PHOTO: John A. Schreurs, courtesy <strong>Highland</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Public Library Calling All Lincoln School Alums Lincoln celebrating its 100th birthday on February 12, 2009. The school was School is dedicated in 1909 on Abraham Lincoln’s 100th birthday, and next year’s celebration will coincide with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. The PTA will be using this unique learning opportunity for our current students to see how the country, <strong>Highland</strong> <strong>Park</strong> and their own families have evolved throughout a one hundred year period! If you are a graduate of Lincoln School (shown � before the 1924 building addition), they would love to hear from you! Please share a favorite memory or story, or provide some information about what it was like to attend Lincoln School in your day. They also hope to build an archive of materials. The goal is to compile an archive with information from each decade of the school’s existence. If you have photographs they can copy, old yearbooks or other materials from Lincoln you would like to donate, contact the committee. Lincolns100th@aol.com Dysfunctional Family Reunion Attic Playhouse, another local gem, presents Drinking Alone, by Norm Foster, November 14 through December 22. This touching, thought provoking comedy with an edge is by Canada’s most prolific and popular playwright. 410 Sheridan Road, Highwood, 847-433-2660, www.atticplayhouse.com Oak Terrace School Needs Your Support! The PTA will be hosting a silent auction fundraising dinner being held on February 28, 2009. Within the walls of Oak Terrace School, the academic needs are met for a very diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. Over 60 percent of Oak Terrace students are on the free or reduced cost lunch plans. Oak Terrace school also continues to serve, as it always has, the education needs of many families serving in the military. Funds are 44 / Holiday 2008 utilized to provide extracurricular opportunities for all our children, many of whom would not otherwise have access to these opportunities. For more information, please contact Oak Terrace PTA President Joanne Gordon. 847-338-2671 or OakTerracePTA@gmail.com Editor’s Note Forgive our slipping out of the editorial “we,” but after 16 issues as executive editor of six00threefive, I am passing my red pencil on to my colleagues in the Publication Group (formerly the Communications Committee). This magazine is a concept I have been kicking around for a couple of decades; it never would have come to life without the perfect mix of people and personalities. That’s why I know six00threefive will continue to improve, season after season, under their sharp eyes and warm hearts. The “PubGroup,” as it’s called in these days of we’re-all-too-busy-tospell-anything-out, are the busy professionals who take time from their day jobs to mentor local writers, showcase <strong>Highland</strong> <strong>Park</strong> photographers and secure sponsors. Listed in our masthead on page 1, you can think of them as “producers.” Then, on page 5, read the names of our “corporate underwriters.” Without sponsors and producers, there’s no six00threefive. And without you, our audience, there would be no “reason to be.” <strong>Highland</strong> <strong>Park</strong>ers love to say, “I know the owner.” This magazine is your not-so-secret handshake. And to think this all began when Sandra McCraren thought to send the chamber newsletter to everyone in town. That newsletter became this magazine. The magazine’s authenticity is immediately apparent. At its core, six00threefive reflects the uncanny ties woven through the fabric of our hometown. Cliché? You betcha! Say what you will about name dropping, but dropping names is what makes six00threefive eminently “Googleable,” attracting an ever-widening audience to our online archive. Reading these pages, you think, “I know him.” “Didn’t you go out with that guy?” “She went to school with my sister!” “I think that’s the family who lived above Aunt Fanny in the three-flat.” Still, once this project was realized, for me, the appeal lay in the PubGroup itself, the most energetic, creative people in town—Abbe, Jane, George, Carol, Mike and Michael, Sharon, Kelly and Wes. Everyone will tell you, even our meetings are fun—because we sit at the center of absolutely everything going on in town. And then there are Pete, Justin and Jeff at Vogue Printers, who unwind the toughest technical tangles and make up for our lost time. I’ve mastered one trick: Hang out with experts; they make me look good! Believe it or not, I'm at a loss for words of farewell, but I am excited to have arrived at the next stage in my career. After a long road trip to collect vintage housewares and garden junk, I’ll transition <strong>Wordspecs</strong> from a traditional ad agency to a consultancy, helping 21st century enterprises navigate the ever-more-fragmented world of advertising. And I’ll wait eagerly, as do you, for the next issue of six00threefive. ~ Deborah Spector Barry
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