freshman basketball team went 28-0. She played on varsity as a sophomore guard, for a team that finished 14-12. Last year’s squad and this year’s crew have combined for a 46-6 mark thus far. Her first three varsity soccer teams won 20, 16 and 31 matches. Winner. Welch is a winner. Another number in her life, one that has nothing to do with athletics, is 27. Jackie Welch, beginning this fall, will be the 27th member of her family to attend Indiana University. Twenty-seventh. A part of the IU application for admission asks applicants to list the names of their relatives who had attended the campus in Bloomington. Welch ran out of room. “It’s insane,” Jackie says of her family’s extensive ties to the Big Ten school. “My parents [Greg and Sandy] met there. My grandparents met there. My great grandparents met there. I guess I’m going to meet my future husband at IU.” She does not plan to marry into the IU soccer program. Or the IU basketball program. Sports, the organized kind, are not in her future. “I want to find other hobbies, other interests,” Welch says. “It doesn’t seem like I’m a senior,” she adds. “I feel like I’m a sophomore, playing on the basketball team. Being a senior, it doesn’t seem real.” Being a junior, on a state championship soccer team last spring, thrilled her. She downplays her role, saying, “I was not that special; I didn’t score the game-winning goal.” New Trier won 1-0 in a state semi, 1-0 in the state final. She was part of the Trevians’ defense. She was a part of a special unit. “Our team motto was ‘Serious fun,’ ” Welch says. “We were fully focused when we had to be. We also had a lot of fun along the way, enjoyed ourselves. “That motto … it’s one you can apply to everything you do in life,” adds the serious athlete/fun dancer. “It’s a great way to approach something, a great reminder to keep things balanced. That’s what I learned. We all learned that.” Notable: Pedi (four rebounds) and NT junior guard Haley Greer (four assists) each scored 17 points in the 54-36 defeat of Champaign Thomas St. More on Jan. 17. Trevians junior forward Jeannie Boehm tallied six points to go with her game highs of 10 rebounds and four blocks in the McDonald’s Shootout game. NT senior forward Rachel West finished with six boards and two blocks. … NT outscored St. Thomas More 34-22 in the middle quarters. ■

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The Brunson stops here: Steve Vogrich of the Scouts guards Stevenson High School star Jalen Brunson during last week’s home showdown in front of 1,400 fans. pho-

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sports@northshoreweekend.com Steve Vogrich took a statistics final last week. The Lake Forest High School senior probably had to attack questions about probabilities and simulations and inferences. Vogrich took another final, physics, on the same day, January 15. Hello, Newtonian mechanics. He admitted his mind was not entirely focused on academics for either test. The 6-foot-7 guard-forward admitted thoughts about Stevenson’s boys basketball team popped up here and there during the school day. Could you blame him? Stevenson’s 14-1, top-ranked Patriots would visit Lake Forest’s gym later that night to face a 16-0 squad of Scouts. Big game. No, huge game. Some 1,400 spectators would somehow get shoehorned into Lake Forest’s cozy, Mayberry High-ish venue, a place Lake Forest High School athletic director Tim Burkhalter proudly referred to as “our intimate setting, our little barn.” A Vogrich three-pointer, made at the 3:34 mark of the fourth quarter, shook the structure, catapulted home fans out of their seats. The trey gave the Scouts a 60-59 lead. “Great atmosphere,” Vogrich would say later, after scoring 10 points (all of them coming in the second half) in a highly entertaining and competitive 76-69 loss. “It was so much fun playing in an atmosphere like that. Our student fans did a great job. They were loud. They were supportive. “We fought. I will remember how well we fought, how we played less frantically in the second half than we did in the first half (12 turnovers). We showed we have as much talent as Stevenson has.” The Stevenson game was Vogrich’s fourth since he got cleared to return from a bout with mononucleosis. The illness had sidelined him for seven games. The time away must have felt like 77 games to Vogrich, maybe more. “He’s back, and we’re glad to have him back,” said Scouts senior guard Noah Karras (nine points, all from three-point real estate). “Steve is long, tall, a tremendous player. We were both role players last year. Steve is much more than that now. This year he’s more aggressive, more confident. He’s utilizing more of his skills and creating more shots for himself.” Vogrich was on the front and back ends of the most electrifying sequence for the home team on Jan. 15. He and Scouts junior forward Lorenzo Edwards (10 points, seven rebounds) double-teamed Stevenson’s impossibly talented guard, senior Jalen Brunson (41 points),

near midcourt in the fourth quarter, forcing a turnover. Vogrich scurried downcourt, received a pass from Edwards, dribbled a few times and threw down a contested dunk. Delirium ensued. Instant, deafening, bleacher-throbbing delirium. It narrowed Stevenson’s lead to 59-55. It also punctuated LF’ 12-0 run. “Crazy and insane, a great experience,” Karras said of the game’s tip-to-final-buzzer intensity. “When Steve hit that huge three-pointer [to give LF a 60-59 advantage], I thought we had it. A lot of us thought that.” Villanova-bound Brunson poured in 12 of his team’s final 17 points to clinch the win, nearly a year after charring nets on the same court for 57 points in a 95-93 doubleovertime Patriots victory. Lake Forest’s Evan Boudreaux hit for 43 points in the same game. The Scouts’ 6-8 senior forward/center struck for 29 points and came down with 15 rebounds in the StevensonLake Forest clash last week. The Dartmouth recruit netted 12 points in the third quarter. Vogrich had opened the third frame with a threepointer, his first points of the night. He and starting guard Jack Traynor (seven points, five assists) took turns guarding Brunson in the second half, an AP-physicstough task for any hoopster, particularly for one whose case of mono hasn’t completely disappeared from his rear-view mirror. “Steve has been steady,” Scouts coach Phil LaScala said. “He’s been doing a great job for us. He did a great job for us [against Stevenson], in a big game, not long after returning from his illness. He’s not shy; he’s an aggressive player. He makes plays.” He plays defense, a critical aspect of his game these days. Vogrich shoots for A marks on D. Vogrich’s father, Bob, knows basketball axioms. One of his favorites is about defense and playing time. One of his favorite players has heard it, has internalized it, has embraced it. “My dad has told me, ‘You won’t be taken off the court if you play good defense,’ ” Steve said. Defense helped LaScala’s club startle and frustrate Stevenson for stretches in the second half on Jan. 15. The Patriots owned their biggest lead, 52-38, at 2:12 of the third quarter. Offensive spurts helped LF, too. Only 31 seconds separated treys from Karras and Boudreaux at the end of the third quarter. Lake Forest’s Scouts hung around, stayed close, kept their bouncy fans rapt. The lively atmosphere doubled nicely as the home team’s sixth man, warm-up tops and pants not needed. “Great environment for the kids,” LaScala said. “They’ll remember this for the rest of their lives.”■

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Crash and (floor) burn Loyola’s Dowdle ‘is wired’ to win ■ by kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com Don’t forget to wince when watching Mark “Crash” Dowdle. Right now, he leads the entire universe in oohs and owies. His mentality? See loose ball, dive for loose ball. In his playbook, points are good. Floor burns and crash landings are significantly — and rewardingly — better. Earlier this season, in a home win over Providence Catholic, the Loyola Academy senior went crash crazy. He was flying all over the court. Watching him that night was not for the faint of heart. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior made more descents than a dolphin at a water theme park. He was a human dust mop. Call him Swiffer. Minutes after the game, Loyola Academy head coach Tom Livatino said this: “No one is wired like him. “His toughness,” the coach added, “is through the roof. He plays with no regard for his well being.” Five weeks later, the energetic and frenetic Dowdle was still playing with maximum effort. In Loyola’s 59-47 win over visiting Leo on Jan. 16, he had to pick himself off the court on a number of occasions. He finished with three steals and took three charges. “He’s an unselfish player,” said Livatino. “And he empties his tank every single time he’s out there. He uses every ounce of himself. That’s one of his distinguishing characteristics.” “I’m more than willing to sacrifice my

body for the good of the team,” said Dowdle. “You never know when it’s your last game, so you have to go all out. “Coaches,” he added, “love guys who play hard.” He’s got Livatino’s attention — and admiration. “He and I,” said the LA head coach, who is known for his spirited intensity, “share the same personality. Like me, he’s a real competitive guy. Doesn’t like to lose.” And, he’s just about impossible to take off the court. On Jan. 13, in a game at Niles Notre Dame, Dowdle twisted his left ankle with 3:53 left in the third quarter. Call it a night, right? No way. Dowdle, who was noticeably limping, busted out of the trainer’s room and was back on the court for the fourth quarter. “I’m not going to quit on my team,” he said. “It’s all about sacrifice.” And right now, Dowdle feels the extra burden. With 6-foot-4 center Griffin Boehm, a three-year varsity performer, lost for the season with a shoulder injury, Dowdle is receiving a crash course in playing the post position. “I have to play the five (position), and I’m undersized for it,” said Dowdle, who also is known for his long hair and thin black headband. “So I have to add even more physicality to my game. I have to play with even more toughness.” Being a three-sport athlete figures to work in his favor. In the fall, Dowdle plays football, toughguy attitude included. For the past two seasons, he was a lockdown cornerback for the Ramblers, earning all-state honors this past

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ball,” said Dowdle, with a slight smile. “I remember taking a three from the corner, missing it and getting pulled immediately. “But I worked a lot of my shot during the offseason,” he added. “I practice the three.” He now has been give the green light on Game Day, albeit a lime-green version. But he’s not going to get carried away with firing up shots. Dowdle, who had three assists against Leo, would rather put the ball in the hands of a red-hot shooter. He’d rather pass the ball to a guy with flashing green lights — a guy such as Brandon Danowski. Against Leo, Danowski went off. The junior sharpshooter drained a career-high eight threes (in 11 attempts) to finish with a career-high 29 points. “It’s pretty easy to be an unselfish player when you’ve got guys like Brandon on your team.” said Dowdle. Finally, sacrifice made easy. ■

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Brooke Green was LF’s top scorer against Deerfield. She had 20 points to go along with 12 rebounds, four assists and three steals. In the win over Lakes, Grace Torkelson led the way with 14 points and 16 rebounds. Things didn’t go quite so well for LF on Jan. 19. The Scouts fell to Buffalo Grove 79-52 and Antioch 58-37. Torkelson had 20 points and seven rebounds against BG. She finished with 12 points and seven rebounds against Antioch. Hanson was 5-for-15 from three-point range in the two games. Lake Forest Academy: The Caxys improved their overall record to 12-1 with a 48-45 decision over St. Viator in round two of the Fenton Tournament on Jan. 19. Theresa Onwuka had 23 points, while Brianna Sturkey added 11. FLIPSIDE Girls Gymnastics New Trier: Sam Stoddart claimed all-around honors and helped the Trevians to a 142.05-140.65 win over host Glenbrook South on Jan. 15. Stoddart’s all-around score was 36.10. She took first on balance beam with a 9.55. Peyton Burns was NT’s other winner: 9.35 on the uneven bars. Claire Egerter of the Trevians finished second in the all-around (35.40). She was second on floor exercise (9.05). The team also received solid work from Taylor Kwok (9.00 on vault), Laurea Chung (8.55 on beam), Ana Dabrowski (8.90 on floor) and Sara Hummel (8.45 on floor). POOLSIDE Boys Swimming Lake Forest: Paced by Daniel Smith, Dylan Boyd and Symen Ooms, the Lake Forest High School swim team topped Stevenson 98-88 on Jan. 15 to remain undefeated in dual-meet competition. Smith, a senior, finished first in two events: 100 freestyle (48.11) and 100 backstroke (53.30). Boyd, a sophomore, matched that effort by winning the 200 free (1:43.92) and 500 free (48.11). Ooms, a senior, took top honors in the 50 free (21.42) and 100 breaststroke (1:02.35). The other LF winners were Michael LeMay in the 200 IM (2:02.94) and John-Michael Diveris in diving (250.30). LeMay added a second-place finish in the 100 butterfly (54.11), while Alex Streightiff placed second in diving (245.95). The foursome of Smith, Ooms, LeMay and Boyd teamed up to win the 200 medley relay (1:39.20) and 400 free relay (3:15.66). They won the 400 free by seven seconds. PINNACLES Wrestling Lake Forest: Three Scouts — Gage Griffin, Caleb Durbin and John Frauenheim — claimed titles at the Lisle Tournament on Jan. 17. That trio helped Lake Forest to a second-place finish in the team standings (172.5 points). Riverside-Brookfield took first with 187.5 points. Griffin defeated R-B’s Nick Giurini 7-1 to win at 120. The junior is now 21-2 on the season. Durbin, who entered the competition with a 6-10 record, dominated the 126-pound class. He pinned all three of his opponents, including Julian Denton of Evergreen Park in the final (1:12). At 170 pounds, Frauenheim (17-5) capped off his day by beating Evergreen Park’s Ray Seiloff 7-5. It was Seiloff’s first loss of the season. Sophomore Cory Barth (14-8) just missed winning a title. He lost 7-6 in the 195-pound final. The other LF place-winners were freshman Quinn Daley (3rd at 106), senior Corey Knudson (3rd at 145), junior Marty Kalebic (3rd at 152), senior John Bang (3rd at 285), freshman Bridger Gunderson (4th at 113) and sophomore Andrew Tuttle (4th at 132). CIRCLING THE BASES Baseball Lake Forest: Brad Czerniejewski, a sophomore at Lake Forest High School, has verbally committed to Texas Christian University. The Prep Baseball Report is super high on Czerniejewski. The outfielder is currently ranked No. 2 in the Class of 2017. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound righthander is the son of Scott Czerniejewski, owner of Bat Speed Academy in Gurnee. Lake Forest varsity coach Ray Del Fava also is high on Czerniejewski. “His bat speed is unbelievable,” he said. “It just sounds different off his bat.” The Scouts figured to be a loaded squad this spring. “He’ll fit somewhere,” Del Fava said. “Because of the way he hits, it would be hard to keep his bat out of the lineup.” Declaring early figures to benefit Czerniejewski. “It’s a weight off his shoulders,” the LF coach. “He can relax and have fun.” On paper, Lake Forest looks pretty formidable. Senior catcher George Karkazis already has signed a national letter of intent with Miami of Ohio, while Cal Coughlin is being recruited by a ton of Division I schools. Lake Forest: On Jan. 19, Lake Forest left-hander Bryan Bund verbally committed to Eastern Illinois. Last spring, he went 4-0 with a 2.05 earned run average for the Scouts. ■

Armed and fast: Allen Tran of the Giants drives to the finish line in the 200 IM during Friday’s dual meet at Glenbrook North. His best event is the breaststroke. photography by jon durr

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Fun-loving Highland Park swimmer morphs into beast mode before big races ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com Allen Tran stands behind a start block at a swim meet, doing what Allen Tran loves to do to get his mind right for a race. The Highland Park High School junior, dead serious, pounds his left pec with his right hand. Hard. Then he pounds his right pec with his left hand. Hard. Each hit leaves a temporary red mark. A chest-beating gorilla would wince at such a ritual if chest-beating gorillas were allowed to attend prep swim meets. Tran, still behind a block, shrugs and rolls his shoulders aggressively several times. Loose. The 5-foot-6, 160-pounder is getting as loose as possible. He adjusts his goggles, touches his face, adjust his goggles again. Ready. Now he is ready. Now he is ready to climb a block, wait for a beep, explode. “It’s a thing I like to do,” Tran says of the selfinflicted thing of his pre-race routine. “When I was in the sixth grade, I saw [future Giants teammate Alex Grigorovich] pound his chest before a race at a meet. He was a real fast swimmer. I thought, ‘I’ll try doing that.’ “It helps me,” he adds. It pumps him up, gets his adrenaline up to SST speed. There is more to swimming than strokes and kicks and turns. “Allen get us all pumped up,” HP senior Sam Dotson says of the team’s top breaststroker and valuable relay member. “The desire he has and shows at meets and practices … it’s contagious. He loves the sport, he’s good at it, and he loves to win.” A couple of years ago, as a freshman, Tran was unsure of his future as a swimmer. He did not think he was good enough, fast enough, big enough. At a sectional meet that winter, a senior on the team, Jeremy Solomon, talked to Tran. The talk turned Tran’s hesitancy into decisiveness. “I was an OK swimmer, just a little swimmer,” Tran recalls. “It was a time in my life when I was seriously thinking, ‘Should I continue swimming or try something else?’ Jeremy, he was breaststroker. He told me, ‘I see so much potential in you.’ He believed in me, saw something in me.” Tran stuck with swimming. Tran threw himself into training, as a member of the Highland Park Aquatics Club. Nearly a year to the date of Solomon’s sincere, inspiring talk, Tran raced in the 100-yard breaststroke event at a sectional. Tran clocked a 1:00.59, swift enough for a statequalifying berth. He expressed sheer elation on a start block/award podium, before receiving his medal. Solomon was right. A week later Tran would finish 41st at the state meet. The state-qualifying standard in the 100 breast this winter is down to 1:00.5. Tran swam a personal-best 59.8 in the event his winter. His 1:00.68

in a dual at Glenbrook North last weekend was nearly six seconds faster than the runner-up’s time. A six-second differential in swimming is the equivalent of a 42-7 final in football and a 6-1, 6-1 decision in tennis. “[Tran] has always been very talented,” HP coach Tim Sirois says, adding Tran has a good shot at qualifying for state in the 200 IM next month. “His stroke has improved. He’s stronger. He’s made big changes in his breaststroke, in his freestyle. The front part of his strokes are way better and stronger than they were last year.” Tran’s gregariousness at meets? Never better. Sirois dubbed Tran “The Mayor of the Central Suburban League.” Tran knows practically everybody on deck at small meets, at big meets, at prep meets, at club meets. Tran also knows practically everybody’s season-best times and state ranks, especially the breaststrokers’. The adjective Dotson uses to describe Tran’s knowledge around swimmers at natatoriums is “encyclopedic.” Watch Tran navigate a pool deck at a meet, when he’s not oblivious to his surroundings while he prepares for a race. He chats up swimmers from other schools, nods hellos at swimmers from other schools, smiles here, smiles there. “It’s a small community, the swimming community,” says Tran, whose brother, 13-year-old Ryan, and sister, 14-year-old Sydney, are accomplished age-group swimmers. “The people I see at meets, I see them at all meets. I love this sport; it’s a passion of mine. I also love connecting with people in this sport. I’m friendly. “One day my mom [Uyen] told me to get off the computer at home, to move around. I said, ‘Mom, I can’t do that right now. I’m busy connecting with somebody from California.’ ” At an invite at Elk Grove High School earlier this month, Uyen Tran focused on taking a picture of the three heat winners in the 100 breaststroke. Giants swept the event. Allen Tran, winner of the fastest heat, was in the picture, no surprise. “Allen got everybody excited when he said, before the event, ‘We can win all three of these heats,’ ” Dotson recalls. “He hugs me after I swim a good race. He also gives me a hard time at times. If I swim a best time, he likes to say, ‘Come on, you could’ve gone faster than that.’ He’s a confident swimmer. He has confidence in his teammates. His personality … it’s strong, very strong. “What you’re going to get from Allen is encouragement, no matter what,” he adds. Notable: In HP’s 92-88 loss to host Glenbrook North on Jan. 16, Tran, Hugh Laedlein, Levy Nathan and anchor Eddie Kochman combined for a time of 1:41.36 to win the first race (200 medley relay) of the CSL North meet. Levy also touched first in the 200 free (1:48.62) and 500 free (4:56.52) events. Laedlein topped the 100 backstroke with a 58.26. ■

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Noon at the Garden View Café finds it buzzing. True to name, a potted pink rose sits atop each table in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s café with a view. Bay windows look out at a winter wonderland, but attention is turned inward towards the real view: pandemonium. Parallel lunch lines run amok, spilling over into one another like an M.C. Escher painting. Pulled chairs screech. Tables are won or lost. And the conversation grows to a din reminiscent of the cafeteria of youth. Yet things are not as haphazard as they seem; there is order here. Denizens of the garden —wearing all manner of sweater, flannel, and fleece — walk light and carry a small environmental footprint. Lunch trays go in the upright and locked position on top of other trays by the far wall, colored the same olive green that pervades the grounds. “Whenever you are finished, everything goes by the green wall over there,” points out the server, a polite girl in glasses. Turning to look, the wall has three words splayed across it — more commandment than suggestion — in big, bold letters: RECYCLE, COMPOST, and WASTE. Krissa Skogen, Ph.D., is quite familiar with the lunchtime rituals here at the Garden. Her Garden Superfood Chop, a healthy combination of baby kale, red quinoa, sweet potato, sunflower seeds, roasted cauliflower, sundried cranberries, almonds, mango, carrot, and oilfree honey-orange dressing — sounds less like a salad and more like an aisle in the grocery store. But she is also used to roughing it. That’s because Skogen, a conservation scientist and transplant to the North Shore by way of Fargo, Minn., is the most unlikely of things. In the science world, Skogen is the equivalent of a cowgirl. Her current project, a $2 million National Science Foundation-funded grant, sends her out into the unforgiving desert for weeks at a time. Working with a team of scientists under the pale moonlight (and

their headlamps), the team gathers samples because if you’re going to attract something that from desert wildflowers. Their work, begun in is active at night, you have to be locatable.” January of last year, will help explain Reaching into her bag, Skogen pulls why flowering plants are so diverse. out a strange contraption with an even Approximately 260,000 spestranger name, one that sounds as if it was pulled from the pages of a cies of flowering plant have been named so far, constitutcomic book: a gas chromatographing nearly 90 percent of all mass spectrometer, or GC-MS for known species of plants. But short. the reason behind their diver“It wasn’t made for this pursity has biologists stumped. pose,“ says Skogen, proceeding Even Charles Darwin, who to give a rundown of the variknew a thing or two about ous parts of the MacGyvered evolution, couldn’t explain contraption and what their it definitively, calling it his original use was. In the case of this handheld vacuum pump “abominable mystery.” “Evolutionarily, [flowerthat looks like a remote controling plants] are very sucler hooked to a thick plastic cessful,” notes Skogen. tube, its ostensible use was “One thing Darwin and to check air quality. But for others have postulated Skogen’s research, it has was that we see so many been outfitted to detect voldifferent flowers because atilized compounds in the of their relationship to the evening primrose. pollinators” — or the many The primrose flowdifferent animals that assist ers open at dusk and flowers in spreading their close at dawn like the seeds. We commonly think Wrigleyville bars, and its of bees in this role, and patrons, primarily hawk moths — so named for rightly so. “Insects are a main player in pollina- Krissa Skogen illustration by barry blitt their large size — drink tion,” says Skogen, even in nectar from the flowers the harsh, arid world of New Mexico’s deserts. and bar hop across large swaths of desert to locate But bees aren’t the only animals attracted to the electric-colored flowers with the maddening flowers. And that’s part of what their research is smell. The scientists then use the GC-MS to deterevaluating. A certain species of onagraceae, com- mine what scents, or compounds, are present to monly referred to as the evening primrose for its attract these moths, and the smaller herbivores, shockingly colorful flowers scattered across the micro-moths, which are consuming the flowers. desert like stars in the night sky, is the setting Adds Skogen, “one of the things we’re really for an evolutionary battlefield between two of the interested in is to determine if you have polunlikeliest of players. Two different species of linators and herbivores who are attracted to moth that both pollinate (help) and eat (destroy) plants by the same signal, what impact does the flowers, attracted by the same signal: a smell that have in evolutionary time? that is not unlike Fruit Loops. “In evolution, the only thing that matters “They smell amazing,” says Skogen, “primarily is that you reproduce, and your offspring

reproduce, and their offspring reproduce, and so on, because you are passing your genes on. If something doesn’t reproduce, in some ways it never really existed in evolutionary time.” Skogen is also trying her best to not allow botanists to disappear into evolutionary time. Currently, there’s one federal botanist for every four million acres of land in the West. But Skogen and her work with the Conservation and Land Management (CLM) internship program is trying to reverse that statistic, helping to place graduates from colleges and universities across the country in five-month paid internships. Beginning in 2001, the program has successfully placed over 800 interns. “I think this is true for most people that are in my field — they had an experience as a young child that exposed them to something that spoke to them and caught them, and it hasn’t let go of them,” says Skogen. Recently, Skogen took her daughter to see an exhibit on the Mother of American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe, at the Art Institute of Chicago where the artist studied. In 1930, O’Keeffe witnessed a drought in the Southwest that caused massive starvation to the animal life, whose chalk-white skeletons littered the landscape. O’Keeffe was so influenced by what she saw in her work, she later noted, “To me they are as beautiful as anything I know . . . The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untouchable.” Skogen and her daughter, standing in front of “Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses” studied the painting. “How did it die?” asked her daughter. Skogen explained to her that the artist took her inspiration from a man-made dustbowl that killed everything. But there was also beauty in it if you looked. Beauty and something more. Something that can’t be explained to someone so young about nature and our place within it. All you can really do is look, and wonder, at a sun-dried skull decorated with flowers. ■

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