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SPORTSNew Trier Green’s Jack Dolby hauls in postseason honors.P.24

SUNDAYBREAKFASTGeoffrey Atkins had world at his feet during reign as rackets champion.P.27

Wilmette residents op-posing the proposed seven-unit townhouse

development on Wilmette Avenue breathed a sigh of relief when the Village Board unani-mously voted against the devel-opment at its March 24 meeting.

The Village Board’s refusal was in line with the Zoning Board of Appeal’s decision at its Jan. 21 meeting to vote against the development.

Neighborhood opposition to the townhouse development has been strong. Signs stating “R-2 Zoning Means 2 Units Per Lot” have been visible on neighbors’ yards all along Wilmette Avenue and surrounding streets that would be impacted by the devel-opment.

And residents opposing the development were in full force at the Village Board meeting. They were present handing out “NO” stickers as people entered the room and voicing their con-cerns during the public-com-ment period.

Developer 1314-1318 Wil-mette LLC sought a special use permit and three variances to

Wilmette nixes townhouses

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Madeleine Plonsker nears a framed black-and-white photograph of two

fists grabbing what appears to be jail bars. The bold work of art — created circa 2007 by Cuban

photographer Jose Julian “Pepe” Marti — hangs on a wall in her Glencoe home. The collector suggests other interpretations of the photograph to a couple of visitors.

“Maybe the person is looking out a window,” Plonsker says.

“Maybe the person is holding pieces of strings. Maybe the lines in the photograph represent light.

“Maybe,” she adds, “the pho-tograph had been manipulated to express another message.”

She pauses. She lets the in-

terpretations sink in, settle. She looks at her visitors, perhaps hoping to hear fresh reactions to the photograph.

More than 120 photographs, taken by natives of Cuba, adorn the inside of Plonsker’s house. The bulk of those pictures and many others (produced by 50 Cuban photographers) enliven her new bilingual book, “The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contem-porary Cuban Photographs” (Lake Forest College Press). The New Trier High School graduate and former Winnetka resident started to collect the photo-graphs on a trip to Cuba in 2002, during the island country’s “Special Period” — when it faced a severe economic decline fol-lowing the withdrawal of finan-cial support from the former Soviet Union.

The rate of poverty grew during the period, a not-so-special stretch for the indigent. Widespread hunger struck Cuba’s populace.

“Artists in Cuba, I discovered, weren’t just hungry,” Plonsker says. “They were also hungry to show their talent. The most tal-ented people are people who are struggling, people who feel a compulsion to share their views of the world through their art.

“I found a very vibrant arts community in Cuba. The pho-tographs I saw on my trips … quite eye-catching. Their work touched me. It came at a time

when Cubans were allowed to photograph everything in their country. They took pictures of life in Cuba, real life.

“What I collected was true, post-revolutionary contempo-rary art.”

Three months before Plonsker and Nelson Ramirez — a major Cuban photographer and the Director of Fototeca (photogra-phy repository) de Cuba — cel-ebrated the publication of “The Light in Cuban Eyes” at an event at Lake Forest College (March 18) and later at the start of a two-month exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced the beginning of an initiative to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. Aims of the thaw include the lifting of some travel and trade restrictions and the reopening of embassies in Washington and Havana.

In 1961 the countries severed diplomatic relations because of Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union.

“We’d been waiting for this news,” says a delighted Plonsker, whose first visit to Cuba was a cultural exchange tour she had arranged nearly 13 years ago. “It’s exciting.”

What thrilled her well before the historic announcement was the reward of putting together a 10-pound book filled with

Book reveals invigorating look at life in CuBa

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12 new world As U.S.-Cuba relations thaw, Glencoe resident Madeleine P. Plonsker — a patron of Cuban arts and culture — may have an interesting role.

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14 north shore foodie Check out a delicious recipe from a top chef on the North Shore.

15 out and about Discover the answers our roving photographer received to our weekly question to North Shore residents.

18 social whirl Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

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20 north shore offerings Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

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Where it’s hard to get ahead of the game Though it’s April, March

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When 60 other teams still sought glory in the NCAA tournament, I was sitting in a room watching four games at a time on movie-theatre-sized screens bracketed by team names next to numbers like -7.5. Nearby, questions such as “Who will score 15 points first?” lit up an electronic board. Cigars dangling in one hand, $100 bills clenched in the other, dozens studied this information with the intensity of Harvard stu-dents during final exams.

Yes, March Madness in Las Vegas is a little different than at, say, Notre Dame. Standing in my first lengthy betting line at

9:30 a.m., the guy in front of me kept swaying and, once at the counter, was told not to bet because he was too drunk (perhaps the first time Vegas has refused a wager). At the Palazzo sports book, one could — for what was touted as a bargain at $200 per person — sit through 14 hours of games while gorging on unlimited food and drink. Want to get away from it all by trying your luck at the blackjacks tables and roulette wheels? The games were being shown there too.

Despite what many think, the spreads for games aren’t based on how Vegas is handicapping the strength and weakness of each team so much as finding a number where people will bet the same amount on each side. That’s because sports books earn

a percentage on every bet. A $110 winning wager often returns $100 to the bettor (the sports books keep $10), and the sports books keep $100 of the equivalent losing wager. Not a bad business, especially the way I was betting.

But I didn’t feel as badly once I read about the man who was confident the University of Cin-cinnati would win by at least 1.5 points. They prevailed over Purdue in overtime, but only by one point. He lost $80,000. No doubt he personified the mad in March Madness.

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CUBA Continued from page 1

Lake Forest sailor Annie Haeger is one of 42 ath-letes to make the 2015

U.S. Sailing Team Sperry. She will race in the Women’s

470 (the women’s two-person dinghy) with Briana Provancha of San Diego.

The U.S. national sailing team is selected annually and

is comprised of the top sailors competing in the events select-ed for Rio 2016. Olympic-class athletes qualified for the team at the ISAF Sailing World

Championships in Santander, Spain, and at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami.

Sailor makes national team

build seven townhouses on the property located a half block west of the library. The property is located in a district that permits two-unit dwell-ings and townhouses with up to four units in a single building.

Lawrence LaSusa, the attor-ney representing the developer, argued that the development increased Village density in ac-cordance with the Village Cen-ter Master Plan, but Village President Bob Belinsky cut off this line of argument. He noted that the master plan was irrel-evant since the property is not located in the Village center

and the zoning district is pri-marily driven by single-family homes, not town homes.

LaSusa further argued that the project was “consistent with the character of the neighbor-hood” and that the variances would not only enhance the project itself, but were also de minimis.

Residents argued the de-velopment would cause traffic problems on Wilmette Avenue and add to the congestion sur-rounding nearby McKenzie El-ementary School.

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TOWNHOUSES Continued from page 1

Hospital president to discuss big changes

Thomas McAfee, president of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH),

will discuss the revitalization of the 160-acre campus dur-ing The Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon on Wednes-day, April 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

NLFH is planning a new hospital to replace the current 72 year-old facility. Once it’s completed, the $378 million complex will feature a 400,000 square-foot hospital with an additional 100,000 square feet of medical office spaces. The new building will have five interconnected pavilions, each three stories. Outdoors, a stretch of grass can host celebrations and events, while walking, hiking and fitness trails are designed to promote good health.

McAfee has led the hos-pital through its 2010 af-

filiation with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and has established a network of Northwestern Medicine physi-cians throughout the northern suburbs. This included bring-ing the No. 1-ranked cardiol-ogy program in the state, the Bluhm Cardiovascular Insti-tute, to Lake County.

McAfee led the expansion of the comprehensive North-western Medicine Grayslake Outpatient Center by adding a freestanding emergency de-partment, an outpatient cancer and surgery center, and a new medical building that will soon house the Northwestern Mc-Gaw Family Medicine Resi-dency Program, as well as phy-sicians from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

The event is open to the public and will be held at The Lake Forest Club, 554 N. Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest.

Suburb battles NCAA over slogan

The term March Madness is hitting a little too close to home for the Glenview

Park District this year in the battle to save its trademark slo-gan “Experience It” from being used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Last week, the Park District’s attorney Ronald Y. Rothstein of Winston & Strawn LLP filed a formal opposition with the ap-peal board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against the NCAA. In it, he states that

the organization’s application to trademark the tagline “Experience It Live” for its sporting events is too similar to the “Experience It” phrase Glenview has used for like-minded entertainment and recre-ational services since 2008.

The infringement first came to the attention of Glenview of-ficials last fall after the NCAA first received a rejection for its “Experience It Live” application from the U.S. Patent and Trade-mark Office on April 3, 2014 and again on November 6, 2014

“because the U.S.P.T.O. believed the mark was confusingly similar to the Glenview Park District’s federally registered trademark,” said Rothstein. “The NCAA then brought this to the Glen-view Park District’s attention.”

He further stated that the Glenview Park District’s goal is to work cooperatively with the NCAA to come up with a solution. Attempts to settle have been unsuccessful to date, which comes as a shock to Rothstein.

“Given the NCAA’s experi-

ence with protecting its own brands, it is surprising that [they] would seek to register a mark that so closely resembles the Glenview Park District’s valuable brand,” he said, refer-encing the collegiate organi-zation’s own aggressive brand policing over trademarks such as “March Madness,” “Elite Eight,” and “Final Four.”

The NCAA has 30 days to respond.

~ SElEna FragaSSi

moving images and enlight-ening copy. Plonsker’s book be-came the first North American publication to be endorsed by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and Fototeca de Cuba. The lat-ter entity is comparable to the function of the Smithsonian Photography Department in Washington, D.C.

Plonsker developed close, meaningful relationships with Cuban photographers during her visits to the island. She calls

the artists her “children, sisters, cousins.” They had fascinating stories to tell her. Sometimes they did not have to speak a word to tell their stories; their work took care of the narration. One of the first photographers Plonsker met was Pedro Abas-cal, a self-taught photographer who has spent more than 40 years as a documentary pho-tographer.

“[Plonsker’s book] is essen-tial, especially for an American

audience, because it gives a glimpse into a world that was closed for so long,” Abascal tells Art Beat (www.pbs.org), in a piece written by Victoria Fleischer last month. “It covers a period in my country which is very important to see what we have to say and how it was.

“You can see a whole spec-trum of expression in photog-raphy,” he adds, “[and] you can see how Cuban photography is changing, how it has grown up

in a sense.”Plonsker grew up in Win-

netka. She met her future hus-band, Harvey Plonsker, at New Trier High School. She was a junior at the time. He was a senior. They sat next to each in a study hall. Harvey was raised in an “art-filled setting, and we felt we should continue that family tradition,” Madeleine writes in her book.

The couple collected litho-graphs, woodcuts, etchings, dry points and drawings. The parents of two sons started to collect 20th-century photog-raphy in 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Madeleine’s passion for Cuban photography began a decade later.

Mrs. Plonsker owned a women’s boutique, Madeleine’s, Inc., in Winnetka from 1975-96. The collector/author/phi-lanthropist’s plan for the near future is to donate 55 of her Cuban photographs to Lake Forest College.

On Aug. 18, Cuban pianist Frank Fernandez will make his American debut at Ravinia Festival’s Bennett Gordon Hall.

The program’s sponsors? A couple of former students in a study hall, each with one eye on a textbook and the other on a future spouse.

Plonsker’s book is available for purchase at www.amazon.com. It will soon be sold in local book-stores.

A photograph from “The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photographs.”

Thomas McAfee

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The board of directors of Family Service of Glencoe (FSG) announced the depar-ture of Executive Director Su-san E. Cowen. She accepted a position as president and CEO of the Kenneth Young Center.

“It is with a heavy heart that I make this announcement,” said Marilyn Perlman, presi-dent of the board of directors of FSG. “Suzy’s dedication and expertise have taken our agency to the next level as we have in-creased our outreach and sup-port of the socio-emotional needs of the Glencoe commu-nity.”

Effective May 1, the board of directors has appointed Al Ross, FSG clinical director, as the interim executive director while a search for a new leader is conducted.

Lake Forest

Ragdale announced that Shaw Town by Design With Company, the architectural team of Stewart Hicks and Al-lison Newmeyer, won the 2015 Ragdale Ring design.

Design With Company identified specific architectural features from Shaw’s original buildings in the Chicago area, such as the rooftops of Market Square in Lake Forest (1916) and the Quadrangel Club at the University of Chicago (1920) and repurposed them using contemporary materials into a performance space and audience-friendly pillows.

The design team was award-ed a $15,000 production grant

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Berkshire Hathaway was named one of the most ad-mired companies in the world by Fortune Magazine.

Locally, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group is proud to share the name.

“We have the benefit of hav-ing deeply ingrained local roots, while also having a name that people can recognize across the globe,” said Nancy Nagy, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Home-Services KoenigRubloff Realty Group.

Nagy and others recently ac-cepted the Berkshire Hathaway award for the No. 3 brokerage in the nation on behalf of the company and its agents.

PREVIEW Glencoe

The Capitol Steps, a Wash-ington, D.C.-based comedy troupe, will present a show based on songs from their cur-rent album “How to Succeed in Congress Without Really Lying” at Am Shalom’s FUN-draiser in Glencoe on Saturday, April 11.

The show is strenuously bi-partisan and includes songs about everything in the news, such as “Putin on a Blitz,” “The Big Benghazi Theory,” and “Ev-erybody Must Get Droned.”

General admission tick-ets are $90 and may be pur-chased by calling Am Shalom at 847.835.4800.

Lake Forest

TEDx is coming to Lake Forest High School on Thurs-day, April 16 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Beginning in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) converged, TED today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global is-sues — in more than 100 lan-guages.

TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group at the David Miller Theatre at LFHS.

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The Capitol Steps will present “How to Succeed in Congress Without Really Lying.”

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BY simon murraY

Chef Nicole Pederson knows the farmers who supply her quirky, ever-evolving

farm-to-table restaurant in Evanston by name.

One of which, LuisJohn Slagel, three years ago had an excess amount of lamb. At that point, Pederson had just re-

cently partnered with Amy Morton to create Found Kitchen and Social House. The premise was simple: a menu comprised of light ingredients with dishes that were also light on the pocket-book. And fresh. The dishes had to be fresh, locally sourced, and “found” close to home — just like Morton and Pederson, who both have Midwestern roots.

Since they opened, the lamb meatballs, covered with a liberal amount of pistachio chimi-churri and a dollop of yogurt — not to mention mild herbs and spices — has been their top seller.

“It had to be approachable, delicious, and something that could be on the menu all the time,” says Pederson. “I love the texture of the pistachios, the yogurt, lamb — it all grew out of what you feel goes well to-gether.”

Pederson’s advice for cooking the meatballs starts with brais-ing: “It helps retain moisture,” she adds. Braising means no more dry, chalky meatballs that recall the Wednesday lunch special of a bygone school caf-eteria. Exorcise those demons from your taste buds by making a house favorite; long-standing friendship with a farmer not required.

Chef nicole Pederson

Lamb Meatballs with pistachio chimichuri and mint yogurt

lamb Meatballs½ cup Shallot, brunoises 1 tablespoon garlic, minced 2 teaspoon thyme, choppedOlive oil to sweat vegetables 3 mulatto chilies, seeds and

stems removed2½ pounds lamb, ground½ pound pork, ground2 tablespoons parsley, chopped¼ ounce salt 2 ounces breadcrumbs 2 whole eggs 1. Sweat the chopped garlic and

shallot and thyme in the olive oil, over low heat until soft and fragrant, cool.

2. Toast the mulatto chili in the oven for 3-4 minutes, let cool, then grind in a coffee or spice grinder, pulse until coarsely ground.

3. In the bowl of your Kitche-nAid mixer with the paddle attachment combine all in-gredients, mix on med-high speed until mixture becomes tacky.

4. Sear off a small piece of the mixture and taste it for sea-

soning then form the mixture in to 1-¼ to 1-½ ounce balls.Sear meat balls a then, then braise in the liquid below

Braising liquid ½ lemonSprig of ThymeSprig of MintSprig of Basil2 quarters chicken stock to cover 4 or 5 chili de arbol salt stock to taste

1. Place seared meatballs place in a roasting pan

2. Then add warm chicken stock and remaining ingredients.

3. Cook at 300 for 15 to 20 minutes or until meatballs are just cooked all the way through.

Pistachio chimichurri½ cup pistachios, toasted and chopped½ cup Italian flat leaf parsley, choppedExtra virgin olive oil to cover 1 tablespoon red Fresno, fine dice (no seeds)

2 tablespoons red wine vinegarSaltFresh-Ground Black Pepper

Combine all ingredients, taste, and adjust seasoning if needed.

Mint Yogurt sauce 1 cup plain yogurt 2 Tbsp. mint, chopped Combine Yogurt and chopped mint, season with a little salt.

Lamb meatballs covered with a liberal amount of pistachio chi-michurri and a dollop of yogurt has been the top seller at Found Kitchen and Social House. PHOTOGRAPHY BY jOel leRneR

TOTAL TIMe: 50 MInuTesseRVes: 24 TwO-OunCe LAMb MeATbALLs

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sportsOvercOming Obstacles

BY Bill mclean, [email protected]

A basketball player shoots a basketball at a rimless backboard. A golfer putts

a ball on a hole-less green. A tennis player hits a tennis ball over … nothing. The net is missing.

Forest Moses does not play basketball, does not play golf, does not play tennis for North-ridge Prep High School in Niles. He is a senior jumper and hurdler for the Knights’ Class 1A track and field team. Like the three athletes in the previous paragraph, Moses, a Highland Park resident, has to deal with an unusual circumstance.

Northridge Prep High School (enrollment: 344 boys) does not have an outdoor track and field facility. It is difficult to jump over a bar and land on a squishy mat when a bar and a squishy mat are not budgeted each spring. It is unproductive to hurdle over a set of imaginary hurdles.

“We run around the school to get in a workout,” Knights track coach Mike Egle says. “We run around on grass.

“Our team practices before meets — at the school that is hosting the meet.”

Keep that in mind when you attempt to fathom what the 6-foot-1, 155-pound Moses achieved at the Independent School League (ISL) boys track and field meet last spring. He

took first in each of the high jump, 110-meter high hurdles and 300 intermediate hurdles events. He finished third in the triple jump. His personal point total added up to a school-record 36 for the team champions. Thirty-six points, one boy. The team title was a first for the program. Moses cleared 6-feet-5 in the high jump, another school mark. The old mark had belonged to … Moses.

“The most remarkable part of that day was that 6-5,” Egle recalls. “He had to be exhausted when he jumped; he had just finished a [hurdles] race.”

Moses received co-ISL Track and Field Athlete of the Year honors after the meet.

Several months later, the Road Warrior Forever hit the road again, this time for a trip to Maryland with his grandfa-ther, Brian Green, a golf course superintendent for the Park District of Highland Park. The two drove to Landover for the 2015 USA Track and Field (USATF) National Hershey Youth Indoor Championships. The car had to tote extra cargo for the return trip home.

Moses had captured a gold medal with a 1.95-meter (6-4 ¾) effort on March 15. The record height in the event is 2.01m (6-7).

“I like to compete, and I like to jump,” says Moses, a three-

time state qualifier in the high jump and a student at North-ridge Prep since the sixth grade. “Good competition pushes me.”

His older brother, 20-year-old Fisher, also competed for

Northridge Prep track and field teams as a hurdler and a jumper. He had held a number of program marks, before Forest supplanted them.

Three years ago, at a Class 1A sectional meet, the Moses broth-ers vied for state berths. Fisher Moses, a senior then, had a good shot at advancing to Charleston in the 300 hurdles but just missed qualifying. Forest Moses, meanwhile, extended his fresh-man season on varsity with a state-qualifying height in the high jump at University High School in Chicago.

“That day was an exciting one,” Green says. “It was also a sad and happy one. We were pulling for Fisher, really pulling for him. We were thrilled for Forest.

“Forest,” he adds, “has become a leader for the team since then. He’s helping the program ac-complish some impressive things, some firsts, and the team is doing these things without being able to practice at a home track.”

Forest Moses, who lost his mother at a young age, has lived with his grandfather in High-land Park since 2002. Green

attempted to erect a make-shift high jump station for Moses in his backyard. The in-tention was a sound one. It also was a thoughtful one. Have no track? Will try to improvise — at an entirely different home site. The execution of the plan did not go very well on Green’s acreage.

“The stanchions … they kept falling down,” says Green, a wrestler (119- and 126-pound weight classes) when he at-tended Highland Park High School.

Moses, named a team captain for the second year in a row, remains positive … and forward-thinking. Also a crack student and talented trumpeter for the school’s pep band, he is seri

ously considering a foray into the world of decathletes at the college level. The likely com-puter science major is looking at Drake University and the University of Indiana. Moses has no qualms about flinging the discus, about heaving the shot put. At one indoor meet this winter, Moses left a field house as the Knights’ top shot putter.

“I plan to try pole vaulting,” says Moses, who missed all-state honors by a spot when he placed 10th in the high jump (6-1) in Charleston last spring and took ninth (5-10) at the Illinois Top Times Meet at Illinois Wes-leyan University in Bloomington March 27.

Moses soared in front of Egle at the Northridge Prep two years ago. He took off in a gym class one day, basketball in hand, no wind beneath his wingspan. He then threw down a dunk. Egle knew then, right then. Moses commanded attention.

“He’s got tremendous abilities and a tremendous work ethic,” Egle says. “Whatever he does, he does it at an outstanding level. He’s a star for our school’s pep band. He played the trumpet at a basketball game, on the night before an indoor track meet. He stood in the stands for three hours.”

Moses missed collecting a state medal by two inches last spring. The top three Class IA high jumpers at the 2014 state meet cleared 6-9, 6-8, 6-7. Serious hops, serious hops, serious hops. The next four each went 6-5. Only two of the top seven placers graduated in 2014. Expect more significant pops galore at state this spring.

“The high jump is one of the strongest events in IA,” Egle says. “The jumpers are right up there with the 2A kids, and they’re almost as good as the 3A jumpers.”

Moses will not be fazed, in the least, by the competition. It will be just another away meet for him.

He will feel right at home.

Highland park’s Moses continues to raise the bar at Northridge prep

JForest Moses, an elite high jumper and hurdler,

attends Class 1A Northridge Prep, which doesn’t have

track and field facilities.PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOel

leRneR


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showcasing his skillsBY Bill mclean, [email protected]

The paychecks never came. Jack Dolby essentially waited for them as a sev-

enth-grader, as an eighth-grad-er. He played AAA hockey. Hockey was fun before his AAA days. Hockey was a blast.

The sport steadily devolved into something else for Dolby.

“It felt like a job,” recalls Dolby, now a New Trier High School senior. “It wasn’t fun. There was pressure to succeed in AAA hockey. I felt the pressure.”

Dolby played in three state championship games at the AAA level. His teams lost all three. Before his sophomore year at NTHS, the defenseman from Winnetka found a different hockey path. He took it.

He never looked back.Dolby became a member of

the New Trier Green hockey team.

“There was less pressure, but I still pushed myself to succeed,” the 6-foot, 175-pounder says. “I wanted to push myself. I wanted to be the best hockey player I could be. What a great atmo-sphere, hanging out with the seniors on that team. They were great roles models. They helped shape me. They always believed in me.

“I don’t have an older brother. Those seniors mentored me.”

Dolby emerged as Green’s No. 2 defenseman in his rookie high school season of 2012-13. NT Green reached the state high school championship at the United Center. Another winter, another shot at a state title.

NT Green won. Dolby im-proved to 1-3 in state champion-ships. He became a two-time state champion when NT Green de-feated Glenbrook North in the final for the second year in a row last winter. The all-Scholastic Hockey League and all-state teams were announced. Dolby made both.

More honors rained on Dolby in torrents this past winter. He earned all-state honors. Again. He earned all-SHL honors. Again. NT Green’s alternate captain also made the 2015 Blackhawk Alumni Association (BHAA) All-Star Team. Only five other players in the state made it, including NT Green senior goaltender Jack Junge, a

repeat pick.Dolby sat with his parents,

John and Traci, at a table at the BHAA All-Star banquet. Also at the table was a player with an odd last name: Toews. His first name is Jonathan. He suits up for a certain team that plays all of its home games at the United Center.

“My dad is a huge Blackhawks fan,” Dolby says. “Huge. He was asking Toews all kinds of ques-tions. He wanted to know the guys he likes to hang out with after games. He wanted to know what he thought of the city. I talked hockey with him. That was surreal, being at the same table with Jonathan Toews, sitting next to him.

“He’s an environmental guy; he likes to recycle,” Dolby adds. “He’s an interesting guy.”

Toews’ table neighbor ranked fifth among NT Green players in points in 2014-15, scoring 19 goals and providing 30 assists for a state semifinalist (52-10-3). Coach Bob Melton deployed Dolby at the top of his power play unit. Dolby impacted games at both ends of rinks.

“Jack is great kid, one of my favorite kids on the team,” Junge says. “He was a great leader for us. He’s really fast, with a great shot. And he’s a really, really good skater. I’d say he was the best skater on our team. That’s important, having a skater like Jack in front of a goaltender. I certainly appreciated what he did for me back there, what he did for us. I trusted him whenever he had the puck.”

New Trier Green trailed New Trier Blue 3-1 after two periods in a state quarterfinal last month. Little brother was startling its big brother in a big game. Some things had to be said during the intermission. Dolby said some things to his teammates.

“He played a big role in lifting our spirits and turning around our attitudes [before the start of the third period],” Junge recalls. “Jack knew how to get his team-mates pumped up.”

Dolby backed up his words big-time, scoring the game-tying goal in Green’s 4-3 victory.

Dolby — along with Junge and New Trier Green senior

forwards Brent Segvich and Brad Glass — will play for two-time reigning champion Team Illinois at USA Hockey Amer-ica’s Showcase in Pittsburgh April 9-13.

Dolby’s family is one with a football bent. He was supposed to complete powerful runs, not run power plays. His mom’s father was Brian Piccolo, a former Chicago Bears running back and the cen-terpiece of that iconic, moving football flick, “Brian’s Song.”

Dolby stuck with hockey when he enrolled at New Trier. It had been a major commitment

for many years. The puck trumped the pigskin. Dolby still loved hockey, despite his disil-lusion with AAA hockey.

“I remember the first time we played Glenbrook North in my sophomore season,” says Dolby, who plans to major in business at Miami (Ohio) University and is thinking about trying to make the school’s Division-I hockey team as a walk-on. “Friends of mine had told me, during the week, they were planning to come to the game. I thought 20 people would be there. More than 20 showed up, way more

Dolby capping off a decorated career with New trier Green

than 20. That place was packed, sold out. It was an incredible atmosphere.

“I am so glad I got to be a part of that.”

Notable: Five other local

players made the Illinois Show-case team: Glenbrook North’s Kyle Slovis, Chris Zhang, Alex Merritt and Chad Yale; and Highland Park junior forward Gavin Proeh … Segvich led NT Green in points (57 goals, 42 assists) in 2014-15, followed by Glass (38, 60), senior forward Jason Kuker (28, 46), senior

defenseman Graham Soman (22, 30), Dolby (19, 30), senior forward Harry Jones (20, 20), senior forward Sam Berman (8, 23) and senior forward Ryan Cimba (11, 19). … Junge (31-5) ended up with a 93.9 save per-centage and 1.27 goals-against average. He also delivered three assists. … NT Green coach Bob Melton played for victorious Team Illinois at the 1985 USA Hockey America Showcase. Team Illinois did not win the event again until 2013. That edi-tion’s roster included Kyle Melton, Bob’s son.

New Trier Green’s Jack Dolby will cap off his hockey career at the USA Hockey Amer-ica’s Showcase in Pittsburgh April 9-13. He

will be joined by fellow teammates Jack Junge, Brent Segvich and Brad Glass.

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Perfect Game USA: Junior third baseman/pitcher Cal Coughlin, who recently committed to Texas Christian, has been named a Perfect Game USA 1st Team Preseason High School Underclassmen All-American. He plays club baseball for Top Tier.

Meanwhile, junior left-hander Ben Brecht of New Trier and sophomore outfielder Brad Czerniejewski of Lake Forest made the list as a High Honorable Mentions. Brecht will pitch at UC Santa Barbara. Czerniejewski will team up with Coughlin at TCU.

At tHe sHoot-ArounD

Boys BasketBallLake Forest: Phil LaScala was recognized as one of the

Class 4A coaches of the year by Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA). He guided the Scouts to a school-record 28 victories.

Loyola: Sophomore Ramar Evans will be playing for the Chicago LockDown 16U club team in the 2015 spring and summer sessions.

Girls BasketBallNew Trier: The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association

(IBCA) named Teri Rodgers as one of its coaches of the year in Class 4A. She directed the Trevians to a third-place finish at the state tournament.

stiCK nAtionBoys lacrosse

Loyola: The Ramblers, who are ranked No. 4 in the Midwest by Lacrosse Magazine, defeated St. Ignatius 16-1 in the title game of the Chicago Catholic League Tournament on March 29. They went 3-0 in pool play with wins over Fenwick 13-1, Brother Rice 13-1 and St. Laurence 17-0. Then, they opened bracket play by downing St. Rita 12-4.

Girls lacrosseLake Forest: Sparked by Marielle St. Amand (5 goals),

Lindsay Close (4 goals) and Katie Karahalios (3 goals), the Scouts opened the season with a 17-2 win over Warren on March 19. But then, they dropped 17-3 decision to Loyola on March 26. Close, Kara Antonucci and Libby Thompson scored LF’s goals in the loss.

Loyola: The Ramblers are the No. 1 ranked team in the Midwest by Lacrosse Magazine.

New Trier: Ranked No. 6 in the Midwest, the Trevians have opened the season in impressive fashion. They defeated Evanston 13-3 on March 19 and Oak Park-River Forest 17-3 on March 17.

tHe runDownBoys track

Highland Park: Senior pole vaulter Eddie Smoliak cleared 14-6 to take third place in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor Championships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28.

Junior Brett Davidson placed eighth in the 3200 meters (9:42.24), while junior Ryan Kroizere took eighth in the 60 hurdles (8.76).

Loyola: The 4x800 relay was clocked in 8:09.93 to earn runner-up honors in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor Championships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28.

Sophomore Paolo Tiongson finished seventh in the 3200 (9:38.81).

Girls trackLoyola: The 4x800 relay claimed runner-up honors

(9:28.76) in the Class 3A Illinois Top Times Indoor Cham-pionships at Illinois Wesleyan on March 28.

Volleys

Boys VolleyBallLoyola: Connor Kreb, Jakub Mazurek and Andrew

Kubicek recorded five kills apiece in LA’s 25-15, 25-21 victory

over St. Ignatius on March 30.The 6-1 Ramblers took runner-up honors in the Bar-

rington/Vernon Hills Invite on March 27-28. The team fell to Barrington 25-15, 25-21 in the championship. Kreb had nine kills.

LA topped Brother Rice 23-25, 25-19, 26-24 in the semi-finals behind the play of Mazurek (18 kills), Kreb (23 kills) and Jack Talaga (50 assists).

In other tourney action, the Ramblers beat Naperville North 18-25, 25-19, 25-23; Prospect 25-15, 31-29; and Vernon Hills 25-19, 25-15.

In the season opener, LA topped Evanston 27-25, 23-25, 25-16 on March 24. Talaga had 26 assists, while Kreb had eight kills and three blocks.

New Trier: The Trevians have started the season 2-0 with wins over Stevenson 25-18, 25-13 on March 26 and Warren 25-14, 25-17 on March 24.

Henry Levee (5 kills), Peter Hindsley (4 kills), Dante Chakravorti (14 assists) and Brian Hammes (12 digs) led the way against Stevenson.

In the victory over Warren, the team was led by Chakra-vorti (15 assists), Levee (4 blocks, 5 kills), Hindsley (5 kills), Hammes (14 digs) and Andrew Sommer (4 kills).

CourtsiDeGirls Badminton

New Trier: The wins are piling up for the Trevians. After opening the season with an 11-7 win over Evanston, they came up with a pair of 18-0 victories over Maine East and Maine West.

Julia Siebert is 3-0 at No. 1 singles, while Cece Bishop is 3-0 at No. 2 singles. Others with 3-0 records include Elly Kikos at No. 3, Sarah Zhang at No. 4 and Natalie Mardoian at No. 5.

PoolsiDeGirls Water Polo

Highland Park: The Giants have opened the season with a 3-2 record. Their early season wins came against Resurrection 9-0, Libertyville 6-5 and Bradley-Bourbonnais 12-9.

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Chicago Mission: Sophie Skarzynski, a senior at Loyola Academy, and her U19 teammates claimed the gold medal in the USA Hockey Tier 1 National Tournament in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Chicago Mission topped Shattuck St. Mary of Minnesota 3-2 in the championship on March 30. Grace Zarzecki, who led Latin School to a state title earlier this month, had 10 goals and three assists for Mission.

Skarzynski, a Minnesota recruit, ended up with three goals and three assists in the six-game set. In January, she was a member of the Under 18 National Team, which won a gold medal.

Meanwhile, in U16 national tournament action, Mission went 1-2 in pool play. The squad features Valerie Caldwell (Loyola), Tess Dettling (Loyola), Victoria Soukup (Lake Forest) and Greta Skarzynski (Loyola).

Chicago Young Americans: The U16 team earned the silver medal at the USA Hockey Tier I National Tournament in Green Bay. On March 30, the squad, which rosters Morgan Baird (New Trier), Maggie Cusick (Loyola), Tay Munson (New Trier), Caitlin Schneider (Glenview) and Delaney Weiss

(Lake Forest), dropped a 3-1 decision to Shat-tuck St. Mary 3-1 in the championship.

Schneider was CYA’s leading scorer with seven goals and two assists.

The U19 team went 2-1 in pool play but then lost 1-0 to Honeybaked (Michigan) in the opening round of the championship bracket. Morgan Crane (New Trier) had two goals and one assist in the tourney. Ivy Dynek (New Trier) finished the four-game set with two goals. Kristin Chivers (Lake Forest Academy), Becca Lindblad (New Trier) and Carly Thomas (Lake Forest Academy) also were team members along with ex-Lake Forest Scouts goalie Lindsay Projansky.

CYA’s U14 team advanced to the semifi-nals where it was defeated 1-0 by the Pitts-burgh Penquins Elite. Anne Bloomer (Loyola) had a productive tourney, finishing with five goals and four assists in five outings.

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Cornell: Loyola Academy grad Erin O’Connor had a terrific first season with the Big Red (19-11-3). A defenseman, she played in all 33 games and finished with seven goals and 25 points to earn Second-Team All-ECAC honors. She also was named to the ECAC All-Rookie Team.

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With JOhn murphyLake Forest High school boys hockey coach

John Murphy enters Buffo’s Italian-American Restau-rant in Highwood, his

hometown. He is restless. He looks up at the televisions in one of the dining areas, hoping the Yale-Boston University NCAA men’s hockey playoff game is on one of them. Nobody is watching hockey. He sees to it that some-body changes the channel to ESPNU on one of them.

“It’s in overtime,” the Lake Forest High School boys hockey coach says, as he finds a seat near the only TV that matters to him.

BU ends up winning 3-2. The 54-year-old is interested in the game because his son, Cody, is a senior forward on the Miami (Ohio) University hockey team. Miami, a top regional seed, will face Providence in another Sweet 16 game in about 26 hours.

Illinois Hockey inducted John Murphy into its Hall of Fame (players’ category) in late January. A 1978 Deerfield High School graduate and DHS Athletic Hall of Fame inductee (for football), Murphy played Junior hockey in Canada and for affiliates of two NHL teams. The Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Black-hawks invited the left winger to training camps in 1981 and 1982, respectively. One of his profes-sional teammates on an Interna-tional Hockey League club (Muskegon Mohawks, in Mich-igan) was Jeff Carlson, who portrayed one of the Hanson brothers, Jeff, in the movie “Slap Shot.”

“Jeff Carlson,” he says, “still has long hair, like he had in the movie,” says Murphy, also an instructor at Hot Shots Ice Arena in Lake Bluff and a painting contractor.

With the Yale-BU game no longer airing in Buffo’s, Murphy turns his attention to fielding questions, mostly hockey ques-tions, before looking forward to his flight the next day — to his son’s Sweet 16 playoff game in Rhode Island. (Miami would lose 7-5 to host Providence; Cody Murphy scored the first goal of the game).

Q: What is next for your son?

A: He was invited to partici-pate, as an unrestricted free agent, in the Washington Capitals’ prospects camp in late August.

The Capitals will play against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The camp lasts two weeks. The hope is for him to sign a contract with Washington before then. Cody’s agent is Kevin Magnuson [son of the late Keith Magnuson, a Blackhawks defenseman from 1969-79]. Two of my son’s role models are his brothers [Andy Marsch and Ken Marsch]. They are Cody’s stepbrothers, but he calls them his brothers. They also played hockey at Miami. Andy and Ken were part of an alumni gathering at Soldier Field [on Feb. 6, the night before the Mi-ami-Western Michigan Univer-sity clash in the Hockey City Classic]. I had a great seat for the game. [Miami edged WMU 4-3

atop the Chicago Bears’ home football field].

Q: What is the difference between hockey when you played and hockey today?

A: The game has changed a lot. You have to be skilled to play [at the professional level]. You can’t get by on just toughness. You can’t play in the NHL without having skills … skills at a very high level.

Q: You played football (as a defensive tackle, linebacker and kicker) under coach Paul Adams at Deerfield High School. The Warriors’ 1977 team lost 8-0 to East Leyden High School in the Class 5A state championship game.

What are some of your memo-ries of Adams and that state runner-up squad?

A: Paul was the best motivator I ever had, a very respected foot-ball guy, a legend. I admire the heck out of him. I stay in touch with him. Another great coach in the program was Fred Harris [head coach of the sophomore team]. He played in the Rose Bowl [for Iowa, in 1957] with Alex Karras [later a dominant defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions]. Fred made sure we were ready to play varsity football. The year we took second in state, we allowed only eight points in the postseason — all in the title game. I got to scrimmage with the 1975 state championship team, as a

sophomore. I was 195 pounds then, maybe 200.

Q: You played alongside one of the Hanson brothers [Jeff Carlson] from the movie “Slap Shot.” Do you have a favorite story involving him?

A: We were playing [for Mus-kegon] against Toledo. My father was sitting behind our bench. It was 1982. Pat Foley [the Black-hawks’ current broadcast an-nouncer] was the announcer for the game. It was 25-cent beer night. A fan threw beer on Jeff Carlson during the game. Then, all of sudden, players went in the stands, looking for the guy who threw the beer. It was like a scene from the movie. I wish I could

have heard Pat Foley describe that scene.

Q: You coached AAA hockey for many years [20] before taking the LFHS position seven years ago. Your best team?

A: The 1990 team [for players born in 1990]. We won every-thing. [Winnetka native and Arizona Coyote] Johnny Moore played for that team. So did Matthew Lindblad [Evanston, Providence Bruins of the Ameri-can Hockey League], Josh Balch [Wilmette, Yale, Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League], Conor Allen [Chicago Latin School, New York Rangers] and Steve Spinell [Vernon Hills native, AHL]. I also coached Jack Jenkins, a Lake Bluff kid. He played in the USHL, and he just committed to Notre Dame. We’re proud of him.

Q: [All-stater] Charlie Sul-livan and Jack Hubbard served as your LFHS co-captains for the 2014-2105 season. Your thoughts on them?

A: Both are mature, so mature. You sit down and talk with them, their maturity is obvious. They enjoyed representing their school and competing at a high level. They represented the school well. Playing hockey — playing any sport — in high school is going to help you as a person. An athlete is held accountable. An athlete is a focused person, a person who works hard for something.

Q: How often do you in-struct at Hot Shots?

A: Twice a week. I conduct stick spinning clinics there. It’s some-thing I designed. It’s done in a confined area, at a high tempo, with eyes up. And it’s fun. Those four elements … all four are important.

Q: What was the banquet like when you were recognized as an Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame inductee?

A: I stood eight feet from [Blackhawks principal owner and chairman] Rocky Wirtz when I spoke. I looked at him and thanked him for his commitment to honoring our military person-nel at Blackhawks games. My nephew [Keegan] was deployed in Fallujah during the Iraq War.

— Bill Mclean

John Murphy poses with lake Forest High School all-stater Charlie Sullivan.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOel leRneR


SUNDAy BReAkFAST

BY david sweet

World champions are as rare as white peacocks. Few sports even proffer

such a grand title.Even more uncommon is a

world champion who holds the crown across decades.

Geoffrey Atkins first captured the world rackets championship the year after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and relinquished it only after The Beatles broke up. The Englishman’s reign from 1954-1972 has not been matched since.

“I was excited by the speed of the game, the satisfaction of getting hard shots back, and the exhilaration of hitting the ball in the sweet spot of the racket to see it rocket away for a winner,” recalls Atkins, a former resident of Lake Forest.

Now 88, the former world’s champion lives on Hayling Island in England. He played the sport until a few years ago, when a knee replacement ended his days on the court (and, to his chagrin, his golf game as well).

For the uninitiated, rackets is an indoor game that features a rock-hard ball that flies at such high speeds off walls that men could be killed by it.

“As the game is quite danger-ous, you have to concentrate. There wasn’t much fooling around on the court during a match,”

Atkins says. “Of course there were many raucous parties during tournament weekends, but as I was often playing in the semifi-nals and finals on the Sunday morning, I had to take it quite easy.”

At Rugby School in England, Atkins played squash, cricket, field hockey and rugby. During that time, the school’s two racket courts often sat empty. During his final year, “I thought it would be interesting to have a try,” Atkins says, “and I asked the pro, a 70-year-old man called Harry Grey, if I could have a hit.”

Atkins ended up practicing for hours on his own until he mas-tered the speed of the ball and the angles of the court. He soon began to play competitively.

“Rackets is a challenging game technically, where anticipation, footwork and precision are es-sential, and there is no room for error,” he notes. “I felt a strong sense of achievement in pulling everything together and playing this difficult game well.”

During a tour in the British army, his company commander at Sandhurst, Ronnie Taylor, served as a big rackets influence. They won the army doubles championship four years in a row. By the early 1950s, Atkins’ game was honed close to perfection. He won the British Amateur Singles in both 1952 and 1953 while also

claiming the American and Ca-nadian Amateur singles titles during the same period.

It was time to challenge the best, incumbent world champion Jim Dear, the professional at Queen’s Club in London. A sporting legend, he was not only the world champion at rackets but also of real tennis. At the same time, he held the British Open squash title.

“I didn’t expect to beat him,” recalls Atkins, “but thought I would give it my best shot.”

Living in Chicago at the time, he travelled to England to play the two legs (each leg being the best-of-seven games) over con-secutive weekends at Queen’s Club. During the first leg, Atkins stunned the world champion by winning the first three games, as Dear could not handle his op-ponent’s underarm twist serve. Atkins prevailed in the first leg 4-1; even if he lost the second, two game wins during the leg would give him the crown.

Dear, though, notched the first three games. One more victory, and he retained the title. But Atkins won the next two, becom-ing the new world champion. To top it off, he married Philippa Fulljames days later, and they enjoyed their honeymoon on the QE2 back to America.

Atkins successfully defended his title throughout the years

against James Leonard and Charles Swallow. He chose to resign as world champion in 1971 and, by January 1972, another player succeeded him. On the 50th anniversary of seizing the world rackets championship, Atkins was feted at the Racquet Club of Chicago, which still sees play on its two courts (only eight remain in the United States, though a century ago Chicago itself featured as many). He is an honorary member of that club and the M o n t r e a l Racket Club.

Atkins’ tour-nament victo-ries in singles and doubles number in the dozens, and he is most fond of winning the Tuxedo Club rackets tournament in New York for three consecutive years over two different periods, entitling him to keep the two gold racket trophies — his most treasured ones — for the achievement. He fondly remembers Philadelphia Racquet Club member Stanley Pearson, a top American, as well as Billy Wood-Prince, his boss when Atkins worked in Chicago and his partner when they won the U.S. amateur doubles tourna-

ment in 1954 and 1955.Atkins stays busy by swim-

ming in the sea in the summer and sunbathing when the weather is nice. Though a late riser who’s not much of a breakfast enthusi-ast, he does enjoy a cup of coffee and a banana or piece of toast and, when it’s warm, eats in the garden overlooking the sea. A member of the All England Club,

“I get to watch a lot

of great tennis during the

Wimbledon tour-nament every year,”

he notes. His son Nick and daughter-in-law

Rowena live in L o n d o n along with his grand-c h i l d r e n Matilda, Lilah and Eddie. They visit him f requent l y,

“ w h i c h keeps me busy and on my toes when they s t a y , ”

Atkins says. Daughter L u c i n d a

Sheffield, son-in-law Tom and grand-children Charlie, Henry, Sam and Pippa

live in Lake Bluff and always enjoy their trips to England to visit him.

Though he no longer plays the sport he once ruled, he carves out time to attend tournaments. Says Atkins, “I still enjoy going to watch rackets being played at the highest level whenever I can. Rackets has been one of the most important influences of my life.”

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