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co-worker told me that I must be a pack rat when I quipped that I used my good ol’ (30+ year-old) hot rollers after another co-worker commented on my more-than-usual curly hair. I also bragged that I still had the mixer that I received for a wedding gift 33 years ago.

I had a momentary vision of that “Hoarders” show. No, that’s not me, I reassured myself. My husband says I have flat-surface syndrome. If there’s a flat surface, I put something on it — my purse, my work bag, the paper, the mail, whatever is in my hand at that moment — and then it stays there. He would agree with the pack-rat label; I would argue that I just don’t like getting rid of things when they still work.

If it weren’t for my husband’s good sense, I’d probably still be driving my 1986 Volkswagen Jetta that leaked inside every time it rained. I loved that car. It was zippy and practical all at once, despite the puddles of water on the floor boards in the back. We kept it for 10 years, and then I graduated to a 1996 Chevy Suburban in my soccer-mom days.

That vehicle is still in the family — my son drives it.

As Americans, we do live in a disposable society. When was the last time you had anything fixed beyond your car, plumbing, or HVAC? Things seem to not be “built to last.” Some subscribe to the idea of planned obsolescence by the manufacturers. Or is it that there are so many technological advances, or just our consumer-driven mindset to have the newest, shiniest, best of whatever?

I don’t think there have been many advances in the coffee maker in the last 20 years, except maybe the Keurig, but I know, I’ve gone through at least six or seven in that amount of time. When I was

growing up, my dad or one of my brothers would have tinkered with whatever was broken, and it worked for another few years.

Don’t get me wrong: I’ve succumbed to the temptation of the new shiny toy too, on more than one occasion. Hope you got something new and shiny for Christmas or Hanukkah and it lasts until at least the end of the year. For my New Year’s resolution, I profess to examine my pack-rat tendencies and keep the hot rollers till they die. Happy New Year!

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BUSINESS Bee’s Knees Site Starts Buzz Online

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People Newspapers Lindsay Hall has always loved clothes and fashion. Like many girls, it’s a passion she developed thanks to her mother.

“My m o m always loved dressing well and instilled that value in me,” the Preston Hollow resident said.

Lindsay Hall “She made it fun for us, too.”

But it wasn’t until the fall of 2008 when the Abilene Christian University graduate realized she wanted to open a shop herself. At the time, she was working at a dress shop called Jigsaw in Oxford, England, thanks to a six-month, workabroad program.

“That was my first time to really work in retail, and I realized that I just loved connecting with the customer, but also having the task of finding something flattering that they’d feel good in.”

She admits the goal of having her own store “felt so unattainable” at the time. But she credits some faith-based, goal-setting materials for helping her realize longtime dreams, such as working abroad and opening her own shop.

“One of the taglines is that all the things you’ve always wanted to do, you should do them,” she said. “That started to formulate thoughts in my mind: what do I feel like the Lord has blessed me

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Designers Want to Mix Form and Function

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People Newspapers Patrick Farrell hates the term “decorative accessories.” So you won’t find any such one-dimensional trinkets at ACDC Aesthetic Content.

The Preston Hollow resident and his partner, David Hairgrove, launched the provider of unique home decor and fragrances in June, and they’ve already started selling items in a handful of specialty shops nationwide, including Dallas.

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top-selling products are ceramic bowls with cork-based stands from Portugal. The bowls are an example of the types of products in which ACDC hopes to specialize.

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ability but they’re also functional,” Farrell said. “You don’t want to sit them around and have them gather dust.”

While Farrell’s passion is in fashion and home decor, Hairgrove loves candles, and his assortment of fragrances was finetuned through a process that includes everything from wick consistency to blending scented oils and wax from scratch.

Farrell has a degree in industrial design and experience as an executive for chains such as C H R I S M C G AT H E Y

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Hairgrove was in the airline industry and operated a retail home accessories store in Phil-

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The reality turned out to be an online shop she named Bee’s Knees, after the expression’s popularity in Britain. The website went live in early November, and Facebook and Instagram accounts soon followed to help spread the word.

A few friends from her Watermark Community Church circles have helped her get started in various ways. One Watermark friend, Taylor Beam, was able to lend a hand with photography and design.

“I love the idea of it, obviously, and the mission behind it — it’s not just about clothes,” Beam said. “It’s about people, too. She knows how to make the bigger picture come together.”

When pulling products from market, Hall likes to look for pieces that are “fashion-forward but also timeless, sophisticated, and classy.”

But she’s also keeping the value of what she sells in mind, and not just the aesthetics.

“She’s so committed to her product quality, too,” said Beam, who has also made purchases from Bee’s Knees. “They’re trendy pieces, but really good quality that’s going to last.”

Right now, the website only caters to women’s fashions, but friends have asked her what may be next, such as men’s clothing or maternity pieces, or even a storefront. But Hall’s goals are a little more one-stepat-a-time than that.

“My biggest hope is to continue — that Bee’s Knees would be longstanding, and also that it’s something that continues to be high quality,” she said.

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“Our goal is to build a lifestyle brand,” Farrell said. “We felt like there was a niche in the market that was growing but kind of missing the mark. We

want to bring good designs but do it in an affordable way.”

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“Eventually I think the retail aspect will fall under the umbrella of the brand,” Hairgrove said.

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The Preston Hollow resident has served as a trustee since 2009, and most recently chaired the development committee in 2013. Lattner plans to focus her term on growing the size of The Catholic Foundation in terms of assets, donors, and needs met in the community.

HERTIAGE AUCTIONS NAMES FORMER PRESIDENT AS CFO Industry veteran Michael Haynes has been named CFO of Heritage Auctions after serving as the company’s president from 1974 to 1990.

Haynes has held executive positions in the collectibles, precious metals, and specialty retail sectors for many years. Most recently, he was the CEO of Collectors Universe, which authenticates collectible coins, sports cards, autographs, and memorabilia.

HODGES HONORED WITH FREE ENTERPRISE AWARD Preston Hollow resident Don Hodges was honored with the Russell H. Perry Free Enterprise Award at a recent dinner reception at the Hilton Anatole. The dinner raises funds for scholarships at Dallas Baptist University.

Hodges is the founder of Hodges Capital Management, which has been in operation since 1989. Past recipients of the award include such Dallas luminaries as John Stemmons, Trammell Crow, Ebby Halliday, Tom Landry, Kenneth Cooper, Boone Powell, Ross Perot, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Tom Leppert.

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By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Mike Morath’s primary role with Dallas ISD is that of a trustee, but sometime he feels more like a salesman.

Morath represents District 2 on the school board, which covers the eastern half of Preston Hollow. And he spends much of his time trying to tout the district’s initiatives to improve curricular offerings and diversify academic programs, partially in an effort to appeal to middle-class families.

In a neighborhood in which private schools are so prevalent, that’s a challenge, but one that Morath thinks is starting to pay off. Whether it’s a popular dual-language program at Kramer Elementary School, or a growing International Baccalaureate initiative at Preston Hollow Elementary, or a simple rebranding at Marsh Middle School, Morath and his colleagues have more amenities to sell. And they’ve found that more parents

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Marsh Preparatory Academy in Preston Hollow has changed more than just its name this year. and students are buying in.

“There’s a growing recognition that the schools are improving and middle-class families are getting great outcomes in DISD,” Morath said. “There’s

a younger generation of parents that are maybe beginning to recognize that.”

One example outside of Morath’s district is at Marsh, in the feeder pattern for W.T.

White High School. Last fall, the school was rebranded to Marsh Preparatory Academy as part of a five-year plan to increase academic rigors at the campus.

“Where we’re kind of falling behind is in the academic rigor for our kids,” said Marsh principal Nicky Niewinski. “Rebranding sends a message that we’re trying some innovative programs.”

When Niewinsky arrived in 2013 from Colorado Springs — where she also worked for current DISD superintendent Mike Miles — she began implementing changes at Marsh, which is one of the largest middle-school campuses in DISD in terms of enrollment and is better known for its extracurricular activities than its academic achievement.

The rebranding is part of those efforts, but it’s more than just a name change. The school now has a program called Matadors Exploring New Directions, which allows students to participate in an elective class for the last 30 minutes of each school day.

The topics vary widely, from chess to gardening to guitar to crime-scene investigation — with the results able to stimulate teachers and students alike.

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Lakehill Preparatory students have participated in the Upper School Day of Service for many years. However, some students felt one day was not enough.

They wanted to give upper-school students more opportunities to give back to the community.

As part of their campaign for student council president and vice president, senior Haley York and junior Brandon Douglas promised to increase opportunities for students to volunteer together.

They brainstormed ideas with Lakehill’s director of marketing and community relations, Gigi Ekstrom, and came up with the idea for a new club, the Warrior Outreach Organization.

WOO, as it’s affectionately called in the hallways of Lakehill, organizes four service projects, including one per quarter. So far, though, it has become bigger, with various organizations asking WOO for help.

The first event was a shoreline spruce-up at White Rock Lake. Thirty students showed up to help pick up

trash on a Saturday morning. In December, the group worked at the CitySquare thrift store, and students plan to help out at the North Texas Food Bank and Community Partners of Dallas in the spring.

They also held a fundraising competition before the holidays to benefit lower-income families.

“I’ve heard people talk about it around school,” said York. “They plan to go with their friends and I’ve heard some really great things from students.”

York said they try to make the events accessible and fun for students. WOO provides transportation from the school, usually plans for Saturday mornings, and gives students the opportunity to volunteer with their friends.

York and Ekstrom have worked together to organize the events. Douglas plans to continue the legacy and has a vision for WOO in the future.

“I want to get things on the calendar early so everyone will know that WOO is still in action,” said Douglas. “I want to get shirts made so we can all wear them when we’re working at these places. Basically I just want to build on what Haley has going this year.”

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Pershing Elementary School had a new student teacher on Dec. 5. Cindy Gonzales Gomez, a first-grade student at the school, is battling leukemia and lived out her dream thanks to the Make-AWish Foundation.

The marquee outside the school read “Welcome Our Newest Student Teacher Cindy!” She and her parents, Jose Gonzales and Angela Gomez, arrived at the school in a limo. Cindy stepped out in a sparkly shirt and tiara, greeted by her peers with posters and balloons as the Hillcrest High School band and cheerleaders rallied her on. She was granted her teaching ability by the American College of Education and given an easel and supplies to start her day.

“Since she was little she’s always liked teaching kids who were younger than her,” Angela Gomez said. “At the store she’s always grabbing pencils and art supplies.”

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New Classes Get Feet Tapping at ESD Dance now offered on campus

By Paige Skinner

Special Contributor In its 40 years, Episcopal School of Dallas had never had a dance program.

That ended this fall, when the school’s fine art department hired a dance teacher and began to offer its students class credit in dance.

“It was just a huge gap in our fine-arts program,” said Dusty Davidson, chair of ESD’s finearts department. “It’s something we needed. I think it adds to all other aspects of the arts we have.”

At 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, four of the dance students were in the fine-arts building’s dance studio. They were doing their weekly yoga under the instruction of their dance teacher, Glen Dawson.

Friday mornings are when they decompress, Dawson said.

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“I’ve been dancing since I was 3,” she said. “When I came to high school, I stopped doing studio dance because I got too busy.”

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“I like that it’s an option,” she said. “I don’t have to go back and forth between the studio and school, and it doesn’t conflict with my homework or other activities.”

Davidson said while the idea had been around for awhile, it was the new fine-arts building that pushed it one step further.

“The desire has been here for years. And then the building was built and there was a greater hope with actually having a dance studio that it was going to happen, but it’s never really come to happen,” he said.

“So when I started as department chair, I started pushing for it more and had some conversations with [head of school] Meredyth Cole.”

Dawson’s dance students have learned and performed a number of routines, including a lyrical dance to “Amazing Grace,” a flash mob with ESD’s fifth-graders during lunch, and an interpretative dance at an art gallery.

The mixing of the arts is only natural, Dawson explained.

Where there’s acting and singing and painting, there should also be dance.

“Dance is just part of performing arts,” she said. “Don’t get me on my soapbox, but you were dancing in your mother’s stomach before you ever came out.”

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Bush Center Partnership Yields Executive Experience

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Not many high school students can say they’ve sat in a presidential “situation room,” but some students at Parish Episcopal School can check that off their lists.

That’s because Parish has been teaming with the George W. Bush Presidential Center to offer kids a chance to enhance their research and critical-thinking skills.

“We’re endeavoring just to make it as rich as possible, to try and have some level of partnership at each division: the lower school, the middle school, and the upper school,” Parish librarian Leigh Ann Jones said. “So there are a variety of projects that we have worked with them on.”

The high school students in AP history classes took a trip to the Bush Center’s mock situation room and conducted a Socratic-style seminar on historical issues and modern comparisons.

Meanwhile, fourth-graders learned about the different “hats” that make up the president’s role, and second-graders studied biographies of first ladies and former presidents.

Middle school students also studied important decisions in American history.

“It’s a very different experience,” said senior Maverick Salyards, who participates in Parish’s Academy of Global Studies.

“You’re sitting there with the big presidential seal above you and the big wooden table. It’s very formal, and definitely adds a greater impact. It’s very cool to be in that room.”

Those students also went through the museum to observe, and even got to do some research with primary-source documents during their trip.

“They have so much information,” Salyards said. “It’s a benefit for me personally to get out of the classroom and not be in the same room every single day.

It’s something new and different, and a fun place to be.”

The partnership developed thanks to Parish head of school David Monaco and Bush Center director Alan Lowe.

The collaboration began in November 2013.

“Parish approached us about partnering, and we had already started talking about creating a series of school partnerships, so this was a natural fit,” Lowe said.

“We wanted this relationship to

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Parish’s AP U.S. History class creates its own resolutions in the “situation room” at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. help ensure we are creating materials that are truly useful for teachers and students, and to ensure our resources and our educational potential are being fully utilized.”

Not only are classes able to use the library for academic purposes, but upper-school teach-

ers are also working on a specific curriculum to utilize the Bush Center’s Freedom Collection in particular.

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Jones said a lesson will also be built around that visit specifically.

Parish’s relationship, too, is meant to “beta-test” programs that might be available for other campuses to work with the Bush Center in the future.

“We said from the beginning that we wanted to test curriculum with our partner schools,” Lowe said. “That is underway right now at Parish with a curriculum we hope to announce next year.”

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The Winns decided that the first gift from their recently created family foundation should be directed toward St. Mark’s to recognize all that the school does to prepare future leaders.

“I’ve seen what you are capable of in the past 50 years. Now, it’s time to think about the next 50 years and the 5,000 young dreamers who will delight us by graduating from this institution and change our future forever,” Steve Winn recently told St. Mark’s faculty members during a recent assembly. “Our faculty is the custodian of our dreamers, and I know you will do your jobs well.”

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Girl Scout Plants Good Works in Garden

By Meredith Carey

Special Contributor “Elizabeth Michel is just an exceptional young woman, not only for the kids in West Dallas who see her as a role model, but for other students, who would see her kindness and see opportunity where they can go into areas like West Dallas and make a difference,” said Sarah Squires, the executive director at the Wesley-Rankin Community Center.

The glowing review of Hockaday senior Elizabeth Michel didn’t stop there.

The 18-year-old has made a mark on the lives of the adults and children with her efforts to teach children to garden at the community center.

A member of Girl Scout Troop 603 at Hockaday, Michel spent her time working toward the prestigious Gold Award in by building gardening boxes and planting herbs with children at the center for a summer camp.

“I have always been interested in gardening, but I never had a garden. I figured this was a fun way for myself to learn while also teaching kids,” Michel said.

And teach she did. In a weeklong camp, she taught the chil-

CONTINUED FROM 13 ents,” Niewinski said. “It’s still academically focused. We want to challenge the ways people are thinking about education to do what makes sense for all of our kids.”

Niewinski also recently applied for a Gates Foundation grant that would help personalize learning for students as part of her vision for the school.

Such improvements might lead to more families choosing DISD over private schools, but it’s not a competition for Niewinski, whose school has ongoing partnerships with Parish Episcopal for its robotics program and Hockaday for its interactive Girl Talk program.

“Trying to get those families to come back to our school would be fantastic, but it’s also about developing those partnerships,” Niewinski said.

“There are things they can offer us, and there’s things we can offer them. We’re all trying to offer kids a great education.”

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Hockadaisy and Girl Scout Elizabeth Michel spends time in the garden with West Dallas children. dren how to plant herbs and vegetables in pots at home and how to cook with the things they grow.

At the end of the camp, they made guacamole with some of the herbs they had grown.

“I wanted them to get outside, learn to be healthy, and

maybe pick up something to do with their parents or friends,” she said.

But as Squires notes, the skills she gave the children at Wesley-Rankin go much further than teaching a hobby.

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“The children take back to their homes an interest in and the skill of gardening, something that can help them better support their

families.”

For the editor of the Hockaday yearbook, trips to West Dallas are nothing new.

She’s been there as a member of the high school community service board in addition to the annual Habitat for Humanity house she helps build with her parents.

Now, after being given her Gold Award in October, she plans to return in the spring to help continue revitalizing the center’s outdoor community garden.

“Part of the Gold Award is to create a project that’s sustainable and goes beyond your own project,” Michel said. “I want to go back and get it actually set up, by planting more herbs in the spring, keep that maintained, and pass it along.”

Squires, who has known Michel since elementary school, sees the Preston Hollow native as an ideal role model for the children who frequent the center.

“She is able to gather people together to work with them.

There’s a sense of working with as opposed to working for, and it’s a distinctive, and important, leadership element,” she said.

“It was more than just about gardening.”

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At Ursuline, educators are role models and mentors who value teaching as both a vocation and a ministry. The focus is on total development of the individual student through spiritual formation, intellectual growth, service to others, and building of community. Students use advanced technology as a tool to gain knowledge, communicate ideas, and investigate the world.

As part of its mission to educate leaders for a global society, Ursuline

design, programming and construction of award-winning robots.

From preschool to sixth grade, Wesley Prep students are engaged in multi-dimensional learning every step of the way.

Academy of Dallas has a program of cultural and educational exchanges with sister schools around the world.

A variety of opportunities are provided to students as they grow as global

As a parent, you know that success for your child no longer comes from traditional models of education. The college-prep experience must be rethought beyond just an individual’s grades or test scores. For the sake of our children, we must be visionaries that are set to reimagine school. We can no longer focus solely on college-prep; it has to be, what we at Parish like to call, Life Prep!

We are cultivating students of character who will be the next generation’s leaders and stewards set to impact the world.

For them, success comes from realizing and fostering their passions. As a school, it’s helping them take those passions and turn them to practice through innovative programming that permeates through every grade-level (PreK – 12th). From Leadership to Global Studies, STEM to Humanities, Athletics to Arts, Parish is more than a world-class education. We are a community preparing life-ready, modern-day learners.

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LIVING WELL Drum Dancer Inspires New Class

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers You could say that Peter Sommers likes to dance to the beat of his own drum. That’s because the Highland Park High School senior is the first-ever boy to perform the school’s beloved “Drum Dance,” a Scottish-inspired tradition usually performed during halftime of senior night at Highlander Stadium.

“I watched two groups of people do it, and it just really appealed to me,” Sommers said. “It was a really cool experience and I would completely do it again.”

The dance dates back to the 1940s at Highland Park, but in recent years, it’s been a tradition for a senior from color guard to perform it. Therefore, Sommers was in a very small pool of competitors.

He auditioned just three weeks before the performance, and started practicing a week out.

“I thought this was a kind of dancing that I could be proficient in and that it would appeal to different people,” he said.

Usually, dancers are just handed a video from past performances to learn and imitate. But this year, that just wouldn’t work.

“When I first viewed the video, it was just more feminine,” he said. “There was a certain move that was more like a kick.

It was an interesting move for me, as a male, to do.”

It also wasn’t a fully authentic version of Scottish dance. Luckily, Sommers had already taken dance classes to improve his sense of movement with Jacqueline Porter of Park Cities Dance.

As it turns out, she’s also a traditionally trained Highland dancer whose mother grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother ran a Highland dance school in Pennsylvania, and Porter danced competitively until age 8, when she switched to ballet.

“It was an unusual coincidence,”

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Peter Sommers was the first boy to ever perform the drum dance at halftime of senior night at Highlander Stadium.

Jacqueline Porter and Peter Sommers

Porter said. “I always wanted to start a Highland program.”

Thanks to her knowledge, they were able to revert the routine back to a more traditional version of Highland dance — which was originally developed for men preparing to go into battle, by the way — and modified it to fit on top of a drum.

“It was actually the authentic Highland Fling that he did,” Porter said. “It has been danced for 300 years.”

Porter was present for Sommers’ performance at the stadium on Nov. 7.

“It was an unbelievable feat,” she said.

“That would be difficult for any actual Highland dancer — a person who had been doing it for years.”

In light of Sommers’ success and Porter’s revived passion for the dance, she’s starting a Highland dance seminar to her studio’s repertoire. She will hold two, eight-week “Learn the Highland Fling” courses for kids and teenagers starting Jan. 8 on Thursday afternoons.

“It’s an exceptionally athletic dance,” she said. “People become so obsessed with it — anyone can achieve some level of proficiency in it.”

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HP Grad Inspires Others to Unplug

By Meredith Carey

Special Contributor Allison Graham needs you to put down your phone, log out of Facebook, and unplug.

“Let’s take one hour a day to plug back into the earth — and I don’t mean that in a tambourine, ‘Kumbaya’ kind of way,” she said. “All of this technology is awesome but if we can take just a little away, we can Allison really refocus.”

Graham In November, Graham, a producer at Boy From Mars Films, spoke at TEDxSMU. Her 12-minute speech, “How social media makes us unsocial,” which can be found on YouTube, focused on the lack of communication skills in younger generations as technology pervades their life.

“If you’re 25 or younger, you have always had technology in your life. As I interview people and speak with millennials, they don’t seem to have the voice or capacity to engage,” said Graham, a Highland Park High School graduate.

Since her talk, she’s been on a mission to make conversation that lasts more than 140 characters a reality.

With her Unplug Challenge, she’s urging friends, families, and strangers to take a break from their everyday tweets, posts, and texts to put their phone down for one hour a day.

“All I want is for people to connect — connect with themselves or connect with each other,” the SMU graduate said. “You may need to reconnect with your roots, sit outside and read, or grab coffee with a friend.”

Graham has received a flood of personal testimony harping on the daily addiction to social media and technology from all ages.

“I was giving the talk at an alternative high school, and one girl came up to me.

She said, ‘When I was 5 years old, I had

ternet twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays, to get a break from the constant buzz and focus on family time.

“We just don’t think it’s good for their brains to be online 24/7,” she said.

“They’re definitely in the minority amongst their friends, though, for taking time to turn it off.”

Graham hopes that families, like the Bezansons, and neighborhoods can use the time to meet their neighbors and make meaningful connections offline in just that one hour a day.

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Graham admits she has to put away her computer, two iPads, and a phone that all grab her attention throughout the day to find peace of mind.

“We try to blame it all on our kids but that really isn’t the case. It’s all of us now and at this point, every one of us is a junkie,” she said. “It’s a matter of saying, we’re all addicted now. How do we help ourselves?”

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Our modern world allows us access to fresh fruit and veggies year-round. They won’t taste as good from far away and out-ofseason, but it still counts. This time of year is also when canned or frozen veggies will often taste better and have more nutrients than fresh produce at the grocery.

Here’s what I do: when a recipe calls for veg of any kind, I go big with the portion of veggies. When I make simple pasta, I head to Jimmy’s and buy a ton of fresh basil (possibly the most delicious and affordable basil in town). Rather than just a leaf or two, I fold a handful into my warm pasta.

When I make a frittata or quiche, the ratio is one part egg to 2-3 parts veggies. In a simple bean chili, I will toss in some kale, spinach, or lots of extra tomato. Or in, say, a lasagna, you aren’t going to ruin it by adding three times the amount of spinach called for.

Here’s how to throw together a frittata: the ingredients include three eggs, plus any and all the veg you want — a great way to use up greens that are wilting. I usually add garlic or onion, then vary the veggies with what I have on hand. If you include potato, boil them until about 75 percent cooked before adding to veg mix.

In a pan that is safe to put in the oven, sauté ingredients on the stovetop in a little oil and seasoning, then pour whisked eggs over the veggies. Let it set for a couple of minutes (until the sides just start to set) then put the pan into a 375-degree oven for about 10-12 minutes (pull it from the oven when center has just set).

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Brit Harless and Dora Chu The height of fashion and society could be found at the Crystal Charity Ball on Dec. 6 at the Hilton Anatole’s Chantilly Ballroom.

Guests could stroll the silent auction and casino during cocktail hour, before a gospel choir greeted them into the main dining room, covered in extravagant floral arrangements.

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The Les Femmes du Monde Women of the Year luncheon honored six women representing six decades of Les Femmes du Monde’s service to the community on Nov. 11 at the Harlan Crow Library in Highland Park. Honorees present were: Gina Ginsburg, Lynn McBee, Margaret McDermott, Pat Smith, and Nina Vaca.

Honoree Virginia Chandler Dykes was unable to attend and was represented by Dr. Carine Feyten.

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r. Katherine Emilie Hall and Christopher Miller “Chip” Jelliffe were joined in holy matrimony October 4, 2014 at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church.

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The groom is the son of Mrs. Patricia Jelliffe of Bedford, Texas and Mr. Charles Jelliffe of Naples, Fla. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ferneding and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gordon Jelliffe.

The bride was given in marriage by her parents. She was escorted down the aisle on the arm of her father. Katherine chose a Watters gown of ivory re-embroidered lace and washed silk organza featuring a full, A-line skirt with veiled lace motifs.

Her cathedral-length veil was custom designed by Nardos Iman and trimmed entirely in the vintage Chantilly lace from the bride’s maternal great-grandmother’s 1932 veil. She carried a bouquet of pale pink and ivory roses secured by the wedding handkerchief of her maternal grandmother.

Assisting the bride as matron of honor was Mrs. Marguerite Dumont Lenderman. Bridesmaids included Alexandria

Haayen Kless, cousin of the bride, Jocelyn Lancaster, Alison Barron, Julia Guiltinan, and Julie Jelliffe Robertson, the groom’s sister. Among the members of the house party were Sneha Briggs, Roselynn Nguyen, Alyson Garcia, and Sarah White. The flower girls were Lela Margaret Kless and Reese Patricia Robertson.

Attending the groom as best man was the groom’s brother, Charles Scribner Jelliffe. Groomsmen included Blake Elder, Burke Hall, brother of the bride, Ronald Meyers, Gabriel Steach, and Ernest Steach. Serving as ushers were Andrew Robertson, Michael Stone, Joseph Comparin, and Jeffrey Janes.

The bride is a graduate of Hillcrest High School. She graduated Cum Laude, receiving a Bachelor of Science in biology from Southern Methodist University, and a Doctor of Medicine from UT Southwestern. Katherine is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies and was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority at SMU. She is currently a third year OB-GYN resident at UT Southwestern.

The groom is a graduate of Trinity High School in Bedford. He graduated Cum Laude, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in public relations from Texas Tech University and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Southern Methodist University. Chip is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha honor society. He is employed by JDA, Inc. in Dallas.

Following their wedding trip to the Turks and Caicos, the couple have made their home in Dallas.

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SPORTS Ndulue Set For Bittersweet Finale at OU

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers As he reaches the end of his college football career later this month, Chuka Ndulue can reflect on the past while looking to the future.

The past includes a rapid rise to prominence after being introduced to the sport less than nine years ago, while he was a freshman at Jesuit.

The future includes plans to keep working out in preparation for possible selection in the NFL Draft this spring.

In the meantime, the senior defensive end will play his final game for Oklahoma when the Sooners meet Clemson in the Russell Athletic Bowl on Dec. 29 in Orlando, Fla. It will be the fourth bowl game for Ndulue, and it won’t carry the same prominence as last year’s win over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. But this one might be the most special for Ndulue and his close-knit senior teammates at OU. “We’ve been together for five years and this is our last time taking the field together,” he said. “I’m not thinking about it, but it’s in the back of my mind.”

Like many kids from his native Nigeria, Ndulue grew up as a soccer player before moving to Dallas in 2004. He had never played American football prior to enrolling at Jesuit, where assistant coach Rick Leal encour-

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

Former Jesuit standout Chuka Ndulue will compete for Oklahoma in the Russell Athletic Bowl against Clemson on Dec. 29 in Orlando, Fla. aged him to give it a try.

“He was the one who saw something in me,” Ndulue said.

“Everything moved pretty fast.

They helped me to get to where I am right now.”

That was when he weighed just 135 pounds. By the next year, he had bulked up to 205

pounds and wound up as a standout for two seasons on the defensive line for the Rangers in 2008 and 2009.

“I wasn’t always big,” said Ndulue, who is now 6-foot-3 and 289 pounds. “I just liked playing sports, and eventually I realized that there could be a fu-

ture for me.”

That landed him at Oklahoma, where he redshirted in 2010 and has played 44 games since, with 136 tackles and 12 sacks along with a fumble recovery.

After the bowl game, he plans to sign with an agent and prepare for the NFL Scouting

Combine in February, where he can showcase his skills for pro teams.

“I hope everything works out,” Ndulue said. “I can go out and show everyone I can play at the next level.”

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Ursuline Standout Makes a Splash

T O P S I N TA P P S

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers

C H R I S M C G AT H E Y

Parish Episcopal won its second TAPPS Division II state football title on Dec. 6 when the Panthers defeated Dallas Christian 56-14 in Corsicana.

Parish finished the season with a 13-1 overall record.

Forget the competition that Tiffany Futscher finds in her swimming meets at Ursuline or for the Dallas Mustangs club team.

Her greatest rivalry might be within her own family.

The Ursuline senior had two sisters who swam in college — Stephanie at TCU and Melanie at Savannah College of Art and Design — and a brother, Eric, who swims at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

So as she grew up watching their accomplishments, the youngest of the bunch wanted to surpass them all.

“They push me a little bit,” she said.

“There’s definitely a lot of influence from my siblings to be better than they were.”

She will join the family legacy of collegiate swimmers after signing a scholarship with Texas A&M this fall.

D E B O R A H K E L LO G G

Ursuline senior Tiffany Futscher has signed a scholarship to swim at Texas A&M. Futscher and her sisters got started in the sport at the urging of their parents, even though her mother doesn’t know how to swim.

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Injuries Don’t Derail College Goals For Troutt

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Grant Troutt only recently decided he wanted to attend college in California, but it was much earlier that he made known his desire to play college basketball.

In November, the ESD senior fulfilled both goals by signing a scholarship with the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Troutt and his older brother, Preston, told their father more than a decade ago of their mutual desire to play college basketball.

So their father, Kenny — a telecom billionaire and owner of championship racehorses — built a full-sized gym into the renovation plans for their lavish Preston Hollow home. Kenny Troutt also launched the Texas Titans, an AAU program that has become one of the most successful in the country, with one of his sons on each team. The Titans have since sent alumni to Duke and Kentucky, among other top programs, and they travel on charter flights to tournaments nationwide.

Grant Troutt understands the perception that might come with such an upbringing, so he’ll begin college next fall with a chance to prove himself.

“I want to go out and prove to people that I’m not some spoiled, rich white kid who was handed all this,” Troutt said. “I want to work and earn my spot.”

C H R I S M C G AT H E Y

ESD senior Grant Troutt will play basketball at UCSB next year.

Troutt already has demonstrated his resilience and work ethic by battling through four surgeries since his freshman year — two on his shoulder and

one each on his hip and elbow — something that ESD head coach Corey Henderson said demonstrates his competitive fire.

“His work ethic is second-to-none.

He’s always wanting to be first in drills and sprints,” Henderson said. “He’s always in the gym and always looking for a place to get better.”

This season for the Eagles, he’s been thrust into the spotlight as a replacement at point guard for Henderson’s son, who is now a freshman at Wichita State. He’s also following in the footsteps of Phil Pressey, a former ESD guard who now plays for the Boston Celtics.

Troutt was recruited by UCSB, a school in the Big West Conference, after the Titans played in a tournament in Sacramento last summer. The location was an ideal fit.

“I always kind of knew I wanted to go there. I was looking at schools in California,” he said. “I just saw the beach. My freshman dorm is going to overlook the ocean.”

Preston Troutt, who starred in high school at Trinity Christian, is a sophomore guard at the University of Pennsylvania.

After a few years at Providence Christian, Grant decided to return to ESD, where he was a young student when he announced his hoop dreams to the world. By this time, he’s not about to let a few pesky injuries slow him down.

“I worked so hard all these years,” he said. “I’m not just going to give up now.”

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CONTINUED FROM 31 “We were too crazy and too hyper, so my mom thought it would discipline us a little,” Futscher said. “We’re not really sure where the gene came from.”

Still, Futscher began swimming competitively when she was about 6 years old. Now she is the school record holder at Ursuline in six events, two of which she broke in November.

Some of those marks were held by her sisters.

Last year, she won the 100yard backstroke and 100-yard butterfly titles at the TAPPS state meet, and was honored as the meet’s top swimmer. Then she qualified for the Summer Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. As a sophomore, she was part of a relay team that broke a TAPPS state record.

“She has a lot of dedication and she’s a hard worker,” said Ursuline head coach Amanda Rieff. “She has grown into being the competitor she always wanted to be. After that, she realized how much talent she has and her strokes have gotten better.”

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COMMUNITY Golden Rule Guides Jenkins in Crises

CASA Mission Close to Home For Longtime Volunteer

By Jacie Scott

Special Contributor

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Jenkins’ office downtown, in the same building as the Sixth Floor Museum, is full of mementos from his political career.

County judge has spent time in the spotlight

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Clay Jenkins believes in the golden rule. During his first term as Dallas County Judge, he saw both good and bad inside the county’s boundaries — with some challenges reaching far beyond them. With a second term secured, he knows there’s more to do.

Elected in 2010, he first faced a crisis with the impending closure of Parkland Memorial Hospital when it was put on probation due to poor conditions. Add in his decision to use aerial spraying to deter West Nile virus two years later, and Jenkins found himself in the middle of the spotlight.

“You’re trying to treat other people the way you want to be treated, but you’re put into situations that are different than you see in normal life,” he said. “You attack everything in a calm way. That sounds contradictory, because you do attack a problem and go as hard as you possibly can, but you do it in a calm and quiet way.”

A Park Cities resident and Armstrong

Elementary School parent, Jenkins learned to translate family-life practices into his day job.

“It works in family and it works in real life if you’re transparent with people about risk,” said Jenkins, a Democrat. “What people can’t handle is when you won’t tell them what’s going on.”

The Waxahachie native and Baylor graduate put that principle to work on certain issues, but more trials were on the horizon.

There are many ways to label what Jenkins faced next: undocumented children, refugees — but he prefers “unaccompanied minors.”

“I kept hearing people talking about hordes of illegal invaders, and I’m looking at pictures on my television of terrified 8-year-old children,” he said. “We don’t have to wait to fix immigration to deal with overcrowded jail cells of children who are crying for their mothers.”

His proposal to shelter those children in Dallas County led protestors to his doorstep. But he stirred feathers again when the Ebola virus hit Dallas and caused worldwide headlines in 2014.

Jenkins faced criticism for driving with Louise Troh, fiancée of Ebola victim Eric Duncan, without protective gear. A CPS complaint was filed against Jenkins for endangering his child, though he had consulted with top doctors prior.

“Some of the moms rallied around my

wife,” he said. “Then we had a few people that were afraid of something unknown, uninviting kids from birthday parties, which is extremely painful if you’re a third-grader.”

Dealing with Ebola in Dallas led Jenkins to work closely with Mayor Mike Rawlings and council member Jennifer Gates, who represents the district where Eric Duncan’s family lived.

“I was there when he went in with the family,” Gates said. “He kind of wears his heart on his sleeve.”

Not only did 2014 bring Ebola to Dallas, it also brought a reelection campaign against Republican and former Dallas City Council member Ron Natinsky.

Jenkins, however, didn’t have much time to focus on the campaign due to the demands of the Ebola crisis.

“I think I shook a few hands and maybe walked a few blocks of houses,” he said.

“A lot of community members and friends campaigned for me, so that was helpful.”

Still, he won 54 percent of the vote countywide. With his second term secured, he now hopes to focus on more jobs for those in Dallas County, better opportunities for the region’s children, and improved transportation.

“In Dallas County, our child-poverty rate is way too high. And then we’ve got to find ways to create more good jobs that pay a living wage,” he said. “People need to be able to pass optimism to their children.”

Preston Hollow resident Linda Swartz understands the fears that children in foster care face.

She’s had to face them herself.

“I was removed from my home at the age of 14 or 15 and was in the sysLinda tem until I aged Swartz out at 18,” said Swartz, who grew up in Georgia. “Back then, I didn’t have anyone there for me. Just a constant flow of strangers.”

Today, Swartz is a voice for neglected or abused youth through her work with Dallas CASA. Dallas CASA [Court Appointed Special Advocates] is a nonprofit organization of volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused or neglected children.

CASA volunteers work sideby-side with Child Protective Services to ensure that the children find safe and permanent homes as quickly as possible.

CASA volunteers can sometimes be that one constant for children who are facing a time of inconsistencies.

“Being removed from their home and the changing of caseworkers throughout the case, I am the familiar face who stays in the child’s life until they are placed in a permanent, forever home,” said Swartz, a mother of four. “The smiles and hugs I get from a child when I visit them or pick them up from school are the best part of the volunteer job.”

That is what lured Swartz to CASA initially.

She was volunteering at a temporary shelter for foster youth, rocking babies to sleep and playing with children, when a friend told her about the organization’s mission.

She desired to make a longterm impact in the life of a child. CASA opened that door

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Assistance League of Dallas Spreads Cheer

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Sharing their passion for helping others and giving back, The Assistance League of Dallas uses human contact to deliver hope to those in need. The Dallas chapter has been active for more than 40 years. Staffed by volunteers, members dedicate hours to those in tough circumstances.

“Every individual may select one or as many different avenues where they wish to share their time,” said club president Sheri Boone. “We’re very flexible.”

She cites the new PediPlace program, which allows volunteers to entertain, read to, and interact with children in the waiting rooms of doctor’s offices. The Tender Loving Care dolls program provides handmade dolls to senior citizens struggling with memory issues. The group also funds and purchases assault survivor kits to aid victims of abuse.

In addition to the new programs, Assistance League of Dallas continues its Cheers for Children initiative, visiting

seriously ill children to deliver toys.

“We’ve raised money to buy toys for a very large toy cart,” said Carol Scott, vice president of marketing and communications. “We push that cart in the hall to every room at Children’s Medical Center and give every child a toy — we’ve had fathers with tears in their eyes.”

Other efforts include covering the cost of school uniforms for children in need; assisting with bingo nights at senior citizen facilities; and participating in Make a Difference Day each year.

“Fundraising is incredibly important to us,” Boone said. “When you give out over 13,000 toys, that’s sizeable.”

Fundraisers occur throughout the year and include a large event at Southfork Ranch featuring bunko, raffles and silent auctions. Valentine’s Day cards and a holiday house bring in donations as well.

“We do it because we really want to help people,” Boone said. “Once people actually come see us and the programs we do and the good we do and the fun we have, we’re getting more members and that’s what we need.”

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Tupinamba has stood at its existing location on Inwood Road near Jesuit for 18 years.

Tupinamba Gets New Home

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers There are many places to go for a plate of hot enchiladas in Dallas, but one longtime favorite is ready to shake things up.

Fans of Tupinamba know that the Tex-Mex restaurant has stood at its Inwood Road location near Jesuit College Preparatory School for 18 years.

Owner Eddie Dominguez has been ready to move for a while, but lease negotiations were slow going. Finally, the time came for the perfect transition — to Walnut Hill Lane and North Central Expressway.

“Traffic-wise, it’s one of the top five intersections in the city of Dallas,” Dominguez said.

Tupinamba is relocating to the southwest corner, but across the street in the northwest quadrant, Leon Backes of Provident Realty Advisors is planning a mixed-use development called Preston Hollow Village, which will include 42 acres of development such as restaurants and retail.

“With everything that’s happened in the northwest corner — all the development there — it’s a great improvement for the area,” he said. “So now we’ve got all four corners that have a lot of activity. The hospital brings in a lot of traffic and medical offices, so we just think it’s a great area for lunch. There’s a lot of rooftops west that we hope to draw from.”

But not only will the loca-

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Tupinamba will move in once construction is complete.

“ W E ’R E T HE O L D E ST FA M I LYOW N E D M E X I CA N RE STAU R A N T I N DA LL A S R I G HT NOW, BE CAU S E T H E OT HE R C H AI N S HAV E B EE N BOU G HT BY C O R P OR AT I ON S . ” E DDI E D O M I N G U E Z tion draw in new customers, old ones are sure to follow as well.

“Everything tastes fresh and

is well-prepared. I’ve never had to wait to get a table,” customer Matt Pyryt said. “Being a graduate of Texas A&M, I always like to support Aggie-owned businesses. I mostly go in for lunch with co-workers since it’s close to our office, but I’ll still visit the new location if I’m in the area.”

The restaurant has been family-owned since its start in 1947, after Papa Froylan Dominguez and his wife, Consuelo, came to America in 1910 following the Mexican Revolution.

“We’re the oldest family-owned Mexican restaurant in Dallas right now, because the other chains have been bought by corporations,” Dominguez said.

The restaurant hopes to open at its new location in midto-late January, depending on when construction is complete.

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Composer Elicits Laughs, Heightens Suspense Teaching, improv are specialties

By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Even if you’ve never heard of Lisa Bloom-Cohen, you’ve probably heard something she’s done.

The Preston Hollow resident has spent more than three decades writing music for movies and television shows, which is one of those often unheralded tasks that doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Now she’s ready to raise her profile.

Bloom-Cohen has spent much of her career writing production music, in which case she’s commissioned to write orchestral pieces based on specific themes. That music is added to a library that is available for background use in movies and other media.

“I love writing beautiful, passionate music with a lot of emotion,” she said. “It gives me a lot of freedom as a composer.”

She also has been hired as an orchestral arranger on some projects, including features by prominent directors such as John Landis, John Carpenter, and Andrew Davis; five seasons of the television drama “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman;” and a few episodes of “Batman: The Animated Series.”

Bloom-Cohen isn’t well known in Dallas, where she’s lived for only three years. Her name is more popular in Europe, where her music is used most frequently, and in Los Angeles, where she got her start in the business and lived for 26 years.

She is a native of northern California, where her father was a violinist, which explains her affinity for classical more than popular music.

“I started writing music very young. We had classical music constantly in our home,” Bloom-Cohen said. “I was completely immersed in it.”

Bloom-Cohen studied at the University of California at Berkeley before moving to Los Angeles, where she discovered jazz. She began working as a pianist, then as an orchestrator.

She worked under some prominent composers and performed at some hotels and high-profile Hollywood par-

ties, where she began getting inquiries about teaching piano. That launched another segment of Bloom-Cohen’s career that continues today.

“Even when I was busy as a composer, I really had a passion for teaching,” Bloom-Cohen said. “I really have an appreciation for music, and I think I have a gift for imparting that.”

The key for Bloom-Cohen has been a good ear and the ability to improvise, since she didn’t teach herself how to read music until she was in her 20s.

“There are various simple tricks that they can do to sound

good,” she said of her students.

“You don’t have to be really gifted to employ your creativity and improvise.”

She’s written the score for a few musicals, and her music has been featured on some compilation CDs. Now she’s looking to raise her profile, whether that means new projects or more feature films.

“I’m hoping to finally come out of the shadows,” Bloom-Cohen said. “I love playing, but I was never going to be a concert pianist. Composing is definitely who I am.”

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In her seven years as an advocate, Swartz has worked on seven cases and has seen positives changes in the lives of 11 children.

“She’s a dedicated, tireless and effective advocate for vulnerable children who likely have never known a caring, reliable, resourceful adult,” said Kathleen LaValle, Dallas CASA executive director and president. “Linda inspires us all to want to do more to protect abused children from further harm and to provide them with the very best chance of a future filled with hope, healing and happiness.”

Swartz serves on the Dallas CASA Children’s Council, a 35-member board that raises funds through various events, promotes CASA’s mission in the community, and assists in other opportunities that support the advocates and children of CASA. She’s previously served as chair of National Adoption Day,

held annually the Saturday before Thanksgiving in Dallas.

Her most recent project, however, was the Champion of Children Award Dinner in November.

The event honors leaders who have committed to improving the lives of children who have been marked by adversity. Swartz and her husband, Rob, chaired the event at the Ritz-Carlton, with more than 500 guests.

The event raised a record-setting $606,000 for Dallas CASA — a definite high moment for Swartz and the organization.

“From chairing the 2014 Champion of Children Award Dinner with her husband, Rob, to her leadership on our Board, to her vital service as a volunteer advocate — you name it, Linda does it for Dallas CASA,” said Greg May, Dallas CASA board chairman. “She’s an inspiration to our board in so many ways.”

With prom season around the corner, Dallas CASA Children’s Council and Comerica

Bank are starting a prom dress drive for teens in foster care.

“We are in early stages of organizing and plan to begin the drive February 2015 with dresses available mid-March 2015,” Swartz said.

Last March, the organization moved to a new facility with the goal of increasing the number of advocates, and information sessions are held to educate potential volunteers.

“There are more children in the system than there are advocates,” Swartz said. “When people hear the mission and the impact, they want to give what they can.”

Swartz’s work with the organization combined with her own life journey has taught her that it’s truly the small things in life that end up meaning so much.

“The more hugs, smiles and caring for a child in need you give, the better it feels,” Swartz said. “I am very grateful that I’m at a point in my life where I’m able to help children who need a friendly face and a voice in court.”

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Volunteer Warms Hearts Across Globe

By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers For some people, the love of philanthropy runs in the family.

That happens to be the case for Grace Cook, whose grandmother, Margaret McDermott, is a well-known Highland Park civic leader in many sectors.

But Cook is making her own marks through one organization: HeartGift.

The group works to make sure that children in developing countries with congenital heart defects can get surgeries to save their lives.

Cook, who serves as a board member for the organization, was able to travel to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, with the family of one such child in November.

“I had such an overwhelming emotion when I got there and got to see the family being reunited,” the Hockaday graduate said. “I started crying, which is absurd.”

Cook acted as a transporter,

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Grace Cook cuddles heart patient Chintushig with his parents. meaning that she accompanied the family on their trip back home to make sure everything ran smoothly with passports and other necessary documentation.

A translator usually makes the trip as well.

But clearly, the support she

was able to provide was not just technical.

“The grandfather of the kid came up to me and barely speaks any English, and he said, ‘thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks,” she said.

Cook even spent time with the family during their stay in Dallas, taking the child to her

grandmother’s home.

It’s experiences like this that get to, well, the heart of HeartGift.

Thanks to partnerships with Samaritan’s Purse and Children’s Health Dallas, the organization was able to help 10 children in 2013.

Their contract with Children’s usually allows about 12 children to come over each year.

“We take defects that are fixable in one surgery,” HeartGift Dallas executive director Barbara Johnson said. “They come here, stay for six to eight weeks, recover at a host family’s home, and leave completely good as new.”

Headquartered in Austin, the organization also has chapters in Houston, San Antonio, and New Orleans.

They are hoping to expand even more, depending on securing contracts with children’s hospitals across the country.

“We’re lucky to have Children’s Medical Center and UT

Southwestern Medical Center be willing to work with us and do this,” Johnson said.

Children have come to HeartGift from Mexico, Honduras, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, to name a few.

Referrals mainly come from Samaritan’s Purse, but some have come from other international organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders.

The cost-saving alone that the organization secures is remarkable.

A surgery that would normally cost $150,000 is done for about $25,000 (without cost to the family in question).

“It’s a very small amount to save a child’s life,” Johnson said. “If they didn’t do this, they would die.”

And for volunteers like Cook, that’s motivation to stay involved for a long time.

“I wanted to find my niche,” she said. “I plan on being in philanthropy for the rest of my life.”

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About that last thing, the state of this country. It was way back in November 2014, standing in what felt like America in the 1950’s – that is to say the line at the Honeybaked ham store – that I had sort of an aha moment. After all this was not a multicultural event. You won’t find a pork store on over half of the planet. No men sporting beards unless they’re from Duck Dynasty, no Muslims, no Jews, vegans, hipsters were queued up, which kind of reminded me of my childhood.

Today’s America is not one my grandparents would recognize with iPhones and iPods, social media, hybrids and smart cars, car seats, bike helmets, leggings, pierced and tattooed bodies, hair every sort of color, MRI’s and in vitro fertilization,

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And their grandparents would not have recognized my grandparents’ world of radio, television, telephones, airplanes, cars, x-rays and indoor plumbing. But they would have had much of same (homemade) menu as the one in the Honeybaked Ham store. Gluten free everything, kale and brussel sprouts, mangos with yogurt wouldn’t have graced their table.

This made me wonder what my grandchildren will remember when they are the grandparents: the quaintness of iPhones, of SUV’s, of flatscreen TV’s, remote controls, botox, eyeglasses, laptops, or what else? There will no doubt be exciting changes we cannot even conceive.

Just a couple of hundred years ago a person would be bled to “release the harmful vapors” if sick which then often killed him. Windows in sickrooms would be kept closed to keep out the harmful night air, which only intensified the germ count. What are we doing now that will seem that deleterious to posterity? Chemotherapy or stents?

Will babies once again be placed on their tummies instead of on their backs, as was the norm in my young mothering?

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Will we return to the idea in my grade school Weekly Reader that the earth’s core was cooling and we might be entering another ice age instead of the conventional wisdom of global warming today?

As much as we seek a little comfort from the past whether in terms of what we ate, or some books, songs, and traditions that brought us joy, the possibility of the novel, innovations and new thoughts continue to press us forward with the more mundane tasks that are the Januaries of our lives.

For example, I took a course in theology for self-interest at Perkins at SMU, and in one discussion on the relationship of man to creation/nature most of the class decried the current “rape” of the planet with how “piggish” (pardon but I seem to have pork on the brain) Americans are with our carbon footprints and carbon emissions.

I’m old, so I cheerfully announced I fully intended to use fossil fuel. I supported the pipeline if we need more oil for planes and cars. And just as we are solving the ozone crisis, I felt confident pollution could be reckoned with.

One other lone dissenter felt we have everything we need to renew the earth particularly any oil waste that is produced through leaks, spills or waste disposal through the simple “development of a modular system using mycelium.” This guy’s into mushrooms! While living in Colorado he dickered around with how they can break down and “clean” waste.

My jaw dropped. I realized I’d just heard a new innovative idea as he explained his own experiments that demonstrated it.

I just want this man to patent his stuff and get a grant to introduce it. I wondered what in the world was he doing getting a degree in theology; but then perhaps working to renew the earth and clean up waste is theology.

Although some might make a case that arguing, consuming, and pursuing the almighty buck is what Americans do best, methinks it is solutions, creativity, and imaginative invention.

It’s changing us all the time. And it doesn’t have to come from the crowd at the Honeybaked Ham store.

It is the rapidity of change that is what is a jarring, particularly with age. Except some things never change. Like taxes.

Thank heaven for comfort food.

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ighteen-year-old Angelica Rodriguez was not supposed have this life. Pregnant at 13 with little support and even fewer opportunities, this bright-eyed teenager was headed for a limited future that likely included dropping out of school and having few career opportunities. Then, after finding a pamphlet in the waiting room of a public clinic, Angelica joined the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas’ Nurse-Family Partnership – a program that pairs a licensed nurse with a teen mom for 60 home visits over two years.

“I had the most wonderful help from my nurse partner. Holly taught me everything – like what was happening with my body, that I should read to my son every day to help him build his vocabulary and how to keep control of tense situations with my family,” said Rodriguez. “She gave me information, resources and support. It put me in a better position to handle every aspect of my pregnancy, parenting, schoolwork and just life in general.”

5222 Farquhar Lane $3,175,000 ANNE GOYER | c 214.457.0417 agoyer@briggsfreeman.com

Teen mothers receive two years of support and education from the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas’ Nurse-Family Partnership.

According to Jennifer Ware, CEO of the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas, currently 286,000 women and girls live in poverty in Dallas County, and that number is expected to increase by another 100,000 by 2020. Programs such as these address poverty where it starts – in the family.

Angelica fast-tracked high school and graduated with her Associates in Science.

Now she is pursuing a nursing degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. Rodriguez’s son, Sebastian, is also a star student – already reading in both English and Spanish at only 5 years old.

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