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12 Getting schooled?North Shore high schools have plenty of new facilities on their wish list. But the idea of corpora-tions helping pay the cost is still not embraced.

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23 Love & MarriageColumnist Joanna Brown cannot wait until the final whistle blows at the Super Bowl.

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I n the days of lower property values — and thus lower property taxes to fund

public schools — the idea of corporate sponsor-ships for new school projects should be seriously weighed, especially when they involve sports.

On the ballot this spring in Highland Park and Deerfield is an $89 million referendum for its high schools, including new swimming pools for both. Lake Forest High School’s board is con-sidering $5 million for projects such an eight-lane track. New Trier High School installed $3 million in synthetic turf for its football field and practice area last year.

Wouldn’t corporate sponsorship give taxpay-ers’ relief and offer companies that enjoy the fruits of many North Shore residents’ labor a way to make a goodwill gesture that wouldn’t dent the bottom line? Vernon Hills High School did a while back, accepting $100,000 from local manufacturer Rust-Oleum, whose name now graces its football field.

North Shore educators insist that “advertis-ing never has an influence on curriculum,” but sports would seem to be outside that worry. It’s not like a Vernon Hills player makes a tackle, looks up from his handiwork at the Rust-Oleum sign and decides to buy that spray paint for his bedroom wall. And booster clubs already help

fund many important parts of sports programs, so private funding is not new.

Fortune 500 companies abound a short drive away. Think of Walgreen, Grainger, Allstate and other blue-chip companies who might be interested in contributing. In college sports, traditionalists used to cringe at the idea of bowl games named after a tortilla chip. Today they’re a reality, and no one seems to suffer from it.

It would not hurt our schools to consider alter-native means of financing new projects (New Trier, in fact, revised its policy last year so it can accept sponsorships with certain restric-tions). I remember mentioning the thought of corporate sponsorship to a North Shore super-intendent almost a decade ago, and he looked at me like I had three heads. Read the story in this week’s issue and, if there’s an outcry among readers who think corporate sponsorships for school sports facilities are absurd, maybe next week’s First Word column photo will feature a three-headed editor.

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Kim Carden found herself in a jam when son Garrett’s guitar teacher moved away. Both Kim and Garrett wanted to continue his music education, and so Kim started ask-ing around.

“He loves it. Music makes him happy and builds his confidence,” Kim said of Garrett, now 11 and studying electric guitar.

At the recommendation of a friend, the Lake Forest family enrolled in Highwood’s School of Rock Music, and Garrett found himself preparing for a concert: a Led Zeppelin show at an Evanston lounge. Kim was as excited as Garrett.

“To have the consistent lessons weekly and then col-laborate with other kids at his level — it’s really neat how it comes together. He looks forward to coming here after school. It’s like, the day is done so let’s go play some guitar.”

The School of Rock is a performance-based music school, where all students receive private lessons on the funda-mentals of music on the instrument of their choice, vocals or song writing, and then also participate in bands with peers who play at the same skill level.

True to the name of the school, concerts play tribute to rock legends: Queen, Girls Gone Rock, One Hit Wonders, the Kinks, and Prince. And they do it in local lounges, just like their rock idols started out.

It may be untraditional, but parents like Kim Carden and Lisa Hesse think it’s wonderful. Hesse brings her 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son to Highwood from Vernon Hills for lessons on keyboards and drums, respectively.

“Classical music is wonderful, but it’s not the only way to teach music,” she said, waiting for her kids on a Wednesday after school. “They’re getting the same foundation (as I

had as a child) with rock music, and it’s a compelling way to make music exciting and relatable for this generation.

“They love it and we love it because the music they’re playing at home is stuff that we know the words to.”

The opportunity to perform in a real concert — one band even got to open for alternative rockers Weezer at the Aragon Ballroom in 2011 — brings something special out of these young performers. Students range in age from 7 to 18, and come to Highwood from as far away as Lake Villa for the chance to learn and jam with their peers.

“We see kids who are shy and timid when they come in here get on stage and blossom,” said Selena Fragassi, who left her post as school manager at the end of 2012. A separate section of adults have lessons and band practice at a Highland Park facility Sunday and Monday nights.

“Kids come here and make friends, and we’ve had kids then break off into their own bands separate from our

bands here. They become leaders.”“To see a child experience that is beautiful,” added

Brian Vecchione, who replaces Fragassi as school man-ager in 2013. Like other staff members, Vecchione is a musician who was inspired to start guitar lessons as a seventh-grader who saw the girls go wild for Stairway to Heaven.

Stephanie Stahl is a contract performer who has also taught voice and songwriting lessons at the School of Rock for four years. She said her students are as different as the music they’ve learned to play.

“But they’re all passionate about singing. I’m not sure if they got it here or had it before they came in, but they’re all working hard,” Stahl said.

Songwriting students must play an instrument, and Stahl says does not instruct students on content - only the theory. They record on an iPad, which allows student instant feedback on their work.

“One of my students has a whole book of lyrics, filled with her thoughts. So she and I work on putting chords together and studying pop songs to get the formula, and then personalize the formula. There are only 12 notes to work with, so the permutations will run out eventually.”

Becky Rudolph is one such vocal student. The 17-year-old Highland Park resident came to the School of Rock with a basic knowledge of guitar and bass, but quickly redirected her efforts to vocal performance.

“I volunteered to sing because there was no one in my Rock 101 band who sang,” she said. “I’m really comfort-able with my voice, and now it’s how I express myself.”

Music from the 1990s is her favorite, but the songs of Frank Zappa and Rush were the most challenging that she’s performed.

“It wasn’t new music to me, but it wasn’t something I ever thought I’d be covering.” ■

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Steve Rams is the co-owner of “Frost, A Gelato Shoppe” in Highland Park located at 617 Central Ave. He recently moved to Lake Forest with his wife, Ellen, and three sons, Brooks, Blake and Cash.Reading : “Swimming With The Sharks” by Harvey Mackay for the second time. It’s an old school guide to marketing and customer service, both of which are very important at Frost. For pleasure, I rec-ommend any book by Cormac McCarthy. I have read all of them and have yet to find an author that matches his storytell-ing ability. My favorite book is Walter Payton’s “Never Die Easy.”Listening: Neil Young’s album “Decade” is playing in my car. A great compilation of classic Young songs. If it’s not a CD or the iPod, I usually have the radio tuned into sports talk radio. I am very interested in the Bears head coach search.Watching: When I finally get control of the remote, the TV is usually tuned into Modern Family, Parenthood or Chopped. I’m always amazed at what the chefs cre-ate with limited time and ingredients I didn’t know existed.Following: I have followed the weather since I can remember. It helps me forecast business patterns at Frost. On Twitter,

I follow the Bears beat reporters and local food critics. It’s good to know what is trending in the culinary world. Deadspin.com is another website I check out daily. It provides an alternative spin on sports and sports reporting. Activity: My activities are my kids’ activi-ties. My oldest son, Brooks, is learning to play hockey through the Highland Park Falcons program. He’s a Little Falcon and it pains me to miss a prac-tice. I enjoy watching my sons make prog-ress in life. They are still young but our family motto is instilled at an early age - “never say never” - always work your tail off, no matter what objects are in your way.Eating: Recently I discovered Koya on Old Elm Road. The sushi is fantastic and it’s a great, comfortable atmosphere. My favorite date restaurant is Miramar in Highwood.What is your favorite mistake? Not pursu-ing my date after the senior prom. She went her way and I went my way. I knew she was the one when I was 5-years-old, and I thought I let my greatest catch slip off the line. Eight years later she moved back into town, and I didn’t hesi-tate to make up for lost times. We have now been married for six years and have three beautiful boys. Had I pursued her then, I’m not sure we would be where we are today. ■

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Considering the North Shore is home to a dozen or so Fortune 500 companies, some have wondered whether local high schools should take advantage of corporate sponsor-ships. New Trier High School District 203, in fact, revised its policy to accept these types of sponsorships last year.

So far, though, high schools have not secured deals with businesses to put their names on buildings and stadiums — even though in some cases it could relieve the bur-den on taxpayers.

The District 113 school board, which encompasses Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School, voted last week to put an $89 million referendum on the April

ballot. New gyms and swimming pools at both schools, along with a repurposed build-ing at Highland Park, are part of the plan to be voted on.

Said Natalie Kaplan, communications director for Highland Park High School, “We have some advertising but have not pursued corporate sponsorships as of yet. However, we would consider the possibility.”

The New Trier policy specifies that in order for the school board to consider a nam-ing opportunity, the individual or corporation would need to donate at least half of the cost of the project. The board has the right to refuse naming rights under any circumstance and could remove names in the future, according

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Lake Forest High School (above), new Trier High School and Loyola Academy are all heading to Florida in February to compete in the nationals in poms. photography by j.geil

■ by bill mclean

Lake Forest High School’s poms squad watched a video session from May recently.

“Seeing that showed all of us how far we’ve come as performers since then,” Lake Forest senior tri-captain Nicole Vargas said. “It’s always encouraging to see progress.”

They’ll travel far on Feb. 1 — to Orlando, Fla., host city of the National Dance Team Championships. Against large varsity qual-ifiers at nationals last year, LFHS took third in the Poms Dance category and sixth in Jazz Dance. Their high-energy, high-impact two-minute poms show was executed in front of ESPN2 cameras and an estimated 10,000 spectators at the Walt Disney World Resort.

“It’s not just about where you finish at competitions,” said senior Julia Zureikat, one of Vargas’ teammates. “It’s also about building friendships and bonds as a team during months of practices and hard work.”

Lake Forest High School’s performers — they’re called Pips, a nickname the pro-gram adopted 20 years ago, and guided by poms winter coach Nikki Lazzaretto — will see plenty of familiar faces in the Sunshine State next month. Loyola Academy’s Ramblerettes and New Trier High School’s dance team also qualified for nationals after excelling at state competi-tions last summer.

“It’s more intense, more of an athletic activity now,” 10th-year Ramblerettes coach Cindy McLean said of current poms participants compared to those who enter-tained fans and battled in front of judges five years ago. “The kids coming in are

more talented and they’re practicing more with choreographers.

“TV has also been an influence,” she added.

Popular television shows like “Dancing With The Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance” have inspired Loyola senior co-captain and Glenview resident Lauren Michels, who helped the Ramblerettes place 13th (Poms Dance, large varsity) at nation-als last winter.

“The (“So You Think You Can Dance”) contestants are incred-ible dancers,” she said. “I love watching them perform. Dancing — it’s getting more attention.”

It started getting recognized as a sport by the Illinois High School Association, beginning with the 2012-13 academic year. The IHSA will hold a state series this month for Competitive Dance teams.

“They’re definitely athletes,” New Trier dance team coach Julie Massarsky said of her charges, who qualified for nationals in the Hip Hop category (large varsity) by finishing second at a Universal Dance Association competition in St. Charles last summer.

“I’ve noticed more appreciation for what dancers do, and those TV shows have defi-nitely helped. We’ve also received tremen-dous support from our fans, parents and school.”

NT’s dance crew — which energizes toe-tapping home crowds during halftimes at boys and girls varsity basketball games — will hit the stage in Orlando in hoops jerseys. Some of the moves in their creative gig are basketball-specific, like dribbling.

Lake Forest High’s varsity and JV poms teams sometimes get to practice alongside varsity dribblers. Their studio at the school isn’t big enough for full-team dry runs.

“Our varsity boys basketball coach (Phil LaScala) has let us use part of the main

gym while his team is practicing in it,” Vargas said. “He’s been great and supportive, and he couldn’t believe what we were doing during winter break. We practiced some days from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Crazy hours, I know. He was impressed with the time we were putting in.”

Like athletes in other sports, members

of poms teams often have to deal with inju-ries. A Lake Forest Pip suffered an ACL tear last winter and others sustained her-niated discs and hip issues.

“It’s a part of poms,” said Loyola’s McLean. “Injuries happen, lower back and hamstring injuries in particular because of overuse. But we’ve been proactive this year. We have a team mom who is a per-sonal trainer and devoted to making sure our girls are properly conditioned.

“Our number of injuries this year,” she added, “is down.”

To perform well at an elite level, poms performers and dance team members must twist and shout in unison, have stamina, exhibit flexibility and showmanship, and own an unyielding work ethic.

“I’m passionate about it,” said Loyola senior co-captain and Lincoln Park resi-dent Georgia May, who, like Michels, wrote about her poms experiences for the essay portion of her college applications. “I’ve learned so much about leadership and the importance of putting others before me. I’ve also gained so many friendships — that’s been so rewarding.

“But what’s also been just as reward-ing is what you get from focusing on an intense sport.”

Loyola hauled a first-place trophy (Poms Dance) and a third-place prize (Jazz Dance) from a competition in Milwaukee this winter, before placing third (Poms) and fourth (Jazz) at the Chicagoland Dance Championships at the University of Illinois-Chicago on Jan. 12. The event featured elite squads from many states in the Midwest.

LFHS captured the title in Poms and took runner-up honors in Jazz at UIC.

“My girls spend a lot of time practic-ing (up to five days a week for several hours each day),” said Lake Forest High’s Lazzaretto. “It’s a major part of their lives and they’re totally dedicated to their craft and becoming dynamic as a team.

“We’re conditioning as much as athletes on other teams are. The girls are lifting weights, doing plyometric exercises and wearing wrist weights during drills to develop their arms. We don’t mess around when we practice.” ■

DanCe fevernorth shore teams thrive in growing sport of poms

— Julie Massarsky

I’ve noticed more apprecia-tion for what dancers do, and those TV shows have definitely helped.


“if [William] Hadley hadn’t been blinded here, the school would never have existed,” says Charles Young, president at Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka.

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■ by cheryl waity

Darrin Cheney of Weiser, Idaho has slowly been losing his site his entire life due to a genetic disorder.

“I had tried to learn Braille twice before but never succeeded. I decided since I was starting to lose my sight rapidly, it was time for me to learn the skill,” he said.

It was in 2008 when Cheney turned to Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka and was able to master the skill that would become so important in his life. Hadley is an adult distance education program that offers free services and allowed Cheney to develop his practical skills in Braille from more than 1, 500 miles away.

But that’s a short distance compared to how far the non-profit work of Hadley goes.

Hadley has several programs designed for students aged 14 and up, including high school courses, continuing education courses, courses for families of visually impaired individuals and courses for peo-ple who work in visually impaired support fields. The courses are offered both online and through correspondence. Its mission is to promote independent living.

Hadley has about 10,000 students all over the world, in all 50 states and about 100 countries, but all the fundraising for the organization happens on the North Shore. Its 92-year history in Winnetka makes it one of the North Shore’s oldest charities and, according to Deborah Bloom, vice president of communications at Hadley, has a strong connection to the community because of intergenerational donors.

“There are people on the board whose families founded Hadley,” she said.

The president of Hadley School for the Blind, Charles Young, attributes the founder of the school William Hadley’s deep connection to the Winnetka community as the cornerstone to why there is so much support today. Hadley had been a school

teacher before an illness left him visually impaired as an adult, and Young explains the town “rallied behind him” to help him build an adult education program.

“If [William] Hadley hadn’t been blinded here, the school would never have existed,” Young said.

Young also attributes the philanthropic nature of the community as the key to Hadley’s continued success.

“You have very successful businessmen and businesswomen in this community who are very generous and supportive of others,” he said.

The largest donor to Hadley School for the Blind is Hadley’s Women’s Board, which has existed since the mid-1950s. The women’s board typically has two fund-raisers, a gala in the spring and Braille holiday card sales in the winter. Last year the group contributed more than $100,000 to the organization. Foundations and cor-porations also contribute to Hadley.

The current president of the board, Lori Mulhern, was introduced to Hadley about eight years ago by a friend. She was drawn to the fundraising effort for Hadley because she wanted to help “the less fortunate.”

Each year Hadley honors eight students, and they are invited to the institution to receive the awards. At that time donors really learn what their contributions mean, according to Mulhern.

“They can see what Hadley does to change students lives,” she said.

Last year Cheney was honored as the top student in Braille for Hadley and was impressed by what he saw from the staff, donors and the facility.

“The thing that blew me away is Hadley is not that big of an operation,” he said of the 70-person group, including instructors.

“How can this be? How can they pull this off with all the people they service? It’s just amazing.” ■

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Sting will return to Ravinia Festival in Highland Park for two performances in June, while Jewel will make her debut at the outdoor center the same month.

Sting — who performed with the Police before embarking on a solo career — is slated to perform many of his greatest hits with a five-piece band on June 7 and June 8. He sold out two shows at Ravinia in 2010 backed up by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.

Singer/songwriter Jewel will appear on June 16. She launched her professional music career with her best-selling debut album Pieces of You, which went 15 times platinum. She has received four Grammy award nominations and had sold over 27 million albums.

Tickets to all Ravinia summer events will be on sale to the public on April 25. A full list of 2013 summer events will be announced on March 7.

Ravinia Festival is located at Lake Cook and Green Bay roads. For more information visit Ravinia.org. ■

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The new Rotary Interact Club at Highland Park High School boasts more than three dozen students, many of whom had never met before.

As the community building chair of the club, Rohan Malempati must think of ways to bring members closer together.

Whether it is thinking of a creative game or making sure members sit next to someone new each month, Malempati is dedicated to creating a welcoming envi-ronment within the club. Malempati has embraced everyone and formed a new family.

This has not always been a natural ten-dency for the 10th-grader, who admits to being shy before coming to Highland Park. Malempati moved to Highland Park from Ann Arbor, Mich., two years ago, and he has been able to open up, largely thanks to his involvement in Rotary Interact.

“I like everything Highland Park has to offer; you’re motivated to do more things,” he said. “Now that I’m in Rotary, I’m motivated to do more and more.”

This year, the club did a walk for PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter), ran a Special Olympics floor hockey tournament at Lambs Farm, and is raising money for the Special Olympics through Chicago’s

Polar Plunge in March. The group has raised $3,500 for the latter and hopes to raise another $1,000 by the time of the event.

“I very much like the events, but being with all my friends and acquaintances is the best part of Rotary Club,” he said.

“Rohan cares deeply about all of the members in our club, and the kids love him,” said teacher and co-sponsor of the club, Melissa Zientara. “His love and enthusiasm for Rotary is unparalleled.”

In school, Malempati’s favorite subject is chemistry, and he dreams of being a doc-tor someday. The polyglot takes Italian at school and speaks his parents’ native lan-guage from India at home. He has been to India four or five times, and excitedly reminisces about visiting the Taj Mahal.

“I would like to travel outside the coun-try more,” he said.

Zientara shares that Malempati is an exceptionally proud member of Rotary Interact, as not a day goes by that he doesn’t share an idea or send a “Go Rotary!” text. His positivity and happi-ness touches everyone around him, and she jokes with other teachers that he is an “old soul.”

“He is the funniest, most thoughtful and selfless person I have met in my life,” said Zientara. ■

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For the second year in a row, Mutt Lynch Winery — owned by Highland Park resident Brenda Lynch — was named Label Sweepstakes Winner by the judging committee for the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

Mutt Lynch who won for its “mbf” (Man’s Best Friend) series of wine also picked up a Best of Class/Series for the same entry.

“To win this award once is an honor. To win it two years running is incred-ible,” said Lynch, whose winery is in Healdsburg, Calif.

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At the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, Terlato Wines — whose headquarters are in Lake Bluff — received 25 top honors, from Sweepstakes Winner (the top award) to Best in Class, double gold, gold, and Silver.

The Terlato Family Vineyards 2010 Pinot noir from the Russian River Valley received two honors, Sweepstakes Winner: the best red as well as Best in Class of all Pinot noirs.

The 2009 Chimney Rock Elevage, Stags Leap district was selected Best in Class of all wines in the Bordeaux Blend category. The 2009 Chimney Rock Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap district and 2009 Rutherford Hill Merlot were both awarded double gold.

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The Highland Park/Highwood Rotary Club will host the six candidates seek-ing election to the Highland Park City Council during the April election on Monday, Jan. 28.

The candidates will present their plat-form to the membership and guests in a town hall meeting format from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Highland Park Country Club.

Reserved seats are limited and non-members of Rotary are asked to RSVP to [email protected]. Registration will require your name, address, email and phone number.

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The City of Lake Forest invites high school students who are residents of Lake Forest to serve on a city board.

Students who will be high school seniors during their year of service will be appointed by the mayor in May and will work alongside other community adult volunteers.

Applications are due at City Hall on Friday, March 8. Please check www.cityoflakeforest.com for more information..

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to Communications Director Nicole Dizon. The decision to modify the policy came

when New Trier’s Booster Club offered to help fund new artificial turf fields that cost $3 million. At a Board of Education meeting in May, members expressed support for alter-nate means of funding in order to offset costs during difficult financial times. In an effort to battle commercialism, it was decided that any signage associated with a name would need to adhere to district standards and could not include a corporate logo, said Dizon.

“The main concerns expressed in revis-ing the policy,” said Dizon, “were to assure that New Trier students were not exposed to advertising messages during the school day, to maintain the integrity of New Trier facili-ties, and to make clear that advertising never has an influence on curriculum.”

Superintendent Dr. Linda Yonke notes the board has not been approached by a large corporate donor at this time, and that dona-tions are mostly from individuals rather than organizations.

Lake Forest High School is mulling a $5 million capital spending plan, which involves a new track and more at Lindenmeyer Field. Lake Forest High School’s Athletic Booster Club put together a number of donors for improvements to the school’s athletic facili-ties last year, but the District 115 board — after unanimously endorsing the plan, which included a new track, in May — decided to go in a different direction.

The booster club solicits corporations as part of its Community Partnership Program, established in 2010. Its guidelines do not allow sponsors from certain categories, such as alcohol, tobacco and gaming-related enter-tainment, so as be consistent with the school’s values. Current sponsors include Abbott, Allstate and Lake Forest Bank & Trust.

At Vernon Hills High School’s stadium, naming rights were sold to Rust-Oleum for $100,000 a few years ago. In 2002, Naperville High School named Under Armour as its offi-cial equipment sponsor and allowed the com-pany to hang a banner in its stadium.

A small, private school may have more diffi-culty securing a corporate sponsorship. There does not seem to be a big enough interest from corporations to sponsor a private school facility, according to Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kerr.

“We certainly would not reject any gifts from corporations, provided those gifts met our gift policy criteria and the corporation did not try to influence the school’s curricu-lum or policies,” said Kerr. “We simply do not qualify to receive corporate gifts.”

LFA’s several hundred students present a small audience for an advertiser, meaning there would not be a “sufficient payback,” Kerr added. LFA looked into sponsors for its ice hockey rink when it was constructed, but interest from companies, big and small, was relatively low.

“Would we take a company donation for a building?” Kerr mused. “I do not see why not -- The Abbott Athletic Field House?” ■

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Tens of billions of dollars are spent each year on international aid by the United States government, foundations and oth-ers. Connie Duckworth, a former part-ner at Goldman Sachs, believes though their intentions may be good, their basic approach to foreign development is wrong.

“A downright error of traditional inter-national aid is that it is top down. It tends to include a lot of money, and it expects fast results,” says Duckworth, a Lake Forest resident. “We found all of those ways to be disastrous.”

By “we,” Duckworth is referring to Arzu Studio Hope, a non-profit organization she founded nine years ago with $100,000 of her own money after serving on a State Department initiative, the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council. Arzu employs women in rural Afghanistan as rug weavers.

“The approach I took at the outset was I did what I thought made common sense,” she said during breakfast at Egg Harbor Café. “Step one is a job — not in 10 years, but today. They need the dignity of work.”

Duckworth said it took four or five years to build a footprint where they could identify high-quality women weav-ers in Bamiyan province, which sits in the center of the war-torn country. Starting with 30 weavers in 2004, the organiza-tion now counts 600 — this in a country considered to be the worst in the world for women, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey.

During four visits, Duckworth has seen the privation up close.

“It is incredibly harsh, especially for women,” she says. “There’s very little water. There’s no possibility for large-scale agri-culture. There’s virtually no work these

people can do, but they’ve been there thou-sands of years.”

Duckworth — who works pro bono as chairman and chief executive officer of Arzu — says the only rugs sold during the first few years were to “Friends of Connie.” Then, the organization started to identify distribution channels; products are now exported to the United States and other developed countries. On the North Shore, three types of rugs (traditional, tribal, and modern) are for sale in Minasian Rug Company in Evanston.

“I would have thought 10 years ago creat-ing a product that would be wanted in the international marketplace would be the hard part,” she says. “The biggest chal-lenge is: How do you build brand aware-ness of a niche product in a mass market?” (That challenge is compounded since the non-profit lacks both a marketing and an advertising budget.)

Aside from employing rug weavers, Arzu has hired health workers, garden-ers, drivers and others; a staff of more than 50 monitors the social benefits programs and rug production, according to www.arzustudiohope.org. Duckworth’s group has helped open the first preschool in a province where hundreds of families still live in caves. And in a country wracked by ceaseless war for decades, it seems stun-ning that Duckworth’s group has never needed security.

“We asked a security guy, and he said, ‘The best security is to be trusted by the local people,” Duckworth said.

A self-described Army brat, Duckworth spent a good chunk of her youth in Texas and earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Texas, followed by a mas-ters of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of

Pennsylvania. She joined investment bank-ing firm Goldman Sachs in 1981 and made partner a decade later. She retired just after 9/11 after a 20-year run. She and her husband, Tom, have raised four children: Andrew, Elizabeth, William and Caroline.

Given her background and passion for women’s rights, Duckworth is often asked by young women how they can change the world. Her advice is straightforward.

“I tell them the best background you can get is a business background, because you can address the challenges of the world,” she says. “A business person can think stra-tegically and can reprioritize when circum-stances change.”

Coming up, Duckworth will speak at the Women’s Board of Catholic Charities Kick

Off Luncheon on Feb. 6 at 300 N. Green Bay Rd. in Lake Forest.

“It’s a pretty outstanding group,” she says. “Thousands of volunteers who engage in the community.”

Duckworth said at the moment revenues for the rugs run about 50 percent of costs; the goal is to reach 100 percent. She is also involved with Peace Cord Bracelets (www.peacecord.org), which are made from para-chute cord and buttons in Afghanistan.

“We’ve trained 150 women to make these. We can do them in school colors,” she said.

She is proud of the social change she’s helped engineer using business principles in a forlorn part of the world.

“Nothing works in Afghanistan,” she says, “and here we are, just chugging along.” ■

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University of Chicago’s Cancer Research Foundation Auxiliary Board (UCCRFAB) hopes to provide an atmosphere of warmth during its Feb. 2 event, “Light the Way to a Cure.”

“We want to create a fun benefit but also a warm, inviting atmosphere that will honor and celebrate all the lives that have been touched by cancer,” said Magda Springuel, a co-chair along with Julie Sullivan.

Michigan Shores Club in Wilmette will be awash in candlelight while guests enjoy dinner, drinks and dancing to the tunes of Chicago band “Out of Control.” Rob Stafford from NBC News will be the emcee for the evening, and he has his own story of cancer to share. A live and silent auction as well as a raffle will raise funds for the doctors that UCCRFAB supports.

“We really love our doctors, and we want to help them get to the research that they are so willing and capable of doing,” said Sullivan.

All funds raised by UCCRFAB directly benefit three doctors within the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center for three years, many of whom are early in their research stage. These funds allow doctors to get published, leading to larger grants to continue research.

It is the second year the board is support-ing: Dr. Jill de Jong, who will also speak at the event, and who specializes in child-hood blood cancers; Dr. Michael Spiotto, who works with head and neck cancers; and Dr. Peter O’Donnell, who focuses on blad-der, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer.

UCCRFAB consists of 25 North Shore women who have all been affected by cancer in some way. Founded in 1951, the organi-zation has raised almost $3 million to date.

With this year being its “comeback year,” the ladies of the board have put symbolism into the details of the event. The tabletop

arrangements consist of a floating candle, willow branches and deep red roses. As Sullivan explains, the candle is a trib-ute to those who have suffered from can-cer. Willow branches symbolize support, because the way they fall over are meant to support the surrounding structure of the tree. The red roses are intended to emit a deep energy.

There will also be a candle altar at the check-in. Each candle can be purchased for $100, and Sullivan hopes that by the end of the night, all the candles will be glowing.

“We want to show the North Shore, our friends and colleagues that we are a great organization that hopes the doctors we fun-draise for can find a cure,” said Springuel.

Tickets to the event are $225 apiece, and raffle tickets are three for $50 or 7 for $100. The raffle includes an iPad, a set of Cakebread wines and “His and Her” watches by ToyWatch. Ticket purchase, information on the board and the doctors it supports can be found at www.uccrfab.org.

“It’ll be a night of honor and inspiration, not of sadness,” said Sullivan. “There are far more people being cured by cancer now than a few years ago, so that’s cause for celebration.” ■

‘A night oF honor And inspirAtion’

Wilmette event to raise money to fight cancer

Julie Sullivan of Wilmette and Magda Springuel of kenilworth are co-chairing a cancer event at the Michigan Shores Club in Wilmette Feb. 2.

— Magda Springuel

We want to create a fun benefit but also a warm, in-viting atmosphere that will honor and celebrate all the lives that have been touched by cancer.”

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The 7th Annual Rebecca’s Dream Benefit at the Society for Arts was attended by 150 guests and raised $73,000. Guests passed the evening with dining, dancing and live performance, held to promote awareness and compassionate understanding of depression and bipolar disorder as real diseases. More than 14 million people live with depression in the United States. The foundation has raised over $1 million used to fund grants, generate resources, and promote awareness while reducing the stigma of mental health issues. rebeccasdream.org. ■

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Sports widows gird for 18 days of bliss

■ by joanna brown

They say that people get the blahs this time of year.

The holidays are over. The days are short, and the daylight that we do get is largely gray and drab. There isn’t a whole lot to look forward to.

I believe they are wrong. This is my most favorite time of year precisely because there is nothing going on. We have exactly 18 February days between the Super Bowl and opening of Major League Baseball’s spring training, and I plan to make the most of the free time of my husband, who writes about sports and follows it passionately.

I say this with a clear conscious because it stands in stark contrast to my least favor-ite time of year, October, when we have foot-ball, the World Series, basketball, hockey, and it’s usually still warm enough to play golf. A piece of Mars could appear in my kitchen and go completely unnoticed by my husband until Thanksgiving weekend.

I am, in fact, a Sports Widow. And I know I’m not alone. My friend Sarah explained, “The men’s hockey league is still going

on, and the youth basketball league (he coaches) continues through March, so I’m pretty sure the hole in our kitchen ceiling will be there at Easter.”

An article at twoofus.org explains why our husbands act this way. The site is a product of the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center, an Oklahoma City-based clearinghouse for information and resources on the most precious relationship in our lives. The organization was established by a federal grant, and offers seminars across the country.

Before I get too far into its explana-tion, however, I must acknowledge that not all sports widows are women and not all sports fans are men. I know plenty of women with heads for obscure Cubs’ sta-tistics and weekend travel plans centered around tennis tournaments. I was con-vinced that one neighbor had come out of retirement because we had crossed paths at our little intersection so many mornings in row. Turns out she tees off between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. five days a week. I salute all of

their spouses.twoofus.org explains why the sports fans

in our lives love it. There’s the rush and sense of triumph in supporting a winner, the relaxation that comes from a few hours engaged in something so totally removed from work and home responsibilities, and the socialization to be had from watching games among friends. Their spouses hate it because those heightened emotions over improbable one-handed catches with one toe in the end zone upend an otherwise peaceful household, there is less weekend time together for busy spouses, and less help with household tasks during those endless doubleheaders.

So, dear readers, I say that after the last Buffalo wing is consumed after the Super Bowl Feb. 3, we seize the day. Demand help rearranging the basement furniture. Go shopping for a new washing machine. Or pick a matinee — preferably a romantic comedy or a foreign film. He has nothing

better to do, which is beautiful.But I will warn you that when I asked

friends how they might be spending these 18 precious days, I received two sobering responses. One is that we still have college basketball to contend with in February (and the National Hockey League has ended its lockout). Another husband told me that he would be developing his Internet-based relationships with imaginary friends, a ref-erence to the scandal within Notre Dame’s highly successful football program.

I say this with a clear conscience because it stands in stark contrast to my least favor-ite time of year, October, when we have football, the World Series, hockey, and it’s usually still warm enough to play golf. A piece of Mars could appear in my kitchen and go completely unnoticed by my husband until Thanksgiving weekend.. ■

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After 20 years in retail, Cecily Casey felt she needed a career change.

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Realfit Gym opened in May and wel-comed 2013 with a strong start. Getting in shape is arguably the most popular of New Year’s resolutions, and the classes at Realfit have a renewed boost of energy, says the duo. The challenging part is keeping the resolution, and many people drop off by mid-February.

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“It gets people through the hump and those colder winter months,” said Lucy.

The Casey women attribute one of their assets as being their age difference, as it helps them reach a wider range of people. Mom Cecily understands those who have been through pregnancy, while Lucy can relate to new graduates who are learning to transition into adulthood. By combining their extensive health and exercise knowl-edge, Cecily and Casey have perfected a regimen, which they call their “strategy session,” to maximize workout efficiency and address personal needs of the clients.

Every member starts with a full func-tional movement screen, a system that evaluates basic movement abilities. The scores form a starting point for developing a personal program. Other factors taken into account are based off of previous fit-ness and health history.

“Everyone’s body is so different,” said Lucy. “We don’t want to throw something at them that they don’t have the strength to perform properly.”

The second part of the strategy session is assessment goal setting, where mem-bers set goals based on where they are and where they want to be. The customized programs are “fast lanes” to getting to the goals quickly. Lucy lives by goal setting, and even challenged herself to running a marathon in high school just to see if she could do it.

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Cecily’s favorite analogy to use is, “If you have a flat tire in the car, you wouldn’t go slash the other three tires. You would fix the one and keep driving down the road. If you have a mess up and missed a week of classes, don’t beat yourself up over it. Each day is a new day, and continue down that road.” ■

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■ by bill mclean

Individual statistics mean little to Loyola Academy girls basketball player Maggie Nick.

But the 5-foot-9 junior guard knew exactly how many points she had scored in the first quarter of the Ramblers’ Girls Catholic Athletic Conference showdown against Mother McAuley’s visiting Mighty Macs on Jan. 17.

“Zero points,” Nick would recall after Loyola’s 60-57 loss, a result that meant Loyola, McAuley and Trinity finished the regular season as GCAC tri-champs with 6-1 marks.

Nick, though, did a little bit of everything in the second quarter that made everybody forget about Loyola’s six-point first frame.

“At that point I just wanted it — really wanted to win,” she said. “We all did. Making plays, even when they’re small ones, are important. We all started mak-ing plays in the second quarter.”

Nick scored her first seven points in a 10-0 run, turning a 17-9 deficit into a 19-17 lead. In between her left-handed layup and right-handed three-pointer, she blocked a shot. After a McAuley timeout, Nick kept a

possession alive with an offensive rebound, made another basket and blocked another shot. Right after that second swat, she hus-tled to prevent the ball from going out of bounds. The save ended up in the hands of a teammate.

Busy, busy.Productive, productive.Nick capped her nine-point quarter with

a field goal with 2.3 seconds left, and the Ramblers trotted off the court with a 23-19 advantage.

Fans in attendance did not have to turn on a television to enjoy this Nick at Nite show.

Nick, of Sauganash, finished with team highs of 22 points and eight rebounds. She averages 10 points and nearly eight boards a game for LA, which improved to 17-6 when it routed host Niles North 67-47 on Jan. 19.

“We’ve been telling Maggie all year how good of a player she is,” Ramblers coach Jeremy Schoenecker said. “With her, it’s about getting herself to believe she is a very good player. Tonight she showed she can play well against one of the best teams. She’s been amazing, playing the minutes she has (28-30 per game) while usually

guarding the other team’s best player.”Nick credited her endurance to lacrosse,

the sport she plays in the spring. She runs around constantly as a midfielder on the wider and lengthier playing surface.

One of her good friends, senior Anna Schueler, also is a hoopster/lax player. Schueler lives in Edgebrook, about five minutes from Nick, and committed to play lacrosse at the University of Michigan.

Against McAuley she poured in 17 points, including half of LA’s 16 points in the fourth quarter.

“She’s so athletic, isn’t she?” Nick mar-veled after the tough loss. “Anna played an outstanding game tonight. All of us played our hearts out and we didn’t rely on just one or two players. People came off the bench and made plays for us.”

People — lots of people, sometimes as many as 20 — often invade the Nick fam-ily’s house for dinners cooked by Maggie’s father Mike. Her cousins account for the bulk of the hungry crew.

“My favorite meal is flank steak and mashed potatoes,” Maggie said. “My dad is a great cook, and I love the three nights or so a week that we all get to eat and watch sports on TV as a family.”

Notable: The GCAC Tournament begins Jan. 28. … McAuley senior guard Alyssa Siwek struck for 23 of her game-high 26 points after halftime in last week’s game in Wilmette. Fifteen came in the final eight minutes, when the teams combined for 41 points. Siwek’s backcourt mate, 5-11 junior Lauren Carlson, finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds. “They’re tough kids,” Schoenecker said. “Both teams played hard. It was a great game. We knew there would be a lot of good runs and some bad runs. We felt we were in good shape and in control there in the beginning of the fourth quar-ter.” A trey by Schueler, at 6:31 of the fourth quarter, upped Loyola’s lead to 48-39. But the visitors needed only 55 seconds to score seven unanswered points and didn’t trail by more than five points in the final 5:04. McAuley (16-5) earned its first lead (56-55) of the quarter at 1:11. … Schueler and classmate Egan Berne each grabbed seven boards in the loss, while another senior, guard Carly Callans, finished with eight points and five rebounds. Ramblers sopho-more reserve guard Tyra Mills hit for seven points, while 6-1 classmate Sarah Elston had a team-high three blocks and came down with five rebounds. ■

Maggie nick of the Ramblers splits two McAuley defenders on her way to the basket during CgAC action last week.


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When two of Lake Forest High School’s leading scorers couldn’t play because of health reasons last month in a Hinsdale South boys basketball tournament game, LF coach Phil LaScala knew he’d have to rely heavily on a Simpson.

But LaScala never had to utter, “D’oh!”That’s because he had senior guard Ben

Simpson, a versatile Scout whose perfor-mances in games against Stagg in a semi-final and Brother Rice in the final made playing without sophomore forward Evan Boudreaux and senior guard Carter Bass manageable.

A day after scoring 13 points in a 58-49 defeat of Stagg Dec. 28, the 6-foot-4, 190-pound Simpson netted 12 of the Scouts’ 24 points in the first half of a 51-50 loss Brother Rice.

Simpson and Scouts senior center Sam Downey were named to the all-tourney team.

“Ben showed how much he means to our team at Hinsdale South,” LaScala said of his co-captain. “He provided us with a lot of things, like scoring, playing unbeliev-able defense and creating havoc for the other teams with those long arms of his.

“Ben,” he added, “has made tremen-dous strides from last season to this sea-son. He’s better defensively and he’s more aggressive.”

Simpson’s confidence, meanwhile, is above-the-rim high. That can be traced to the experiences he gained last summer as

a member of NLP’s Division I AAU team, which finished runner-up to a club from Arkansas at nationals in Orlando, Fla. Former Chicago Bull Dickey Simpkins founded NLP (Next Level Performance).

“Playing (for NLP) gave me a different view of basketball,” said Simpson, aver-aging nearly 10 points, five rebounds and two steals per game for the Scouts (12-3 through Jan. 21, with a 4-2 record in the NSC Lake). “It was weird at the beginning (in the summer of 2011), playing with a lot kids I’d never met. But we became good friends and I had a lot of fun.”

One of Simpson’s teammates last sum-mer was Boudreaux, who wasn’t surprised in the least when Simpson shouldered more of scoring burden and excelled in Hinsdale South Tournament games.

“He’s our identity,” Boudreaux said. “Ben plays great ‘D’ and never takes a play off. (At Hinsdale South) he sparked us offensively and defensively. His confi-dence — he’s got more of it. Before this season he was a good shooter. Now he’s a great shooter with a nice mid-range game.”

Simpson is listed as a guard, but he’s a wing who can play the point when senior George Quall comes out for a spell. Smaller point guards have to deal with Simpson’s daunting wingspan and do all they can to avoid deflected passes.

“When you play defense you have to have a certain mindset,” said Simpson, a Lake Bluff resident. “You have to know where the ball is and where your man is at all times. You can’t lose track of anything out

there. I like playing defense. I’m a com-petitor who hates losing more than I like winning.”

Simpson, after one of his steals, almost threw down his first varsity dunk in last month’s tourney game against Stagg. But he got fouled during the slam attempt and the result was essentially a glorified layup. It went in, and Simpson made the ensu-ing free throw.

“I felt weird going up,” recalled Simpson, who soared for a clean dunk in a JV game last winter.

“That sparked us,” LaScala said of Simpson’s steal-and-bucket sequence. “That was one of many moments by Ben that got us going in the tournament.

“He’s a quiet kid, but he communicates well with his teammates and keeps them organized on and off the court,” the coach added. “As a captain he’s doing a great job.”

Simpson wants to play hoops at the next level and he’s looking at four Division III

schools, including Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he visited last weekend. The others are Ohio Wesleyan University, Grinnell (Iowa) College and Lawrence (Wis.) University.

“I’ve been playing basketball since I was 5,” he said. “I grew to love this game after playing a bunch of different sports. I still like to play golf at times, especially the driving, but it’s a frustrating sport and I’m not very good at it.”

When he’s not addressing a little white ball, he’s handling or shooting an orange one. Most basketball teams don’t like to battle Lake Forest’s Scouts.

Too many “trees.” Too many hazards.“Our size presents a lot of mismatches

for a lot of teams,” said Simpson, allud-ing to the 6-9 Downey, the 6-7 Boudreaux and an occasional backcourt featur-ing Simpson and the 6-4 Bass. “Our good team chemistry is another one of our strengths.” ■

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Lake Forest High School’s Ben Simpson (no. 1) drives against Stevenson’s Connor Cashaw during earlier action this winter.


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pREp SpORTSBoys Cross Country: Lake Forest High School standout

Billy Bund will run at the University of Michigan next fall. The senior earned all-state honors in November, when he took fifth at the IHSA state meet in Peoria. He placed 16th in the prestigious 2012 Foot Locker Midwest Regional, which was held at UW-Parkside in Kenosha.

Meanwhile, Highland Park High School all-stater Jonah Hanig (21st at state) will run at Columbia.

Girls Cross Country: New Trier senior Courtney Ackerman has been named the 2012-13 Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year for Illinois. The University of Illinois recruit took third place in the IHSA Class 3A state meet in Peoria in early November. Ackerman finished her cross country career with the Trevians as a four-time all-stater. She placed sixth at the Nike Cross Country Nationals and 17th at the Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals.

General: Highland Park High School has announced its Hall of Fame inductions. The list includes Colleen Boilini (Class of 2001), Tony Cogan (1995), Sean Johnston (1994), JT Wenger (1997), Charlie Ropiequet (1967) and the 1976 boys soccer team.

Boilini, a three-sport star for HPHS, was a two-time all-conference softball player at UW-Whitewater. She is now the HPHS’s assistant athletic director.

Cogan was a star pitcher at Stanford, who went on to pitch in the major leagues for the Kansas City Royals.

Johnston, who was one of the most heralded pitchers in the state in ’94, was drafted in the second round by the New York Mets.

Wenger, a four-year volleyball standout for HP, played col-legiately at UCLA.

Ropiequet was an All-American gymnast, who helped SIU to a national championship in 1971.

The soccer team, which finished third in state, featured all-staters Lou Lamberti and Steve Feldman and was coached by Ray Roy.

The inductees were recognized at the HP/Maine East boys basketball game on Jan. 18.

COllEGE SpORTSMen’s Basketball: Angus Brandt, who played one season

at Lake Forest Academy, was having a terrific senior season for Oregon State. The 6-foot-10, 242-pound center was averag-ing 11.3 and 8.5 rebounds per game. But his season was cut short, when he sustained a torn ACL in the fifth game of the season against Purdue. There’s a good chance that Brandt, who has made 60 starts for the Beavers, will return (medical redshirt) to Oregon State for a fifth season.

Football: Put this in the “in case you missed it depart-ment.” Highland Park High School grad Tellef Lundevall, a wide receiver, finished his senior season at Brown University with 72 catches for 718 yards. He had 17 catches against Penn. He’s fifth in career receptions (155) at Brown.

pRO SpORTSWomen’s Soccer: Lake Forest’s Rachel Quon, an All-

American defender for Stanford University, has been drafted in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) inaugural college draft.

The Chicago Red Stars selected Quon in the second round (ninth overall) on Jan. 18. The 5-foot-2 Quon was a four-year starter for Stanford, which won the NCAA national champi-onship in 2011.

The Red Stars, who will play their home games at Illinois Benedictine in Lisle, are one of eight teams in this new league, which will begin this spring. Rory Dames will be the Red Stars’ head coach. The top assistant will be Wilmette’s Stephanie (Erickson) Foster, who coached Northwestern for six seasons. As a player at NU, she is a four-year starter who remains the school’s all-time leading scorer.

The Red Stars have been a successful organization. They competed in the Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and won the 2012 National Cup. Lake Forest’s Nicole Lipp (Duke) and Kelsey Hough (Colgate) were members of that team.

Men’s Soccer: Loyola Academy graduate Dylan Remick, who earned All-America honors at Brown University, was picked in the second round of the Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Jan. 17 by the Seattle Sounders. The Inverness native, a defensive ace, was 35th player selected.

Remick had a splendid senior season: all-conference, tour-ney MVP at the Ocean State Classic and third-team CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-American. ■

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■ by bill mclean

Lauren Garriques was 9 and living in Texas when she ran in her first competitive race.

The weather conditions during the 5K test in her gym class were ideal — for camels in the Sahara Desert.

“It was brutal and miserable,” recalled Garriques, now 12 and a sixth-grader at Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest.

But the experience invigorated Garriques, who finished ninth under a relentless sun and today would happily run a 5K in sub-zero temperatures as long as at least one other racer also lined up.

“There was something about running and competing that made me feel happy,” she added. “It was fun, it gave me a sense of accomplishment, and it was something I wanted to do again and again and again.

“I’ve been passionate about running ever since.”It certainly showed in 2012, beginning in February at

the AAU National Indoor Meet in New York. Garriques crossed first in her age group (11-12) in the 3000-meter race. After swimming, biking and running to a pair of top-four finishes in national triathlons, she sped to sixth place (11:56, across a nearly two-mile course) — against sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders — at the Class 3A Illinois Elementary School Association state girls cross country meet in the fall.

The result at Maxwell Park in Normal paced Deer Path’s third-place finish in the team standings.

“When she gets something in her mind that she wants to accomplish, Lauren is full steam ahead and focused,” said Garriques’ running coach, Jenny Spangler, who won the women’s marathon at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials in Columbia, S.C. “She never diverts from that, which is impressive for someone her age.”

Nearly two months after her IESA state effort, the 5-foot-5 Garriques and several of her DPMS teammates headed to Terre Haute, Ind., for the Coaches Cross Country National Championships. She topped the field of 162 in her age division (11-12), which included two previous national champions.

“I had a runner’s high for weeks after that,” recalled Garriques, also a defender in lacrosse. “Of the sports I do, cross country is definitely my favorite. I love the sights, smells and sounds in cross country. I love hearing my heartbeat and my feet hitting wood chips and little rocks.

“Track, I’m kind of done with that sport. It’s a ‘hamster’ sport, the way runners go around and around forever.”

Garriques also excelled in her final road race in 2012, finishing first (personal-best 19:20) in the female divi-sion of the Dream for Eileen 5K in Lake Forest Nov. 24.

“It was an eventful year,” she understated.Among her goals for 2013 are a championship in the

13-15 age group at the USA Triathlon Championships and

to help Deer Path capture its first IESA state girls cross country team title in October.

“Lauren loves competing, and the joy she has for racing is pure,” said Tina McDonie, Garriques’ triathlon coach. “She’s dedicated and she’s talented, especially as a runner.”

Nine-year-old Gunnar Garriques, one Lauren’s three younger brothers, has been a biking enthusiast for years and that paved the way to his first triathlon.

Lauren tested her endurance in a tri soon thereafter.“I hate the swimming part of triathlons,” she admitted.

“I swim like a brick.”But she has built quite a resumé as a triathlete. She has

already climbed a podium five times in three years to bow for a top-four national medal, including a pair of silvers.

“My mindset during any race is to give 100 percent,” Garriques said. “As long as I do that, I honestly don’t care where I finish. Hard work, determination and persever-ance all lead to success, and success makes me happy.

“Hard work,” she added, “is a weapon I like to use.”An ‘A’ student and the daughter of Ronald and Karena

Garriques, she rarely uses a clicker at home. Watching TV has never interested her, and she’ll never understand the appeal of video games.

“I enjoy being outside, either as a runner or a gardener,” Garriques said. “My dream house is a small cottage in the middle of the woods, with my own running trail nearby and where I’d get to grow my own food.”

Two figures that have made international headlines have significantly influenced Garriques and helped her develop as an athlete. Sanya Richards-Ross, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1600-meter relay (2004, ’08, ’12), spoke at Garriques’ former school in Austin, Texas, and later worked out at the school’s track.

“What was amazing is that she asked permission to train at the school,” Garriques said. “A star like her, actually asking for permission … Can you believe that? We got to see her run after she told us her story.”

Gilbert Tuhabonye’s story is horrifying — and uplift-ing. A native of Burundi in east central Africa, he nearly died in 1993 during a conflict at school between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes. Hutu tribe members forced Tuhabonye, a Tutsi teenager at the time, and Tutsi classmates and teachers into a classroom, beat them and burned them.

Tuhabonye escaped after nine hours inside the burn-ing building and ran to a hospital for treatment of his severe burns.

He later earned All-America honors six times as a mem-ber of Abilene Christian University’s track and field team. Tuhabonye coaches Gilbert’s Gazelles club runners in Austin, Texas, and his mantra is, “Run with joy.”

Garriques, born in Lake Forest, was a Gazelle in Austin before she and her family moved back to Lake Forest last year.

“He’s a spectacular coach,” Garriques said. “He has been such an inspiration to me.” ■

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Boys Basketball: The sopho-more guard was credited with seven assists in his team’s 46-37 over vis-iting Maine East on Jan. 18. He also had six points, four rebounds and three steals as the Giants evened their record (9-9). Brandon Krawitz led HP with 12 points. Sam Shrago had eight points and four rebounds.

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Girls Basketball: She had a game-high 27 points as the Giants beat host Maine East 52-41 on Jan. 18 to remain unbeaten in the CSL North (7-0).

The Giants (14-8 overall) fell to host Carmel Catholic 51-41 on Jan. 15. Munzer had 26 points and 11 rebounds. Lizzy LoGrande had nine points.

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Boys Swimming: The junior distance ace took first place in the

500 freestyle (5:03.31) at the Buffalo Grove Invitational on Jan. 19.

Teammate Ben Laedlein earned runner-up honors in the 100 back (55.90), losing to Cary-Grove star Michael Hamann (53.76). He also placed fourth in the 200 free (1:54.10). The Giants placed sixth in the 13-team field (122 points).

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Boys Basketball: Sparked by Cook, who was named the tourna-ment MVP, the Trevians (19-4) went 4-0 to win the Rockford Jefferson Tournament on Jan. 19 and Jan. 21. Point guard Reid Berman was named to the all-tournament team. The wins came over Jefferson 63-45, Belvidere 52-49, Belvidere North 56-39 and Fenton 52-33.

On Jan. 18, Cook tallied 27 points in the team’s league win over Niles West 63-58. “We wanted to win this game no matter what it took,” said NT coach Scott Fricke.

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sharpshooter, the Ramblers claimed a pair of wins — beating St. Patrick 47-44 and Leo 61-47 — last week to improve their record to 13-5 overall (5-2 in Catholic League).

Morrissey hit six three-pointers and finished with a game-high 26 points against Leo. James Clark (nine points) and Rich Wehman (eight points) also helped the cause.

In the contest with St. Patrick, Morrissey led the team with 16 points on three threes. Matt Sullivan added eight points and five rebounds, while Kevin Kucera had went 5 for 6 at the foul line to finish with seven points.

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Girls Basketball: The sophomore center came up with a nice double-double in LF’s 68-36 setback to Zion-Benton on Jan. 18. She finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds to go along with three blocks. Senior Gabby Perino scored a team-best 12 points, while sophomore Brooke Green had 10 points and three steals.

On Jan. 19, the Scouts (6-17) dropped a 32-19 decision to Warren. Maddie Wells scored nine points. Annie Keller had 10 rebounds. ■

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Elias Butler can shoot the rock.“That is my repertoire,” said the North Shore

Country Day senior guard. “I have a shot.”That certainly was evident on Jan. 18, when Butler

tallied a career-high 18 points — on five three-pointers — in a heartbreaking 54-53 loss to visiting Francis Parker.

“I got some good looks, and I was able to knock ’em down,” he said.

Butler also knows how to play to the crowd. Like an emotional NFL player in a playoff game,

he continually worked the NSCD student section with his arm waving and and fist pumping.

And he eventually whipped those partisan fans into a frenzy, when he drilled three three-pointers — all from the left corner and right in front of the student section — in the final four minutes.

He definitely won their approval.“Those are some of my best friends,” said Butler,

pointing in their direction.In fact, he does more than just speak their language.

Last year at this time, he was one of them.Butler, a standout quarterback on the Raiders’ foot-

ball team, decided not to play basketball during the 2011-12 season in order to concentrate on football.

“Last year (when the Raiders took fourth at the IHSA Class 1A state basketball tournament), I was the leader of our student section. I was the one organiz-ing the cheers,” said Butler “And I loved every minute of it. In fact, it was hard to walk away from them.”

After a slow start, Butler has started to raise his level of play. He scored 16 points in a win over Elgin Academy on Jan. 15.

“He can be a streaky shooter,” said NSCD head coach Rashid Smith. “But he’s becoming more con-sistent with his shot.”

Butler was in the middle of a wild stretch of play on Friday. With 4:00 left in regulation, the Raiders (6-9) trailed Parker 49-32. But then a Parker player was called for a double technical, which led to a 7-0 swing when Jamie Swimmer (10 points) hit four straight free throws and Butler canned one of his threes.

“That (seven-point swing) gave us confidence and some momentum,” said Smith. “It kind of snowballed.”

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But Parker’s Zack Kupferberg hit a 15-footer — with a hand in his face — at the buzzer.

“He was clutch,” said Butler. “And he got a nice roll. I was right under the basket, and it looked like it was going to roll out.” ■

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His pre-match, go-to ritual song is “Turbulence.”

That electro house track — performed by Steve Aoki and Laidback Luke — was banging in his head prior to his 145-pound title match at the Central Suburban Tournament, held at Niles West High School on Jan. 19.

As it turned out, Highland Park High School’s Dom Ciancio experienced very lit-tle turbulence against Nick Yonan of Niles West. The Giants junior pinned his man in 1:22 to walk away with his first varsity

tournament crown ever.“I’m a little surprised with the pin,”

said Ciancio, seconds after getting his arm raised by the referee. “I didn’t realize an opportunity would open up like that. I capitalized.”

HP head coach Chris Riley was impressed with Ciancio’s quick six (points).

“I was not expecting that,” Riley said. “I expected the match to be a six-minute grind.”

But, it was that sort of tournament for Ciancio. The junior, who improved his record to 23-5, encountered smooth sail-ing throughout the two-day event, recording falls against all three of his foes.

“I got after it,” said Ciancio. “I was bet-ter offensively.”

Pinning Evanston’s Simon Gratch (5:15) in the semifinal round was the key to Ciancio’s success.

“I was 1-1 against Gratch,” said Ciancio. “He’s a tough kid. The tournament came down to that match.

“I’ve never met Yonan,” he added. “But I felt it going in. I knew I had it.”

Cianco, who placed third (138 pounds) at the Class 3A Stevenson Regional last winter, certainly has hit his stride.

“He’s peaking at the right time,” said Riley. “And as a coach, that’s what you want to see.”

Highland Park’s other place-winner at conference was Brandon Garcia-Galvan. He edged Maine West’s Kevin Mendoza 3-2 in the 138-pound fifth-place match to move his record to 15-7.

“He was pretty down. A little distraught,” said the HP coach, referring to his losses to Niles West’s Thomas Williams (14-2) and New Trier’s Luke Iida (5:36). “But he recovered to take fifth place. He showed a lot of character.”

Senior Nate Kessler did not compete for the Giants due to an arm injury.

“He’s working hard to get back on the mats,” Riley said. ■

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Jack nolan of the Trevians (foreground) locks up with glenbrook north’s Michael Maksimovic during 170-pound action at the CSL Tournament.



A case could’ve been made for MJ Pritchard.

The New Trier High School senior domi-nated his weight class and would’ve been a great choice for “outstanding wrestler” of the South Division at the Central Suburban League tournament, which was held on Jan. 18 at Niles West.

But the nod went to Glenbrook South 220-pound champion Jacob Suter, another wor-thy competitor.

“Winning conference was on my (to-do) list,” said a smiling Pritchard. “So I can mark that off.”

Pritchard, who is ranked No. 5 in the state by Illinois Matmen, definitely has made his mark in conference action. He became a two-time conference tournament champion after downing GBS’s Jimmy Binder by a major decision (10-2) in the 120-pound title match.

Last year, Pritchard was the cream of the crop in the 113-pound weight class.

“He’s built up his confidence,” said New Trier head coach Marc Tadelman. “MJ is look-ing to place at state. That’s on his goal list.”

Pritchard, a year-around club wrestler, also claimed victories over Maine South’s Jim Dicola (:55) and Niles West’s Steve Apple (10-6).

With those three wins, Pritchard (31-4) went over the 30-win mark for the second year in a row. He finished with 33 wins as a junior.

“I feel like my footwork has gotten a lot better,” said Pritchard. “And that I’m mak-ing better choices.

“There were a lot of tough kids in this weight class,” he added. “Winning it proves that all of the hard work is paying off.”

The Trevians, who scored a 149 to place fourth in the team standings behind Deerfield (271), Niles West (198) and Maine South (163), advanced three others to the championship round.

At 113, junior Colin Kenyon (27-7) dropped a 2-0 decision to Deerfield’s Jordan Lieberman. At 126, sophomore Alec McKenna (27-9) was defeated by Maine South senior star Terry Calkins 9-3. And at 220, senior John Benson (32-6) battled

but lost to Suter 5-3.“It wasn’t the performance we wanted

in the finals,” said Tadelman, who guided his team to the team title in 2012. “But the guys wrestled hard.”

The Trevians also had medal-winning efforts from sophomore Michael Lynch, soph-omore Luke Iida and senior Jack Nolan. Iida (16-10) battled through the loser’s bracket and wound third at 138. Nolan (11-10) ended up fourth at 170. And Lynch finished sixth

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Patrick Dancer was the team’s top fin-isher at the Chicago Catholic Tournament on Jan. 19.

The 145-pounder (25-12) earned runner-up honors. He was pinned in the final by Mount Carmel star Bryce Brill (33-0).

The other place-winners were Ryan Wosick (3rd at 182), Jack Tower (4th at 170) and Nico Couri (4th at 120). ■

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— MJ Pritchard

Winning it proves that all of the hard work is paying off.”


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for Harald & anna We were in London and had never taken the Chunnel to

go to Paris. It was spur of the moment that Friday, Dec. 24.You travel first class and have a Champagne breakfast

on the train. You see the cliffs of Dover. Then you don’t see anything under the water when you’re going 180 mph — that’s probably a good thing.

When you come out at Paris, it’s really something. We thought we’d be there for the day. We were tourists, going to see the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre with the Mona Lisa.

But we missed the train back. We had no luggage. We went to the Hotel Plaza Athenee and said we would like to have a room. “Don’t you have any luggage?” we were asked.

We had a great dinner at the hotel restaurant named after the famous chef Alain Ducasse. What was interest-ing, because we were early — probably 5 o’clock — there was only one other table occupied. A guy with dark glasses with another gentleman. They came after us, but they were served before us.

It was Yves St. Laurent. A few years earlier I had bought a mink cashmere coat in New York. When he was leaving, he recognized the coat. He was very nice and shy — he spoke very softly.

On Christmas morning we had breakfast at the hotel. We took a cab to Notre Dame Cathedral. We had lunch at the Café de Paris. The only drawback was, given the season, you couldn’t sit outside.

That evening we went to have dinner at the George V hotel (owned by Four Seasons). We ate at Le Cinq. Beautiful place. We had a set dinner from truffles to poached breast of chicken. It was unbelievable. We took the train back to Victoria Station the next day. ■

Anna and Harald Schuster, as told to David Sweet

We ate at Le Cinq. Beauti-ful place. We had a set dinner from truffles to poached breast of chicken. It was unbeliev-able.”

Anna and Harald Schuster of Lake Bluff enjoyed the City of Lights at Christmas a few years ago. She owns Anna’s Mostly Mahogany in Highwood and often travels to Europe to buy antiques.

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