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Wilmette nixes townhouses
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ilmette residents opposing the proposed seven-unit townhouse development on Wilmette Avenue breathed a sigh of relief when the Village Board unanimously voted against the development at its March 24 meeting. The Village Board’s refusal was in line with the Zoning Board of Appeal’s decision at its Jan. 21 meeting to vote against the development. Neighborhood opposition to the townhouse development has been strong. Signs stating “R-2 Zoning Means 2 Units Per Lot” have been visible on neighbors’ yards all along Wilmette Avenue and surrounding streets that would be impacted by the development. And residents opposing the development were in full force at the Village Board meeting. They were present handing out “NO” stickers as people entered the room and voicing their concerns during the public-comment period. Developer 1314-1318 Wilmette LLC sought a special use permit and three variances to Continues on page 12
Book reveals invigorating look at life in Cuba
Madeleine Plonsker
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adeleine Plonsker nears a framed black-andwhite photograph of two fists grabbing what appears to be jail bars. The bold work of art — created circa 2007 by Cuban
photographer Jose Julian “Pepe” Marti — hangs on a wall in her Glencoe home. The collector suggests other interpretations of the photograph to a couple of visitors. “Maybe the person is looking out a window,” Plonsker says.
“Maybe the person is holding pieces of strings. Maybe the lines in the photograph represent light. “Maybe,” she adds, “the photograph had been manipulated to express another message.” She pauses. She lets the in-
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terpretations sink in, settle. She looks at her visitors, perhaps hoping to hear fresh reactions to the photograph. More than 120 photographs, taken by natives of Cuba, adorn the inside of Plonsker’s house. The bulk of those pictures and many others (produced by 50 Cuban photographers) enliven her new bilingual book, “The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photographs” (Lake Forest College Press). The New Trier High School graduate and former Winnetka resident started to collect the photographs on a trip to Cuba in 2002, during the island country’s “Special Period” — when it faced a severe economic decline following the withdrawal of financial support from the former Soviet Union. The rate of poverty grew during the period, a not-sospecial stretch for the indigent. Widespread hunger struck Cuba’s populace. “Artists in Cuba, I discovered, weren’t just hungry,” Plonsker says. “They were also hungry to show their talent. The most talented people are people who are struggling, people who feel a compulsion to share their views of the world through their art. “I found a very vibrant arts community in Cuba. The photographs I saw on my trips … quite eye-catching. Their work touched me. It came at a time
when Cubans were allowed to photograph everything in their country. They took pictures of life in Cuba, real life. “What I collected was true, post-revolutionary contemporary art.” Three months before Plonsker and Nelson Ramirez — a major Cuban photographer and the Director of Fototeca (photography repository) de Cuba — celebrated the publication of “The Light in Cuban Eyes” at an event at Lake Forest College (March 18) and later at the start of a two-month exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced the beginning of an initiative to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. Aims of the thaw include the lifting of some travel and trade restrictions and the reopening of embassies in Washington and Havana. In 1961 the countries severed diplomatic relations because of Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union. “We’d been waiting for this news,” says a delighted Plonsker, whose first visit to Cuba was a cultural exchange tour she had arranged nearly 13 years ago. “It’s exciting.” What thrilled her well before the historic announcement was the reward of putting together a 10-pound book filled with Continues on page 12
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IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 12 n ew world
As U.S.-Cuba relations thaw, Glencoe resident Madeleine P. Plonsker — a patron of Cuban arts and culture — may have an interesting role.
[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 14 n orth shore foodie
Check out a delicious recipe from a top chef on the North Shore.
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Former North Shore resident Geoffrey Atkins first captured the world rackets championship the year after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and relinquished it only after The Beatles broke up.
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Where it’s hard to get ahead of the game
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David Sweet
hough it’s April, March Madness is not over. Four teams remain to battle for college basketball’s national title. When 60 other teams still sought glory in the NCAA tournament, I was sitting in a room watching four games at a time on movie-theatre-sized screens bracketed by team names next to numbers like -7.5. Nearby, questions such as “Who will score 15 points first?” lit up an electronic board. Cigars dangling in one hand, $100 bills clenched in the other, dozens studied this information with the intensity of Harvard students during final exams. Yes, March Madness in Las Vegas is a little different than at, say, Notre Dame. Standing in my first lengthy betting line at
9:30 a.m., the guy in front of me kept swaying and, once at the counter, was told not to bet because he was too drunk (perhaps the first time Vegas has refused a wager). At the Palazzo sports book, one could — for what was touted as a bargain at $200 per person — sit through 14 hours of games while gorging on unlimited food and drink. Want to get away from it all by trying your luck at the blackjacks tables and roulette wheels? The games were being shown there too. Despite what many think, the spreads for games aren’t based on how Vegas is handicapping the strength and weakness of each team so much as finding a number where people will bet the same amount on each side. That’s because sports books earn
“Cigars dangling in one hand, $100 bills clenched in the other, dozens studied this information with the intensity of Harvard students during final exams.”
a percentage on every bet. A $110 winning wager often returns $100 to the bettor (the sports books keep $10), and the sports books keep $100 of the equivalent losing wager. Not a bad business, especially the way I was betting. But I didn’t feel as badly once I read about the man who was confident the University of Cincinnati would win by at least 1.5 points. They prevailed over Purdue in overtime, but only by one point. He lost $80,000. No doubt he personified the mad in March Madness. Enjoy the weekend.
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build seven townhouses on the property located a half block west of the library. The property is located in a district that permits two-unit dwellings and townhouses with up to four units in a single building. Lawrence LaSusa, the attorney representing the developer, argued that the development increased Village density in accordance with the Village Center Master Plan, but Village President Bob Belinsky cut off this line of argument. He noted that the master plan was irrelevant since the property is not located in the Village center
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and the zoning district is primarily driven by single-family homes, not town homes. LaSusa further argued that the project was “consistent with the character of the neighborhood” and that the variances would not only enhance the project itself, but were also de minimis. Residents argued the development would cause traffic problems on Wilmette Avenue and add to the congestion surrounding nearby McKenzie Elementary School.
A photograph from “The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photographs.”
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Thomas McAfee
Hospital president to discuss big changes
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homas McAfee, president of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH), will discuss the revitalization of the 160-acre campus during The Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon on Wednesday, April 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. NLFH is planning a new hospital to replace the current 72 year-old facility. Once it’s completed, the $378 million complex will feature a 400,000 square-foot hospital with an additional 100,000 square feet of medical office spaces. The new building will have five interconnected pavilions, each three stories. Outdoors, a stretch of grass can host celebrations and events, while walking, hiking and fitness trails are designed to promote good health. McAfee has led the hospital through its 2010 af-
filiation with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and has established a network of Northwestern Medicine physicians throughout the northern suburbs. This included bringing the No. 1-ranked cardiology program in the state, the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, to Lake County. McAfee led the expansion of the comprehensive Northwestern Medicine Grayslake Outpatient Center by adding a freestanding emergency department, an outpatient cancer and surgery center, and a new medical building that will soon house the Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency Program, as well as physicians from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. The event is open to the public and will be held at The Lake Forest Club, 554 N. Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest.
moving images and enlightening copy. Plonsker’s book became the first North American publication to be endorsed by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and Fototeca de Cuba. The latter entity is comparable to the function of the Smithsonian Photography Department in Washington, D.C. Plonsker developed close, meaningful relationships with Cuban photographers during her visits to the island. She calls
the artists her “children, sisters, cousins.” They had fascinating stories to tell her. Sometimes they did not have to speak a word to tell their stories; their work took care of the narration. One of the first photographers Plonsker met was Pedro Abascal, a self-taught photographer who has spent more than 40 years as a documentary photographer. “[Plonsker’s book] is essential, especially for an American
audience, because it gives a glimpse into a world that was closed for so long,” Abascal tells Art Beat (www.pbs.org), in a piece written by Victoria Fleischer last month. “It covers a period in my country which is very important to see what we have to say and how it was. “You can see a whole spectrum of expression in photography,” he adds, “[and] you can see how Cuban photography is changing, how it has grown up
in a sense.” Plonsker grew up in Winnetka. She met her future husband, Harvey Plonsker, at New Trier High School. She was a junior at the time. He was a senior. They sat next to each in a study hall. Harvey was raised in an “art-filled setting, and we felt we should continue that family tradition,” Madeleine writes in her book. The couple collected lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, dry points and drawings. The parents of two sons started to collect 20th-century photography in 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Madeleine’s passion for Cuban photography began a decade later. Mrs. Plonsker owned a women’s boutique, Madeleine’s, Inc., in Winnetka from 197596. The collector/author/philanthropist’s plan for the near future is to donate 55 of her Cuban photographs to Lake Forest College. On Aug. 18, Cuban pianist Frank Fernandez will make his American debut at Ravinia Festival’s Bennett Gordon Hall. The program’s sponsors? A couple of former students in a study hall, each with one eye on a textbook and the other on a future spouse. Plonsker’s book is available for purchase at www.amazon.com. It will soon be sold in local bookstores.
Suburb battles NCAA over slogan
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he term March Madness is hitting a little too close to home for the Glenview Park District this year in the battle to save its trademark slogan “Experience It” from being used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Last week, the Park District’s attorney Ronald Y. Rothstein of Winston & Strawn LLP filed a formal opposition with the appeal board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against the NCAA. In it, he states that
the organization’s application to trademark the tagline “Experience It Live” for its sporting events is too similar to the “Experience It” phrase Glenview has used for likeminded entertainment and recreational services since 2008. The infringement first came to the attention of Glenview officials last fall after the NCAA first received a rejection for its “Experience It Live” application from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 3, 2014 and again on November 6, 2014
“because the U.S.P.T.O. believed the mark was confusingly similar to the Glenview Park District’s federally registered trademark,” said Rothstein. “The NCAA then brought this to the Glenview Park District’s attention.” He further stated that the Glenview Park District’s goal is to work cooperatively with the NCAA to come up with a solution. Attempts to settle have been unsuccessful to date, which comes as a shock to Rothstein. “Given the NCAA’s experi-
ence with protecting its own brands, it is surprising that [they] would seek to register a mark that so closely resembles the Glenview Park District’s valuable brand,” he said, referencing the collegiate organization’s own aggressive brand policing over trademarks such as “March Madness,” “Elite Eight,” and “Final Four.” The NCAA has 30 days to respond. ~ Selena Fragassi
Sailor makes national team
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ake Forest sailor Annie Haeger is one of 42 athletes to make the 2015 U.S. Sailing Team Sperry. She will race in the Women’s
470 (the women’s two-person dinghy) with Briana Provancha of San Diego. The U.S. national sailing team is selected annually and
is comprised of the top sailors competing in the events selected for Rio 2016. Olympic-class athletes qualified for the team at the ISAF Sailing World
Championships in Santander, Spain, and at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami.
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North Shore Announcements PREVIEW Glencoe
The Capitol Steps will present “How to Succeed in Congress Without Really Lying.”
REVIEW Glencoe
The board of directors of Family Service of Glencoe (FSG) announced the departure of Executive Director Susan E. Cowen. She accepted a position as president and CEO of the Kenneth Young Center. “It is with a heavy heart that I make this announcement,” said Marilyn Perlman, president of the board of directors of FSG. “Suzy’s dedication and expertise have taken our agency to the next level as we have increased our outreach and support of the socio-emotional needs of the Glencoe community.” Effective May 1, the board of directors has appointed Al Ross, FSG clinical director, as the interim executive director while a search for a new leader is conducted.
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The Capitol Steps, a Washington, D.C.-based comedy troupe, will present a show based on songs from their current album “How to Succeed in Congress Without Really Lying” at Am Shalom’s FUNdraiser in Glencoe on Saturday, April 11. The show is strenuously bipartisan and includes songs about everything in the news, such as “Putin on a Blitz,” “The Big Benghazi Theory,” and “Everybody Must Get Droned.” General admission tickets are $90 and may be purchased by calling Am Shalom at 847.835.4800.
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TEDx is coming to Lake Forest High School on Thursday, April 16 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Beginning in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) converged, TED today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group at the David Miller Theatre at LFHS. Contact Joe DeRosa at jderosa@lfschools.net for more information.
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Customers want meatballs in two shakes of a lamb’s tail
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hef Nicole Pederson knows the farmers who supply her quirky, ever-evolving farm-to-table restaurant in Evanston by name. One of which, LuisJohn Slagel, three years ago had an excess amount of lamb. At that point, Pederson had just re-
cently partnered with Amy Morton to create Found Kitchen and Social House. The premise was simple: a menu comprised of light ingredients with dishes that were also light on the pocketbook. And fresh. The dishes had to be fresh, locally sourced, and “found” close to home — just like Morton and Pederson, who both have Midwestern roots. Since they opened, the lamb meatballs, covered with a liberal amount of pistachio chimichurri and a dollop of yogurt — not to mention mild herbs and spices — has been their top seller. “It had to be approachable, delicious, and something that could be on the menu all the time,” says Pederson. “I love the texture of the pistachios, the yogurt, lamb — it all grew out of what you feel goes well together.” Pederson’s advice for cooking the meatballs starts with braising: “It helps retain moisture,” she adds. Braising means no more dry, chalky meatballs that recall the Wednesday lunch special of a bygone school cafeteria. Exorcise those demons from your taste buds by making a house favorite; long-standing friendship with a farmer not required.
Lamb Meatballs with pistachio chimichuri and mint yogurt TOTAL TIME: 50 minutes SERVES: 24 two-ounce lamb meatballs
Lamb Meatballs ½ cup Shallot, brunoises 1 tablespoon garlic, minced 2 teaspoon thyme, chopped Olive oil to sweat vegetables 3 mulatto chilies, seeds and stems removed 2½ pounds lamb, ground ½ pound pork, ground 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped ¼ ounce salt 2 ounces breadcrumbs 2 whole eggs 1. Sweat the chopped garlic and shallot and thyme in the olive oil, over low heat until soft and fragrant, cool. 2. Toast the mulatto chili in the oven for 3-4 minutes, let cool, then grind in a coffee or spice grinder, pulse until coarsely ground. 3. In the bowl of your KitchenAid mixer with the paddle attachment combine all ingredients, mix on med-high speed until mixture becomes tacky. 4. Sear off a small piece of the mixture and taste it for sea-
soning then form the mixture in to 1-¼ to 1-½ ounce balls. Sear meat balls a then, then braise in the liquid below Braising Liquid ½ lemon Sprig of Thyme Sprig of Mint Sprig of Basil 2 quarters chicken stock to cover 4 or 5 chili de arbol salt stock to taste 1. Place seared meatballs place in a roasting pan 2. Then add warm chicken stock and remaining ingredients. 3. Cook at 300 for 15 to 20 minutes or until meatballs are just cooked all the way through. Pistachio Chimichurri ½ cup pistachios, toasted and chopped ½ cup Italian flat leaf parsley, chopped Extra virgin olive oil to cover 1 tablespoon red Fresno, fine dice (no seeds)
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basketball player shoots a basketball at a rimless backboard. A golfer putts a ball on a hole-less green. A tennis player hits a tennis ball over … nothing. The net is missing. Forest Moses does not play basketball, does not play golf, does not play tennis for Northridge Prep High School in Niles. He is a senior jumper and hurdler for the Knights’ Class 1A track and field team. Like the three athletes in the previous paragraph, Moses, a Highland Park resident, has to deal with an unusual circumstance. Northridge Prep High School (enrollment: 344 boys) does not have an outdoor track and field facility. It is difficult to jump over a bar and land on a squishy mat when a bar and a squishy mat are not budgeted each spring. It is unproductive to hurdle over a set of imaginary hurdles. “We run around the school to get in a workout,” Knights track coach Mike Egle says. “We run around on grass. “Our team practices before meets — at the school that is hosting the meet.” Keep that in mind when you attempt to fathom what the 6-foot-1, 155-pound Moses achieved at the Independent School League (ISL) boys track and field meet last spring. He
took first in each of the high jump, 110-meter high hurdles and 300 intermediate hurdles events. He finished third in the triple jump. His personal point total added up to a school-record 36 for the team champions. Thirty-six points, one boy. The team title was a first for the program. Moses cleared 6-feet5 in the high jump, another school mark. The old mark had belonged to … Moses. “The most remarkable part of that day was that 6-5,” Egle recalls. “He had to be exhausted when he jumped; he had just finished a [hurdles] race.” Moses received co-ISL Track and Field Athlete of the Year honors after the meet. Several months later, the Road Warrior Forever hit the road again, this time for a trip to Maryland with his grandfather, Brian Green, a golf course superintendent for the Park District of Highland Park. The two drove to Landover for the 2015 USA Track and Field (USATF) National Hershey Youth Indoor Championships. The car had to tote extra cargo for the return trip home. Moses had captured a gold medal with a 1.95-meter (6-4 ¾) effort on March 15. The record height in the event is 2.01m (6-7). “I like to compete, and I like to jump,” says Moses, a three-
time state qualifier in the high jump and a student at Northridge Prep since the sixth grade. “Good competition pushes me.” His older brother, 20-year-old Fisher, also competed for Northridge Prep track and field teams as a hurdler and a jumper. He had held a number of program marks, before Forest supplanted them. Three years ago, at a Class 1A sectional meet, the Moses brothers vied for state berths. Fisher Moses, a senior then, had a good shot at advancing to Charleston in the 300 hurdles but just missed qualifying. Forest Moses, meanwhile, extended his freshman season on varsity with a state-qualifying height in the high jump at University High School in Chicago. “That day was an exciting one,” Green says. “It was also a sad and happy one. We were pulling for Fisher, really pulling for him. We were thrilled for Forest. “Forest,” he adds, “has become a leader for the team since then. He’s helping the program accomplish some impressive things, some firsts, and the team is doing these things without being able to practice at a home track.” Forest Moses, who lost his mother at a young age, has lived with his grandfather in Highland Park since 2002. Green
attempted to erect a makeshift high jump station for Moses in his backyard. The intention was a sound one. It also was a thoughtful one. Have no track? Will try to improvise — at an entirely different home site. The execution of the plan did not go very well on Green’s acreage. “The stanchions … they kept falling down,” says Green, a wrestler (119- and 126-pound weight classes) when he attended Highland Park High School. Moses, named a team captain for the second year in a row, remains positive … and forwardthinking. Also a crack student and talented trumpeter for the school’s pep band, he is seri
ously considering a foray into the world of decathletes at the college level. The likely computer science major is looking at Drake University and the University of Indiana. Moses has no qualms about flinging the discus, about heaving the shot put. At one indoor meet this winter, Moses left a field house as the Knights’ top shot putter. “I plan to try pole vaulting,” says Moses, who missed all-state honors by a spot when he placed 10th in the high jump (6-1) in Charleston last spring and took ninth (5-10) at the Illinois Top Times Meet at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington March 27.
Moses soared in front of Egle at the Northridge Prep two years ago. He took off in a gym class one day, basketball in hand, no wind beneath his wingspan. He then threw down a dunk. Egle knew then, right then. Moses commanded attention. “He’s got tremendous abilities and a tremendous work ethic,” Egle says. “Whatever he does, he does it at an outstanding level. He’s a star for our school’s pep band. He played the trumpet at a basketball game, on the night before an indoor track meet. He stood in the stands for three hours.” Moses missed collecting a state medal by two inches last spring. The top three Class IA high jumpers at the 2014 state meet cleared 6-9, 6-8, 6-7. Serious hops, serious hops, serious hops. The next four each went 6-5. Only two of the top seven placers graduated in 2014. Expect more significant pops galore at state this spring. “The high jump is one of the strongest events in IA,” Egle says. “The jumpers are right up there with the 2A kids, and they’re almost as good as the 3A jumpers.” Moses will not be fazed, in the least, by the competition. It will be just another away meet for him. He will feel right at home. JForest Moses, an elite high jumper and hurdler, attends Class 1A Northridge Prep, which doesn’t have track and field facilities. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
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Showcasing his skills Dolby capping off a decorated career with New Trier Green BY bill mclean, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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he paychecks never came. Jack Dolby essentially waited for them as a seventh-grader, as an eighth-grader. He played AAA hockey. Hockey was fun before his AAA days. Hockey was a blast. The sport steadily devolved into something else for Dolby. “It felt like a job,” recalls Dolby, now a New Trier High School senior. “It wasn’t fun. There was pressure to succeed in AAA hockey. I felt the pressure.” Dolby played in three state championship games at the AAA level. His teams lost all three. Before his sophomore year at NTHS, the defenseman from Winnetka found a different hockey path. He took it. He never looked back. Dolby became a member of the New Trier Green hockey team. “There was less pressure, but I still pushed myself to succeed,” the 6-foot, 175-pounder says. “I wanted to push myself. I wanted to be the best hockey player I could be. What a great atmosphere, hanging out with the seniors on that team. They were great roles models. They helped shape me. They always believed in me. “I don’t have an older brother. Those seniors mentored me.” Dolby emerged as Green’s No. 2 defenseman in his rookie high school season of 2012-13. NT Green reached the state high school championship at the United Center. Another winter, another shot at a state title. NT Green won. Dolby improved to 1-3 in state championships. He became a two-time state champion when NT Green defeated Glenbrook North in the final for the second year in a row last winter. The all-Scholastic Hockey League and all-state teams were announced. Dolby made both. More honors rained on Dolby in torrents this past winter. He earned all-state honors. Again. He earned all-SHL honors. Again. NT Green’s alternate captain also made the 2015 Blackhawk Alumni Association (BHAA) All-Star Team. Only five other players in the state made it, including NT Green senior goaltender Jack Junge, a
repeat pick. Dolby sat with his parents, John and Traci, at a table at the BHAA All-Star banquet. Also at the table was a player with an odd last name: Toews. His first name is Jonathan. He suits up for a certain team that plays all of its home games at the United Center. “My dad is a huge Blackhawks fan,” Dolby says. “Huge. He was asking Toews all kinds of questions. He wanted to know the guys he likes to hang out with after games. He wanted to know what he thought of the city. I talked hockey with him. That was surreal, being at the same table with Jonathan Toews, sitting next to him. “He’s an environmental guy; he likes to recycle,” Dolby adds. “He’s an interesting guy.” Toews’ table neighbor ranked fifth among NT Green players in points in 2014-15, scoring 19 goals and providing 30 assists for a state semifinalist (52-10-3). Coach Bob Melton deployed Dolby at the top of his power play unit. Dolby impacted games at both ends of rinks. “Jack is great kid, one of my favorite kids on the team,” Junge says. “He was a great leader for us. He’s really fast, with a great shot. And he’s a really, really good skater. I’d say he was the best skater on our team. That’s important, having a skater like Jack in front of a goaltender. I certainly appreciated what he did for me back there, what he did for us. I trusted him whenever he had the puck.” New Trier Green trailed New Trier Blue 3-1 after two periods in a state quarterfinal last month. Little brother was startling its big brother in a big game. Some things had to be said during the intermission. Dolby said some things to his teammates. “He played a big role in lifting our spirits and turning around our attitudes [before the start of the third period],” Junge recalls. “Jack knew how to get his teammates pumped up.” Dolby backed up his words big-time, scoring the game-tying goal in Green’s 4-3 victory. Dolby — along with Junge and New Trier Green senior
New Trier Green’s Jack Dolby will cap off his hockey career at the USA Hockey America’s Showcase in Pittsburgh April 9-13. He will be joined by fellow teammates Jack Junge, Brent Segvich and Brad Glass. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
forwards Brent Segvich and Brad Glass — will play for twotime reigning champion Team Illinois at USA Hockey America’s Showcase in Pittsburgh April 9-13. Dolby’s family is one with a football bent. He was supposed to complete powerful runs, not run power plays. His mom’s father was Brian Piccolo, a former Chicago Bears running back and the centerpiece of that iconic, moving football flick, “Brian’s Song.” Dolby stuck with hockey when he enrolled at New Trier. It had been a major commitment
for many years. The puck trumped the pigskin. Dolby still loved hockey, despite his disillusion with AAA hockey. “I remember the first time we played Glenbrook North in my sophomore season,” says Dolby, who plans to major in business at Miami (Ohio) University and is thinking about trying to make the school’s Division-I hockey team as a walk-on. “Friends of mine had told me, during the week, they were planning to come to the game. I thought 20 people would be there. More than 20 showed up, way more
than 20. That place was packed, sold out. It was an incredible atmosphere. “I am so glad I got to be a part of that.” Notable: Five other local players made the Illinois Showcase team: Glenbrook North’s Kyle Slovis, Chris Zhang, Alex Merritt and Chad Yale; and Highland Park junior forward Gavin Proeh … Segvich led NT Green in points (57 goals, 42 assists) in 2014-15, followed by Glass (38, 60), senior forward Jason Kuker (28, 46), senior
defenseman Graham Soman (22, 30), Dolby (19, 30), senior forward Harry Jones (20, 20), senior forward Sam Berman (8, 23) and senior forward Ryan Cimba (11, 19). … Junge (31-5) ended up with a 93.9 save percentage and 1.27 goals-against average. He also delivered three assists. … NT Green coach Bob Melton played for victorious Team Illinois at the 1985 USA Hockey America Showcase. Team Illinois did not win the event again until 2013. That edition’s roster included Kyle Melton, Bob’s son.
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Inside the Press Box CIRLCING THE BASES Baseball Perfect Game USA: Junior third baseman/pitcher Cal Coughlin, who recently committed to Texas Christian, has been named a Perfect Game USA 1st Team Preseason High School Underclassmen All-American. He plays club baseball for Top Tier. Meanwhile, junior left-hander Ben Brecht of New Trier and sophomore outfielder Brad Czerniejewski of Lake Forest made the list as a High Honorable Mentions. Brecht will pitch at UC Santa Barbara. Czerniejewski will team up with Coughlin at TCU.
Girls Lacrosse Lake Forest: Sparked by Marielle St. Amand (5 goals), Lindsay Close (4 goals) and Katie Karahalios (3 goals), the Scouts opened the season with a 17-2 win over Warren on March 19. But then, they dropped 17-3 decision to Loyola on March 26. Close, Kara Antonucci and Libby Thompson scored LF’s goals in the loss. Loyola: The Ramblers are the No. 1 ranked team in the Midwest by Lacrosse Magazine. New Trier: Ranked No. 6 in the Midwest, the Trevians have opened the season in impressive fashion. They defeated Evanston 13-3 on March 19 and Oak Park-River Forest 17-3 on March 17.
AT THE SHOOT-AROUND Boys Basketball THE RUNDOWN Lake Forest: Phil LaScala was recognized as one of the Boys Track Class 4A coaches of the year by Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA). He guided the Scouts to a school-record Highland Park: Senior pole vaulter Eddie Smoliak cleared 28 victories. 14-6 to take third place in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor Championships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28. Loyola: Sophomore Ramar Evans will be playing for the Junior Brett Davidson placed eighth in the 3200 meters Chicago LockDown 16U club team in the 2015 spring and (9:42.24), while junior Ryan Kroizere took eighth in the 60 summer sessions. hurdles (8.76). Girls Basketball Loyola: The 4x800 relay was clocked in 8:09.93 to earn New Trier: The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association runner-up honors in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor (IBCA) named Teri Rodgers as one of its coaches of the year Championships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28. in Class 4A. She directed the Trevians to a third-place finish Sophomore Paolo Tiongson finished seventh in the 3200 (9:38.81). at the state tournament. Girls Track STICK NATION Loyola: The 4x800 relay claimed runner-up honors Boys Lacrosse (9:28.76) in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor ChamLoyola: The Ramblers, who are ranked No. 4 in the pionships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28. Midwest by Lacrosse Magazine, defeated St. Ignatius 16-1 in the title game of the Chicago Catholic League Tournament Volleys on March 29. They went 3-0 in pool play with wins over Boys Volleyball Fenwick 13-1, Brother Rice 13-1 and St. Laurence 17-0. Loyola: Connor Kreb, Jakub Mazurek and Andrew Then, they opened bracket play by downing St. Rita 12-4. Kubicek recorded five kills apiece in LA’s 25-15, 25-21 victory
over St. Ignatius on March 30. The 6-1 Ramblers took runner-up honors in the Barrington/Vernon Hills Invite on March 27-28. The team fell to Barrington 25-15, 25-21 in the championship. Kreb had nine kills. LA topped Brother Rice 23-25, 25-19, 26-24 in the semifinals behind the play of Mazurek (18 kills), Kreb (23 kills) and Jack Talaga (50 assists). In other tourney action, the Ramblers beat Naperville North 18-25, 25-19, 25-23; Prospect 25-15, 31-29; and Vernon Hills 25-19, 25-15. In the season opener, LA topped Evanston 27-25, 23-25, 25-16 on March 24. Talaga had 26 assists, while Kreb had eight kills and three blocks. New Trier: The Trevians have started the season 2-0 with wins over Stevenson 25-18, 25-13 on March 26 and Warren 25-14, 25-17 on March 24. Henry Levee (5 kills), Peter Hindsley (4 kills), Dante Chakravorti (14 assists) and Brian Hammes (12 digs) led the way against Stevenson. In the victory over Warren, the team was led by Chakravorti (15 assists), Levee (4 blocks, 5 kills), Hindsley (5 kills), Hammes (14 digs) and Andrew Sommer (4 kills).
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SLAPSHOTS Club Hockey Chicago Mission: Sophie Skarzynski, a senior at Loyola Academy, and her U19 teammates claimed the gold medal in the USA Hockey Tier 1 National Tournament in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Chicago Mission topped Shattuck St. Mary of Minnesota 3-2 in the championship on March 30. Grace Zarzecki, who led Latin School to a state title earlier this month, had 10 goals and three assists for Mission. Skarzynski, a Minnesota recruit, ended up with three goals and three assists in the six-game set. In January, she was a member of the Under 18 National Team, which won a gold medal. Meanwhile, in U16 national tournament action, Mission went 1-2 in pool play. The squad features Valerie Caldwell (Loyola), Tess Dettling (Loyola), Victoria Soukup (Lake Forest) and Greta Skarzynski (Loyola). Chicago Young Americans: The U16 team earned the silver medal at the USA Hockey Tier I National Tournament in Green Bay. On March 30, the squad, which rosters Morgan Baird (New Trier), Maggie Cusick (Loyola), Tay Munson (New Trier), Caitlin Schneider (Glenview) and Delaney Weiss
(Lake Forest), dropped a 3-1 decision to Shattuck St. Mary 3-1 in the championship. Schneider was CYA’s leading scorer with seven goals and two assists. The U19 team went 2-1 in pool play but then lost 1-0 to Honeybaked (Michigan) in the opening round of the championship bracket. Morgan Crane (New Trier) had two goals and one assist in the tourney. Ivy Dynek (New Trier) finished the four-game set with two goals. Kristin Chivers (Lake Forest Academy), Becca Lindblad (New Trier) and Carly Thomas (Lake Forest Academy) also were team members along with ex-Lake Forest Scouts goalie Lindsay Projansky. CYA’s U14 team advanced to the semifinals where it was defeated 1-0 by the Pittsburgh Penquins Elite. Anne Bloomer (Loyola) had a productive tourney, finishing with five goals and four assists in five outings. At the Next Level Women’s Hockey Cornell: Loyola Academy grad Erin O’Connor had a terrific first season with the Big Red (19-11-3). A defenseman, she played in all 33 games and finished with seven goals and 25 points to earn SecondTeam All-ECAC honors. She also was named to the ECAC All-Rookie Team.
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With John Murphy Lake Forest High School boys hockey coach J
ohn Murphy enters Buffo’s Italian-American Restaurant in Highwood, his hometown. He is restless. He looks up at the televisions in one of the dining areas, hoping the Yale-Boston University NCAA men’s hockey playoff game is on one of them. Nobody is watching hockey. He sees to it that somebody changes the channel to ESPNU on one of them. “It’s in overtime,” the Lake Forest High School boys hockey coach says, as he finds a seat near the only TV that matters to him. BU ends up winning 3-2. The 54-year-old is interested in the game because his son, Cody, is a senior forward on the Miami (Ohio) University hockey team. Miami, a top regional seed, will face Providence in another Sweet 16 game in about 26 hours. Illinois Hockey inducted John Murphy into its Hall of Fame (players’ category) in late January. A 1978 Deerfield High School graduate and DHS Athletic Hall of Fame inductee (for football), Murphy played Junior hockey in Canada and for affiliates of two NHL teams. The Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks invited the left winger to training camps in 1981 and 1982, respectively. One of his professional teammates on an International Hockey League club (Muskegon Mohawks, in Michigan) was Jeff Carlson, who portrayed one of the Hanson brothers, Jeff, in the movie “Slap Shot.” “Jeff Carlson,” he says, “still has long hair, like he had in the movie,” says Murphy, also an instructor at Hot Shots Ice Arena in Lake Bluff and a painting contractor. With the Yale-BU game no longer airing in Buffo’s, Murphy turns his attention to fielding questions, mostly hockey questions, before looking forward to his flight the next day — to his son’s Sweet 16 playoff game in Rhode Island. (Miami would lose 7-5 to host Providence; Cody Murphy scored the first goal of the game).
The Capitals will play against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The camp lasts two weeks. The hope is for him to sign a contract with Washington before then. Cody’s agent is Kevin Magnuson [son of the late Keith Magnuson, a Blackhawks defenseman from 1969-79]. Two of my son’s role models are his brothers [Andy Marsch and Ken Marsch]. They are Cody’s stepbrothers, but he calls them his brothers. They also played hockey at Miami. Andy and Ken were part of an alumni Q: What is next for your gathering at Soldier Field [on son? Feb. 6, the night before the MiA: He was invited to partici- ami-Western Michigan Univerpate, as an unrestricted free agent, sity clash in the Hockey City in the Washington Capitals’ Classic]. I had a great seat for the prospects camp in late August. game. [Miami edged WMU 4-3
have heard Pat Foley describe that scene. Q: You coached AAA hockey for many years [20] before taking the LFHS position seven years ago. Your best team? A: The 1990 team [for players born in 1990]. We won everything. [Winnetka native and Arizona Coyote] Johnny Moore played for that team. So did Matthew Lindblad [Evanston, Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League], Josh Balch [Wilmette, Yale, Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League], Conor Allen [Chicago Latin School, New York Rangers] and Steve Spinell [Vernon Hills native, AHL]. I also coached Jack Jenkins, a Lake Bluff kid. He played in the USHL, and he just committed to Notre Dame. We’re proud of him.
John Murphy poses with Lake Forest High School all-stater Charlie Sullivan. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
atop the Chicago Bears’ home football field].
What are some of your memories of Adams and that state runner-up squad? Q: What is the difference A: Paul was the best motivator between hockey when you I ever had, a very respected footplayed and hockey today? ball guy, a legend. I admire the A: The game has changed a lot. heck out of him. I stay in touch You have to be skilled to play [at with him. Another great coach the professional level]. You can’t in the program was Fred Harris get by on just toughness. You can’t [head coach of the sophomore play in the NHL without having team]. He played in the Rose skills … skills at a very high level. Bowl [for Iowa, in 1957] with Alex Karras [later a dominant Q: You played football (as a defensive tackle for the Detroit defensive tackle, linebacker Lions]. Fred made sure we were and kicker) under coach Paul ready to play varsity football. The Adams at Deerfield High year we took second in state, we School. The Warriors’ 1977 allowed only eight points in the team lost 8-0 to East Leyden postseason — all in the title game. High School in the Class 5A I got to scrimmage with the 1975 state championship game. state championship team, as a
sophomore. I was 195 pounds then, maybe 200. Q: You played alongside one of the Hanson brothers [Jeff Carlson] from the movie “Slap Shot.” Do you have a favorite story involving him? A: We were playing [for Muskegon] against Toledo. My father was sitting behind our bench. It was 1982. Pat Foley [the Blackhawks’ current broadcast announcer] was the announcer for the game. It was 25-cent beer night. A fan threw beer on Jeff Carlson during the game. Then, all of sudden, players went in the stands, looking for the guy who threw the beer. It was like a scene from the movie. I wish I could
Q: [All-stater] Charlie Sullivan and Jack Hubbard served as your LFHS co-captains for the 2014-2105 season. Your thoughts on them? A: Both are mature, so mature. You sit down and talk with them, their maturity is obvious. They enjoyed representing their school and competing at a high level. They represented the school well. Playing hockey — playing any sport — in high school is going to help you as a person. An athlete is held accountable. An athlete is a focused person, a person who works hard for something. Q: How often do you instruct at Hot Shots? A: Twice a week. I conduct stick spinning clinics there. It’s something I designed. It’s done in a confined area, at a high tempo, with eyes up. And it’s fun. Those four elements … all four are important. Q: What was the banquet like when you were recognized as an Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame inductee? A: I stood eight feet from [Blackhawks principal owner and chairman] Rocky Wirtz when I spoke. I looked at him and thanked him for his commitment to honoring our military personnel at Blackhawks games. My nephew [Keegan] was deployed in Fallujah during the Iraq War. — Bill McLean
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A true world-beater on the rackets court By david sweet
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orld champions are as rare as white peacocks. Few sports even proffer such a grand title. Even more uncommon is a world champion who holds the crown across decades. Geoffrey Atkins first captured the world rackets championship the year after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and relinquished it only after The Beatles broke up. The Englishman’s reign from 19541972 has not been matched since. “I was excited by the speed of the game, the satisfaction of getting hard shots back, and the exhilaration of hitting the ball in the sweet spot of the racket to see it rocket away for a winner,” recalls Atkins, a former resident of Lake Forest. Now 88, the former world’s champion lives on Hayling Island in England. He played the sport until a few years ago, when a knee replacement ended his days on the court (and, to his chagrin, his golf game as well). For the uninitiated, rackets is an indoor game that features a rock-hard ball that flies at such high speeds off walls that men could be killed by it. “As the game is quite dangerous, you have to concentrate. There wasn’t much fooling around on the court during a match,”
Atkins says. “Of course there were many raucous parties during tournament weekends, but as I was often playing in the semifinals and finals on the Sunday morning, I had to take it quite easy.” At Rugby School in England, Atkins played squash, cricket, field hockey and rugby. During that time, the school’s two racket courts often sat empty. During his final year, “I thought it would be interesting to have a try,” Atkins says, “and I asked the pro, a 70-year-old man called Harry Grey, if I could have a hit.” Atkins ended up practicing for hours on his own until he mastered the speed of the ball and the angles of the court. He soon began to play competitively. “Rackets is a challenging game technically, where anticipation, footwork and precision are essential, and there is no room for error,” he notes. “I felt a strong sense of achievement in pulling everything together and playing this difficult game well.” During a tour in the British army, his company commander at Sandhurst, Ronnie Taylor, served as a big rackets influence. They won the army doubles championship four years in a row. By the early 1950s, Atkins’ game was honed close to perfection. He won the British Amateur Singles in both 1952 and 1953 while also
claiming the American and Canadian Amateur singles titles during the same period. It was time to challenge the best, incumbent world champion Jim Dear, the professional at Queen’s Club in London. A sporting legend, he was not only the world champion at rackets but also of real tennis. At the same time, he held the British Open squash title. “I didn’t expect to beat him,” recalls Atkins, “but thought I would give it my best shot.” Living in Chicago at the time, he travelled to England to play the two legs (each leg being the best-of-seven games) over consecutive weekends at Queen’s Club. During the first leg, Atkins stunned the world champion by winning the first three games, as Dear could not handle his opponent’s underarm twist serve. Atkins prevailed in the first leg 4-1; even if he lost the second, two game wins during the leg would give him the crown. Dear, though, notched the first three games. One more victory, and he retained the title. But Atkins won the next two, becoming the new world champion. To top it off, he married Philippa Fulljames days later, and they enjoyed their honeymoon on the QE2 back to America. Atkins successfully defended his title throughout the years
against James Leonard and Charles Swallow. He chose to resign as world champion in 1971 and, by January 1972, another player succeeded him. On the 50th anniversary of seizing the world rackets championship, Atkins was feted at the Racquet Club of Chicago, which still sees play on its two courts (only eight remain in the United States, though a century ago Chicago itself featured as many). He is an honorary member of that club and the Montreal Racket Club. Atkins’ tournament victories in singles and doubles number in the dozens, and he is most fond of winning the Tuxedo Club rackets tournament in New York for three consecutive years over two different periods, entitling him to keep the two gold racket trophies — his most treasured ones — for the achievement. He fondly remembers Philadelphia Racquet Club member Stanley Pearson, a top American, as well as Billy Wood-Prince, his boss when Atkins worked in Chicago and his partner when they won the U.S. amateur doubles tourna-
“I get to watch a lot of great tennis during the Wimbledon tournament every year,” he notes. His son Nick and daughter-in-law Rowena live in London along with his grandchildren Matilda, Lilah and Eddie. They visit him f re q u e n t l y, “which keeps me busy and on my toes when they s t a y, ” Atkins says. Daughter Lucinda Sheffield, son-inGeoffrey Atkins | Illustration by Barry Blitt law Tom and grandchildren Charlie, ment in 1954 and 1955. Henry, Sam and Pippa Atkins stays busy by swim- live in Lake Bluff and always enjoy ming in the sea in the summer their trips to England to visit him. and sunbathing when the weather Though he no longer plays the is nice. Though a late riser who’s sport he once ruled, he carves out not much of a breakfast enthusi- time to attend tournaments. Says ast, he does enjoy a cup of coffee Atkins, “I still enjoy going to and a banana or piece of toast watch rackets being played at the and, when it’s warm, eats in the highest level whenever I can. garden overlooking the sea. A Rackets has been one of the most member of the All England Club, important influences of my life.”
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