Preston Hollow People – October 2015

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Let’s All Look Out for Child Travelers Dear Editor: I was on a recent American Airlines flight from Florida to Dallas. I noticed a conversation going on behind me between a 10-year old boy who was flying alone and a middle-aged man who happened to be sitting next to him.

As the conversation progressed, it became more and more personal. The man obviously knew what a prepubescent boy was interested in. He talked about his ranch where there were 27 fishing holes full of fish, his own children, and how they all loved to fish together, that he had been kicked off a plane twice because he did not like flying, and how much he wanted the little boy to come to see him at his ranch.

He talked about being the child’s Facebook buddy and gave the boy his own contact information.

I became especially concerned when the boy gave the strange man his phone number and address. The boy was completely captivated by his new friend.

The woman who was sitting next to me became equally worried and we started talking about what we could do. I looked for a flight attendant to alert, but it was a full flight and there did not seem to be anyone available. Finally, we took matters into our own hands. We turned around and stated to the boy that we had sons of our own, and that it was not a good idea to give personal information to strangers. The flight was almost over and we wanted the child’s parent to know what had happened.

The man became enraged and started yelling obscenities on the plane. He grabbed my seatmate’s backpack and tore it off her back. The flight attendants detained him in the plane until they retrieved

the backpack and until the airport police arrived.

I stayed to talk to the father, who was an airline pilot and met the boy at the gate.

Several female passengers who sat around us were also upset and told the man who sat next to the boy that he should stop his bad language. The situation ended badly with the child crying, and the man yelling obscenities and exclaiming he was being accused of being a pedophile. The child’s father looked completely confused. I finally left because it was impossible to converse with him. I hoped that, at least, the parent would deter any communication between the boy and his newfound friend.

We all need to be aware that children who fly alone should sit near the front of the plane where they can be observed. This young man was flying alone on row 19. We also should remind our children not to give their personal information to strangers.

Facebook is often used for inappropriate communication between strange adults and children. No doubt the father thought that his son was safe because he would be met at the gate. Yet the stranger had picked up all the boy’s contact information and could easily contact him on social media.

Child molesters are experts at “courting” or “grooming” children to be their friends. They make the child feel special, talk about favorite toys and topics, act silly, and constantly talk about staying in contact. Any physical contact comes later, after the child has learned to totally trust the adult. Perhaps the child was just being set up for future contact. We must be observant of children who could be in a vulnerable situation.

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E D U C AT I O N Hockadaisy is in Harmony With History

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Most 17-year-olds can’t say that they’ve had two books published, but Hockaday student Juliette Turner can.

The high school senior has written Our Constitution Rocks and a follow-up, Our Presidents Rock, before she’s even completed her college applications.

Our Constitution Rocks was published in 2012 when she was just 14 years old.

So how does a young teenager get so into history that she produces a book now used in the classrooms of some school districts?

“It’s kind of a roundabout story,” Turner said.

Her mother, actress Janine Turner, founded a nonprofit organization called Constituting America.

While Juliette was homeschooled in middle school, she acted as its youth director.

In addition to a youth contest called We the Future, the organization also holds a 90-day class for adults.

For her history project that year, Juliette was assigned to interpret each day’s part of the class into an essay for kids.

“In turn, I wrote 90 essays on the Constitution when I was in seventh grade,” Juliette said. Those essays then turned into the book, which was picked up by HarperCollins.

Today, Grapevine ISD uses the book as a textbook. Juliette and her mother also donate copies of the books to schools where they speak, such as the Barack Obama School for Male Leader-

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“It’s the idea of a kid talking to a kid,” Juliette said. “It’s kind of like, ‘If she’s interested in this, then I can be, too.’”

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Point, her mother also shares her passion for American history.

“I’ve always had a love of the founding fathers since I was 8, which is a little strange,” the actress said. “I read The Five Thousand Year Leap and that stimulated the thought process. Juliette was 10, and on our ranch, we sat on the hammock and started reading the Constitution.”

After that first full reading together, they began listening to seminars, reading The Federalist Papers, and researching further.

All of that research then turned into Our Constitution Rocks and Our Presidents Rock.

“She was born with this love of country,” Janine said. “I kept thinking she would outgrow it, but she’s on this trajectory. It’s fascinating to watch.”

Though Juliette’s primary interest lies in nonfiction, constitutional law, and political science, she’s also got a fiction book coming out in February called That’s Not Hay in My Hair, loosely based on her experiences on the family ranch, which — get this — she was working on before the history books came along.

“I loved that too, because it was the first time I’d done fiction, and a lot of me is in it as well,” Juliette said.

It’s that inherent drive to pick up new projects that keeps Juliette going — and it’s also one of the things her mother admires watching.

“She has a heart for service, and I’m proud of that — her good, sweet heart,” Janine said. “She thrives on it.”

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Program Provides Mentors for Gooch Scholars

By Karly Hanson

and believing passionately in you,” Bujanda said.

Gooch’s state rating went from “Improvement Required” to “Met Standard” in 2014, after one year of the Saturday mentorship program. In both 2014 and 2015, Gooch scored in the top 25 percent in the state for closing performance gaps. In 2015, 80 percent of Gooch students passed their STAAR exams, up from 60 percent in 2013.

Chavez got to see Marin graduate from fifth grade in May. She surprised her with flowers.

“It’s a beautiful thing to see what amazing things can happen when a community of committed individuals come together for the good of our kids,” Bujanda said.

People Newspapers Every morning, faculty and staff members at Gooch Elementary School greet each student with a handshake at the front door of the building — even if it’s pouring rain. The students shuffle into the assembly room for community circle, their morning ritual during which each class sings their college song and chants to compete for the spirit stick.

Martha Bujanda’s mission as Gooch Elementary’s principal is to embed a “college-going” culture at all levels of education.

Each class is assigned a college, and that college’s flag hangs outside of the room.

After singing each morning, the students, who she calls scholars, walk single file past a poster reading “The Road to College Starts Now” to their classrooms, where they are greeted for a second time by name with a handshake and eye contact.

“We force them to learn the social skills they wouldn’t learn anywhere else,” Bujanda said.

“We focus on behavior just as much as we do academics.”

To further enforce the “going to college” mentality, Bujanda started a collaborative mentorship program in 2013, bridging the public and private school sectors.

Every Saturday from 9 a.m. to

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Gooch principal Martha Bujanda and her staff members greet each student every morning. noon, students from St. Mark’s, Hockaday, and Greenhill volunteer to mentor a third, fourth, or fifth-grade Gooch Scholar.

Bujanda estimates about 40-50 percent of the students at Gooch participate in the program.

Greenhill student Isabel Chavez, 16, has dedicated her Saturdays, spring breaks, and three weeks of her summer vacation to the mentorship program. Last year, she mentored

fifth-grader Stephanie Marin for three hours every Saturday.

“She was like my little sister, honestly,” Chavez said. “On Valentine’s Day, she brought me a box of chocolates.”

Greenhill students alone dedicated 1,135 hours during the 201415 school year to the program.

“This is true volunteerism because the students get to see their impact firsthand,” said Sally Rosenberg, director of service

and learning at Greenhill. “Often they are more concerned with how their scholars are doing with their studies than they are with their own.”

Bujanda’s goal for the program is to build genuine, oneon-one relationships between the mentors and scholars.

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Alum Returns to Providence to Teach Alongside Mom

By Karly Hanson

People Newspapers Hannah Bires was in second grade when she first drew a portrait of herself returning to her school as a teacher.

She would read her homework out loud to her dolls after school. She loved getting to write on the white board — especially to diagram sentences. As she grew up, she would play school with her younger brother, Micah.

Bires, 23, began her first year as a teacher this fall at Providence Christian School — the same school she attended growing up, and the same school where her mother, Suzann Bires, has taught for the last 17 years.

“It’s kind of surreal,” Hannah said. “Everything is still pretty

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Hannah Bires and her mother, Suzann, both teach at Providence. much the same. Today I found my old history book from when I took this class with my name and notes in it.”

Providence is a small Christian school that uses classical

teaching methods and reading materials to teach critical thinking skills to students in pre-K through eighth grade. Hannah teaches history to seventh and eighth graders.

“History is her thing. She can talk it. Middle school is perfect for her,” Suzann said.

Suzann teaches first grade, which is called class one at Providence. She taught preschool for her first 14 years at the school.

Hannah likes focusing on reading and comprehension, rather than building a curriculum around a set of generic requirements. Suzann says by the end of the year, some of her students, who are mostly 7 years old, can do long division.

Hannah got her degree in education from Texas A&M and student taught history for sixth and seventh graders in Katy. After graduating, she worked for a year at a publishing company before applying to be a teacher at Providence. She knew she

wanted to teach at a classical Christian school.

“I think the classic stuff just works, there’s a reason it stuck around so long,” Hannah said.

“I’ve seen it work on myself and my friends.”

The weirdest part for Hannah is calling her old teachers by their first names. She says she’ll never be able to do it. Hannah was still a student at Providence when her students were starting preschool with her mom.

Despite the six-year difference between their students’ ages, Suzann says first graders and middle schoolers are pretty similar, and both Hannah and Suzann enjoy being around their kids.

“I genuinely have fun with them,” Hannah said. “I think we share that.”

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The chaos, courage, and emotions of Sept. 11, 2011, will be on display at the Jesuit Dallas Museum through Nov. 24, thanks to an internationally renowned art exhibit labeled Ground Zero 360: Never Forget.

In a panoramic installation of photographic images, visuals and audio clips, Irish photojournalist Nicola McLean and Paul McCormack, former commanding officer of the 41st precinct of the New York Police Department, pay tribute to the first responders and victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

Visitors will hear the city’s previously unreleased radio calls, touch a fragment of twisted steel and broken granite from the World Trade Center, view personal artifacts on loan from families of first responders, and more.

The exhibit previously was on loan to the National Museum of Ireland, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, and the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, among others. It captures the

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SPORTS

KNIGHTS TAKE FIVE ON VARSITY Covenant tries early transition to 11-man game

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers As it turns out, playing 11-man football is similar to riding a bike. Once you learn, you never really forget how to do it.

At least that’s what a handful of seniors at the Covenant School are finding out this season as the school’s football program transitions from the six-man ranks to 11-man for the first time.

“It’s more of us getting adjusted to the bigger field and the bigger playbook,” said running back Barrett Scully. “For a lot of us, it wasn’t about completely changing positions.”

For the underclassmen in the Covenant program, it’s no big deal. The school played an 11-man junior varsity schedule last year, and implemented the 11-man game in middle school three years before that. The seniors would play one final season together at the varsity six-man level, just as they had for five highly successful years before that. It was all part of a long-range plan to move up in response to growing enrollment at the school.

“We didn’t want to make an overnight change,” said Covenant head coach Brice Helton. “We wanted it to be slow and steady. We wanted to continue to grow the program and not take a step back.”

Then fellow TAPPS school Dallas Lutheran wanted to shift from 11-man to six-man football, and a spot opened up in an 11-man district, a year earlier than

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The Covenant School is playing 11-man varsity football games for the first time this season, one year earlier than planned.

Covenant had anticipated.

So in January, Helton gathered his seniors with an idea. But he needed their approval. After all, the six-man game was all they had known since middle school.

“We felt like this was our best year to transition,” Helton said. “They were excited about leading us.”

So Helton combined the more than two dozen players in the program on to one varsity team. He also combined the coaching staff and altered the offseason

routine, and began assembling a schedule for this fall.

There are other advantages. Last year, the Knights logged more than 1,500 miles on the road, and this season that will be cut by more than two-thirds, with their longest road trip to Gainesville. And in Scully’s case, he is getting to play a season with his two younger siblings who were moved up from the JV squad.

Among the challenges are finding enough linemen (since they aren’t a fac-

tor in the six-man game) and playing just two Saturday games on Covenant’s home field, which doesn’t have lights. Still, after a 49-8 win over Fort Worth Calvary in the season opener, there’s plenty of reason for optimism.

“I don’t think it could be any smoother at this point,” Helton said. “We feel like we can make the playoffs this year. If we stay healthy, I’m excited.”

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Former Jesuit QB Now Spreading His Coaching Wings at ECU

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers After graduating from Jesuit in 1995, Dave Nichol could have pursued several lucrative career paths. Instead, he chose football coaching, with its long hours, demanding work environment, and frequent instability.

Yet after more than a decade of moving to various jobs across the country, Nichol’s coaching future looks brighter as the new offensive coordinator at East Carolina University, where he had been the outside receivers coach for three years before earning a promotion following

the departure of previous ECU offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley to Oklahoma.

Nichol’s rise in the coaching business didn’t come without plenty of passion and perseverance.

After playing quarterback for the Rangers in the early 1990s, Nichol was a walk-on receiver at Texas Tech, where he became a student assistant while working toward a master’s degree after graduation.

That placed him under the tutelage of eccentric head coach Mike Leach, one of the most prominent architects of the fast-paced spread offense that’s

so prevalent at the college level.

The staff included future head coaches such as Art Briles (Baylor), Dana Holgorsen (West Virginia), and Sonny Dykes (California).

“When you’re a young coach, you try to get on a staff of younger coaches that are going to move on and move up,” Nichol said. “It was a phenomenal staff.

Those are guys I learned this offense from.”

He was hired as an assistant at Cisco Junior College in 2002, then went back to Texas Tech as a graduate assistant for the next

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Race Training Leads to Healthy Habits at Withers

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Becoming a top-notch runner requires plenty of training and hard work. That’s why more than 100 students at Withers Elementary School are spending their Tuesdays working out with classmates.

The school’s annual Wildcat Prowl 5K fundraiser is coming up in October, which means the students have joined Train2Prowl, an effort to condition them for the race, but more importantly, to teach them about proper fitness.

After all, five kilometers is a long distance for a set of 9-year-old legs to travel.

“We can practice and get ready so we won’t stop at the very first street,” said Eden Leber, a third-grader who will run in the 5K for the third straight year. “You get tired but it’s still fun.”

The 45-minute training sessions are organized by parent volunteers, and take place both before and after school.

Participants are divided up into various stations where exercise-based games and obstacles courses replace standard lap-running.

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Withers parent Heidi Dahlander oversees an obstacle course during Train2Prowl. teer and race co-chair Kelli Love. “Every week it gets a little more difficult.”

Three years ago, the 5K was implemented as a healthier alternative to the traditional cookie-dough fundraiser at 11:56 AM Withers.

Among both students and the

community, participation has increased every year. Last fall, there were more than 800 runners for the event, which winds through the neighborhood and includes a post-race carnival.

Not all the youngsters in the race are

from Withers, however. As an incentive for neighboring schools to get involved, any other campus in the W.T. White feeder pattern that enters 30 or more runners gets half of their registration fees returned to their school.

Students in Train2Prowl are rewarded for their hard work, as well. Last year, they received free water bottles with the school logo, and this year they were given towels.

The workout sessions have proven so effective that the program has expanded to include a Weekend Warrior option, where students and their families can train together in the weeks leading up to the race.

“Even though we only do it one day a week, they need to do more,” Love said.

“As they go, they run more and more. The goal is to complete the 5K.” Along the way, some students have discovered an affinity or a talent for running that might serve them well down the road.

Said third-grader Cooper Whitson, also in his third year in the program: “It helps you live longer and get healthy.”

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BUSINESS Luxury Apartment Proposal Nears Approval

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers It appears likely that a new luxury apartment complex will come to the northeast corner of Preston Road and Northwest Highway, after all.

Transwestern cleared its biggest hurdle yet toward developing the key intersection near Preston Center when the Dallas City Plan Commission approved its rezoning request in early September.

The Dallas City Council still needs to vote this fall on the Planned Development Subdistrict before the developer can proceed.

The project would replace a complex of 34 outdated condominiums on the property, known as Town House Row. The Transwestern concept would consist of 164 units with building heights ranging from three to four stories.

The rezoning request included just the southern portion of the 3.5-acre property, for which Transwestern requested a one-floor variance in building height, as well as allowances for increased density and lot coverage. Current zoning allows for 60 fewer units on that same property.

The approval comes almost 18 months after Transwestern first announced plans to redevelop the site with a proposal that included eight-story buildings and 296 total units. When that proposal met with significant resistance from the surrounding neighborhood, the developer organized several community meetings and introduced a series of compromises, and has since won the support of many of those skeptics.

“We are realists who are not opposed to sensible redevelopment,” said Marc Hall, president of the 6040 Place Home-

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Transwestern got a thumbs-up from the Dallas City Plan Commission for its latest luxury apartment plan. owners Association. “Transwestern offers us a sensible solution.”

The proposal includes no surface parking, wide sidewalks, significant landscaping, and a left-turn lane from Preston Road to Averill in order to facilitate traffic flow. Access to the underground parking garage would be off Averill, and not Preston.

Still, the increased traffic remains a concern for opponents of the project, including the possibility of cut-through traffic on east-west side streets such as Bandera Avenue and Del Norte Lane.

“It is vastly going to add traffic to one of the busiest intersections in Dallas,” said Jeanne Hatfield, who lives on nearby Northwood Road. “I’m concerned about

people speeding down the street.”

However, Mark Goode, a traffic consultant with Kimley-Horn, said the traffic impact of the project would be negligible, even during rush hour. It would increase the daily traffic count at the Preston-Northwest Highway intersection by less than 1 percent, he said.

It also would not present any issues with traffic stacking up or queuing on Averill, according to Lloyd Denmon, assistant director of engineering for the city of Dallas.

“Traffic on Preston Road appears to be a problem, but that’s not what the data shows,” said District 13 plan commissioner Margot Murphy. “The benefits of this project outweigh the downsides.”

The land also sits within a larger area under consideration from the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan task force, a group of volunteers appointed by the city whose task is creating guidelines to shape future development around Preston Center. The task force won’t have its final recommendations ready until next spring, at the earliest.

But the city is not required to wait until the task force completes its work before proceeding with rezoning or other development requests, as in this case.

“This won’t be monolithic like it was originally presented,” said Richard Brown, senior planner with the city of Dallas. “It protects and retains the character of the residential area.”

Passion For Arts, Nonprofits Drives Career for Cuellar

By Haley Rogers

Special Contributor Catherine Cuellar’s diverse resume has various jobs in the local media and arts scene, having been an editor and columnist at The Dallas Morning News, a reporter at KERA-FM, a board member for various nonprofits, and a Dallas Cultural Affairs Commissioner.

Most recently, Cuellar left her post as executive director of the Dallas Arts District this summer to become director of Entrepreneurs for North Texas, a program of Communities Foundation of Texas.

The job finds Cuellar working with companies that are too

young or too small to have an in-house corporate affairs department, helping them leverage Catherine their employee Cuellar volunteerism, p h i l a n t h r o p y, and sponsorships. Such efforts include organizing service projects, networking opportunities, and fundraisers.

What are some significant differences between your previous position and your new one?

Entrepreneurs For North Texas has thousands of potential nonprofit service partners

across the region, while the Dallas Arts District is geographically confined to 20 square blocks within downtown Dallas. I still love the arts, but EFNT also allows me to support education, health and human services, animals, elderly — you name it.

What has been the most challenging part of the transition?

This is the first time in seven years that I’m not working in downtown Dallas, where I also live, so I can’t walk to work anymore. In fact, I’m driving to my member companies’ offices from Frisco to Las Colinas to Lancaster, so the biggest challenge is so much time spent driving between meetings.

How has your career prepared you to be director at EFNT? This job leverages all my previous experiences in the nonprofit, corporate, media, and government sectors. I helped launch for-profit brands like GuideLive.com and co-founded the non-profit La Reunion TX, so I can relate to entrepreneurs. And most of my career has been spent in Dallas, so I understand the culture here and can help EFNT executives who are new to the area learn the lay of the land.

What is it about Dallas that you are passionate about? And what about Dallas do you want to improve through your efforts?

Right now I’m extremely pas-

sionate about inclusion and equity in Dallas. If our working poor neighbors continue to struggle in times of prosperity, that’s disheartening.

I’m passionate about empowering our entire city — especially young people, women, and people of color — through access to the same outstanding public education, leadership development and career opportunities I’ve been lucky enough to have. Dallas’ public, private, and nonprofit sectors will be most vibrant and resilient when the leaders of our organizations are as dynamic and diverse as the citizens, customers, and clients we serve.

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BUS I N E S S BRIEFS

McClung to Lead Salesmanship Club Park Cities resident William McClung is the new president of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, the nonprofit organization that owns the Momentous Institute and hosts the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament each year.

McClung, an executive vice president at Cushman & Wakefield, has been a member of the club since 1990. He has served in various leadership capacities during the past 25 years.

Coldwell Gets Newsweek Award Douglas Coldwell, a Highland Park High School alum, was recently named

one of the top 15 cancer doctors in the United States

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Coldwell works at Brown Cancer Institute in Louisville, Ky., where he specializes in interventional radiology and inoperable liver tumors.

STEM Work Earns Honor for SMU Prof SMU professor Delores Etter, founding director of the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education at the Lyle School of Engineering, will be recognized with the “100 Inspiring Women in STEM” award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.

The award pays tribute to 100 women whose work and achievements encourage female students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. She was director of the Caruth Institute from 2008 to 2015.

Hockaday Grad Joins Curtis Castillo Dallas law office Curtis Castillo has announced that Brooke Cohen of Cohen Mediation is joining the firm.

Cohen, a graduate of Hockaday and SMU law school, has 17 years of legal experience with a focus on civil litigation, such as contract disputes, real estate conflicts, creditor rights issues, mass tort litigation, and personal injury law.

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FLASH YOUR CARD, SAVE A LIFE Tradition mixes fun with cause

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Most Dallasites know that Partners Card is one sweet week of shopping, deals, and savings.

But this year’s chairs and honorary chair want to make sure that with every swipe, shoppers are mindful of the cause behind it.

Rhonda “ We wa n t Sargent you to have fun Chambers but to remember that not only are you saving money, you really are saving somebody’s life,” co-chair Debbie Munir said. “It makes a huge difference. [The Family Place staff ] are good stewards of people’s contributions.”

Munir pointed out that since its beginning 22 years ago, Partners Card has raised more than $14 million toward preventing domestic violence and providing care to its victims.

As many know, the $70 spent to purchase the card goes directly to the organization.

“With abuse rising in our culture, the services this organization provides are life-changing,” co-chair Melissa Boler said. “Personal safety is often something I take for granted. However, statistics are staggering — I have heard it is one in four women who are or will be abused. So chances are we all know someone affected, even if they aren’t sharing it.”

With such numbers, it’s only natural that people would want to get involved and help.

But many often wonder what they can do if they’re not able to donate a large sum or provide professional care.

That’s where Partners Card comes in.

“It’s hard when you are common folk and just someone who’s not trained to help with family violence or counseling. You think, ‘How can I help?’” honorary chair Rhonda

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Raised since Partners Card began Sargent Chambers said. “You start thinking, ‘Oh, I can donate that refrigerator, I can do that.’ You start thinking of ways you can help them without being [a trained professional].”

It’s true, The Family Place accepts many donated goods for its shelter and other programs that help victims of abuse regain their footing in the world.

The money from purchasing Partners Cards also assists in those endeavors.

Chambers said her first exposure with The Family Place began in high school by attending events.

She also remembers clothing drives being paired with fashion shows to increase ex-

posure for great causes during her days with the Kim Dawson Modeling Agency.

“Gaining awareness is very important,” she said.

It’s important to the chairs because for some, it’s also personal.

“My mother grew up in a violent household and in the 1960s, it wasn’t something that was very much discussed,” cochair Ashlee Weidner said.

“You couldn’t talk to a teacher about it, and if you did, it was kind of brushed under the rug. That’s very important that women and children particularly are aware that it’s not something to be ashamed of.”

Though The Family Place began primarily to aid women and children, they also aid

men who have suffered abuse.

That large pool of clients gives chairs added motivation to rope in more participating retailers, which then helps reach more people.

“It’s exciting. It’s a really good thing to grow awareness among people that need their services. The more people who know, the better,” Munir said.

After all, buying a card is one of the simplest ways to help.

“Partners Card is an easy way to contribute, so I’m working to spread that message,” Boler said. “This is such a unique fundraiser: we get the chance to impact lives doing something that is a normal part of life — shopping.”

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Information contained herein is believed to be correct, but neither agents nor owner assumes any responsibility for this information or gives any warranty to it. Square foot numbers will vary from county tax records to drawings by a prior sale or withdrawal without notice. In accordance with the Law, this property is offered without respect to race, color, creed or national origin.

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Who You Help: The Family Place The Family Place is one of the largest family violence shelters in the Dallas area. Its mission is to empower victims of family violence by providing safe housing, counseling, and skills that create independence while building community engagement and advocating for social change to stop family violence.

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Get Your Charge Cards Ready As this year’s chairs point out, the more people who know about Partners Card, the better — that means getting more stores involved, too. Here’s where you can grab some goods and help out with the cause all in one trip. Plan your week accordingly.

2 Shea Boutique

Bisous Bisous Patisserie

Dallas Yoga Center

Green House Market

Lily Lane Home

7 For All Mankind

Bittano

Daniel Taylor Clothier

Gypsy Wagon

Lily Rain

Abi Ferrin Flagship Boutique

Biz

de Boulle

H.D.’s Men’s

LINEN BOUTIQUE

Blinc

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H.D.’s Women’s

Lisa Bennett Salon

Accents

Blue Mesa Grill

Designer Jewelry Atelier

Hadleigh’s

Lisa Calaway-Batky, O.D.

Accessory Concierge

Blue Print

D’Hierro

Hair Bar

Little Lam Baby Boutique

Adeline

Blues Jean Bar

Haynsworth Photography

Little Orange Fish

Adriana Hoyos

Blush Aesthetics and Wellness

Diamond Luxury Healthcare

Helen Ficalora

Little Red Hen

Diane von Furstenberg

Hemline Boutique

Little Things

Henri Bendel

L’Occitane en Provence

Hiatus Spa + Retreat

LOFT Logos Bookstore

Adventure Kids Playcare | North Dallas

Diesel

Aftershock London

Blushington Makeup & Beauty Lounge

Agent Provocateur

Bodacious Boutique

Doodle & Stinker

Alexander McQueen

bodybar Studios

Double R

alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet

Bookshop of Saint Michael

Hip! Hip! Hooray! Children’s Boutique

Dougherty’s Pharmacy

BOSS Hugo Boss

Holidaze & Gifts

Lorna Jane

All Vac

Douglass Picture Frames

Bottega Veneta

Holy Ravioli

Loro Piana

Allen Edmonds

Bradbury Lane

Dr Delphinium Designs and Events

Hook Line & Sinker

Lotus Shop / Crow Collection of Asian Art

Allie-Coosh

Brahmin

Alton Lane

Bread Winners Café

Dr Delphinium Flower and Orchid House

Ambrosia

Brighton Collectibles

drybar

American Eyewear

Brooklyn + West

Ana’s Papeterie

Brooks Brothers

Durango Trading Company, Inc.

animal crackers

Brookstone

Ann Taylor

Brumley Gardens

Anne Fontaine

Brunello Cucinelli

Antèks Curated

BuDhaGirl

Antèks Home Furnishings

Burberry

Anthropologie

Busy Body

Antique Row

Cabana

Apples to Zinnias

Café Madrid

Arhaus

Calypso St. Barth

Armani Exchange

Camille’s Creations

Arrangement Distinctive Interiors

Canal Clothing

Art of Old India

Capel Rugs

Arteriors Home

Capital Distributing

Arteriors too

Carla Martinengo Boutique

Artful Dancewear

Carlyn Galerie

Avalon Salon and Spa

Carolina Herrera

Avant Garden

Casa Di Lino

Aveda Experience Center

Castle Gap Jewelry

AVIOR Jewelry

Cebolla Fine Flowers

B Gover Limited

CH Carolina Herrera

babybliss

Chantilly

Bachendorf’s

Chocolate Secrets

Bachrach Bag’n Baggage

Chris’ Craft Custom Framing

Balenciaga

Christi Harris Beaute

Ballard & Blakely

ChristyM Boutique

Bar Method

Circa 2000 Fine Apparel

Bare Minerals

City View Antique Mall

Barklee Ltd.

Clarks

Bask Boutique Bassett Furniture BCBGeneration BCBGMAXAZRIA Beading Dreams Beautystudio Becks Prime BelAir Home Bella MD Laser Vein & Aesthetic Center Bellacures Benefit Cosmetics Beretta Gallery Bernadette Schaeffler Collection Betty Lou Boutique Betty Reiter BeTween Scene bevello

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Beyond Baroque Bibbentuckers The Dry Cleaner Big Mango Trading Co. Bijou Luxury Consignment Billy Reid Bishop Street Market

Club Monaco Coco & Dash Cole Haan Collectors Covey Columbia Sportswear PFG Consilium Lifestyle Collections Container Store Copper Lamp Fine Silver and China

Dive West

E.Leigh’s Eileen Fisher El Bolero Cocina Mexicana Elaine Turner ELEMENTS Elie Tahari Elizabeth Showers ella bleu Ellis Hill Enchanted Galleries Enlighten MD Epic Apparel Ermenegildo Zegna ESCADA Etre Belle Beauty and Medical Spa

IBB Design Fine Furnishings

Lou & Grey

ILORI

Loveliest

Image Eyewear Impeccable Pig

Lovers Lane Antique Market

Indigo 1745

LoveTennis

Insight Complete Eye Care

Lucky Brand Jeans

INTERMIX

lucky dog barkery

IO Metro

lucy Activewear

Ivy Cottage

Luke’s Locker

Ivy House

Luxe Salon & Design

J Jill

Luxury On Lovers

J. Douglas Design

Lync Cycling

J.Crew

Maddox Shop

J.Crew Men’s Shop

Madewell

J.McLaughlin

MADISON

J.Reneé Shoes and More Jacksons Home & Garden James Antony Home

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MADRE/Little Bean Maggiano’s NorthPark MAKE UP FOR EVER Mal Malouf

EVOO & Vin

James French Photography

Exercise Coach

James Perse

Mann’s Art & Frame

Eye Pieces

JELL Salon & Lounge

Fabricadabra

Jimmy Choo

Marbles Makeup and Blowouts

Facelogic Spa

Johnny Rodriguez the Salon

Facets Family Place Resale Shop FAST FIX Jewelry and Watch Repairs

Malouf’s

Markham Fine Jewelers Marmi Shoes

Johnston & Murphy

Mary Cates and Co.

Jonathan Adler

MaryBeth

Joni’s Boutique

Matthew Trent Jewelry Design Studio

FastFrame

Juice Bar

Field of Dreams

Julep Boutique

Fishin’ World

Karen Millen

Fitness HQ

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Fitting Room

Kendra Scott

Five & Ten

Ken’s Man’s Shop

Flirt Boutique

Kessler Cookie Company

FLOR

KidBiz

Flower Reign

Kidville

For Heavens Sake

Kiehl’s Since 1851

Forty Five Ten

KJ Dance Designs

Mister Tuxedo

FRAME MASTERS

Kleiman|Evangelista Eye Center

Mistura Timepieces

Frederic Fekkai Salon Free People fresh

Corner Market

Froggie’s 5 and 10

Cotton Hearts

Furs By Martin

Cotton Island

Gallerie Noir

Cozy Cottage Children’s Boutique

Gals on and off the Green

Crate & Barrel

House - chic easy living

L’Optique of Dallas

Gameday Connexion Gap

Kristina Wrenn L.A. Connection

Mecox Mel Crews Melissa Benge Collection Men’s Shak at Stanley Korshak Michael Cross Gallery Michael Kors Mill No.3 mine. a boutique. miniME

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

La Marque

Molto Formaggio The Cheese Shop

La Vignette

moreau

LACOSTE

Movida Boutique

LAFCO New York

Mulberry

Lane Florist

MYBAG

Layette

Napa Home

Le Creuset Signature Boutique

Nasher Sculpture Center Store

Crave Popcorn Co.

Gary E Alhadef, DDS

Creative Stitches & Gifts crewcuts

Gecko Hardware/True Value

Learning Express

Needle in a Haystack, Inc.

CryoZone

Gemma Collection

Leather Sofa Company

Needlepoint This!

Culinary Connection

Gigi’s Cupcakes

Leff Optical

Neha’s China & Crystal

Culwell & Son

Gleneagles Country Club Tennis Shop

Leggiadro

Nespresso

LEKKA

Nest

Goo Goo Eyes

Lela Rose

New Balance

Grand Spa

LGS

Grange Hall

Lights Fantastic

Green Beans Toy Boutique

Lilly Pulitzer

Cynthia Elliot Boutique Dallas Arboretum Hoffman Family Gift Store Dallas Fine Wine & Spirits Shoppe

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Park Cities Pilates Center

Premier Chiropractic of Southlake

Robin Jackson Photography

Spa On The Square

Nicholson-Hardie Garden Center

Park Cities Postal Center

Preston Luggage & Gifts

Rocket Fizz

SPANX

Peacock Alley Design Studio

Preston Road Pharmacy

Roti Grill

Speranza Design Gallery

Peek In The Attic

Primrose Boutique

Rug Studio

Sperry Top-Sider

Peek...Aren’t You Curious

Promenade Optical

Run On!

Nikki’s Popcorn Company

Splendid

Peeper’s

Pure Barre

Rutherford’s Design

Nine-Eighteen Fine Jewels

Peloton

Purely Pilates Center

Rye 51

Sports Authority

Noel Christmas Store

Pepper Smash

Q Clothier

Saint Bernard

Not Just Soccer

Phelan’s

Ra Ra’s Closet

Saint Laurent

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Pickles and Ice Cream Maternity Apparel

rag & bone

Saland Vision

Now See Here

Pieces Clothing Boutique

Ralph Lauren

Salon Pompeo

Nuvo

Pierce Decorative Hardware & Plumbing

RAW by Canines First

Sample House & Candle Shop

Oak

Piermarini

READ BETWEEN THE LINES

Sarah Tevis Poteet, DDS, PA

Occhiali Modern Optics

Pilates Connection

Reading Glasses To Go

Scardello Artisan Cheese

Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom

Pilates Methodology

Relax The Back

Scoop NYC

Steven Alan

One Posh Place

PilatesBarre

Renee Rouleau Skin Care Spas

Seasons 52

Store in Lake Highlands

Opportunity Market

PIN Salon

Restoration Hardware

Sebastian’s Closet

Stride Rite

ORIGINS

Pinto Ranch

Reveal

Second Floor by Scott Gottlich

Stuart Weitzman

Orvis

Planet Blue

Rich Hippie

Shak at Stanley Korshak

Studio 6 Fitness

Owl’s Nest Toy Shop

Pockets Menswear

Riddell Rare Maps & Fine Prints

Sharla’s

Studio Sebastian

Pakpao Thai Food

Polo Ralph Lauren

Riffraff Dallas

Shemara Couture

Suburban Optical of Dallas

Pampillonia Jewelers

Port & Manor

Risi Optique

Sherry Hayslip Interiors Boutique

Sun & Ski

Paper Affair

Posh Petunia

Ritz-Carlton Spa, Dallas

ShopSeptember

Sunglass Hut

Pappagallo Classiques

Pottery Barn

Robert Graham

Six:02

Papyrus

Pottery Barn Kids

Robert Talbott

Snider Plaza Antique Shops

Sunnyland Furniture

Paradise Pen Company

Practically Perfect Medical Aesthetics

Roberta Roller Rabbit

Soft Surroundings

Park Cities One Design

Pratesi Linens

Roberto Cavalli

Solstice Sunglass Boutique

Nicholson-Hardie Nursery Nicole Kwon

St. Croix Shop St. John St. Michael’s Woman’s Exchange STAG Provisions Stanley Korshak Starpower Stella McCartney

Sur La Table Surface Clinical Susan Saffron Jewelry Boutique Suzanne Roberts Gifts SWAG Swoozie’s Szor Collections T. Hee Greetings and Gifts Talbots Talulah & HESS

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TJ’s Seafood Market & Grill

Title Nine TOD’S Tommy Bahama Tootsies Tory Burch Tourneau Tous Toy Maven Toys Unique!

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Urban Taco Vera Bradley Versace

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LIVING WELL Group Urges Young Women to Embody Love “ W HAT M AT T E R S A BOU T YOU I S N OT YOU R E X T E R NA L A P P E A R A N C E . ...

I T ’ S A R E A LLY I M P ORTA N T M E S SAG E FOR T HE K I D S , BU T A LS O FOR T HE M OM S . . . ”

By Jacie Scott

Special Contributor Dr. Melody Moore is something of a “lovologist.”

As a clinical psychologist, she preaches self-love to her patients who suffered from eating disorders and body shaming. As a dedicated yogi and yoga instructor, she connects her mind, body, and sprit to the notion of self-love. And as the founder of Embody Love Movement, she’s sharing it with the masses.

The nonprofit organization empowers women and girls to embrace inner beauty. It was launched in 2011, providing a refreshing message in a society where there are pressures to look a certain way.

“I really believe that negative body image is detrimental to the way that we view ourselves as valuable,” said Michelle Collins, executive director for Embody Love Movement. “What matters about you is not your external appearance. That’s our motto.

It’s a really important message for the kids, but also for the moms, because a lot of kids experience body shaming at home and at schools.”

The message especially hits home for Moore. The UT Southwestern Medical School graduate grew up in a family where she felt physical beauty was held in the highest regard. During her post-doctoral internship, she had to face her adolescent self and the struggles that she encountered in her home life.

“I was offered an internship at Children’s Medical Center for pediatric eating disorders

M I C H E LLE C O LLI N S

C O U R T E SY P H O T O

Officers for the Embody Love Club at Highland Park High School are pledging to be positive. because I requested to work with adolescents,” Moore said.

“I did not want to do it because I came from a family where my sister had an eating disorder, and beauty and thinness were celebrated. What I found there, though, was that I really had a connection to those girls and to that patient population.”

When Moore entered private practice in 2006, about 90 percent of her patients were children with eating disorders. She implemented group therapy treatment as a tool for them to empower one another. The impact gave her the inspiration to create Embody Love Movement.

“I had this magical group of six adolescent girls that stayed

in therapy with one another for five years,” Moore said. “It culminated and ended with them being incredibly empowered, fully recovered, and trusting in one another — having brave, courageous, vulnerable conversation with one another, and really relying on each other for support.”

When someone is struggling with alcoholism, they have Alcoholics Anonymous for support and accountability. Drug addicts have Narcotics Anonymous. Moore didn’t see any such resources for eating disorders, nor was there any relapse prevention that involved community engagement and support.

“I wanted to create a program where people who had

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Helping Patients Feel & Look Younger Mark Anderson, MD has made quite the name for himself at Executive Medicine of Texas where he spends his days doing full day physical exams, age management, and concierge medicine. Because the demand for hormone replacement was so high in his Dallas patients, he now spends some time each Friday in Dallas doing bio-identical hormone pellet therapy. This allows existing and new patients to see him for hormone therapy without having to drive to his Southlake location.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy can help improve energy, mental focus, and libido. Many patients also experience a loss of fat and improved lean muscle mass. Not only do patients feel better when they hormones are balanced, they also look better. The entire procedure only takes moments and both men and women will see the benefits for months before they have to return for another treatment.

Mark Anderson, MD of Executive Medicine of Texas now extending bio-identical hormone replacement therapy at 8222 Douglas Ave., Ste. 950, Dallas, 75225 (800)910-3932

been struggling with eating disorders would have support, accountability, partnership, and mentoring,” Moore said. “People with eating disorders have a 66 percent relapse rate. That’s really high. I wanted to prevent onset of negative body image and prevent relapse of negative body image.”

Embody Love Movement has served more than 3,000 women and girls, and given them an opportunity to pay the message forward. The organization offers several programs and interactive workshops to the community and in schools.

Embody Love Movement clubs have been established at several campuses, including High-

land Park High School, Hockaday, and Ursuline.

“This is how we get girls to be more purposeful,” Collins said. “Currently we’re in 17 states, and we are training people in Australia and in London.”

For the last three years, the organization has hosted an annual One Love Fits All event at NorthPark Center, in which people of all ages and genders come together for a community yoga class with proceeds benefitting the organization. Participants are asked to raise or donate a minimum of $50 to participate in the class.

“It’s such an awesome feeling to look out every year and welcome everyone to One Love Fits All knowing that we are here for this common purpose,” Moore said. “We’re one community and we stand together in hopes of making this change and creating a conversation that’s not full of criticism but full of kindness and compassion.”

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Author: Can Women Have it All?

By Paige Skinner

Special Contributor It’s August 1994 and Malia Litman is sitting at a stoplight on the Dallas North Tollway frontage road, but she doesn’t remember how she got there.

She isn’t sure if she’s dead or alive, if she had just survived a stroke, or if she Malia Litman was suffering from amnesia.

She would later find out she was on the verge of a mental breakdown. After working as a lawyer for years and raising three children, the Preston Hollow resident was beginning to lose it.

Litman chronicles this tale in the first chapter of her third book, Evolution of the Feminine Mystique: Searching for Happily Ever After.

Her career as senior partner at one of the biggest law firms in Dallas was going well. But trying to juggle her professional and personal responsibilities was taking a toll.

“It was a perfect situation from a work standpoint,” Litman said. “But I couldn’t bal-

ance three kids and doing what I wanted for them.”

In her book, Litman touches on everything from sex to soccer moms to women she admires. But she said she hasn’t always considered herself a feminist.

Eventually, Litman decided to stop practicing law and focus all of her attention on her kids.

“It wasn’t that I didn’t love practicing law,” she said. “I did.

But I also loved having kids and raising my kids, and all my kids are doing such great things right now.”

But can women have it all?

Can women maintain a healthy home life while also moving up

professionally?

“I don’t think we can do it all at the same time,” she said.

“I think women can have kids and have a career at the same time but it’s a no-brainer to say a woman who wants to spend time with her kids can’t possibly devote the same number of hours to her job that a man or woman can. It’s not a question of woman or man, it’s a question of families or not.”

Through the years, she saw how being away from home and her family affected them, and even though she had nannies and assistants to help her along the way, it wasn’t the same as being there. She thinks she and her husband would have divorced if they continued living the way they were.

But now it’s different. Even though Litman chose to quit her law job and stay at home with her kids, while also writing, she said women should respect one another no matter what they want to do.

“We can respect women who stay at home and women who are professionals because they’re just different choices,” she said. “It’s like are you going to be a photographer or a doctor. They are both valuable.”

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his year I’ve been getting more inquiries from friends and followers about their own food issues — confiding a dietary struggle or wanting to pay more attention to their food.

But how and where does one start? Can I recommend blogs, websites, books as guides?

Should they join Community Supported Agriculture?

How about one of the “meals delivered as ingredients with cooking instructions included” services? While those are all awesome resources, my advice is always to get their hands dirty. What I mean is, go to food markets, look, smell, ask.

Buy stuff and get in the kitchen.

Something happened to American food culture starting in the 1950s: the advertising of convenience. Companies offering boxed mixes, frozen meals, and fast food began the big sell, teaching that growing food, knowing food, and cooking food was just a plain waste of time, a chore.

I’m here to tell you, it’s not.

I’ve come to the belief that, like showering or brushing your teeth, intimate involvement with sustenance should be part of a healthy person’s regular maintenance. Food is fuel providing for the body’s strength, energy, and regulation so treating that fuel as a rushed afterthought really makes no sense.

Cooking can be very calming. Food shopping can be an adventure. Slicing, dicing, sautéing, stirring, smelling, seasoning, cleaning up as you go — these are therapeutic actions, meditative even. Listen

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Hit your local farmer’s market and buy something you’ve never had in your kitchen — ask the farmer how they like to use that item. Let your kids pick out something they are attracted to in the produce section of the grocery, then work as a family to figure out how to prepare it. Get wacky and creative — purple potatoes, Romanesco broccoli, and a full head of oyster mushrooms all look like something from a Dr. Seuss book!

And about those blogs, books and CSAs? Once you’ve taken the first steps to working real food back into your life, yes, there are many others aligned with whatever path your food direction leads you.

You’ll have started to come across them as you browse for recipes and spy dishes on Instagram that inspire you.

It’s a positive, healthy, sharing community that is millions strong. And there’s always room for one more.

Stephanie Casey can be reached through her website at realfinefood.com.

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SPREADING A MESSAGE OF HOPE Center leads in research, therapy

some people can’t handle your sickness. It’s tough for them, too,” St. Don said. “The people here are great. They’re kind, it’s a good place to come to, and they have real feelings. They gave me a lot of hope, and it seems to be working.”

By Jacie Scott “Hope Lives Here” is the Special Contributor center’s tagline, but St. Don found even more than that.

Once every three weeks, JerThe Mary Crowley Cancer ry St. Don makes the trip from Research Center is a cancer his home in Abilene to the Mary clinical research center that is Crowley Cancer Research Cenrecognized as a leader in targetter in Dallas. The 56-year-old ed, vaccine and gene therapies. jokingly calls the trip a “pain in The nonprofit was established his butt,” but that notion subin 1992 as a way to advance the sides upon entering the 12,000 research of drugs used to treat square feet space. cancer patients.

Crowley, a Dallas businessSt. Don is something of a gentle giant. He has a tough exteriwoman and mastermind behind C O U R T E SY P H O T O or, yet an undeniable twinkle in Home Interiors, was first diagThe Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center’s namesake fought off cervical cancer in 1957. nosed with cervical cancer in his eye when he smiles. Then, there’s that dash of goofiness. He 1957. At the time of her diagnoQ U I C K FAC T S says his sense of humor is what sis she was able to get an experimental drug that put her into keeps him sane. St. Don enjoys remission. Twenty years passed, all sports related to the great MISSION: Founded in 1992, the Mary Crowley state. He does some hunting here her business boomed, but her Cancer Research Centers have served more and there. But, his face lights up cancer returned. She went to than 5,300 patients and conducted more than at the mention of golf. That’s his the same doctor in hopes of be300 FDA-approved clinical trials. love. It’s also the sport that may ing treated again, but there were SAVE THE DATE: Allison’s Hope 2015 Hope in have saved his life. no new drugs. As her health beHollywood Gala, Sept. 26 About four years back, St. gan to decline, she knew that she Don was golfing with a few of wanted to provide an alternative FIND THEM AT: marycrowley.org for future patients that would his buddies. He was having a face similar battles. rather impressive game, sitting “She said to the doctor, at three under with six holes uary 2012, and he began treatSt. Don understood that his ‘What have you been doing? left. As luck would have it, a doctor found something more.

“My doctor saw something ment. There was a period of diagnosis would present quite I’ve built a multibillion-dollar storm began to brew, putting a damper on the guys’ game. on the x-ray that he didn’t like,” remission, but when it returned, a challenge physically. Perhaps business. What are research“I was like, ‘I ain’t leaving! St. Don said. “He sent me to a St. Don’s oncologist in Abilene the battle that he found the ers doing about this?’” said I’m three under!” said St. Don lung doctor, put me through a recommended that he give the hardest was the one in his head. Pat Brown, director of stratein between laughs. few scans, then, I finally got a researchers at Mary Crowley a Yes, he lost some of his physical gic development. “What she He and a friend chose to stay biopsy. That’s how they found shot at improving his situation. strength, maybe his breath from wanted to leave as part of her on the course despite the in- it. The grace of God is what I He was eventually matched time to time, but the most pain- legacy was a research cenclement weather. At about four call it. Otherwise, I’d just kept with a clinical trial and began ful thing was losing some of his ter that could advance these holes left, it began to pour. Sure going on.” treatment at the research cen- best friends. Even a fiancée. It drugs faster to get to patients Highland Park Village - ParkCity Preston Hollow - October 2015 enough, a week later the duo It was lung cancer. The offi- ter, marking the start of several took a toll on him mentally. access to any last modified:and Sephave 3, 2015 11:04 AMpatient Live area: 10”w x 3”h “You’d be surprised how who needed these drugs.” had pneumonia. But, St. Don’s cial diagnosis was made in Jan- commutes to Dallas.

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Patrons of the Ten Best Dressed Luncheon were given a sweet “thank you” with a dinner at the Dallas Country Club on Sept. 10.

The annual Ten Best Dressed Luncheon took place the following week on Sept. 18. Proceeds from the event go toward the Crystal Charity Ball’s 11 philanthropies. The ball itself will be held Dec. 5.

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The groom is a 2005 graduate of the Montgomery Academy in Montgomery, Ala. He attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. and graduated from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. in 2009, receiving a BA in psychology and a minor in business administration. Sam is employed by Exterran in Houston.

The couple will be married in October at the Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal with Bishop Anthony Burton officiating. A reception will follow at the Belo Mansion. They will reside in Houston.

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United Way president and CEO Jennifer Sampson gave an update on the organization’s campaign kickoff.

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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE DISD PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT PLAN

BONDS, SCHOOL BONDS Here’s a look at which Preston Hollow schools would be most impacted by a $1.6 billion Dallas ISD bond proposal this fall.

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TOTAL COST: $1,590,800,000

Building improvement: $500,000,000 New Schools: $464,840,000 Educational Adequacy improvement: $233,000,000 New classrooms: $195,270,000 Land acquisition: $105,090,000 New educational Programs: $92,600,000

DISD hopes bond package will help upgrade schools

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers For the first time in seven years, Dallas ISD will ask voters for bond money to add some schools and upgrade some others.

The $1.6 billion price tag includes various projects targeted at schools in Preston Hollow, such as a new $65 million campus for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade that would serve the Hillcrest High School feeder pattern.

Perhaps most importantly, the initiative on the Nov. 3 ballot likely would not have an impact on the property tax rate, which means the funds must be used entirely for construction and facilities needs.

“The plan that is being proposed has no tax increase,” said District 1 trustee Edwin Flores. “The district has a pretty good machinery to make sure we get the most bang for our buck.”

DISD voters approved $1.4 million in bonds in both 2002 and 2008, which led to

F U N D I N G N O TA B L E 32 new classrooms, new gym, and locker rooms

$13.1 million W.T. White HS

Improvements to gym, science labs, auditorium

$10.3 million Jefferson HS

New cafeteria, auditorium, labs, and fine-arts space

Walker MS

$9.7 million

Roof, HVAC, plumbing work

Franklin MS

$9.4 million

Facility functional improvements

Preston Hollow ES

$4.8 million

New roof and various enhancements

Marsh MS

$3.7 million

New cafeteria

Adams ES

$2.4 million

New cafeteria

Here’s a look at the enrollment for some local DISD schools relative to current capacity, as of October 2014.

MOST OVER Enrollment School White HS 2,310 Hillcrest HS 1,262 558 Pershing ES

Utilization 130 percent 128 percent 127 percent

MOST UNDER Enrollment School Gooch ES 289 596 Cary MS Walker MS 749

Utilization 58 percent 71 percent 82 percent

34 new schools, mostly in the southern half of the city.

District officials have spent the last several months prioritizing its needs with the Future Facilities Task Force, a collection of 27 volunteer parents, business leaders, community members and DISD principals.

Flores said the plan directly targets the improvement of schools for students, and less for administrators.

“This is focused almost entirely on where kids are going to be,” he said.

High schools throughout the district are over capacity, thus the need for relief, Flores said. W.T. White is at 140 percent of its target capacity, while Hillcrest is at 127 percent.

The bond initiative would filter $26.5 million to Hillcrest for 32 new classrooms (including a replacement for the school’s original 1930 wing) plus a new gymnasium and locker rooms, $10.6 million to Thomas Jefferson High School for 16 new classrooms and a library expansion, and $7.1 million to Marsh Middle School for 12 new classrooms.

In all, the proposal would earmark $464.8 million for nine new schools (including replacements for Pinkston and Roosevelt high schools), $195.3 million for classrooms at existing schools, and $92.6 million for new educational programs. The other $838 million would be for general

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers

$26.5 million Hillcrest HS

C A PA C I T Y

City Ballet Keeps Girls Dancing for 65 Years

building improvements and land acquisition.

The plan would come with boundary changes for seven schools, including Preston Hollow Elementary and Kramer Elementary.

Because current debt is being retired and interest rates are favorable, the property tax rate would hold steady under the plan unless the district’s future financial projections miss the mark.

“It’s the goal of the board to keep property taxes static,” said District 2 trustee Mike Morath.

Preston Hollow resident Michael MacNaughton said that although he doesn’t support the current proposal for various reasons, he recognizes that DISD schools need to be upgraded.

“We have to have new facilities,” MacNaughton said. “We have to move our schools forward.”

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Evelyn Johnson’s mother, Denise Brown, came to the United States after the Nazis took control of her native Paris.

She had fallen in love with and married an American G.I. along the same time her father, a resistance fighter, had been arDenise rested, and she Brown took over his work. But she carried one thing with her in her trip over the ocean to her new home in University Park: a love of ballet.

That love sparked her to found the Denise Brown School of Ballet, now called City Ballet, which Johnson lovingly carries on 65 years later.

“When my oldest sister was about 4 years old, the mothers in the neighborhood found out that Denise, my mother, was a dancer and they talked her into teaching their children,” Johnson said. “She started teaching them in one of the bedrooms of the house. They moved the furniture out of the room, my father put some portable ballet barres in there, and that’s how she started.”

Before she knew it, Brown had 50 students. In order to comply with city code — after

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Denise Brown came from Paris before starting the studio.

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C O MMUN I T Y

Entrepreneur Makes Drinks More Convenient

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers If you ask Rick Scheer’s kids what he does for a living, they will tell you he has a tea stand downtown.

The Preston Hollow resident and his business partner, Jeff Farris, are in the tea business, but their outreach is a little wider than a sidewalk stand — they operate Teazzers, a company that provides restaurants and convenience stores with fresh-brewed tea and lemonade options.

“I worked in the convenience-store channel and never could get a good glass of iced tea,” Farris said. “That’s what really started the company 20 years ago.”

The two met in college at the University of Oklahoma and launched their company in Dallas several years after.

“There was no really good, fresh tea solution. There was bottled or something off the fountain, but it wasn’t iced tea,” Scheer said. “So we had the vision to invent the machine that fresh-brewed tea by the glass.”

Since then, they have invented and patented a machine that fresh-brews tea by the glass. They started distributing the product to convenience stores, and eventually, to restaurants. In addition to the device, they provide a line of regular sweet and unsweetened teas as well as flavored teas such as Scheer’s favorite, the green tea pineapple papaya. In the past year, they have also added lemonade to their “menu.”

“Every restaurant or convenience store pretty much has a tea brewer. So what this can do is a high-quality, fresh lemonade product without having to buy a new machine,” Scheer said.

Within the last six months, they have partnered with 7-Eleven to get their products in 2,000 to 3,000 stores. Their products can also be found at QuikTrip.

TA N N E R G A R Z A

Rick Scheer and his college buddy are revolutionizing the way iced tea and lemonade are served in convenience stores.

“There’s a considerable paradigm shift that the consumer is moving away from carbonated soft drinks and going to the non-carbonated options,” Farris said.

“It’s just a little bit healthier of an option, and it seems to resonate.”

But regardless of consumer trends, they know one element that will never go out of style.

“Quality counts and integrity counts,” Scheer said. “It goes back to drinking something that tastes good.”

As evidence of their growth, the pair recently moved their warehouse from downtown Dallas to Farmers Branch, which will allow them to double their production capacity by focusing on tea blending.

“It’s certainly perceived as a Southern thing and it is — obviously, we grew up drinking tea — but it’s funny how well fresh-brewed tea is doing in the Upper Midwest like Michigan or any other northern place,” Scheer said. “They’re like, ‘Wow! Where was this all along?’”

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Girl Scouts Book Their Service Hours for Library Renovation

By Paige Skinner

Four Girl Scouts from Hockaday renovated the Promise House library as part of a community service project to earn a Silver Award.

special contributor To earn a Girl Scouts Silver Award, four Hockaday freshmen needed to complete 50 hours of community service.

The quartet decided on the Promise House in South Dallas.

When they toured the only teen shelter in Dallas, they noticed the library needed work.

“They showed us around the housing and the complex and everything, and that was one of the rooms we saw and we decided we wanted to help out,” said Girl Scout Alexa May. Before they began the project, there was a lot of clutter

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and the books were disorganized, Girl Scout Meghna Jain said. There also wasn’t a large selection of books for teenagers.

Paloma Belmarez, youth volunteer coordinator at Promise House, said before the four students took on this project, she

was too embarrassed to even show the library during tours of the shelter. But she said the girls made a big difference.

“These are the best teens to work with,” she said. “They treated it like a plan almost, and we’ve had many people at-

tempt to do the library but they’ve never been able to sustain it. These ladies were able to do it from start to finish and even beyond that to check in on it.

And I just couldn’t be prouder.”

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While working in the Promise House library, they interacted with the teens. Grace Laber said being the reading buff that she is, she was able to have a book discussion with one of the residents.

“From day one, these girls were very attached to that room and took it as a personal sort of goal of theirs to show what it could be,” said parent Sandy Laber. “And all of these girls are very inspired by reading and by the kids. All of their talents got blended together in this room.”

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Legendary Ebby Halliday Lived a Life Worth Celebrating

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Dallas lost a legend with the passing of Ebby Halliday Acers on Sept. 8. The dynamo of local real estate was 104 years old.

Born in 1911, Halliday first came to Dallas in 1938. Though she first started in the hat business, oilman Clint Murchison told her, “If you can sell those crazy hats to my wife, maybe you can sell my crazy houses.”

She founded Ebby Halliday Realtors in 1945 and married Maurice Acers in 1965. Today, her company is the largest independently owned residential real estate company in the state and the 10th in the country, which encompasses 1,700 sales associates, according to the Ebby website.

Much of Halliday’s legacy lies in the philanthropic sphere; last year, the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas opened Ebby’s Place, a home for the YWCA’s women center, and Juliette Fowler Communities announced The Ebby House, a community for women who have aged out of foster care.

But it’s also her personal touches that will be remembered by Dallasites for years to come.

“As a north Texas native, I’ve known about and admired Ebby all my life,” said Jennifer Sampson, president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. “In 2011, when I was named CEO of United Way, Ebby called to congratulate me and she fol-

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5. Ebby once played her ukulele at Ross Perot’s 80th birthday party. G I T T I N G S 6. Ebby brushed shoulders with some famous figures in her years including Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

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lowed up with a handwritten note of congratulations and encouragement. Ebby was a bright light and one of a kind. She blazed a trail and led the way for so many women, including me, and her love for Dallas and her legacy will continue forever.”

Halliday served as the president of Thanksgiving Square Foundation and served on the boards of many organizations including the Communities Foun-

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She was also involved in the Alexis de Tocqueville Society for United Way, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Guild, the State Fair of Texas, and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, among other organizations.

During her time of service, she received many awards including the Distinguished Ser-

vice Award from the National Association of Realtors and the International Real Estate Federation and was incited to the Texas Business Hall of Fame and the Dallas Business Hall of Fame.

She has been recognized by Ernst & Young and the YWCA, among other groups.

“While we grieve the loss of Ebby, our legendary founder and my friend and mentor for over 50 years, we celebrate

a long life well lived,” says Mary Frances Burleson, president and CEO of The Ebby Halliday Companies. “Each of us who had the good fortune of knowing Ebby has been touched by the grace, fortitude and compassion with which she lived her life. Ebby had a very simple saying that she lived by, ‘Do something for someone every day.’ That small bit of wisdom served Ebby very, very well.”

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Special Contributor In June, University Park United Methodist Church pastor Matt Gaston partnered with Project Transformation, a nonprofit that engages young adults with community needs, with the goal of raising $100,000 by biking 1,000 miles.

Gaston started his 1,000-mile route at SMU, rode to Project Transformation offices in Oklahoma City, Okla., and then in Nashville, Tenn.

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In 1998, UPUMC was one of the founding churches of Project Transformation under the auspices of the United Methodist Church. Today, PT serves more than 2,000 elementary, middle, and high school students at seven free after-school programs, and more than 1,000 students at 10 free summer camp locations throughout the Dallas area.

PT focuses on homework completion and educational curriculum, with a one-on-one leader-to-student ratio approach in all programs. In both the summer and after-school programs, students are exposed to onehour reading sessions everyday.

“Where we hang our hat is our literacy program,” said Kristin Kelley, head of development at Project Transformation.

UPUMC youth group members support PT as leaders in both the summer and after-school programs.

In addition to UPUMC youth, the organization employs about 100 members of PT Corps — young adults who are interested in addressing community needs through a church-initiated program each year. As a grant recipient of AmeriCorps, PT has the resources to compensate those mentors.

“We believe our college-aged young adults make such a great impact on our students over time,” Kelley said.

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According to recent data from Zillow, rental prices in the U.S. are rising faster than home sales prices. Recent numbers show that rising rental rates, (up 4.3% in August alone) historically low interest rates and steady inventory mean that this may be the best time in recent decades to consider buying.

Potential buyers can take this opportunity to put pencil to paper and work the numbers for themselves.

One consistently favorable factor is, as always, location.

Making a purchase in a highly desirable, stable and conveniently located neighborhood means there’s a potential for rising property values.

People dreaming of homeownership should consider the following benefits: • Equity – Homeowners may achieve an even greater return on their investment if their home increases in value over time.

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• Security – Unlike rent, a homeowner’s fixed-rate mortgage payments remain stable.

President and CEO Robbie Briggs independently owns and operates Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty. For more information see briggsfreeman.com.

A new season is just around the corner, and so are beautiful new homes. Here are some of the latest listings throughout Dallas.

3510 Turtle Creek Boulevard #12D This two-bedroom unit at the Claridge features views of the Dallas skyline from every room. The open floor plan includes double-door entry to the huge living room and a remodeled kitchen with Wolf oven and cooktop. Listed by Lisa Besserer for $1,650,000.

4442 Manning Lane Located in Manchester Place, this Santa Barbara style home features curved archways, built-in bookcases and gas fireplaces. The kitchen has wine storage racks, three sinks and a six-burner cooktop.

Outside boasts an open patio, refreshing pool with diving rock and a soothing spa area. Listed by Becky Frey and Natalie Hatchett for $1,769,000 4529 Pomona Road This pristine home in beautiful Bluffview Park, is a stunning with four-bedrooms and a paneled study perfect for business calls. The dining room is great for an evening family meal. Outside features a fireplace and built-in grill. Listed by Anne Goyer and LeeLee Gioia for $1,325,000 President and CEO Robbie Briggs independently owns and operates Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty. For more information see briggsfreeman.com.

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The home’s design combines clean lines with the finest materials and finish-out. The front door composed of metal and glass allows in an abundance of natural light, as do the matching windows. The living room includes built-in sabele cabinetry with polished chrome hardware and puck lights designed to showcase an art collection.

Even the most discriminating culinary ex¬pert would be thrilled to create in this home’s well-equipped kitchen.

Amenities include soft-close drawers, nickel hardware, and top-of-the-line ap¬pliances, highlighted by a traditional refrigerator and freezer flanking a wine fridge, all made by Sub-Zero.

4425 Southern Avenue is within walking distance of Fairfax Park, Highland Park Village, and Dallas Country Club. To schedule a private showing, contact Alex Roostaei at 214-686-3194 or roostaei@daveperrymiller. com.

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, an Ebby Halliday Company, is a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International.

Welcome to Shangri-La! The three-bedroom home at 4357 Fawnhollow Drive in North Dallas (4357fawnhollow.daveperrymiller.com) fronts a beautifully landscaped oasis, which features a swimspa pool for the exercise enthusiast that is surrounded by seven cascading waterfalls for relaxing after your workout! Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate’s Susan Mooney is marketing the property for $714,900.

The interior is an art lovers dream, with accent lighting throughout the home to feature the most exquisite collection. The main area of the great room features a floor of stone tiles and a vaulted ceiling. It is open to a gallery with a wall of floor-to-ceiling built-in shelves, with light fixtures on each shelf for showcasing art.

The highly upgraded kitchen features hardwood floors, granite counters, and beautiful cherrywood cabinets with pull-out features. The Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer match the cabinets, and they are complemented by a wine cooler above two cooling drawers. Other amenities include a Wolf six-burner range, Wolf double ovens, and a warming drawer.

To schedule a private showing, contact Susan Mooney at 214-558-2887 or susanmooney@ daveperrymiller.com.

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, an Ebby Halliday Company, is a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International.

Enjoy elevated living at its finest at 2025 Woodall Rodgers #51. Listed by Michelle Wood for $2,600,000.

There’s no better way to enjoy the excitement of urban living than from the balcony views of a luxury high rise. Check out some of the most breathtaking options.

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1717 Arts Plaza #2002 With dramatic views of Downtown, this threebedroom high rise includes two terraces, a custom study, mosaic floors and a media room. The spacious balcony holds a separate kitchen while the amenities continue with a rooftop pool, fitness center and 24/7 concierge.

Listed by Faisal Halum for $3,495,000.

2801 Turtle Creek Boulevard #3E An extraordinary condominium in the illustrious Mansion Residence, this home features a custom wine room, oversized living room, two spacious bedrooms and a private terrace with spectacular views of both Downtown and Turtle Creek. Listed by Pogir for $3,495,000.

2025 Woodall Rodgers #51 A step away from Klyde Warren Park, this threebedroom home boasts floor-to-ceiling windows, a private balcony and stunning views throughout. The luxuries continue with the state of the art kitchen, white oak floors and 10-foot ceilings. Listed by Michelle Wood for $2,600,000.

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Expert agents are seeing three main groups of people looking to make a home purchase.

Relocators—Whether they’re coming for job opportunities, corporate relocations or take advantage of the reasonable cost of living, people are arriving in North Texas at record pace—more than 1,000 a day, say some experts. And many of these newcomers are eager to get in the homeownership game in this rising economy.

Upsizers—Buyers who have been waiting and saving are ready to make a move to larger properties in neighborhoods with great schools, plenty of green space and easy access to major commuter arteries.

Downsizers—No longer to people live in their family home for their entire life. For many in the post parenting years, the right home for this new season of life includes single-level or high rise living, convenient access to familiar places.

For sellers who have been waiting for a strong market so they can list their home, now is the time. Interest rates continue to be historically low, inventory levels are low and buyers who have put off making a move are out in the marketplace looking for properties.

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“Ebby Halliday Realtors is the largest independent broker in M A RY FRANCES Texas and is one of the largest BURLESON in the nation, and yet we offer our clients and sales associates an exceptional team of real estate practitioners, who truly are ‘The Home Team,’ ” says President & CEO Mary Frances Burleson.

“As a locally owned residential real estate firm that has been in business since 1945, Ebby Halliday is not subject to an out-of-state owner’s influence or direction,” Burleson says. “This benefits our buying clients and our Associates in many ways. Included in that is our ability to identify and respond rapidly to changes in the North Texas marketplace. All of our decisions are made in the context of the local business environment.”

“In 1945, Ebby Halliday founded her one-woman, one-office company on three points of service: service to the client, service to the industry and service to the community,” says Ms. Burleson. “We haven’t forgotten where we started. We’re rich in tradition, but also poised for the future, and still deeply focused on our communities. We aren’t just real estate professionals, we’re also your neighbors. If you’re thinking of buying or selling a home, contact us today. We’re here to help.”

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Delicious and rich is an understatement when describing this premier, high-end estate, constructed by Lewis Russel Homes in 2008. This home located at 3650 University, has everything… big lot, great location, killer media room, gourmet kitchen, outdoor living area with awesome pool, spa, waterfall, cooking station and a wood burning fireplace…..every bell and whistle todays buyers want! Nora Ling Lane is offering this property at $5,850,000.

Situated on a 91 x 175 lot, this seven bedroom, nine full baths, 9137 square feet home in one of the most coveted corners in University Park has you the moment you step into the two-story entry! This elegant home showcases the most incredible craftsmanship and custom cabinetry throughout, which is just the beginning of the most stunning features that overflow throughout!

A few of the flawless features include a stunning library with a wood burning fireplace, a cooks dream kitchen, four wet bars, a wine room which holds over 2000 bottles, an incredible family room and a downstairs bedroom. Upstairs features four bedrooms, game room, huge media room with state of the art sound system and master suite with two huge walk-in closets, steam shower and a private exercise room. Two additional bedrooms on the third floor. Other amenities in this grand estate include a three-car garage with an electric privacy gate, elevator, mosquito misting system, Sonos sound system, four outside cameras and a telephone intercom system. Nothing was spared in this timeless classic! Truly a must see! Visit alliebeth.com for photos and for a private showing call Lane at 214-244-4866.

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all, her husband was the University Park finance director — she rented a space on Lovers Lane.

Though the studio has moved around a few times in its 65year history, the current space still sits on the same street.

“She’s a really hard act to follow,” Johnson said of her mother, who taught until she was 83 years old. “She could see somebody in the grocery store and say, ‘You’re so-and-so’s grandmother.’ She remembered everyone and everything and got to know the family — not just the child in the room.”

Mary Ann May noticed the genuine love from the studio’s instructors, rather than just the harsh criticism that could be found at other schools.

“I wasn’t going to put [my daughter] in a place that was so strict they would extinguish her love of dance,” she said.

She enrolled her daughter, Sydney, who now has her sights set on a professional dance career after 10 years at City Ballet. Following her third year at the school, Sydney wanted to move up to a pointe class, so her mother went to speak with Brown, who then spent time with Sydney after class. Eventually, Brown gave her a pair of her own pointe shoes, which May says still hang on Sydney’s bed at home.

“This is a family of people who really know my daughter, and that’s what’s amazing about it,” May said. “It’s a place of enrichment.”

A feeling of self-empowerment is what Johnson still loves teaching to students.

“I’m beginning to understand what my mother went through in that I am now seeing the children of students that I taught,” Johnson said. “It’s more than just ballet. It’s life lessons.”

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By that time, however, Nichol had plenty of connections in the business, and the new ECU head coach was Ruffin McNeill, who worked with Nichol at Texas Tech.

“The guys I learned from really grinded their way through various high schools, junior colleges, and small colleges,” Nichol said. “I kind of had to learn from the ground up, and hopefully I’ll be better because of it.”

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dinator job. The Pirates were 8-5 last season with wins over Virginia Tech and North Carolina, and are generally seen as a program with high expectations again, even after starting quarterback Kurt Benkert suffered a season-ending knee injury a week before the season opener.

Nichol’s debut season in the coordinator job will include a homecoming of sorts when the Pirates visit SMU on Oct. 3. He expects to have many friends and family members in attendance who have known him since he first got the urge to coach.

“I was a really average quarterback at Jesuit. There’s a reason why I’m not still playing football,” Nichol laughed. “You learn all the tricks and try to recruit really good players. I’ve had a great experience.”

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It’s a good kind of busy, except for the poor, poor, uberrich, particularly the “one percenters” in wealth, dwelling in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, who live as a peculiar tribe, with a specific pecking order and caste rules dictated by the limited geography and limitless wealth they entail.

Having upscaled from funky lower Manhattan to this rarefied world of condos and penthouses, author Wednesday Martin has taken the clever narrative tone of a “social anthropologist” to liken the world of image-obsessed women to those of the alpha females in chimpanzee society in her rollicking satire, The Primates of Park Avenue. It’s so much more than a summer read. This subset of tribal women she once scorned but became adapted to and accepted by are in a never-ending marathon to stay married to the hedge-fund managers, scions of business, the multi-multi-millionaires and billionaires who run Wall Street, our economy, and much of the world (even going so far as to run for president, methinks).

“Women of the tribe I was studying paid the price for beauty, looking frozen, starving and exercising their bodies into submission. They did the never-ending work of forging and maintaining social connections and social status for themselves, their children, and the couple.

But it was the men who picked up the tab.” (Even for those with “careers.”)

The author, a Midwesterner with a sensible attitude, is determined not to succumb to this new world when she and her husband hit the big time, but she’s in need of friends for her child, if not herself, and finds herself going native instead of just observing them.

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She is completely frozen by all the women in the school hallways who won’t deign to make eye contact, much less speak, until the ice is broken by an alpha male who befriends her.

Then the imperious queens begin slowly to reassess her and allow her to penetrate their inner sanctums.

" THIS GOT ME WONDERING ABOUT WHETHER DALL AS HAS SUCH FEMALE PRIMATE S ADHERING TO STRICT WARDROBE CODES & INCESSANT SOCIAL CLIMBING.” In one funny but rather pathetic episode, the author, now attuned to the importance of the wardrobe of the tribe, begins her pursuit of the ultimate status symbol: a Birkin bag — a purse for the uninitiated — which like the tony pre-schools has a waiting list. Sales personnel must be courted, bribes paid, trips to foreign countries offered, in search of this object of leather with a $10,000 price tag. Seriously. Never mind these women sit on charitable boards for world hunger.

It sounds remarkably like junior high, except in my day we coveted a John Romaine pocket book (never “purse,” too old-ladyish). And they cost about $25.

Portion control, I guess. The Birkin bag had to accessorize the everyday designer clothes that were the uniforms of these socialites.

When Ms. Martin garners one, she feels the smug endorphin high of a marathon winner.

This got me to wondering about whether Dallas has such female primates adhering to strict wardrobe codes and incessant social climbing while their silverback gorillas are pursuing the almighty buck. Surely our down-home Texas gals — spread out all over the Metroplex rather than piling up on top of each other in condos with park or river views — shelter us from female alphas obsessed with stiletto shoes, extravagant clothes, jockeying for spots for exclusive preschools, board positions, clubs, and nannies, only vacationing in the Texas Hamptons, known as “The Ranch.”

After all, this is the buckle of the Bible belt, and we have high church attendance that precludes marginalizing a fellow sister if she loses her status in divorce, or worse, her man loses his money and they have to downscale and sell the ranch.

Sleek, shallow, snobby, secular, scheming, social-climbing primates reside in Park Avenue zip codes.

We Texans don’t put up with that sort of “monkey business,” in October or any month. Right?

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Chef Mark Wooton, owner of Garden Cafe, concocted a simple recipe that requires little skill: seared flat iron steak over a salad of sautéed green beans, zucchini and garlic, tossed with a grapefruit vinaigrette. Patrick Stark from 940’s Restaurant & Bar prepared a Texas sausage and pepper bruschetta. Chef Justin Box from Cafe Momentum Get ideas on shopping, buying and preparing local food at Walkabout is challenging himself to walk the aisles without a with a Chef at the Dallas Farmers Market. Photo by Ashley Tobar. recipe in mind, waiting to see what inspires him.

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hopping at a bustling farmers market can be intimidating. Not only do you have to navigate vendors and choose one stand of gorgeous strawberries over another, but then—once you have purchased your produce—you must figure out how to turn it into a delicious meal. But now, with the recently launched Walkabout with a Chef program at the Dallas Farmers Market, eating locally produced food is approachable and achievable.

Every second Saturday of the month, shoppers meet in The Shed at 10 a.m. to be guided through the market with a professional chef. On the walk, the group discusses what is currently in season, how to successfully pick out produce, and how to best converse with vendors. At the end, the chef whips up a simple,

Whether you find yourself walking the market with a professional chef or stepping boldly out on your own, the best tip is to ask questions. Learn about the food you are buying and the farmers who produced it. Give yourself the freedom to experiment a little by cooking foods outside your répertoire. And soon enough, you will have mastered the art of eating locally.

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