Newton Living magazine

FOOD

Breakfast Gone Wild! Huevos Tacos, Scotch Eggs, Ployes, and Shakshuka P. 14

EDUCATION

Su� ering from Years of Neglect—the Truth About Newton’s School BuildingsP. 54

PEOPLE

Just How Jewish Is the Garden City? History and Culture Provide InsightP.60

INTERVIEW

Forget Silicon Valley— TripAdvisor’s Stephen Kaufer Leads the Field from Newton P. 64

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Features40 | modern in the middle LDa Architecture merges shingle and glass to create a contemporary West Newton Hill home that’s steeped in tradition. By Marni ElysE Katz. photos By grEg prEMru

48 | home accents A shock of color, bright patterns. Burst into spring with the season’s eye-opening hues. photos By sharon whitE. styling By dana MoscardElli

54 | back to school Suffering from years of neglect, Newton’s school buildings offer hard lessons in his-tory and arithmetic. By jon Marcus

60 | how jewish is the garden city? Since the 1950s, a strong Jewish com-munity has thrived in Newton. Today, roughly a third of city residents are Jewish, but the real measure is more cultural than demographic. By Kara BasKin

64 | speed wins TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer beats Silicon Valley with local talent. By doug hardy

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06 | publisher’s desk10 | contributors72 | old and newton West Newton, circa 1911.

14 | food Local breakfast menus offer some tasty surprises; The Local’s fried pickles; Aquitaine’s recipe for roasted beet and aged chevre salad.18 | drinkArtisanal beers. 20 | styleLegendary Newton Centre clothier Mr. Sid succeeds by making shopping fun; men’s fashions.24 | placesAuburndale offers small-town conve-nience, eclectic stores, and tasty treats.26 | artsBest-selling author Mitchell Zuckoff; books; event listings.28 | sportsThe medical codi-rector of the Boston Marathon; local runners; squash.32 | businessGarden City firms combine industry with sustainability.36 | givingDomestic-violence crisis shelter Second Step; Mindy Kaling.38 | affairsHousing crisis for cultural groups; changing ownership; City Briefs.

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Last year, when Bob Parsons helped me design this magazine from scratch, I told him each issue will have one feature story focused on a question: Why are Newton’s classrooms crowded? Why are there so many banks in village centers? And Bob’s done an amazing job finding artists to set these feature stories apart. The best illustration so far may be Edel Rodriguez’s (p. 60). For the story, writer Kara Baskin responds to the question How Jewish is Newton? Some will consider this question provoca-tive, but that depends on the questioner’s intent. If one wants to rabblerouse, then, yes, the question is meant to provoke. But that’s not why we or many Newton visitors, househunters, and newcomers—both Jews and non-Jews—ask the question. And the answer we seek is not a number or a percentage. Instead, it is a better understanding of the culture of this community, its rich diversity, and how we—all of us—fit into it. My thanks go out to everyone who shared their thoughts with us for this issue.

One of my original goals for Newton Living was to engage more people in civic discourse about the Garden City and its future. I’m thilled to be doing that, but I didn’t realize how much I’d also enjoy becoming more involved in the local business community. Independent merchants are a scrappy bunch. In economic times like these, they have to be. I would like to thank everyone who has advertised in Newton Living for their support. And I would like to ask our readers to support them.

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correction

In our December 2011/ January 2012 issue, the story on food stylist Denise Drower Swidey (“On the Set at Simply Ming,” page 14) omitted a credit for the image of Simply Ming’s star and crew members. The photo was taken by Nina Gallant, ninagallant.com.

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1Massachusetts had 42 breweries operat-ing in 2010. across the u.s., More brewer-ies are Making beer now than at anytiMe since the late nine-teenth century. take that, recession! p.18

2auburndale is hoMe to the city’s last independent drug store. p.24

3current discussions of Modular class-rooMs May need to be put into an histori-cal context. archival photos at historic newton show “porta-bles” at a half dozen public schools in the early 1920s. p.54

4speed wins. p.64

5a business category i did not expect to run across in a city directory froM the 1870s: saloons. p.72

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1edel rodriguez illustrator “how jewish is the garden city,” p. 60

Born in havana, cuba, rodri-guez (drawger.com/edel) im-migrated to Miami during the Mariel boatlift. his artwork has appeared in the New York Times, Time, the New Yorker, and on Broadway show post-ers and U.s. postage stamps. “i have some longtime family friends that live in newton, so i’m familiar with the area. one of them runs the Boston Marathon, so we usually go to their home to watch the run-ners,” he wrote of this issue. “the patriarch of the family is a wonderful 90-year-old jewish man that left austria for england as part of the kindertransport during wwii, when he was a boy. he later came to america and started a new life, raised his entire family here. three children, his wife, and grandchildren all gather in newton often, so i thought of them when i was making the art.”

our great reputation,” one frustrated former school-committee member told him.

5sharon white photographer drink, p. 18; “hoMe accents,” p. 60

white (sharonwhitestudio .com) specializes in food and product photography. sharon said, “i wanted to use the large windows in my studio to create a soft, natural look for this issue’s home section. window light has its own beauty as well as its limitations.” white’s editorial photos have been featured in Boston magazine, Boston Home, the Boston Globe Magazine, Gourmet America, and American Way.

6webb chappell photographer “speed wins,” p. 64

a Boston-area photographer for the past 20 years,

2kara baskin writer “how jewish is the garden city?” p. 60

Baskin (karabaskin.com) is a Boston-based writer, editor, and speaker. she’s the Boston editor of New York Magazine’s food website, grub street, and writes Boston.com’s parenting blog, The 24-Hour Workday. her work has ap-peared in the New Republic, the Boston Globe Magazine, and elsewhere. she enjoyed exploring her own half- jewish roots while writing about newton’s jewish com-munity: “talking to impas-sioned jewish civic leaders, rabbis, and newton residents made me contemplate the role that religion plays in my own life,” she says.

3john goodman photographer arts, p. 26

goodman (goodmanphoto .com) works in editorial,

newton resident chappell (webbchappellphotography .com) loves his job just for days like the one spent shooting stephen kaufer of tripadvisor for this issue’s interview, talking scuba diving and trying to find beauty in the architecture of an office park. he makes pictures for editorial, corporate, and nonprofit clients, counting Boston magazine, Yankee, and Popular Science among them.

7tiffany smith writer ”rUn, newton, rUn,” p. 28; places, p. 24

originally from new york city, smith (tiffanyiswrite .com) lives in newton. she’s written for the Boston Globe, All You, Time for Kids, and others. smith is more of a light stroller than a runner, but after interviewing the athletes training for the Bos-ton Marathon, she has been inspired to push her walking regime up to an amble.

fine-art, and fashion photography. his work is in several museum’s permanent collections, including the art institute of chicago and the Museum of Fine arts Boston. his editorial photographs have appeared in the Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Outside, and Time. his advertising clients have included gucci and iBM.

4jon marcus writer “Back to school,” p. 54

Marcus is a Boston-based author, freelance writer, and investigative journalist who writes about education for the Boston Globe Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today. the son of products of the newton schools, he was astounded at the poor condition of the elementary schools. “’you’re not the first person who’s been surprised at what they look like, given

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Dish, UnexpectedLocal breakfast menus offer some tasty surprises. By Clara SilverStein

For a quick and healthy alternative, pick up a breakfast bar at the Keltic Krust ($3.49 each). The vegan, gluten-free oat bars taste far more moist and flavorful than anything that comes in a foil package. Maybe that’s because Kathleen Rice, who owns the bakery with her husband, Chris, developed the recipe herself. Individual bars look homemade. The blueberry version contains dried cherries and walnuts. Pump- kin and sunflower seeds top the nut-free apricot-apple bars. One bar will easily fuel you for the next few hours whether you eat in the bakery with a cup of coffee or put it in your briefcase or gym bag. Keltic Krust, 1371 Washington St., 617-332-9343, keltickrust.com.

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Power pairs star on most brunch menus: eggs and bacon, pancakes and syrup, bagels and lox. Craving something more akin to divas or celebrity bad boys, we scrutinized a dozen menus and set out in search of atypical morning fare at Newton restaurants and bakeries. What we found should wake you up when you’re in the mood for something unpredictable. When you do order these dishes, there’s no need to leave less adventurous fam-ily or friends behind. Most of these restaurants serve an assortment of omelets and French toast, too.

The huevos tacos ($12.50) at The Biltmore stack two corn tortillas with enough food for a complete meal. At the base of the plate, chef Dan Lane’s variation on hash browns combines julienned potatoes and bell peppers with bits of flavorful pork shoulder. Next come the tortillas topped with Colby cheese, chorizo, two fried

eggs, sautéed onions and more bell peppers. Decon-struct the layers, or eat it all together for a salty, hearty start to the day.

For lighter appetites, the Scotch egg ($4.50) wraps a peeled, soft-boiled egg with flattened jalapeño pepper sausage meat and coats it in panko (Japanese-style bread crumbs). Fried until crisp, it’s served on salad greens with cucumbers and red onions, both pickled in-house. This makes a crunchy change from any poached or scrambled dish. Once considered a poor man’s lunch in Britain, Scotch eggs have become a trendy bar snack. The Bilt-more Bar and Grille, 1205 Chestnut Street, 617-527-2550, thebiltmoregrill.com.

For another variation on eggs, try the shak-shuka ($4.99) at Inna’s Kitchen. Here, the eggs cook sunny side up on top of a mixture of tomatoes, onion, peppers, and spices. The diced, simmered vegetables taste similar

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Quick Bite: fried pickLesDeep-fried pickles dot many a bar top in the land of Paula Deen, and by now they have migrated north for New England-ers to savor, too. Apparently, the owner of a drive-in restaurant across from the Atkins Pickle Plant in Arkansas developed the first recipe in the 1960s. That version, known as the Fatman’s Original, breads and fries an entire pickle spear. A variation, deep-fried slices, makes the snack easier to share. And that’s exactly what you’ll want to do with a waxed paper-lined tin of fried pickle slices at The Local in West Newton ($5). Individual pieces pack salt, vinegar, and crunch into each bite. A dip of lemon-juice mayo laced with crushed red pepper cools the temperature while adding spice. Co-owner Frank Santo says his eight-year-old daughter loves the pickles because they stay hot several minutes after they are served. “There is nothing worse than cold bar food,” he says. One order is likely to disap-pear long before that becomes a problem. The Local, 1391 Wash-ington St., 617-340-2160, thelocalnewton.com. Clara SilverStein

to ratatouille, minus the eggplant and zucchini. The bread that comes on the side helps mop up the egg yolk. Shakshuka typifies the mix of Jewish cooking traditions at Inna’s, run by the mother–son team of Inna and Alex Khitrik. The menu stays true to Inna’s Eastern European origins (she’s from Belarus) with knishes and stuffed cab-bage, but also represents other parts of the world. You can order eggs scram-bled with pastrami hash ($5), challah French toast ($6.99), and Israeli falafel ($6.99). Inna’s Kitchen, 19 Pelham St., 617-244-5345, innaskitchen.com.

The Deluxe Station Diner serves an impressive assortment of pancakes all day (sour cream, blue corn, sweet potato, and Rhode Island johnnycakes). Next to those, the Acadian pancakes, named ployes ($5.95 or $7.95), look so plain on the plate that they might escape notice—until you take a bite. Made from buckwheat, they taste like overgrown blinis. Try them with just a little butter to enhance their subtle, nutty flavor. They contain no eggs, milk, or sugar, mak-ing them lighter than the usual griddle cakes. If that seems too plain, try the sweet potato pancakes or waffles with pecans. Just be prepared to wait. The large menu frequently keeps customers lined up out the door. Deluxe Station Diner, 70 Union St., 617, 244-2550, deluxestationdiner.com.

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Slightly warm but still crunchy, this warm beet salad from Aquitaine straddles the season between root vegetables and the first spring greens. Chris Robins, chef de cuisine, counts it among the top five menu favorites at all three Aquitaine locations: Chest-nut Hill, the South End, and Dedham.

The first step to making the salad is getting past bad memories of canned school-cafeteria beets. The next is oven-roasting the beets in flavorful balsamic vinegar. After they

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or red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon cold water 1/3 cup canola oil Salt and pepper, to taste

SalaD Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Rinse the beets with cold water and thoroughly pat dry. Put the beets in a deep roasting pan. Add the balsamic vinegar, water, salt and pepper, making sure the all the beets are partially submerged. Cover with foil and cook until the beets are tender when poked gently with a fork, approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour. Cooking time will depend on the size of the beets. Remove from the oven, uncover and cool. Leave the oven on for the next step.

Place the walnuts in a single layer on a sheet pan. Place in the oven and roast for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Remove and cool. Turn off the oven.

Grate the Boucheron or, if using a softer goat cheese, simply crumble. Set aside.

Cut the mache leaves about 1/4-inch from their roots. If using arugula, tear it into small pieces. Wash and keep covered with a cool, moist towel so the leaves stay fresh and crisp.

Strain the liquid from the cooled beets (you can save it for a vinaigrette or re-use it as a roasting liquid for other root vegetables). Remove the skin from the beets by rubbing them with a paper towel (you may want to wear rubber gloves and an apron to avoid stains). With a mandoline or sharp knife, carefully slice the beets into thin discs about 1/8-inch thick.

vinaigRette In a bowl, whisk together the mustard, lemon juice, vinegar, and water. While continuing to whisk, slowly drizzle in the canola oil. It is very important that you do this slowly and not pour all of the oil in at once. Add salt and pepper, then whisk again.

aSSeMBlY Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place a folded, cloth napkin on top of each of four large plates. Arrange overlapping slices of beet on the center of a round, heatproof dinner plate. Sprinkle cheese and nuts over the top of the beets. Repeat to make four plates. Place each plate in the oven for 3 minutes or until the cheese is melted. Remove and place each warm plate on the napkin-lined one. Top the beets with the mache or arugula and lightly dress with the vinaigrette. Serve at once.

cool, slice them; top with toasted wal-nuts, goat cheese, and greens. Then heat just until the cheese melts.

“It’s a good, refreshing salad.” says Robins. “It’s pretty, too, with the purple beets, the melted cheese, and green leaves.” Maybe even President Barack Obama, who is known to shun beets, might take a bite.

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Artisanal Beer Glut Less-filling is out; mouthfeel is in. For the casual beer drinker—at least, those of us who’ve had time to grow soft in the middle—microbrews were a phenomenon of the 1990s. Yet the universe continues to expand. Walk into nearly any Newton liquor store today, and you’ll find shelves overrun by lots of unfamiliar cans and large, corked bottles.

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extra pale ale from Uinta Brewing: $10 (six pack) at Upper Falls Discount Liquors, 150 Needham St., 617-969-9200, thepostscript.com. 3. extra Special Oak from Element Brewing Co. in Millers Falls: $14 (25 oz.) at Lower Falls Wine, 2366 Washington St., 617-332-3000, lowerfallswine.com. 4. Be HOppy, an India Pale Ale for bitter beer fans from Worcester’s Wormtown Brewery: $8 (22 oz.) at The Urban Grape, 7 Boylston St., 617-232-4831, theurbangrape.com. 5. tripel tHreat, a Belgian-style tripel from Cambridge Brewing Co.: $8 (22 oz.) at Marty’s Fine Wines, 675 Washington St., 617-332-1230, martysfine wine.com. 6. tank 7 FarmHOuSe ale, a popular saison from Boulevard Brewing Co.: $10 (25 oz.), $11 four packs (12 oz.) at Murray’s, 747 Beacon St., 617-964-1550, murraysliquors.com. 7. BaBy tree, a quadrupel by Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project, brewed in Westport, Mass., $10 (22 oz.) at Walnut Market, 20 Lincoln St., 617-965-1170.

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Snappy Hour Legendary Newton Centre clothier Mr. Sid succeeds by making shopping fun. (Really!)By AlyssA GiAcoBBe

When it comes to fashion, men can be a tough sell. Newton Centre men’s clothing stalwart Mr. Sid sees

the whole range of reluctant types, says company vice president Barry Segal, from those who “kvetch” about the price of a dress shirt (“then come back once they realize how comfort-able quality feels,” says Segal) to husbands who need to be dragged in by wives complaining of an overstock of pilly sweaters back home. But it’s a myth, Segal says, that most men—or, specifically, most men in Newton—don’t care what they look like.

“Newton is quite sophisticated,” says Segal, who runs the business with his brother, Stuart. (Dad, and company founder, Ira semi-retired a few years back, though he pops in often and calls every day.) “For most guys, conve-nience is the issue. They want to look nice, but don’t have a lot of time. They want to take care of their wardrobe, but then they want to have a cocktail.”

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alan Bilzerian alan bilzerian’s has been outfit-ting fashion forward men since 1967. it’s pricey, sure, but spot-on service and exclusive brands like rick owens, alexander mcQueen, and christopher Kane mean your money’s well spent. 1217 Centre St., 617-630-9988, alanbilzerian.com.

mosher’s run by the mosher family since 1921, the shop offers custom tailoring as well as upscale suits, shirts, and ties by american and european brands that include oxxford clothes, hickey Free-man, and lucciano barberra. 1221 Centre St., 617-527-3121, moshersfineclothing.com.

simon & son’s in a welcoming upper Falls space, the shop’s business and casual clothing, with their well-appointed offspring (since 1905!), includes suits, blazers, and shoes by largely american designers, like Joseph abboud, ralph lauren, and calvin Klein. 210 Needham St., 617-969-8844, simonandsons.com.

milton’s a chestnut hill favorite since 1947, milton’s makes upscale fashion accessible—familiar labels include hugo boss, ralph lauren, Kenneth cole, and dKny—with competitive prices and a friendly (but never pushy) sales staff. 176 Boylston St., 617-969-4547, miltons.com. alyssa giacoBBe

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ence from being intimidating, overly precious, or just plain boring—has helped business stay strong in the same Newton Centre space since 1967. From the beginning, Ira—who named the store after his own father, who at one time ran a tuxedo rental shop on Langley Road—set out to bring upscale suiting from Europe and the U.S. to an increasingly afflu-ent Newton. But it was the atmo-sphere that had customers coming back. With a welcoming, neighbor-hood vibe, daily in-store happy hour, and a convivial sales staff, shopping became something of a social activity.

These days, Mr. Sid’s clubhouse feel remains: in addition to a fully-stocked bar, there’s also a pool table that doubles as a display for sweaters and a flat-screen TV tuned to ESPN.

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But it’s not just suits—not anymore. In recent years, the store has expanded its selection of casual wear to accom-modate a more laid-back workplace, as well as a clientele that wants to look snappy on the weekends, too. Popular brands include imports like Zegna, Brioni, Corneliani, and Isaia. The store also offers made-to-measure from a number of labels, which Segal says has been a favorite among men who are hard to fit or who want something special. “A custom-made dress shirt or suit can ar-rive in just four to six weeks, and you’ve got something literally made for you,” says Segal. “You choose the fabric, the model, the style. Customers do pay more but they get exactly what they want.”

And as many reluctant shoppers as he sees, Segal says there are just as many regulars who stop in every Saturday to see what’s new—men who like to dress well, and who appreciate the ease of do-ing so at Mr. Sid, which offers in-house tailoring, a barber shop, and a sales staff with no shortage of opinions. “We’ve got clients who run multi-million dollar companies, but can’t decide whether they want cuffs or no cuffs on their pants,” says Segal. “Many men want some guidance. And that’s why we’re here. Otherwise, you might as well buy your clothes from vend-ing machines.” 1211 Centre St., Newton Centre, 617-969-4540, mrsid.com.

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eaT Auburndale is all about casual dining, all day long. Perk up your morning cof-fee with some sticky buns or manteca (a Guatemalan sweet bread) from the New Breadsong Corner Bakery (349 Auburn St., 617-964-4004, breadsong-bakery.com). Owners Edgar Zavala and Rumyana Gizdova offer lunch options in addition to their home-made bread. Head to local favorite the Knotty Pine lunch (295 Auburn St., 617-527-9864, knottypinelunch.com) for mom-and-pop charm and diet-busting specials. Stop in for a no-frills, all-flavor slice or sub at Tom’s Pizza and Sandwich Shop (423 Lexington

St., 617-969-4979, toms-pizza.com), or cross the street for sit-down service at Bocca Bella Café & Bistro (442 Lexington St., 617-928-1200, bocca-bellacafe.com) and chef Mario Bocca Bella’s ever-changing menu. On March 16, celebrate the spring reopening of Wally’s Wicked good ice Cream & Treats (419 Lexington St., 617-244-3555, wallyswickedgood.com) with some Graham Central Station, Coffee Oreo treats, or ice cream “cake pops.”

SHOP Need a baby shower present or a house-warming gift? Solve gift-giving needs by picking up a bouquet at

Ken’s Flower Cafe (2111 Common-wealth Ave., 617-965-5069), a bottle of vino at the auburndale Wine & Spirits (2102 Commonwealth Ave., 617-244-2772, thepostscript.com), or a small toy or chachka at Just Next Door Cards and gifts (327 Auburn St., 617-965-6797). Please tea lovers with loose leaf varieties from virtu-ous Teas (425 Lexington St., 617-928-0577, virtuousteas.com), such as Pigeonville Special—Auburndale’s original name. Owner Eo McNeil and manager Jenny Anckorn offer acces-sories, free samples, and vintage tea cups. Get a print framed at abraxis Framing Co. (279 Auburn St.,

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617-818-6968, abraxisdesign.com). Check out the eclectic mix of clothes and jewelry at the Dressing Room (293 Auburn St., 617-965-3442), or design your own fashions with vintage fabrics and textiles from around the world at Newton native Gay Appleby Rogers’ Silk Road Fine Fabrics (281 Auburn St., 617-244-7455, tsrfinefabrics.com).

DO Spring pollen season is coming, so stock up on antihistamines at Ray Dinno’s Keyes Drug (2090 Commonwealth Ave., 617-244-2794, keyesdrug.com). It is the last independent pharmacy in Newton, dating back to the nineteenth century—

although not in its present location. Around the corner, the cozy Turtle Lane Playhouse (283 Melrose St., 617-244-0169, turtlelane.org) has been delight-ing theatergoers for more than thirty years. (See event listings on page 27.) Need quiet time or a toddler-friendly zone? Stop by the historic Auburndale Community Library (375 Auburn St., 617-552-7158, auburndalelibrary.org), where you can curl up with a bestseller or a picture book. Sure, Auburndale of-fers many conveniences: a supermarket, filling stations, and bank branches. But, the next time you visit, park the car. Walk around the block and discover the village of Auburndale.

viLLAge PeOPLeclockwise from top left, the commuter rail stop; au-burndale wine & spirits; the auburndale burger at the knotty pine; virtuous teas; eric blomster of abraxis framing co.; and just next door cards and gifts.

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The NarratorFrom Ponzi schemes to Shangri-La, Waban author listens for the untold story. BY JEFF OUSBORNE

While Mitchell Zucko� ’s Lost in Shangri-La recounts the aftermath of a tragic plane crash, the creative inception of the book began with a happier accident. “I was working on another project that wasn’t coming together,” says the author, a Waban resident. “So I started reading old

newspaper archives to relax and saw a headline: glider rescue in shan-gri-la delayed by clouds. It was all laid out for me: World War II, Stone Age people, gliders, a lost valley…”

He had stumbled upon a great lost story. In May 1945, 24 American ser-vice members and WACs (Women’s

Army Corps) stationed in re-mote Dutch New Guinea took a sightseeing fl ight to a remote val-ley. The trip was a lark: a morale booster for fl ag-ging spirits on a dreary Pacifi c

outpost. When the plane crashed, however, the three survivors faced grief, life-threatening injuries, and a slim chance of rescue beneath the dense jungle canopy. To make things worse, the valley natives were ru-mored to be seven-foot-tall cannibals who “practiced human sacrifi ce on stone altars.”

As fi ction, the plot would snap credulity. So would the quirky cast of characters, including a beautiful and adventurous WAC, Margaret Hast-ings (“I just fell in love with her,” says Zucko� ); a battle-hungry bear of a paratrooper, Earl Warren, who leads the make-it-up-as-we-go-along mis-sion; a mélange of friendly indigenous people who believe the Americans are tribal spirits; and even civilian Alexan-der Cann, a shady Hollywood actor and drinking buddy of Humphrey Bogart who parachutes into the story—“drunk as a hoot owl”—to document the im-probable rescue on fi lm.

It’s one of those tales that seems to write itself, but Zucko� ’s artfulness conceals his storyteller’s art as well as his hard work. The book led him all the way to New Guinea, where he spoke to natives and their relatives who remember the event, nearly 70 years later. “It was easier than I expected,” says the a� able author. “Every old person I talked to knew of the story. Or they’d say: ‘Go to this village and talk to that person.’ Go to Newton Centre and ask, ‘What was World War II like around here?’ and you’d probably have a hard time fi nding out much. But

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ExhibitsRURAL IRELAND. An exhibition of household objects, architectural shards, and works of art depicts how Irish country people lived, con-ducted business, worshipped, and educated and entertained themselves. The exhibit runs through June 3 at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, Devlin Hall. Free admission. 617-552-8100, bc.edu/artmuseum.

MusicSUZUKI SCHOOL FACULTY CONCERT. Members of the music school’s faculty will perform classical works at 3 p.m. on March 4, in Wilson Chapel, Andover Newton Theologi-cal School, 210 Herrick Rd. Tickets $8–20: 617-964-4522, suzukinewton.org. MISTRESS BRADSTREET. Boston’s Cappalla Clausura celebrates the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Anne Bradstreet, one of New England’s earliest poets, with music composed by Hilary Tann. The New-ton performance will be at 8 p.m. on March 17, Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Common-wealth Ave. Tickets $15–25: clausura.org.PLAY BALL! The New Philharmonia Orches-tra celebrates baseball season with a family concert featuring “Casey at the Bat” and a sing-along! Baseball attire encouraged. (No cleats.) Performance at 3 p.m. on April 1, First Baptist Church, 848 Beacon St. Tickets $10–15: 617-527-9717, newphil.org.

TheatreLEGALLY BLONDE. Theatre Ink will perform the musical comedy based on the popular movie of the same name. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on March 15–17 and at 2 p.m. on March 18 in the Performing Arts Center at Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St. Ticket information: 617-559-6406, theatreink.net.THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. The Turtle Lane Players take on this comic musical. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays, April 13–29, at Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose St. Tickets $27–32: 617-244-0169, turtlelane.org.

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DEFENDING JACOBBY WILLIAM LANDAYFICTION. 432 PAGES.DELACORTE PRESS, $26 HARD-COVER, $13 KINDLE.

This third crime novel from Newton author William Landay (williamlanday.com) was published in January to starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist. Un-like his fi rst two thrillers, Defending Jacob moves beyond the urban world of cops and criminals into the suburban landscape. Landay will appear at 7 p.m., March 1, at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., 617-244-6619, newtonvillebooks.com.

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Is American journalism really a failing business model? In his latest book, Newton resident, journalist and

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Adam Mansbach (adam-mansbach.com) struck a chord last year with his R-rated send-up of the bedtime story, Go the F*** to Sleep. His G-rated version of the book comes out in April. Mansbach grew up in Waban, graduating from

Newton South High School in 1994, and today resides in Berkeley, California.

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Adam Wilson’s debut novel is set in “Quinosset,” the fi ctional name for Newton, where the author grew up. In the book, the narrator describes a local temple: “Beth Shalom might appear to be part of the Pine Hill Mall, sometimes referred to as the Mall at Pine Hill… High Holidays: front lot like a rap video removed of black people. Mercedes, Lexus, Beamers. This is where we used to park until Dad left. Then we drove a Camry, and they stuck us out back.” Wilson (adamzwilson.com) will appear at 7 p.m., March 8, at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., 617-244-6619, newtonvillebooks.com.

for the native people in Dutch New Guinea, it’s all part of their historical cycles. Things don’t change much.”

Zucko� came to long-form journal-ism after years of working for news-papers and wire services, including a hitch as special-projects editor at the Boston Globe. He now teaches inves-tigative reporting and feature writing at Boston University—when he’s not writing books like Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend(2005) or Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (2009). “I totally lucked into that one,” he says of working with the legendary director of MASH and Gosford Park. “An agent called and

said, ‘Altman’s looking to put together a book on the art and craft of the fi lm-maker.’ I said, ‘I am totally unquali-fi ed for the job, but if you don’t get me on that list, you’re fi red.’” Zucko� proved a good match for the renegade auteur (“He hated the Yankees, just like I do”), and the result is a portrait as engaging and multilayered as an Altman movie. Zucko� ’s next project will focus on a character usually absent from his books: himself. It’s the story of three plane crashes in Greenland at the end of World War II, interwoven with the personal narrative of his own trip to the crash sites. “After this one,” he says. “I’m all done with plane crashes.”

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Running on HealthyThis Newton physician helps ensure that Heartbreak Hill ain’t heart attack hill. By john Bostwick

run, newton, runLocaL runners and voLunteers set goaLs for the Boston Marathon. By tiffany sMith

Newton Highlands’ Pierre d’Hemecourt is a keen runner who began jogging in 1977 during his first year of medical school. Since then, he has competed in an impressive seven Boston marathons. “I still try to run a marathon a year,” he says, “it just can’t be Boston.” That’s because, as co-medical director of the Boston Marathon, d’Hemecourt has other concerns on race day. He and another physician direct a large medical staff who look after the well being of more than 20,000 registered marathon run-ners. It’s a job d’Hemecourt has been doing for the past decade.

D’Hemecourt and his co-director work to ensure that participants have access to medical care all along the marathon route. This massive effort includes working with representatives

marathon man: co-medical director of the boston marathon, pierre d’hemecourt, m.d.

greg Picklesimer was the fastest kid on his block growing up. now the 45-year-old is one of the fastest runners in newton—winning the 2011 katie Lynch half marathon and doyle’s emerald necklace road race.

corey smetana, only 24, is already a four-time veteran. “People are always amazed at how young i am, but i just want to go out there and have fun,” says the Boston college gradu-ate student and author of the runners cookie blog (runnerscookie.com).

larry aller’s first mara-thon may have been as an unregistered bandit runner who landed in a medical tent, but the 32-year-old ironman triathlete is now a seasoned pro who com-petes to raise breast cancer awareness.

christine sPira, 46, will be running on a team to raise awareness for the john M. Barry Boys & girls club of newton. a newton-wellesley hospital team is running to raising money for its cancer center. Both are official charities of the 2012 marathon.

alvin silverstein, 75, is proof you don’t need run-ning shoes to be involved. silverstein has been man-ning security at the finish line for more than two decades, and is motivated by the volunteers “who return year-after-year.”

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from eight municipalities, staffing medical tents, appointing team leaders, and strategically positioning defibril-lators and other medical equipment. D’Hemecourt likens the result to a “mini M.A.S.H. unit.” In addition to these duties and manning a medical tent on race days, his job involves educating registrants in the months leading up to the event. While regular running generally decreases one’s health risks, he says, the stresses of running a full marathon can result in hy-pothermia, heat cramps, stress fractures, and other complications. Education is critical to reducing these risks.

The gravest health concern on race day is the possibility of cardiac arrest, which most commonly strike victims during the final mile of the race or in the half hour following it. D’Hemecourt instructs runners to train intelligently, to pay attention to symptoms that may indicate heart disease, and to discuss marathon preparation and participation with a doctor. While the field of run-ning medicine is sometimes sobering, d’Hemecourt is enthusiastic about the sport. When asked to speak about some of the Boston marathon’s triumphs and tragedies, he mentions only triumphs. D’Hemecourt says he derives inspira-tion from watching the many people who participate in the marathon for charities and family, “You see people start with a lot of energy, and then they go through this grueling race, and at the end, there’s a tremendous feeling of joy at having finished. It’s amazing to watch.”

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Every Patriot’s Day, Newton-Wellesley Hospital staff members are preparing for the worst. The hospital uses the racing event as a test run for its emergency command center, during which a hospital executive oversees operations, keeping in touch with fire, police and the media via a virtual computer network from a room off the caf-eteria. The annual exercise stems from the marathon on April 19, 2004—remembered by some as “the 85 day.” “We had about 85 patients in 85 minutes, and it was an 85 degree day,” said Charlotte Roy, emergency preparedness coordinator. ER doctor Barry Tils says, “In recent years, the volume has not even come close.... but we’re better prepared because of it.” don Seiffert

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Four tennis courts are the first tipoff that an unassuming house off Commonwealth Avenue is actually the Newton Squash and Tennis Club. The club didn’t even have a sign until a few years ago, although it’s the oldest continuously run squash club in the U.S. “We’ve always been an incredibly well-kept secret. Nobody knows who we are,” said club President Jonathon Katz.

For those who don’t know the sport, it’s played on a 32-by-21-foot court walled in on all four sides. Games last about 45 minutes, in which two to four players try and hit a black ball that’s a little bigger than a golf ball and not as bouncy as a racquetball. That makes it hard to return and is one reason a 2003 Forbes magazine article named squash the “fittest of all sports.”

“It’s intense,” said Nat Lovell, presi-dent of Massachusetts Squash. “You’re hitting a lot of balls, as opposed to say, tennis, where you’re standing on the baseline a lot of the time.” With 22 clubs, the Boston area is one of the most active squash centers in the U.S. And Massachusetts Squash, he said, runs the most active junior programs in the country. Katz, 59, joined the club 11 years ago when it was an older crowd, but a rehab project a few years ago brought new squash courts and facilities. “That breathed a lot of life into the club,” he says. Now the club has a waiting list.

Among the longest-term members is Bill Horwitz, 80, a member for 50 years. He started playing when he first moved to Newton Centre because, with young kids, it was a good way to exercise in the evening. He now plays about four times a week against op-ponents often half his age, but admits, “I don’t win so much anymore.”


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The Green LinesGarden city firms combine industry with sustainability. by don seiffert

Chapman Construction/Design CEO John Hall’s interest in environmentalism dates back more than thirty years, long before sustain-ability became an environmental buzzword. Hall’s forward thinking construction manage-ment firm has become a leader on sustainable practices in that industry. Today, the firm ap-plies those practices to more than two hundred commercial projects each year. Its Newton Highlands headquarters is one of just three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum-certified buildings in the state, incorporating environmental design from the first floor’s kitchen counters to the rooftop garden. The office generates much of its own power through rooftop solar panels, an accomplishment that can be monitored in real time on the company website (chap-con.com).

While the past three years have been par-ticularly tough on the construction industry, Hall has maintained the company’s emphasis on environmentalism. “I was taking the reces-sion time to invest in being a leader in sustain-ability,” he said. “Everyone else was taking time just to survive.”

That leadership is evident in Chapman’s role as an approved provider of professional education programs to architects and LEED-accredited professionals, and its designation in 2011 as one of the five best architecture, engineering, and construction firms to work for by Building Design+Construction magazine. Last year, the firm also founded annual schol-arships for Wentworth Institute of Technology students to encourage the study of sustainable construction and design.

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The Garden City is, in fact, home to many green firms. Kalin Associates (spec-net.com) was one of the first archi-tectural specifications firms to focus on “green specs”—helping builders choose local, recycled and non-toxic materials. Kalin’s foresight has become common knowledge today. “We knew we had a con-tributing role as to decisions about what products to put in a building,” he says.

Terrene of New England (terreneof-ne.com) has been selling green build-ing materials since its Newton Corner showroom opened in 2008. Owner Bob LeFond says the demand for products like bamboo flooring, formaldehyde-free cabinets and whey-based polyurethane has helped the firm weather the reces-sion. And he forecasts more growth: “People think that green is mainstream, but it’s not. It’s in its infancy,” he said. “We’re in a part of the country that’s more environmentally aware.”

Big Belly Solar (bigbellysolar.com)designs and sells solar-powered trash cans that reduce the cost and pollution of trash collection, automatically com-pacting trash, and alerting a manager when the trash needs emptying. Newton became one of the Wells Avenue com-pany’s early clients when former mayor David Cohen bought six units with grant money. Since then, units have spread all the way to Europe.

General Compression in Nonantum solves one of the biggest problems with wind power: its natural fluctuation. The company has developed technology to pack air into underground salt caverns so that, when the wind dies down, the compressed air can be released to power wind turbines.

Marc Fournier, who oversees green efforts at Lasell College in Auburndale, has worked to replace floodlights on campus with LED bulbs and, in 2010, re-cycled an old barn on campus. Fournier, a father of two, says he’s driven by a sense of duty to make up for wasteful behavior. “Our kids are going to inherit all the mistakes we’ve made,” he said.

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Giant StepsFor twenty years, this Newton nonprofi t has provided a di� erent path for victims of domestic violence. BY ROBIN REGENSBURG

When Amalah would no longer engage in verbal arguments with her husband, he began to physically abuse her. When she fi nally managed to leave, with two children and no money, they stayed temporarily in a Boston-area domestic violence crisis shelter. Many victims of domestic abuse lack further options. But some, like Amalah and her chil-dren, fi nd their way to The Second Step.

The organization was founded in 1982 by four Boston-area women who met while volunteering at a crisis shelter in Waltham. They observed that many victims returned to abusive situations because they lacked hous-ing and economic independence. When the founders were seeking a Boston-area loca-tion to house the new organization, they met with the enthusiastic support of Theodore Mann, mayor of Newton at the time, who helped them procure space. The nonprofi t has been based in Newton ever since. U.S. Rep. Barney Frank helped the group secure its fi rst federal grant in 1992.

Today, The Second Step o� ers an array of services for families moving away from abuse: legal advocacy, transitional housing, fi nancial assistance, and services for children, including mentoring and afterschool care. The Second Step di� ers from crisis shelters in many respects. For those who are admit-ted, the organization provides transitional housing in communal residences for up to two years. These residences are in a sububan location where children can attend local schools. Survivors work with professional sta� members and mentors and must fi nd employment, participate in job training or volunteer work, or be enrolled in school. The transitional housing program serves 30 fami-lies annually, while the community program serves 120 families every year.

Executive director Roberta Rosenberg said The Second Step is preparing to cel-ebrate its 20th anniversary at an April 26 event. She also summarized the concerns that will shape the organization’s work as it heads into its third decade. They include the prevention of abuse through counseling and education; time for victims of abuse to regain self-esteem, physical and emotional health and fi nancial stability; and resources to help children. The Second Step, 617-965-3999, thesecondstep.org.

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The four other authors being honored are Leah Hager Cohen, whose The Grief of Others was designated a notable book of 2011 by the New York Times; Edith Pearlman for her short story collection Binocular Vision; music critic Tim Riley, author of the new biography Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music—The Defi nitive Life; and memoir writer Lou Ureneck for Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine.

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The Squeeze Cultural organizations struggle to find office space and places to rehearse. By Don Seiffert

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A lack of space for offices, rehearsals, and performances by Newton’s arts and cultural organizations has already driven at least one chorus and a theater group out of the city. Next year, ten groups—including a music school and a theatre company—will have to leave the spaces they rent at the Newton Cultural Center in Nonantum because that building, the former Carr School, is being reclaimed for the school system.

This issue does not affect only people who like art exhibits or classical concerts. Accord-

ing to the New England Foundation for the Arts, the arts have a very tangible effect on the city’s economy. The foundation estimates that average home values in Newton get a $71,845 boost thanks to the 200-plus arts and cultural organizations in the city.

“People don’t move into a community for jobs anymore. People move in for cul-tural organizations,” said former mayor Tom Concannon, president of the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA).

Formed in 2007, The NCA is charged with promoting arts in the city, and Concannon’s priority is solving the current space jam.

Nearly eight years ago, Linda Plaut moved the Mayor’s Office on Cultural Affairs into the then-vacant Carr School, establishing the city’s first cultural center. “We had an imme-diate response,” said Plaut. Arts groups took advantage of the low rent—around $8 a square foot—for offices and classrooms, but they still had few choices for large performance halls.

Adrienne Hartzell, executive director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, says churches are really the only option available since the high schools are too busy. The New Phil performs and rehearses at the First Bap-tist Church in Newton Centre, and keeps its offices at Andover Newton.

“We’ve been around this city more times than I want to say, banging our heads against the wall trying to find a space,” she said.

The Suzuki School of Newton, which offers music lessons to students of all ages, rents more than a dozen rooms at the Cultural Center, and books performance space at Day Middle School. The school has spent all of its 26 years in Newton, and Sachiko Isihara, the school’s executive director, hopes to stay. But the non-profit organization has grown from 200 to 300 students in the last six years. Isihara says it’s difficult to find a big enough space.

Housed in the city-owned Jackson Home-stead, Historic Newton pays no rent for its space, but there’s no room for storage. Items are stuffed in “every nook and cranny.” Direc-tor Cynthia Stone says, “My office closet is full of quilts.” The group hopes to collaborate with other organizations on a solution. “We just need to find a space, and figure out how to pay for it,” she said.

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more cut-through traffic?City leaders and the public Safety & trans-portation Committee have been discussing how planned changes to interstate 95/Route 128 will affect traffic on city streets. the mas-sachusetts Department of transportation’s project, which has included changes all the way south to Route 24, will widen the interstate to four travel lanes along 3.3 miles near Newton. the construction will affect three interchanges: Route 9, Kendrick Street and Highland Street. Design work is to be completed this year, with construction starting in

2013. Because Newton is conveniently located between that traffic ar-tery and the massachu-setts turnpike, commuter traffic does affect travel on local roads.

community Preservation surveyBecause Newton participates in the state community preserva-tion program, the city will generate nearly $20 million to fund preserva-tion projects over the next five years. Newton officials want residents to weigh in on the types of projects that should be supported in the community. funding for projects is limited

to affordable housing, historic resources, open space, and recreational land. take the survey on-line: newtonma.gov/cpa.

Leaky PiPesSince 2010, the mas-sachussetts water Resource authority (mwRa) has estimated that 56.3% of Newton’s average daily sewage flow was not sewage but clean water—such as runoff from rainstorms—that infiltrates the system through leaks in the city’s underground sewage pipes. according to esti-mates made by alderman Ruthanne fuller, the city is spending as much as $11.1 million annually for the mwRa to process

clean water. City officials estimate that repairing the leaks will cost more than $50 million.

text the LibrarySince midwinter, the Newton free Library has allowed patrons to ask reference questions and request information by sending text messages. Library staff use a web interface to respond. the system sends answers back to users’ devices while protecting the patrons’ anonymity. text NewLib to 66746 for instructions. message and data rates may apply, and, until further notice, War and Peace can still be enjoyed in print.

beautify newtonviLLea new grassroots orga-nization called Beautiful Newtonville seeks to re-vitalize that village center through volunteer proj-ects. organizers have held meetings with residents, village businesses and city officials and received a $5,000 donation from Cambridge Savings Bank, which recently opened a branch on walnut Street. Last year, the village of Upper falls organized a neighborhood area council to build civic en-gagement in that part of the city. it was the second such city-chartered group in Newton. the develop-ment of area councils has been a priority of Newton mayor Setti warren.

Change in OwnershipThis map provides a macro view of the turnover of residential and commercial properties citywide over many decades. Properties are colored according to the de-cade of their last sale date. At a glance, one can see how quickly the city evolves. Around half of the city’s residential properties have changed hands over the past two decades. According to five-year estimates made by the U.S. Cen-sus, 48% of Newton householders moved in since 2000, 22% date to the 1990s, 12% to the 1980s, and 17% predate 1980. john sisson

the map was developed by Doug Greenfield of Newton’s Geographic information Systems (GiS) office for the city’s Community preservation program. most city departments depend on GiS information, and residents can browse the GiS database online at newtonma.gov/miS/gis/gispage.htm.


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Having renovated Suzi and Tom Wilder’s West Newton home three times, Treff LaFleche, principal at LDa Architecture & Interiors in Cambridge, was well qualified to design a new house for the family of five, this time from scratch. In 2005, the Wilders purchased three-quarters of an acre on a cul-de-sac in West Newton Hill. Although just around the corner from where they lived, the neighborhood, which was carved out of an estate that was subdivided in the 1960s, had a decidedly more contemporary feel. The couple, who both grew up in New England, com-missioned LaFleche. “They wanted a contemporary home, but not one that would seem disconnected from the area’s traditional houses,” LaFleche says. While Tom, a commercial real estate guy, was a tad hesitant, Suzi, a glass artist who creates colorful pieces under the label Wilder Glass (wilderglassworks.com), relished the chance to go light and airy. It took two years to plan and build (“It was a very organized process… everything was nailed down before we started,” says Suzi), but the result is spectacular. The 5,200-square-foot residence, built by GF Rhode Construction, harmoniously blends vernacular New England architecture with that of the modern day. Two traditional New England buildings, clad in natural red-cedar shingles and set on a foun-dation of local stone, are connected by a boxy form of storefront-like windows constructed from extruded aluminum and glass. It’s an exquisite juxtaposition in which LaFleche marries eras and seamlessly inte-grates commercial conventions, like exposed raw-steel beams. He says, “We turned the house inside out a bit, allowing structural elements to also serve as decorative ones.” The family loves it. Suzi says, “It’s very cozy. We use all of it, and even once the chil-dren leave, it will still be perfect.”




This page: In the living room, sofas from B&B Italia and a pair of Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs cluster around the fireplace with Absolute Black granite surround. An oil painting by New England artist (and family friend) Peter Poskas hangs above. Suzi rotates the sofas seasonally so those lounging face the fire in winter and the sunny room and verdant yard in summer. Previous spread: Two traditional New England forms with peaked roofs are connected by a contemporary component of extruded aluminum and glass. The glass wraps the home’s public spaces—living room, dining room, and kitchen—imbuing them with an abundance of sunlight year-round. Doors in all three rooms open onto the terrace and deck, which give way to the bi-level yard, designed by landscape architect Gregory Lombardi.




Light from the front façade filters through the spare, open-riser steel staircase. Its design echoes

other industrial features in the house, including the structural-steel column and beams seen here.

Throughout, prosaic elements become artistic, like the bolt heads on the rail post. Woodworker Michael

Humphries built the sideboards, which provide space for art and screening from the street.



Top: The family pug Milo blends with the neutral décor of Suzi’s home office, with its custom maple cabinetry. Bottom: The casual seating area in front of the glass wall, just across from the kitchen island, enjoys warmth from a freestanding gas fireplace and a woodsy view. The family calls the cozy spot their own person-al Starbucks. Modern track lighting is suspended from the structural-steel beams so family members can enjoy a cup of cocoa and a book on winter evenings.

The “mudroom” resembles a gym locker room, complete with wall-mounted water fountain and polymer-resin floor. The red lockers came from a school-supply company, as did the bench. Suzi says, “It’s great. I throw whatever junk the kids leave around into their lockers.” The design of the back staircase, which leads down to the basement and up to the children’s bedrooms, echoes that of the main one.

An LC4 cowhide lounge chair designed by mid-century modern masters Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand is tucked into a sunny corner of the glass-encased, sunken living room. The floor is made of a gray-stained concrete, which provides a contrast to the bamboo flooring in the rest of the house.



The stainless-steel double sink, in front of a wall of extruded-aluminum windows, faces the woods. The home abuts a tract of land that’s never been developed. The family spies some amazing wildlife, including foxes, turkeys, and coyotes. The countertops are a honed quartz CaesarStone in Lagos Blue. Suzi says, “I wanted a uniform and modern look.” A structural-steel column, like those in the dining room, complete with chunky hardware, pokes up through the counter. Playing off the industrial theme, electrical outlets line the countertop as though it were a laboratory. The bottom row of awning windows, a style found in manufacturing plants and schools built between the 1920s and 1950s, can be cranked open for cross-ventilation. The simple stainless-steel handle adds to the utilitarian, yet sleek, vibe.

Instead of building a breakfast room, the Wilders opted for a centrally located dining room, positioned

smack in the middle of the house between the kitchen and living room, so that it would get plenty of

use. Indeed, this is where the family meals are eaten. LaFleche brought the ceiling down in this space,

to lend a sense of intimacy in the otherwise open layout. Although there’s space all around it, the room

feels appropriately intimate. The dark-wood dining table, which matches the partition-cum-sideboards,

was purchased at Montage in Boston, and the red-upholstered chairs from BoConcept in Cambridge.

While at the stove, Suzi, who’s an avid cook, can both chat with guests at the counter and see through to the other end of the house. She says, “I love the kitch-en. It’s very spacious, with so much counter space.” Refrigerated beverage drawers at the end of the island come in handy with three kids. Gas fireplace by RAIS.




Next to the main entry, a glass wall spans two stories—the dining room on the first floor, and a children’s lounge on the second. LaTreffe added a breeze soleil to filter the light and control the solar gain on the glass, since it’s a southern exposure. Steel beams and posts identical to those inside also appear as exterior elements.



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OPPOSITEClockwise from top right: Chinoiserie vase, $365, Home on Sumner. GP & J Baker fabric (rainbow stripe), $278 per yard; Brunschwig & Fils fabric (fl oral), $314 per yard, IKAT Interiors. Matelasse bed spread, $39.99, TJ Maxx. Piggy bank, $5.99, The Container Store. Whimsy Designs truck nightlight, $29, Portobello Road. IKAT Design pillow, $145, Home on Sumner. Espresso cup, $90 (set of 6), Elizabeth Caan Interiors. Cer-rant soap, $16.95, Stoddard’s. Le Creuset 3.5 qt cassarole, $129.95, Sur La Table. Chantal tea bag holder, $4.99 (set of 4), TJ Maxx. Robin’s egg crate, $14, Anthropologie. Eggs, Whole Foods. Oven mitt, $8.95; Vic Firth pepper mill, $39.95; Swiss vegetable peeler, $3.95, Stoddard’s. Notebook, $11, Elizabeth Caan Interiors. Design Legacy bird linen pillow, $180, Portobello Road.

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to School

Suffering from years of neglect, Newton’s

school buildings stand in stark contrast to

the district’s reputation for excellence. For

today’s elected officials, who face millions of dollars of unfunded maintenance, these

buildings offer hard lessons in history

and arithmetic.by Jon MarcuS

photographs by BoB o’connor

54NewtoN LiviNg

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problem solver newton’s superintendent

of schools david a. fleishman.



An arrow points from the hand-drawn letters on a Scotch-taped sheet of paper to a child-sized water foun-tain jutting from the glazed-brick wall in the hallway of a busy elementary school. “It’s always broken,” the prin-cipal says with a sigh.

If only that was the worst of her problems.

Named for a local man who died in World War I, this school was built in 1919, less than a year after that war ended, and was last renovated during the Franklin D. Roosevelt adminis-tration—his first term, that is, in 1936. This year, 395 students crowd into an area that should hold no more than 340; another 40 are expected in the next five years, pushing the building further beyond capacity. All but two of the classrooms, including one that was converted from a nurse’s office, are already much, much smaller than state guidelines recommend. There aren’t

enough electrical outlets for such 21st-century essentials as computer monitors. Children whose native language is not English—and their number more than doubled this year alone—are tutored behind a lopsided partition on the stage of the one-time auditorium that serves as the library. Counselors meet with students in the hallways, or in former closets five feet deep with no windows or ventilation under stained and sagging ceilings.

The cafeteria consists of a few tables salvaged from another school. They’re lined up in a hallway in the basement, just outside the art room, where the teacher has to yell to be heard above the din at lunchtimes. There are eight toilets for the nearly 400 students, and three for the 80 adults who work here, most of whom prefer to use the bathroom at a nearby Starbucks. That, like much else in this school, violates health and build-

ing codes. The plumbing is 86 years old. So is the boiler. The cast-iron radiators are covered with rotting pegboard. One had to be removed from high up on the wall of the gym, because it was threatening to fall. When the gym floods—which has happened three times in the last five years—gym class has to be taught in the library and the hallways while a garden hose carries the water from a makeshift pump through a fourth-grade classroom and out a window.

This is not some chronically neglected inner-city school. It’s the Al-bert Edgar Angier Elementary School in Waban. And it’s part of Newton’s dirty little secret: elementary schools in Dickensian condition after years of political foot-dragging and red tape.

Twelve of Newton’s elementary schools are more than 50 years old, four are more than 80 years old, and Angier is more than 90 years old. Ten are now or soon will be crowded beyond capacity. They already provide just 89 to 150 square feet of space per student, when state guidelines call for a minimum of 157 square feet. This despite the stopgap additions of modular classrooms that were meant to be temporary, but some of which have been in use for 20 years.

“As a principal, you don’t want to embarrass the city of Newton,” says Loreta Lamberti, who has worked at Angier for two decades and now is in charge of holding it together. “But it’s not just Angier, and it’s not just overcrowding. There are many school buildings that, forget renovating, they should tear them down.”

Newton may be known for the quality of its public education system, but 87 percent of schools statewide are in better condition than its Angier and Cabot elementary schools, ac-cording to the Massachusetts School Building Authority. Cabot is among the barely 2 percent whose overall physical environment the state con-siders bad enough to affect the quality of education. Other towns have taken far better care of their schools. Every

I am broken.



school in rival Brookline and the Dover-Sherborn district rates in the top category for building condition, and all the schools in Concord-Car-lisle, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston score in the first and second ranks.

“Towns all over the place in Mas-sachusetts have been redoing their elementary schools,” says Jonathan Yeo, the school committee’s facili-ties chairman. “It’s a normal part of municipal business, making these kinds of infrastructure decisions and getting funding to get them done.”

In Newton, meanwhile, in the time since discussion began about repair-ing or replacing Angier Elementary, an entire class of students went from kindergarten to fifth grade in these conditions, and on to middle school. Then another class of kindergarten-ers started and finished. Under the best of circumstances, yet another class will go through, in increasingly crowded conditions, before the prob-lem is close to being solved.

“This should have begun six years ago,” when the school committee voted to proceed with improvements after spending $300,000 on a consul-tant’s study of what needed to be done, Yeo says. But, when the consultants presented their recommendations in 2007, there wasn’t any money.

“It was tremendously frustrating to me to do that report in 2007 and leave the school committee in 2010, and now it’s 2012 and we still haven’t done anything,” says Susie Heyman, a former school-committee member whose children went to Angier.

Now things finally appear to be crawling forward. City officials are making a list of projects that need attention, and Angier, at least, is high on that list. The proposal is to spend $30 million to tear it down and replace it altogether. But a legacy of delays and procrastination mean

building knowledge: the modern interiors of newton north (top three photos) contrast with spaces in the former carr school (below), which is to be renovated and put back into service.

that any plans to make significant improvements to the schools will now have to compete with a backlog of 380 other projects worth a collective quarter of a billion dollars, including fixing crumbling city roads, parks, and sewer and water pipes.

It will be the fall before officials take up the difficult question of how to pay for all of this—and how to win sup-port from residents. That’s because, among other problems, there’s a nearly $200 million elephant in the room: no matter how bad the condition of the elementary schools, taxpayers can’t have forgotten the embarrassment of huge cost overruns in the construc-tion of Newton North High School, the most expensive school ever built in Massachusetts, whose final price was almost double the original estimate.

“North sucked up so much oxygen in the city that it was impossible for anyone to move forward on anything else,” Yeo says. It still may be, Lam-berti worries. “I hope we don’t always have to pay for the sins of Newton North, but we may,” she says. “Our fear is that we’re going to be paying for that for the rest of our lives.”

Adds Steve Siegel, a newly elected member of the school committee and a structural engineer who campaigned on a platform of fixing the deteriorat-ing schools: “The chickens have come home to roost.” Now, he says, repair-ing Newton’s elementary schools “will take a generation to get done. How did the community allow this to happen? How did it get this far?”

The steps to the mayor’s office in City Hall are well worn, and the clock in the tower doesn’t work, and the mayor’s director of community rela-tions works in a small office convert-ed from a bathroom.

Public infrastructure all over America is in bad shape. More than $2.2 trillion in repairs is needed in the next five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. Newton has 298 miles of roadways, 600 miles of water, sewer, and storm-





water pipes, 78 public buildings, 58 parks and playgrounds, and more than 200 heavy vehicles. After years of neglect, these assets need an esti-mated $241 million worth of work, including $159 million for buildings, $45 million for sewer and water, $12 million for roads, almost $10 million for heavy equipment, and $6.5 million for parks. And those are only the proj-ects considered the most urgent.

“All over the city you see failing infrastructure,” Mayor Setti Warren says. “We haven’t invested in the infra-structure, and we’re all paying for it.”

That’s largely because a succes-sion of previous mayors and aldermen didn’t like to borrow. Many boasted of the city’s comparatively low debt and high bond rating. Paying interest on its debt cost Newton only around 3 percent of its budget at the turn of the millennium, while towns includ-ing Brookline and Wellesley took out loans for needed buildings and repairs and set aside 7 and 6.3 percent of their respective budgets for debt service. “There was a whole mindset [in Newton] that you didn’t borrow,” says Heyman. “So unfortunately the schools eroded without getting the kind of attention they needed, and the attention they did get was more emergency attention. If a boiler failed, we fixed it. And now it’s just going to cost us more because we waited.”

These expensive problems have piled up precisely at a time when there’s a nationwide aversion to taxes and suspicion of government spending. In Newton, that surfaced when voters weary of the escalating cost of Newton North defeated a proposal in 2008 that would have let the city increase taxes more than the usual limit of 2 ½ per-cent to close a $12 million budget gap.

“We’re at a difficult time of deep partisanship and cynicism about gov-ernment,” says Warren. Nor, he says, is fixing sewer pipes something that gets politicians reelected. “In cities and towns across the commonwealth, it’s been easier to say, let’s invest in protecting that teacher, let’s invest in

protecting that firefighter, and not in the school or the firehouse.”

Marc Laredo watched this as a member of the school committee and as its chairman. Now he’s an alder-man. “The tension is, services tend to come out ahead, because they’re more immediate,” Laredo says. “It’s no different from a homeowner who says, this year I’m not going to do repairs; I’ll be okay. It catches up with you over time. There has to be a political will among elected officials, there have to be some tough choices, and you have to fund this stuff.”

Warren has been slowly building a case for that. He’s negotiated new con-tracts with most city employees, for example, that slow the rate of growth of salaries and benefits—which suck up two-thirds of the city budget—from 4.4 percent a year to 2.5 percent, saving a projected $20 million to $30 million a year over the next five years. He cut the number of capital projects from 1,000 nominees to 380 consid-ered the most urgent. He hired people who could manage spending to avoid another Newton North fiasco.

Of course, this all took time, too. Improvements have had to wait, first for the new mayor and his team to settle in, and now until the capital-improvement plan is finished in the fall. And the budget problems haven’t all been solved. Revenues from fees and new development are coming in more slowly than hoped, thanks to the economic slowdown. The city’s long-avoided debt will have tripled by 2017, when annual interest pay-ments will rise to $17.3 million—more than half of that for Newton North—accounting for about 5 percent of the operating budget. The city’s bond rat-ing has fallen. And the cost of benefits and pensions for retired employees rises by 4.5 percent a year.

The schools? They’re still in line for some attention. But it’s a long line.

To solve a problem, you need to know it’s there. And some people in Newton aren’t quite sure they want to advertise the poor condition of its elementary schools.

“People are buying million-dollar houses. Then they come here,” Angier’s principal, Lamberti, says. Their reaction is surprise, she says. “The teachers and the parents have been very, very patient and we make it work, so there hasn’t been that big push to make people realize how much we need to fix this.”

Siegel says some parents started putting together a video dramatizing how bad the building is, but changed their minds. “They were afraid it would lower their property values,” he says. (An Angier PTO copresident says plans for a video are on track.)

Even principals, who have to live with these inadequate facilities, are wary of rocking the boat. “Instruc-tion in the halls is not something I want too publicly broadcasted,” one wrote in what she intended to be a private email to her colleagues over how much to

school work: this page, jonathan yeo says it will take time to renovate

newton’s schools. opposite page, a play space in the old carr school.

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Since the 1950S, a Strong JewiSh community haS thrived in the garden city, where, aS one wiSecrack goeS, there’S a roSenbloom on every corner. today, a third of city reSidentS are JewiSh, but the real meaSure iS more cultural than demographic.By kara baskin Illustration by edel rodriguez

A:Depends who you ask.

Q:how Jewish is the gArDen city



Pam Pistiner relocated from New York to Massachusetts with her husband and two young children, she had priorities. “We wanted to find a great Jewish community,” she says. Of course, that’s not the only reason the family fell in love with the place—“We would have access to the T, we could drive 20 minutes and go apple picking or hiking” —but it was a deciding factor. Pistiner had lived in Brookline and Brighton while her husband was completing his medical resi-dency, so she knew the area. “When you’re Jewish, you know where the communities are. I knew from word of mouth. I didn’t do any formal research, but I knew that there was a thriving population,” she says.

puts the number of Jews in Newton at about 28,000, roughly one-third of the city’s population. It’s a sizeable number—but what does it mean to the average resident, or someone thinking about moving here?

“If you look at what’s Jewish about Newton, it’s important to look at the values that Jews prioritize,” says Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Commu-nity Center CEO Mark Sokoll. “The value of education is really important to the Jewish community, the value of inclusion and attention to the special-needs population, the attention to differences. There’s a Jewish value, tikkun olam, which means helping others, whether it’s other Jews or the world… Those values run throughout this city,” not just within the city’s Jewish population, he says.

Brad Szathmary’s family has deep roots in Newton. His says that his synagogue, Mishkan Tefila, mirrors the 1950s exodus. The synagogue relocated from Boston to Newton to accommodate members who had settled here. Szathmary graduated nearly 20 years ago from Newton South High School, and his parents still reside in the city.

“There was a very large Jewish population growing up. We had Rosh Hashanah off and Yom Kippur off. There was a high level of recognition. But I had a very wide friend circle. A lot of those kids were Christian. It was nice to see that they were always very accepting and eager to learn about different customs. That’s one of the greatest things about Newton. There are so many cultures and eth-nicities, and [people] are always very interested to hear about the different sides. I regularly had lunch with a kid who was Muslim. Nobody ever said, ‘Oh that’s wrong.’ There was more of an inquisitive nature.”

as Jewish communities blossomed here and in Brookline, Brighton, and Sharon.

The Jewish population in Newton quadrupled in the 1950s, reaching 31,000 in the 1960s and becoming the largest Jewish community in Greater Boston. Temples and schools followed. In 1995, when the book was written, “the suburban Jewish presence in Newton ha[d] already existed as long as the entire period of Jewish settlement in Dorchester and Roxbury.” Which brings us to today: Research from the Jewish Data Bank

Pistiner was right. Newton has a strong Jewish

community that dates back more than 50 years. In fact, the city’s first synagogue, known today as the Adams Street Shul, celebrates its one hun-dredth anniversary this year. But it wasn’t until the 1950s that the fabric of the city changed, as many middle-class Jews left urban neighborhoods in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mat-tapan for more suburban environs. The Jews of Boston, a history edited by Jonathon D. Sarna and Ellen Smith, provides a window into those decades,

When



Rabbi Wesley Gardenswartz of the city’s 75-year-old synagogue, Temple Emanuel, agrees. “I love Newton. There’s no other city I’d rather live in. Over the weekend, we were celebrating my wife’s birthday in rural Connecticut, and I saw a sign on a church door. It said ‘Open hearts, open minds, open doors.’” He thinks the entire city embodies that spirit.

Laura Perlman was brought up in West Newton in the 1980s. Though her family didn’t routinely attend synagogue, her religious education blossomed just the same. “We had a Christian next-door neighbor, and I didn’t know anything about it. She got to hunt for these Easter eggs, and I was kind of jealous. I went to her house and we were playing. She was going to make up an Easter basket. I found it the next morning.” Her par-ents helpfully explained to her why she didn’t celebrate Easter.

“One of the signature sayings taught in Newton is ‘Respect Differ-ence,’” says Gardenswartz. “Diversity is good, and that applies to all of God’s children. That is a value that comes with the oxygen in Newton.”

While diversity is important, many Jews grapple with how to retain their identity in a shifting environment. The dating site JBoston ( jboston .com) launched recently. Its mission is to connect Jewish singles to keep the Jewish flame alive as intermar-riage becomes more common. Poten-tial couples are paired and followed by a matchmaker, lending a personal and somewhat quaint touch to an industry that now flourishes online.

Chabad of Newton Centre’s Rabbi Moshe Lieberman helps to advise JBoston. “A third of Newton are Jews. A lot of people like to talk about how saturated it is,” he tells me.

“I am absolutely convinced that the Newton community is short-changed. There is not enough going on… How many are actively engaged in Jewish life on a regular basis? Even if you have a few temples, that’s only getting a small portion of the commu-nity. Not everyone goes to temple or to religious services. Are the children engaged? If you’re not getting the young kids in, what about the future? [Chabad of Newton Centre] is a rela-tively new and small organization, but we are interested in expanding and more opportunities, especially for young people,” he says.

Gardenswartz also struggles with how to keep Judaism relevant to everyday life. He’s discovered that socialization is key: His Temple Emanuel now hosts a program called Shabbat Alive on Friday evenings. Complete with musical instruments, the event attracts roughly three hun-dred people on any given weekend.

“There’s an old Jewish saying,” he tells me. “‘My friend Garfinkle goes to temple to talk to God, and I go to talk to Garfinkle.’ If you were to come on a Friday night, even in the depths of winter, there are three hundred people, maybe more. A couple of dif-ferent services, and afterwards there is a Shabbat and people have a glass of wine and a little bit to eat. It is about the conversation and the con-nection. This is a trend line.”

Brad Szathmary recalls an anecdote from his teenage years: “The most popular mayor in Newton history was a man named Theodore Mann. He was very spirited. He attended services at my temple, and he’d high-five everyone. Around that time, there was some kind of push for a cranberry Fig Newton cookie. To showcase the city’s progressiveness, he officiated over the wedding of the cookie and a cranberry.” He laughs at the memory. “It was great. It was just so Newton.”

our big fat jewish wedding

This community push is evident at the JCC, too. Sokoll began working there in 1988 and took over as CEO 11 years ago. “There have been changes in family, changes in Jews marrying non-Jews, same-sex par-ents raising children. [The most dramatic change] is the issue of choice. In this generation of 2012, my kids are in their twenties, and they have the opportunity not just to inherit their Jewish identity, but to build for themselves a Jewish identity. They move much more flu-idly in and out of communities.”

Times change, and so the city’s religious and cultural organizations must change along with it, he says.

“In 1988, the expectation was: we built it, and they will come. Now the expectation is, how do we design pro-grams and services that are relevant to the choices that people are making in their lives?” Back then, Sokoll says, “The working situation was different. Family incomes were different.” The Jewish community today, he says, “is not monolithic.”

And, by most accounts, that’s a huge selling point for Newton’s Jewish community and for the city as a whole.

While cultural and religious de-mographics drew Pistinerto Newton, what keeps them here is the city’s vibe. “When I told a friend that we were moving to Newton, she said, ‘Really?’ The perception from some people is that it’s a little snobby here. But what I have found is that people are really down to earth, really pro-gressive, really open-minded, and re-ally friendly.” Her children attend the Newton public schools. “In looking at my kids’ classes, you don’t know everyone’s religion, and it doesn’t seem overwhelmingly Jewish at all. It’s more diverse, and I appreciate that,” she says.


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wins

stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor’s

president and CEO, beats silicon Valley

with local talent.By DOug HArDy

Photographs by webb Chappell



EntrEprEnEurial pathTripAdvisor is not your first company. Tell us about the entrepreneurial path that led you this far. I was a senior in college, a computer science major. As a senior project, some friends and I wrote a software-development tool. That became our first business, called Centerline Software, and I ran engi-neering. From 1985 to 1998, I saw how a company was born and grew to 160 people. Then the market turned and I learned a lot more on the way down the curve than on the way up. While we were succeeding, we made mistakes that we thought were brilliant business decisions.

What mistakes? We didn’t listen to our customers closely enough. We got into the habit of what I call “more of the same” thinking. I remember say-ing, “Hey, let’s build this additional product. People love us! They’ll pay thousands for it!” I was a huge cham-pion of the product. And it turned out to be a theoretical need. Every-body was talking about the idea, but nobody wanted to pay for it.

We didn’t move quickly enough in the downturn. When I started TripAd-

visor I said, “Every single year, every quarter, we’re going to make a con-scious decision between doing more of the same and reinventing this process.”

prESSurE tO innOVatE Your management theme now is…? “Speed Wins.” It’s a sign on my door. I talk about it at every company meet-ing. We’re in an industry where being nimble is both possible and beneficial.

TripAdvisor is a product-focused company. We live, eat, and breathe the questions, “How are we helping our visitors every day? How can we do more?” If we make our visitors happy as they plan their trip, the advertis-ing dollars (which is how we fund the business) will come.

How does “Speed Wins” work in practice? We release new functional-ity to the website every single week. Six-month projects just don’t exist in TripAdvisor. We ask, “How do we deliver incremental and even revo-lutionary improvements every week, every quarter?”

If we’re not innovating fast enough, consumers will find what they’re looking for somewhere else.

If we have two reviews of a hotel in a faraway part of the world, we’re not impressing anyone. How do we get it to 50? How do we get 100 local language reviews?

What’s a recent example of innova- tion? We have a great partnership with Facebook that highlights what your Facebook friends think of a destination. We’re replicating those times when your friends share travel information at the kid’s soccer game, and organizing it online via Facebook so that you get a personal level of recommendation. If your buddy Joe has actually stayed at a resort that I’m looking at, you can read his review and I can go talk to him or text with him about it. People don’t expect it. They’re delighted when they see it, and we think it’s the next revolution in travel reviews.

ManaGinGWhat do you tell new employees about working at TripAdvisor? When you come to work at TripAdvisor, you need to unlearn some things school taught you. Take the example of writing a term pa-per: (1)You have to work alone. (2) The work has to be original. If you borrow from someone else, that’s cheating. (3) You can’t reuse your old work. (4) You get no credit if you hand it in early, but get knocked down a grade if you’re one day late. (5) Typos cost you points because you’re “sloppy.”

Now, compare that to our business: (1) You must work with other people. (2) I want you to learn from the best work out there—if you see someone else’s great idea, use it! (3) If as an en-gineer you can reuse a massive chunk of code you wrote to do something else new, that’s all good, good, good! (4) Deliver your work even if it’s not perfect and we’ll decide whether it’s worth doubling the project length to get that last 20 percent. I’d much rather have 80 percent of what you can do, delivered early. We’ll get it out early and please more customers.

Stephen Kaufer, president and CEO, cofounded Newton-based TripAdvisor in 2000 and has guided the company to dominance in its category, merging two volatile fields—travel and Internet services—with the contemporary phenom-enon of crowdsourcing. TripAdvisor offers reviews of hotels, restaurants, destinations, and more writ-ten by travelers themselves, and then delivers these visitors as leads and advertising audience to travel businesses such as resorts and airlines. It’s a simple concept brought to a huge scale—between 50 and 65 million people visit TripAdvisor and its affiliates around the world every month. Kaufer spoke to Newton Living about his entrepreneurial path at TripAdvisor’s Highland Avenue headquarters short-ly after TripAdvisor’s spinoff from Expedia and its subsequent $3.5 billion valuation. We asked how he keeps a tech firm on top without relying on the talent-capital-relationship scrum of Silicon Valley.



(5) And we can fix typos on the fly. If your “error” message isn’t in red type like the others, it’s not a big deal.

Also, we foster a culture of team-work so some of our highest ratings in our employee survey are around teamwork. You have to hash out is-sues in a meeting and not dread the meeting because you don’t actually want to work with that idiot.

[Finally,] you can get the perfect resume, and hire a person who just kind of plods along, does what they’re

Now look at the quality of the teams here, the quality of the manag-ers. You will learn so much from the people around you, doing something, building something that’s really cool for consumers. Great focus—people love to travel (and you probably love to travel too).

And now the question is, “Hey! What other companies are there that offer all of that as a package?” If you’re looking to work at Google you’re a cog in the wheel. Pretty good company but what kind of impact are you going to have versus TripAdvi-sor? It’s the same with Facebook, and the same with Amazon.

In October, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, “If I were starting now, I would have just stayed in Boston.” How do you compete with Silicon Valley for the best talent? I grew up in California, but I love being in the Boston area. We can recruit talent from top, top univer-sities all up and down the east coast. Okay, we do lose some folks to the weather in Silicon Valley, and some to its aura of hot, new, innovative things going on. But if you ask me, “If you could magically pick up TripAdvisor, replant the company and everyone in Silicon Valley, would you prefer that?” I’d say, “Hell, no!” The compe-tition for talent there is way harder.

I’m stunned by the number of people I meet who assume that we’re one of those California Internet companies. We’re really big and we have more traffic than any other travel site in the world. And when you look at the fact that that we’re based in little Newton , its kind of fun. I’m not going anywhere.

told, doesn’t really give a hoot. I don’t want those people in my company.

BOSTON VS. SILICON VALLEYTell me something about TripAdvisor that will make me want to work here. Look, you want to find the right company for what your career goals are. Is an employer going to let you do something that’s meaningful to the business? Will they mentor your career growth for the time you’re at that company or beyond?

ThE STATSYear founded: 2000, sold in 2004 to the Expedia unit of IAC, spun off into a public corporation in December 2011. Initial valuation: approximately $3.5 billion. Number of TripAdvisor travel sites: 18 sites, 30 countries, 21 languages. Members: 20 million. Monthly unique visitors: 50 million (65 million unique visitors including all subsidiary sites). Number of reviews and opinions: 60 million.

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graphed on january 6, at tripadvisor’s

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cooperate for this story. “I am a little worried about exposing so publicly some of the violations of special ed regulations that we continue to live with,” responded another.

It’s a catch-22, says Mike Zilles, president of the teachers’ union. “On the one hand, if we are going to get the community’s support to pay for the improvements we need, we need people to believe the schools are first-rate, excellent, nationally recognized,” Zilles says. “If you start broadcasting how bad of a condition the schools are in, people might say, ‘Then where are my tax dollars going?’”

Various academic measures show they’re going to a public school system that, by in many respects is very, very good. Newton offers far more advanced-placement courses than any other Massachusetts school district, for example. It’s seventh in the state, out of 393 districts, in class size. Five Newton elementary schools and two middle schools score in the top 25 in the MCAS tests in math and English language arts. The students at Newton’s two high schools come in fourth and sixth in the state on the SAT test of reading, seventh and ninth in writing, and eighth and ninth in math. And all of these outcomes are higher than those of school sys-tems far, far smaller. “What’s surpris-ing is how well people do in spite of the conditions,” Zilles says.

Newton’s schools superintendent, David Fleishman, says, “The invest-ments in Newton have been around keeping teachers in classrooms, not on renovating or replacing schools.” Still, says Fleishman, who came to the district two years ago, “It does have an effect on teaching when you can’t accommodate technology and there are problems with the heating systems and the classrooms are too small. The most important thing is the quality of the teaching and the education, but the physical environ-ment does make a difference.”

And the conditions are becom-ing hard to keep secret. At the Cabot Elementary School, built in 1929, the boiler leaks. Water pipes are corroded and jury-rigged with clamps. There’s no hot water. The electrical system is more than 50 years old. So are the desks. Two of the modular classrooms are more than 20 years old; their wooden siding, painted red to match the brick, is rotting.

So many first graders showed up unexpected in September that a lunchroom had to be put back into service as a classroom and some of the cafeteria tables moved into what had been a staff room. “What will we do if we get another class? We’ll prob-ably end up eating in the classrooms,” the principal, MaryLou DiBella, says.

Crowding is only compounding the crisis. Cabot has 420 students, well over its capacity of 385. Burr, Countryside, Franklin, Horace Mann, and Mason-Rice also have worsening space problems. Elementary-school enrollment citywide has gone up 14 percent in the last six years and is projected to increase another 3 percent in the next five, while the population of kids with special needs is rising even faster. The number of students in special education has risen 13 percent since 2005, and the number of nonnative speakers of English jumped 42 percent. They need small teaching spaces, but most of Newton’s elementary schools weren’t built with any.

At the Zervas Elementary School, which dates to 1954, a psychologist works out of a converted girls’ bath-room behind the gym. The audito-rium has been divided into two fifth-grade classrooms, the stage made into a music room, and an art room carved out of former storage closets. Classes are held in the teachers’ lounge, the principal’s office, and the hallways.

“A school needs an auditorium,” says the principal, Stephen Griffin. “A school needs a cafeteria.” These things affect the quality of education, Griffin says. “I’m afraid to say it, but, yes,” he

says. Back at Angier, “We use every nook for teaching occupational ther-apy, for teaching speech, for teaching English-language learners,” says an exasperated Loreta Lamberti. “But when you don’t have enough square footage, legally, for classrooms, it does affect learning. The environment has a huge impact on children.”

Lamberti wonders how much longer this is likely to continue. Under the mayor’s plan, a new Angier School—assuming voters approve the override that will likely be needed to pay for it—wouldn’t even begin to be designed until January of 2014. Con-struction wouldn’t be finished until the beginning of 2017, and the reno-vation or replacement of the Cabot School wouldn’t start until after that. The city also hopes to persuade the Massachusetts School Building Au-thority to pick up some of the costs, a two- to three-year process, and 317 other schools statewide are in line ahead of Angier.

“The budgetary limitations are real, and the most we can even hope for is to work on one or maybe two schools every few years,” says Sandy Guryan, the school department’s deputy superintendent and chief ad-ministrative officer. “It will take quite a long time to complete the circuit.”

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