The North Shore Weekend EAST, Issue 24

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No. 24

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08 The play’s the thing Theater companies on the North Shore aren’t acting when they say there are challenges. But overall, they’re producing fine work.

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 16 Sunday Breakfast Michael Simeck, superintendent of two school districts in Lake Forest, wants to craft a vision for students’ futures.

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

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

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

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

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30 Do you hear what I hear?

Dr. Lori Halverson makes sure her clients can hear to the best of their abilities.

sports 32 That’s a wrap New Trier High boys’ basketball senior Aaron Angel shines in his final high school game.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST… 38 The Perfect Weekend Nancy and Rob Rotering of Highland Park enjoy Ravinia Festival so much, they go there twice in a perfect weekend.

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Lake Forest’s, for instance, offers a lake view and a stunning entrance gate. At the same time, some – such as St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wilmette — are filled to capacity. Bill McLean tells the story in these pages.

Robust at 64, former State Sen. Roger Keats, who lived in Wilmette, has no need to worry about death yet – but taxes are definitely on his mind. Fed up with a state slouching toward bankruptcy combined with what he considered an increasingly liberal North Shore, Keats voted with his feet and moved to Texas, a state with no income tax and an estimated $8.8 billion budget surplus. “I miss my friends, but I

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$ could live on the difference in property taxes,” Keats says. “Those last years on the North Shore, I quit feeling like I was home.” Read correspondent Scott Holleran’s account in this week’s paper.

Need a break from death and taxes? Check out the plays put on by North Shore theater companies. Professional productions abound, from Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe to Citadel in Lake Forest, among others. Find out what challenges they face and what productions are on tap inside.

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Susan Steinmeyer played Veronica in “God of Carnage,” a recent hit at Citadel Theatre in Lake Forest.

Writers Theatre’s Executive Director Kathryn Lipuma and Artistic Director Michael Halberstam get together on the set of the current production of “Sweet Charity” in Glencoe. Halberstam launched the theatre more than 20 years ago.

Play on ■ by bill mclean For Scott Phelps, the play’s the thing.

It always has been, always will be.

But the thing that drove him crazy more than a decade ago was that parking lot otherwise known as the Edens Expressway — it often disrupted a theater lover’s quest to arrive on time for a production in Chicago.

“Who wants to spend an hour and a half in a car to get to a play and then be late for it?” said Phelps, the artistic director at Citadel Theatre in Lake Forest. “I know I don’t.”

So he did something about it 10 years ago, setting up his not-for-profit professional theater at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest before moving Citadel to its current venue on Waukegan Road three years ago. The 150-seat, seven-row theater was a chemistry lab/classroom in its former life, making it no surprise that parts of the dialogue in Citadel’s most recent production, “God of Carnage” — a caustic play about two pairs of parents and an injured child in a park — happened to be a tad … combustible.

“There’s nothing like a live performance on a stage and its energy and electricity,” said Maggie Ross, Citadel Theatre’s public relations director (“Enchanted April” begins a month-long run at Citadel on April 26).

Competition for the entertainment dollar is tough on the North Shore — with movies outside the home and DVDs inside among the attractions — and potential younger patrons have a slew of other interests. Non-profit theatre companies must depend on the largesse of donors in a sluggish economy, especially since the State of Illinois can’t be counted on to pay grants these days. Despite these challenges, they continue to do well. Part of the appeal is convenience.

“It takes me 90 seconds to get to Writers’ Theatre (in Glencoe) from where I live,” said Connie Yonan of Winnetka, treasurer and a member of the board of directors at not-for-profit Children’s Theatre of Winnetka. “I love that, and I love its two intimate theaters. The quality of actors and directors there is always outstanding.

“I also subscribe to Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Steppenwolf, and Writers’ Theatre is on a par with those.”

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Convenience, intimate settings and quality performances among the appeals of local theatres the beefy tickets sales generated by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire (800 seats, typically eight shows per week). But attendance has been healthy at the cozier settings near the lake, as Writers’ extended its “Sweet Charity” dance musical two weeks through April 14 after Children’s Theatre bowed to heavy demand and added a “Little Mermaid” show to its six-show run last fall at the Winnetka Community House.

“We sell out consistently,” Writers’ Theatre executive director Kate Lipuma said of the not-for-profit company’s 108-seat Tudor Court space and 50-seat Books on Vernon gathering spot. “And now that we are bursting at the seams, we’re taking the next step — into a fabulous new performing arts center designed by Jeanne Gang (an award-winning architect and MacArthur Fellow).

“Right now,” she added, “is a great time to experience the diversity of what we bring to the stage and how our intimate spaces affect the experience.”

The not-for-profit Wilmette Theatre offers top-notch performances. The Actors Training Center Conservatory announced “The Disappearance of Daniel Hand,” will be staged April 19-20. Before that, Michael Butler — the original Broadway producer of “Hair” — will appear during that show’s run at the theatre April 12-14.

Kids in grades fourth through eighth grade don’t just act after auditions at Children’s Theatre, founded in 1975

by Barbara Weldon and Lu Sunkel. They also serve as backstage crew members and work the lights.

“We put their parents to work and they love it,” said Yonan, whose son Chris (New Trier High School, ’01), a professional actor in New York, cut his acting teeth and nailed his lines at Children’s. “Our kids’ parents are expected to paint, take care of props and monitor things.

Through it all, the parents and kids are bonding and sharing the experiences.

“Kids,” she added, “find themselves through a whole range of theater experiences.”

Most of the patrons at Citadel are older than 50, Phelps noted. What worries him the most is not the challenge to get the younger patrons to sit — and be moved, emotionally — before a stage for hours; it’s what too many schools are doing to the humanities offerings at schools.

“They’re either cutting back or cutting them entirely because of budget issues,” he said of performing arts classes. “We hope to fill that void for many with our summer camps and workshops year-round. Kids here are getting trained by professionals who commute from the city.”

“It’s not necessarily social media that make it difficult to attract a younger audience,” said Writers’ Theatre artistic director Michael Halberstam, who founder Writers’ in

“For hours the theatergoer gets to sit in a room full of people and experience something powerful, something magical.” | Scott Phelps 1992. “It’s that arts are not as valued at a national level.

In the United Kingdom for instance, theatre is a staple in the cultural diet of the nation from an early age.

“That said, we’re seeing a significant increase in attendance lately. We think it might ultimately have to do with the fact that our (patrons) who have kids are bringing them to the theatre regularly.”

Citadel Theatre’s Phelps met his future wife Ellen decades ago during an apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Powers Booth and Holly Hunter were among the crop of professional actors at Actors Theatre then.

Scott and Ellen first saw the play “Sirens,” a funny love story at the 2010 Humana Festival in Louisville. Scott starred recently as Sam Abrams in Citadel’s production of “Sirens” from Feb. 3-March 4, opposite … Ellen (Rose Adele Abrams).

“Among the many wonderful things about the theater experience is that the audience gets to sympathize, empathize or be apathetic,” Scott Phelps said. “For hours the theatergoer gets to sit in a room full of people and experience something powerful, something magical.” ■

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“I did nothing more or less than anybody else,” said George Schatz, reclining in his home a stone’s throw from Ravinia Festival.

The same skies, the same combat, the same fear: the World War II bombardier from the 398th Bomb Group does not count his story as any different than the rest of them. Instead, he’d rather show you his antiquated movie poster collection and a handwritten screenplay of Twelve O’Clock High, done in perfect calligraphy. The coincidence is that the TV film was about aircrews in the U.S. Eighth Air Force, just as Schatz was.

Schatz was born in Chicago in 1919 and attended the University of Chicago, where he met his wife, Lois, at a fraternity party. He was working for his father’s wholesale produce business in Phoenix when Pearl Harbor happened. His childhood aspiration of joining the Air Force reignited. As a young boy, Schatz used to make model airplanes from World War I. “Back then, flying was like our space is now,” said Schatz, “It was very romantic.”

Schatz enlisted in the service in 1943 and was first sent to aerial gunnery school, then bombardier school. In the meantime, he married Lois, who soon gave birth to a girl, Daryl. His crew was sent to Europe in 1944, stationed in Nuthampstead, England, where they spent almost five months in combat flying B-17s, or the “Flying Fortress.” The original crew was able to stay intact as a team, from practice in South Dakota to completing a combat tour of 32 missions over Germany and France.

When Schatz expected danger, it was a false alarm, but when he least expected it, it turned into a near-death experience. One such mission was over Poznan, Poland, which clocked in at over 10 hours.

The crew anticipated danger every minute of that long mission, but nothing happened.

His very last mission, which was assumed to be a “milk run,” almost ended in disaster. In the last moments, he noticed that they were about to land on top of a B-17 underneath them and started yelling to get the plane up.

“Here we flew a whole tour, we finally made it, and we’re going to die in the last three minutes,” said Schatz, shaking his head.

Another time, in getting a salvo switch unstuck, Schatz lurched forward just as flak came through the nose of the plane. Plexiglas fragments went

through his goggle into his left eye and, unbeknownst to him, flak knocked out his oxygen. With his oxygen controls gone, he could have been dead in two minutes. The navigator next to him had an emergency oxygen bottle on hand and saved his life.

He later learned that the flak where he would have been sitting had he not fallen forward would have gone right through him.

The most surreal experience was his second mission to Berlin. German fighters hit one of the planes right in front of Schatz’s plane, causing it to careen into another one. Both exploded.

“We see bodies and parts of plane go past us. Our pilot threw up in his oxygen mask, and we’re sick to our stomachs. You hear people have post-traumatic syndrome, but we never had that. We saw this terror right in front of our eyes, but it was so bad that it didn’t seem real. It was like we were watching a movie or something, our minds didn’t absorb the reality of what was taking place.”

Schatz finished up with navigation school in the United States and flew as a navigator in his last few months in the service. His crew was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, an Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and a European Theater Medal with three Battle Stars. Schatz took over his father’s business and often traveled abroad, particularly his wife’s favorite destination, France. He passionately recalls his long and happy marriage to Lois, who passed away in 2004.

“I met a girl that made a man out of me, more than combat or anything else,” he said, “I’m still in love.”

As a fine art aficionado, Schatz has a collection worthy of awe. Tables are covered with big beautiful books on topics ranging from astronomy to The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. Artwork fills the walls, including original paintings by Sir William Russell Flint and Herbert Davidson.

“The trick is to live long enough for this stuff to become valuable,” he jokes.

Growing up with hay fever may have inhibited Schatz from becoming an opera singer, but the love for classical music is apparent in the rows of classical CDs, LPs and priceless recordings. In 1936, Schatz saw George Gershwin perform at Ravinia.

Schatz even saved the program, which is now priceless memorabilia because of Gershwin’s untimely death the following year.

“At age 93, I can say 60 percent of my life has been saved because of music,” he said. ■

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Lake Forest Cemetery is owned by the city, and a cemetery commission decides who can be buried there.

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Body of work ■ by bill mclean All kinds of history rest in peace at cemeteries up and down the North Shore.

Jack and Grace Barrell and their only child, Jack, lived in Lake Forest in a house designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.

Jack drowned in the Illinois River shortly

Cemeteries on the North Shore are packed with history, beauty after graduating from Yale University in 1915. The striking Gothic Revival stone gate at the entrance of Lake Forest Cemetery by Lake Michigan is a memorial to Jack.

“This is a neat place with a lot of history,” said Phil Alderks, Lake Forest Cemetery’s sexton since 2000.

Buried at Fort Sheridan Post Cemetery, a 15-acre tract in Highland Park, were five 7th Cavalry members who served under Lieutenant Colonel George Custer — but not at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Fort Sheridan Post burial supervisor Joe Rafferty also noted nine German prisoners of World War II were also interred at a site reserved for only deceased military veterans and their departed dependents.

You can visit the gravesite of longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet and Chicago Bears great Sid Luckman at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie. But you can’t purchase a pre-need or an immediate need gravesite at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, an 800-plot, one-acre burial ground in Wilmette.

“We’re completely filled,” said the cemetery’s clerk, Tom Berry.

More than 1,100 plots are available at Fort Sheridan Post.

Two sets of cemeteries on the North Shore are adjacent to each other. In the late 1800s city-owned Lake Forest Cemetery deeded nearly nine of its acres to Catholic authorities. Known as St. Mary Cemetery, the land is managed by Catholic Cemeteries of Chicago. St. Mary Catholic Cemetery and Mooney Cemetery both rest on Ridge Road in Highland Park.

Sextons find their jobs fulfilling “I get to help people who contact me on a pre-need basis, such as a healthy father and son who purchase (plots) for themselves,” Alderks said. “Other times I’m dealing with folks who are grieving and in shock after the death of a loved one.

“What’s especially fulfilling for me is helping people get through a trying time.”

Rafferty is also in the transition business, a responsibility he has handled with care for 15 years.

“I want to make it as smooth as possible and worry-free for the next of kin,” he

said, adding it costs nothing for the vets and their dependents to be buried at Fort Sheridan Post.

It costs just under $1,000 for an inurnment (the placement of cremated remain in a grave) at Lake Forest Cemetery, as it does at a parish cemetery like St. Joseph.

A pre-need space at St. Joseph (before they sold out) cost $550. Mausoleum construction isn’t as prevalent as it was in the first half of the 20th century; the cost of a stately, ornate tomb (up to $1 million) has something to do with that decline, Alderks noted.

A Cemetery Commission in Lake Forest was created in 1881 (the only such body on the North Shore). Its members are appointed by the mayor of Lake Forest, and they determine if the deceased meets the Commission’s requirements for burial at Lake Forest Cemetery.

“The Commission takes into consideration family ties, business ties or, say, somebody who went to Lake Forest College and then was active in the community after graduating,” said Alderks, who sits in on Commission meetings. “Generally, if you weren’t a resident of Lake Forest, you need to meet more than one consideration.”

The requirement to be buried at St. Joseph in Wilmette?

“You had to be Catholic,” Berry said.

Alderks grew up in Rochelle, Ill., lives in Kenosha, Wis., and works in Lake Forest. He hasn’t determined where he wants to be buried. But he liked how a funeral director responded to a question posed by a trade publication. The inquiry in essence was, “What’s the best way for the head of a household to take care of preneed planning?”

“What he said was profound,” Alderks said. “He thinks the person should make sure all of the major costs involved are handled so the family members wouldn’t be burdened with them.” ■

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■ by angelika labno At the 2010 People to People Leadership Conference at Harvard University, Natalie Sereda — now a junior at Highland Park High School — was inspired to create change in the world.

Reflecting on her music experiences, Sereda thought of that mandatory time in middle school where everyone learns the recorder. Most of the time, the recorders wind up in closets, collecting dust. The idea came to Sereda to gather these buried treasures as a means to spreading the joy of music around the world, thus creating the nonprofit organization, Recorders of Hope.

“I’m really passionate about my experience in music,” said Sereda, who plays piano in the school’s jazz ensemble,

orchestral bass in Midwest Young Artists, bass guitar, guitar, and now dabbles with the ukulele and banjo. “We’ve had an outstanding resource to music, and I wanted to mix that with a service project.”

Sereda started contacting elementary schools to collect new and used recorders and other musical instruments.

Things really took off once Sereda collaborated with president and co-founder of Global Health Committee Anne Goldfeld. She invited Sereda to visit her Maddox Chivan Children’s Center in Cambodia, leading her to pioneer a pilot program in the summer of 2012.

“These kids have nothing; they’ve never had a musical instrument before,” said Sereda. “I was so proud that these kids from halfway around the world were able to interact with me, and I was able to love them so much

as my students just through a shared passion for music.”

Touting over 250 recorders and many percussion instruments, Sereda, along with her brother Joey, Lincoln Elementary School teacher Janet Lubetkin and her husband Andy, set out for Phnom Penh. She spent five days teaching and performing at Maddox Chivan Children’s Center and the Sullivan Pediatric Center to more than 200 kids who were impacted by AIDS, tuberculosis and more. Andy and Joey taught geography while Sereda and Janet directed music lessons. Despite the language barrier, the kids were able to learn three songs in just three days and played geography games by the end of the visit.

“I think we helped give the kids a new skill that they could develop long after we left,” said Janet Lubetkin.

Recorders of Hope has collected more than 550 recorders to date and is fundraising to provide a permanent music program at the Maddox Center. People can donate funds at www.recordersofhope.org. Sereda also plans on implementing a similar pilot program at a center in Ethiopia.

“We hope that this will be a long-term collaboration with the organization,” said Goldfeld. “Natalie is just a fantastic young woman who has a unique combination of great intelligence, warmth, compassion and the gift of practicality and knowing how to get things done.”

Besides being an international change maker, Sereda is the quintessential artist. Her talent in photography and digital art was awarded two Gold Keys in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, and she was a finalist in the citywide Art is Alive Art Contest in January.

In school, she helped form the first photography club and is on the leadership board for FOCUS on the Arts, a weeklong event that allows students to attend workshops led by renowned artists.

Sereda counts Model UN as one of the best things she has done in high school, because it gave her the chance to view the world from multiple perspectives. In past conferences, she has represented Belgium, Bulgaria and Bahrain.

Sereda was adopted from South Korea, and coincidentally, her plane to Cambodia had a connection in Seoul.

“It was a moving experience for me,” she said. “After interacting with the culture in Asia, I would love to go to any Asian country and start a music program there.” ■

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Listening: I listen to NPR all day, and I’m listing to a bunch of CDs — lots of Latin jazz and drum music, which is pretty cool.

Watching: Colbert Report and Jon Stewart, but that’s it.

Following One of my favorite artists is William Kentridge, a South African political artist. I saw Carol Walker talk at the Art Institute, and it was fabulous; I love her work. I’ve been looking at a lot of drawings; I love Klaus Oldenberg, I love Jim Dynes and some Italian Renaissance drawings for some academic art I’m doing.

As far as what I’m following: I’m gathering lots of material to do a project about drones, and there has been a lot about that in the news recently. It’s kind of fascinating. And, well, a lot of my work involves robots and science and technology, and one aspect of it is nanotechnology, so I’m very interested in mind mapping and mapping the human brain.

Activity: My work is primarily — maybe half and half — fiber work, which is the mixed media aspect, and it’s based on imagery of robots and the idea of the robot as a harbinger of things to come or a commentator on the status quo. He could be commenting on technology or the military

and weaponry; a more recent series is more loosely interpreted, but it’s about war and refuges and how war affects people in the countries that wars are in. I airbrush on bridal satin and then I hand-stitch and embroider certain areas. They’re usually larger-than-life wall tapestries or wall quilts. I’ve also done sculptures that are kinetic; I often incorporate embroidery and fabric in those pieces as well.

One of the things I’m doing and have been doing for a number of years is going down to the Rehab Institute in Chicago, where I’ve been given permission to draw in the robotics department. They’re charcoal on paper and realistic portrayals of what I see in the lab there — it could be a still life or an object they’re working on in prosthetics. The Rehab Institute doesn’t deal with victims of war necessarily, but they do deal with traumatic injury, and they’re really in the forefront of developing new kinds of prosthetics that patients can use through neural networks. It’s been a pretty exciting place to work. The purpose of my work is to make people think more about these situations, to communicate.

Eating: We’re trying to eat very healthy — fruits and vegetables. We just came back from Cuba so now there are a bunch of Cuban restaurants we want to try in Chicago.

What is your favorite mistake? I think sometimes artists go off on a track that they think is a mistake and then it turns into something pretty nifty. In terms of the work, happy accidents — you think it’s going to be something and it isn’t, but it looks pretty good. There’s trying to do everything, but you just have to have a balance. ■

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The non-profit Harkness House for Children, next to the Winnetka Community House, received its biggest donation ever worth $5,000 when North Shore Builders transformed the Huggy Bears room.

Said Tony Meyers, vice president of North Shore Builders, “We wanted to give the babies as much space to play as possible so we took out all the old cabinetry. The next job was to work out how to maximize the floor-to-ceiling cabinet space.”

That work was carried out in one day.

The following weekend the walls were painted, the carpet fitted and new play equipment purchased with money raised from an auction and raffle last September, made possible by more than 50 North Shore businesses.

The Village Board will consider second and final reading of the tentative annual budget at its meeting on March 25.

Copies are available for public inspection at Village Hall (40 E. Center Avenue), the Public Safety Building (45 E. Center Avenue), the Lake Bluff Library (123 E. Scranton Avenue) and online at lakebluff.org.

Winnetka Winnetka fifth-grader Girl Scout Marisol Cassis recently presented an hour-long program of competitive games at the Grand Food Center. The effort was part of her work toward the Bronze Award, the one of three Girl Scout levels of achievement for excellence.

Joined by her fellow Winnetka Troop 40910 members, as well as her classmates from Skokie School, Marisol led the group through a half-dozen competitions. Kids participated in contests like “Grocery Scavenger Hunt,” “The Price is Right,” and “Name That Food.”

Lake Forest On March 27 at 7 p.m., Lake Forest Academy will host linguist Dr. Daniel Everett for a free lecture open to the public.

Dr. Everett is best known for his linguistic theory that language may be shaped by environment rather than by DNA. This theory is contrary to modern linguistic theory and has sparked a fierce debate in the academic community.

A former missionary, Dr. Everett lived with the Pirahã people of the Amazon for several decades. There, he learned their language and discovered that it appears to have no numbers, no tenses and no existence of recursion. For more information visit www.lfanet.org.

Winnetka Construction on traffic signal and intersection improvements for the Green Bay Road-Winnetka Avenue intersection is slated to commence next week, when New Trier High School begins its spring break.

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‘I quit feeling like I was home’

Roger Keats, the former Illinois state senator who lived in Wilmette, stopped feeling like the North Shore was home and moved to Texas last year with his wife, Tina.

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for Keats ultimately became a bad experience on the North Shore.

The conservative Army veteran and author of Chicago Confidential, who fled Illinois’ high taxes and regulations last year for Texas (which has no state income tax), was known as a maverick when he served in the Illinois state legislature.

The former all-American athlete had started his career as a

Roger Keats, the former Illinois state senator and recent candidate for Cook County Board of Commissioners, grew up in Evanston and established a political career in Wilmette, where he lived in a house on Sheridan Road.

That the 64-year-old now lives in a town called Dripping Springs, Texas says everything about what

youth walking precincts for former North Shore Congressman Donald Rumsfeld and had been mentored by another jock Republican, former Buffalo Bills quarterback and GOP congressman Jack Kemp.

“Jack and I got to be friends, and he was always encouraging people to reach out to blacks in urban areas,” Keats explained in a phone interview from his ranch near Austin, where he lives with his wife Tina. “At Evanston Township High School, my friend and teammate was the only black all-American swimmer, Ron Bacon. I always took Jack’s inclusive views to heart.”

Keats, who was 6 feet 3 inches by the age of 14, had also been an all-American swimmer at ETHS, where he later taught and coached after earning his degree in education from University of Michigan.

It was in Ann Arbor that Keats witnessed the birth of the New Left movement — and it moved him to the right. He served in active military service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and went to work in Washington, D.C., as a congressional committee researcher, where he worked with Edwin Feulner, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, and Kemp. He returned to the North Shore, ran for a seat in the General Assembly and was elected in 1976. He was 28 years old.

He had already been shaped by politics in action. His brother, Bob, was killed in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive on Feb. 2, 1968—Robert Keats, to whom Chicago Confidential is dedicated, is buried at West Point—after having been appointed to West Point by another North Shore

representative, Congresswoman Marguerite Stitt Church.

After Church left Congress, Keats worked for the successful congressional campaign of a young executive named Donald Rumsfeld, who would become America’s secretary of defense on the eve of the nation’s worst attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I met Rumsfeld when we were working precincts,” Keats remembered, adding that Mrs. Rumsfeld often came along. “I was in charge of a precinct in the 6th ward — the very northwest corner of Evanston — and I’m proud to say we won that ward.”

Keats had supported Ronald Reagan in 1968 while in college — when Reagan was governor of California — after he was inspired by the future president’s warning that the nation might be doomed to “a thousand years of darkness” in a televised argument for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign.

“That speech was the best political speech I’d ever heard,” Keats said.

By the age of 20, Keats had been assistant campaign manager for another North Shore congressman, Phil Crane.

“Phil Crane was brilliant,” he said. “His depth of history — he had been a college professor — was amazing.”

Two years after winning a State House seat, Keats was elected to the State Senate, where he fought Chicago corruption, introduced fiscal discipline in regional government transportation and led the battle to end state banking restrictions. Keats was a state senator from 1979 until 1993, was appointed by Gov. Jim Edgar to oversee the Port of Chicago, which he did until 2001. From the mid1990s until recently, he worked as an adviser and branch manager in the financial sector for Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer.

So, why did the lifelong North Shore resident leave? His answer comes swiftly.

“I don’t represent the folks who live there anymore,” he said.

“Illinois is dominated by people who govern by connections — down here in Texas, I’m surrounded by oil patch people who actually produce wealth.”

“There is no Republican opposition in Illinois,” he continued. “I think that, in a way, you eventually become complicit. [Disgraced former Gov.] George Ryan was the death of the GOP in Illinois.

[Illinois State Senator] Dan Duffy is a bright spot. Maybe [state Treasurer] Dan Rutherford.

“I do miss the trees and the water in Lake Michigan,” he confided. “I enjoyed my rides through Gillson Park. But I like Texas, which is a lot dryer. We’ve got some gorgeous live oaks. I miss my friends, too, but I could live on the difference in property taxes.

Those last years on the North Shore, I quit feeling like I was home.”

Keats is proud of his record — including what he sees as a legacy of racial harmony. “During the Operation Greylord [judicial corruption] scandal, none of the indicted judges were Republican, none were black and none were Latino,” Keats recalled. “So, we put together a coalition to clean up Cook County courts. No judges have been indicted since.”

The former Wilmette resident doesn’t hold back on advice for today’s GOP. “They need to get out of Washington — both parties do — because both parties are so entrenched in Big Government, Big Labor and cronyism and there’s no real leadership,” he sad.

“It’s business that makes America vibrant. As a party, we need to get back to promoting personal freedom.” ■

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16 | lifestyle & arts sunday breakfast Charting a course for the future

■ by david sweet A white board hangs in the Lake Forest High School office of Michael Simeck, firstyear superintendent of both the 78-year-old high school and the four public schools that comprise District 67.

Near the top rests a question: “21st Century – What’s Next?” Holding a chart showing global economic power throughout the decades, Simeck points out significant changes, especially when circling with his pen what is expected in 2030: China’s economy will be first by a large margin, followed by the United States and India.

“That’s not a picture a lot of people like to see,” says Simeck, a Detroit native who was recruited last year from the Berkley K-12 District in Michigan. “The overarching thing for us in the two districts is: What does our students’ future look like, and how do we prepare them for their future rather than our past? They are entering a really different world.

“The thing that’s of interest to me is to craft the vision of where you want to go.

It’s got to be compelling and different than what you’re doing today because if it’s the same, it’s not a vision.”

Simeck admits he hasn’t come up with all the answers for the future during his short tenure. But he has been pleased with what he sees with students on a day-to-day basis.

“Parents should be proud of the fact students routinely thank teachers as they leave class and hold the door for others,” Simeck said. “The students have such good people skills. That’s an extension of the families they come from.”

Asked about surprises he’s encountered since he started July 1, Simeck said the reputation of Lake Forest that exists in the popular media is inaccurate.

“Parents are down to earth and very smart. There’s a real desire for straight talk, for people to be direct, honest and kind. That’s not the image that is out there.”

Simeck has made communication a top priority, even resurrecting a newsletter mailed to the community called Insight.

“People have said 10,000 times, ‘Communication is important to us.’

We look at Insight as an investment rather than an expense. When you’re electronic, people look at it once. Paper keeps on giving. It ends up in various places in the home.”

LFHS sports state medals hang over Simeck’s desk (“Just added one, as a matter of fact”) and it’s obvious he’s pleased by the success posted by the three dozen varsity sports. He also is proud of the students’ ACT scores overall.

But Simeck knows medals and numbers are not the most important items to measure schools. In a meeting with parents, he helped create a list of adjectives of how they’d want to describe their children. Words like considerate, motivated and resilient appeared along with other positive traits.

“I asked them to pick their top 5. Then the question is, ‘Of the top 5, how many can be measured by a standardized test?’ “ Simeck says. “That’s a given they’ll have good academics in our districts. But what the parents care most about is whether their child is healthy, happy and productive.”

Simeck took over both districts in the wake of scandal and tragedy. In 2011, it was revealed a Deer Path Middle School principal had sent sexually explicit messages to a college student who had visited the school a number of times a few years earlier and had been allowed to Michael Simeck stay even after pleading guilty to electronic harassment.

District 67 Superintendent Harry Griffith ignored calls to resign over the matter, which helped fuel anger over his $300,000-plus annual salary. Then, in a space of 76 days last year, three Lake Forest High School students took their lives.

Simeck said he followed the District 67 scandal “with great interest,” and it seemed to influence his desire to emphasize communication with parents. He reaches out to others too; as he walks the hallways in the LFHS school building, he talks with students and faculty, shaking their hands and asking how everything’s going.

“It’s always important to be available, interested,” he says.

His children Gabrielle and Max attend the high school, while Lilia is a fifth-grader at Deer Path, so he also sees his days through a parent’s eyes.

“You move kids in high school, and it’s hard,” he admits. “This is challenging here – you have to work hard and do well.”

But the lifelong Michigan resident knows he has landed in a special area. “ This is a great place to r a i s e kids,” he said. “It’s a gorgeous c o m m u nity.”■

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Marriage advice only gets better

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joanna brown

It’s been a few weeks since my column about the advice we inevitably receive before getting married, and I feel like since then I’ve been bombarded with it — sometimes by choice, other times by chance. It’s been an eye-opener and a source of much laughter.

It seemed to me that marriage advice was about as helpful as galoshes in Scottsdale.

Never go to bed angry, load up your gift registry, and greet your husband wearing a clean shirt and fresh make-up each evening just didn’t cut it with me or my friends.

The exception was my friend Megan, who confirmed her mom’s warning that a drunk bride is not attractive.

That aside, I was sure that better advice was out there. The Internet returned suggestions like “take pride in your appearance” (Okay, so there’s a theme), “cook every

day; win your husband over through his stomach,” and “be a man of principle”.

I found myself thinking all the time about how to be a good wife. Relief came in two forms. First, rush hour radio surfing yielded me a run-in with Lee Brice’s 2010 song, Love Like Crazy: “Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you; Go to work, do your best, don’t outsmart your common sense; Never let your prayin’ knees get lazy, And love like crazy.”

The DJ paused then to recap a list compiled by online community TheStir.com, of eight things couples should do for each other daily: • Compliment each other • Laugh • Say “I love you”

• Notice the little things to show that you really do pay attention to them • Put things in perspective. Remember you’re not in it alone, and your family is all that truly matters.

• Dream big and share those dreams with your spouse. Even if they never come true, it’s still something worth hoping for • Share something new about your day • Kiss.

I think getting five out of the eight is an accomplishment.

However, I’m throwing my full support behind the advice I received from two local readers.

First came a note from Cass, who heard from her mother that if you are going to leave your husband, make sure you have a place to go.

“I ‘left’ once and went to the movies,” Cass confessed in that email. I chuckled, having just spent a peaceful Saturday afternoon at the Northbrook Court theaters with

five things a husband should say to his wife.

Steve can’t remember where he heard these originally, but they have served him well during his 43-year marriage: • You look great.

• How can I help you?

• I love you.

• Thanks.

• Why don’t we go out for dinner tonight?

An unusually friendly car rental attendant in Dallas asked Steve about the secret to a long and happy marriage. Steve’s not sure what about his demeanor suggested that he had long been happily married, but he was able to think quickly and offer up that insight about talking less and listening more.

I’d suggest that Steve’s ability to think quickly has surely contributed to the strength of his marriage. Congratulations to Steve and his bride on their accomplishment, and my thanks to Cass and Steve sharing their insights. ■

“It seemed to me that marriage advice was about as helpful as galoshes in Scottsdale … the exception was my friend Megan, who confirmed her mom’s warning that a drunk bride is not attractive.” a dear old friend. It was an amazingly rejuvenating three hours, and something we hope to repeat more frequently — for the sake of both our families.

And Steve in Lake Bluff shared with me

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Meat is the Fuel for Dwyer’s cooking fire ■ by katie rose mceneely Derek Dwyer is the executive chef at Fuel in Wilmette.

My whole approach is: Absolutely everything from scratch. I really like having accountability for every ingredient I put on the plate.

How did you start cooking? I started when I was 16, working at a pizza place. I made everything besides the pizza. At the time, I attended a lot of parties, and it occurred to me that if people are drinking, they need food. So I’d take it upon myself to prepare whatever I wanted to make. I decided to roll with it, and I went to culinary school at the Illinois Institute of Art. Years cooking? Twelve years, and professionally for nine.

Signature dish? Lamb ragout with fresh fettuccini and house-made ricotta.

Favorite food to make? I enjoy good old Southern American barbecue. I like making dishes that are technically sound, and there are a lot of technical requirements to cooking meat for hours. Few things are more gratifying: barbecue and whole animal cookery.

What do you like to eat at home? I like to push the envelope at home and try to experiment with a lot of things I’m not familiar with, but the thing I like to make is Mexican food. I love that combination of flavors.

Worthwhile gadget? The all-powerful,

universal KitchenAid. The amount of things you can do with it is incredible.

Favorite cookbook? It’s a tie between “Preservation Kitchen” by Paul Virant — it’s so good! — and anything from Paul Kahan.

Every restaurant that guy puts his hands on turns to gold.

Favorite fruit? The pomegranate.

Funniest or most memorable kitchen incident? My sous-chef strained out chicken stock — it was a good amount, and it gets kind of gelatinous when it’s cold — and as he was picking it up he dropped the stockpot on the floor. The entire blob of stock bounced up out of the pot and hit him in the face. He had to go home and shower. It was so gross.

But it was hilarious.

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Recipe: Lamb and Wild Mushroom Ragout Make this ragout a day ahead and let sit overnight to marry the flavors.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Season 5 pounds trimmed boneless lamb chuck with salt and pepper and sear in batches until browned on high heat in a heavy bottomed pot. Add 4 cups diced onion, 2 cups diced celery, and 2 cups diced carrot and cook for 5 minutes.

Add 2 pounds assorted wild mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Add 12 cloves minced garlic and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute).

Add 3 tablespoons chopped fresh

thyme, 2 tablespoons dried basil, 2 tablespoons dried oregano and 1 tablespoon red chili flake and incorporate well with the vegetables. Deglaze the pan with 4 cups red wine, making sure to scrape pan with a wooden spoon.

Reduce the wine by half and add 1 can tomato paste and loosen it with the wine and cook for 2 minutes. Add 8-12 cups lamb or beef stock and bring to a boil. Cover and cook in the oven for 3 hours until lamb is completely tender.

Remove as much lamb as possible, shred into pieces, and set aside.

Take 1/3 of the ragout and puree.

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Re-incorporate puree back into sauce to thicken. Simmer sauce, uncovered, for an additional hour.

To serve: Heat up ragout in a pan and add the shredded lamb. Next add cooked fettuccini with a little pasta water and let the pasta absorb the ragout for 2 minutes on medium heat.

Serve in a bowl or on a plate and top with fresh ricotta, fresh basil, and drizzle of good extra virgin olive oil.

Fuel is located at 1222 Washington Ct. in Wilmette. For more information, call 847251-3835 or visit fuelwilmette.com ■

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“When I found out I could have a career involving sounds and helping people hear better, I got excited,” says Lori Halvorson of Lake Forest Hearing Professionals.

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The reception area at Lake Forest Hearing Professionals doubled as a dance floor recently.

The man who cut a rug had entered founder Dr. Lori Halvorson’s offices in search of something — anything — to hear clearly again.

“He came in slowly with a walker, and he wasn’t in a good mood,” Halvorson recalled.

“We provided him with a hearing enhancement (device).

“You should have seen him. He threw his walker aside and started to dance, right there in front of all of us. He was that happy. We restore more than hearing; we help people with hearing loss interact socially again.”

A graduate of Good Counsel High School in Chicago, Halvorson was fascinated with sounds while growing up — some loud, some soothing. A classic rock concert thrilled her as much as a night at Lyric Opera of Chicago did.

“I still love the sound of ski boats and an Aston Martin,” she said. “When I found out I could have a career involving sounds and helping people hear better, I got excited.”

Halvorson got her doctorate of audiology at the Arizona School of Health Services after attending Bradley University and Northwestern University. She worked for 12 years at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, where she met and treated former astronaut James Lovell.

“Dr. Lori Halvorson is my hearing hero,” the aerospace hero touts on Lake Forest Hearing Professionals’ website.

Lake Forest Hearing Professionals (it also has an office in Northfield) also provides hearing safety equipment for Road America Raceway drivers in Elkhart, Wis., as well as hearing devices for Road America spectators.

Halvorson plugs reusable high-fidelity earplugs for Ravinia Festival concertgoers and for patrons of loud restaurants.

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Sensaphonics’ ER-20 earplugs feature an acoustic construction, which reduces sound at all frequencies. Music and speech at venues remain clear — and quieter — for the user.

“It’s fun to branch out into different industries,” Halvorson said.

Two of the highly effective devices provided by Lake Forest Hearing Professionals are Lyric and SoundBite hearing aids. The newest generation of Lyric is an invisible, extended-wear aid, and Halvorson is currently the only Premier Elite Lyric provider in the Midwest. The SoundBite Hearing System is the world’s first non-surgical and removable prosthetic device using bone conduction to transmit sound through the teeth.

Big box stores like Walmart and Costco sell hearing aids and certainly pose a threat to a personalized provider like boutique-ish Lake Forest Hearing Professionals. But Halvorson and her staff are withstanding the challenges … soundly.

“We’re one of the ‘little guys’ and some are getting squeezed out,” Halvorson said.

“We, though, are doing fantastic because of our broad focus in cars and music and commitment to being nurturing for our strong client base.”

Lake Forest Hearing is also charitable.

A girl from Waukegan had been unable to hear for most of her 10 years after suffering injuries in a fire. Halvorson donated a hearing aid to the girl after an appointment at the LFHP office in Lake Forest.

The girl’s mother was there, too. The mother spoke.

The daughter heard.

“That was the first time that girl heard her mother speak in six years,” Halvorson said. ■

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New Trier High School’s Aaron Angel (No. 44) pulls down a long rebound in last week’s super-sectional at Chicago State as teammates Steven Cook (No.11) and Reid Berman look on.

Standing tall ■ by bill mclean Aaron Angel was a sophomore at New Trier High School, a fresh transfer student from Rockford, when he saw his future.

Angel in the outfield?

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Angel in a high school gym — as a basketball coach.

Trevians sophomore boys basketball coach Andy Horne had asked Angel to demonstrate a play in a practice two years ago.

“That’s when I started thinking seriously about getting into coaching,” Angel, now a 6-foot-9 senior, recalled early last week. “I’m glad Coach Horne chose me to do that back then.”

Angel was in a New Trier hoops uniform for the final time on March 12, when he created memories at Chicago State University that should enliven more than a few of his high school reunions. Angel scored 10 points and grabbed four rebounds against eventual four-time reigning Class 4A state champion Simeon in a 4A supersectional.

Simeon advanced to the Final Four with a 63-54 victory, but it wasn’t easy for a team featuring 6-8 Dukebound Jabari Parker (23 points), Illinois recruits Jaylon Tate and Kendrick Nunn and 6-9 senior Russell Woods, another Wolverine with Division-I timber.

Angel and his paint mates limited Woods to two points (free throws).

“It says a lot about him the way he stepped up and played a prominent role in such a (high-profile) game like this,” Trevians assistant coach Greg Kapsimalis said. “He hit

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a couple of shots early and became one of our go-to guys tonight.”

Angel was a go-to-the-bench big man early in the season because of foul trouble.

“We couldn’t keep him in the game,” Kapsimalis said of the starter. “But he grew defensively and you could see him progressing as the season went along.”

Angel scored four points in a 45-second span in a highly entertaining first quarter at Chicago State. NT and Simeon combined for nine treys (NT netted five) in the frame, which ended with Simeon up 24-21. In one furious 1:15 stretch, the Trevians nailed a trio of three-pointers to Simeon’s two.

NT senior Aaron Rosen (nine points) capped the trey fest with a triple to shrink the Wolverines’ lead to 19-18 at 1:28.

Simeon (28-3) had threatened to clinch the contest early, after owning a 9-0 lead at the 5:30 mark. But New Trier (28-6) summoned the resolve it had displayed all winter and made Simeon earn another trip to Peoria.

“It was great,” Angel said of the atmosphere. “Our fans — they were really into it, weren’t they?”

Angel tallied four more points in the third quarter.

NT trailed only 57-52 at 2:26 of the fourth quarter, after a free throw from senior point guard Reid Berman (10 points, 12 assists). But the Trevs scored only two points the rest of the way.

“We expected to be in this game late and we were,” NT coach Scott Fricke said. “I told our players how proud I was of the way they battled.

“This team … It will go down as one of the best New Trier teams ever,” he added.

Angel, whose brother Austin (NTHS, ’12) was a walk-on

basketball player at the University of Illinois-Chicago this winter, will head down to Louisiana State University and major in secondary education, with designs on teaching and coaching at the prep level after graduating.

Austin and Angel’s other brother, 22-year-old Alex, attended last week’s supersectional.

“Before the game Austin told me to play hard, give it my all,” Aaron said.

Austin’s little bro played hard, gave it his all.

Horne, Aaron’s sophomore coach, also witnessed a fearless effort from one of his former post players — and demonstrators.

“Aaron would be a very good coach if he decides to pursue that line of work,” said Horne, who two seasons ago got a buzzer-beating tip-in from Angel that beat Glenbrook North and preserved the sophomore team’s undefeated record. “What I noticed from him this year was his quiet sense of confidence.

“He’s a student of the game, with a fun personality, and a kid who loves people,” he added. “I could see him motivating players as a coach, easily.”

Notable: New Trier senior forward Steve Cook, who has named honorable mention all-state by the Associated Press, poured in 12 of his team-high 14 points after the first quarter in last week’s supersectional at Chicago State.

Classmate Stas Banas (eight points) nailed a pair of treys in the first quarter, while all nine of Rosen’s points came from three-point territory. “Our team chemistry,” Angel said of what he’ll remember most about the 2012-13 season. “We were such a tight group of guys.” ■

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Burnin’ up the track HP, New Trier, Loyola turn in solid showings at indoor conference meets

by kevin reiterman There’s some speed to burn on the Highland Park High School boys track team.

The Giants feature two sprinters who are super quick out of the box in senior Andrew Sledd and junior Jarae Ward.

“That’s a nice 1-2 punch for us,” said HP head coach Kevin Caines. “They’re giving us a major boost heading to the outdoor season.”

Sledd, a star running back on the HP football team, can now boast a sprint trifecta. He won the 50-yard dash title at the CSL North indoor championships for the third year in row on March 15 at Niles West.

Sledd, who owns the school record (5.8), was clocked in 6.0. The up-and-coming Ward was right with him, finishing second in 6.1.

Caines also watched Sledd earn top honors in the 200 (23.7).

“I think I am most pleased right now with his 200,” said the coach, who saw his Giants take second at the conference meet (116 points). “That should translate into very good 100 and 200 times outdoors.”

Sledd also teamed with Sammy Coan, John Leskovich and Ward to win the 4x160 relay.

The Giants other champ was Ben Rogin in the 55 low hurdles (7.6).

Rogin added a second in the 55 high hurdles (8.1) and a third in the triple jump (38-3).

Hanig went up against some foes and earned a second in the 3200 and a third in the 1600. Emmitt Smith was fourth in the 3200. Estrada was fifth in the 1600.

“It was a battle out there,” said Caines.

“Distance is deep in the CSL North.”

Another Giant to keep an eye on is junior Shealtial Israel. He picked up a second in the high jump (6-0).

Highland Park Girls Nyjah Lane is fast — and consistent.

The junior broke a field house record at Highland Park on March 14, when she recorded a 6.5 in the 50 dash at the CSL North indoor championships.

“That was good to see,” said HP head coach Sarah Palmberg, who watched her Giants take first in the team standings (158 points). “She ran that time a couple of weeks ago. It says a lot for her (to repeat it).”

Lane also was a burner in the 200 meters, finishing first in 27.4. And she added a third title when she teamed with Sarah Maites, Kaitlyn Hummel and Courtney Bartelstein in the 4x160 relay.

Bartelstein and Maites also came through in the jumps. Bartelstein won the long jump (15-2 ½) and placed second in the triple jump (32-1 ½). Maites claimed the triple jump title (34-1 ¾) and ended up second in the long jump (15-2). She added a third in the 50 hurdles.

Savanah Sledd, a sophomore, came up with a PR to win the shot put (35-4).

Kiera Thorpe of the Giants was the 400 champ (1:04.9), while Maddie Dolins captured the 1600 title (5:46.3).

Palmberg also was excited with the second-place effort of senior Tara Jagadeesh in the pole vault (9-6).

“This was her first time vaulting indoors this winter due to an injury,” said the HP coach. “She went to a pole vault camp (in the offseason). She understands the event better.”

New Trier Boys Taylor Alarcon came up with a headturning performance in the CSL South indoor championships at Evanston on March 15.

The New Trier senior set a new league record in the triple jump (46-5 ¾). That mark shattered the school record (44-10), which he owns, by a wide margin.

Alarcon also did solid work in the long jump (3rd, 21-4 ½).

New Trier, which scored 98 team points to finish in third place, did well in the distance events. Senior Bennet Levis won the 3200 by more than two seconds in 9:58.5.

Chase Silverman cruised to a first-place showing in the 1600 (4:31.5). And the foursome of Charlie Kupets, Sam Heavenrich, Barr Iserloth and Connor Trapp claimed the 4x800 title by four seconds (8:31.1).

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New Trier Girls Highlighted by the efforts of Courtney and Jessica Ackerman, the Trevians won the CSL South indoor championships for the fifth time in six years on March 14 at Glenbrook South.

New Trier eased past Niles West 139-112.

Evanston did not participate.

Jessica Ackerman won the 800 in meet record time (2:17) and teamed with Dana Hankin, Mackenzie Carnow and Kelly Frentzel to take first in the 1600 relay (4:21.7).

Twin sister Courtney finished the 1600 in meet record time (4:56.7), winning the event for third straight year. She was followed by teammate Mimi Smith (5:10.1).

The Trevians also had a strong showing from other distance runners. The 3200 foursome of Kathleen Keene, Annie Boehrer, Kelli Schmidt and Frentzel took first in 9:59.4. Keene added a third in the 800.

Other wins came in the field events with Jennifer Kittle claiming the high jump (4-10) and Nicole Karabas taking the pole vault (9-0).

Others earning seconds include Hannah Waldman (55 hurdles; 200) and Abby Compernolle (50).

Loyola/Regina Girls Jackie McDonnell (800 meters), Stacey Weaver (pole vault) and Francessca LaTorraca (shot put) claimed individual titles for Loyola at the GCAC Indoor Championships at the University of Chicago on March 17.

The Rambers, who took runner-up honors (143 points) to Saint Ignatius (198), also had a winning performance from their 4x200 relay (1:51.70), which featured Elena Gatti, Nicole Ochal, Alexix Nino and Stacey Weaver.

McDonnell, a junior, won the 800 in 2:23.14 just ahead of teammate Sarah Kelly (2:23.80). Kelly also was second in the 1600 (5:23.6).

Weaver cleared 8-6 to win the pole vault, while Nino placed third (8-0).

LaTorraca, a freshman, had a winning toss of 33-0 in the shot. Teammate Erin Rooney was third (30-9).

LA claimed a second in the 4x800 relay and the 4x400 relay.

Regina Dominican’s top showing came in the 55 hurdles. Sophomore Barbara Acacia earned runner-up honors in 9.83. ■

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■ by bill mclean Not even the lure of aroma from pizza could halt Dylan Abbott from finishing his workout atop a pommel horse last summer.

It was the last day of a gymnastics camp and the Highland Park High School junior continued to work on a “Russian” — a challenging pommel maneuver — as his teammates inhaled slice after slice nearby.

“Nyet,” Abbott essentially said to the offer of free food.

It is Giants boys gymnastics coach Doug Foerch’s favorite Dylan Abbott story so far.

“Dylan was more starving for getting his work in than he was for pizza,” Foerch recalled at the Burkel Invite at Nile West High School on March 16. “He’s an easy-going guy, but at the same time he’s intense as a worker in the gym.”

Abbott saw nothing but empty pizza boxes when it was time to go. He shrugged, moved on. “I ate at home,” Abbott said. “Lasagna … I’m pretty sure I ate lasagna that day.”

The Giants will rely on their strong pommel crew to fatten their team scores this spring.

Results at the Burkel Invite reflected that strength, as HP finished 11th overall (104.65 points) but ranked sixth on pommel horse (18.2) among the meet’s 18 squads.

“We’re thick on pommel,” Foerch said.

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11th with a personal-best 7.0 and missed a top-10 invite medal by a tenth of a point.

“I like the event because of how much work it takes to get it right,” said Abbott, who got promoted to varsity for a sectional meet last spring when Highland Park and Deerfield high schools competed as a co-op under Foerch.

“There’s nothing like it when you hit a tough pommel trick or routine,” the captain added.

As a 5-foot-10, 165-pound pommel competitor, Abbott is the equivalent of a lineman lining up as a slot receiver in football.

Or of an ample actor portraying Mick Jagger in a movie about The Rolling Stones.

“Most people who are really good on the pommel horse are small, skinny guys because it’s easier for them to swing and do circles in routines,” Foerch said.

“Dylan is taller and bigger than the typical pommel guy, but he excels because he has a knack for the event. He rotates around the horse well and he doesn’t lose his balance.”

Abbott’s primary goal this spring is to hit an 8.0 pommelhorse routine by late April, in time for the big meets.

It’s a score that advances gymnasts to state meets.

“It’s going to take a lot of practice, and that’s what I plan to do,” Abbott said.

Notable: Sophomore Andy Kaufmann was the Giants’ top all-arounder (14th place, 32.75) and scorer on vault (8.55, 19th place) and floor exercise (7.7) at the Burkel Invite last weekend. ■

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takeoff Calmer, stronger Schmidt heads into outdoor season in ‘pole’ position ■ by bill mclean

Where there’s Carly Schmidt, there’s a chorus.

Head to any of Lake Forest High School’s girls track and field meets this spring and you’ll hear it as the 5-foot-8 Schmidt, a senior, reaches the apex of her flight in the pole vault.

“We’ve heard it this winter (at indoor meets),” Scouts pole vault coach Katie Darraugh said. “When she gets up there the way she does, the bleacher crowd goes, ‘Whoooooooooooaaaaa!’ It happens every single time.”

Other witnesses sing after Schmidt’s stunning up-andover journeys.

Sing her praises, that is.

“I’ve heard competitors from other schools at meets say, ‘Oh did you see what she just did?’ They’re amazed.

They’re talking about Carly.”

Schmidt, fourth at last year’s Class 3A state meet, set the program record in the pole vault with a 12-feet-9 effort last spring — she matched that height to win the Rolling Meadows Invite on March 1, before clearing 12-6 to top the field at the Glenbard North Invite on March 8 and going 12-0 to win a meet at Carthage (Wis.) College on March 15.

The good pole vaulters own speed and strength.

The best pole vaulters have speed, strength and hard-tocoach body awareness, along with a fearlessness of being airborne and upside-down simultaneously. The same could be said for gymnasts and cheerleaders.

Schmidt was a club gymnast for most of her grade-school years before taking a break from the sport and returning to it as a junior. She also cheered for Scouts varsity teams.

“Carly has so much natural athletic talent and she works so hard,” said classmate Maddie Martin, a cheerleader and a high jumper. “If she’s not doing a sport, she’s working out.

“She makes pole-vaulting look so easy and so natural, but we all know it’s not,” Martin added. “Her vaults are fluid, beautiful. Spectators are in for a treat whenever Carly gets ready to pole-vault.”

A three-time state qualifier in the pole vault, Schmidt is in a very good place these days – physically and mentally.

She recently committed to vault at Auburn University and she’s fully appreciative of things that have nothing to do with runways, poles and vault pits.

“I’m enjoying moments at school, dinners at home with my family and breakfasts at a restaurant with friends before school,” said Schmidt, fifth at state in the pole vault as a sophomore and 12th as a freshman. “You know, the little things.

“I’m more relaxed than I’ve ever been; that’s going to help me this track season.”

See has her sights set on clearing 13-6, which would surpass the state record by leaps and (three) inches. Last year’s 3A state champ in the pole vault went 12-6.

Last year’s 3A state champ in the pole vault was none other than Lake Forest’s Carolina Carmichael (LFHS, ’12), who placed second and third in the event her previous two seasons. Coach Darraugh, a 2006 LFHS graduate, finished ninth at the AA state meet in the pole vault as a sophomore and seventh as a senior. Another former Scouts standout, Jillian Schwartz (LFHS, ’97) pole-vaulted at the Summer Olympics for the U.S. (2004) and Israel (2012).

Pole vault wasn’t a prep event in Illinois when Schwartz attended LFHS. Boys basketball players at Simeon; girls pole vaulters at LFHS. Schmidt’s pole-vaulting career started inauspiciously in the eighth grade, which, if you ask any pole vaulter, is how every career in the discipline begins.

“It’s such a random, weird event,” Schmidt said.

“Everybody knows the first year you do it you’ll be awful, you’ll go 6 feet and finish meets with a lot of no-heights.”

Schmidt wasn’t awful for long. At an early indoor meet as a freshman, she cleared 7-0. Her season ended at state with that finals effort of 10-6.

“I got in a groove and everything clicked,” she recalled.

“It made more and more sense to me as the season

Lake Forest High School’s Carly Schmidt descends after a successful attempt during a meet last spring.

photography by joel lerner progressed.”

Schmidt got stronger and stronger as a pole-vaulter after opting to reunite herself with gymnastics her junior year.

The Scouts had taken program-best runner-up honors at state the year before. With Schmidt in the fold, LFHS advanced to the state meet the next two seasons.

“I’m glad I competed,” Schmidt said. “It’s a risky sport with all the injuries, I know, and after telling my Auburn coach (Scott Richardson) I was doing gymnastics, he told me to be careful. But gymnastics was fun and it helped me in track because it got me in better shape.”

A day after competing at Carthage College, Schmidt spent an hour doing fast-paced work on a treadmill on March 16. She later discussed one of her favorite little

things — a big breakfast.

“What I love to do on some days is go to a restaurant early before school,” she said. “I’ll drink coffee and order a Belgian waffle with eggs, sunny side up, on top of it.

Whatever syrup is available, I’ll pour it on.

“People can’t believe I eat that.”

Then she laughed.

Schmidt was clearly happy, content, relaxed.

“Carly is still competitive; she thrives on competition,” Darraugh said. “What’s different about her this year is how calm she is. You need that kind of demeanor as a pole vaulter because the event demands mental strength.

“Great things,” she added, “are in store for her this spring.” ■

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Standout Efforts on the Shore Jesse Arnold New Trier Green Boys Hockey: Arnold scored with 1:53 left to play to give New Trier Green a 3-2 victory over Sandburg in the semifinal round of the AHAI Red Division state playoffs on March 17 at The Edge in Bensenville.

With the win, NT Green will meet No. 1 Glenbrook North in the Blackhawk Cup championship game at the United Center on March 24 (6 p.m.).

Arnold tallied two goals in the win over Sandburg, while teammate Danny Spitz had the other goal. Jack Jung came up huge in the net, earning his 29th win of the year.

In the quarterfinal round, NT Green claimed an easy 8-1 victory over Naperville Central as Drew Koch finished with a hat trick. Zev Glass and Brian Enriquez had two goals each, while Arnold added the other score.

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Club Swimming: The Loyola Academy senior claimed two titles at the NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando on March 12-16. The Northwestern University recruit won the men’s 100-yard freestyle in 43.92 and 50 backstroke in 22.07.

Jovanovic, who helped NASA to a fourthplace team finish (199 points). had two runner-up finishes: 100 back (47.47) and 100 butterfly (47.18). And he also placed third in the 50 free (20.27), fourth in the 50 fly (21.51) and ninth in the 200 back (1:44.51).

In relay action, Jovanovic teamed with Jae Park, Brian Walsh and Stephen Shull and finished fourth in the 400 medley (3:19.84). That same foursome took seventh in the 200 medley (1:31.83) and eighth in the 400 free (3:04.40).

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Club Swimming: Malone, who will be swimming at USC, captured the men’s 500yard freestyle (4:17.42) gold medal in the NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando.

Press Box Basketball: Highland Park High School girls basketball standout has made another all-state team. She is a second-team selection on the 2013 Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Class 3A-4A all-state team. Earlier this winter, the senior guard, a Yale University recruit, made Associated Press honorable mention all-state.

New Trier had two players earn IBCA special mention: junior guard Alexa Czyzynski and freshman center Jennie Boehm. Loyola Academy senior guard Anna Schueler and Regina Dominican senior guard Lindsay Welch also were special mentions.

Basketball: New Trier High School senior Steven Cook was the lone player in the Central Suburban League to be honored by the Associated Press. The Princetonbound guard/forward made special mention all-state.

Cook also was recognized by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA), earning third-team all-state honors in Class 3A-4A.

And he just missed winning a second title, when the New Trier senior came up with a 1:45.55 clocking in the men’s 200 butterfly. He was edged out by one of his future college teammates: New York’s Michael Domagala (1:45.68) of Asphalt Green United.

Malone also finished fourth the 100 free (44.82), fifth in the 100 fly (47.55) and ninth in the 50 fly (21.69).

Fellow senior Jack Mangan, a Michigan recruit, placed 11th in the 200 free (1:39.11) and 12th in the 100 free (45.55).

Malone and Mangan, who helped the New Trier Swim Club to a sixth-place finish in the team standings (184 points), competed in several top 10 relays. The duo joined Murphy McQuet and Connor Fotsch in the 400 free (4th, 3:02.46). In the 200 medley (9th, 1:32.12), they teamed up with Matt Weiser and David Schriesheim. And in the 200 free (8th, 1:23.51), they teamed with Fotsch and Schriesheim.

The 800 free relay of Malone, Mangan, McQuet and Denver Freeman raced to a sixth-place finish (6:40.23).

Ingrid Wall New Trier Swim Club

Club Swimming: The 14-year-old didn’t back down at the NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando on March 12-16. Her individual highlight was an 11th-place finish in the women’s 50-yard breaststroke (29.16).

Wall also anchored two of New Trier Swim Club’s point-producing relays. She teamed with Maria Jardeleza, Riley Hayward and Jessica Sutherland in the 200 medley, which placed seventh in 1:43.12, while Madeline Jardeleza, Sutherland, Wall and Marchuk took 14th in 200 free relay (1:35.02).

The 400 medley, which featured Maria Jardeleza, Hayward, Stephanie Marchuk and Wall, placed 10th in 3:44.32.

Kara Lucenti helped the New Trier cause with an eighth-place showing in the 200 breaststroke (2:16.45). The 16-yearold added a 13th-place effort in the 100 breast (1:03.63).

Lake Forest sophomore forward Evan Boudreaux and Loyola junior guard Jack Morrissey were fourth-team selections.

Lake Forest senior center Sam Downey was special mention all-state, while Loyola junior guard James Clarke and New Trier senior point guard were honorable mention all-state.

In Class 1A-2A, North Shore Country Day senior center Riley Hall was a thirdteam all-state selection. Teammates Austin Curren, a senior forward, and Jamie Swimmer, a senior point guard, were special mention all-state.

Hockey: New Trier Green senior Kyle Melton has been named the 2013 AHAI JJ O’Connor Boys High School Player of the Year.

On the girls side, New Trier Varsity’s Katy Ratty has been selected as the 2013 AHAI Cammi Grantato Girls High School Player of the Year.

Hockey: Highland Park High School senior forward Alex Block, New Trier Green senior forward Kyle Melton and Loyola Academy defensemen Nicholas Schaefer have made the 2013 Illinois Showcase Team.

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Nancy & Rob have double the fun at Ravinia Festival Friday evening in the summer we’d have dinner at Park View Restaurant at Ravinia Festival — you get to look across the park, run into friends and they have some incredible cerviche — before a concert there. Steve Miller Band is always a fun one. The kids (Charlie, Jack, Andy and Pete) would be totally embarrassed if they were with us at that concert!

On Saturday morning we’d have a game of tennis and then take the kids downtown for a Cubs’ game at Wrigley Field. My (Nancy’s) uncle has season tickets sort of behind home plate but up. Lunch would be hot dogs at the park.

Later we’d head to the Luxbar on Bellevue Place — they

“Sunday dinner would be a family picnic with other friends at Ravinia. They usually are a smorgasbord, but always include the purchase of at least one s’mores pizza for dessert.”

Nancy Rotering, the mayor of Highland Park, and her husband Rob include two visits to the local Ravinia Festival as part of their perfect weekend.

have great hamburgers, chicken pot pie, milk shakes and salads.

On Sunday we’d run the Green Bay Trail and take the kids to Walker Bros. in Highland Park for breakfast, then go to the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. We’re huge fans. We love to visit the miniature train exhibit with replicas of great national parks, famous landmarks and Chicago favorites. We’d take a trip down to the beach to make sure the kids know how to skip rocks.

Sunday dinner would be a family picnic with other friends at Ravinia. They usually are a smorgasbord, but always include the purchase of at least one s’mores pizza for dessert. We have a routine for the pavilion and for the lawn — the lawn includes a wagon packed with picnics and flashlights. Ravinia’s a great way to connect with friends and neighbors.

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