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16 | August 16, 2018 | The wilmette beacon wilmette wilmettebeacon.com
wilmettebeacon.com SOUND OFF the wilmette beacon | August 16, 2018 | 17 Social snapshot Top Web Stories From WilmetteBeacon.com as of Aug. 13 1. Mahoney steps down as Loyola Academy athletic director 2. 1 dead, 1 injured following Wilmette Harbor boat explosion 3. Police Reports: Man steals $1K in razors from Wilmette Walgreens 4. Former MLB commissioner, Wilmette resident Peter Ueberroth earns top caddie honor 5. Inaugural Wilmette Open Water swim promotes Lake Michigan Become a member: wilmettebeacon.com/plus New Trier High School posted this photos on Aug. 7 with the caption: “The Gates Gym floor is repainted and ready for the upcoming school year! #GoTrevs” Like The Wilmette Beacon: facebook.com/wilmettebeacon “Camp tournaments are certainly practice, but they are also a sign of hard work throughout a long summer institute. Shout out to @josieewing @hannahkadin & @ rolandhkim who are debating in the elims of the @UMDebateCamp tournament! #GoTrevs” @NewTrieDebate, New Trier Debate, posted on Aug. 1 Follow The Wilmette Beacon: @wilmettebeacon go figure 15 An intriguing number from this week’s edition Number of years Patrick Mahoney was athletic director at Loyola Academy, Page 3 From the Editorial Intern Journalism and summer sonderlust Maddy Tung Editorial Intern I’ve lived in Wilmette since I can hardly remember. And for the first 18 years of my life, I let much of my town pass me by. Yes, that was the dry cleaner’s, the gas station, a couple of oak trees. There was the pet shop, the church, the elementary school playground blurring past my car window. I couldn’t wait until I went off to college for a change of scenery. As I grew older my world expanded to encompass Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe. I stretched the boundaries of my mental map of home whenever I rode the Metra train out to the unfamiliar corners of my life. Then I departed for university on the East Coast and with that vacated Wilmette and everything I’d left unknown. This summer, I came back home to take an internship with 22nd Century Media. In entering the newsroom, I exited my bubble and for the first time understood what it was like to engage with the world and the village around me. The first time I had to call someone for a phone interview, my hands shook and my voice stuttered. The nervousness never went away. I always felt jittery before I dialed the number or spotted my contact walking through the door. However, after a couple questions the people I spoke with soon began telling their stories. Their eyes would animate and often their enthusiasm would spread, planting roots in my businessattired self. I talked to antique motorcycle hobbyist Bartek Mizerski about his upcoming ride across the United States, and he took me for an exhilarating ride around the block in the sidecar of a 1940s BMW bike. David Zazra of the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District and his interns showed me the process of testing for West Nile in wildcaught mosquitoes. The Wilmette Harbor Rotary Club chapter graciously allowed me to eat a hot breakfast with them and hear police chief Kyle Murphy speak on the state of the department. The Glencoe Community Gardens staff showed me around their stunningly beautiful plots. DePaul alum Gracie Straznickas explained to me her idea to help chronic pain patients using a video game. And all these interactions are only a few of the correspondences I’ve experienced this summer. Writing their stories demanded accuracy, respect, and connection. I needed to first understand why they felt such passion about a given subject, then do it justice in print. It has been a privilege to learn about taking pictures, covering events, reporting, and writing more compelling hard news and features under my editors Eric DeGrechie, Megan Bernard, Mike Wojtychiw, and Jackie Glosniak at 22nd Century Media. Their experience, knowledge, and good humor are invaluable gifts, and I thank them profusely for all the help they’ve provided. I am also grateful for something else. This internship has taught me that I cannot let the world rush by in a cloud of seconds and years and content myself with touching none of it. I have in mind the word “sonder.” Although the noun’s Oxford English Dictionary definition refers to a class of small racing yacht, John Koenig’s 2012 Internet project “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” has given sonder a different, made-up but fascinating definition. The definition reads, in brief, “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Over the course of this internship, I’ve felt sonder as many times as I’ve written articles and met people with something compelling to share. After this summer, I wouldn’t call sonder an “obscure sorrow.” In fact, I’ve found the feeling more closely resembles awe. I also believe journalism should promote the experience of sonder. Becoming a journalist shouldn’t be about simply sating my own desire for knowledge; otherwise, why should I produce articles at all? Journalism can offer readers curiosity about the lives of others — strangers, people who hold differing opinions, people whose lives look nothing like ours, people who could be our nextdoor neighbor — because people are stories. People are novels, bildungsromans, epics. I hope my work this summer has helped forge connection between different people’s stories. I’ll miss 22nd Century Media and want to thank them again for a summer of epiphany. Sound Off Policy Editorials and columns are the opinions of the author. Pieces from 22nd Century Media are the thoughts of the company as a whole. The Wilmette Beacon encourages readers to write letters to Sound Off. All letters must be signed, and names and hometowns will be published. We also ask that writers include their address and phone number for verification, not publication. Letters should be limited to 400 words. The Wilmette Beacon reserves the right to edit letters. Letters become property of The Wilmette Beacon. Letters that are published do not reflect the thoughts and views of The Wilmette Beacon. Letters can be mailed to: The Wilmette Beacon, 60 Revere Drive ST 888, Northbrook, IL, 60062. Fax letters to (847) 272- 4648 or email to eric@wilmettebeacon.com. www.wilmettebeacon.com
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