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her collection at the North Shore 

Congregation Israel Judaica Gift Shop 

during the Glencoe Sidewalk Sale 

Friday, June 28. Nora Crumley/22nd 

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in 30 days 

New Trier Township 

gears up for annual 

book drive, Page 3 

crazy for 

critters 

The Frog Lady visits 

Glencoe Library for 

children’s program, 

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Local merchants get exposure during annual Glencoe Sidewalk Sale, Page 4 

taking to the 

‘nest’ level 

New Trier student 

builds owl homes for 

Eagle Scout project, 

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Puzzles18 

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Dining Out21 

Home of the Week23 

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SATURDAY 

Art Festival 

10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 6 

and 7, Chicago Botanic 

Garden, 1000 Lake Cook 

Road, Glencoe. Enjoy the 

remarkable artwork inspired 

by the beautiful and 

scenic botanic gardens. 

Take home the perfect 

work of art or just observe 

the festival. 

Teddy Bear Picnic 

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 

July 6, Wyman Green, 

Glencoe. Children are invited 

to enjoy outdoor storytime 

with their favorite 

stuffed animal. Participants 

should bring a blanket and 

a picnic lunch. Cookies 

and lemonade will be offered 

after storytime. This 

event is geared towards a 

preschool aged audience. 

Children must be accompanied 

by an adult. 

SUNDAY 

Classic Film Appreciation: 

Kurosawa Part 2 

1:30-4:30 p.m. July 7, 

Glencoe Public Library, 

320 Park Ave., Glencoe. 

Discuss the work of influential 

director Akira 

Kurosawa. The library 

will be screening one of 

his most influential films, 

Rashomon and participants 

will be encouraged 

to discuss Kurosawa’s 

work. This is the second 

part to this event. 

MONDAY 

Carillon Concert: Kimberly 

Schafer 

7-8 p.m. July 8, Chicago 

Botanic Garden, 1000 

Lake Cook Road, Glencoe. 

Head to the garden to hear 

dedicated carillonneur 

Kimberly Schafer play this 

unique instrument. Carillon 

tours begin at 5:30 and 

run every 15 minutes. 

TUESDAY 

Let’s Draw Animals 

4:15-5:15 p.m. July 9, 



Guest artist, Christine 

Thornton will be reading 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear 

What Do You See?, by 

Eric Carle and teaching 

participants how to draw 

animals in his trademark 

style. This event is geared 

toward children ages 5-7. 

Online registration if required. 

WEDNESDAY 

Writers’ Open Mic Night 

7-8:30 p.m. July 10, 



Writers of any age and 

genre are invited to share 

their work at this open mic 

event. Those that wish to 

participate are encouraged 

to email Bob Boone (ycagsc@gmail.com) 

with the 

work they intend to share. 

All are invited to this event, 

non-writers included. 

UPCOMING 

Seed Sowing for Fall 

Edibles 

10 a.m.-12 p.m. July 12, 

Chicago Botanic Garden, 

1000 Lake Cook Road, 

Glencoe. Start planning 

for delicious fall foods. 

This class will teach participants 

how and when 

to start planting to have 

delicious and fresh lettuce, 

chard, garlic, and more. 

Adult After-Hours Program 

7-8:30 p.m. July 12, 



Head over to the library 

for an adults only evening. 

Mixologist and Glencoe 

resident Cheryl Heisler 

designs signature cocktails 

for each Writers Theatre 

Production and will 

be providing recipes and 

samples of the cocktails 

for three upcoming performances. 

This will be followed 

by a sneak peek at 

the performances. Admission 

is $1 and participants 

must be 21 or over (bring 

ID). 

Movies on the Green: The 

Princess Bride 

Dusk July 12, Wyman 

Green (Village Hall in the 

case of rain), Glencoe. 

Enjoy an outdoor movie 

night on Wyman Green. 

The Princess Bride will be 

screening at dusk. 

Family Storytime 

10:30-11:15 a.m. July 

13, Glencoe Public Library, 

320 Park Ave., 

Glencoe. Families are invited 

to enjoy stories and 

songs at the library. All 

ages are welcome to attend 

but the event will be 

geared toward a preschoolaged 

audience. 

Cereal Cinema Teen Movie 

TBD 

12:30-2:30 p.m. July 13, 



Teens are invited to head 

to the library for an extensive 

cereal bar and a hit 

movie. The movie has yet 

to be determined but a fun 

time is guaranteed! 

Tending to Trees in the 

Garden 




Learn the basics of tending 

to the beautiful trees on 

your landscape. Two lifelong 

arborists will be sharing 

their experience and 

knowledge of maintaining 

healthy trees. 

Nature Arts & Crafts 

4:15-5 p.m. July 16, 

Wyman Green, Glencoe. 

Children grades K-3 are 

invited to embrace nature 

and their creativity with 

this fun outdoor arts and 

crafts class. 

Farm Dinner 




Enjoy a special meal 

of locally grown products 

prepared and cooked by 

award-winning chef Cleetus 

Friedman all while 

learning about the process 

of cultivating food locally. 

ONGOING 

After Hours Buzz 

6-8 p.m. Thursdays, June 

13 and 27, July 11 and 25, 

Aug. 8 and 22, Chicago 

Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake 

Cook Road, Glencoe. Chat 

with a garden scientist over 

cocktails about cool research 

on pollinators. The 

evening includes a short 

talk, interactive demo, light 

hors d’oeuvres and drinks. 

Space is limited for this 

special event in an intimate 

setting. For tickets, visit 

www.chicagobotanic.org. 

Model Railroad Garden 

May 11-Oct. 13, Chicago 

Botanic Garden, 

1000 Lake Cook Road, 

Glencoe. Visit the garden’s 

landmarks of America 

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model railroad celebrating 

20 years. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org. 

Sesquicentennial Planning 

Committee 

Every other Tuesday, 

Glencoe Village Hall, 675 

Village Court. The Sesquicentennial 

Planning Committee 

meets in the First 

Floor Conference Room. 

For the schedule and agenda, 

visit www.villageofglencoe.org. 

North Shore Chess Club 

7-9 p.m. Thursdays, 

Starbucks, 347 Park Ave., 

Glencoe. The North Shore 

Chess Club meets with 

players at all levels of chess 

skill, beginner, intermediate, 

advanced. Very friendly, 

casual atmosphere. No 

fees. Open to teens and 

adults. Bring your chess set 

if you have one. For more 

information, email guntherrice@gmail.com. 

Sit N’ Sip 

6:30 p.m. last Thursday 

of every month, Guildhall, 

694 Vernon Ave. All are 

welcome to this event to 

get out and socialize with 

other Glencoe residents. 

Glencoe French Market 

7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every 

Saturday until October 

19. Wyman Green, Glencoe. 

Stop by the Glencoe 

French Market throughout 

the Summer for fresh local 

produce, baked goods and 

flowers.

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Children’s Book Collection Drive launches July 9 

Megan Bernard, Editor 

New Trier Township is once 

again partnering with Bernie’s 

Book Bank in Lake Bluff for 

its annual summer Children’s 

Book Collection Drive. 

This year, the drive will run 

from July 9-Aug. 9 with a goal 

to collect 3,000 books in 30 

days. There are four collection 

sites this year, including New 

Trier Township (739 Elm St., 

Winnetka), Winnetka Presbyterian 

Church (1255 Willow 

Road, Winnetka), Village of 

Glencoe (675 Village Court, 

Glencoe) and Valarie Wilson 

Travel (946 Green Bay Road, 

Winnetka). 

Volunteers from the Winnetka 

Youth Organization will also 

be heading out into the community 

during the month to collect 

books, township communications 

director Jack Macholl 

said. 

“My goal, and hopefully we 

can get there in 2020, is to have 

every town in the township 

participating in this, but it just 

takes time to get there,” Macholl 

added. 

The recipient of the collection 

is Bernie’s Book Bank, 

a Lake Bluff-based nonprofit 

organization that sources, processes 

and distributes quality 

new and gently used children’s 

books to significantly increase 

book ownership among at-risk 

infants, toddlers and schoolage 

children throughout Chicagoland, 

a township press release 

says. 

The township became 

aware of Bernie’s mission after 

Macholl interviewed its 

founder, Brian Floriani, for 

a podcast. 

“After hearing Brian’s story 

and getting to see their operation, 

I talked to the township 

board and we got organized and 

began this in 2016,” Macholl 

said. “We’ve been at it ever 

since. The people of the township 

have been so receptive that 

we are now a year-around collection 

site for Bernie’s. 

“What we found was after the 

summer drive was that people 

kept coming in for weeks and 

months with bags of books going, 

‘Oh, is it over? I thought 

you did this all the time.’ We 

weren’t going to turn them 

down.” 

This is now the township’s 

fourth summer book collection 

with Bernie’s Book Bank, Alan 

Goldberg, supervisor of New 

Trier Township, said. 

“Every year we’re seeing 

more residents and business 

owners getting involved and 

helping us get books in the hands 

of at-risk children. We are grateful 

for this support throughout 

the township,” Goldberg said in 

the release. 

Macholl added the township 

is “very passionate about what 

they are doing to help Bernie’s.” 

“It’s been really exciting. [We 

are] helping get kids interested 

in reading; it’s really good for 

their overall education and 

growth as individuals,” he said. 

Last year, the summer drive 

netted around 4,500 donated 

books. The township challenges 

New Trier Township Supervisor Alan Goldberg helps load the truck with donated books last year 

alongside of Monte Harris from Bernie’s Book Bank in Lake Bluff. Photo Submitted 

residents to beat that number 

this summer. 

Any residents, community 

groups or local businesses interested 

in helping with the collection 

are encouraged to contact 

Macholl at jmacholl@newtriertownship.com 

for more information 

on the program. 

For more info on Bernie’s 

Book Bank, visit www.bernie 

sbookbank.org. 

From the Village 

Call for volunteers: Serve on a 

Village committee or commission 

Are you passionate about the 

Glencoe community? Apply today 

to serve on one of the Village’s 

10 boards, commissions 

and committees. In particular, 

the Historic Preservation 

Commission and Community 

Relations Forum are welcoming 

new members. Serving as 

a board or commission member 

requires work and commitment 

and can be a very rewarding 

experience. 

Submit nominations for the 

Glencoe Chamber of Commerce 

Leadership Recognition Luncheon 

As part of the Sesquicentennial 

celebration, the Glencoe 

Chamber of Commerce 

is hosting their first-ever 

Leadership Recognition 

Luncheon in October. Help them 

honor Glencoe’s current and 

continuing leaders by submitting 

a nomination for one or more of 

the following categories: Woman 

Civic/Charitable Volunteer; Man 

Civic/Charitable Volunteer; 

Business Leader; Education 

Leader; Village Employee 

Leader. 

Register for Smart911 

Help emergency responders 

better serve you and your family 

by registering for Smart911, 

the Village’s new emergency 

alert and service update notification 

system. Smart911 has 

replaced the Village’s former 

alert system, Glencoe CON- 

NECT. Questions about registering? 

Call (847) 835-4114. 

From the Village is compiled from 

the Village eNews.

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Businesses set up shop on the sidewalk for annual Glencoe sale 

Nora Crumley, Editorial Intern 

The Glencoe Sidewalk Sale 

attracted savvy shoppers from 

all over the North Shore and let 

vendors and local store fronts 

meet new customers and clear 

out merchandise at a discounted 

price Friday-Saturday, June 28- 

29. 

Featured at this year’s sidewalk 

sale were jewelry, handbags, accessories 

and household items 

from across the world. Even with 

storm clouds on the horizon, residents 

were excited to shop. 

Ivey Domont, of Glencoe, said 

she enjoys the sidewalk sale because 

it highlights local shops. 

“There are great deals and we 

love to support the local community,” 

Domont said. 

Some of the local vendors have 

been coming to sell merchandise 

for many years. Iris Baer, of 

Glencoe, has manned a jewelry 

stand at the Glencoe sidewalk 

sale for 30 years. As a member of 

the community, she enjoys reconnecting 

with loyal customers. 

“The sidewalk sale is a good 

way to reach more people,” Baer 

said. “Since I am local, people 

know my stand. I can reconnect 

with old customers and expose 

myself to new customers.” 

Janet Schafer, of Highland 

Park, has been a vendor at the 

Glencoe Sidewalk Sale for six 

years and agrees that the sidewalk 

sale provides good exposure 

to meet new customers. Schafer, 

who travels the country to gather 

her jewelry pieces, likes sidewalk 

sales because it clears up room 

in her inventory to purchase new 

pieces. 

Christine Mitchell, another experienced 

vendor from Chicago, 

has attended the Glencoe sale for 

eight years. Mitchell travels to 

India, Bali, Thailand and Turkey 

to gather her eccentric and unique 

merchandise and then sells it at 

showcases, festivals and sidewalk 

sales. 

Opposite of these veteran vendors 

are Arden Lapin and Lily 

Matteson, both of Glencoe, who 

set up their stand for the first time 

this year. Their stand features 

handmade shirts with gender inclusive 

messages such as “love is 

love” and handmade buttons with 

the pride flag. 

Lapin, a recent graduate from 

Western Michigan University, 

said about why they created their 

Arden Lapin (left) and Lily Matteson, both of Glencoe, showcase their handmade pride-themed T-shirts, 

buttons and flags during the Glencoe Sidewalk Sale, which ran Friday-Saturday, June 28-29. 

Photos by Nora Crumley/22nd Century Media 

stand: “the sidewalk sale falls at 

the end of June and we wanted to 

be inclusive to the LGBTQ community 

on the North Shore.” 

Sentiments of togetherness and 

the enjoyment of summer weather 

were felt all along the sale’s 

main area on Park and Vernon. 

“I was just walking through 

town and I didn’t know the sidewalk 

sale was happening this 

weekend,” shopper Anya Leptich 

said, “but I love how everybody 

gets together and you can really 

see the community.” 

Iris Baer, of Glencoe, stands by her jewelry. She has been a vendor at the local sale 

for 30 years. 

Shoppers hit the streets in Glencoe during the Sidewalk Sale to find discounts and 

sale items from local businesses.

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police reports 

Resident’s identity fraudulently used for $33K medical treatment 

It was reported 5:12 

p.m. June 16, an unknown 

offender used a victim’s 

identity to gain medical 

admission into a medical 

facility for treatment 

valued at $33,000. The 

offender also attempted 

to open Affinity and Capital 

One credit cards. The 

cards and medical bills 

were ultimately denied. 

In other police news: 

June 25 

• A concrete saw and leaf 

blower, worth more than 

$500, were reported stolen 

from a utility trailer at 

2:33 p.m. in the 600 block 

of Dundee Road. 

June 23 

• A fraudulent Wells Fargo 

account was opened using 

a victim’s identity, 

and a check, worth $783, 

was deposited. The suspect 

used the credit card 

in several states. The bank 

closed the account and 

there is no loss. 

• A resident electronically 

transmitted $300 for Rolling 

Stones tickets via a 

Craigslist advertisement. 

The receiver never sent the 

tickets. 

June 22 

• An unknown offender sent 

obscene and religious-based 

text messages to a victim’s 

cellphone at 5:23 a.m. 

• It was reported at 12:39 

p.m., an unknown offender 

entered an unlocked 2019 

Volkswagen Tiguan and 

stole an iPhone and credit 

cards in the 1100 block of 

Sheridan Road. The offender 

attempted to purchase 

$1,658 in bitcoin, 

and the charges were reversed. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Glencoe 

Anchor’s Police Reports 

are compiled from official 

reports found on file at the 

Glencoe Police Department 

headquarters in Glencoe. Individuals 

named in these reports 

are considered innocent 

of all charges until proven 

guilty in a court of law. 

THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK 

City Council: Financial 

penalties enforced to curve 

false statements to police 

Residents knowingly 

making false statements to 

law enforcement in Highland 

Park will soon have to 

surrender a hefty fine after 

the City Council approved 

an ordinance at its June 24 

meeting. 

The ordinance was introduced 

to the council 

earlier the same day at the 

Committee of the Whole 

meeting. At the City Council 

meeting, Mayor Nancy 

Rotering and three council 

members voted yes; meanwhile, 

Councilwoman Michelle 

Holleman voted no 

and Councilwoman Kim 

Stone voted present. 

Under the new law, 

anyone who knowingly 

makes a false statement 

to a Highland Park police 

officer in connection with 

a police report or investigation 

is liable to a civil 

penalty. Those penalties 

could be an amount set by 

the annual fee resolution, 

as well as up to three times 

the amount of the damages 

and costs to the city caused 

by the false statement, according 

to the ordinance. 

The penalties are in response 

to numerous highprofile 

events involving 

false statements to law enforcement, 

which has cost 

the city high implications 

including police staffing, 

investigative time and resources 

and unnecessary 

law-enforcement intervention. 

The new conditions 

was drafted after a review 

other municipalities that 

have created similar ordinances 

and feedback 

from the city’s corporation 

council, according to the 

ordinance. 

Reporting by Eric Bradach, 

Freelance Reporter. Full 

story at HPLandmark.com. 

THE GLENVIEW LANTERN 

Glenview Park Board 

honors late board 

president, activist Judy 

Beck 

Prefacing the moment 

of silence that customarily 

precedes Glenview 

Park District Board meetings, 

Village President Jen 

Roberts paid an emotional 

tribute at the June 27 meeting 

to Judy Beck, mourning 

the death of the community 

and environmental 

activist two days earlier. 

Beck served 32 years 

on the Park District Board 

and five terms as president. 

Judy Beck Park was 

named in her honor after 

she retired in 2011. 

She was instrumental in 

the founding of The Grove 

Heritage Association in 

1975, and Roberts credited 

her with “saving The 

Grove from development 

and preserving it as a National 

Historical site.” 

After Roberts concluded 

her tribute, longtime board 

member Bill Casey added 

a few words in commemoration 

of Beck’s role in the 

community. 

“What a testament she 

was to all of us,” he said. 

“In her life she helped so 

many people. If I could 

only do a little bit of what 

she has done to making 

Glenview a better place. 

She left us a perfect example.” 

At the end of the meeting 

four other board members 

— Angie Katsamakis, 

Dave Tosh, Dave Dillon 

and Dan Peterson — 

joined in paying tribute to 

Beck. 

“Judy was a great Glenview 

person,” Katsamakis 

said. “She was an advocate 

for advocacy. She could 

talk for hours about the 

parks.” 

Reporting by Neil Milbert, 


story at GlenviewLantern. 

com. 

THE LAKE FOREST LEADER 

Lake Bluff officials push 

for ‘absolute prohibition’ 

of recreational cannabis 

businesses 

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker 

signed House Bill 1438 

Tuesday, June 25, making 

Illinois the 11th state to legalize 

marijuana. 

Prior to Pritzker signing 

the bill, the Lake Bluff 

Village Board spoke about 

their stance on the bill and 

how it will impact the village 

during the Lake Bluff 

Village Board meeting, 

Monday, June 24. 

The Village Board 

passed a resolution at its 

meeting that directs the 

joint Plan and Commission 

and Zoning Board of Appeals 

(PCZBA) to evaluate 

the classification of cannabis 

businesses. 

The resolution passed on 

a voice vote, with trustees 

Joy Markee and Eric Grenier 

absent at the meeting. 

“I am going to ask that 

direction be given to 

the PCZBA that the Village 

Board would like 

to see that there is absolute 

prohibition of any 

dispensaries of any type 

within village limits of 

Lake Bluff,” said Kathleen 

O’Hara, the Village 

Board president. 

The resolution comes 

after the Illinois General 

Assembly passed the Cannabis 

Regulation and Tax 

Act earlier this month. The 

bill will legalize the possession 

and use of recreational 

marijuana by adults 

over age 21 starting Jan. 1, 

2020. 

Under the bill, municipalities 

are authorized to 

completely prohibit the 

location and operation of 

cannabis businesses or to 

place certain taxes or restrictions 

on them. 

Reporting by Stephanie Kim, 


story at LakeForestLeader. 

com. 

THE NORTHBROOK TOWER 

Northbrook Plan 

Commission to discuss 

cannabis-based businesses 

at public hearing 

On the same day Illinois 

Gov. J.B. Pritzker 

signed the Cannabis Regulation 

and Taxation Act 

into law, making Illinois 

the 11th state to legalize 

recreational marijuana, 

the Northbrook Village 

Board took the first formal 

step in determining 

what that means for 

Northbrook. 

The statewide legislation 

legalizes the sale, 

possession and use of cannabis 

for recreational purposes 

by adults over age 

21 starting Jan. 1, 2020. 

However, it allows municipalities 

to regulate 

commercial cannabis facilities 

— including cultivation 

centers, dispensaries, 

infusers, processors and 

craft growers — intending 

to serve recreational customers. 

While municipalities 

cannot outlaw recreational 

marijuana use by adults 

within their borders, they 

can add restrictions to 

where and how cannabisbased 

businesses operate 

in their jurisdiction — and 

even completely prohibit 

them. 

During its Tuesday, 

June 25 meeting, the 

Northbrook Village Board 

unanimously directed the 

Northbrook Plan Commission 

to evaluate the classification 

of cannabis businesses 

and recommend 

whether any, some or all 

types of those businesses 

should be allowed by special 

permit under the Zoning 

Code. 

Reporting by Chris Pullam, 


story at NorthbrookTower. 

com.

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New Trier alumna returns to town as Josselyn Center speaker 

Alan P. Henry 

Freelance Reporter 

The incidence 

of 

depression 

and anxiety 

is of “epic 

proportions” 

a m o n g 

Americans Berman 

under 35, 

in part because too many 

well-intentioned “helicopter” 

and ”snowplow” 

parents have stripped their 

children of life skills, a 

noted psychiatrist told supporters 

of the Josselyn Center 

in May. 

Worse yet, “the curve is 

straight up,” said Dr. Robin 

Berman, a New Trier 

graduate (Class of ’84) and 

associate professor of psychiatry 

at the David Geffen 

School of Medicine at 

UCLA. 

“Anxiety is the number 

one concern of teenagers 

today: bigger than drugs, 

alcohol and teenage pregnancy,” 

she said. 

She delivered her remarks 

as keynote speaker 

at the Josselyn Center’s 

annual spring luncheon 

and fundraiser for Camp 

Neeka, the center’s sixweek 

therapeutic summer 

day camp for children 

ages 8-12 where specially 

designed programs help 

build friendships and selfesteem. 

Throughout her talk, 

Berman referred to themes 

from her best selling book, 

“Permission to Parent: 

How to Raise Your Child 

with Love & Limits.” 

“Children used to be 

seen and not heard. Now 

they are the center of their 

parents’ universe. We need 

to find a graceful middle 

way,” she wrote. “Parents 

today seem skittish about 

asserting their parental authority. 

They indulge children’s 

demands, tantrums 

and endless negotiations 

for fear of hurting their 

children’s feelings. Sadly, 

this is creating a generation 

of psychologically 

fragile kids, and parents 

are undermining the very 

self-esteem they are trying 

earnestly to build. ‘Tiger 

mom,’ ‘helicopter parent,’ 

‘the cool dad’— between 

these extremes lies a better 

way to raise thriving, welladjusted 

children.” 

“We try too hard,” said 

Berman, who lives with 

her husband and children 

in Los Angeles, next door 

to Reese Witherspoon. “As 

well-intentioned parents 

we went overboard. We lost 

our mind. 

“The crescendo of crazy 

happened in my hometown,” 

she said, referring to 

the current college cheating 

scandal. “I know some of 

these characters and they 

lost their mind because 

they got on the crazy train.” 

In the process of “literally 

hovering” over their 

children lives, and doing 

everything for them, and 

telling them how terrific 

they were, “we were trying 

to make our children feel 

more known, more seen 

and have more self-esteem. 

That has been a bust,” Berman 

told the sold-out audience 

at the Northmoor 

Country Club in Highland 

Park. 

The reality, she said, is 

that trying to make kids 

feel good “from the outside” 

will not work. 

“Self esteem is an inside 

job. It comes from the inside 

so no amount of external 

shoring up will ever 

help,” she added. 

Too often, she said, helicopter 

parenting “is giving 

the message, ‘you can’t do 

it, you need me, you can’t 

handle it without me.’” 

Berman recounted one 

example she recently witnessed 

of how helicopter 

parenting can make children 

feel self-conscious 

and anxious. A father was 

screaming on the sidelines 

of a youth soccer game. 

“Your kid is 5,” she remembered 

thinking to herself. 

“He is not going to 

remember this little soccer 

game but he will remember 

the shame of seeing a 

father who couldn’t control 

himself.” 

Her advice: “Quit taking 

it personally. When in 

doubt, stay out, check your 

ego at the door,” she said. 

Young people also face 

the scourge of electronics, 

Berman said. 

“It is the single biggest 

mental health crisis of our 

era,” she said. 

Ten years from now, she 

predicted, “they’re going 

to say of video games: this 

causes addiction,” much as 

cigarettes went from cool 

to hazardous over time. 

“We had ‘Sesame 

Street,’ ‘Mr. Rogers,’ ‘Father 

Knows Best.’ They 

have ‘Beverly Hills Housewives,’ 

‘Keeping Up With 

The Kardashians,’ violence 

on YouTube, violent video 

games, school shootings. 

Last week in our neighborhood 

we had three false 

alarms in schools where 

they were hiding children 

under their desks,” she 

added. 

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Neat nature 

The Frog Lady entertains, teaches Glencoe Library crowd 

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New Trier student builds owl homes for Eagle Scout project 

Nora Crumley 

Editorial Intern 

Dodge Adams, a rising 

sophomore at New Trier 

High School, has always 

felt a responsibility toward 

and passion for the environment. 

When Adams, 14, had 

the opportunity to do a 

service project to work 

toward earning his Eagle 

Scout rank, he decided to 

use his time completing a 

project that was both useful 

to his community and 

benefited the local environment. 

After one of his relatives 

did a similar project, 

Science Olympiad finishes eighth place in nation at tournament 

Submitted by New Trier 

New Trier Science 

Olympiad competed at the 

National Tournament at 

Cornell University on June 

1 and finished in eighth 

place out of 60 teams from 

across the country. This was 

New Trier’s best placement 

since 2012. Coaches are 

Daniel Caldwell, Shayda 

Crosby, Kimberly Dwan, 

David Haak, Antony Harper, 

Alex Howe, Harold Slav 

and Don Wurth. 

Highlights 

• Asher Noel won first 

place in astronomy, second 

place in circuit lab, 

and third place in thermodynamics 

• Edward Seol won third 

place in protein modeling 

• Emilia McDougal won 

first place in dynamic 

planet 

• Eric Liu won third place 

in protein modeling 

• Grace Yu won third place 

in thermodynamics 

• Irene Xu won first place 

Adams chose to build owl 

nesting boxes. 

After consulting with 

Ojai Raptor Center in 

Ojai, Calif., Adams decided 

to build the homes 

specifically for the Barn 

Owl. The Barn Owl has 

a distinct white heartshaped 

face with a white 

belly and cinnamon and 

gray-colored feathers on 

its back. 

“I thought it would be 

perfect because the population 

of the Barn Owls is 

declining in the Midwest 

because of urbanization,” 

Adams said. “These boxes 

can take the first step to 

help to get them back on 

in astronomy 

• Isabelle Hester won fifth 

place in fossils 

• Jason Yuan won second 

place in circuit lab 

• Jibriel Saqibuddin won 

second place in boomilever 

• Jonathan Yuan won second 

place in boomilever 

• Karthik Srinivasan won 

third place in designer 

genes 

• Louis Scheinfeld won 

ninth place in code busters 

• Penelope Tir won first 

place in dynamic planet 

• Pranav Doradla won 

third place in designer 

Genes and third place in 

protein modeling 

• Yetong Li won fifth place 

in fossils 

New Trier also participated 

in two trial events. 

Luke Von Kapff and Elizabeth 

Feoktistov competed 

in detector building and 

finished in ninth place, and 

Michael Chen and Maryanne 

Xu competed in environmental 

chemistry and 

finished in fifth place. 

their feet, repopulate and 

rebalance the environment 

after the effects of 

urbanization.” 

Barn owls are indigenous 

to all of north and 

central America, yet populations 

in northern Illinois 

have been declining. According 

to the Barn Owl 

Box Company, a company 

that provides boxes that 

serve as homes for these 

birds, Barn Owl population 

have decreased in 

Northern Illinois not because 

of climate but due 

to lack of appropriate habitat. 

Like their name suggests 

Barn Owls preferred 

habitat is barns, of which 

there are few in sprawling 

suburbia. 

Adams, who is a Wilmette 

Life Scout in Kenilworth 

Troop 13, recognized 

this issue and in 

response built 10 Barn 

Owl nesting homes. These 

nesting homes are located 

at the Wilmette Golf 

Course and Canal Shores. 

The decision to put 

these nesting boxes at golf 

courses has a practical 

purpose of removing rodents 

for the golf courses. 

“Barn Owls main pray 

is rodents, like mice and 

shrews,” Adams said. 

Additionally, these boxes 

also serve to limit the 

use of harsh rodenticides 

and could improve the local 

environment. 

“These nesting boxes 

hopefully will be able to 

attract owls to the area 

and the golf course can 

then limit their use of 

rodenticides. Rodenticides 

are very harmful to 

the environment and the 

chemicals in them can 

work their way up the 

food chain and really be 

detrimental,” Adams said. 

The process to plan, 

create and install these 

nesting houses took seven 

months and brings Adams 

one step closer to earning 

his rank. Adams also 

hopes the nesting boxes, 

which are located 15- 

feet high in trees on the 

golf courses, will raise 

awareness for owls and 

the effects environmental 

changes had on their 

population. 

“The earth is potentially 

in a crisis right now and I 

was just taking a small 

step to help out nature and 

raise awareness about the 

environmental problems 

we are creating,” Adams 

said. “But we can all help, 

as a community, to fix the 

problems we created and 

take steps towards creating 

a better environment 

and a better world.” 

New Trier Science Olympiad finished eighth at last month’s National Tournament at Cornell University. 

Photo submitted

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Society 

Contributing Columnist 

A portion of the mural entitled “The History of 

Bootlegging” featuring Al Capone that was painted in 

the basement bar of the Glencoe home of James Glaser 

by the 15th Earl of Huntington, Lord John Hastings. 

Photo Submitted 

The Historical Society 

is often asked 

about rumors of 

Al Capone’s connection 

to Glencoe. Surprisingly, 

there are two. The obvious 

one is that Glencoe was 

the home of U.S. District 

Court Judge James 

Wilkerson who presided 

over Capone’s tax evasion 

trial and sentenced him to 

prison. Wilkerson lived at 

924 Bluff St. 

There is a second connection, 

however, and it 

involves a mural painted 

by the 15th Earl of Huntington 

on a wall behind a 

private bar in the Glencoe 

home of James M.R. 

Glaser located at 665 

South Ave. (750 Prairie). 

The mural, titled “The 

History of Bootlegging,” 

was created with a paint 

gun sometime between 

1932-1933. Prohibition 

was still the law of the 

land, and Capone was 

beginning his 11-year 

sentence for tax evasion 

in the Atlanta federal 

penitentiary. 

The mural, however, 

was notable enough to 

draw the attention of 

Time magazine in its 

April 28, 1935, issue. In 

an article entitled “Capone 

‘Hero’ of Painting 

by British Peer,” Time 

explained that the mural 

highlighted Capone as 

“the scar faced [hero], 

plump jowled and 

wearing spats ... with a 

platinum blonde on his 

knee.” The mural also 

depicted “five scowling 

henchmen ... their hands 

thrust ominously in their 

pockets ... [as] the fed[s 

were] … about to burst 

into the room. The blonde 

is frightened and Capone 

himself has one hand in 

his pocket.” At the edges 

of the mural, one could 

also see, among other 

things, “a murky waterfront 

scene, … [with] 

five husky roustabouts 

unloading sacks of contraband 

whiskey from a 

speed launch [while] others, 

clutching revolvers 

and a submachine gun, 

are apparently beating off 

an attacking hijack party 

[as] the police are coming 

... in a rowboat with the 

Stars and Stripes waving 

in the breeze.” 

The artist of the mural 

was Francis John Clarence 

Westenra Plantagenet 

Hastings, a lineal 

descendant of Richard 

the Lionhearted and the 

House of Plantagenet. He 

was known as Viscount 

Hastings and became the 

15th Earl of Huntington 

in 1939 when his father 

died. (Coincidentally, it is 

believed that the legendary 

Robin Hood was also 

an Earl of Huntingdon.) 

After completing his 

education at Eton, where 

he was a classmate of 

George Orwell, Hastings 

attended Christchurch 

Oxford and later the 

Slade School of Art in 

London. In 1930, he 

studied with the famous 

Mexican muralist Diego 

Rivera and assisted in 

Please see GHs, 13

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From the editor 

Make good use of these stormy summer afternoons 

Megan Bernard 


With all those unexpected 

stormy 

afternoons 

we’ve been experiencing 

so far this summer, why 

not make one productive? 

New Trier Township 

is gearing up to begin its 

fourth annual summer 

Children’s Book Collection 

Drive, and they 

need your help. During 

the next rainy day, I urge 

you to head down to the 

basement to go through 

those bins of children 

books collecting dust and 

put them to good use — 

donate them to another 

child. 

The drive runs from 

July 9-Aug. 9 with a goal 

to collect 3,000 books 

in 30 days for Bernie’s 

Book Bank in Lake Bluff. 

There are four collection 

sites this year, including 

New Trier Township, 

Winnetka Presbyterian 

Church, Village 

of Glencoe and Valarie 

Wilson Travel (addresses 

are listed in the Page 3 

story). When I spoke with 

the Township Communications 

Director Jack 

Macholl last week, he 

said since beginning the 

collections in 2016, the 

township has brought in 

more than 10,000 books 

for at-risk children. The 

township hall has even 

become a year-round 

collection site of Bernie’s 

and averages a few hundred 

books each month. 

“After hearing Brian’s 

story and getting to see 

their operation, I talked 

to the township board and 

we got organized and began 

this in 2016,” Macholl 

told me. “We’ve been at it 

ever since. The people of 

the township have been so 

receptive that we are now 

a year-around collection 

site for Bernie’s.” 

It has been great to see 

the drive grow throughout 

the past four years. I 

always enjoy hearing from 

Macholl afterward to see 

how the drive went, as 

well. Hopefully this year 

I’ll also publish a followup 

story to update you on 

how many books were 

donated to Bernie’s. Stay 

tuned and donate! 

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GHS 

From Page 12 

some of his paintings. 

The Earl, known as 

“Jack,” came to Chicago 

in the summer of 1932 

to paint some commissioned 

murals, including 

one for the 1933 

Century of Progress. He 

also painted a fresco in 

the basement bar of the 

Glencoe home of Morris 

“James” Rosenbaum 

Glaser.” Hastings had 

met Glaser in London in 

the 1920s. According to 

Glaser’s daughter Sally 

Dewey, Hastings and his 

wife stayed at Glaser’s 

home. While Hastings 

painted the mural, Lady 

Hastings enjoyed the 

family’s swimming pool. 

According to Lady 

Hastings, Diego Rivera 

was “very enthusiastic 

about” the mural, and 

Hastings was reported to 

have made a replica for 

an exhibit in Britain. 

Capone, who was 

incarcerated at the time, 

never saw the mural, but 

the only adverse criticism 

of the artwork came from 

one of his old cronies 

who objected to the portrayal 

of the gangster’s 

moll. “Al never gave a 

tumble to skirt like that,” 

he said disgustedly. “He 

wouldn’t give her a job 

washing’ glasses in a 

speak.” 

Unfortunately, the 

house containing this 

extraordinary mural was 

torn down and the original 

artwork was lost to 

the ages. You can, however, 

read more about Lord 

Hasting’s and his time 

in Glencoe in a recent 

biography published by 

his daughter, Lady Selina 

Hastings entitled, “The 

Red Earl: The Extraordinary 

Life of the 16th Earl 

of Huntingdon.” 

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Today is a biweekly column 

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The round the Chicago 

Blackhawks picked Alex Vlasic in 

the NHL Draft. (Page 30) 

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New venture launched at Glenview Golf Club, Page 21 

Locally-created Pricetitution card game finds its footing after appearing on TV show, Page 17 

North Shore Country Day 2005 graduate Dan Killian (center), of Wilmette, appears on “Shark Tank” with his parents in April. 

Killian created Pricetitution, a party game. photo submitted by aBC Studios

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north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku 

Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Northbrook, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Lake Forest and Lake Bluff 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

Across 

1. ___ crossroads 

4. Brazilian dance 

9. Sarandon of 

“Bull Durham” 

14. Movie studio 

15. Punk 

16. How you say it 

17. Collectible 

topper 

19. “I wanna!” 

20. Needle holder 

21. “Why should 

___ you?” 

23. Presidential 

nickname 

26. New Trier 

senior and Eagle 

scout, Greg 

31. Foot phalange 

32. Water holder 

34. Enlarged map 

details 

35. Bubbler 

38. Manner 

39. Weak, as an 

excuse 

41. Nugent of rock 

42. Android programs, 

for short 

43. Kind of platter 

44. Wood coverings 

46. Executes 

48. Bag-like structure 

49. Chow down 

52. Wilmette Junior 

High school 

student and Wilmette 

Girl Scout, 

Cate _____ 

55. Fly with a long 

proboscis 

57. Gave the boot 

58. Forest creatures 

59. “To your 

health!” 

63. Reduce in value 

or status 

67. A short stanza 

68. “No bid” 

69. “For shame!” 

70. Flat breads of 

south Asia 

71. Needle 

72. Jacuzzi 

Down 

1. Mr. Einstein 

2. Overly 

3. Adjust 

4. Cardinal’s insignia 

5. Knock the socks off 

6. MC tool 

7. Hair feature 

8. Jobs’ company 

9. Mideast V.I.P. 

10. Deplete 

11. The Lord of the 

Rings good guy 

12. Annual meeting 

13. Born (Fr.) 

18. Solder material 

22. Fujairah bigwig 

24. ___ fixe 

25. Cup handle 

27. Replies to an invitation, 

briefly 

28. Store 

29. Elevator inventor 

30. Application datum, 

abbr. 

33. Better half, so to 

speak 

35. Mad and dangerous 

36. Bo Derek rating 

37. Dedicatory poems 

39. Moth variety 

40. On __ with: equal 

to 

42. Circle parts 

43. Zip 

44. Powerful auto 

engine 

45. Nosh 

47. In other words 

49. Animals with brown 

summer fur 

50. Gone 

51. Former currency of 

Spain 

53. Ushered 

54. Antiparkinsonian 

agent 

56. Be mistaken 

59. Calligrapher’s 

concern 

60. Helical stuff 

61. Future embryos 

62. Lad 

64. Tail motion 

65. Ft. Meade’s “Crypto 

City” 

66. Clock std. 

GLENCOE 

Wyman Green 

(675 Village Court) 

■8 ■ a.m. Saturday, July 

6: Glencoe French 

Market 

■July ■ 12: Movies on 

the Green 

WILMETTE 

The Rock House 

(1150 Central Ave., 

(847) 256-7625) 

■6-9 ■ p.m. Friday, July 

5: Family Karaoke 

Night 

Wilmette Bowling Center 

(1901 Schiller 

Ave.,(847) 251-0705) 

■11 ■ a.m.-9 p.m. (10 

p.m. on Friday, Saturday): 

Glow bowling 

and pizza all week 

long 

Gillson Beach 

■7:30 ■ p.m. Saturday, 

July 13: Gillson Beach 

Campout 

NORTHBROOK 

Pinstripes 

(1150 Willow Road, 

(847) 480-2323) 

■From ■ open until close 

all week: bowling and 

bocce 

Village Green Park 

(Downtown Northbrook 

— Shermer and 

Meadow Roads_ 

■6:30 ■ p.m. every Tuesday 

night through July 

23: Tuesdays in the 

Park 

GLENVIEW 

Johnny’s Kitchen 

(1740 Milwaukee Ave. 

(847) 699-9999) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. every Friday 

and Saturday: Live 

Music 

The Rock House 

(1742 Glenview Road 

(224) 616-3062) 

■5 ■ p.m. Friday, July 

5: Family Night and 

Karaoke 

Ten Ninety Brewing Co. 

(1025 N. Waukegan 

Road, (224) 432-5472) 

■7-9 ■ p.m. every Thursday: 

Trivia Night 

Oil Lamp Theater 

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answers 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 

3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column 

and box must contain each of the numbers 

1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan

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NSCDS alum’s game captures $100K from ‘Shark Tank’ investors 

Christine Adams 


A North Shore Country Day 

School alum wants to know how 

much money it would take you 

to get a tattoo on your arm of the 

last thing you ate — and he’s not 

alone. 

The question is part of a new 

card game called Pricetitution, 

developed by local creator Dan 

Killian, of Wilmette. Word is 

spreading fast about the game, 

helped in large part to an April 

appearance on the show “Shark 

Tank” that scored Killian 

$100,000 from two investors 

for a 40 percent stake in the 

company. 

The whole ordeal began a 

couple years ago when Killian, 

a 2005 graduate of the Winnetka 

school, felt compelled to pursue 

a creative project. He had 

been working at an advertising 

agency for several years but was 

looking for a more personal endeavor 

and was spitballing ideas 

with a friend when the concept 

of Pricetitution came to him. 

“It was kind of a funny idea I 

threw out to my friend,” he said. 

That idea is captured in the 

game’s tagline: everyone has a 

price. Players take turn pulling 

cards with different scenarios, 

and their friends then have to 

guess how much money it would 

take for the player to enact the 

scenario. 

Card themes range from silly 

and sophomoric (think Cards 

Against Humanity) to more philosophical 

situations regarding 

aging and death, and according 

to Killian, the game is finding 

success not just from its humorous 

and provocative scenarios, 

but from the human connections 

and conversations that result from 

playing. 

“It’s more about the people,” 

he said. “After a while, they forget 

about the game.” 

After the original idea came 

to him, Killian quickly wrote 

test cards that he then took to 

board-game bars, such as Guthrie’s 

in Wrigleyville, and asked 

patrons to play so he could 

observe what worked. He rigorously 

tested different cards 

and themes, and went through 

the arduous design process to 

get the softball-sized game box 

just as he wanted it. He quit 

his 9-to-5 job and moved back 

to Wilmette with his parents, a 

decision that was played up to 

humorous effect in the “Shark 

Tank” episode that his parents 

also appeared in. 

Killian was selected for the 

show after an open casting call, 

and though he was nervous leading 

up to the appearance, the day 

of he “felt really comfortable, almost 

to the point that it was scary 

how comfortable I was.” 

His intense preparation, in 

which he practiced answering 

every conceivable question he 

thought the “sharks” might ask 

him, earned him offers from four 

of the show’s investors, and the 

investment he received has allowed 

him to focus more on 

marketing, which previously had 

been neglected while he concentrated 

on developing and licensing 

the game. 

After the show appearance, “It 

was night and day in terms of exposure, 

in terms of website traffic 

and sales. There is a ‘Shark Tank’ 

effect,” he said about the sales of 

the $21.99 game. 

Killian credits his local upbringing 

and education with giving 

him the ability to take the leap 

to develop the game. 

“North Shore Country Day 

made a big difference for me because 

I was not only able to, but 

encouraged to, try a bunch of different 

things in tandem. If what I 

wanted wasn’t available, I could 

create it,” he said. 

While in the short term, Killian 

is focused on giving continued 

exposure to Pricetitution, Killian 

doesn’t seem to content to say 

that the game is the only adventure 

ahead of him. In fact, he may 

just be getting started. 

For more information on the 

game, visit pricetitution.com. 

Dan Killian, a North Shore Country Day alum, created Pricetitution and pitched the game on “Shark 

Tank.” Photos by ABC Studios 

Killian 

appeared on 

the show in 

April with his 

parents from 

Wilmette.

18 | July 5, 2019 | The glencoe anchor faith 


Faith briefs 

North Shore Congregation Israel (1185 

Sheridan Road, Glencoe) 

Study the Talmud with 

Rabbi Wendi Geffen 

Come and study the Talmud 

with Rabbi Wendi 

Geffen from 1-2 p.m. every 

Monday in July. 

Adult Mitzvah Corps 

- Chicago Chesed Fund 

Warehouse 

If you would like to 

sign up for this 10-11 a.m. 

event on July 11, please 

contact Tracey Meyers at 

847-242-1234. 

Families Anonymous 

Meeting 

Does someone in your 

family have a drug/alcohol/behavioral 

problem? 

Do you feel isolated, confused 

or in need of support? 

You are not alone. 

North Shore Congregation 

Israel is a host site for a 

weekly Families Anonymous 

meeting. Families 

Anonymous is a Twelve 

Step Program for people 

concerned about drug/alcohol 

abuse and behavioral 

problems of a relative. 

Please enter through the 

school-wing door on the 

north side of the building. 

Meeting is in Kersten on 

the first floor of the school 

wing. This meeting is at 7 

p.m. every Tuesday. 

North Shore Alateen 

Worried about someone’s 

drinking? You are 

not alone. NSCI hosts 

meetings from 7-8 p.m. 

on Mondays for teens ages 

12-19 whose life has been 

affected by someone else’s 

drinking. 

Am Shalom (840 Vernon Ave.) 

Outdoor Shabbat 

Join the congregation 

from 6:30-7:30 p.m. for an 

outdoor shabbat. 

The Torah in Shorthand 

Come and join the congregation 

for this event 

from 10-11 a.m. every 

Tuesday in July. 

GCG Harvest/Workdays 

Join us for a Harvest/ 

Workday on Tuesday and 

Thursday mornings at 7:30 

a.m. until Halloween. Sessions 

will also be from 10 

a.m.-noon on Saturdays. 

Congregation Hakafa (Services held at 

620 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka) 

Shabbat On The Beach 

Join Congregation 

Hakafa at 5:45 p.m. August 

16 for dinner and 

Shabbat services at Elder 

Lane Beach, 239 Sheridan 

Road, Winnetka, IL. Bring 

a blanket and/or lawn 

chairs along with family 

and friends of all ages at 

5:45 p.m. for a BYO dinner 

at the park above the 

beach. Meet at the grassy 

area and playground. Musical 

services are from 

7-8:00 p.m. on the beach, 

followed by a frozen treat. 

Everyone is welcome for 

this special Hakafa tradition. 

In case of rain, dinner 

will be cancelled and 

our service will take place 

at the Winnetka Community 

House, 620 Lincoln 

Avenue, Winnetka. For 

questions, call Hakafa at: 

(847) 242-0687 or visit: 

www.hakafa.org. 

St. Elisabeth’s Episcopal Church (556 

Vernon Ave.) 

Lemonade on the Terrace 

During the summer, we 

enjoy some lemonade and 

treats outside after the 

10:00 am service. The 

sign-up sheet for hosting 

lemonade is on the bulletin 

board in the hallway. 

Daphne Cody Send-off 

Events 

We will be hosting two 

special opportunities to 

celebrate Daphne and what 

she has meant to St. Elisabeth’s. 

July 14: Afternoon 

concert, light bites, and 

time with Daphne to remember 

key events since 

2005. 

July 21: Coffee Hour 

Open House following the 

10:00 AM service. 

Soup Kitchen 

We need helping hands 

July 11 to pack 100 lunches 

during the afternoon at 

3 p.m. We also need cooks 

at 5 p.m. and servers ages 

5 and up at 6 p.m. to help 

serve 80-90 diners ham, 

turkey, beans, and salad 

during the supper hour at 

First Methodist Church 

in Evanston. After everyone 

is served, we go for 

pizza together. The signup 

sheet is on the bulletin 

board. For more information, 

please contact John 

Tuohy. 

North Shore United Methodist Church 

(213 Hazel Ave) 

Family Promise 

North Shore United 

Methodist Church regularly 

provides overnight 

accommodations, meals, 

and companionship to 

families with young children 

who are homeless, or 

at risk for becoming homeless. 

Volunteers are needed 

to provide food, dine and 

spend the evening with our 

guests, or serve as overnight 

hosts. 

Glencoe Union Church (263 Park Ave.) 

Summertime Sunday 

School 

Children, kindergarten 

- 4th grade, are invited to 

join Jennifer, Ms. Rose 

P. and Ms. Rose B. for 

art making on July 7, 14 

and 21. We will gather 

before church…using the 

full hour from 10-11:00 

to hear, tell, make, create 

stories and art. Please 

plan on your child attending 

all four weeks of creative 

engagement and fun, 

faith formation. 

GUC Civil Rights Trip 

This fall they are heading 

south to undertake a 

journey to learn firsthand 

the long, painful history 

of Civil Rights in this 

country from Oct. 9-12. 

They’re planning the trip 

with an eye to the interest 

of families that might want 

to experience this pilgrimage 

together. If you are interested 

in learning more 

about this event please 

contact the church office. 

Volunteering Day 

Every fourth Tuesday 

of each month, our church 

donates food for suppers 

at A Just Harvest https:// 

ajustharvest.org/ in Rogers 

Park and members of our 

congregation volunteer to 

serve the meal to homeless 

families and individuals. 

Contact Colin at colin@ 

glencoeunionchurch.org to 

be part of this giving opportunity. 

Submit information to 

m.wojtychiw@22ndcentury 

media.com. 

In Memoriam 

Paul Randall McGinley 

New Trier graduate 

Paul Randall McGinley 

died May 15 after a brave 

battle with throat cancer. 

Born on April 17, 1953 

in Edwardsville, Ill., his 

family relocated to California 

in 1963 and later to 

Chicago, where McGinley 

graduated from New Trier 

High School in Winnetka. 

There, he played football 

and developed a keen interest 

in photography. He 

later attended Northern 

Arizona University, where 

he met his wife, Tracy 

Kijula. He was preceded 

in death by his mother, 

Shirley McGinley. He is 

survived by his wife, Tracy, 

his children, Kyle and 

Sage (Kyla) who remain 

his greatest joy, father, 

Robert McGinley, sisters, 

Jan Perlo and Cherie Peters, 

brother, Pat McGinley, 

and numerous nieces 

and nephews. McGinley 

had a career that spanned 

over four decades in the 

restaurant industry. He 

was one of the most memorable 

faces of Marmalade 

Café, particularly at the 

Calabasas location, as he 

helped to open their many 

locations. Additionally, 

McGinley’s Christian faith 

was particularly important 

to him. He could always 

be seen with his satchel 

full of journals and his 

Bible. He worked countless 

hours and contributed 

generously to In His Presence 

Church. The Church 

brought him great comfort 

at the end of his life. In lieu 

of flowers, please consider 

a donation to In His Presence 

Church in his honor. 

Christina Nicholson 

Christina Nicholson, a 

New Trier graduate, born 

on Jan. 13, 1968 in Chicago 

to Pauline Nicholson 

and the late Bronce 

Nicholson, died at age 51 

on June 23 in Las Vegas. 

Nicholson attended New 

Trier for high school and 

Loyola University. She was 

in the Nutritional Products 

industry as a Director of 

Sales at ORGAIN CLEAN 

NUTRITION. Nicholson 

was married to Efrain 

Madrigal. She was preceded 

in death by her brother, 

Bronce Nicholson Jr. She 

is survived by her brother, 

James Nicholson; and sister, 

Orlee Lukasik. She also 

leaves behind her adored 

dog, Waffles. Nicholson’s 

hobbies included poker, 

art, interior design, baking, 

and hiking. Donations 

in her name to St. Jude’s 

Children’s Hospital are 

welcome and appreciated. 

Renny Stuart Norman 

Renny Stuart Norman, 

a New Trier graduate, was 

born on Oct. 8, 1936 and 

died June 23. Norman 

was a resident of Illinois 

at the time of passing. He 

attended New Trier High 

School, then went on to 

Stanford University where 

he earned a Bachelor of 

Science in mechanical engineering 

in 1958. Visitation 

was Sunday, June 30 

at Sullivan Funeral Home, 

60 South Grant St., Hinsdale, 

IL 60521. Family and 

friends met Monday, July 

1 for a visitation followed 

by a Funeral Service at 

Calvary Church of Naperville. 

Interment, Chapel 

Hill Gardens West. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials 

may be sent to 

Calvary Church in Naperville, 

Illinois https:// 

www.calvarynaperville. 

org/give; Chicago Tabernacle 

in Chicago; https:// 

www.chicagotabernacle. 

org/give/, Christ House, a 

ministry serving the homeless 

in Washington DC, 

https://christhouse.org/ 

donatehomepage/ or International 

Association for 

Refugees iafr.org in support 

of Ilir and Kate Cami. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email 

Michael Wojtychiw at 

m.wojtychiw@22ndcentury 

media.com with information 

about a loved one who was 

part of the Glencoe community.

glencoeanchor.com life & arts 


Bees and Beyond program unites all parts of Chicago Botanic Garden 

Anna Schultz, Editorial Intern 

This summer, the Chicago Botanic 

Garden in Glencoe will be 

exploring the crucial role pollinators 

play in our lives through 

the Bees and Beyond program, 

and they invite the community to 

come along for the ride. 

“The Bees and Beyond program 

is a garden-wide theme 

that presents a fun opportunity to 

get everyone at the garden working 

together on a project,” horticulturist 

Kathryn Deery said. 

Normally at the Chicago Botanic 

Garden, each section of the 

garden has a unique theme and 

name. The Bees and Beyond 

program is special because it 

cuts across sections and invites 

multiple departments to explore 

pollinators. 

Throughout the sections of the 

garden is a focus on cultivating 

flowers and plants that pollinators 

like bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, 

moths and birds can pollinate. 

The garden is also featuring 

displays both indoors and outdoors 

like the Butterflies and 

Blooms display and Pollinators 

Perspective that “present lots of 

opportunities to learn about and 

watch pollinators,” Deery said. 

The yellow Bees and Beyond 

signs dispersed throughout the 

garden share information about 

The program unites all departments of the garden with a universal 

pollinators theme. 

the pollinator plants with gardengoers. 

“We wanted to focus on turning 

education about pollinators 

into beautiful, visual displays,” 

Deery added. 

Not only is the program intended 

to educate the public on 

the importance of pollinators, 

but it is also an opportunity for 

the garden to learn more about 

creating the best environment 

for these organisms to pollinate. 

Scientists at the garden have 

studied pollinators and helped 

create the garden features and 

themed areas based on their research. 

Bees and Beyond runs through the summer at the Chicago Botanic 

Garden in Glencoe. Photos by Anna Schultz/22nd Century Media 

“Color, scent, flower shape and 

timing are different factors that 

affect how and where pollinators 

pollinate,” Deery said. 

With this information, the garden 

has created displays that center 

around each of these factors. 

The garden is also hosting 

different events and classes 

throughout the summer to highlight 

the work of pollinators and 

educate the public. 

“The After Hours Buzz event 

is an exclusive, intimate setting 

for participants to speak with 

scientists about the program over 

cocktails,” Deery said. 

Many of the classes at the garden 

this summer are pollinatorthemed, 

as well. Even the summer 

camp classes for kids are 

used as an opportunity to educate 

little ones on pollination. 

“We want people to come to 

the garden and learn about what 

we are doing, but also show people 

what they can do to help this 

cause,” Deery said. 

Each gardengoer can take 

a Bees and Beyond brochure 

which outlines ways to support 

pollinators at home from planting 

native pollinator plants to 

simply spreading the word about 

this issue. 

“The Bees and Beyond program 

is a unique intersection of 

science, horticulture and education,” 

Deery said. 

“This program aligns perfectly 

with the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 

mission which is to cultivate 

the power of plants to sustain 

and enrich life,” Deery added. 

The garden recognizes that this 

cannot be done without supporting 

the role of diverse pollinators, 

she said. 

Bees and Beyond runs through 

early September at 1000 Lake 

Cook Road, Glencoe. To learn 

more about the events and classes, 

visit www.chicagobotanic. 

org. 

the scene 

From Page 16 

(1723 Glenview Road) 

■Running ■ to July 7: Beau Jest 

Potato Creek Johnny’s 

(1850 Waukegan Road) 

■9 ■ p.m. Saturday, July 6: The 

home wreckers 

LAKE FOREST 

Little Tails Bar and Grill 

(840 S. Waukegan Road) 

■Live ■ music every Friday night 

The Lantern of Lake Forest 

(768 N Western Ave) 

■Sundays ■ at 5:30 p.m.: Holly 

“The Balloon Lady” 

Downtown Lake Forest 

(Western Avenue, 

MarketSquare) 

■6:30 ■ p.m. running on Thursdays 

until July 18: Concerts 

in the Square 

WINNETKA 

Hubbard Woods, East Elm and 

West Elm Shopping Districts 

■9-5 ■ a.m. Friday, July 19 and 

Saturday, July 20: 2019 

Winnetka-Northfield Sidewalk 

Sale 

Fred’s Garage 

(574 Green Bay Road) 

■Every ■ Friday: Fred’s Garage 

Fish Fry Fridays 

Winnetka Village Hall 


■7:30 ■ a.m. on Saturdays: Winnetka 

Farmers Market 

Hubbard Woods Park 


■6-8:30 ■ p.m. July 10: Wednesdays 

in the Woods Evening 

Concert: The PriSSilas 

NORTHFIELD 

Stormy’s Tavern and Grille 

(1735 Orchard Lane) 

■Barbecue ■ every Sunday 

Tapas Gitana 

(310 N. Happ Road) 

■6 ■ p.m. every other Sunday: 

Live music 

HIGHWOOD 

The Humble Pub 

(336 Green Bay Road, (847) 

433-6360) 

■8-12 ■ p.m. every Wednesday 

night: Open Jam 

210 

(210 Green Bay Road (847) 

433-0304) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. Saturday, July 6: 

Kings and Associates 

Buffo’s 

(431 Sheridan Road, (847) 

432-0301) 

■7 ■ p.m. every Monday: Trivia 

Everts Park 

(130 Highwood Ave.) 

■Wednesdays, ■ 

running until 

Aug. 28, 4:30-9:30 p.m. (no 

market on July 3): Highwood’s 

Evening Gourmet 

Market 

Downtown Highwood 

■July ■ 20-21: Tack Fest 

HIGHLAND PARK 

Jens Jensen Park 

(486 Roger Williams Ave.) 

■Running ■ each Thursday until 

Sept. 12: Food Truck Thursday, 

featuring live music 

starting at 4:30 p.m. 

To place an event in The Scene, 

email martin@northbrooktower.com

20 | July 5, 2019 | The glencoe anchor life & arts 


95 exhibitors to 

set up at CBG 

Art Festival 

Submitted Content 

The Chicago Botanic 

Garden in Glencoe is once 

again set to host the Chicago 

Botanic Garden Art 

Festival this Fourth of July 

weekend. 

Returning for its ninth 

year, the art festival features 

the exceptional work 

of 95 juried artists, and in 

keeping with the exquisite 

scenery, all art will embody 

a botanic theme, use 

or material. 

This one-of-a-kind 

event kicks off from 4-7 

p.m. Friday, July 5, with a 

preview night. The festival 

continues from 10 a.m.-5 

p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 

closes from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Sunday, July 7. Admission 

to this world-class event is 

free for all attendees. 

“The stunning backdrop 

of the Chicago Botanic 

Garden is unmatched 

and sets the tone for this 

one-of-a-kind Art Festival,” 

said Amy Amdur, 

president of Amdur Productions, 

producer of the 

Chicago Botanic Garden 

Festival. “Finding a piece 

of art for your home at this 

show is a wonderful way 

to bring nature into your 

home year-round.” 

Original art in a variety 

of mediums including 

paintings, photography, 

fashion/wearables, furniture, 

sculpture, jewelry, 

glass, wood, mixed media 

will be available for purchase 

in a range of price 

points, so there truly is 

something for everyone. 

Artists will be available 

throughout the weekend 

for booth chats and demonstrations, 

along with art 

activities for kids such as 

art fest bingo, spin art, coloring 

and a graffiti wall. 

The 385-acre Chicago 

Botanic Garden features 

27 breathtaking display 

gardens and four natural 

areas uniquely situated on 

nine islands surrounded 

by lakes. After a day spent 

exploring and viewing the 

variety of artwork on display, 

you are sure to work 

up an appetite. The Garden 

View Cafe will be serving 

a fresh menu featuring local, 

sustainably produced, 

and seasonal ingredients. 

The Garden View Café is 

located in the Visitor Center 

of the Chicago Botanic 

Garden. You can also find 

food and beverages at 

the Garden Grille and the 

Rose Terrace Beer Garden. 

For more information 

about the Chicago Botanic 

Garden Art Festival on Friday 

July 5, Saturday July 

6, and Sunday July 7, or 

about Amdur Productions, 

please call (847) 926-4300 

or email info@amdurproductions.com. 

Preview artists 

online before you visit 

the Fair by visiting Amdur 

online at amdurproductions.com, 

as well as Facebook, 

Twitter, Instagram 

or Pinterest. 

visit us online at 

GLENCOEANCHOR.com 

Glencoe resident publishes 

first novel ‘Then She Woke Up’ 

Hilary Anderson 


Jaime Baum always 

wanted to write a fiction 

novel, but the Glencoe 

resident faced a personal 

challenge. 

Baum, a life-long journalist 

and public relations 

professional always had to 

deal with facts. She now 

wanted to write a story 

based on fiction. 

“I always admired professional 

storytellers,” said 

Baum. “Could I get inside 

fictitious characters’ heads 

and make up a story that 

people would read?” 

She decided to take a 

leap of faith and try. That 

was in 2015. 

Baum now is the author 

of a recently published 

novel, “Then She 

Woke Up.” It is the story 

of a young woman, Joni 

Griffith Wexler — a wife 

and mother — who is 

looking for purpose in her 

life and wonders, “How 

did I get here?” 

Baum’s journey to finally 

become that fiction 

writer began by taking a 

six- month sabbatical from 

her job. That was followed 

by a trip to the Glencoe Library. 

“I found a book ‘Writing 

Fiction for Dummies’ and 

did all the exercises,” she 

said. 

Baum put up a corkboard 

and attached index 

cards to it. 

“I planned how I thought 

the story should run and 

put my facts in order,” she 

said. “It did not take long 

for me to realize the story 

is not good and would be 

boring. I threw out the 

index cards. I wanted my 

novel to be something I 

Jaime Baum, of Glencoe, published her first book, 

“Then She Woke Up.” photo submitted 

would like to read and 

which would be entertaining 

and tell a story that others 

would want to read.” 

Baum said her husband, 

Robert Mann, and their 

combined eight children, 

never saw her first draft 

but showed it to friends for 

comments. 

“My husband never saw 

a word of that first draft,” 

she said. “I think a person 

does not want to be judged 

by someone so close to 

you. But my friends read it 

and made some good comments.” 

She attended a couple 

weekend sessions at Lake 

Forest’s Ragdale and the 

Story Studio there. 

“There is comfort being 

in the presence of likeminded 

people,” Baum 

said. “One gets a good, 

positive and supportive 

energy from being there 

along with different perspectives.” 

Baum developed her 

book’s main character, 

Joni Griffith Wexler. 

“Joni is imperfect,” she 

said. “Like in life, people 

do not know her whole 

story. She rushes from 

one impulsive decision 

to the next. It takes two 

of the character’s closest 

friends during an unexpected 

weekend and the 

wisdom of a psychic to 

give Joni the confidence 

to take control of her 

life. But a shocking event 

threatens to ruin everything.” 

Baum said she finished 

the first draft during the 

six months of her sabbatical. 

She then put the book 

away in a drawer and left it 

there for a while. 

“My character kept calling 

to me so I let her out of 

the drawer and decided to 

get the book ready for publishing,” 

Baum said. 

She went to the Chicago 

Writers Association events 

to listen to other writers, 

learn about publishing and 

network. 

“I decided to forego the 

challenge of finding a literary 

agent and decided to 

publish the book myself,” 

said Baum. “I researched 

and decided to format with 

Amazon but had a problem 

putting on page numbers 

correctly among other 

things.” 

Baum solved that problem 

by hiring a woman she 

knew with the technical 

expertise to do it correctly. 

“I would hit publish and 

it did not work,” she said. 

“The woman figured out 

what my problem was.” 

Baum went “live,” as 

she calls it, in May 2019. 

“We had champagne,” 

Baum said. “There is a lot 

to be said for relishing the 

moment. My husband was 

very supportive whenever 

I was stuck — sometimes 

laughing and sometimes 

crying.” 

Baum says the book is 

an easy-read. 

“Everyone who has read 

it says things in the story 

just jump out at you,” she 

said. “They say it feels as 

though they know someone 

in real life like in the 

book but the characters are 

all fictional and not based 

on any actual person. But 

there has to be an element 

of truth in all fiction.” 

Baum’s next project is 

writing about her father, 

Dave Baum, a well-known 

personality in Chicago radio. 

Jaime Baum’s book is 

available on Amazon.com, 

at Winnetka’s Bookstall, 

Wilmette’s Yogaview, 

Glencoe’s Reach Yoga and 

the Mi-Te Printing.

glencoeanchor.com dining out 


Glenview’s Coarse Italian strokes in early success 

Nick Frazier 

Contributing Sports Editor 

Although Glenview 

resident Franco Francese 

and his brother Vito have 

owned Mattone Restaurant 

and Bar in La Grange Park 

for nine years, they were 

always searching for a 

spot to open up something 

closer to home. 

Opportunity came 

knocking when a space 

became available to lease 

through the Glenview Park 

District, leading to the 

opening of Coarse Italian, 

a rustic Italian restaurant 

that serves lunch and dinner 

located at the Glenview 

Park Golf Club. The 

grand opening of the restaurant 

was June 17. 

“It’s an under-utilized 

restaurant spot, not a lot of 

people know about it as a 

restaurant,” Francese said. 

“I think the golfers all understand 

what it is and 

have all known it as food 

and beverage for golfers. 

The idea is to have a freestanding 

restaurant that 

also serves the golfers.” 

Though the grand opening 

was less than a month 

ago, Coarse Italian has 

been hosting banquets and 

events since February. 

Aside from the special 

events, North Shore residents 

are slowly but surely 

checking out the new restaurant, 

which is fine with 

Francese. He hasn’t even 

put out the menu yet, since 

he’ll likely make a few 

tweaks here and there. 

“From my perspective, 

first impressions are everything,” 

Francese said. 

“You don’t want to open 

the spigot and then not be 

able to service people. You 

want everyone’s experience 

to be solid. The word 

spreads in a positive way, 

we want to be here for a 

long time, we don’t want 

to be here for three years 

Coarse Italian’s drunken gnocchi ($17) is a made-from-scratch dish with ricotta 

gnocchi, topped with a vodka cream sauce. Photos by Martin Carlino/22nd Century 

Media 

and be gone. We want this 

to be a successful venture 

for the next five-10 years.” 

In order to do that, Francese 

said he thinks you 

need to move slowly in the 

business. 

“Grow slowly, introduce 

it slowly to people, 

get them excited about 

something new but not 

overwhelm yourself or 

overwhelm your staff and 

provide bad service,” he 

added. 

Whereas Mattone is a 

restaurant on a busy street 

and is visible to traffic, 

Coarse Italian is hidden 

in the heart of the golf 

course. There’s good traffic 

when the weather is 

nice, but golfers aren’t 

typically looking for a sitdown 

meal after 18 holes. 

Francese is a golfer himself, 

but he still decided to 

delay the grand opening in 

order to get a better idea of 

what the golfers are looking 

for. 

“The issue in the past 

has always been golfers 

are here when it’s convenient 

for golf, they’re not 

here for food,” Francese 

said. “Food is the afterthought 

or the byproduct 

of golf, same with their 

drinking habits. … It’s 

really a supply-demand 

economy of scale decision 

that we make, when 

we are stocking, when we 

are putting items out when 

it’s hot, when it rains and 

there’s no one here from 

the golf traffic.” 

Francese hopes both 

golfers and non-golfers 

alike will come to Coarse 

Italian for the menu, which 

contains some classic entrees 

found at Mattone’s 

along with some new dishes. 

Coarse features both a 

special events menu for 

banquets and an early-bird 

breakfast menu for golfers 

looking to hit the links at 

the break of dawn. 

A group of 22nd Century 

Media Editors stopped into 

Coarse Italian and tried out 

some menu items. 

We started with a special 

cocktail Francese calls 

the Glen Revival. It contains 

bourbon, lime juice, 

chamomile-infused syrup, 

and has a Cabernet float 

on top. The drink starts off 

tasting like wine, but once 

the wine mixes with the 

Coarse Italian 

800 Shermer Road, 

Glenview 

(847) 657-3200 

www.coarseitalian.com 

10:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 

Monday 

10:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 

5 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday- 

Thursday 

10:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 

5 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday- 

Saturday 

10:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday 

bourbon, it’s similar to a 

whiskey sour. 

For food, we started 

with the Coarse burger 

($12.50), which features a 

custom grind double patty 

made of brisket, short rib 

and ground chuck. On top 

of the patty was caramelized 

bacon onion jam and 

farm fresh tomatoes surrounded 

by a pretzel bun. 

Homemade pickle chips 

came with the burger. 

Next up was the drunken 

gnocchi ($17), which 

Francese’s staff makes 

from scratch with ricotta 

instead of potatoes. The 

The arugula salad ($13) is prepared with almonds, 

blueberries, red onions, dried cranberries, shaved 

Parmesan and an apple-cider vinaigrette. 

The Coarse burger, which features a custom grind 

double patty made of brisket, short rib and ground 

chuck, is an early favorite of diners. 

vodka cream sauce on top 

was a nice touch. 

We wrapped up with the 

arugula salad ($13) made 

with almonds, blueberries, 

red onions, dried cranberries, 

shaved Parmesan and 

an apple cider vinaigrette. 

Some of Francese’s top 

dishes are the marinated 

skirt steak with grilled 

vegetables and roasted herbed 

potatoes for $26, and 

the crispy stuffed chicken, 

stuffed with risotto, peas 

and Parmesan for $22.50. 

Coarse Italian also features 

an extensive wine 

list, including The Wraith, 

a $797 bottle of cabernet 

sauvignon. 

Francese encourages 

patrons to reserve a table 

at Coarse Italian through 

OpenTable. Anyone looking 

to hold a function at 

Coarse can use the banquet 

room, which fits up to 80 

people. 

Before Coarse opened 

its doors, Francese was 

nervous about serving his 

neighbors. Considering 

the traffic the restaurant’s 

gotten so far, it seems he’s 

made the good first impression 

he was hoping for. 

“It’s been great; they’ve 

been super receptive, 

we’ve had repeat traffic 

from the neighbors, which 

has been fantastic,” Francese 

said. “You don’t want 

to provide a bad experience 

for people you live 

next door too. (It) hasn’t 

been the case, thankfully, 

we’ve had lots of traffic 

from friends and people 

that we know in the neighborhood, 

which has been 

great.”

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Gillian Klise 

The recent New Trier 

graduate will play volleyball 

at the University of 

Rhode Island. 

When did you 

first start playing 

volleyball? 

I started in fourth grade. 

It was in gym class. Our 

unit was volleyball so our 

gym teacher set up a volleyball 

net and gave me 

the volleyball first because 

I didn’t know how to play, 

but we just started then, 

and then ever since then 

I’ve loved it. 

What’s one thing 

people don’t know 

about you? 

I love to water ski. I’ve 

been doing that basically 

my whole life. My family 

owns a lake house so 

all my cousins have been 

water skiing their whole 

lives. So just basically 

when I was able to walk, 

they taught me how to water 

ski. 

If you could travel 

anywhere in the 

world, where would 

it be? 

I’d travel all around Europe. 

That’s a goal in my 

life to just travel around 

Europe. 

If you won the lottery, 

what would you do 

with the money? 

I’d donate it to somewhere 

where they need 

more money for like education. 

What’s one thing that 

is on your bucket list? 

I’d love to go skydiving. 

It looks like it’d be so 

much fun to do, 

What’s one song on 

your playlist? 

“The Night is Still 

Young” by Nicki Minaj. 

If you had three 

dollars at Walgreens, 

what would you buy? 

I would buy Arnold 

Palmer, some Milk Duds, 

and some ponytails because 

I like keeping my 

hair up. 

If you could have one 

meal for the rest of 

22nd Century Media file photo 

your life, what would 

it be? 

Oh, it’d be pasta with 

red sauce and garlic bread. 

That’s my go-to meal for 

everything. 

What would you say 

is your greatest skill? 

I think being very loud. 

I’m a very loud person. 

What’s the hardest 

part about playing 

volleyball? 

I think it’s just like being 

mentally available all 

the time. Sometimes it’d 

like with any sport, not just 

volleyball, you’re tired 

from practice the day before 

or something, but it’s 

just being mentally tough 

and getting through everything. 

Interview by Sports Editor 

Michael Wojtychiw 

The Varsity: North Shore Podcast 

Guys talk about state of IHSA, offer advice 

Staff Report 

In this week’s episode of 

The Varsity: North Shore, 

the only podcast focused 

on North Shore sports, 

hosts Michal Dwojak, Michael 

Wojtychiw and Nick 

Frazier are joined by 22nd 

Century Media Publisher 

Joe Coughlin as the four 

put on their commissioner 

hats and talk about the 

state of the IHSA and what 

could need some improvements, 

dividing conversation 

topics by logistics, 

rules and things that they 

think the organization did 

wYsocki 

From Page 27 

“I think you look at the 

broader history of what 

New Trier has and they’ve 

been really successful,” 

Wysocki said. “It’s a really 

awesome environment, I 

can tell already walking 

into. There’s a lot of support 

from the girls, from 

the families, from the 

athletic department, the 

school as a whole, so it 

definitely didn’t scare me 

away or anything like that. 

conaghan 

From Page 27 

at times, one spring break 

practice with Wisconsin- 

Whitewater was highlycompetitive. 

It was then, after the practice, 

that Brian Conaghan 

remembers coach Wisconsin-Whitewater 

head 

coach, Pat Miller, pulled 

him aside and said: “If you 

decide to transfer, you have 

a spot on our team.” 

So when Illinois head 

coach Brad Underwood 

told him that his team, in 

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a good job with. 

First Period 

The four talk about the 

logistical issues the IHSA 

faces and offer some advice. 

Second Period 

The guys move on to 

talk about some issues they 

with rules and offer some 

the IHSA should make. 

Third Period 

They finish the episode 

talking about the 

things they like the IHSA 

changed and what the organization 

does right. 

“I think it’s just a matter 

of kind of refocusing and 

shifting that culture to try 

to match what we want the 

ultimate outcome to be.” 

While it’s easy to say 

that the overall goal and 

objective is to win as 

many games as possible, 

the game of softball and 

playing together as a team 

means more than that to 

the new Trevians’ coach. 

“In reality, I want every 

girl in the program to, at 

the end of the season, to 

look back and say, ‘I enjoyed 

my time and, probably 

more importantly, I 

learned a lot of skills to 

help me outside of the softball 

field,’” she said. “For 

me, the biggest thing is 

that these girls walk away 

becoming better people in 

softball, and any sport really, 

it’s just a goal to help 

them learn all these character 

traits like integrity, 

respect, hard work, determination, 

all those things 

can be fostered on the 

softball field and those are 

things those girls can carry 

with them far past their 

softball playing days.” 

fact, wasn’t going to add 

a walk-on next season, 

Conaghan had a decision. 

It wasn’t easy: he had 

a combined 3.88 GPA, 

above the 3.7 GPA Gies 

Business school requires. 

While he had a great experience 

with the managers, 

he wants to compete 

athletically again. 

“I missed playing competitive 

sports this year. I 

think going through that 

builds character as a person 

and shapes who I’ve 

become. At New Trier, all 

our practices were very 

competitive, getting upand-down, 

learning different 

plays.” 

And he’ll do whatever 

it takes to lead Wisconsin- 

Whitewater to victory. 

“I feel like I’m capable 

of scoring, but if I need to 

facilitate more or be scrappy 

on defense, then that’s 

what I’ll do. I’m always 

taking it to heart to learn 

the plays and watch film, 

so I’m always prepared. 

No matter if it’s a practice 

or a game, working 

hard on defense. Making 

the little plays to help our 

team win, getting a steal, 

boxing-out, or whatnot.”

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Sports briefs 

IHSA releases 2019 football 

schedules 

The Illinois High School Association 

released its 2019 football 

schedules Wednesday, June 

26, including schedules for both 

Loyola and New Trier. 

The Ramblers are coming off of 

an 11-3 season that saw them win 

their last eight games after starting 

3-3, en route to the state title. 

Like last year, Loyola will 

face off with New Trier in the 

schools’ rekindled rivalry, in 

week 2 at Loyola. The schedule 

is different for Loyola, however, 

because it is the first year of the 

Chicago Catholic League/East 

Suburban Catholic Conference 

merger. So along with tough 

games with Mount Carmel, St. 

Rita and Brother Rice, the Ramblers 

will also face tough ESCC 

foes Marist and Benet. 

After starting the season with 

a tough regional opponent in 

St. Ignatius of Cleveland (to be 

played in Michigan City, Ind.), 

the Ramblers play five home 

games to just three natural road 

games. They do start with a 

tough opening stretch of St. Ignatius 

(Cleveland), New Trier, 

St. Rita and Mount Carmel in the 

season’s first four weeks. 

New Trier 

Like Loyola, the Trevians will 

be breaking in some new players 

at key positions, namely quarterback 

and running back, after 

graduation hit them hard in those 

positions. 

As mentioned above, the Trevians 

get Loyola in the second 

week of the season, this year in 

Wilmette. That game is followed 

up by a game at Barrington, 

which is always a traditional 

power. Barrington and Conant 

are the two Mid-Suburban 

League schools New Trier drew 

in the annual CSL/MSL crossovers. 

After back-to-back road 

games at Loyola and Barrington 

in weeks 2 and 3, the 

Trevians get four of the next 

six at home, including Maine 

South to end the season and 

CSL South newcomer Glenbrook 

North in week 8. Week 

7 at Evanston will go far in potential 

playoff seeding. 

2019 schedules 

New Trier 

Aug. 30 host Lyons, 7 p.m. 

Sept. 7 at Loyola, 1:30 p.m. 

Sept. 13 at Barrington, 7:30 p.m. 

Sept. 20 host Conant, 7 p.m. 

Sept. 27 at Glenbrook South, 7 

p.m. 

Oct. 4 host Niles West, 7 p.m. 

Oct. 11 at Evanston, 7:30 p.m. 

Oct. 18 host Glenbrook North, 7 

p.m. 

Oct. 25 host Maine South, 7 p.m. 

Loyola 

Aug. 31 vs. St. Ignatius (Cleveland) 

(at Michigan City, Ind.), 2 

p.m. 

Sept. 7 host New Trier, 1:30 p.m. 

Sept. 14 host St. Rita, 1:30 p.m. 

Sept. 20 at Mount Carmel, 7:30 

p.m. 

Sept. 27 at St. Ignatius, 7:30 p.m. 

Oct. 5 host Brother Rice, 1:30 

p.m. 

Oct. 12 host Benet, 1:30 p.m. 

Oct. 18 at Marian Central Catholic, 

7 p.m. 

Oct. 26 host Marist, 1 p.m. 

Novelline, Gridley qualify for 

Olympic Trials 

New Trier girls swimming rising 

sophomore Kaelyn Gridley 

hit an Olympic Trials-qualifying 

time of 1:10.33 in the 100-meter 

breaststroke at a meet June 21- 

23. Gridely’s time is top 30 in 

the world and the fastest LCM 

time in her age group of 14 and 

Under. 

Fellow rising sophomore 

Carly Novelline also qualified 

for the Olympic Trials June 28 

in the 100-meter freestyle after 

finishing with a time of 55.76. 

Novelline and Gridley are part 

of a talented sophomore class 

that helped New Trier take third 

at last year’s state finals. 

Weaver named Scholar All- 

American 

Recent New Trier graduate 

Logan Weaver was selected 

to the United Soccer Coaches 

High School Scholar All-America 

Team June 27. Weaver was 

one of 40 males athletes across 

the country to earn the honor 

and will play soccer at Northwestern 

University starting in 

the fall. 

New Trier grad to be inducted 

into Northwestern Athletic Hall 

of Fame 

Former New Trier basketball 

player Amy Jaeschke will be 

inducted into Northwestern University’s 

Athletic Hall of Fame, 

the school announced June 27. 

After a stellar career at 

New Trier, Jaeschke played at 

Northwestern from 2007-2011, 

where she was named to four 

All-Big Ten teams, including 

two first-team nods, an Honorable 

Mention All-America 

honor her senior year and a 

Wooden Award finalist her senior 

season. She still stands 

third in program history in 

scoring and fourth in rebounding. 

Following her Northwestern 

career, she was drafted by 

the WNBA’s Chicago Sky and 

played professionally in China 

and Russia. 

Bianucci commits to Miami 

University (Ohio) 

New Trier rising senior and 

girls soccer player Heidi Bianucci 

committed to Miami University 

(Ohio) to play soccer starting 

in the fall of 2020. Bianucci, 

who was a Team 22 first-team 

selection this season, is a threeyear 

varsity player who helped 

New Trier to its sixth consecutive 

final four last month. She 

joins teammate Emma Weaver 

as a Division I recruit from the 

Class of 2020. 

Sports briefs are compiled by 

Sports Editor Michael Wojtychiw 

(m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia. 

com). 

klise 

From Page 28 

have been some of the more successful 

ones in recent memory 

for the Trevians. 

The team won 29 games last 

year and 32 the year prior, advancing 

all the way to the supersectional 

in 2017, one game 

short of going downstate for the 

opportunity to play for a state 

title. 

Klise feels as if it was the overall 

team mentality that helped 

them become so successful. 

“I think it was our team in 

general,” she said. “Everybody 

on the team had the same goal in 

mind, and we all wanted to win, 

and at the beginning of each season 

we all made a list of goals 

that we wanted to have, like win 

this game, win that game, go this 

far in playoffs, and we always 

held each other accountable to 

those goals, and we also made 

personal goals for everybody. 

“Everybody made their own 

personal goals, and we shared 

them with each other, and we 

held each and everybody accountable 

for those goals.” 

As mentioned previously, 

Klise will head off to Rhode Island 

early in August and plans 

to study elementary education. 

The idea of going into the field 

popped into the middle blocker’s 

mind quite early in life. 

Kindergarten early. 

“It was my first day of school 

and my teacher, she literally was 

just so fun, and I always remembered, 

‘Wow, I want to do that 

when I’m older,’ and my mom 

was a teacher too,” Klise said. 

“So when I went home that day I 

was like, ‘Mom, I think I want to 

be a teacher,’ and I would make 

a school set in my basement, and 

I’d always pretend play down 

there and teach. 

“So every since kindergarten 

I’ve always wanted to be a 

teacher.” 

But before she heads off to 

Rhode Island, Klise is working 

on bettering her game so she 

can get ready for the upcoming 

season. 

“I’m basically working out 

and playing volleyball all the 

time because I’m preparing for 

the preseason,” she said. “So 

when I go to the weight room 

every morning, I lift weights, 

and sometimes I go play volleyball 

after, but I’m playing 

volleyball a lot during the week 

too.” 

Rhode Island’s season 

kicks off Aug. 31 against Iona 

College as a part of the Army 

Tournament. 

conway 

From Page 28 

had never actually seen her play. 

So when she got to campus and 

started to play fall ball, that was 

really the first time the coaching 

staff and anyone at the school had 

seen her on the field. 

“I was a little scared going into 

our first practices just because 

our second practice he asked me 

to try playing infield for him, and 

I was like, ‘Oh, okay. You told me 

in our beginning of the year meeting 

that you only saw me playing 

outfield, but okay, whatever you 

want,’” she said. “Once we started 

playing together as a team everyone 

was very welcoming and 

encouraging of everyone on the 

team so it made me feel a lot less 

nervous.” 

After having to earn her teammates’ 

and coaches’ trust, Conway 

feels as if she has improved 

greatly, even in just a year. 

Caldwell didn’t have as great of a 

year as it had hoped, falling short 

of an NCAA Tournament appearance, 

but this year was a great experience 

for Conway. 

“I definitely feel like after 

playing a year we have a pretty 

competitive league that we play 

in, but that really helps with my 

knowledge of softball, so like 

understanding what happens and 

what you have to do in certain 

situations,” she said. “I think the 

main thing for us, because we actually 

lost our 11-year streak of 

going to regionals, was you can’t 

take it for granted. Like you can’t 

take, ‘Oh, we’re supposedly one 

of the best teams in our league. 

We’re going to make regionals no 

matter what.’ And that was definitely 

like the biggest takeaway 

from the season.”



New Trier grad Conaghan off for 

next challenge at UW-Whitewater 

Drew Favakeh, Sports Intern 

When Ron Coleman, 

University of Illinois basketball 

assistant coach, 

told his managers they had 

“no chance” of winning the 

manager’s national championship, 

Brian Conaghan 

took it to heart. 

Out of it, he helped forge 

a motto: Let’s shut up Chin 

(Ron Coleman). 

The morning after they 

won, Conaghan placed the 

trophy on Coleman’s desk. 

But now, Conaghan is 

transferring to the University 

of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

to play NCAA Division 

III basketball. 

“Don’t get me wrong, 

winning the manager national 

championship was 

awesome and being on 

Minneapolis on the floor 

was a great experience,” 

Brian Conaghan said, 

“But I feel like winning an 

NCAA national championship 

would be a lot more 

sweet. That’s the goal.” 

Although he admitted 

that being a manager 

yielded payoffs (“great 

for connections”), playing 

college basketball is what 

he believes he should have 

been done out of New Trier 

High School. 

“I’ve loved the opportunity 

to be a manager at a 

Big Ten program, but I feel 

like I won’t have regrets 

to transfer and go play,” 

Conaghan said. “In 15 

years, I don’t want to wonder: 

‘what if I transferred to 

go and play somewhere?’ 

That helped my decision. 

I regret I didn’t play this 

year. I didn’t want any regrets 

down the line.” 

As Illinois’ basketball 

season progressed, 

he played basketball less 

and less — maybe once a 

New Trier graduate Brian Conaghan drives to the basket against the University of 

Michigan in a basketball manager’s game. photo SUBMITTED 

week. More likely, he was 

waking up at 6:15 a.m. to 

wash towels, place cones 

for drills, or rebound shots. 

But now, he’s set to join a 

D-III program that won 

the national championship 

in 2014. 

With four starters graduating, 

Conaghan has a 

chance to earn the starting 

point guard position. Having 

started at point guard at 

New Trier in 2016-17 and 

2017-18, Conaghan could 

return to a familiar role. 

Back then, the former 

varsity captain embodied 

the Trevian spirit with his 

gutsy, defensive-minded 

play style. He played a 

major part in New Trier 

advancing to the Elite 

Eight his senior year, their 

furthest appearance since 

2012-13. 

“Brian knows he can 

score if he needs to, but 

that’s not his game, not 

what he’s built for,” Kevin 

Conaghan, Brian’s brother, 

said. “He’s more of a defensive 

lockdown guy, 

the guy that will dive on 

the floor and save the ball 

from going out-of-bounds, 

the guy who will get 10 

rebounds, 6 assists, and 

4 points. He’s that guy, 

doesn’t need to be the focal 

point, doesn’t need all 

the glamour of the media 

and all that, and the fans.” 

With the manager’s 

team, Brian Conaghan 

played hard even though 

“no one was there watching, 

no one cheering 

him on,” recalled Kevin 

Conaghan, who attended 

all games from the elite 

eight to championship, 

a trip originally funded 

through GoFundMe. 

Despite being benched 

in the second-half of the 

manager’s national championship, 

he bear-hugged 

his best friend, Patrick 

Bittle, as the final buzzer 

sounded. 

“He was really proud,” 

Kevin Conaghan said. 

“The last game, they won 

by a blowout. They won 

by 30, so they knew they 

were going to win. He was 

cheering them on for the 

second-half, talking some 

trash to Marquette, too.” 

Before Illinois, before 

Wisconsin-Whitewater, 

entering the fray meant 

walking into the backyard, 

where Brian would dare 

Kevin and another friend 

to play him 2-on-1. The 

metaphorical ring where 

he dropped his gloves 

more than a few times. 

“If someone called a 

foul or thought someone 

was going too hard, he’d 

start fighting,” Kevin 

Conaghan said. 

Growing up, he was 

smaller than Kevin. But it 

only made him stronger. 

“I got my competitive 

spirit all those years 

growing up with Kevin,” 

Brian Conaghan said. 

“He used to be a lot bigger 

than me and better 

than me at sports. I hated 

losing to him especially. 

That changed my attitude 

and helped in the long run. 

Kevin filled out before the 

rest of us.” 

Nowadays, he is quick 

to point out that he’s catching 

up: “He hasn’t grown. 

I think I’m still growing, 

I’m only an inch shorter 

than him now.” 

Whereas playing with 

the managers was like 

“playing at the local rec” 

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New Trier tabs 

Wysocki as new 

softball coach 


Sports Editor 

R o s e 

Wysocki 

knew she 

had always 

wanted to be 

a coach. 

Even during 

her playing 

days at 

Wysocki 

Lincoln-Way East High 

School and Elmhurst College, 

she was almost like 

another coach in the dugout. 

“When I was playing I 

was much more of a coach 

than I was a player,” she 

said. “My dad was a coach 

and I grew up driving home 

from softball games with 

him and getting debriefed 

about how the game went 

from a coach’s perspective. 

So the strategy and 

technique has been something 

that I’ve just always 

naturally been drawn to. 

“So, I definitely, even 

when I was playing I was 

coaching in that sense. 

Even when I was a kid, 

in high school I volunteer 

coached for a local junior 

high team and so it’s always 

been something I’ve 

done and wanted to do.” 

Wysocki, originally 

from the south suburbs, 

played her high school 

softball at Lincoln-Way 

East High School in 

Frankfort and followed it 

up with a stellar collegiate 

career at Elmhurst College. 

While at Elmhurst, 

she helped revive the 

school’s softball program 

and earned First Team All- 

Conference honors her junior 

year. 

After graduating from 

Elmhurst, she coached for 

a year at her alma mater as 

an assistant and then got 

a job at Loyola Academy. 

She coached for a couple 

of years there, then took 

a couple of years off to 

pursue her master’s before 

being the head JV coach at 

Niles West for the past two 

seasons. 

Now she’ll be entrusted 

to turn around a New Trier 

program that’s fallen on 

hard times the last couple 

years after being hired by 

the Winnetka school earlier 

this month. 

Wysocki, who had been 

teaching social studies 

at Loyola for the past six 

years, will also teach social 

studies at New Trier 

starting in the fall. 

“I obviously know the 

tradition, and what New 

Trier softball, and what 

New Trier, as a whole, has 

been for a lot of years,” 

Wysocki said. “And I’ve 

been coaching and been 

teaching in the area. I’ve 

been wanting to take 

on a role as a head softball 

coach within the last 

couple of years. They had 

a social studies position 

opening, and the coaching 

opening at the same time, 

so it just seemed kind of 

like a good fit, so I figured 

I’d throw my name in the 

hat, see if anything came 

up from it.” 

Despite New Trier going 

14-40 over the past two 

years, including 4-23 in 

2019, that didn’t discourage 

Wysocki from pursuing 

the position. 

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going places 

Gillian Klise, a New Trier graduate, will play collegiate volleyball at the University of 

Rhode Island next season. 22nd Century Media File Photo 

Education key in 

Klise’s choice of URI 


Sports Editor 

The New Trier girls volleyball 

team is graduating 

one of its most successful 

classes in program history. 

This year’s senior class 

alone saw four players 

earn Division I scholarships 

and next year’s team 

will feature two more Division 

I recruits, as well as 

a Division III recruit. 

The Trevians saw the 

majority of their lineup 

either start or play major 

roles on the varsity squad 

for the last three years, 

one of those players being 

middle hitter/blocker Gillian 

Klise. 

Klise joins her teammates 

as one of the four 

off to play Division I volleyball 

after committing to 

the University of Rhode Island 

and signing her letter 

of intent this past spring. 

“When I visited the 

school, I walked around 

the campus, and I absolutely 

loved everything 

about it. It was beautiful,” 

Klise said. “I loved all of 

the facilities there. I loved 

the education because I 

want to major in elementary 

education, and I loved 

what they had to offer for 

elementary ed students, 

and I just loved the way 

the coach taught volleyball 

and the way we did 

strengths and conditioning, 

and I loved the team 

and everything about it.” 

Klise, who has been 

playing volleyball since elementary 

school, knew she 

had the opportunity to play 

college volleyball when 

she stepped onto the court 

with the varsity squad her 

sophomore year. 

As one of the younger 

players on the squad, she 

had the fortune of playing 

with Callie Fauntleroy, 

who is currently at George 

Washington University 

and a future opponent as 

the Colonials and Rams 

are both members of the 

Atlantic 10 Conference. 

Fauntleroy helped get 

Klise acclimated to the 

varsity level and also inspired 

her to play at the 

next level, encouraging 

her every step of the way. 

Playing three years on 

the varsity squad is something 

Klise feels has prepared 

her for the rigors of 

Division I volleyball. 

“It’s really prepared me 

to never give up and always 

work hard no matter 

what because when 

you’re on the floor, it’s just 

about that game and nothing 

else,” she said. “So I 

think it’s prepared me to 

basically work hard for everything 

and just not take 

anything for granted.” 

The last couple years 

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Alumni spotlight 

Conway bursts onto scene at Caldwell 


Sports Editor 

Loyola Academy alumna 

Nora Conway had a successful 

high school career, 

one where she earned 

22nd Century Media’s first 

Softball Player of the Year 

award. 

She kept that success 

going this past season as a 

freshman at Caldwell University, 

racking up numerous 

awards and having an 

extremely successful freshman 

campaign at the New 

Jersey school. 

“Basic drills, doing 

those, and throughout being 

on the varsity team for 

four years I got to see all 

different sorts of pitchers,” 

Conway said. “So that definitely 

helped with the transition 

(to college) because 

there were some very similar 

pitchers how I would 

face in high school in our 

games in college.” 

She was selected as the 

NFCA Second Team All- 

Region, D2CCA First Team 

All-Region honors, CACC 

Rookie of the Year and was 

a CACC First Team All- 

Conference pick. She was 

a three-time CACC Rookie 

of the Week selection this 

season. 

“I was really shocked 

about it because I had 

these great seasons in high 

school and I felt like this 

season, it was around there, 

but I didn’t think it was like 

an all star season,” Conway 

said about winning multiple 

awards. “So to hear 

that I got that, I was really 

shocked because I had so 

many other players on my 

team that had had great seasons 

just like me.” 

Conway spent a majority 

of the time at the top of 

the order and was second 

on the team with a .385 

batting average and led 

the Cougars with 48 runs 

scored, 77 hits, 33 RBI, 17 

stolen bases and six triples. 

She added 14 doubles and 

posted a slugging percentage 

of .545. The numbers 

were all good for top 11 in 

the conference as she finished 

seventh in the CACC 

in average, 11th in slugging, 

ninth in stolen bases, 

tied for ninth in RBI, tied 

for first in triples, third in 

doubles, second in hits and 

third in runs scored. 

For a freshman, batting 

leadoff can be tricky, something 

Conway admitted. 

“At first I didn’t know 

how my college team, how 

they wanted to play it, like 

if they wanted us to take 

pitches so that everyone 

can see it, and like that 

sort of idea behind it,” she 

said. “So like it was weird 

adjusting at first, but then 

once after a few games had 

gone by I felt very comfortable 

being there.” 

An interesting part of 

Conway’s recruitment was 

that her coach at Caldwell 

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Caldwell University’s Nora Conway, a Loyola alumna, prepares for a pitch during the 

2019 softball season. Caldwell University Athletics



Athlete of the Month 

Kost earns Trevians’ 

first honor of 2019 


Sports Editor 

New Trier recent graduate 

Andrew Kost had quite 

the spring. 

Kost, a pitcher on the 

New Trier baseball team, 

was named 22nd Century 

Media Athlete of the 

Month for May. He’s the 

first Trevian to win the 

award in 2019. 

Kost took over ace status 

for New Trier this 

year, going 7-2 with a 

1.49 ERA and 47 strikeouts. 

It seemed like every 

time New Trier needed a 

big win, Kost was on the 

mound. 

Kost won this month’s 

voting with 267 votes, 

narrowly edging out Glenbrook 

South outfielder 

Brendan Matias, who had 

253. Highland Park soccer 

player Sydney Cohen 

took thirs with 142 votes 

and Highland Park girls 

lacrosse player Berkely 

Clayborne had 124 tallies.. 

Voting lasted from June 

10-25. The Athlete of the 

Month contest for athletes 

selected in the month of 

June gets underway on 

July 10 and will end on 

July 25. Vote at GlencoeAnchor.com. 

New Trier baseball’s Andrew Kost was named 22nd Century Media’s May Athlete of the Month. 22nd Century Media 

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June Athlete of the Month Candidates 

New Trier 

Henry Scherb, boys lacrosse 

Peter Skinner, rowing 

Aaron Schatz, boys volleyball 

Fallon Warshauer, girls soccer 

Highland Park 

Alex Gordon, boys water polo 

Natalie Abreu, softball 

Charlie Tiemeyer, boys tennis 

Jamie Stern, girls soccer 

Lake Forest 

Katie Bondoc, girls soccer 

Richie Hoskins, boys lacrosse 

vlasic 

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will attend Boston University 

for a couple years before 

embarking on his professional 

career. 

“I think I’m just going 

to try and take it one year 

at a time,” he said. “Go to 

Will Zordani, boys tennis 

Woodlands Academy 

Arianne Berner, softball 

BU and try and develop my 

skills there. I think it’ll be 

a lot of fun as well. We got 

a couple guys coming from 

the program that I know 

there, so I’ll be in the same 

shoes as them. 

“Being a big guy, I got to 

work on my quickness and 

foot speed. Transferring to 

the next level and to the 

Glenbrook South 

Dan Hawes, baseball 

Julia DiSano, girls soccer 

Mary Grace Reynolds, girls lacrosse 

Glenbrook North 

Owen Sybert, football 

Jakob Sorkin, boys lacrosse 

Brandon Ng, boys track and field 

Reed Milkens, boys lacrosse 

NHL, there’s always going 

to be a lot of guys that are 

faster than I’m used to or 

quicker than I’m used to, 

so I got to work on that. I 

think I can definitely work 

on my offensive upside. I 

think I do have a lot of potential 

there and hopefully I 

can develop that when I go 

to BU.” 

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NHL Draft readies Vlasic for next step in career 


Sports Editor 

For many athletes with 

aspirations of playing professional 

sports, the ultimate 

dream is to play for 

the hometown team. 

Alex Vlasic, a Wilmette 

native, felt that being able 

to play on the same rink as 

some of the Chicago Blackhawks 

greats, in front of all 

of his biggest fans, would 

be something to cherish for 

a lifetime. 

“I think a lot of people 

that asked me before the 

draft was coming around, 

‘What would be your ideal 

team to get drafted to?’ And 

I’d always say the ‘Hawks, 

just because I feel like that 

would be something cool,” 

Vlasic said. “In the future, 

having your friends and 

family be able to just drive 

40 minutes to watch you 

play. I think that’s something 

really special for 

me. Growing up, watching 

Kane, Toews, all those top 

players play in our hometown, 

hopefully I’ll be able 

to play on the same ice as 

them.” 

Vlasic got one step closer 

to that dream June 22 when 

the Blackhawks made him 

their second-round pick in 

the NHL Draft, the 43rd 

overall selection. 

“It was a little bit scary, 

just waiting there to hopefully 

hear your name 

called,” he said. “I think 

every name that was getting 

called before me, 

people like that, I kept 

shaking a little bit every 

time a team came up to 

the podium or whatever. 

I think for the most part, 

looking back on it now, I 

think it was, it was a little 

bit nerve-wracking when 

you were there, but I’m 

pretty happy with the way 

things turned out.” 

Vlasic, who started 

skating when he was just 

3, played his last two 

years as a member of the 

U.S. National Team Development 

Program in 

Michigan. 

To make the USNTDP, 

Vlasic had to go through 

a process and multiple 

tryouts. At around the age 

of 13-14, hockey players 

start doing development 

camps, first a regional one 

and then more of a national 

camp, camps that, 

Alex Vlasic looks to move the puck in a game earlier 

this season. The Wilmette native and former New Trier 

student was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 

second round of the NHL Draft. Rena Laverty/USA Hockey 

according to Vlasic, have 

around 100 people. 

After that, scouts and 

coaches from the program 

send out around 40 invitations 

to players that they 

want at the actual top 40 

camp. At the top 40 camp, 

players are divided into 

two teams and they play 

games, do workouts and 

then they pick 20-22 players 

for the actual team for 

two years, the duration of 

the program. 

Making the team meant 

that for the first time Vlasic 

would be away from his 

family and his surroundings 

for an extended period 

of time. 

“It was pretty tough,” 

Vlasic said. “I think the 

first few months being 

there you miss your family 

and miss your friends, 

but I think after that you 

realize how much time and 

effort is needed to put in 

to become a good hockey 

player and you realize that 

it’s worth it, moving away. 

“Another thing was the 

bonds that our team built 

with one another. I’ve got 

friends on the team that I’ll 

still stay in contact with 

for the rest of my life that 

I didn’t even know coming 

into the program. It’s 

kind of like a brotherhood. 

You’re with each other 

every day for two years 

straight. That becomes 

your family, almost, your 

second family. It’s pretty 

cool to have them be there 

as well as have your family 

at home.” 

Vlasic also was able to 

play as a member of the 

United States National 

Team at the 2017 U17 

World Hockey Challenge, 

where he won a gold medal, 

as well as the 2018 U18 

World Championships, 

where the United States 

won a bronze medal. 

Representing his home 

country was something 

he’ll always remember, he 

said. 

“I think that was one of 

the coolest things so far in 

my career,” he said. “Being 

able to represent my country 

and being able to put on 

the USA sweater every day 

at practice and in games 

as well. I think it was really 

cool going overseas 

and playing against Russia, 

Sweden, Finland, Canada, 

all those other teams ... just 

representing your country 

and knowing that you’re 

playing for something bigger 

than just a team.” 

Playing against those 

national teams has helped 

Vlasic progress, but so 

has playing with the development 

program. That 

program saw 17 players 

drafted, the highest number 

of players drafted from a 

single team in one draft in 

NHL history. 

“I think the biggest thing 

was in practice, because the 

competition we were going 

up in practice was honestly 

better than a game most of 

the time,” Vlasic said. “So 

I think we got a lot better 

and we were able to benefit 

from that as well.” 

Vlasic attended his first 

two years of high school at 

New Trier before graduating 

from a school in Michigan, 

closer to the training 

center for the development 

program. 

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Coaches react to basketball state-series changes 

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1st-and-3 

THREE STARS OF THE 

SPRING. 

1. Alex Vlasic 

(above). The 

former New 

Trier student 

was drafted by 

the Chicago 

Blacxkhawks in 

the second round 

of the NHL Draft, 

the 43rd pick 

overall. 

2. Gillian Klise. The 

recent New Trier 

graduate will 

play volleyball at 

the University of 

Rhode Island. The 

middle blocker 

was a three-year 

member of the 

NT girls volleyball 

varsity squad. 

3. Ryan Jeffrey. The 

Wilmette Wave 

knocked in 11 

RBI and picked 

up a win on the 

mound last week. 

Drew Favakeh, Sports Intern 

The IHSA announced 

changes to the way it 

will run its boys and girls 

state-championship series 

for the first time since the 

implementation of four 

classes in 2007. 

Starting in 2021, the 

boys state final tournament 

will take place on the 

weekend of March 11-13, 

with the same Thursday, 

Friday and Saturday model 

while the girls state tournament 

will be held March 

4-6. 

Currently, the IHSA 

splits each respective final 

series, pairing 1A and 

2A together for a weekend 

while 3A and 4A teams 

compete the following 

weekend. 

While the board is still 

accepting host proposals, 

the new format goes into 

effect from 2021-2023. 

“There has been a great 

deal of support for this 

new tournament format 

over the past few months,” 

IHSA Executive Director 

Craig Anderson says in a 

press release on the organization’s 

website. “We 

tried to be as transparent 

as possible, communicating 

the idea and seeking 

feedback from basketball 

coaches and school administrators 

throughout the 

state in a variety of ways. 

It was fairly unanimous 

that most felt like it was an 

idea worth trying.” 

David Weber has been 

the boys coach at Glenbrook 

North for the last 

New Trier and other boys and girls basketball programs will have to adjust to a new 

IHSA state series starting in 2021. 22nd Century Media File Photo 

23 years and was recently 

inducted into the Illinois 

Basketball Coaches Association 

Hall of Fame. He 

traveled to state two times, 

collecting a state title and 

third-place finish. The year 

he won a state title, 2005, 

he remembered the games 

were sold out and people 

scrambled to get in. 

However, he doesn’t 

think the talent has decreased 

in the state, but the 

popularity of college basketball 

is to blame. 

“The state is trying to 

increase the crowds and 

make it like it used to be,” 

Weber said. “From what 

I hear, it’s not as well-attended 

as it had been in the 

past. The big thing with 

this is March Madness is 

killing the state tournament 

attendance. If you’re 

a basketball fan now, we 

never had March Madness 

on TV, where everybody is 

watching it.” 

Glenbrook South boys 

head coach Phil Ralston 

thinks the overall experience 

was what made the 

Illinois state tournament so 

magical in the first place. 

After coaching at Geneva 

for nine years, Ralston has 

spent two seasons coaching 

Glenbrook South. 

“It was like a basketball 

lover’s dream: you go see 

great high school basketball, 

in-between games 

you go the hotel, watch 

the NCAA tournament,” 

Ralston said. “Heck, for 

me and my kids, those 

were cherished weekends. 

It’s not that way anymore, 

sadly. The state messed 

with something really, really 

good and now this is 

what we have. It’s sad to 

see high school basketball 

deteriorate as much as it 

has in the last 20 years. 

And they can’t figure out 

how to fix it.” 

Although he cherishes 

memories at Peoria, 

Ralston proposes switching 

venues, specifically to 

DePaul University’s Wintrust 

Arena. 

“One of the best things 

Peoria offers being the host 

is the basketball experience 

in the convention center,” 

Ralston said. “I think the 

enthusiasm to be a part of 

that and be there and experience 

that has dwindled. If 

you don’t have that many 

people to check out the 

convention center, the basketball 

experience, then 

why even have i?.” 

Teri Rodgers has 

coached New Trier’s girls 

program for 20 years, finishing 

third in the state in 

2001 and 2015, and second 

in 2004. Although 

she acknowledged the decrease 

in attendance, she 

attributed that to variance. 

“If anything, in the last 

20 years, attendance has 

gone down,” Teri Rodgers 

said. “There have been 

years where we did draw 

well and there have been 

years where we didn’t 

draw well at all. In 04-05, 

we draw really, really well, 

the last two times we’ve 

been there, we didn’t draw 

as well. It’s hard, there’s 

a lot going on; boys are 

playing at the same time.” 

Lake Forest girls basketball 

head coach Kyle Wilhelm 

prefers one weekend 

of basketball. Although 

he’s never reached the 

state tournament, Wilhelm 

has attended the last seven 

years. 

The coach agrees it 

makes for a longer day 

of games, but thinks the 

idea of getting more teams 

down there and having 

the kids exposed to other 

styles of teams would be 

beneficial. 

“It has the potential for 

a nice championship Saturday,” 

Wilhelm said. “To 

watch four state championships 

on one day, that 

sounds pretty cool. I like 

the idea of putting all 

four together, but my only 

concern is the third-place 

games, if those are still going 

to be needed.” 

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“I think that was one of the coolest things so 

far in my career.” 

Alex Vlasic — Former New Trier student on representing 

Team USA the past two years. 

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Summer has started and it’s time to get 

out to the beach and play some volleyball. 

• Visit any of your local beaches and hit the ball 

around this summer. 

Index 

26 - Sports Briefs 

25 - Athlete of the Week 

Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor Michael 

Wojtychiw, m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia.com.

the glencoe anchor | July 5, 2019 | glencoeanchor.com 

Charging Along New Trier grad Klise 

to play volleyball at Rhode Island, Page 28 

Successful debut Loyola 

grad Conway flourishes in Caldwell 

University softball debut, Page 28 

Wilmette’s Vlasic drafted by Chicago Blackhawks in NHL Draft’s second round, Page 30 

Wilmette native Alex Vlasic celebrates a goal during a game as a member of Team USA. Vlasic, who attended New Trier for two years, was recently drafted by the Chicago 

Blackhawks in the NHL Draft’s second round. Rena Laverty/USA Hockey

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