The Evanston Health Department recently completed its second year of its Women Out Walking (WOW) program. Building upon the success and support of 500 women from the first year, the 2010 initiative saw approximately 1100 women participating in this community health initiative—more than double the previous year. The goal of this program is to encourage […]
As a young Jewish girl, Anya Cordell read The Diary of Anne Frank, and wondered whether she would have had the same kind of courage as the people who helped the Frank family hide during the Holocaust. Many years later, Cordell proved to herself that she could follow, in her small way, in the footsteps […]
The Julia Child of Japan lives in Evanston. Constance Chang taught Japan about Chinese food, just like Julia Child taught America about French food. Chang is now 93-years old and lives in The Mather, where she retired to be near her three children and grandchildren, but when she was a restaurant owner, television chef […]
Since high school, when she drove a white Chevrolet Caprice, Becky Kennington has been in love with cars. “For a girl, I know it’s kind of weird,” says Kennington, of Skokie. So two years ago, when a fellow car enthusiast invited her to take her butternut 1966 Caprice to a small local car show, she […]
“The best way to know a person is to learn his or her language,” Laetitia Carquet says. By that philosophy, Carquet wants to know a lot of people: She speaks fluent French, English and Spanish, has taken courses in Russian, Italian and German, and is currently teaching herself Japanese. Hailing from Marseille, the energetic Carquet […]
Most of us have long forgotten our primary school teachers—but many of Saachi Kumar’s students keep in touch with her. One recently graduated from the prestigious Wharton School for Business, another studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and yet another is pre-med at Georgetown, recalls the Highland Park resident. Saachi has been nurturing children ages […]
Gym teachers don’t often get the credit they deserve, perhaps because of the saying, “Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.” But Mark Howard’s teaching refutes that saying completely, according to New Trier senior Jessie Serrino of Glencoe, who says Mark’s love of teaching shows, as he lights up the room with […]
‘I always ask my students to try to improve what they’ve written—to make it better,” Deb Graziano says. Deb’s natural inclination is to make it better herself, wherever her profession leads her, and this drive earned her a “Teacher of Distinction” award from the Golden Apple Foundation in 2009 and the great affection of her […]
“The relationship you have with a student has to be based on trust,” says Dan Polonsky, who teaches junior high students at The Cove School. The students in his classes all have significant learning disabilities. Polonsky describes Cove as a place where “students who have experienced a lot of difficulties can show what they’re capable […]
Teacher by day, secret agent by night. At least that’s what some of his students think. Because he requires little sleep, the Physics and AP Physics teacher has been known to review his students’ research drafts and respond to their emails at 1, 2 and 3 a.m. “He makes himself more available than any teacher […]
