Emma DeNoble of the Scouts goes after a loose ball during action last fall. She will play college field hockey at Colgate University next year. Photography by Joel Lerner

Emma DeNoble entered a room and placed her left hand, flat, on a table. The field hockey player attempted to lift her left ring finger. The finger stayed flat. The rehab session, in the summer of 2014, did not start well for DeNoble, then a junior-to-be at Lake Forest High School.

The Scout had suffered a broken bone in the hand at a national tournament in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, while playing for Windy City Field Hockey’s U16 Flame squad. A struck ball shattered it, not a pretty sight, not a pretty aftermath. She underwent surgery the day after the injury. Her hand, today, still contains a titanium plate and “a bunch of screws,” DeNoble notes.

Her constant companion at each of her rehab sessions last summer was her field hockey stick. The start of her first varsity season was five weeks away, and DeNoble’s goal was to be able to grip the stick again and play in the season opener. DeNoble informed her physical therapist of her goal. The presence of the stick at the rehab session served as a reminder of the goal. For the therapist. For DeNoble.

“It pushed me, seeing that stick each day,” DeNoble, now a senior-to-be, recalls. “It motivated me.”

Five weeks passed. Lake Forest High School faced Loyola Academy in a season opener. DeNoble, rehab companion in both hands, did not just play in the game, a 3-2 overtime loss. DeNoble scored a game-tying goal and soared at least three feet to celebrate the tally.

“I had missed tryouts,” says DeNoble, the leading scorer for the Scouts’ JV team a year earlier, in 2013. “I didn’t start that game. Scoring that goal … that’s when I knew, that’s when I thought, ‘Okay, I’m fine, fully recovered.’ ”

That wasn’t DeNoble’s first signature moment in the sport. That occurred years earlier, and it involved autographs of older field hockey players, players she had idolized as a third-grader. They gripped field hockey sticks and played for Lake Forest High School. DeNoble received a photograph of that year’s varsity squad, the signatures of each player scribbled near the edges.

“I still have that photo,” DeNoble — teammates call her “DeNobes” — says. “I cherish it. I knew all of the players. I looked up to all of them. I admired them and everybody who had played for the Scouts.

“Now, I’m a senior … it’s weird, so weird.”

DeNoble fell for field hockey way back in the second grade, an impressionable athlete eager to develop her skills at New Vision Athletics in Lake Bluff. Wendy Ross was her first coach. DeNoble, a nanny/babysitter these days, babysits Ross’ kids.

She started playing travel field hockey in the fifth grade. Playing competitively for Windy City Field Hockey (WCFH), based in Northbrook, became her thing, her passion. The Chicago area’s oldest and largest field hockey club since 1991 is run by owner/director Katie Beach, a former Olympian and Division I coach. DeNoble and her WCFH U19 Fire teammates placed third at the National Club Challenge in Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 12-14, a year after that U16 Flame crew finished fourth at the National Club Championships in Pennsylvania.

“What a coach, what a great coach,” DeNoble says of Beach. “She’s tough, and she sets a high bar. I’m still learning things. There are so many types of shots; I’m still learning shots. I’m still learning ways to get around people. [Beach] started a Roots youth program at Windy City, and she’s one of the most supportive coaches I’ve ever had. I can talk to her like she’s my second mom.”

DeNoble found a new home on field hockey fields at the start of her junior season. Scouts coach Melanie Walsh shifted DeNoble from forward to defender. It didn’t faze DeNoble in the least, and it showed in her play. She helped LF finished runner-up to New Trier High School at the state tournament last fall.

“Emma flourished [on defense], has become a fabulous defender,” Walsh says. “She is so dedicated to the sport and to her team and is the consummate teammate.”

Among DeNoble’s many strengths in game situations is vocal leadership. Teammates know exactly when they are out of position or when they had just executed a game-turning play, thanks to DeNoble. DeNoble is there, always, to instruct loudly, to praise loudly. She likes to yell. Timely hollers often lead to success.

“I’ve warned players, especially the younger ones, that I will yell during games,” DeNoble says. “I’ve told them to not take it personally, that I do that because our program at Lake Forest demands excellence, expects excellence. My yells are loud, but they’re not vicious. I yell because I want to be another set of eyes for my teammates who don’t see what an opponent is attempting to do.

“I expect my goalie to yell at me, to be another set of eyes for me.”

Field hockey coaches from Colgate University saw DeNoble play last year. They heard her, too. They liked what they saw. They liked what they heard. DeNoble verbally committed to the school and the Raiders’ women’s field hockey team in the early spring of her junior year.

“Emma is not afraid to be vocal on the field, to express herself, to throw herself out there in any situation,” says Colgate-bound Maggie Lake, a senior-to-be at New Trier and a Windy City Field Hockey U19 Fire midfielder. “She has natural leadership abilities. We get positive energy from her. She’s encouraging, supportive and confident. Her presence on the field is significant. As a player, she’s strong and versatile, with good vision and the ability to control the ball. She played every position [except for goalie] well in age-group field hockey, and now she’s established herself as a great defender.”

DeNoble’s summer has been packed, with field hockey, with jobs, with yoga, with trips to the gym for workouts. On Tuesdays and Fridays, from 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m., she serves as a nanny for a five- and a two-year-old. Dance parties break out sometimes, the toddlers gyrating to the delight of a swaying DeNoble, indoors, outdoors, whenever the beat of music moves them. She babysits others, works as a hostess at Market House on the Square in Lake Forest, completes custodial duties at Forever Om Yoga in Lake Forest in exchange for free yoga classes, lifts weights and somehow sets aside time each day to … breathe.

“I like to de-stress, and I get to do that when I’m at Forever Om or when I lift weights,” she says. “I like being artistic, too, and ceramics also helps me relieve stress.”

Years ago, at an indoor facility at Northwestern University, DeNoble, holding a field hockey stick, stood near a throng of NU football players, potentially a stressful scenario. She was a middle student then, an ant among purple hippos and rhinos and elephants. Lake stood nearby. A gridder asked DeNoble a question.

“We were there for a field hockey camp, and the football players had just finished making an appearance on the Big Ten Network,” Lake recounts. “One guy wanted to know how hard a player could hit a field hockey ball. Emma told him that a male could hit a ball, on average, 109 mph, or maybe it was 107 mph. Emma had read that somewhere. She and the football players talked about field hockey for about five minutes. It was pretty funny.”

Lake Forest High School’s Emma DeNoble. Photography by Joel Lerner

A mosquito pool (or batch of mosquitoes) sampled July 16 in Gurnee has tested positive for West Nile virus. The mosquito pool is the first confirmed indicator of the disease’s presence in Lake County in 2015. In 2014, two human cases of West Nile virus were reported in Lake County. In addition, 31 pools or batches of mosquitoes and one bird tested positive for the virus.

“The Culex mosquito that carries West Nile virus thrives in hot weather,” said Tony Beltran, the Health Department’s executive director. “Now that hot summer weather is finally here, it is especially important to protect yourself against mosquito bites by following the three R’s – reduce your exposure to mosquitoes, repel them by wearing insect repellent, and report areas where mosquitoes typically breed.”

The Health Department maintains a West Nile virus hotline for county residents to report areas of stagnant water (which are conducive for mosquito breeding), or to obtain more information on the signs and symptoms of West Nile encephalitis. The West Nile hotline number is: (847) 377-8300. Information can also be found at: www.fightthebitenow.com.

Recommendations to prevent mosquito breeding include:

• Discard old tires, buckets, drums or any water holding containers. Poke holes in tires used as bumpers on docks
• Keep roof gutters and downspouts clear of debris
• Keep trash containers covered
• Empty plastic wading pools at least once a week and store indoors when not in use
  Drain unused swimming pools
• Fill in tree rot holes and hollow stumps that hold water
• Change the water in bird baths and plant urns at least once a week
• Store boats upside down or drain rainwater weekly

Recommendations to prevent mosquito bites include:

• Whenever possible, limit outdoor activity at dusk
• Wear light-colored clothing that minimizes exposed skin and provides some protection from mosquito bites Make sure door and window screens fit tightly and that all holes are repaired
  Apply insect repellent that includes DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or IR 3535 according to label instructions. Consult a physician before using repellents on infants.

While most people infected with WNV have no symptoms of illness, some may become ill, usually three to 15 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. In some individuals, particularly the elderly, the virus can cause muscle weakness, inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), stiff neck, stupor, disorientation, tremors, convulsions, paralysis, coma or death.

The Health Department conducts a multi-faceted mosquito surveillance program in Lake County. Beginning in late spring and continuing into the autumn, a series of traps are set around the county, including within the Lake County Forest Preserves.

At each site a pool, or batch, of mosquitoes is tested weekly for West Nile virus. Areas of stagnant water are also investigated throughout the season for the presence of mosquito larvae, specifically from the Culex mosquito which is the primary carrier of West Nile in Illinois.

Finally, the locations of dead birds are monitored to assist in the assessment of potential West Nile virus activity. The Health Department works closely with the municipalities, townships, and the Lake County Forest Preserve District in monitoring the mosquitoes that may pose a public health threat.

Information about WNV can be found at www.fightthebitenow.com.

– Submitted by the Lake County Health Department

Highland Park High School’s Ben Casey (No. 94), who graduated this past spring, competes in the CSL Championships along with teammate Brett Davidson and Glenbrook North’s Nate Whitfield. Photography by Joel Lerner

His Achilles injury has completely healed.
But the hurt — the emotional kind — still lingers a little.
Flashback to Nov. 8, 2014.
Ben Casey was all set to set the world on fire. The Highland Park High School distance ace, who thankfully graduated this past spring with both of his Achilles tendons completely intact, strolled up to the starting line at the IHSA Class 3A state cross country meet last fall full of confidence.
But, five seconds into the race, the unthinkable happened.
A fellow competitor accidentally spiked him.
“Right after the starter’s gun went off,” Casey said. “I had to run the whole race with a hole in my Achilles.
“Pretty devastating.”
Also … pretty amazing.
Kevin Caines, former head cross country and track coach with the Giants who now serves as an assistant, remains in wonderment of Casey’s gutty performance on the three-mile layout at Detweiller Park in Peoria.
“Try running with a puncture in your Achilles,” said Caines. “It wasn’t a broken femur or anything like that. But it was a trauma injury.
“To run, you really need to have your tendons functioning,” the coach added. “Every single step you take, you feel it.”
Caines wasn’t surprised that Casey stayed the course and finished the race.
“He’s a kid who puts his heart and soul into running,” Caines said. “He’s had more than his share of ups and downs. But he’s one of the most talented guys we’ve ever had (in our program).
Elite athletes can amaze.
Elite athletes figure out a way to push through the boundaries of pain — even the agony of a perforated tendon.
On that fateful day, Casey’s threshold for pain was profound. This was a case of mind over tatter.
A pierced Achilles tendon? Apparently, it’s not Ben Casey’s Achilles’ heel.
There’s no way to truly document this. But Casey’s 126^th-place finish just might be the finest 126^th-place effort ever performed at an IHSA state cross country meet. Somehow, he completed the three miles in 15 minutes, 31 seconds — a 5:10.2 pace.
“It really hurt in the first 400 (yards). And that’s where I lost ground,” said Casey. “And it hurt pretty badly in the last mile, and that’s when I kind of shut down. But I never even thought about giving up or stopping. Our coaches always tell us, ‘Be defiant.’
“I know it was a freak thing. Dumb luck,” he added. “It’s taken me a long time to get over it. But, I’ve had to move on.”
The tough part? Casey entered the state race in primo condition. He was in an Autobahn zone. No speed limits.
A week earlier at the Schaumburg Sectional, he took eighth (15:17) in a terrific field at the Busse Woods Forest Preserve, edging long-time nemesis Sam Oh of Stevenson High School by one second. And, a week before that, he claimed the fifth spot (16:10) in the Libertyville Regional at Adler Park.
“I had worked hard. I was trying to do everything right,” Casey said. “Beating Oh was a confidence booster. Finishing in the top 10 at state was my goal.”
To his credit, Casey proved to be a quick healer.
And having a dad like Timothy Casey didn’t hurt. The elder Casey is a foot and ankle surgeon.
“That’s been pretty helpful,” the runner said.
Casey wound up being sidelined for a month. He made it back for the outdoor track season — and experienced a few more “ups and downs.” On May 15, in the Central Suburban League North championships at Niles North, he raced to a first-place finish in the 1600 meters (4:23.43).
One week later at the Loyola Sectional, Casey put together a gallant effort only to miss qualifying to state. Heading to the bell lap of the 1600 meters, he was looking strong and leading the entire field. But on the final lap, his legs failed him.
“That was devastating for me to watch,” said HP distance teammate Brett Davidson, minutes after the race.
HP head coach Michael Sommers had a similar sentiment, after watching Casey finish just shy of the state-qualifying standard. He ran a 4:23.42. He needed a 4:22.04.
“He’s tough. He’s resilient,” said Sommers, after the sectional meet. “This is not the end of the world for him. It wasn’t his day. But he’s got a lot of races left.”
Casey, who is as fit as can be right now, is ready to head west. He’ll run cross country and track at Redlands University in southern California.
“With his work ethic, he’s far from reaching his potential,” says Caines, “especially if the fire in his gut keeps burning.”
Running at the next level has become a natural progression for HP’s elite distance runners. The list includes all-staters Ari Rothschild (Elon University), Jonah Hanig (Columbia University) and Angel Estrada (University of Illinois). Davidson, who will be a senior this fall, is next in line.
“Looking at their success makes me want to push myself and prove myself at the next level,” Casey said.

Notable: In addition to lifeguarding, Casey has been training with Hanig this summer. “I’ve learned a lot from him,” said Casey. “He’s telling me to be consistent with my training and take care of the little things. He’s definitely had a good influence on me.” … Running is a family thing in the Casey household. His two brothers — Matt and Jack — will be running for HPHS this fall. … Casey’s two other sports-related passions: pick-up basketball and paintball. “My uncle is big into paintball. It’s pretty exhilarating.” His dad? A former basketball player.

Casey (right) competes against Loyola Academy’s Christian Swenson in the 1600-meter run at the Loyola Academy Class 3A track sectional. Photography by Joel Lerner

Loyola Academy’s Liz Satter drives the lane against Evanston during a regional title game last winter. She will play college hoops at the University of Pennsylvania. Photography by George Pfoertner

It is a typical school day at Loyola Academy, hallways abuzz with students going this way and that way between classes. Student Bailey Busscher hears a student’s voice. It is an unmistakable voice from above, an animated and genuinely friendly one.

The voice belongs to 6-foot-2 basketball player Liz Satter.

“Hey, Bailey!” Satter, a smile spreading under dancing eyes and light strawberry blonde hair, shouts. “How’s your day going?”

Busscher’s day gets better and sunnier, instantly, because she’s near the good friend she first met when both were in the fifth grade.

“I remember that day,” Busscher, a Ramblers basketball player and lacrosse player, recalls. “My dad introduced me to Liz and Liz’s dad. She was this bright ball of energy, a happy and confident girl. Still is.”

The girl is a senior-to-be at Loyola Academy now, a University of Pennsylvania-bound hoopster with an uber-positive disposition and an undying penchant for making to-die-for desserts for her loved ones and friends and teammates. Satter spreads joy. Satter spreads icing on cupcakes.

“Sweet, pleasant,” Satter’s AAU Illinois Rockets coach, Drew Ondik, says of his second-year Rockets forward. “She’s always upbeat and excited and engaging. All of that is becoming, endearing … endearing stuff. She’s talkative, too. She’s a talker. She has all of the qualities you want your coach on the floor to have. Teammates look up to her, look to her for leadership. Liz points things out to me during timeouts. Liz suggests things to me.”

Satter, a Glencoe resident, had been a Full Package AAU player when she joined Ondik’s U17 Rockets, a Naperville-based team, in the spring of 2014. Her split from Northfield-based Full Package was an amicable one; she still trains with Full Package basketball trainer Steve Pratt and plays pickup games with Full Package players. Satter, a transfer student from New Trier High School, was coming off her first year (2013-14) as a Ramblers varsity member, having averaged 3.5 points and 3.2 rebounds per game as a sophomore for a Class 4A regional champion.

“She came to us as a young player with a young player’s skills,” Ondik recalls. “She was not a phenomenal player then. Liz was trim, athletic, long. She ran well. But she had limitations. Liz had a good summer, not a great one. We then analyzed her game and told her she would need to improve her ball handling and shooting in order to attract the attention of Division I schools.”

A flashback is in order here. Back when she was a 5-foot-8 sixth-grader, Satter went online to find out if she had made Full Package’s top team for her age group. She cried that day. Ann Satter noticed her distraught daughter and asked, “Did you get cut?”

Liz Satter, happy and shocked, shook her head.

“I somehow made that team,” Satter says. “Who knows why? I sure don’t. I was awkward. My coordination was awful.”

Her coordination improved, just like her ball handling and shooting would after her first season with the Illinois Rockets. Her junior season arrived at Loyola Academy. Satter ended up pacing the team in points (10.7 ppg) and in rebounds (6.4 rpg) and, unofficially, in smiles. She shot 51 percent from the field (inside three-point range) and 72 percent from the free-throw line for a 17-12 squad. She made two holiday all-tournament teams (hosts Mundelein and New Trier high schools) and earned All-Girls Catholic Athletic Conference and team MVP honors.

“She did some nice things for us,” Ramblers coach Jeremy Schoenecker says. “What I liked a lot about her last season was her demeanor on the court. It stayed the same … even, steady. It never changed. Whether she was playing well or not so well, I saw the same Liz. She got tougher, too. She got tougher, physically and mentally.

“Liz,” he adds, “kept her teammates up and became a great leader. She’s a fantastic kid, a fun-loving kid.”

Satter’s second AAU season with the Rockets arrived this past spring. Ondik noticed a different Satter, a different player, a better player. Others noticed what Ondik had noticed.

“The coach [Bill Gibbons] from [College of the] Holy Cross told me that in all of his years in evaluating and scouting players, he had never seen a player improve, from the end of one AAU season to the beginning of the next, as much as Liz had,” Ondik says. “She showed vast amounts of improvement. It was eye-popping. She now catches the ball, puts it on the floor and blows by girls, either to the right or to the left. She’s now decisive, very decisive, with the ball. Confidence helped make her decisive. Liz no longer hesitates — her hesitancy had given the advantage to the player guarding her. And her three-point shooting form … it’s perfect now.

“I see her as a stretch-four [a sharpshooting power forward] at Penn.”

Before a rib contusion reduced her minutes, Satter averaged 15 points, 7.5 boards, four assists and two blocks for the U17 Rockets (23-14 through July 16, with a couple of tournaments remaining this summer).

“I was not a flashy scorer [for Loyola Academy in 2014-15],” Satter says. “I was a quiet scorer, hit the occasional three [22 treys, third among Ramblers]. Toward the end of the season, I became more of an assertive player.”

It is the midpoint of Satter’s summer before her senior year, her AAU season winding down, her other commitments abundant and all-important. She serves as a co-director of Eat.Play.Learn, a youth development program in Evanston for third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. Some of the program’s counselors are older than Satter is. She reports to Eat.Play.Learn program head Rick Kolsky, a Full Package basketball coach, her first AAU coach, who saw heaps of promise from an awkward Liz Satter more than five years ago. She works out under the supervision of performance (strength and conditioning) trainer Chris Truex at the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Highland Park. An early riser — “I’m a morning person, usually up at 6 a.m.,” she says — Satter cherishes every minute with her family, reads books and gushes about her little sister, 5-foot-10½ Celia Satter, a hoopster and a freshman-to-be at Loyola Academy.

“We look and act alike. She’s a mini-me,” Liz says. “She grew late, so she has guard skills. She also makes killer chocolate chip cookies. They’re amazing; she puts love into her baking.”

Liz and Celia (their brother, John, is an Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy graduate and a sophomore-to-be at the University of Illinois) live in the house in which their mother lived as a youth. Ann Satter’s old room is now Liz’s room. Ann, the eighth of nine children, had shared the room with siblings.

Ann Satter’s favorite story about Liz is a story she has shared with everybody she knows. Liz was five years old, heading to the first day of a summer camp in Glencoe. Mom was driving. Liz found out all of her fellow campers would be strangers. Daughter looked at mother and declared, “I’m going to make a new friend today.”

Can you hear her saying it? Many can.

“I don’t remember saying that,” Liz, with another one of her smiles lighting up another room, says.

Liz Satter, ever so friendly and outgoing, probably didn’t make a friend at camp that day. She more than likely made friends, accent on the ‘s’, a number higher than the number of her fingers and toes. Combined.

Satter fends off a Mother McAuley defender during action last winter. Photography by George Pfoernter

Satter tracks down a loose ball against Mother McAuley. Photography by George Pfoertner

Satter smiles during player introductions at the Mundelein Holiday Tournament.

New Trier High School left-hander Ben Brecht delivers a pitch during action this past spring. Photography by George Pfoertner

He’s sort of like the silver Ferrari in the garage.
Ben Brecht, blessed with an ideal pitcher’s frame, has not been overused through the years.
Not excessively.
He remains in mint condition.
His coaches, especially those at New Trier High School, love having a pitcher of his make on their team, and they have been smart not to overwork him. They have not burned him out.
And, despite standing 6-foot-8, being left-handed and throwing a baseball 90 miles per hour, Brecht — unlike the Ferrari — has not been overpublicized.
But that’s changing. Rev up the hype machine.
Brecht, who has the size and ability to suffocate hitters and make them feel very uneasy at the plate, has been shiny good for some time.
But, according to Sean Duncan of the Prep Baseball Report (PBR), the rising New Trier High School senior has made a meteoric rise this summer.
He’s getting a lot of buzz.
“He’s definitely made a big jump,” Duncan says.
In mid-June, Brecht shined brighter than most at the PBR ProCase-Midwest showcase in Joliet’s Silver Cross Field. He put the pedal to the medal.
“I know he was pretty good this spring, but he’s now on the pro scouts’ radar,” Duncan says. “He’s high on the list. He was one of the biggest winners at the ProCase.”
“I tried to make the most of it,” Brecht says.
He didn’t mind putting his wealth of talent on full display.
“I went out there and tried to block everything out. Just throw strikes,” says Brecht, who possesses a three-pitch repertoire (fastball, curve, change-up). “I tried not to think about who was watching me or who was hitting.”
Brecht, who verbally committed to University of California-Santa Barbara prior to his junior season, is on the fast track, when it comes to player ratings. PBR just came out with its new list earlier this month, and he’s ranked No. 6 in Illinois’ class of 2016.
“If he continues to progress, things are going to be very interesting for him,” says Duncan. “He’s got an athletic arm.
“Typically, with a kid 6-8, there’s a lot of moving parts,” Duncan adds. “Guys like that aren’t fully coordinated. And it takes a lot to repeat their delivery.”
But that’s not the case with Brecht. As the ace hurler for the Trevians this past spring, he exhibited remarkable control. In 47.1 innings, allowing only six walks.
“That (six walks),” says New Trier pitching coach Scott Klipowicz, “is a pretty tremendous feat, especially for a power pitcher. He didn’t get to a three-ball count too often.
“You can see why he catches the eyes of scouts,” Klipowicz adds. “His ball has a lot of movement and gets up on hitters pretty quickly. He ties them up. And he’s got that free and easy delivery. He throws very efficiently.”
And efficiency rules.
Brecht made a concerted effort to cut down on his pitch count.
“My main goal going into the (spring) season was improving my command,” says Brecht, who ended up earning all-league honors with a 4-0 record and 0.59 earned run average.
And the strikes? They just kept coming. He was in the K zone all season. He finished with 79 strikeouts.
“I’m very grateful where I am right now,” Brecht says. “But I can’t take anything for granted. I’m not going to rest on my laurels. The key is to keep getting better.”
And the big lefty appreciates the way the NT coaches, including head coach Mike Napoleon and Klipowicz, have handled him. He threw 100-plus pitches in only one game this past spring.
“I see where some coaches ride and ride their pitchers,” says Brecht. “My coaches haven’t done that with me. They have a great awareness of the situation.”
Brecht started to realize his pitching potential in the seventh grade. And by the time freshman year rolled around, it started to reveal itself and he knew that “pitching was ticket.”
Further proof? That came during the 2014 season. Specifically, May 1, 2014.
Unafraid and hardly bashful, the then-sophomore toed the rubber against the league’s best hitting team — Glenbrook South — and went right after it.
Brecht turned out to be very Clayton Kershaw-like that day. He struck out the first eight batters he faced.
Double takes? There were plenty of those. Five of his punch-outs were backward Ks.
“My sophomore year was pretty good,” says Brecht. “My ERA (1.93) and strikeouts (58 Ks in 29 innings). But I walked a lot of hitters (18). My pitch count would get up, and I’d only be able to pitch four or five innings.
“He had a good stuff as a sophomore, but he wasn’t sharp,” said Klipowicz. “He took a giant leap this spring. He’s a more complete pitcher.
“He’s got a high level of competitiveness,” the coach adds. “He’s got a good understanding of the game. He figures out hitters’ weaknesses.”
Watch for the radar guns. A la Glenbrook South 6-foot-9 right-hander Fitz Stadler, who was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 32^nd round in June, Brecht figures to get plenty of attention next spring.
“With the way he’s progressed, I expect there will be a lot of interest in him,” said Klipowicz. “He’s got people talking.”
Brecht is keeping things in perspective. Like he tends to do, he’s staying ahead in the count.
“It all remains to be seen,” he says. “I’ll decide things when the time comes.
“But my goal is to play professionally some day,” Brecht adds. “Whatever gets me there.”

Notable: Pitching most definitely is Brecht’s No. 1 priority. But he can’t hide the fact that basketball tugs at his heart a little.
Well, he is 6-8.
Before focusing solely on baseball, he played freshman and sophomore basketball at New Trier.
“I’m seriously thinking about going out for the team,” Brecht says.
He plans to show up for open gym this fall.
The basketball thing makes sense. His 6-foot-6 dad, Tom, played college basketball for Columbia University in New York.
Brecht, a weight room and workout fanatic, also has another dream.
“I’d like to run a marathon someday,” he says.

Prep Baseball Report ranks Brecht No. 6 in the Illinois Class of 2016. Photography by George Pfoertner

Glencoe Park District on July 21 voted 4-1 to accept a $1 million donation from local businessman Andrew Berlin to rehab Central Park at 692 Greenwood Avenue. According to the Chicago Tribune, the park will be re-named after Berlin’s father Melvin, who was a park commissioner in the 1970’s.

Prior to this decision, park district officials and residents debated whether an outfield fence should be erected in the park’s baseball field. While supporters saw the fence as a way to allow players to experience a home run, neighbors raised concerns about lower property values and aesthetics.

A portion of the 3 to 4 foot high fence will be semi-permanent and removed after the baseball season ends in July. Temporary fencing will also be erected in the center and right field on an as needed basis for games.

Wilmette Police Chief Brian King has a message for residents: don’t leave your car unlocked and never leave the keys in it.  According to the Chicago Tribune, five vehicles were stolen in Wilmette, Northbrook and Winnetka in the early morning hours of July 15.

Chief King told the Tribune that in each instance, the owners had left their cars unlocked with the keys in them.

Three of the stolen cars were found by Wilmette police at gas station located at Lake Avenue and Skokie Boulevard at 2:50 a.m. on July 15. Two cars were stolen from Northbrook, while the third was stolen from the 400 block of Maple Avenue in Wilmette.

According to the Tribune, after the stolen vehicles were discovered the Wilmette police chased the cars on Skokie Boulevard going south. Two of the cars crashed into each other and the occupants escaped on foot. The third was later recovered, damaged, on the Edens Expressway at Dempster Street.

Another car was stolen from the 2500 block of Greenleaf Avenue in Wilmette and later found with its tires blown out in Winnetka.

Elsa Fischer, formerly the director of leisure service for the Northbrook Park District is Glenview’s new superintendent of leisure services. Credit: Glenview Park District

A new superintendent of leisure services has come to Glenview.

Glenview said goodbye to 42-year park district veteran Robert Quill June 30 and has welcomed Elsa Fischer, formerly the director of leisure service for the Northbrook Park District and director of recreation in Downers Grove. Fischer holds a master of science in recreation administration from the University of Illinois.

“We are thrilled Elsa is joining our team,” said Executive Director Michael McCarty in a recent park district statement. “With a broad background managing similar facilities and services, she is a great fit for our district. Fischer is committed to providing the excellent customer service Glenview residents rely on.”

In her new position, Fischer will oversee activities at Park Center, Flick and Roosevelt Outdoor Aquatic Centers, Historic Wagner Farm, The Grove National Historic Landmark, Fuller Air Station Prairie and Schram Memorial Chapel.

Here, get to know Fischer and see why she enjoys Glenview and loves bringing people together through Park District services and facilities.

DNS: You have an extensive background in recreation programming. Why do you love what you do?
EF: I love what I do because the Glenview Park District impacts people’s lives on a daily basis. Whether it’s getting fit and healthy at Park Center, meeting new friends at the Senior Center, enjoying the natural areas at the Grove or learning about farm animals at Wagner, we are impacting residents around the clock across the community. That feels good.

DNS: What are your three favorite things about the Glenview Park District?
EF: The staff (they are smart, creative, passionate, compassionate and fun), all the wonderful facilities (state of the art) and the variety of each day.

DNS: What sort of new park district happenings would you like to see in the future?
EF: Our program and event offerings are fairly extensive. Having only been on the job for five weeks, I don’t yet have a list of programs or events that we should start offering. What I have heard is that we may need to schedule some programs differently to meet the needs of working parents. There also may be an opportunity for more early childhood programming.

DNS: What’s the best way for residents to share their feedback with the Park District?
EF: We will gladly take feedback by any means. Residents can email staff directly from our website. They can call any facility. For many programs, surveys are sent out and for recreation related issues, residents can reach out directly to me: elsa.fischer@glenviewparks.org. It’s important that concerns are brought to our attention so that staff can quickly address issues and concerns.

DNS: What’s the one thing you wish more people knew about GPD?
EF: Hopefully it’s apparent in our programs and facilities and via our services that our staff is smart, creative, hardworking and passionate about what we provide for the community.

DNS: If you weren’t working in leisure services, what would you be doing?
EF: If I weren’t working in public parks and recreation in Illinois, I would be in another service industry. I am a ‘people person’ and like to be around the action.

About the Glenview Park District

The Glenview Park District serves over 50,000 residents including all of Glenview and Golf, small portions of Niles, Northbrook, Northfield and Skokie, and unincorporated areas beyond the village limits. The District owns, maintains and operates more than 845 acres. Connect with us at www.glenviewparks.org.

Installation of a fence during baseball season in Glencoe’s Central Park was a topic of discussion at the Central Park task force meeting on July 15.

According to an article in the Chicago News Tribune, a plan for the park presented by Hitchcock Design Team included the installation of a 3-4 foot tall fence that would be put up only during baseball season. This year the Glencoe Baseball Association season was April through July.

The plan also includes a shelter area with bathrooms, bleacher and stadium seating and a scoreboard similar in size to the current board.

The News Tribune reported that the Park District plans to vote on the plan and whether to accept a $1 million dollar donation by local businessman Andrew Berlin at its July 21 meeting.

LAKE FOREST – School District 67 will provide free educational screenings on Friday, September 25, 2015 for preschool-age children who reside in Lake Forest.

Three, four, and five year-old children who have not entered Kindergarten are eligible for the preschool screening. The purpose of screening children is not for advance placement in school, but to help parents identify development lags in their children. Developmental delays can be observed in a child’s speech and language, fine and gross motor skills, learning ability, or emotional and social growth. Nurses also complete a brief vision and hearing screening.

Screening in all areas is optional. In order to participate, a child must be registered in advance. After the child is registered, a packet will be sent home. Parents are asked to complete several necessary forms, which should be brought on the day of the child’s screening.

To schedule a child’s preschool screening appointment, please contact the District 67 Department of Student Services, 847-604-7459.

From Lake Forest School District 67

WINNETKA – A New Trier straw poll predicts Hillary Clinton will face Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election, according to 321 local residents polled by New Trier Democrats at the recent Wilmette, Winnetka and Glencoe summer fairs.

On the Democratic side, 78% expect Hillary Clinton to win the nomination with Bernie Sanders at 13% and seven other names-in-the-news polling less than 5% each. On the Republican side, 55% think Jeb Bush will be the nominee followed by Donald Trump at 7% and Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Rand Paul polling 4% to 6% each. Eleven other names-in-the-news polled less than 4% each.

The poll invited everyone — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — to vote their expectations by secret ballot and 321 residents spread among Wilmette, Winnetka and Glencoe responded.

About:
New Trier Democrats have dedicated themselves since the 1960s to promoting government integrity and helping North Shore neighbors become involved in the political process. Strong grassroots volunteerism helps it thrive. The organization is based at 800 Oak Street, Winnetka, 847-446-8030, www.ntdo.org.

Amy Lafontant and Lou, her rescued greyhound, outside The Bottle Shop in Wilmette

WILMETTE – If you’re walking down the 1100 block of Central Avenue on a warm day there’s a good chance you’ll bump into Lou. It’s hard not to, as he’s about the height of a construction horse and almost as thin though he’s neither orange nor made of wood. Lou is a greyhound who spent the first four years of his life as a racing dog and now shares a home with Amy Lafontant, charming patrons of The Bottle Shop, which Amy has owned and operated for the past 10 years at 1148 Central Avenue.

I got to talking with Amy outside the store recently as Lou and I were getting acquainted, and I realized she would be a good subject for a new series of stories that we’re working on about Real Ordinary People. Everyone has a story to share, and Daily North Shore loves sharing stories.

Here’s Amy’s:

A lot of moms dream about doing something different when their kids reach a certain milestone; for Amy the moment arrived 10 years ago when her youngest daughter – her fifth girl – was five and started going to full-day school. Amy was in the insurance business at the time, but she longed to do something more creative and engaging.

“I thought about how cool it would be to open a wine shop,” she said as I scratched Lou behind his ears, on the top of his head, and along his long, lean back.

She explained that she had lived and worked in Greece when she was younger and loved how wine was just part of life, like water, like juice.

“It was served at every meal, not from a bottle but from a pitcher, a large glass tureen, anything that would hold the wine that was tapped from the local grocer with no mention of type,” she said.

No one asked about vintage or country of origin or whether you could detect hints of nutmeg or lemon in the wine’s bouquet.

“You just got what you got in your glass during meals. I thought maybe I could attempt to reproduce that idea of finding wines that just tasted good and weren’t expensive,” she said. “So I spent a year researching all that goes into opening a shop, and I got some education in California about wine, and then I took off.”

Took off, landed on Central Avenue, and a decade later The Bottle Shop is still in business. How has she managed to stay open when eight out of 10 small businesses fail in the first 18 months (according to Bloomberg Business)?

She said: offer great products at great prices, provide great service, give back to the community, and have fun.

“We’ve evolved into a really fun, geeky craft beer and inexpensive wine shop/wine bar with no corkage, lots of great snacks, a great private party place with a lounge area, big bar with stools and a huge flat-screen TV,“ she said.

Also: The Bottle Shop encourages spending less instead of more for wine and has a great selection starting at $10 and going up to $100-plus. Purchase any 12 bottles of wine and you get a 10% discount; with beer, four purchased gives you a 15% discount.

The Bottle Shop also delivers free of charge, offers loaner glassware for free, hosts inexpensive priced-per-person wine parties, has weekly wine tastings – and encourages patrons to bring their children to the store (there’s a play area) and their dogs (lots of bowls filled with water).

Dogs play a special role at The Bottle Shop, and by this time in our conversation Lou was resting his head in my hand and looking at me lovingly.

“He loves everyone but he loves women best,” Amy said.

Lou is a rescue greyhound, and he has influenced Amy to do what she can to help connect other rescue dogs (of all breeds and mixes) with local families. The Bottle Shop holds adoption events in the shop with a rescue organization called Home To Home.

The store also hosts “Warming House Wednesdays” from 5 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday and donates 5% of all beer and wine purchases to the Warming House Youth Center in Wilmette.

If you stop by, say hello to Lou.

Lou

Mark Koulogeroge

This spring, Glenbrook South High School named Mark Koulogeorge its 2015 Distinguished Alumnus. As the featured guest speaker at GBS commencement ceremonies in early June, the 1981 graduate addressed seniors with words of advice and insights from his journey to success.

Koulogeorge is the co-founder and managing general partner of MK Capital, a $250 million technology venture capital firm where he leads the company’s digital marketing and software investment practices. With more than 20  years of industry experience, Koulogeorge’s expertise includes the development of sales, marketing and distribution strategies and the building of high-performance executive teams.

Koulogeorge has served on the board of more than 25 technology companies, helping to create over 100 new businesses, a dozen public companies and more than $500 million in gains for investors.

While at GBS, Koulogeorge, whose parents moved to the area because of the community’s reputation for excellent public schools, immersed himself in the debate program. He became the 1981 National High School champion and the 1984 National Collegiate champion using debate to sharpen his analytical skills and build self-confidence.

“Growing up in Glenview shaped my development as it fostered intellectual curiosity and the importance of constantly learning,” Koulogeorge shared. “The community put a tremendous emphasis on education. The Glenview Public Library ran summer reading competitions in which I eagerly participated. Like most people, I am a product of my environment.”

True to Titan values, Koulogeorge said he continually aims to give back. He has spent the last 10 years as a board member and vice chairman of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues, a nonprofit debate leagues serving 10,000 students in urban neighborhoods across almost 20 cities. He also supports philanthropic efforts for the University of Wisconsin Medical School, the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Dartmouth College scholarship funds and the Glenbrook National Debate Tournament.

Koulogeorge earned his bachelor’s degree in economics with distinction from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in Northbrook with his wife Karen, a GBN alumna, and is the father of three children: Sarah, Peter and Andrew.

“We have been so pleased at the support that our children have received from their teachers, classmates and other parents,” Koulogeorge said of raising a family in the area. “It is really a special place – a small town environment surrounded by a major metropolitan area.”

Megan Murphy; Credit: accf.org

Take the road less traveled – and don’t be afraid to buck norms. That’s Megan Murphy’s approach, and it has treated her well.

Murphy’s path has taken her from Yale to Northwestern to Columbia; her career brought her from California to London to Washington. And this spring, she found herself returning home to Northbrook to speak with graduating seniors from her alma mater, Glenbrook North.

Named the school’s 2015 Distinguished Alumna, Murphy, a 1992 graduate, shared her message of pursing dreams, risk-taking and not worrying about what others think. She called GBN a “solid foundation” but said the biggest key to who she is lies in remaining open to radical change.

“I was a very different person in high school than I am today,” shared Murphy, who urges teens not to feel pressure in conforming to expectations. “Personal development happens when you open yourself up to challenges.”

Murphy currently serves as the Washington Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, leading U.S. political coverage for a daily publication based in London. Since joining FT in 2007, Murphy has contributed as the law courts, investment banking and chief media correspondents, covering everything from the White House and political campaigns to tax exploitation.

Her journalism career has brought accolades including Best Online Investigation from the Overseas Press Club of America and two awards in the Investigative and Creative Use Across Multiple Platforms categories from the Society of American Business Editors.

While at GBN, Murphy was an active participant on the speech team, and excelled in athletics, playing both varsity soccer and basketball.

She holds the GBN community as key to her success because of the school’s invaluable education and teachers who supported her decisions.

“This honor is personally exciting and important, and affirmation that we have complex paths and wind through very complicated patterns,” Murphy shared. “I’ve made mistakes and done things right and worked incredibly hard to be where I am. Life is about putting your head down, showing up and really taking pride in what you do.”

LAKE FOREST—Alice Katherine (nee Nelson_ Goshgarian died on Sunday July 19, 2015 in her home while surrounded by her family. She was 84 years of age.

Alice was the daughter Oskar Nelson and Hillevi Hasselbom and sister of Karl Gustav Sundstrom. Mrs. Goshgarian was a graduate of Northwestern University (class of 1952) and a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Robert Ara Goshgarian, in 1992.

Mrs. Goshgarian is survived by her son, Robert, daughter, Eve Shira (Paul), sons Richard and Ara (Christine), and her grandchildren Clara, Lili, Caroline and Grace.

A private interment is planned. A celebration of life will follow in several weeks; announcements will be sent to all her many friends and relatives. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Lake Forest Library.

From a DNS Contributor

Melissa Carlson

Highland Park native and Evanston resident Melissa Carlson returns to First Folio Theater at Mayslake Peabody Estate Forest Preserve as Hermione in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale through Aug. 9.

Carlson is a regular onstage with First Folio, as well as with numerous Chicago theater companies including Court Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, Raven Theater, Famous Door Theater and Red Hen, in addition to The Lyric Opera. She has also appeared as Meredith on the NBC series Chicago PD. Additionally, Carlson is an educator, specializing in teaching Shakespeare to Chicago-area students.

A member of Actor’s Equity, Carlson answered questions about her career shared her memories of growing up on the North Shore.

Gregg Shapiro: Melissa, you are a native of Highland Park. Was attending the theater part of your North Shore upbringing?

Melissa Carlson: It was. My mother brought me downtown to see musicals, and her love of opera afforded my exposure to it at an early age.

GS: Did you do theater while you were in high school in Highland Park?

MC: I did. I would not have become an actor if not for the arts programs offered in school District 113.

My first foray into playing Shakespeare happened in high school. I can honestly say that I owe my professional career to Barbara Patterson and Tim Conway, my theatre teachers at Highland Park. They introduced me to the art form with an intense passion — to me that is the key behind the birth of passion itself. It lies within the first touch, the first exposure the soul has to anything whether it is acting or otherwise. What a remarkable gift, to instill that emotion, that motivator within a child no matter what the medium. Passion is the stuff of life.  I don’t think you are truly alive without passion.

GS: When did you know that you wanted to be an actress?

MC: I was cast as Cherrie in Bus Stop by William Inge at Highland Park High School, and we ended up taking it to a high school theatre competition downstate. Cherrie was a broken soul, a woman who had been used by life yet remained utterly devoted to the ideals of love. I was only 16 at the time and for me, the understanding of the psychological complexities of life and love were just beginning to bloom. But I found I could relate to her in ways that surprised me even then. It was the first time I was challenged to really connect with and fully embody those types of emotions on stage.

To be emotionally vulnerable without fear, to trust the process, to become completely raw and to do it publically was an overwhelming and thrilling experience, like the embodiment of the saying “leap and the net will appear.” But more importantly, I learned that what we do when we are involved in art we are doing something that is bigger than ourselves, ideally. Creating this type of art is much more exciting to me. Entertainment has its place and value, but for me, it’s about having a responsibility to give a voice to those who would otherwise perhaps not be heard, and beyond that, to give a voice to concepts that need to be illuminated; to inspire a social dialogue within the viewing audience.

Theatre-art, as a whole, is a powerful tool, not only for expression but for change. It is an illumination of the human experience. To have the honor of enriching people’s points of view or challenging their existing view is a profound opportunity.

GS: You are playing Hermione in The Winter’s Tale at First Folio. What can you tell me about the history of your relationship with First Folio?

MC: This is my fourth show with First Folio Theater. Their faith in me has afforded me the opportunity to play some of the most fascinating and challenging women, and I will be forever grateful for that. David and Alison are people who simply adore Shakespeare, which is something we share. They devote their entire life to making art and they do it with complete abandon. I like that.

GS: In addition to doing Shakespeare at First Folio, you also played Katharine Hepburn in the one-woman show Tea At Five. What was that experience like for you?

MC: Terrifying [laughs]! I often felt extremely vulnerable, which is a good thing. This is how you learn. In a one-woman show there is no safety net. It ties into the most visceral of human emotions. Survival.

Tea at Five is essentially a condensed version of her life story. Kate Mulgrew played the role on Broadway. Kate was extraordinary in the role as an actress but she also embodies Hepburn far more than me, in appearance and nature. In the beginning I was really hung up on that. How could I be convincing playing a role I was nothing like on the face of things? I mean everybody knows the quintessential “Hepburn” delivery and look.

In some ways you can’t win [laughs]. You’re either going to be criticized for being too much Katharine Hepburn or not enough like her to be convincing. Her persona and vocal quality was so unique, she was often a target for parody and this propensity was certainly among the challenges. But I realized it was not my job to impersonate this woman but rather to embody her essence — which is a very different thing.

GS: Before you did Tea At Five, what was your opinion of Hepburn?

MC: I had always had a great respect for her. She seemed incredibly self-possessed with a strong sense of who she was. And I really admired her “pull yourself up from your bootstraps” kind of a mentality. She was a strong woman. After working on the piece it kind of felt like I knew her personally; like we went through something together. She was now an old friend. It was strange and lovely at the same time. I was never up there alone. I always felt her with me. It was hard to say goodbye.

GS: Shakespeare appears frequently on your resumé, not only in terms of being an actress, but also as a Shakespeare educator. How does Shakespeare influence your life?

MC: Shakespeare, the man, his works, the time in which he lived — all of this has fascinated me from an early age. My real foray into Shakespeare was playing Kate in The Taming of the Shrew in high school. Here’s the thing about Shakespeare — people take the fact that they cannot sit down and pick up a Shakespearean text, simply read and understand it as a negative thing. To me that’s part of the attraction. This is one of two primary concepts I try to instill in the kids whom I teach. You need to alter your perspective Shakespeare from something dry and antiquated to something alive, current and exciting! Take the intimidation factor out of it. He’s reaching out his hand. He wants you to be an active part of things, which is quite the opposite of being estranged by his works. Ironic, isn’t it [laughs]?

You wouldn’t believe the stack of books, lexicons, dictionaries and helpful modern-day translations I use to work my way through the text. Yes, it can be difficult, but there’s no shame in that. It is a different language in many ways. We are not living in Elizabethan times, we are living today, so use whatever you need but most especially, use him! You are a detective looking for clues, and Shakespeare places them everywhere! Let’s say he capitalizes a word like honor. He wants you to know this word has a particular weight in this moment. It may be a theme. It may be a quality the character who is speaking holds dear. He also uses punctuation very specifically and without stage direction, almost instructing the actor. He’s saying, “Hey, I’m using a semicolon here, not a period as you might expect, so pay attention.” This is his way of telling the actor to drive through the thought or perhaps not take a breath just yet as it will break up or muddy the meaning of the line.

All this informs the performance tremendously but also helps the reader as well. That said, yes these are published works, but I have a deep belief that he wrote these plays with their intended purpose being that they are seen and heard not read. They are not books. They are plays.

The second thing I tell my students is that when you strip these plays down the themes are not dissimilar to those of today. Romeo and Juliet, for example. Who can’t relate to being young and in love? Or take the terrible feud between the Capulets and the Montagues? I have taught quite a bit in some very depressed and underprivileged areas in the city where gang violence was a gut-wrenching part of everyday life. Romeo was a young teen. These kids understood this play in the most profound ways. They began to see that Shakespearean themes like corruption, power, love, loss and war are all a part of the human experience.

GS: You are an active member of the Chicago theater community. What does it mean to you to have such a vibrant theater scene available to you?

MC: It really is that — a community. I think this is at the heart of the matter. We hold each other up. We catch each other when we fall. Chicago theatre has a collaborative and ensemble-like sensibility as a whole. Living and working in Chicago as an actor is a singular experience.

GS: Do you have any favorite Highland Park cultural or dining spots that you would like to share with the readers?

MC: The Highland Park Public Library is a wonderful place. They have a fantastic program series which includes free readings by The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, a company I have worked with for many years. For food, I love The Nite N’ Gale, which is just over the border into Highwood. Old school. Great food. It really is a North Shore staple. I live in Evanston now, and I’m a regular at The Lucky Platter and Brother’s K coffee shop. They often see me memorizing my scripts there [laughs]!

GS: In addition to your stage work, you can also be seen as Meredith on NBC’s Chicago PD. Please say something about what it means to you to be part of that series.

MC: I recognize how blessed I am to have had the opportunity to work on CPD. Dick Wolf has quite a roster of hit shows under his belt as a producer. It’s been a dream realized for me. My stepfather would always say, “I’ve got my cap ready!,” referring to a dark blue cap he had that could be worn by a driver. We would often laugh about this. He always believed in me and supported my career. He passed away before I was offered the role of Meredith. My family has been so supportive and I am very lucky that way. I don’t need to be famous. I just want to do good work. I wouldn’t say I was “driver worthy” but I hope I’ve made him proud so far.

HIGHLAND PARK—Police administratively cited six men – all of whom are between 18 and 19-years-old – with possession of cannabis and possession of alcohol by a minor at Fort Sheridan beach, the night of July 23.

Three are from Deerfield, two are from Riverwoods, and one is from Highland Park. All are expected in administrative court in September.

From the Highland Park police blotter; please note that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination.

Diana Moore Joins Gorton Community Center Board

Gorton Community Center is proud to announce the addition of Lake Forest’s Diana Moore

to its Board of Directors.

Moore grew up in Lake Forest, attending the public schools, and graduated from Amherst

College with a BA in American Studies. Following college, Moore worked in investment

banking, retail management and hotel management. In 1990 she founded Woodland Foods, a

food import and manufacturing business, with her husband David.

The Moores have four children, two of whom attend her alma mater, Lake Forest High

School. An ardent community supporter, Moore has volunteered for First Presbyterian

Church, the Junior Leagues of Evanston and Chicago, the local schools and the Lake Forest

Caucus. “I look forward to being a part of the Gorton Board, and helping to celebrate this

unique gem,” said Moore. Gorton Board members serve three three-year terms.

Gorton Community Center is a privately-funded, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which

operates in partnership with volunteers and the City of Lake Forest to enrich the lives of its

residents through cultural arts, education and charitable service. Gorton relies on the

generosity of residents and businesses to help fund programs, services and building

improvements offered in the historic building owned by the city. Gorton Community Center:

The gathering place in the heart of our community where people connect, converse, learn,

listen, play and perform.

Shakespeare on the Prairie:
Citadel Theatre’s “As You Like It”

Thursday – Sunday
July 30 – August 2
7:00 p.m.
Mellody Farm Nature Preserve
Purchase your tickets through Friday, July 31st
RAIN or SHINE!
Gates open at 6:00 p.m., tickets will be available at the gate.
Join us for Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, a pastoral comedy that follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court to find safety and, eventually love in the Forest of Arden. Lawn seating available; blankets, lawn chairs, picnics and refreshments are encouraged. Space is limited. Looks like beautiful weather!

Members: $10/person
Non-members: $15/person

Bethany Crocker, Dolores Kohl Kaplan, Holly Patience Photography by Robin Subar

Supporters of Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago recently gathered at the home of founder Dolores Kohl Kaplan for a cocktail reception to celebrate the launch of the upcoming “An Evening to Imagine” Gala.

The Gala, to be held this year on Oct. 17, will commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the founding of the Museum and will mark 10 years since the unveiling of the Museum’s world-class Glenview facility.

The cocktail reception welcomed more than 60 guests and hosted president and CEO Sheridan Turner, Woman’s Board president Bethany Crocker and other notable attendees.
kohlchildrensmuseum.org

Tony Fox, Alicia Pando, Shannon & Shawn Carstens

Cate Waddell, Sheridan Turner

Estelle Walgreen, Claudia Temple, Paul Sutenbach

Sheridan Turner, John & Holly Patience, Bethany & Percy Crocker

Bethany Crocker, Sarah Alshouse