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Winnetka resident Cy Rosengarten spends the most wonderful week-

ends with his daughter, Wynn. They start with a four-mile walk before they tidy up around the house and then maybe go out for lunch. Wynn shares plenty of hugs before she heads back to her home at Libertyville’s Lambs Farm, where Cy says Wynn has thrived in the nearly 40 years that she’s lived there.

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BY SIMON MURRAY

Thomas Schaffner was on a busi-ness trip to California when he received a call that made a pit

in his stomach. On the other end of the call was his wife, Julie: she was back at their home in Wilmette.

“She said, It looks like I might have

cancer,” remembers Schaffner. It was late May of 2009. Soon after,

they learned it was ovarian cancer. But Thomas knew very little about the disease. As they went through the process, he learned more; like how ovarian cancer is rare—it accounts for about 3 percent of cancers among women—but it’s insidious: causing more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system.

It’s known as a “silent killer,” in

part because it lacks specific, concrete symptoms. Many times examinations reveal it by happenstance.

At the time, Julie was COO of Advocate Lutheran General Hospi-tal in Park Ridge.

A lifelong nurse and caregiver, Julie had joined the staff at Lutheran General, in 1986 as Assistant Vice President, Nursing. For nearly two

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The most surprised person on Nicole Beto Day last month was Nicole Beto. Her New Trier volleyball

teammates gave her all kinds of gifts on her big day, brownies and Kit Kat bars and Sour Patch Kids candy among the sweet goodies. Halloween had arrived early for the Trevian.

She also received coloring books. And personal, thoughtful, encouraging notes, the hand-written kind, the best kind.

A couple of days earlier, Beto, a 6-foot-5 senior middle blocker and a Glenview resident, had informed her teammates of a medical condition she had. She

had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. It made a mundane act — pulling her hair up before the start of a practice or a match — a painful act. She would have to deal with blisters, more pain. She would have to undergo periodic treatments lasting six to eight hours. There was good news: Nicole Beto would not have to be Nicole Beto, former volleyball player. She would get to block and spike and celebrate points and wins with her teammates in 2015.

“We wanted to show her that we’re here for her,” New Trier senior outside hitter Erin Denham says of the spirit behind Nicole Beto Day. “She’s strong. She’s handling it well.”

New Trier’s volleyball team is 29-5, strong and talented. It is seeded first in the Class 4A Maine South Sectional, sched-uled to face Niles North in a Conant Regional semifinal on Oct. 27. The Trevians produced an 18-match winning streak this fall. In the 18th match of the run, a 25-19, 25-17 defeat of

visiting Maine South on Oct. 7, Beto pounded six kills, tying her for team-high honors with junior middle Callie Fauntleroy. Beto popped for a team-best five blocks in a win over host Niles West on Oct. 15.

“She’s been a difference-maker for us, an impact player,” Trevians coach Hannah Hsieh says of the Wildcat Juniors (17 Purple) club player. “Her size forces others to hit difficult, weird shots. The girls on our team, they all love her, love how hard she works, how much she contributes.

“Nicole,” the coach adds, “is sweet … that’s the word that best describes her off the court. And she’s pushing through this chal-lenge she’s facing.”

Before her junior season on varsity last fall, Beto lived life in a shell, a seemingly impenetrable one at times. She was shy. She was insecure. She probably wanted to be 4-foot-something, not 6-foot-something. Books

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12 overcoming adversity New Trier High School Volleyball player Nicole Beto hasn’t let an auto-immune disease stop her.

12 winehopscotch! In the final months of her life Julie Schaffner laid the groundwork for an ovarian cancer fund. Her legacy lives on.

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decades, she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the of the hospital’s clinical, ancillary, support and nursing functions; and was instrumental in helping Lutheran General achieve top national honors— “Magnet” status—from the American Nurses Association in 2005, and again in 2010.

When doctors discovered Julie had the disease in June of 2009, they diagnosed it as ad-vanced stage III ovarian cancer. Worse, it had already spread to her lymph nodes. She received a number of different chemo-therapy treatments and drugs. “They did just about everything they could do and nothing really took and she just kept going downhill,” said Schaffner.

But Julie was a fighter; she had continued to run Lutheran General Hospital from her bedside on chemotherapy days.

During one of her regular chemotherapy sessions at the hospitals oncology department, she took time to craft the frame-work for an organization she hoped would play a key role in growing awareness, identifying risk factors, and funding research to fight ovarian cancer.

When she passed away 18 months later on New Year’s Eve, she had already laid the ground-work for the Julie W. Schaffner Ovarian Cancer Fund, while leading Lutheran General to a re-designation of Magnet status. She was 56.

Said Schaffner, “She had really

wanted us to carry forward and see if we could do something about it.”

Today, that Fund is fully mo-bilized—and Julie’s energy and fighting spirit lives on through the organization, made up of friends and family members who want to realize her vision: a world where ovarian cancer can be beaten through better aware-ness and advancements in science.

“If you know those markers are there or there’s a history of it in your family, we urge you to get a screening,” said Schaffner. “Because that’s really the best defense to date.”

To that end, Schaffner and the supporters of the JWS Ovarian Cancer Fund put on an annual fund raising event called Wine-HopsScotch!: a night of wine,

beer, and scotch tasting that will be held on Friday, November 6 at the Michigan Shores Club in Wilmette.

This year, the wine is being represented by the Inman Family Winery of Sonoma, Calif.; “hops” are supplied by three Chicago-area microbreweries—Atlas Brewing Company, Begyle Brewing Company, and Revolu-tion Brewing Company; and the scotch features products by Johnnie Walker, Lagavulun,

Oban and Talisker. The event also includes gourmet appetizers and desserts, a raffle and silent auction, and two live jazz bands.

All of the proceeds from WineHopsScotch! go to the JWS Ovarian Cancer Fund, which recently supplied a grant to Advocate Lutheran General’s Hospital’s Cancer Survivorship Center, and also made grants to support promising local ovarian cancer research projects at Ro-salind Franklin University of

Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Ill.) and the Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago.

Living in the Wilmette com-munity for over 26 years, Schaff-ner is blown-away by the con-tinued support him and his family receives, while Julie was fighting the disease and after she passed. WineHopsScotch! is their way of paying it forward.

“I’m totally amazed and grate-ful for their support. Unfortu-nately, Julie is gone, and it’s hard

from that standpoint. But we’re all working together: and hope-fully we’re doing some good things with our money and helping other people,” said Schaffner. “That’s kind of what communities are all about, I think. Helping other people.”

To learn more or to purchase tickets for WineHopsScotch! please visit jwsfund.org. Tickets can also be purchased on November 6 at Michigan Shores Club at the door.

were her best friends, and she didn’t have to say a word while baking her specialty, cookie cakes. The more Beto played varsity volleyball in 2014-15, the more her teammates got to know her, the more they wanted to be around her. There was a fun, smart, interesting person under-neath all of that figurative armor. They chiseled away at it, ham-mered at it, helped set Beto free.

“My teammates,” she recalls, “pushed me and encouraged me to be myself. They brought out the person I am. I can be weird and wild now, in front of people I know. I’m also positive. One of my roles on the team this year is to stay positive and spread positivity. Volleyball is one of my passions, and what I love about the team is our fight; we’re fight-ers. We don’t play for ourselves; we play for the person next to

us.”Beto still finds time to read

books. She once read a book and half of another book in one day. A running back powers through defensive lines, gains yards. Beto powers through pages, gains knowledge.

“Reading a book is like watch-ing a little movie in my mind,” Beto says.

Beto still finds time to bake. The happiest man in Hanover Park one day was Charles Beto, Nicole’s grandfather. He received a Nicole Beto carrot cake, cream-cheese frosted, on his birthday. A delicious highlight at the Trevians’ Carb Fests on the eves of big volleyball matches is any-thing baked by Beto, be it a layered cake, a cookie cake or a batch of cupcakes. She loves to decorate her treats. Teammates love to devour her artwork.

“Nicole is so much more con-fident this year,” New Trier

senior setter Meghan Riordan says. “She jokes around more, and she’s way more fun and out-going. I’d call her sense of humor ‘quietly funny, dry.’ She’s always very calm, easy-going. She’s also a rock for us on the court, a great teammate. Team aspects of vol-leyball are important to her.

“What she’s going through

now [with the autoimmune disease],” Riordan adds, “has to be tough. But she’s pushing through it and staying strong. She’s dealing with it maturely.”

It is Senior Night for New Trier’s volleyball team, blue and green and white balloons fes-tooned in clumps in parts of the main gym on the Winnetka

campus. Some balloons are mo-tionless; some dance quietly. A few will pop and startle more than a few Trevians and specta-tors in the cavernous venue. Beto, her list of colleges nar-rowed to Indiana University and the University of Iowa, shakes her head, finding it hard to believe she will soon play on the home court only one more time.

“In about 10 months,” she says, “I’ll be on a college campus somewhere.”

She finds that hard to fathom, too. Beto smiles. It is not a shy smile. It is not a nervous smile.

It is a confident, healthy smile.

Notable: New Trier went 3-2 and finished in seventh place at the Lyons Tournament on Oct. 24. … The Trevians completed their 10-0 Central Suburban League South season when they defeated Waukegan High School’s visiting Bulldogs 25-14,

25-9 on Oct. 22. Senior outside hitter Allyson Vaughn struck a team-high eight kills on NT’s Senior Night, and seniors Meghan Riordan and Alex Cook shared setter duties. Riordan lofted 13 assists, Cook nine. Trevians senior middle Brooke Carlson elevated for three blocks. Senior outside hitter Brooke Bernstein served six consecutive points at the start of the second set. NT junior defen-sive specialist Nicole Cherro made the dig of the match in the second set, diving and rolling to keep a point alive. The floor-burning effort preceded a kill by Vaughn and helped NT take a 14-3 lead. … Trevians senior libero and Harvard-bound Isa-belle Tashima delivered five aces in a win over Evanston Town-ship High School on Oct. 20. Senior outside hitter Erin Denham paced the victors’ attack with six kills.

RALLYING Continued from PG 1

WINEHOPSCOTCH! Continued from PG 1

“One of my roles on the team this year is to stay positive and spread positivity. Volleyball is one of my passions, and what I love about the team is our fight;

we’re fighters.”

–Nicole Beto

“If you know

those markers

are there or

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of it in your

family, we urge

you to get a

screening.”

–Julie W. Schaffner

Thomas Schaffner (left) with his daughter Lindsay and son Brian.

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“It’s a very special organiza-tion,” said Cy, who moved his daughter to the Farm shortly after her 18th birthday. Wynn has Turner Syndrome and other disabilities, including deafness. “We looked all over the country - made phone calls, traveled, asked friends about places from California to upstate New York. They all had something that we liked, but nothing for a multiple-handicapped person like the Lambs Farm does.”

Cy and his family got involved at the Lambs Farm soon after Wynn, now 57, moved in; they led an annual fundraiser for many years, and taught sign language to other residents and some staff members so that they could better communicate with Wynn. Cy joined the Board of Directors. Today, Cy is pleased

to support the Farm’s fall gala, Harvesting the Spirit: Down-TOWN on the Farm.

The gala is Saturday, Nov. 7, at Chicago’s Union Station. Guests will enjoy dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions, and a performance by the Lambs Farm residents. Director of Op-erations, Marketing and Com-munications Kathy Buresch said residents who participate in the Farm’s fine arts program will present scenes from Beauty and the Beast.

The fine arts program is only one of the recreational programs offered to residents at the Lambs Farm – all of which make Cy smile.

“That these people can live in a place without gates and have something to do all the time –

organized activities in the gym, crafts, drama classes – is wonder-ful,” he said. “It’s like summer camp, but it keeps the residents’ minds challenged and active. The residents live together, cook together, eat together and work together.”

All of the Farm’s residents must be employed, either on site or in the surrounding communi-ties. Wynn lives in a 12-person house and works at Lambs In-dustries, an on-site work center which accepts projects like pack-aging, fulfillment and assemblies from local businesses.

“She loves working there,” Cy said. “It’s a place for her to feel like she is doing something meaningful, among her peers, where they don’t feel like anyone is looking down on them or judging them. It’s like a family over there.

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Jeff Urso, of Lake Forest, is no stranger to pizza.

“I’ve been working at pizza places my whole life,” he said on a recent fall day, at—you guessed it—a pizza place. But a few years ago, on a trip to Minnesota with his son, a travel hockey player, Urso saw a piz-zeria he had never seen before. In Mall of America, one of its 400 stores was busy serving customers custom-made, arti-sanal pizza. Customers could adorn their pizza with any topping, any cheese, any sauce, and behind a counter they’d throw it in an oven and have it ready in minutes.

It was like a pizza version of Chipotles. It was a revelation.

“Man, I want to have this in my hometown,” said Urso to himself. He was in a unique position to bring one: as co-owner of Donati’s Pizza in Lake Forest, Vernon Hills, and Scha-

umburg, Urso and his friend, Ray Bozic, already had a local chain of pizzerias.

Urso and Bozic had gone to Lake Forest High School to-gether and were lifelong friends. The duo did what any young high school student sitting in a cafeteria with their f riends would do—dream about start-ing a business with their closest pals—only they executed. In 2011, they opened what would be their first pizza place, a 900 square foot “to put it the best terms possible ‘hole in the wall’” and beat the odds. (According to a frequently cited study by Ohio State University on failed restaurants, 60 percent do not make it past the first year, and 80 percent go under in five.)

Instead, Donati’s exploded in popularity. For a time, they ran a promotion where they were selling slices of pizza for a $1—and they were selling 1,000 slices a day. The friends in-vested it all right back into their

business: and expanded, and expanded, and expanded again. Growing up, there were not a lot of places to hangout for teenagers. Urso and Bozic changed all of that.

In four years, Donati’s grew from three employees (two of which were the founders) and a 900 square feet hole in the wall, to a four-unit local piz-zeria chain employing 50 people.

While the other pizzerias are more traditional—like Feren-tino’s Pizzeria in Lake Forest, the first pizza place Urso ever worked at—the new location in Lake Bluff is entirely different.

“You know how that one time you wanted to try jalapeno with ranch, and you’re like, ‘Man, I want anchovies on that too!’” said Urso. “Well this is the place you can do [that].”

Donati’s Pizza in Lake Bluff has 42 toppings you can choose from: anchovies and roasted garlic, sautéed onions and pine-apple, artichoke hearts and deli meats and edamame and jala-penos. (Artichoke hearts are the favorite.) The concept isn’t new, but Urso believes there’s a very good chance that they are the only fast-fired pizza place serving Chicago deep dish in the country: eight minutes until ready (four minutes for regular thin-crust).

Making pizza at home? Urso stresses one virtue over all: Pa-tience.

“In small batches its actually really simple: It ’s all about proofing your dough,” said Urso. “A lot of people are impatient; you got to let chemistry kind of work itself out. Let that dough get soft and rise.”

Donati’s Pizza is located at 203 South Waukegan Rd in Lake Bluff.

TOTAL TIME: 2 HOURSSERVES: 2-3

• 1 pound all-purpose flour• .25 liter of water• 1 ounce olive oil• Pinch of salt and sugar

Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl and let the flour rise for 1 hour. Weigh out 9 ounces. Crisco a pie tray, kneading the dough with your hands and pressing it out to desired length. Fill ¾ of the dough with cheese of your

choosing. Top with spinach, garlic, and artichoke hearts; placing favorite tomato sauce on top. Preheat oven to 450 degrees (the hotter, the better). Bake for 25 to 35 minutes, or until dough is golden brown.

Donati’s Hand-Pressed “Northside” Pizza

Deep dish pizza at Donati’s Pizza in Lake Bluff. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.Jeff Urso, co-owner

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You surprised yourself by blurting: “Include me out!”

He ignored this as a joke, al-though it wasn’t, and continued to enthuse about how we’ll soon be downloading our memories into hard drives, creating our own cyber-immortality, blah blah...

As he jabbered, you wondered about the origin of your heart-

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The line originated from Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn. He was a movie-in-dustry version of Yogi Berra, the

greatest inventor of funny phrases like “When you come to a fork in the road, take it,” and “Nobody goes to that res-taurant; it’s too crowded!”

But back to Goldwyn. Your web search shows he could play on the same ball field as Berra when it came to quirky quips. Some Goldwynisms include:

“Anybody who goes to a psy-chiatrist should have his head examined.” And “If I dropped dead right now I’d be the hap-piest man alive.” Stuff like that.

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Interior designer Sarah Vaile has only one rule for shopping: trust your gut.“If you don’t love it the second

you see it, you probably never will,” she said. “Trust your gut, and if you love something, you will find a place for it in your home.”

As an example, she pointed to four vintage red side chairs with velvet leopard print seats mixed among the hand-me-downs and antiques in her own home. She’s moved the chairs to four different homes, and always found a place for them.

Vaile and antiques enthusiast Doug Van Tress, owner of The Golden Triangle, will lead a discussion of Timeless & Trendy: Can they be Friends? at Winnetka’s Antiques + Modern-ism Show Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Winnetka Community House.

Presented by the Women’s

Board of the Winnetka Com-munity House, the three-day event brings approximately 50 dealers to the North Shore with goods from the 17th Century on, including jewelry, art, furni-ture, clothing and decorative pieces from around the world.

Also scheduled throughout the event are several learning opportunities for guests, like the discussion by Vaile and Van Tress. Women’s Board Special Events Chair Kate Kligora said. “We want the audience to feel like they’ve learned something by listening to a very talented person in these areas and that they’ve had a unique opportu-nity to hear something that has added to their experience at the show.”

Antiques + Modernism opens at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, but a Preview Party the night before allows for sneak peek among a smaller crowd. Music, cocktails and food lighten the atmosphere, Kligora said.

Tickets are also available for brunch Friday, when profes-sional auctioneer Leslie Hindman presents

The Business of Collecting: Demystifying the Auction Process. Saturday brings Vaile and Van Tress to the stage.

Sunday, representatives of the Winnetka Historical Society will partner with two retailers to discuss historical traditions and the modern wedding.

“The dealers are there to

educate our guests, too,” Kligora said. All of the dealers are vetted when they register and audited when they arrive in Winnetka to ensure their wares are authen-tic. Kligora said this enables guests to shop with the confi-dence that Vaile encouraged.

“Have confidence in what you like,” Vaile said. “I equate it to an outfit. No one wears de-signer clothes all the time, and that’s what makes it fun to dress your home for your lifestyle and your age. Don’t make it too formal or too casual. It’s all about the mix.”

All proceeds from the event support programs and services of the Winnetka Community House, a non-tax supported organization. The facility was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 2007.

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Jonah Isaac was running late for his theology class at Loyola Academy this semes-

ter. He picked up his pace in a hallway, his football instincts allowing him to pass people, to elude others. Nobody blocked for him. Not a problem. Isaac, a senior wide receiver/kick re-turner for the Ramblers, still found ways to negotiate his 5-foot-9, 175-pound frame — minus the helmet and the pads and the No. 10 jersey — in a building without end zones.

“I had to dodge three people,” Isaac, a native of Roscoe Village in Chicago, recalled last weekend. “I made it, though. I made it to class on time.”

Jonah Isaac, minus the school clothes and school supplies, ap-peared to be in a hurry a couple of times in Loyola Academy’s 49-21 defeat of visiting Mt. Carmel on Oct. 24. He returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touch-down in the first quarter. He returned a kickoff 97 yards for another touchdown in the second quarter. Everybody blocked for him. Twice.

As he sat on a Ramblers bench after the second TD, his helmet off, he shook hands with coaches and teammates, absorbed count-less slaps to his shoulder pads, got jostled, smiled, exhaled, smiled some more. Teammates shot him disbelieving, awestruck looks, the kind of dugout reactions New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy received from his teammates as his homer total in consecutive postseason games reached a cartoonish seven at Wrigley Field earlier this month.

“Humble guy, great kid,” Loyola Academy senior kicker Patrick Tata said of Isaac, who also came down with a 44-yard reception against Mt. Carmel’s Caravan in the regular-season finale in Wilmette. “He’s always thanking teammates on the side-line, always congratulating team-mates.”

Isaac was the most grateful Rambler inside Lane Stadium after his 80-yard kickoff return for a TD in a game against DePaul College Prep last fall. The

three most grateful Ramblers in the springtime, during the track and field season? The three who get to run a relay race with Isaac. He is looking at Fordham Uni-versity in New York City, inter-ested in continuing his football career and majoring in business (with a concentration in either sports marketing or sports man-agement).

“One of my dreams is to play college football, and I want to be a GM [of a professional sports team] someday,” Isaac said. “I’ve done some research … I’m seeing what [Chicago Bears GM] Ryan Pace is doing, what [Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Op-erations] Theo Epstein is doing.”

What Isaac did against Mt. Carmel (7-2, 2-2 in the Chicago Catholic Blue division) last weekend was downright Devin Hester-ish, electric and crowd-pleasing. His first return for a TD put Loyola Academy up 13-7. Mt. Carmel was flagged for an off-sides penalty before the second lengthy return, prompting an LA coach to order Isaac to switch positions with fellow return man Kyle Rock. They switched, Isaac shifting to the left of Rock. Isaac, at the Loyola three-yard line, scooped up the ensuing re-kick, surveyed for holes created by his teammates and sped toward the biggest one. Gone. Isaac was gone.

“The first TD was unreal,” Isaac said. “The second one, I couldn’t believe it … I couldn’t believe there was another big hole for me, against a team as good as Mt. Carmel’s. As I was running, I was full of excite-ment.

“My mindset [on special teams] is to do what I can to change a game.

His second TD gave the home team a 27-14 lead, at 1:43 of the second quarter. The same TD launched a 21-point run. The game-changer had changed the tone of the game. Ramblers senior running back Dara Laja (22 carries, 94 yards, two TDs) opened the second-half scoring

with a four-year TD run. Some three minutes later, Ramblers junior Jake Marwede, a tight end with a fullback’s mentality, powered his way into the end zone from the Caravan one-yard line. Tata’s extra point made it a 42-14 game, the Ramblers’ 9-0 regular season (4-0 in the Chicago Catholic Blue) all but sealed — with more than 15 minutes left in the game.

“So many weapons [on offense],” Ramblers coach John Holecek, proud and awed, said of his 2015 edition, which out-scored its first nine opponents 379-73.

Isaac did his special-team thing. Senior quarterback

Emmett Clifford completed 12-of-16 passes for 203 yards and two TDs. Senior wideout Eric Eshoo caught six balls for 97 yards, 30 of them the length of a TD reception in the first quarter. Thomas Smart (four grabs, 52 yards), another senior wideout, snared Clifford’s first pass of the day and turned it into a 25-yard TD. Marwede rushed only four times, but he averaged nearly six yards per carry. Weapons everywhere.

And then there’s Laja, the Rambler in the No. 1 jersey. He was No. 2 on the program’s all-time career rushing list before the start of the start of the game on Oct. 24. He left Hoerster Field No. 1, having supplanted current LA receivers coach Pat Naughton (Class of ’96) atop the list when he rushed for an eight-yard TD at 4:12 of the fourth quarter. His career rushing yardage total stands at 2,113, one more postseason still ahead of him.

“That was so special, what Dara did today, what he did in front of a great crowd and against a program like Mt. Car-mel’s,” Holecek said.

Notable: Loyola Academy, seeded No. 1 in Class 8A, opens its postseason against visiting West Aurora (5-4, 32nd seed) at noon on Oct. 31. … Loyola Academy senior wideout/kick returner Jonah Isaac, on class-mate Dara Laja breaking the school’s all-time mark for career rushing yards on Oct. 24: “I’m happy for Dara, my best friend since freshman year.” … Ram-blers senior defensive lineman Ben LeRoy and junior line-backer Graham Repp each re-corded a sack against Mt. Carmel on Oct. 24. LeRoy’s occurred 12 yards behind the line of scrimmage, Repp’s seven yards. Repp also stopped a Caravan ball carrier two yards short on a fourth-and-eight play in the fourth quarter. … Hol-ecek’s career record at LA is 105-24 (.814). Holecek has been the Ramblers’ head coach since the start of the 2006 season.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS Loyola’s Isaac takes two kickoffs “to the house” in home win over Mount Carmel

PERFECT 10: Jonah Isaac of the Ramblers breaks free on a kickoff return against Mount Carmel. The senior speedster returned two kickoffs — 99 and 97 yards — for touchdowns. PHOTOGRAPHY BY TING SHEN

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

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On Day One of her com-petitive running career, Katie Condon was pretty

much greeted with indifference and … a tinge of condescension.

She initially was judged as an also-ran.

An afterthought.A long shot.“We put her in the one-mile

group,” Lake Forest High School head girls cross country coach Steve Clegg said. “When you don’t come out [for a sport] until your sophomore year, it’s pretty clear where you go.”

You go … straight to the slow group.

The bottom floor. The back of the class.“But it didn’t take us long to say,

‘We’ve got to keep an eye on her,’ ” Clegg said. “She moved up pretty quickly.”

And Condon has been going at breakneck speed ever since.

She’s turned into a windfall.She’s the unexpected gift.The winning lottery ticket.The Scouts basically have hit the

jackpot with Condon. Last fall, as a junior, she earned all-state honors (19th place) and helped LF to a runner-up finish at the Class 2A state cross country meet.

A few months later, she qualified to the Class 3A state track in the 1600 meters (5:11.72).

And, a few months after that, as a member of the Waukegan Invad-ers track club, she earned All-America honors in the 1500 meters (4:51.92) at the USATF Junior Olympics.

When’s arbitration?When’s free agency?The volleyball player turned

long-distance runner keeps turning heads.

Bring on the fanfare.“She’s been our rock all season,”

said Clegg. “She’s consistently right there at every race.”

Condon was right there on Oct. 24 at the Class 3A Lake Forest Regional, when the Scouts claimed a team title with a mere 30 points. She cruised the three-mile layout at the LF West Campus in a per-sonal best time of 17:39 to take fourth overall.

“Duels. Invites. You can always count on her having a big perfor-mance,” he added.

LF girls track coach Nathan Sweet sees the same thing in Condon.

“She’s been pretty amazing,” Sweet said. “She developed really, really fast. She’s a hard worker. A workhorse.”

Teammate Emma Milburn, who also earned All-America honors in the summer, has been amazed by Condon’s quick rise.

“She’s only been doing this since sophomore year, which just shows you how good and how talented she is,” said Milburn, who placed 10th at last year’s state cross country meet. “I started in the fifth grade. It’s taken me forever to get where I am.”

Mark Myers, the senior star on the LF boys team who has been a friend and neighbor of Condon since forever (since they were tod-dlers), admitted that he was a little taken aback, when she came out for cross country.

“I had no idea,” said Myers. “All of a sudden, she just showed up for cross country practice.

“But,” he added, “she’s been

amazing. She’s got it.”And Condon, a triplet with two

brothers (Kyle and Tom), plans to keep it going. She intends to run at the next level, considering Cornell as a destination.

Her success at the USATF meet last summer did wonders for her belief system.

“That definitely was a confi-dence booster for me,” said Condon, who is quiet and respect-ful. “I don’t know how good I can be. But what I did at nationals showed me that I have some talent.”

“That big-meet experience has really helped her,” Clegg said. “Every time you face that kind of competition in that kind of envi-ronment, each race gets a little less scary.”

Running one second behind freshman teammate Lauren Gar-riques (3rd, 17:38) and eight seconds ahead of sophomore Brett Chody (5th, 17:47), Condon looked like a polished performer at the regional meet.

“I’ve gotten better at finishing,”

said Condon, who used a strong kick to beat her PR by 12 seconds.

She’s also figured out how to handle the pressure of the big meet.

“I try not to think about the races. I don’t want to be stressed by them,” Condon said. “I just go into every race knowing that it’s going to be hard. Every race is going to hurt.”

Windy conditions made the regional race a challenge.

“One of the things I learned from my club coach [Ken Almond] is that you have to push through the pain,” Condon said. “That [advice] helped me today.”

The fastest runner in the race was Stevenson sophomore Isabelle Sparreo (17:05). Libertyville sophomore Melissa Manetsch was the runner-up (17:34).

The fastest team in the race was LF, which placed all seven runners in the top 25, including Millburn (7th, 18:21), Courtney Schmidt (11th, 19:02), Kelsey Schmidt (21st, 19:40) and Callahan Schmidt (25th, 20:00). Thus, they head to the Schaumburg Sectional on Oct.

31 (10 a.m.) with plenty of confi-dence.

Meanwhile, Myers was one of the standouts in the regional boys race. He hung with the leaders throughout before winding up fourth in 15:12.22. The Scouts, who advanced to the Schaumburg Sec-tional on Oct. 31 (11:15 a.m.) with a sixth-place finish with 132 points, also received solid work from Etienne Najman (11th, 15:49.27) and Grant Levin (25th, 16:14.87).

Highland Park Led by senior Brett Davidson

(3rd, 15:02.19) and freshman Jose Reyes (8th, 15:36.47), Highland Park raced to a first-place finish (56 points) at the Class 3A LF Re-gional on Oct. 24. Stevenson was second with 70 points.

Charlie Skurie (14th, 15:52.46), Jonathan Rosenfeld (15th, 15:53.72), Nate Amster (16th, 15:59.82), Alec Glazier (17th, 16:02.07) and Fitz Laurie (27th, 16:20.42) also ran well for the Giants.

In the girls race, HP placed third

in the team standings with 67 points. Senior Charlotte Nawor ran the top spot for HP: 8th, 18:30.42. HP’s other scorers were Kaitlyn Twadell (12th, 19:06.04), Marni Pine (13th, 19:08.35), Rachel Powers (15th, 19:09.85) and Robin Israel (19th, 19:25.38).

“This race is all about surviving and advancing,” said HP coach Andy Butler. “Three of our runners today were alternates. This is as a deep as we’ve ever been.”

New TrierNew Trier senior Josh Derrick

turned it up a notch at the Niles West Regional on Oct. 24. He ran a 15:19.71 to win the individual title, 13 seconds better than Niles North standout Martin Barr.

The Trevians claimed the title with 34 points. The other runners instrumental in the win were Warren Blood (3rd, 15:32.98), Jack Litowitz (5th, 15:38.85), Patrick Norrick (12th, 16:11), Alex Burck (13th, 16:17), Will Taylor (16th, 16:24) and Ted Oh (22nd, 16:33).

In the girls race, junior Caroline Fix of New Trier claimed the indi-vidual title at Niles West. The Trev-ians won the race with 27 points.

New Trier also received strong performances from Kelli Schmidt (5th, 18:24.21), Caroline Truken-brod (6th, 18:27.14), Grace Fagan (7th, 18:29.23), Rachel Weix (8th, 18:31.26), Molly Schmidt (9th, 18:32.71) and Oona Jung-Beeman (10th, 18:35.19).

LoyolaKathryn House was one of the

standouts in the regional girls race at Niles West. She finished third in 18:20.61 and helped the Ramblers to a third-place team finish (84 points). Margot Dooley (13th, 18:43.79), Payton Hoag (17th, 19:01.14), Allie Zahn (22nd, 19:18.59), Ellie Slattery (29th, 20:01.77), Annie Foley (30th, 20:05) and Caroline McKinley (31st, 20:16) were LA’s other finish-ers.

In the boys race, LA placed third with 85 points. The scorers were Andrew Niewiarowski (9th, 16:00.68), Matthew Kadus (17th, 16:28), Patrick Reilly-Hayward (18th, 16:29), Scott Berens (20th, 16:31) and Connor Hoag (21st, 16:32).

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LOOK AT HER NOW Lake Forest’s late-blooming Condon develops into an elite performer

MAKING GREAT STRIDES: Katie Condon of the Scouts races to a fourth-place finish at the Class 3A Lake Forest Regionaln. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER


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New Trier girls tennis coach Jerry Morse-Karzen and his Trevians had time to kill on

the third day of the state tourna-ment. A rain delay, on the morning of Oct. 24, forced them to scramble for other things to do.

They visited Woodfield Mall, a few lengthy lobs from a tourney site in Rolling Meadows.

Morse-Karzen ate fried rice, a court boss hitting the food court. Senior doubles player Catherine MacKinnon did some homework at the mall. Her partner, freshman Michelle Capone, shopped.

“I bought sweaters,” Capone said.

Capone/MacKinnon and the rest of NT’s state team — senior singles player Cammy Frei and the doubles team of senior Tess Lubin and junior Michelle Buyer — then hit the courts and warmed the

cockles of Morse-Karzen’s heart. The Trevians tallied an impressive 27 points to finish third behind Stevenson (30) and Hinsdale Central (50).

HC and Stevenson had qualified the maximum four state entries. NT sent three.

“Outstanding,” Morse-Karzen said of his “short-handed” contin-gent. “I was very pleased. To take third, with our number of quali-fiers … that’s quite an achievement. They all played well.”

Capone/MacKinnon, a 5-8 seed, finished sixth after bowing 6-2, 6-7 (2), 7-5 to reigning state champions Katherine Harvey/Vinaya Rao of Stevenson in a quarterfinal on Oct. 23. They went 2-1 from there, ral-lying from a 6-2 deficit to post a 9-7 victory over an Edwardsville pair in the their first back-draw match. (The weather delay reduced

some consolation matches to pro sets on the final day.)

“It’s nice when your partner is 5-foot-10, with a big wingspan, and she plays well at the net,” MacKinnon, 5-foot-2 and a three-time state qualifier in doubles, said of Capone, a fearless, aggressive poacher.

Frei won six of eight matches and reached the consolation semi-finals. She quickly dismissed Hin-sdale Central’s Sophia Haleas 6-1, 6-0 in her first back-draw match and then topped Sycamore High School’s Angelina Ye and Bar-rington’s Michelle Linden.

“Cammy had some very good wins,” Morse-Karzen said of his second-year captain. “She found a nice rhythm, made fewer mistakes than her opponents did. What a great way to end her career. Her wins in the back draw … we needed

those, with Lyons (fourth place, 25 points, two behind NT’s total) right there with us, going for third place.”

Lubin/Buyer made it to the fourth round of the main draw and netted a pair valuable doubles vic-tories in the back draw.

“Maybe,” Morse-Karzen sur-mised, “going to the mall loosened the team up.”

NT’s third-place state finish was its third in four years and fifth top-three (trophy worthy) effort in six years.

Highland ParkThree Giants entries combined

for nine wins at the state tourna-ment. Three of the school’s quali-fiers — singles player Caitlin Goldberg and the doubles team of Monique Brual/Lily Tiemeyer — were eighth-graders at this time last year.

Goldberg won a match in the main draw and two more in the back draw. Brual/Tiemeyer went 3-2, with two of their victories coming in the championship draw. HP’s other doubles entrant, seniors Jordan Abt/Phoebe Sacks, also won three of five matches.

Highland Park finished 12th (14 points) in the team standings.

Loyola AcademySophomore Maggie Hines

teamed up with junior and three-time state qualifier Caroline Wit-kowski to reach the quarterfinal round of doubles at the state tour-nament. Hines/Witkowski, a 5-8 seed, lost 6-4, 6-1 to top-seeded Colette O’Regan/Catherine O’Regan of Glenbrook North in a quarterfinal on Oct. 23. The pair of Ramblers then split two matches in the back draw, their last coming

in a consolation-semifinal loss to 3-4 seed Stefana Vasic/Lahari Yelamanchili of Lyons Township. Witkowski advanced to state in doubles in each of her first two seasons. Her partner in 2013 and in ’14: older sister Abby Wit-kowski (LA, ’15).

Lake Forest High SchoolThe doubles team of senior

Brynn Carlson and sophomore Julianna Roman, seeded 17-32, went 4-2 at the state tournament. The Scouts lost to 5-8 seed and eventual state champions Sandra Keta/Stephanie Dolehide of Hin-sdale Central in the third round and defeated pairs from Prairie Ridge and Glenbrook South in the back draw. Carlson, with classmate Zoe Park, reached the Round of 16 in doubles at last year’s state meet.


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Allyson Gordon is born, the younger sister of Amy Gordon. Parents Rich

and Julie Gordon transport their newborn home from a hospital, some 15 years ago. Little Ally-son’s first outing from home is to one of Amy’s volleyball matches at Highland Park High School.

Amy is a freshman setter on the Giants’ varsity team.

Allyson hears a volleyball bounce for the first time.

It is October 17, 2015. High-land Park High School’s vol-leyball team is competing at a tournament at Elgin High School. Allyson is 15 years old now, a 5-foot-7 freshman setter on the Giants’ varsity team.

There, in the stands, is a former HPHS setter, a married woman, a 5-foot-9 Nike execu-tive (Director of Strategy) visit-ing from Portland, Oregon. She is 30 years old now.

It is Amy Gordon Franzen’s turn to sit and watch and hear a volleyball bounce.

“She has improved so much,” Amy, a three-time all-Central Suburban League North vol-leyball player and 2004 HPHS graduate, says of her little sis. “She plays with confidence, a quiet temperament. She’s a leader on the floor, a stabilizer when the team is doing well and somebody who picks a team up when it’s not doing well. A setter has to be that kind of teammate.

“Allyson,” Amy adds, “has seen volleyball from all angles.”

Their father, Rich, still plays competitive volleyball at a na-tional level. Their brother, 25-year-old Daniel, played vol-leyball in high school. Rich, Julie, Amy, Daniel and Allyson vaca-tion for two weeks each year in Aruba. There’s sand in Aruba. Where there’s sand, there’s also an opportunity to play volleyball. The Gordons play volleyball. It’s their sport, their favorite pastime, their escape.

“Huge volleyball family,” Giants volleyball coach Beth

Peterson says of the Gordons.Peterson, in her 14th season

at HPHS, coached Amy for a couple of seasons when Allyson weighed slightly more than a few volleyballs. The coach remembers a level-headed, very respectful leader, on and off the court, a Giant who never complained, a Giant who did what she was supposed to do and instilled confidence in her teammates. Allyson Gordon started to truly appreciate Amy, the volleyball player, when Amy set up Big Red college hitters at Cornell.

“She was a role model for me,” Allyson, an AAU All-American

club player (14 Purple, Wildcat Juniors), says. “She taught me a lot. High school volleyball, for me, is a new thing, a big deal. I’m loving it; I really am. It’s a lot of fun, and it takes commit-ment. As a setter, I get to hit every second ball … a lot of re-sponsibility. It’s exciting, having that kind of responsibility.”

Allyson Gordon dished 13 assists, smacked three aces and finished with seven digs in 16th-seeded Highland Park’s 25-21, 25-22 defeat of No. 17 Munde-lein High School in a Class 4A Lake Zurich Regional opener on Oct. 26. The win advanced

the Giants to a scheduled date (Oct. 27) with the top-seeded Wildcats of Libertyville High School.

“Allyson,” Peterson says, “is mature for her age. She keeps her emotions in check. She re-sponds well to coaching. She’s not a typical freshman, and she has great hands, faith in her hitters — qualities you want from a setter.”

Emma Young, a junior setter, transferred to Highland Park from Virginia last summer. Allyson Gordon showed varsity-worthy abilities last summer. Two fresh faces. Two setters.

Two highly capable setters. Hello, 6-2 scheme.

“I remember [senior outside hitter/middle blocker] Mattie Giese coming up to me, all excited, in the summer [after a summer league match], and telling me, ‘OK, we’re going to be fine at the setter position,’ ” Peterson recalls. “Allyson has earned her teammates’ respect, upperclassmen included. What I appreciate about her is her focus when she’s in a gym. She’s not interested in anything non-volleyball related in a gym. When she’s in a gym, she’s there for volleyball, only volleyball.”

Gordon rarely changes her expression in a match. It’s a serious look, an I’m here to take care of business look. It also has a calming quality. Her teammates must notice it and feel their heart rates plummet, immediately, in a … heartbeat. The good setters don’t run on a court; they shuffle quickly and efficiently. Gordon’s shuffles are quiet, fleet move-ments, glides. She had her foot-prints and fingerprints all over Highland Park’s 25-19, 25-13 defeat of Deerfield High School on Oct. 19, finishing with 14 assists, five digs, four aces and 16 points on serve. Busy, busy. Effective, effective. Productive, productive.

Big sis was still in town. Big sis watched little sis help the Giants win their 11th match of the fall and improve to 5-4 in the CSL North. The setting was Highland Park High School’s main gym. It was 2000 all over again, in 2015. Déjà volleyball.

Mom and Dad Gordon sat with Amy this time.

Notable: Giants sophomore outside hitter Miranda Mot-tlowitz struck for a team-high eight kills in Highland Park’s 25-21, 25-22 defeat of Munde-lein in a Class 4A playoff opener at Lake Zurich High School on Oct. 26. Senior outside hitter Grace Rhoades pounded seven kills, junior teammate Jocelyn Spizman five. Junior setter Emma Young provided seven assists and contributed seven digs and a pair of aces. HP senior libero/defensive specialist Carly Nanberg bumped a team-high 12 digs. … The Gordon sisters, Allyson and Amy, have more than volleyball and a set of parents in common. Allyson, a Highland Park freshman setter, has a dog, Leo. It’s a French Pointer. Amy (HPHS, ’04), a former Giants setter living in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, William, has a dog, GarÇon. It’s a French Pointer. Wuff, wuff.


DÉJÀ VOLLEYBALL — ALL OVER AGAIN

Fifteen years later, Giants relying on another setter named Gordon

BUMPER CROP:HP freshman Allyson Gordon keeps the ball alive during earlier action this season. She comes from a volleyball-mad family. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

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to Cristian Volpentesta.Or, to D.J. Penick Jr.Or, to Gabe Guzman.All three deserved game balls

as they turned in state-of-the-art performances in a 42-29 loss to highly motivated Vikings on Oct. 23. The Vikings improved to 5-4 to become playoff eligible. The Giants finished the season 3-6.

Volpentesta, who has received scholarship offers from Winona State and Valparaiso, had an unbelievable game.

On the offensive side, the senior caught four passes for 115 yards, including two touch-downs (31 and 29 yards).

On the defensive side, Vol-pentesta was in on 11 tackles, including four for losses. He also forced a fumble.

“He’s a warrior,” said HP head coach Joe Horeni, who wrapped up his first season at the helm. “An unbelievable player.”

One of Volpentesta’s unfor-gettable plays came with 6:16 left in the first half, when the Giants pulled off a well-de-signed gimmick play to score their first TD of the game. Vol-pentesta was on the receiving end of a double pass that went for 31 yards after Penick took the snap and tossed it back to junior quarterback David Adel-stein.

“That was fun,” said Horeni. “One of those plays you dream up on Sundays.”

Volpentesta’s second catch of

the night — a 32-yarder from Penick — was highlight reel material. He went up high for the catch, and he had to wrestle it away from Niles North stand-out Barrington Wade as he came down.

One play later, senior Olivier Alexandre came off the bench, took a handoff from Penick and raced into the end zone from 14 yards out to cut Niles North’s lead to 28-14 with 45 seconds left in the first half.

“Olivier is one of the fastest guys on the team,” said Horeni. “We’ve been trying to find him a spot in a crowded backfield. It was great to see him score. He’s a great teammate.”

Volpentesta’s other TD catch came on the opening series of the second half, when he hauled in a 29-yard pass from backup QB Noah Henson.

Meanwhile, Penick was just being … Penick.

The junior running back amassed 248 rushing yards, in-cluding a 72-yarder. He finished the season with 1,595 yards.

Penick also displayed his ver-satility in this game. He lined up at quarterback (think Wildcat Formation), when Adelstein was forced to leave the game with an ankle injury.

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If any of that registers on your pretentiousness meter, I’m here to tell you: Think again. The fashion designer in question, Bridget McDermott, may look like Reese Witherspoon, which means she looks comfortable in a swanky, cavernous restaurant before noon with hordes of pa-parazzi only a social media no-tification away.

But that’s just skin deep. In reality, she lacks none of the af-fected, disingenuous pomp that seems to afflict the best and brightest of her sartorial kind. People throw around the saying “down to earth.” McDermott is chilling at the core.

Which is why, perhaps, Mc-Dermott was searching for a model that wasn’t really a model for her brand, 84Rockwell. ( Just as she’s a fashion designer that isn’t really a fashion designer, at least not in the traditional sense. More on that later.) The model search had been going well, she told me. But McDermott was in a state of flux; a state she was taking awfully well.

Her family, at the time, was living with a friend in Lincoln Park as their Gold Coast apart-

ment was being reno-vated. She had just gotten her brand into three new boutiques. And, to top it all off, she was leaving to-morrow for Los Angeles.

“I thrive on [chaos],” she said cheerily. “But organized chaos. I’m really good with orga-nized chaos, multi-tasking.”

Which is exactly how a mother of three can reinvent her career, while being so damn nice about it. This month she cel-ebrated her company’s one-year anniversary. She’s had a lot to celebrate.

Added McDermott, “We’ve had a lot of momentum: it’s

exciting. It’s something different for me; it’s making my mind work in a totally different way again, and, honestly, I’m pleas-antly surprised with how sup-portive people are.”

84Rockwell had been perco-lating in her mind for a while before serendipity stepped in. McDermott’s favorite belt bag,

the Gucci Original GG made famous by Carrie Bradshaw on Sex in the City, broke. “So I took it apart,” she said, or the sarto-rial version of reverse engineer-ing.

McDermott had had little experience with designing clothes or handbags. She wasn’t an ambitious seamstress like

Coco Chanel, or a fast-climbing “Devil Wears Prada” assistant like

Donna Karan. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, McDermott was, by her own admis-sion, a tomboy. She

grew up on 84th and Rockwell (hence the name) in a blue-collar neighbor-hood and “played a ton of sports.”

“Fashion wasn’t a really huge part of my

life,” added McDermott, who wore a belt bag (read: fanny pack) to softball practice.

Graduating the Uni-versity of Illinois with a degree in speech com-munications, McDermott went to work as a produc-tion assistant at CNBC. But her career—and where she learned a deeper appreciation for fashion—came when she

started working at The Oprah Winfrey Show.

On set, McDermott was surrounded “by beautiful things and beautiful people.”

She cut her teeth working on massive productions. And what of Oprah? “She took such good care of us,” said McDermott. “I mean, everything: from the little things, to your perks, to the food—we had chefs there, we had a spa there. Because you lived there.”

Before the show ended for good, McDermott had already left to start a family. But she held onto her own sense of style, which very much included belt bags. When her favorite Gucci bag broke, she sensed the time was ripe to try her hand at

making her own bags.“I always want it to feel like

its natural and its organic and its not like I’m trying too hard to do something, or trying to be something that I’m not,” ex-plained McDermott. At the table she had with her a black, perfo-rated ‘Daley’ Xrossover (Daley is the name of her daughter and both bags are named after her kids).

Every bag is made locally, as-sembled in Ravenswood. (And can be found all across the North Shore: from ENAZ in Highland Park and Northfield, to Runway in Deerfield, to KOVET Bou-tique and Juniper Boutique in Northbrook.)

As of right now, McDermott doesn’t have any plans to pursue totes or clutches or any other bags. She finds inspiration from lesser known brands and design-ers: Ellery, Anine Bing, Clare V. (“She’s killing it”) but doesn’t want to get too ahead of herself.

This November, McDermott and Korean-American visual artist InJung Oh, will be creating a limited edition of a new 84Rockwell leather belt bag design featuring Injung’s cele-brated artwork. Both artist and designer and looking to price the bag at around $500, with pro-ceeds of the sale going to the Thousand Wish Project, which creates interactive visual work-shops in Chicago.

“I’m not trying to save the world or find the cure for cancer,” said McDermott, “but I am doing belt bags: and doing them smart, and doing them right, and doing a better price point. And having them manufactured in the United States is huge.” She added, smiling, “but it’s a bag. At the end of the day, it’s just a bag.”

FROM INSPIRATION TO REALITY: BECOMING

A FASHION DESIGNER

Bridget McDermott | Illustration by Barry Blitt

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