Some children nestle all snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads. A young Steven Honigberg envisioned nothing of the sort while growing up in Highland…
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Fine Fit
Good luck finding a better fit than the Lake Forest College—Dr. Jill M. Baren one. You won’t find it. Named the College’s 14th president—and first female president—before the start of…
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Redoubtable Thomas
Lindsay Thomas, nee Loekle, earned her wings in high school without spending a minute in flight school. Maybe you’re thinking right about now, I’ll fly to any destination in the…
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Integrative Approach
A couple of months before she’d become an official University of Wisconsin Badger in Madison, Ann Vertovec traveled to Battle Ground, Indiana, to study wolves and serve as a volunteer…
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Curious John
The 2010 Haiti earthquake stirred an eighth-grade student at The Country School in Easton, Maryland. The devastation—about 220,000 people were reportedly killed, following a 7.0 magnitude temblor—gave her about 220,000…
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Transition Game
At the age of 12, Will Nowesnick fell in love with lacrosse when his heart resembled a slew of disconnected jigsaw puzzle pieces. His father, Greg, a whip-smart architect with…
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Footie Feat
A North Shore youth team featuring a bevy of multisport athletes achieved a singular feat in the sport of feet—soccer—in North Carolina this summer. FC-1 Academy’s 14U girls club, which…
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All Revved Up
Rob Rourke would spray perfume and deliver immediate compliments to his suddenly aromatic customers as a fragrance counter salesman in his college summer days along the East Coast. Rourke—now 54…
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Tour Guide De Force
Remember pay phones? Bruce “Buzzy” Bertucci, 74, certainly does, and one of his favorite Highwood stories features the one that stood across the street from the restaurant Sandy’s, a man…
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Lady of the Dance
Bridget McGovern’s posture is ramrod straight, straighter than a wooden ruler positioned vertically in a student’s backpack. The fifth grader from Lake Forest also exudes composure, with an air of…
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