Some of the older guys on New Trier High School’s swimming and diving team call freshman diver John Ervin “Diver”.Or “The Good Freshman” (no relation to The Good Wife, the…
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Geo Joe
It is safe to assume a mountain isn’t Joe Remus’s favorite landform. The Deer Path Middle School sixth-grader suffered a broken left leg while skiing down Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin…
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Business Teacher Bullish on Theater
The Schaumburg High School senior gymnast wanted to hit the stage in the late 1970s, not the mats. He aimed to land his first role, not a dismount off the…
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Classrooms Without Walls
It’s a mid-November morning, and I’m in Poland, shivering in the dark and hearing a medley of haphazard animal noises at the Warsaw Zoo. OK, not really. I’m actually in…
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Spark and Addison: Ebeling embraces new roles, …
Addison Ebeling wouldn’t hesitate to pounce on a loose ball at the end of a taut girls basketball game. The Loyola Academy junior guard/forward also wouldn’t pass up any opportunity…
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Engendering Respect
Zoe Crecos enters the room. She sees boys everywhere, more than two dozen. She also sees a male coach here, a male coach there. Not one other girl in sight….
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Back Into the Swim of Things
One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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A Woman for All Seasons (440)
Kathy Dietz must have played hide-and-seek as a child. Every child did, right? But she also was asked to seek things for her mother, Dorothy, when Dorothy wanted to enhance…
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Former TV Anchor Skinner Lifted Spirits with Her …
It was a Maureen Skinner thing. A radio station would play an Elton John song. She’d turn the volume up on the car radio. She’d then sing along, at the…
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‘Sunday’ Best
We ate and talked. We laughed and listened and cried. And I — one grateful journalist — learned all about fascinating people with ties to the North Shore. Here are…
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