11/14/2019 ISSUE 46

New Vero City Council members
emphasize public input. P12
School Board narrows
superintendent search. P6
Museum of Art acknowledges

aficionados at sumptuous shindig. P30

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Sebastian hospital ONE Sotheby’s
safety rating falls; buys brokerage
downgraded to ‘C’ from Thorpes

BY MICHELLE GENZ BY STEVEN M. THOMAS
Staff Writer Staff Writer

After a remarkable recovery, PHOTO BY ROSS ROWLINSON Treasure Coast Sotheby’s In-
jumping from an F safety grade ternational Realty, a leading is-
in 2018 to an A this past April, State funds study of how to clean up Bethel Creek land brokerage that did nearly
Sebastian River Medical Cen- half-a-billion dollars in busi-
ter has circled back to a C – the BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ data collected in Bethel Creek lature for the first phase of ness in 2018, has been acquired
same grade it had when Stew- Staff Writer to see if the stagnant inlet on the project, which will study by ONE Sotheby’s International
ard Health bought the hospital the Indian River Lagoon can the Vero Beach creek – which Realty, a south Florida broker-
in 2017. Scientists from Florida Insti- be cleaned up by flushing it starts near the Village Mar- age founded by Mayi de la Vega
tute of Technology are under- with ocean water. ket on the barrier island and that handled $2.5 billion in res-
The C was announced last taking a sophisticated com- curves through residential idential real estate transactions
week by the national hospital puter-model study based on The university was awarded last year.
ratings organization Leapfrog $800,000 by the state legis- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Group, which aims to pro- Both parties describe the ac-
mote hospital safety with its quisition in glowing terms as
semi-annual report card. a win-win for all involved. For
ONE Sotheby’s, the deal, which
Neighboring hospitals’ scores closed Friday, Nov. 1, extends
remained unchanged: a B the rapidly expanding compa-
grade for Cleveland Clinic In- ny’s reach all the way from its
dian River and a C for Palm Miami origins into prime real
Bay Hospital. estate markets in Indian River
and Brevard counties.
Sebastian River’s latest grade
makes the A from last spring “Treasure Coast’s knowl-
as much an outlier in the hos- edge of the Vero Beach and
pital’s rating history as the F
it got in spring 2018 – one of CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Centennial Place could
give Vero the vibrant
Vero Beach Country Club undertakes PHOTO BY KAILA JONES riverfront that it lacks
multimillion-dollar revitalization effort

BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ pansion to help it keep pace BY STEVEN M. THOMAS
Staff Writer with changing times, accord- Staff Writer
ing to General Manager Tim
Vero Beach Country Club, a Straley. Ever wonder why Vero
venerable institution found- Beach doesn’t have a lively
ed when Calvin Coolidge The country club, located historic riverfront with res-
was president, is gearing up at 800 30th Street and estab- taurants, shops, docks and
for a multimillion-dollar ex- lished in 1924, is known for lodging like towns up and

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Vero riverfront side village, but it has nothing remote- Ridge to keep the rails as high and dry rails, the mosquito-bitten construction
ly like the thriving riverfront dining, as possible, while still sticking close to crews gained a solid substrate and pro-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 entertainment and business districts the shore of the Indian River Lagoon tected the tracks from flooding.
in Stuart, Fort Pierce and other towns where a few small scattered settle-
down the coast from Stuart to Cocoa? to the north and south. ments had already taken root. “The elevation at Miracle Mile is
With efforts underway to devise a only 5 feet above sea level,” says Vero
Why not? NEWS ANALYSIS Beach Planning and Development Di-
plan for redevelopment of the city- The simple answer is the railroad. rector Jason Jeffries. “At the Atlantic
owned riverfront property known The Florida East Coast Railroad That sedimentary ridge is a solidified Coastal Ridge where the railroad pass-
as Centennial Place – 30-plus prime tracks run much further back from the sand bar that was pushed up by waves es through downtown, the elevation is
acres that flank both sides of the Alma water in Vero than in the other towns, running along the coast when the Vero 16 feet.”
Lee Loy Bridge – the question natu- and the railroad determined the city’s area was part of the ocean floor. By fol-
rally arises. location. lowing the ridge as they laid timber In the other towns and cities along
But there is more to it than that. crossties and spiked down the steel the Space and Treasure coasts, the ridge
Vero has by far the nicest oceanfront Henry Flagler’s engineers laid their and the railroad that followed it run be-
along this stretch of coast, with 4-star tracks along an ancient geographi- tween 500 to 2,500 feet from the water,
resorts, fine restaurants and high-end cal feature called the Atlantic Coastal but in Vero the shore of the lagoon is
boutiques in its postcard-perfect sea- 7,000 feet – 1.3 miles – from the railroad
tracks where they run by the Indian Riv-
er County Citrus museum, which used
to be the town’s train station.

“What’s interesting about Vero is
that the downtown was plated west of
the railroad,” says Jeffries. “The other
towns were plated east of the rails,
along the water.”

Some of the other towns already
had 50 or 100 inhabitants and a hand-
ful of buildings near the lagoon by
the time the railroad came through in
1893. When the tracks were laid close
by, the townsites were locked in place,
with development filling the space be-
tween the railroad and the river.

Meanwhile, in Vero, there was
nothing but a few homesteaders in
1893. Most of Indian River County
was swampland and development
didn’t take off until 1912 when a
group of Davenport, Iowa, business-
men formed the Indian River Farms
Company, bought 55,000 acres and
dredged the county’s network of ca-
nals to drain the land for agricultural
and settlement purposes.

The businessmen wouldn’t have
bought their massive tract in this lo-
cation if the railroad hadn’t been here.
Flagler’s trains ensured they would be
able to bring in construction materials
and ship out produce and, as soon as
the land was dry, the same engineer
who designed the canals, Robert Cart-
er, laid out the town cheek and jowl
with the tracks.

To people at that time, the railroad
meant prosperity and growth and its
impact was dramatic up and down the
coast. A 1920 map drawn by Carter –
by then city engineer – that’s on dis-
play in the history and genealogy sec-
tion of the main county library shows
how fast the town grew once it was es-
tablished and just how closely it clung
to its steel lifeline.

The highly detailed map, which has
a legend at the bottom proclaiming
Vero “The Next Big City on the East
Coast of Florida,” shows the town el-
ementary school, the powerplant, the
original city hall and Pocahontas park
all edged right up to the tracks.

Extending east and west from down-
town, large, neatly plated subdivisions

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with hundreds of homesites are laid and that is a shame, aesthetically and over the water as in Stuart, restau- development with offices or condos
out as close to the railroad as possible. economically. rants, shops and possibly a boutique above shops and dining spots.
hotel, along with plenty of green space
“Trains not only provided much The good news is Vero is now com- with palm trees, hibiscus, benches Geography and the industrial age
needed farming, building and cooking ing up on a second – or third – chance and fountains, would give residents a conspired againstVero having a charm-
supplies, helping to make Florida’s wil- to repair its deficit. A smart, well- place to take friends and family, and ing waterfront, but the future is wide
derness more habitable, but improved designed development on the river- visitors another reason to visit. open. The city could yet have a beau-
commerce by providing faster trans- side acres where the power plant and tiful modern development with his-
port of agricultural products and other sewer plant now loom over the lagoon An entertainment venue such as torical echoes that would create jobs,
goods,” according to a historical over- could give the city what it lacks. a small amphitheater could be part generate tax revenue and enhance the
view on the City of Vero Beach website. of the project along with mixed-use
Docks for boaters, a boardwalk out city’s quality of life and reputation. 
Having everything from doctors
and lawyers offices to general and
hardware stores to the post office and
city hall close to the train station also
was important to people arriving by
rail to shop or do business in town.
There were few cars and most people
took care of their errands on foot.

“You are exactly right,” says Indian
River County Historian Ruth Stan-
bridge about why Vero grew up by
the tracks. “There was no highway, so
people [and goods] had to travel by
rail or water.”

According to an article by Steve
Winston on www.visitflorida.com,
Vero’s train station “was the lifeblood
of this town.”

Stanbridge says city fathers, busy
downtown, didn’t get around to trying
to develop the riverfront until after the
Second World War and then concen-
trated their efforts on the island side
of the lagoon.

The town had changed its name
from Vero to Vero Beach and annexed
the barrier island in the mid-1920s to
make the municipality more alluring to
tourists and potential residents in the
north. So, when the opportunity to fix
up part of the riverfront came along in
the 1940s, the island was the priority.

“The Intracoastal Waterway had
silted in during the World War II,”
Stanbridge says. “When they dredged
it after the War, the city worked very
closely with the federal and state gov-
ernments to create Riverside Park by
putting dredging spoils on marshland
– which was still legal then. The land
where Riverside Theatre and the art
museum sit was marsh before that.”

So, in the 1940s, the city got a nice
park and recreational area on the river
but nothing like the busy historical
waterfronts nearby that have since be-
come the civic centerpieces of Stuart,
Jensen Beach, Fort Pierce, Sebastian,
Melbourne and Cocoa, raved about
in guidebooks and patronized by Vero
residents.

Because of an accident of geog-
raphy, those towns now have repur-
posed historical buildings and at-
tractive new development carefully
curated along their riverfronts with
an eye to the pleasure people take in
drinking, dining, shopping and sim-
ply relaxing by the water.

In Vero, by contrast, you can drive
the length of Indian River Boulevard
without ever glimpsing the river –

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Vero Beach Country Club been relocated to make room for the “One of our biggest problems is Because Vero is midway between
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 new construction. Vero Beach is kind of a retirement the Fort Pierce and Sebastian Inlets,
community,” Geeslin said, adding the more than 15 miles from any source
its beautiful, gently rolling golf course “Our future is going after more of average club member age is 73. of fresh ocean water, tidal flushing
surrounded by attractive homes. that family dynamic,” Straley said. and currents are minimal. Dirty water
It also offers putting and chipping “We started doing monthly kid events It’s Geeslin’s hope that, as more fam- in Bethel Creek and between the Vero
ranges and has an 22,000-square-foot that have proven to be really success- ilies move to Vero and part-time resi- bridges exchanges very slowly, and
brick clubhouse with a variety of din- ful so far. It’s really going to grow once dents extend their stay year-round, the creek stank for months after the
ing options from fine to casual. we have” the new family-friendly fa- the club’s modernized resort-style up- sewage spill.
cilities in place. grades will lure them to become long-
Other than golf and dining, though, term members and frequent the club “My goal all along has been to im-
the club has not had much else to of- Like other clubs around the coun- often. prove the water quality, which then
fer its 480 members. try, Vero Beach Country Club is adapt- helps to increase the amount of light
ing to the decline in golfers hitting the “In order to appeal to a younger au- that gets to the seagrass, which then
But that is about to change. links, the club’s past president Jeff Wil- dience, we’re going to give Mrs. Brown improves all the different species that
The club has submitted a site plan liard, an island resident, said. something to do while Mr. Brown plays live in that water habitat area,” Zorc
to the City of Vero Beach and will be golf,” Geeslin said. With the swimming said. “I think flushing can really bring
seeking building permits from the The number of regular golfers pool, fitness center and tiki bar, “she’ll that area back to life.”
county for a 3,021-square-foot resort- across the country dropped from 30 have something to do and the kids will
style swimming pool with a beach en- million to 20.9 million between 2002 have something to do with her.” The first phase of the study – al-
try, 1,500-square-foot Key West-style and 2016, according to a study by golf ready underway at Bethel Creek
tiki bar with a food menu, 450-square- industry group Pellucid Corp. With Club membership dues currently – involves gathering data on water
foot snack bar and a 4,500-square- the decrease, the industry also saw a range from $5,200 to $8,800 annu- quality, biological parameters and
foot fitness center. lag in equipment sales and a dip in the ally. Initiation fees range from $5,500 hydrologic conditions. The data will
The $3.8 million expansion on number of rounds played annually. to $17,500, depending on the level of be used in a computer model where
roughly two acres leaves open the membership. As at most clubs, full dye that moves with the currents will
possibility of further construction “Clubs need to do more than be golf memberships are most expen- be introduced to determine if a per-
atop the fitness center, where a roof- golf and social to attract and fulfill the manent or temporary flushing device
top event area could be situated, needs of new members,” Williard said, sive.  could provide a potential ecological
Straley said. adding that club dues will not increase cure for the area.
The project, which is scheduled for because of the expansion. Bethel Creek
completion in October 2020, is being “The model in the numerical world
engineered by Carter Associates with Current club president and island CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mimics the real world to the best of our
design by Donadio & Associates Ar- resident Nick Geeslin echoed Wil- ability,” said Gary Zarillo, a professor
chitects. The golf course’s 9th hole has liard’s sentiment, adding that the neighborhoods to open into the la- of oceanography at Florida Tech and
members who voted last December to goon near the Vero Beach Municipal one of the principal investigators for
approve the expansion hope it will at- Marina – as well as two sites in the Ba- the project. “It’s like when you get your
tract a younger demographic, includ- nana River. weather prediction everyday – that’s
ing non-golfers, to join the club. not actual data – it’s based on models
Indian River County Commissioner and statistics. Usually the weather pre-
Tim Zorc – who has led the charge to dictions are pretty accurate.”
clean the murky, dead-end Bethel
Creek – celebrated the announcement Phase one of the project is expect-
as an important step forward in clean- ed to conclude in June. The data col-
ing up the lagoon, which has been lected by the university’s team of six
plagued with nutrient pollution, algae scientists and biologists will be dis-
blooms, marine mammal deaths and tributed to the state, county and pub-
seagrass losses. lic, Zarillo said. If it is convincing and
more funding is available, the goal will
When Zorc ran for the commission be to proceed with flushing.
the first time in 2012, ridding Bethel
Creek of its stale water by opening Longer term, the hope is that im-
some type of connection with the proving water quality in places like
ocean was a prominent part of his Bethel Creek will lead to ecological res-
platform.
toration throughout the lagoon. 
Now, he is optimistic scientists will
conclude that installing a series of Sebastian River Medical Center
pumps and pipes to flush Bethel Creek
with ocean water will work like it did in CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Destin in Florida’s Panhandle, where
the city’s filthy, ecologically damaged only two F grades in the state and 22
harbor was brought back to life. in the nation. Apart from those ex-
tremes, the hospital has wallowed in
Pumps were used continuously in C’s and D’s since 2016.
Destin until the harbor was cleaned;
now the system is used only when wa- Other local hospitals appear to be
ter quality worsens. putting less emphasis on the Leapfrog
scores, answering fewer questions on
Talks about how to clean the creek the Leapfrog voluntary survey, as was
ramped up in 2017 after a sewage main the case with Cleveland Clinic Indian
along State Road A1A burst, dumpling River; or not responding at all, as with
roughly 3 million gallons of raw sew- Health First-owned hospitals in Bre-
age into the creek. vard County.

The city installed a series of aera- The area’s two Level 2 trauma cen-
tors to speed up decomposition of the ters had mixed showings. Lawnwood
human waste but that action did not Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce
address the basic problem in the creek did fill out a Leapfrog survey and got
and the lagoon in Vero Beach in gen-
eral.

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a B grade. Holmes Regional Medical charge a fee for hospitals to use the widespread news reports about the F Healthcare Administration confirmed
Center in Melbourne did not complete grade in marketing. grade kept patients away in 2018. He significantly lower patient volumes in
a survey and based on other data, was also believed the turnaround to an A the year of the F grade, 2018, but not
awarded a D. For Sebastian River, though, pub- would be followed by an uptick in ad- the uptick Sanders claimed.
licity about the F grade last year was missions, which he said finally mate-
Leapfrog does not charge hospi- free – and unwanted. Departing hos- rialized in the quarter ending Sept. 30. Sebastian River’s latest grade – the
tals to participate in its survey or let- pital president Kyle Sanders, who re- C – is the first to rely mostly on data
ter grade calculations, though it does signed last month, felt strongly that Data from the state’s Agency for
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Sebastian River Medical Center ceived a Leapfrog A-grade last spring, cal care doctor, in the ICU – a physi- culate a safety grade, which is then
and we will not be satisfied until we cian “who meets all Leapfrog criteria assigned on a curve with other hospi-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 continuously receive A-grades mov- as Board Certified and Fellowship tals in the region.
ing forward,” Steward Health’s chief trained in Critical Care medicine.”
collected entirely on Steward’s watch. medical officer, Dr. Joseph Weinstein Much of the data comes from the
Prior grades – both the A and F – still said in an email to Vero Beach 32963. “Additionally, Sebastian River re- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
reflected data from the period before cently hired two new quality coordi- services, while other information
Steward bought the hospital “We are doubling down on our nators who are already driving sig- comes from the voluntary survey,
commitment to patient safety and nificant performance improvement,” which Leapfrog claims to indepen-
After the latest C grade, neither have made some critical adjustments said Weinstein. “We expect to once dently verify. If a hospital doesn’t
Steward nor SRMC is throwing in the in recent months.” again achieve an A in the next Leap- submit data in the survey, Leapfrog
towel. frog report.” tries to get the information from sec-
Weinstein gave as an example the
“Sebastian River Medical Center re- hiring of a new intensivist, or criti- Leapfrog uses 27 measures to cal- ondary sources. 

School Board narrows superintendent search to 6 semifinalists

BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ longtime assistant and associate su- the semifinalists would be taking a pay current salary as associate superin-
Staff Writer perintendents vying for an opportu- cut if offered the job. tendent is $154,000.
nity to be the top leader in a school
The Indian River County School district. Semifinalists include Margaret Brennan Asplen III has served as
Board has selected six semifinalists for “Peggy” Aune, who has served as as- deputy superintendent for academic
the district’s vacant superintendent The board will interview the semi- sociate superintendent of curriculum & student services at St. Johns County
position, including a former inner-city finalists on Thursday and Saturday. and instruction for Collier County School District, in St. Augustine, Flor-
teacher who rose to the rank of re- Public Schools, in Naples, Florida, for ida, for the past four years.
gional school superintendent in Palm “We’re very pleased with the quality the past two years.
Beach County, the 10th largest district of applicants we have to choose from,” He began his career as a secondary
in the nation. said Board Chairman Laura Zorc. “We Aune began her career in 2000 as mathematics teacher for Seminole
have some excellent candidates.” an exceptional student education County Schools in 1988, and served as
Other candidates range from a vet- teacher for Manatee Middle School a middle and high school principal for
eran superintendent from Georgia to The district’s nationwide search at- in the Collier district, and has also 16 years. He worked as associate super-
tracted 36 candidates, offering an an- been a middle school principal. Her intendent for human resources in the
nual salary of up to $178,000. Two of

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St. Johns district before being promot- Bush for leading the efforts to dramati- dent graduation rates have increased lion in construction projects with no
ed to his current position. His current cally improve the school’s graduation from 69.4 percent to 91.3 percent long-term debt. His current salary is
annual salary is $140,000. rates and reading scores. during the same period. $198,000, but says he would take a
reduced salary for an opportunity to
Michael Dunsmore has been su- He’s currently a regional superin- During his tenure the district has
perintendent of Wayne County Pub- tendent earning $160,000 per year. also completed more than $82 mil- lead a larger school district. 
lic Schools, Goldsboro, North Caro-
lina, since 2015. Previously, he served David Moore has been an educa- 10-YEAR PLAN TO CLEAN UP THE
as superintendent of schools in Tyrell tor for 24 years, serving the past six LAGOON APPROVED BY THE EPA
County for 6 years. His current an- years as assistant superintendent of
nual salary is $192,500. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, BY SUE COCKING The Lagoon Council’s $2.25 million
the fourth largest district in the nation Staff Writer annual budget comes from the EPA,
Dunsmore inherited a school dis- – and one of the country’s highest per- the five member counties, and state
trict in Wayne County that had 14 forming urban school districts. The Indian River Lagoon Council's water management and environmen-
“low performing” schools in danger 10-year roadmap for restoring the tal agencies.
of being taken over by the state. Dur- During his tenure with the district ailing 156-mile-long estuary to good
ing the past five years, seven of those he’s also worked as a teacher, coun- health has been approved by the U.S. Currently, the council is backing
schools have shown enough academ- selor, assistant principal and prin- Environmental Protection Agency. more than 50 projects along the la-
ic progress to be removed from the cipal. As assistant superintendent, goon to treat wastewater and storm-
state’s “take-over” list, and four oth- he oversees the district’s Division of The comprehensive conservation water, restore habitats on land and in
ers are within 2 percent of perform- Academic Support. Moore lists a cur- and management plan put together the estuary, and convert septic tanks
ing well enough to be removed. rent annual salary of $149,003 on his over the past year or so now has the to sewer hookups.
application. official green light to engage all 38 cit-
Earlier in his academic career Dun- ies, five counties, and some 1.6 million Nine lagoon-enhancing projects
smore served as a middle school life Charles Randy Shearouse has been residents along the lagoon to reduce completed recently were showcased
skills teacher and a special education superintendent of Effingham County pollution flowing into the waterway at the meeting, including phase two of
teacher. School District, Springfield, Georgia, and begin to get rid of contaminants Indian River County's West Wabasso
for the past 14 years. During his 31 and sediment, including heavy loads septic-to-sewer conversion.
Peter Licata started his career in years as an educator, he’s also served of nitrogen and phosphorus that feed
education as an inner-city teacher and as a teacher and high school principal destructive algae blooms. County utilities director Vincent
coach at Olympic Heights Community in the district. Burke told the council more than 50
High School in the School District of
Palm Beach County. After several years With him as superintendent, grad- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
he was promoted to be the school’s uation rates for African-American
principal. In that position, he was rec- students increased from 48.9 percent
ognized by former Florida Gov. Jeb in 2006 to 96.1 percent in 2018, ac-
cording to his resume. Overall stu-

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10-year lagoon plan Meanwhile, the council is sifting
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 through a "wish list" of nearly 500
lagoon-related projects submitted by
homes and commercial businesses cities, counties, towns, water manag-
west of 58th Avenue near route 510 ers, parks and universities totaling
with old, broken, leaky septic tanks $2.6 billion, evaluating which ones are
have been connected to the county "shovel-ready or near shovel-ready,"
sewer system in the past year. Council Executive Director Dr. Duane
DeFreese told the gathering.
The project cost $1.7 million, with
$200,000 contributed by the council. "The focus needs to be reducing nu-
Burke said the improvements would trients and pollutants at the source and
increase property values in a very where we have legacy loads like muck,"
"economically depressed" area and DeFreese said.
reduce the discharge of wastes into
groundwater that eventually flows "The key here is that we need to have
into the lagoon. resolve. We need to invest. It's going to
take a decade and beyond to invest in a

healthy system." 

PHOTOS BY MARTINA TANNERY

ONE Sotheby’s could ever imagine on all levels,” said
Mike Thorpe, who put the deal in mo-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tion a year ago when he called ONE
Sotheby’s and floated the idea of an
Melbourne markets is second to none, acquisition, pointing out how well it
and we couldn’t have found a better af- would fit into the larger company’s ex-
filiate to strengthen our forces and ex- pansion plans.
pand our presence north,” ONE Sothe-
by’s President Daniel de la Vega said. ONE Sotheby’s, founded in 2008,
had acquired five brokerages in the
For Michael and Kimberly Thorpe, past several years prior to the Thorpes’
co-owner-brokers at the local So- business, steadily pushing north along
theby’s, the transaction allows them the coast from Miami to Stuart. Bring-
to pass the business they created on ing Treasure Coast Sotheby’s into the
to a highly successful company they fold extended operations 100 miles
believe will continue to grow the busi- further up the coast.
ness and help its 100 or so agents and
other employees achieve increased “We are Miami to Melbourne now,”
success. the company’s chief operating officer
Michael Koval told Vero Beach 32963
Treasure Coast’s two offices, one in last week.
Vero and one in Melbourne Beach, will
continue to operate in the same loca- Mike Thorpe says he reached out to
tions under the ONE Sotheby’s name. ONE Sotheby’s because “after 28 years
The Thorpes will be part of the merged as a broker and business owner, I was
business as broker associates, shifting ready for a different lifestyle.”
their focus from business operations
to listing and selling homes, some- When he told Kim Thorpe what
thing they did successfully while own- he was thinking, she was resistant at
ing the brokerage. first. “She is younger and hasn’t been
a business owner as long and was still
“It is the best possible affiliation we enjoying managing our marketing de-

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ONE Sotheby’s la Vegas and Thorpes had known each From left: Brokers Michael and Kimberly Thorpe with tion process herself and come out the
other for a decade before beginning ONE Sotheby’s Founder & CEO Mayi de la Vega and other side to have her best and most
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 the acquisition process, which got President Daniel de la Vega. profitable year ever,” said Koval.
serious over the summer when Koval
partment and building a business and and ONE Sotheby’s chief financial of- Stuart was acquired by ONE Sotheby’s ONE Sotheby’s was founded by Mayi
being part of the team, so I had to re- ficer began to look at the details of the two years ago and who is managing de la Vega in Miami in 2008, during the
group and approach it from another Thorpes’ business and figure out how broker for the company’s offices in Ju- onset of the biggest property down-
angle,” Mike Thorpe said. to fit the two companies together. piter, Palm Beach Gardens and Stuart, turn in history, which gives her and
will be the broker of record for the for- the Thorpes something else besides
“She loves to travel, so when I tried The complex undertaking was made mer Treasure Coast Sotheby’s offices. the Sotheby’s brand in common.
again, I presented it as an opportunity easier by the long acquaintance, the re-
for us to travel more together, which spect and admiration for each other’s “She is the perfect person for this, Mike Thorpe started in real estate
we haven’t been able to do much of in business practices and success that having just gone through the acquisi- as an agent at Norris & Company on
recent years.” both families express, and by their joint the barrier island in 1979, a hyperin-
participation in the Sotheby’s network flationary period during which inter-
“We’ve actually have had to take sep- and brand. est rates topped 20 percent, making
arate vacations so one of us could be it very difficult for buyers to finance
here to take care of the business,” said “Mayi bleeds the blue of the Sothe- home purchases. He quickly became
Kim Thorpe, who added that she had by’s brand, the same as we do,” says a top producer despite the financing
a “turnaround” in her thinking partly Kim Thorpe. challenges and went on to start his
because of the lure of travel but even own brokerage 10 years later.
more so because “listing and selling Koval says ONE Sotheby’s agents in
homes is my passion, and now we will Vero and Melbourne Beach will ben- Kim Thorpe got her real estate li-
be able to really concentrate on that.” efit from the company’s greater “op- cense in 2009, and went to work at
erational capacity,” including a much Mike’s brokerage during the same
Mike Thorpe, too, said he recently larger marketing department, more tough downturn Mayi de la Vega
has found a renewed passion for the sophisticated technology and a wider faced. She became Mike’s business
basic business of real estate, meeting network of offices to generate refer- partner in 2010 when it was still un-
people and making deals. rals. clear how deep the real estate reces-
sion would be or if it would ever end.
Even while running their business, “ONE Sotheby’s sets the standard in She listed $17 million her first year,
the Thorpes consistently ranked in luxury real estate and we are thrilled when many agents were leaving the
the top 1 percent of agents in the to bring their tools and resources to business in despair, and sold $20 mil-
county, and Kim Thorpe said their our agents, sellers and buyers on the lion her second year.
personal sales numbers are up 50 Treasure and Space Coasts,” said Kim
percent compared to last year, but Thorpe. “We would not have wanted “If you can survive those kinds of be-
both want to do more. to be acquired by any other company.” ginnings, you are almost guaranteed to
thrive in good times,” Koval said.
As fellow Sotheby’s brokers, the de Kelly Martin, whose brokerage in

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That was the case with both compa- quadrupled sales over the next 9 years, nings that did $2.5 billion in sales in residential real estate business, ONE
nies. handling approximately $450 million 2018 and is running about 10 percent Sotheby’s also has a huge new devel-
in real estate transactions in 2018, ac- above that number so far this year, opment wing that controls $3.1 billion
Treasure Coast Sotheby’s did about cording to Mike Thorpe. not counting any sales related to the in preconstruction and new construc-
$100 million in business in 2009, the Treasure Coast acquisition, according tion listings, according to the compa-
year before Kim Thorpe became a During the same period, Mayi de to Koval. ny’s website. Koval could not provide a
partner, and between them the cou- la Vega and her son Daniel de la Vega
ple, who later married, more than built a business from uncertain begin- Besides its main multibillion-dollar sales figure for that division. 

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New Vero City Council members emphasize public input

BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ nonpartisan election in which approxi- only to reverse its decision following torney who touted his position as a
Staff Writer mately 4,400 ballots were cast, both public outcry. fiscal conservative during the race,
emphasize the importance of public won overwhelmingly with 1,144
Political newcomers and island resi- input in decision-making. Both newly elected council mem- votes or 26 percent of the ballots cast,
dents Rey Neville and Joe Graves, who bers, who will replace outgoing May- according to unofficial results from
won seats on theVero Beach City Council The current City Council in recent or Val Zudans and Councilman Harry the Indian River Supervisor of Elec-
in last week’s municipal election, will en- weeks garnered criticism and attract- Howle – neither man sought re-elec- tions. The city has a total of 12,260
ter public office with similar objectives. ed protestors at city hall after making tion – have pledged to keep the pool registered voters.
a hasty decision to close the popular open indefinitely and protect other
The men, who finished at the top of a swimming pool at Leisure Square with- city assets. Along with his pledge to seek citi-
crowded field of eight candidates in the out sounding out the community first, zen input, Graves says fixing beach-
Graves, 56, a well-known local at- side and downtown parking short-
ages, swiftly moving the waterfront
wastewater treatment facility inland
and improving the health of the ail-
ing Indian River Lagoon are at the
top of his priority list. He also sees
redevelopment of Centennial Place
and the Vero Beach City Marina as
important issues.

“I don’t think that our city should
be selling its assets, because once
it’s sold, it’s gone,” Graves said.
“That’s really concerning and espe-
cially when it comes to [Centennial
Place], because I think it’s a valuable
piece of property, but it’s not some-
thing that should be just turned into
condos or sold off to an out of town
investor.”

Graves raised $18,410 for his cam-
paign – nearly three times as much
as Neville, who ranked second in the
crowded field – from notable names
such as Alma Lee Loy, Corporate Air,
Property Appraiser Wesley Davis and
Sheriff’s Office Major Eric Flowers,
who is running for sheriff.

Neville, 77, a retired Air Force colo-
nel and former plastic manufactur-
ing executive in St. Louis, got into the
race to carry out the will of the people
regarding city projects including the
redevelopment of Centennial Place
and the Vero Beach City Marina.

He raised $5,855, garnering dona-
tions from Vice Mayor Tony Young
and the Realtors Political Advocacy
Committee, and captured 823 votes,
or 18.7 percent of the ballots cast.

Neville’s goals include making the
city a leader in protecting the envi-
ronment – especially the lagoon –
ensuring public spaces are properly
maintained and building public trust
in city government.

Neville and Graves defeated Nick
Thomas, Brian Heady, Jeff Nall, Bob
McCabe, John Cotugno and Estelle
Panagakos.

Both will be sworn in on Nov. 18
at 10 a.m. at city hall. A new mayor
and vice mayor will be chosen by the
council on that date. The salary for a
council member is $900 per month,
while the mayor makes $1,125 per

month. 

Emmanuel Didier and Susan Schuyler Smith
with Sandra and Ron Rennick.

‘GATEKEEPERS’ CHEER AS MORE
McKEE MAGIC SET TO SPROUT P. 17

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Christmas spirit off to flying start at ‘Evening of Giving’

Theresa Kelso, Catherine Reichert and Tina Wilcox. Doug Sweeny and Linda Biscamp. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Pat Simm, Linda Kouns and Ann Passen.

Liz Crowther and Liz Melnick. Mary Ellen and Mike Skehan. Dr. John and Debbie Lindsey.

BY KERRY FIRTH tee,” explained Catherine Reichert, “This is my third year heading up tradition in Grand Harbor. An inau-
Correspondent serving as event co-chair for the fifth this event and I still get chills when I gural gala was held in 2000, a year
year. read thank-you notes from those who before the Grand Harbor Commu-
The glitz and glamour of holiday have benefited in the past. I abso- nity Outreach was created, with a
apparel shone nearly as brightly as “These charities strive to help peo- lutely love Christmas and the people volunteer Philanthropy Committee
the smiles of Grand Harbor residents ple less fortunate than most, many of we are helping have very little light in and a business plan patterned after
as they gathered for the annual Eve- whom may not even have a Christmas their lives. We at Grand Harbor are the successful John’s Island Founda-
ning of Giving at the Grand Harbor without a bit of Christmas magic. We so blessed, and the generosity of this tion. The two fundraisers eventually
Golf and Tennis Club last Thursday know what each agency needs, and community in sharing their bless- merged and have grown exponential-
evening, to raise funds for the chari- the funds are distributed directly to ings is overwhelming. We raise over ly through the decades.
ties supported by Grand Harbor the charity by a specific Grand Har- $400,000 annually for charity exclu-
Community Outreach. bor elf, who maintains a special re- sive of this event. This event alone The organizations whose holidays
lationship with the organization. We will bring in between $25,000 and will be made a little brighter this year
The red and white décor was high- follow up with each recipient in Janu- $30,000. It’s a nice start to the giving thanks to Grand Harbor residents
lighted by a large Christmas tree ary to make sure the funds were used season.” are: The Source, Camp Haven, Vision
adorned with paper stars and an- in the manner specified.” for Reading, Senior Resources, Red-
gels, representing various charities. Management of the Grand Har- lands Christian Migrant Association,
Guests excitedly selected the ones The results of their efforts will bor Club generously donates all of CHS Transitional Living, Children’s
with the desired monetary value for bring holiday joy to hundreds of chil- the food, drinks and entertainment, Home Society, Hope for Families
their favorite charities, before turn- dren, seniors and veterans. and all staff volunteers their time, Center, Guardian Ad Litem, SNAG, St.
ing their donations over to one of the enabling 100 percent of donations to Francis Manor, the Veterans Council,
volunteer elves. “This night is always the first event directly benefit the charities. Solaris Senior Living and Bike Walk
of the upcoming season and it’s the Indian River County.
“Fourteen different charities have perfect time for all of our neighbors The Evening of Giving, which be-
been vetted and approved by the to welcome each other back from gan with a simple Tree Trimming For more information, visit ghcop.
Grand Harbor Philanthropy Commit- wherever they’ve summered,” added Party in the mid-1990s, is the oldest org. 
co-chair Tina Wilcox.



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Alzheimer & Parkinson donors have a flair for caring

Mark and Robbi Peirce. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE David Walker, Judy Lemoncelli, Lawrence Brashears, Peggy Cunningham and Raz Ilie. Ann and Bruce McEvoy.

BY MARY SCHENKEL County executive director, speaking
Staff Writer to invited guests at a Donor Appreci-
ation Reception last Tuesday evening
“Everyone in this room is responsi- at Northern Trust Bank.
ble for moving this organization for-
ward, with your time, your expertise Sharing some staggering statistics,
and your philanthropy,” said Peggy she said that in Indian River County
Cunningham, Alzheimer & Par- alone there are roughly 6,500 people
kinson Association of Indian River with dementia, cared for by about
5,200 caregivers, most of them un-

Trudie Rainone with George and Elke Fetterolf. Bill and Nancy Bryant.

paid family members and friends. the difficulties patients experience.
“We are just collecting the data on Cunningham said they are able

Parkinson’s,” she said, noting that to offer all their programs free of
Florida is ranked fourth nationwide. charge due to support from philan-
They estimate upwards of 1,000 peo- thropists and volunteers, legacy gifts,
ple in this county have Parkinson’s. the board’s strategic planning, staff
expertise, collaborations with other
To address the issue, the nonprofit community groups, and fundraisers
offers free programs and services, such as the annual Walk to Remem-
including Social Respite programs at ber, and the upcoming March 19 Suc-
sites around the county, where care- cessful Aging Luncheon.
givers can drop off patients for the
day, so that they can enjoy a day of re- “We have challenges ahead, so
spite for themselves. The newest one while we are thanking you, we’re
is at the Indian River Shores Commu- also going to say, don’t stop,” said
nity Center. Cunningham. Referencing the sta-
tistic of 6,500 people with dementia
“Taking care of someone with de- and 1,000 with Parkinson’s, she said
mentia is three times harder than they have served 2,500 individuals
any other form of caregiving,” said this year to date.
Cunningham.
“So we still have more to reach,
They offer a wealth of other ser- we have more programs to grow.
vices for patients dealing with mem- This is going to be something that
ory and motion disorders, such as 12 this community is going to need to
support groups; Project Lifesaver, a prepare for, coming down the road,”
search and rescue device in coordi- said Cunningham. “So this is very
nation with the Sheriff’s Office; mem- exciting, because we get to think
ory screenings and a research library about what’s ahead and what we get
available to any resident; 50 hours of to conquer.”
movement classes per month; classes
and conferences; and Virtual De- For more information, visit alzpark.
mentia Tours, to better understand org. 

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‘Gatekeepers’ cheer as more McKee magic set to sprout

She said that in January, McKee will plore ways to improve McKee, while
be featured in Southern Living Maga- upholding the mission of education,
zine as a Warm Weather Getaway des- enjoyment and enrichment of all,”
tination. Past accolades have included said Hobart. “Tonight, we celebrate
being named one of the 22 secret gar- you and everything you have done to
dens in the U.S. and Canada by Na- make McKee what it is today. As Gate-
tional Geographic Traveler and as one keepers of the Garden, you are the
of the top 10 romantic destinations in foundation from which all of this is
Florida by Coastal Living. possible.”

“As we continue to grow, so will For more information, visit mck-
our impact. We will continue to ex- eegarden.org. 

Henry Maresi, Virginia and Warren Schwerin and Lala Maresi. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE

Jean Ueltschi and Sherry Ann Dayton. Kathi and John Schumann.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

McKee Botanical Garden was alight Olivia and Matt McManus.
with activity last Wednesday evening,
as invited guests gathered for the an- Afterward, guests enjoyed cock-
nual Gatekeepers of the Garden Din- tails and hors d’oeuvres in the Span-
ner, hosted by the nonprofit to honor ish Kitchen before sauntering into the
donor generosity. Great Hall to dine on braised short
ribs catered by Elizabeth Kennedy
Before darkness overtook the tropi- & Co. Dinner was finished off with
cal garden, attendees were given childlike abandon with tartufo – Ital-
a sneak peek at the progress being ian ice cream treats.
made in the newly created Children’s
Garden, set to open Jan. 11. This area “This evening represents a land-
of the 18-acre, historic garden was de- mark event for McKee with the Chil-
signed to inspire imagination and cu- dren’s Garden so close to becoming a
riosity, nurturing the bond between reality. Growth and progress – these
children and nature. two words definitely define the past
year at McKee,” said Christine Hobart,
“What a magical place,” said Em- executive director, adding that annual
manuel Didier, Children’s Garden attendance has tripled since opening
designer. “The nature of the site, rich- in 2001.
ness of the vegetation and jungle are
quite magical. There’s no other place “Obviously, with the opening of the
like this. And what a high mission to Children’s Garden, we have strong
think about; to build a meaningful growth on the horizon,” said Hobart.
space for children and families to re-
ally enjoy this place and its magic.”

Noting that their vision was to have
it become a place for children of all
ages, Didier said, “Tonight I am very
happy to be with a lot of ‘children.’ I’m
excited to see some of you taking on
the Monkey Bridge and discovering
some of the unexpected assets of this
garden.”

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‘Rock’-solid support for lagoon initiatives at benefit

BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

More than 400 supporters of the In- Jennifer Croom, Bob Gibb, Lollie Stone, Charles Croom and Wheatie Gibb. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Chuck and Francie Cramb.
dian River Land Trust wound their way Ken and Natalie Grudens.
along the pathways of the lushly land- ber, it’s probably one of the area’s most
scaped Rock City Gardens last Thurs- valuable assets,” said Cramb. He noted
day evening, enjoying an evening that as part of their conservation ef-
under the stars at the organization’s forts, they are always interested in
annual benefit, Land Water Wildlife: looking at land that’s available, espe-
Protecting the Land that Protects the cially waterfront property.
Lagoon.
“We love it when it’s gifted to us and
Perspiring in a sultry evening that we love it when it’s affordable. We’re
felt more like August than November,
guests cooled off by mingling over icy
cocktails before sitting down to enjoy
a delicious buffet dinner prepared by
Wild Thyme Catering. The presenting
sponsors of the event were Stephanie
Smith and Lollie Stone.

Charles Cramb, who has served for
several years as IRLT board chairman,
said that he was pleased to be part of
the Land Trust and its efforts to find
solutions to the challenges faced by the
Indian River Lagoon.

“We need to restore the lagoon and
improve the water quality. Remem-

Bob and Linda Williams with Linda and John Johnson.

Gordon Michael and Anne Michael. Rhonda and Tom Lowe.

always reviewing opportunities,” said servation areas also naturally cleanse
Cramb. stormwater runoff from nearby neigh-
borhoods and roads before it reaches
Later, in his welcome to guests, the lagoon. In effect, our properties act
Cramb reminded them of the three as large natural filters for the lagoon.”
P’s that are critical to our area: “pres-
ervation of land, protection of the wa- But, he added, Land Trust’s protec-
terfront and providing our properties tions don’t stop there.
for both educational and recreational
use.” “We have conducted significant
work through partnerships to restore
Ken Grudens, IRLT executive direc- native plant and wildlife habitats, and
tor, shared some of the Land Trust’s to allow for better movement of wa-
major accomplishments with attend- ter in and out of our coastal wetlands
ees. into the Lagoon, keeping it fresher and
healthier,” said Grudens.
“In having acquired over 1,000 acres
and 10 miles of shoreline, first and “This equates to fewer opportuni-
foremost we have eliminated sedimen- ties for algae blooms in our county and
tation and the runoff of oils and chem- allows important fish species such as
icals into the lagoon that would have tarpon and snook to move out into the
occurred as a result of hundreds of new lagoon and then to the ocean to spawn,
homes that would have been built on in sync with their natural life cycles. In
these properties along the river,” said summary, we are protecting the land
Grudens. that protects the lagoon.”

“These permanently protected con- For more information, visit irlt.org. 

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Patricia and Mark Ashdown with Anne Lanier. Marlen and George Higgs. Mike and Lynde Karin with Betty Cates and Nick Oancea.

Al and Pilar Turner with Pat Marquis and Barbara Butts. Joseph and Amanda Robinson. Bart and JoAnn Crosby

Lou and Ginny Hoynes with Ken Wessel and Susan and Bob Kintner.

Sheila and George Marshall with Barbara Blaze and Kit and Sue Barrow.

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Samaritan Center Soup Bowl: Mmm mmm marvelous!

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

A delicious array of soups, stews Ellen Giordano and Dawn Miller. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Jane Askren and Doris Foley. Pat Rice and Carol Schoff.
and chowders bubbled forth from a
font of good intentions during the Local potters again fired up their
27th annual Samaritan Center Soup kilns to raise additional funds by
Bowl, offered up at 44 locations creating hand-crafted soup bowls.
across the county. This year, Indian River Clay mem-
bers threw more than 400 bowls to
More than 100 gallons of scrump- add to the 1,100 created by other clay
tious soups from 70 restaurants and artists at the Vero Beach Museum of
country clubs, along with an esti- Art. Other artists produced soup tu-
mated 650 gallons concocted by em-
ployees at local businesses, provided
a soupçon of choices. Selections ran
the gamut from such old standards as
chicken soup and New England clam
chowder, to sweet potato bisque, cur-
ried butternut squash and jambalaya.

After making their selections, folks
settled in to “break bread together for
the homeless,” supporting the mis-
sion of the Samaritan Center to pro-
vide transitional housing to homeless
families, work with them to identify
the root cause of their homelessness
and develop the skills they need to
achieve self-reliance.

Barbara Urban, Leann Cirillo, Diana Tokarz, Cookie Thompson and Deana Malchow.

Jenn Eliason and Karen Langsam. throughout the county.
“It’s a story about soup
reens, functional works of art which
lucky raffle winners would soon take and serving up kind-
home. ness,” said Renee Bire-
ley, Samaritan Center
A new partnership with the Learn- program administrator.
ing Alliance for the Moonshot Mo- “It’s a perfect tie-in. One
ment introduced JumpStart Read for of the preventative mea-
the Record, an annual event in which sures to homelessness
millions of people across America is education. One of the
read the same book. This year’s book, ways our clients struggle
“Thank You Omu!” by Oge Mora, to support themselves
was available at Soup Bowl locations economically is often
from a lack of education.
Education is central to
their future success and
their children’s future suc-
cess.”
The Samaritan Center has served
more than 650 families since 1992.
“All the money goes back directly
to benefit the Samaritan Center for
homeless families. Seventy-five per-
cent of our budget comes from our
fundraisers, private donations and
grants,” said Bireley.
For more information, visit ccdpb.
org. 

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Sue Sharpe and Mimi King. Gwen Garner, Brendan Maughan, Jillian Arce and Maricruz Ayala.

Linda Schlitt-Gonzalez and Dustin Haynes. Doris Brandi, Barbara Tilney and Barbara Kilpatrick. PHOTO: STEPHANIE LABAFF

Michelle Lamb, Linda Thiessen and Myrna Renkert.

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Giving their all: ‘Sunshine Kids’ honors difference-makers

BY MARY SCHENKEL Rose and Steve Sadlek with Lynne Gates House. Bernadette and Mike Emerick. PHOTOS: MARY SCHENKEL the room to be excitatory for them.
Staff Writer Some children are wound up and we
Steve Sadlek joined the board of implementation of the sensorium, need to bring them down. Basically
Philanthropists Steve and Rose directors of Sunshine Physical Ther- explained that occupational, physi- we’re using the sensory input from
Sadlek were honored at the fourth an- apy in 2000, and in 2013 the couple cal and speech therapists use the the room to organize and regulate
nual Sunshine Kids Gala, hosted re- enabled the creation of the Sunshine room to regulate and organize the the child’s arousal level for optimal
cently by the Sunshine Physical Ther- Kids Program through a generous sensory system for optimal partici- participation in therapy. It’s very in-
apy Clinic at the Pointe West Country donation. They later provided sev- pation in therapy, through vision, dividualized for each child.”
Club. Proceeds from the event will eral additional major contributions hearing, touch, movement, smell
help offset the costs of pediatric ser- to facilitate the Sadlek Sensorium, and pressure stimuli. In addition to a delicious buffet
vices offered through its Sunshine a specialized environment to treat dinner, wine toss and numerous si-
Kids Programs. sensory integration disorders, which “We all have a sensory process- lent- and live-auction items, guests
opened in 2017. ing system; we’re all trying to find enjoyed touching entertainment fea-
“In 2018, we provided over $131,000 our neutral zone,” said Evans. “The turing Sunshine Kids ambassadors.
in non-reimbursed services. In 2019, Sara Evans, the occupational ther- room is designed so that if some- Ian McMahan proudly danced with
based on the first three quarters, we apist who oversaw the design and one’s arousal level is low we can set his mother, Katrena McMahan, and
are estimating that to increase to pretty little Trinity Garrett danced
$172,000. This is only possible through with her father, John Garrett. A third
the generosity of all of our donors,” child, Addison Chess, played a tune
said Lynne Gates House, SPTC ad- on a keyboard.
ministrator.
Sunshine Physical Therapy Clinic,
As she presented a special plaque a nonprofit, outpatient rehabilitation
to the couple, she noted, “Steve and center founded in 1953, has continu-
Rose opened their hearts and em- ally evolved over its more than six-
braced the Sunshine Kids Program. decade-long history, today providing
Their numerous donations and services for patients ranging from
generosity over the years has truly children to seniors.
made a difference in these children’s
lives.” For more information, visit sun-
shineptc.org. 

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Bonfired up! Beachside bashes put bow on Centennial

Jeff, Shelly and Kayla Green. Abigail Perez with Ms Centennnial Anna
Valencia Tillery and Malana Tejada.

Todd and Beth Kemmer. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Steve and Deanna Spangler.

Lucy Cogan, Brynn Bushnell, Megan McQuade and Phoebe Cogan.

Amy Smith and Laurie Hind Collings. Ashley Gagnon and Cindy Goetz.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF and Vero Beach Hotel & Spa. Music
Staff Writer blared, restaurants offered special
bonfire menus and drinks flowed at
The Vero Beach Centennial went each location.
up in flames Nov. 2 with a rousing
Beachside Bonfire Fest II that com- A sense of camaraderie developed
plemented those that took place as new friends and old reflected on
last November at the start of Vero’s the slew of events they had partici-
100th anniversary celebration. With pated in during the year-long cel-
the warm Atlantic waters lapping ebration.
at their feet, folks gathered ’round
bonfires at five locations along the “The bonfire was so successful
beach. last year that the team decided to
do a bonfire wrap-up,” said Tammy
While some settled in at one lo- Bursick, Centennial Celebration co-
cation, others traveled from fire to chair with City Councilman Tony
fire; from Citrus at the southern Young.
end, north to Waldo’s (a faux fire
due to its proximity to the historic The night was still young for
wooden structure), Costa d’Este some, who attended after-parties at
Resort, Mulligan’s Beach House Grind + Grape, the Boiler and Bun-
galow once the bonfires had been
safely snuffed out. 

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Community Service League’s thinking ‘Big’ this season

BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

The John’s Island Community Ser- Susie Kasten, Baerbel O’Haire, Susan McCord and Sunny Nelson. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Carol Twyman and Andrea Thibodeau.
vice League kicked off its 40th anni-
versary season with a record crowd of community and the John’s Island
225 people at its 40th Opening Lun- Community Service League mem-
cheon last Monday, which featured bers, their ideas, their time and their
guest speaker Stacey Watson-Mesley, money.”
CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters, St.
Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee Woodhouse said funding today is
Counties. raised through the Tambourine Shop,
events and galas – such as the upcom-
At the start of the luncheon, Hope ing March 21 Queen-themed “We are
Woodhouse, JICSL board president, the Champions” Gala – a more formal
directed people’s attention to a video fundraising initiative and member-
tribute created by Pat Thompson that
highlighted past and present mem-
bers of the league, created in 1980
by Johnny Van Name. That first year,
$25,000 was raised, primarily through
the newly opened Tambourine Shop.
JICSL now provides more than $1 mil-
lion annually in grants and scholar-
ships; a 40-year total of nearly $13 mil-
lion.

“We have come a long way,” said
Woodhouse. “But it’s only because
of the generosity of the John’s Island

Susan McConnell and Nancy Drury. Vicki Aspbury and Buff Penrose.

ship dues. agara University that Watson-Mesley
“It takes a lot of effort and a lot of took a second job creating a “street
school” in a high crime area. During
volunteers to raise this million dol- the 12 years that she ran the school,
lars,” said Woodhouse, thanking the 743 high school dropouts obtained
league’s 250 active volunteers. She said their GEDs.
most grants are distributed through
their main account to help fund the “These young people had no allies,”
operating expenses of 40-plus agen- said Watson-Mesley. “What I realized
cies that serve women, children and was those children had every capabil-
families in need. A newly renamed ity in the world. And yet 80 percent of
Marlynn Scully Strategic Fund is also them had already been adjudicated.”
available for new initiatives.
As part of a new rebranding, she
“This fund was started with the said BBBS nationwide has chosen the
foresight and funding of Marlynn words, ignite, inspire and defend, add-
Scully in 2015 to enable us to be more ing, “Our new mission is that we are
entrepreneurial and flexible,” said going to create and support one-to-
Woodhouse. one mentoring relationships that ig-
nite the power and promise of youth.”
Introducing Stacey Watson-Mesley,
Woodhouse noted that Big Brothers Watson-Mesley shared how three
Big Sisters served 600 children in Indi- powerful mentors had changed the
an River County last year, with a goal trajectory of her own life; teaching her
of reaching 1,000 children. that her life mattered.

In Indian River County, Watson- “This is mentorship. This is Big
Mesley said, 47 percent of children are Brothers Big Sisters,” she said. “Mov-
not ready for kindergarten; they don’t ing into the future, the question is,
even have the basic skills needed to can we afford to not mentor; to lose
learn colors or letters. the talent sitting in the back of the
classroom?” 
It was while teaching English at Ni-

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Stacey Watson-Mesley with Hope Woodhouse and Pat Thompson. TIna Nickle and Marlynn Scully. Ann Jones and Sandy Rolf.

Vickie McLaughlin and Marlen Higgs. Susan van der Stricht, Nancy Rosner and Leslie Westberry. Anne Weinstock, Nancy Shoemate, Rosemary Haverland.

Charlene Connolly, Francesca Anderson, Claudia Morgan and Rita Murphy.

Susan Dake and Amy Conlee. Kristen Harrow and Lynn Yardley.

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Let there be ‘Light’! Hope for Families soiree shines

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Luminaries lined the driveway of Barbara Rigby, Dr. William Cooney, Diana Grossi and Mariclare Beggy. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Sue Scully and Lorenzo Lockett
The Moorings Yacht & Country Club
last Monday evening at the 2019 Hope “We’re here to light the way for
for Families Center Annual Dinner, homeless families,” said Dr. William
serving as a tribute to donors who Cooney, HFC board president, in his
“Light the Way” and help lift families opening remarks. “We care for those
out of homelessness. who are acutely or suddenly with-
out a job, have no money for medical
After perusing silent-auction items expenses and no place to hang their
and catching up on summer adven- hat.”
tures, guests were ushered into the
dining room, glowingly transformed Lorenzo Lockett, HFC residence
by event co-chairs Mariclare Beggy manager and the evening’s guest
and Barbra Rigby. To illuminate the
need for services for homeless fami-
lies, twinkling lights dangled from all
the windows and table centerpieces
featured lustrous lanterns.

Proceeds from the evening will
help HFC provide hope for a better
future by empowering families to re-
cover their lives through the offer of
food, shelter, structure, financial lit-
eracy education, employment skills,
and access to physical and mental
wellness.

Kay Brown, Ann Marie McCrystal and Leonor Gonzalez.

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After guests enjoyed another de-
licious dinner overseen by Moor-
ings Chef Ben Tench, attorney John
Moore, serving as the master of cer-
emonies and auctioneer, got things
rolling with a live auction and later a
call from the heart.

On Dec. 16, HFC will host a Pearls
for Hope Christmas Luncheon at Bent
Pine Golf Club. For more information,
visit hopeforfamiliescenter.org. 

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Dan Herrig and Chris Pawela. Ralph and Millie Young with Mike and Julie Wright. Kim Wallace and Danielle Miner.

Martha and Ted Kucinsky with Liz Smith. Beth Johnston with Leo and Diane Dilling and David Johnston. Gail Murdough, Phyllis Dillon and Mickey Cooney.

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Rotary’s Ring of Fire Chili Challenge creates quite a stir

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

A dash of this and a sprinkle of that Brenda Bradley and Pat Stelz. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Mike Pickerell with Coogie and Caden Freedman. Betty Evans and John Vordermeier.
set the recent Ring of Fire Chili Chal-
lenge aflame at Riverside Park. Sun- In a blind tasting, a panel of local
rise Rotary Vero Beach has kept the personalities assessed each cup of chili
chili pot bubbling, taking over last for its aroma, taste, texture, color, af-
year after the Indian River County tertaste and bite.
firefighters passed on the ladle of
the former Indian River County Chili Proceeds benefit Sunrise Rotary’s
Cook-off. community projects and scholarships.
Their next big fundraiser is the Florida
Participants stirred 10-gallon pots Craft Brew & Wingfest, Feb. 15 at Royal
of chili concoctions, ladling up 23 dif- Palm Pointe.
ferent versions of the spicy stew. Chefs
toiled over large cauldrons, tossing in For more information, visit sunrisero-
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and lots of peppers.

Chili-heads dined al fresco to the
tunes of the Humdingers, along with
Slip and the Spinouts as they mulled
over their favorite dishes before sub-
mitting their votes for People’s Choice
Awards. Participants competed in non-
profit, individual, business and restau-
rant categories, as well as a separate
Battle of the Brewers category, where
beer was featured in the recipes.

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Museum acknowledges aficionados at sumptuous shindig

Ned and Sherry Ann Dayton with Brady Roberts and Max Hollein. Randy and Sandy Rolf with Abbie Lamb and Emily Tremml. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
Dottie Currie, Marilyn McConnell, John and Tobey Taylor.
BY MARY SCHENKEL cated art aficionados provide major
Staff Writer support to the museum and its ever- Anne and Jerry Blatherwick with Debbie Weise.
expanding programs.
The Vero Beach Museum of Art
feted its upper category members Guests had been offered a choice
at the annual Director’s Society and of early or later seatings at the
Chairman’s Club Dinner last Fri- black-tie affair, which featured a
day evening, sponsored by the King lecture and an elegant filet mignon
Group Merrill Lynch Wealth Man- dinner that concluded with choco-
agement and Indian River Estates. laty tartufo for dessert, catered by
The contributions of these sophisti- Elizabeth D. Kennedy & Co.

Prior to dining, both groups were

Colin and Alison Bailey with Joan and Bob Peirce.

Cathy Padgett with George Sutherlin and Kim Schnell. (See story in the Arts section.)
“We’re kind of building on some
treated to a fascinating talk in the
Leonhardt Auditorium by Max Hol- momentum that we started last
lein, director of the Metropolitan season,” said Brady Roberts, VBMA
Museum of Art, on ‘The Encyclope- CEO.
dic Museum in a Globalized World.’
“We launched our strategic plan
with the Victorian Radicals exhibi-
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that we themed our programs, all of So it’s been a tremendous success by leadership members are critical French Posters exhibit through Jan.
our educational programs, around for us. I want to thank all of you, to the museum, as they provide its 12. The upcoming From Homer to
a major exhibition. And then we the Chairman’s Club and Director’s single largest funding support. Hopper: American Art from The
marketed it broadly. As a result, we Society members for making this Phillips Collection opens Feb. 1 and
achieved record high membership possible, because we couldn’t do it Current VBMA exhibitions are runs through May 31.
and sponsorship, and we’re build- without your support.” the AI Weiwei: Circle of Animals/
ing support all over the community. Zodiac Heads: Gold, through Dec. For more information, visit vbmu-
Roberts added that contributions 15, and L’Affichomania: The Art of seum.org. 

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 30 Marilyn Mustapick, Alice and Rene Donars and Carol Koontz. Bill and Pinky Regan with Judy and Allen Zern. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE
Bobbie Olsen, Jennifer Sims, Janet Hoffman and Debbie Unruh.

Peter and Pat Thompson
with Dawn and Ted Michael.

Jerry and Mary Rita Sheehan
with Byron and Nancy Sugahara.

Laura and Bill Frick with
Ann Webber and Margaret Bragg.

Emilie and Bob Burr.

OH MERCI! MUSEUM DISPLAYS
A ‘PASSION FOR FRENCH PRINTS’

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Oh merci! Museum displays a ‘Passion for French Prints’

BY ELLEN FISCHER go-based Driehaus PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES dates email by at least
Capital Management. seven decades. Accord-
Columnist Falino complimented VBMA staff ing to Falino, such a
“L’Affichomania” came to the VBMA on installing an intriguing photo mu- display had its origins in
Ooh, la, la! Every preconceived via International Arts & Artists, a non- ral at the exhibition’s entrance, a detail the heralds of medieval
notion we Americans have about profit business that handles the details unique to the current showing. The c. times, who sang the news
France – specifically, Gay Paree of traveling exhibitions for museum 1900 black and white image shows the in the village square,
and environs – as the home of ro- and private entities in the U.S. and in- side of a French shop that is plastered and street vendors, who
mance, perfume and the can-can, ternationally. with boldface advertisements of every bawled out their inventory
is now on display in the Holmes size and type. Against that graphic ex- from house to house.
Gallery at the Vero Beach Muse- Jeannine Falino, guest curator for plosion, a prim bonne dame hurries on She notes that with the
um of Art through Jan. 12, 2020. the Richard H. Driehaus poster col- her way. advent of the printing
“L’Affichomania: The Passion for lection when it debuted in 2017 at the press, “news items were
French Prints” is an exhibition of Driehaus Museum, recently visited the The image shows that “spam” pre- posted on hoardings (bill-
more than 60 posters (including exhibition in Vero Beach. boards) where people would
a handful of watercolor sketch- go to read the news or have
es for posters) dating from 1875 to the news read to them. Ear-
1910, Paris’s Belle Epoch. ly posters were just text, in
black and white.”
The artworks on display are from the Enter the technology of color lithog-
collection of the Richard H. Driehaus raphy in the mid-19th century, and
Museum. Installed in a restored man- printers soon began recreating famous
sion a couple blocks west of Chicago’s paintings as color prints for art lovers
Miracle Mile, the museum was origi- on a budget. In the Holmes Gallery, ul-
nally a splendid home built by banker tramarine blue accent walls are a dra-
Samuel Nickerson in 1883, and its works matic backdrop for the posters, which
focus on the art and architecture of the hold their own handily.
White City’s Gilded Age. Philanthropist The largest are two-sheet vertical
Richard H. Driehaus is the founder of compositions measuring just shy of 7
not only the museum and art collection
that bear his name, but also of Chica-

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feet tall; the smallest are special edi- agery of an imperious black cat, and a
tions sized to fit an amateur collector’s racy poster advertising a novel titled
print cabinet. The posters advertise La Traite des Blanches (White Slavery).
everything from cabarets to concert That one features the images of a well-
halls, cigarette rolling papers to con- heeled pimp, two despairing young
fetti. Printed in eye-popping primary women and a madam, who Steinlen
colors, they employ every trick in the originally depicted bare-breasted.
advertising book, flaunting winsome
mam’selles with artless smiles and Alphonse Mucha is represented in
low-cut bodices, well-groomed chil- the show by two two-sheet posters
dren, celebrities and even defiant al- for Sarah Bernhardt, including one
ley cats. published in 1896 for the play “La
Dame aux Camélias.” It depicts the
“The father of the French poster, then 52-year-old tragedienne as the
as we know it, was Jules Chéret,” says consumptive young courtesan Mar-
Falino. guerite, profiled against a starry lav-
ender sky. 
Born into a poor family in 1836,
Chéret’s art education was mostly Lautrec who, says Falino, inscribed a
catch as catch can. At age 13 he was copy of each of his own early poster edi-
apprenticed to a lithographer; 10 years tions to Chéret, and had it delivered in
later he traveled to London, where he tribute to le maître.
worked for seven years as a journey-
man lithographer. Schooled in British Instead of the coyly sexy girl-next-
graphic design as well as printmaking door Chéret was known for, Lautrec
techniques, Chéret returned to Paris portrayed the louche performers who
where he realized the potential of color sang and danced for the demimonde
lithography not as a copyist’s tool, but that congregated in the clubs and bars
as a medium for original expression on of Montmartre, along with foreign visi-
a wholesale scale. tors (invariably male) who wanted a
taste of spicy Parisian nightlife.
Gazing at the exhibition’s selection
of posters by Chéret, Falino remarks On display in L’Affichomania is Lau-
on the secrets of his commercial suc- trec’s famous 1891 poster “Moulin
cess. Instead of including wordy de- Rouge: La Goulue,” which depicts one
scriptions of the product he was selling, of the recently opened dance hall’s
Chéret filled his compositions with col- habitués, a young woman nicknamed
orful imagery. The text he included was “The Glutton.” Hemmed in by on-
bold but brief; busy passersby could get lookers, she dances a frenzied chahut
the gist of what was being sold by the (can-can) that sends her skirt flying.
poster without breaking their pace. In the immediate foreground, a fellow
performer, Valentin le Désossé (“the
Chéret’s posters were printed in Boneless”), gestures in mock horror at
bright red, yellow and blue ink with very the expanse of ruffled bloomers thus
little overprinting. The bright, clear col- revealed to him and, incidentally, to us.
ors could be read from a distance, as
could his eye-catching imagery. Another Lautrec poster, commis-
sioned by the dancer Jane Avril in 1893
“The pretty women he featured in to advertise her cabaret show at an-
his posters tend to be very light on their other nightspot, shows her performing
feet; they seem to float in their environ- the can-can in an orange skirt acces-
ments,” Falino says. sorized with long black gloves, black
stockings and a frilly, plumed hat. She
Chéret’s public dubbed the girls is framed by a sinuous line that begins
Chérettes, a word, says Falino, which and ends at the neck of a double base
conflates the artist’s name with Chérie in the foreground; the giant hairy hand
(sweetheart). that plays it belongs to a bespectacled
wild man, who, had Lautrec not invent-
Like every respected huckster be- ed him, would surely have later come
fore him, Chéret knew that sex sells. from Robert Crumb’s pen. The daringly
Falino describes the Chérettes as “gor- foreshortened boards of the stage and
geous women with a lot of décolletage, the glimpse of the flats stage left, how-
tiny waists, flounces everywhere, and ever, are pure Lautrec.
of course a big smile. These are the ‘It’
girls of the 1890s.” The other artists whose posters are
featured in the exhibition are Eugène
She explains that Chéret’s women Grasset, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
(and their auxiliary male companions) and Alphonse Mucha. One of the few
were drawn from the 17th century’s watercolors in the exhibition is Gras-
Fête galante paintings, featuring el- set’s fully realized study of a flame-
egant couples partying en plein air, of haired beauty caught in the act of stick-
Watteau and Fragonard. ing a long-stemmed chrysanthemum
behind her ear. The 1897 painting is
“The Chérettes thereby held a certain titled “Coquetterie.”
nostalgia for an earlier age. The girls are
comely, but they are not coarse. These Steinlen standouts in the show are
are ladies,” Falino emphasizes. his iconic poster for nightclub owner
Rodolphe Salis’ Chat Noir, with its im-
Chéret was so famous in his time that
up-and-coming poster artists wanted
their work to be seen by him. One of
those artists was Henri de Toulouse

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Artful discourse on museums’ role is ‘Met’ with enthusiasm

BY MARY SCHENKEL many simultaneous intersecting sto- the full story of its works of art
Staff Writer ries throughout the ages. There is,
and there has always been, a speck and how they connect within the
Max Hollein, who in 2018 became of connected cross-cultural histories
director of the world-renowned Metro- that need to be discovered and un- artistic, historic, social and po-
politan Museum of Art, shared insights covered,” said Hollein.
on the globalization of museums to ap- litical framework of our lives.
preciative audiences at the recent Vero “And therefore the most important
Beach Museum of Art’s Director’s Soci- goal of the Metropolitan to assume, “We have to realize that the
ety and Chairman’s Club Dinner. as one of the largest museums in the
world, is to complicate the narrative; objects we have in our custody,
The Austrian-born Hollein, only to celebrate artistic excellence and
the 10th director of the Met, which cultural achievement, and to foster un- actually, don’t tell the truth. They
will celebrate its 150th anniversary derstanding to a diversity of narratives
next year, began his talk with a his- from multiple perspectives.” are often a very sophisticated
tory of museums, which began a little
over 200 years ago. The challenge, he said, in this time way of propaganda.”
of rising nationalism, is to determine
“It kind of started in the Age of the how to inject the global narrative into Providing a brief history of the
Enlightenment, and was an effort to a 150-year-old institution, and clarify
bring the cultures of the world together what actually constitutes a museum in Met, he said that while New York
in one place. With these objects, mu- the 21st century, where even mundane
seums seem to tell a linear narrative items such as groceries are ‘curated.’ City has always been considered
of humankind and cultural develop-
ment,” said Hollein. “We need to embrace this curios- a crossroad of the cultural world,
ity in what we offer,” said Hollein. “We
In today’s globalized world, he said have an obligation to make ourselves the only self-proclaimed cultural
the story of cultural development has relevant in an environment where cul-
evolved into something more complex. ture, politics, technology and enter- institution in New York in 1841
tainment flow together.”
“In fact, we have to realize that was PT Barnum’s American Mu-
there is not one story of the develop- Touching on the role museums can
ment of culture, but that there are play, he said they want the Met to tell seum, essentially a circus.

It wasn’t until 1866 that a group Brady Roberts and Max Hollein. PHOTO BY DENISE RITCHIE

of New Yorkers visited the Louvre

in Paris. Beach Museum of Art.”

“They liked what they saw there, The Met became a reality in 1870,

and in typical New Yorker fashion founded by private citizens. From its

said ‘We want that.’ The only prob- initial antiquities exhibits, the Met has

lem was they didn’t have a single grown to vast holdings of more than 1.5

work of art, they had no money and million objects and an average of about

there was no building. But there was 7 million visitors each year.

typical great American ambition and “From the very beginning, as we be-

outstanding philanthropy, like what gan to grow, we saw ourselves as a pub-

you’re experiencing here at the Vero lic resource for all,” said Hollein, “with

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an understanding that we have to edu- ing artworks from different centuries one-quarter of the Met’s gallery system home for varying cultures with chang-
cate the people; to bring the cultures of to better contextualize works and tell and its narrative will be renewed and ing narratives, an institution that will
the world to a wide audience.” both sides of the narrative. refreshed, recontextualized, and will continue to be engaging, accessible
benefit from new scholarship and un- and inclusive for the next 150 years.
They are now working on intertwin- “We are updating our narrative in derstanding that has been amassed in
ing exhibits to create a more fluid envi- the next 10 years,” said Hollein, citing the last years.” “The Met will be a museum for the
ronment where cultures from different plans to redo many of the galleries and world, about the world and in the
countries can converge, even juxtapos- build a new wing. “In the next 10 years, The goal is to have the Met remain a world,” said Hollein. 

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COMING UP! Beaucoup buzz for ‘French Music’ recital

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA alist Fellowship Grant; and has per- of Lecuona’s 1933 “Suite Andalucía,” show promo describes Frankie Paul as
Staff Writer formed in numerous major musical to which he added lyrics in Span- having “a loveable, animated appear-
events throughout the United States, ish. The basic melody was, how- ance and an inoffensive attitude.” Paul
1 Oui, s’il vous plait. Marvelous as well as in England, Italy and Aus- ever, “not of Lecuona’s invention,” began touring in 1990 with the goal of
music at the museum: Be trans- tria, including a lecture/piano recital but can be heard in internationally taking his audiences on “a silly roller
tour for the Smithsonian American renowned 19th century American coaster ride of uproarious laughter,”
ported to the exciting, culturally rich Art Museum’s Exhibition 1934: A New composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s as he talks about such everyday top-
Deal for Artists. This will be a won- solo piano composition “Souvenirs ics as marriage, family and common
fin-de-siecle Paris this Saturday, Nov. derfully exciting and satisfying after- d’Andalousie,” and found its way into sense – or the lack thereof. Jensen is
noon, certainly. Time: 4 p.m. Tickets: Lecuona’s most famous piece. Over fond of saying he’s “the total package
16, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. VBMA members, $25; non-members, the years, Malagueña has become “a ... as long as you want a package that’s
$35. Register at 772-231-0707. popular, jazz, marching band, and middle-aged, chubby and balding.”
The museum’s halls will fill with gor- drum corps standard and has been A St. Louis native, Jensen uses “life’s
provided with lyrics in several lan- hard knocks to fuel his comedy.” He
geous music under the gifted hands of guages.” It has been performed by was the only American citizen in his
such stellar guitar musicians as Jose family which, he says, “made for an
acclaimed virtuoso pianist Leslie Am- Feliciano, Chet Atkins and Roy Clark, interesting childhood.” Providing
and the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Time: music In the Loop Friday, it’ll be Slip
per, as she performs, in recital, “From 3 p.m. Tickets: $25; youth, $20. Online, and the Spinouts, keeping things lively
cbtsumc.org; or 772-231-1661. with rockabilly, rock and roll, hillbilly
the Classical to the Cabaret: French swing and blues. Saturday brings to
the Loop stage Phoenix, who’ll be
Music from the Late-nineteenth Cen- 2 A pair of familiar names on the styling classic rock, oldies and British
local classical music (and church invasion. Times: Comedy Zone: 7:30
tury.” The Museum describes this p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Loop: 6 p.m. to 9:30
p.m. Tickets: side seats, $12; table seat-
event as “a unique, multi-media recit- concert) scene – pianist Marcos Flores ing: $14-$18. FYI: No drink minimum,
free parking, recommended for 18 and
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You’ll be immersed in the enchanting Nov. 17, at their home church, Christ

music of Claude Debussy and Yvette by the Sea Methodist, part of that

Guilbert; the short silent films of Alice church’s 14th annual concert series.

Guy Blache (with piano accompani- “From Baroque to Malagueña” will 3 Bringing the funny at Riverside
Theatre. Yes. It’s once again time
ment); and beloved works by artists feature works by Bach, Chopin and

including Claude Monet, Henri de Piazzolla, “among others,” according for Riverside’s Comedy Zone, coming

Touloise-Lautrec and Jules Cheret, to the church website. One of the most to the stage this Friday and Saturday,

that will transport you to late 19th popular and recognizable works by Nov. 15-16, along with the ever-popu-

century Paris. Amper, according to her Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, lar Live in the Loop free live concert

website, was a recipient of the Nation- the fiery and sensual “Malagueña,” under the oaks. This weekend’s comics

al Endowment for the Arts Solo Recit- was, says Wikipedia, originally part are Frankie Paul and Paul Jensen. The



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Third-year student Maria Fitch,
21, relaxes on campus.

Second-year student Rhiannon
Larsen, 18, hammers sheet
metal while creating a
sculpture in the Center
for Design.

Hampshire College fourth-year
student Destinee Wilson, 21,
works on creative writing
homework Sept. 23, 2019 in
the school’s R.W. Kern Center
on the Amherst, Mass. campus.

Two days before classes started at cial aid than the University of Massa- else.” At the reception, as they rang and western United States, colleges
Hampshire College in September, the chusetts at Amherst. their bells and posed for a picture, the in New England and the Midwest will
school’s incoming first-year students freshmen offered the weary Hamp- find it increasingly hard to lure stu-
– all 13 of them – attended a welcome Forgue has an unusually specific life shire community hope that the college dents, particularly those able to pay.
reception in the campus’s new R.W. ambition: to broker a global compro- might, somehow, survive.
Kern Center. A motley mix of plaids, mise to increase funding for space re- The problem is the business mod-
khakis and combat boots, the group search. He plans to study a combina- Poll most top educators about their el. Colleges have long counted on
lined up to shake hands with the col- tion of political science, anthropology, ideal kind of learning for the 21st cen- wealthy students to subsidize the cost
lege president and receive small bells international relations and astrophys- tury, and they’ll probably sound a lot of education for those who can’t afford
– symbols of the large brass bell they’ll ics. And he thought that Hampshire, like a Hampshire student. The virtues it. But for many institutions, that is be-
ring upon completing their “Division an experimental college that asks stu- of open-ended thinking and project- coming untenable.
III,” the epic independent project re- dents to design their own course of based learning will be familiar. But
quired to graduate. study, was the best place to do that. thanks to a slow recovery from the With only a $52 million endowment,
2008 recession, rising student debt and Hampshire is especially vulnerable
If, that is, Hampshire survives long After four days of orientation with class anxiety, parents and students are to this reality, but enrollment experts
enough for them to graduate. “the 13,” as his class was known (one looking at college less as an intellectual say it will affect many schools outside
student has since dropped out), experience and more as an insurance the most elite. Schools like Harvard,
Nine months earlier, the Massachu- Forgue felt he’d made the right deci- policy – and that calls for colleges that Princeton, Yale and MIT will be fine,
setts college – mired in financial trou- sion. A slight 19-year-old with longish offer proven outcomes, measurable says Jon Boeckenstedt, Oregon State
ble – had launched a search for a part- brown hair, he’d already experienced skills or exceptional prestige. University’s vice provost of enrollment
ner to merge with and announced that the kind of bull sessions about politics management. “It’s those colleges in
it might not admit a new freshman and philosophy that make college so All this means that private colleges the middle of the curve, with good,
class in the fall. Coming after a series special. “Every single one of the 13 is like Hampshire are struggling to find solid, well-known reputations but not
of mergers and closures of New Eng- the type of person ... I was hoping to enough students able or willing to pay spectacular financial resources or aca-
land schools, the announcement pro- meet,” he told me. their high sticker prices, and the situa- demic reputation, that are feeling the
voked alarm in the world of higher ed. tion is only likely to get worse. pinch,” he explains.
Eventually, Hampshire offered a place Forgue’s classmates sounded equal-
to 70-odd students it had accepted ly satisfied. “Hampshire shows people Because of low birthrates following In May, the Chronicle of Higher
early or who had taken a gap year be- that it’s okay not to learn in this very the Great Recession, Carleton College Education reported that several pri-
fore enrolling – but warned that there structured way that everyone has been economist Nathan Grawe predicts that vate colleges would just miss their
was no guarantee it would stay open. taught ever since preschool,” said the four-year-college applicant pool enrollment targets this fall, including
18-year-old Flynn Caswell. “When I is likely to shrink by almost 280,000 Bucknell University in Pennsylvania,
Among the baker’s dozen who came here for the first time, it was real- per class, over four years, starting in ranked 35th among national liberal
decided to take the risk was Devin ly cool for me to see that learning can 2026, a year known in higher ed as “the arts colleges by U.S. News & World Re-
Forgue. Despite its strapped budget, be engaging, instead of sitting in class Apocalypse.” As youth populations port. Also in the spring, the College of
Hampshire offered him better finan- thinking I’d rather be doing something decline everywhere but the southern the Holy Cross in Massachusetts qui-

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student Elías Alejo, 20, left,
talks with fourth-year student Hampshire College President
Emery Powell during a Edward Wingenbach.
student government
meeting.

First-year student Devin Forgue,
19, on campus in Amherst,
Mass. His freshman class
started with 13 students (one
has since dropped out).

etly ended its (increasingly rare) need- the only part of higher education that President Miriam Nelson’s office was “We are at a place where fundamen-
blind admissions policy, citing unsus- is uniquely American. Residential lib- still filled with the detritus of the pro- tally our business model does not sup-
tainable spending on financial aid. eral arts colleges are rare in other parts testing students who had been liv- port our core values around equity,
of the world. For more than 200 years, ing there for more than 60 days: a diversity, inclusion, around having the
And after a couple of years of missed they’ve made American higher educa- half-eaten tray of baklava, unmade supports for students to realize their
enrollment targets and budget short- tion an exceptional laboratory for fos- airbeds, empty Frappuccino bottles. full potential,” she said. Two days later,
falls, Ohio’s Oberlin College will add a tering empathy, creativity and innova- On one wall hung a mural painted by she resigned.
business concentration – while trim- tion. We’ve gotten so used to them, we students, depicting writer James Bald-
ming 100 students from its prestigious may not notice what we’ve lost until win’s hand casting a blue shadow over After she left, Hampshire charted a
music conservatory and adding more it’s gone. merger-friendly trustee Kim Saal’s different course. The board voted to
to the college, which draws wealthier house in Northampton – a metaphor abandon the possibility of a merger
applicants. “For some families, college If Hampshire’s story were a “Mis- for the effort to save a school for differ- and enlisted noted filmmaker Ken
may be the largest investment in their sion: Impossible” movie, last winter’s ently abled, queer and first-generation Burns, an alumnus, to help raise $100
lives. ... What they’re expecting from it decision not to take a full class was the students who can’t imagine going any- million in five years. In July, the col-
is the same type of long-term benefit moment that started the bomb-deto- where else. lege named Edward Wingenbach, vice
that you might get from your multi- nation countdown. For a school that president and dean of faculty and re-
year mortgage,” explains Oberlin Pres- relies on tuition and fees for 87 per- At breakfast one morning, Nelson cent acting president of Ripon College
ident Carmen Twillie Ambar. “People cent of its revenue, choosing to shed was struggling to keep it together. in Wisconsin, its new president.
are asking us to demonstrate the value a fourth of its students was close to “Have you ever gone to the museum
of liberal arts.” financial suicide. and tried putting your hand on that By the end of September, Hamp-
thing and all the electricity goes up to shire had raised more than $9 million,
If the economic troubles of elite lib- The gravity was not lost on the com- where your hand is?” she asked. “I feel cut the budgets of most of its divisions,
eral arts institutions have you mock- munity. Throughout the spring se- like [that] no matter where I go.” and reduced the faculty from 145 to
playing an air violin, consider the con- mester, the Amherst, Mass., campus 86. It now has about 750 enrolled stu-
sequences. For one, there’ll be fiercer was awash in theories about what the Despite the vitriol she’d received dents, down from about 1,100 last
competition for spots at the most college’s board of trustees was hiding, from students, Nelson didn’t blame spring, and it will take applications for
prestigious schools – a sport already about who knew what when, about them. Hampshire had deferred main- new students in spring 2020.
so gruesome, actress Felicity Huffman what the school’s finances really were. tenance for years. Faculty salaries were
is doing jail time for gaming it. Alumni took to Facebook. Students oc- in the bottom 25 percent compared As this story went to press, the
cupied the president’s office. Faculty with peer institutions. First-genera- school was finalizing plans for a new
For another, there will be fewer op- exhausted themselves talking to me- tion students – the first in their fami- model that would organize students’
portunities for low-income students dia, brainstorming solutions, teaching lies to attend college – and students work around solving the big questions
who rely on generous financial aid classes, consoling students – and fret- of color needed more resources. And of our time, on topics such as climate
packages at small liberal arts colleges ting about their jobs. Hampshire wasn’t the kind of school change, artificial intelligence or mi-
as one of the few tickets into the upper that wanted to take only rich kids. gration. Wingenbach hopes it will al-
class. It may also mean the retreat of When I first visited, in early April,
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low Hampshire to market itself to new dorms and wellness centers. The and the 1980s, it survived by cutting ing to stretch outside their academic
students and donors and keep a lean buildings are severe 1970s concrete. faculty and staff salaries and using its comfort zones, qualities reflected in
faculty. The radio station is in a yurt. And the endowment to plug budget holes, ac- application essays, insight from high
students’ fashions – Goths in com- cording to a PowerPoint presentation school guidance counselors and ad-
Yet despite these measures, Hamp- bat boots, nerds in khakis and short- about its fiscal situation that Hamp- missions interviews. A key marker that
shire is far from safe. This month, it sleeve oxford-cloth shirts – recall a shire made public in January. had nothing to do with success? Stan-
must submit a report on its financial world somewhere between “Animal dardized test scores.
sustainability to the New England House” and Kurt Cobain. By the mid-2010s, Hampshire was
Commission of Higher Education. grappling with the demographic shifts So in 2014, Hampshire stopped ac-
The commission will then take a vote There’s an occasional 2019 tell: the and market pressures bearing down cepting test scores. That meant losing
that, in the worst case, could result in naming of preferred pronouns, the on higher ed. From 2005 to 2010, ac- its place, then 110th, in the U.S. News
withdrawal of accreditation and the service dogs trailing students. But if cording to that same PowerPoint, college rankings, an essential market-
school’s closing. you’re used to the grassy quads of state Hampshire accepted a larger percent- ing tool. At first, the gamble paid off.
flagships or the rich Gothic and brick age of applicants to increase the class From 2014 to 2015, Hampshire’s yield –
Unlike other colleges that have re- of the Ivy League, Hampshire’s auster- size. And those allowances seemed to the number of accepted students who
cently closed or merged, Hampshire ity is striking. On my visit in the spring, affect the graduation rate. chose to come – jumped from 18 to 26
has a certain cultural cachet. It’s a tarps covered study carrels in the li- percent. And, since standardized tests
darling of academe: Two-thirds of its brary to protect them from a leaky For freshmen who entered in 2010, benefit affluent (and often white) ap-
graduates have advanced degrees, and roof. The leak has since been fixed. just 65 percent managed to graduate plicants, in 2015 Hampshire admitted
a quarter have started their own ven- in six years, according to the National its most diverse class ever, with 31 per-
tures. An Amherst alumnus’s gift of $6 mil- Center for Education Statistics. For cent domestic students of color and 18
lion provided the money to purchase an intimate liberal arts college, that percent first-generation students.
In addition to Burns, its alumni in- the land and set up Hampshire, which was low. “Attrition was too high. ... We
clude chef Gabrielle Hamilton, writer admitted its first students in 1970. The were bringing in too many students The diverse students thrived at
Jon Krakauer, theoretical physicist Lee school intended to rely primarily on for whom Hampshire was too hard a Hampshire, but the new admissions cri-
Smolin, actor Lupita Nyong’o, and the income from tuition and student fees school,” says David Matheson, who teria came at a financial cost. “We knew
entrepreneurs behind yogurt maker to finance operations. That was do- leads the board’s finance commit- when we adopted that strategy that we
Stoneyfield Farm and organic clean- able at the time, when the seemingly tee. Because Hampshire is a no-grade would be pruning the applicant pool to
ing product company Seventh Gen- infinite baby boomers were entering school, “a good number of folks came some degree,” says Matheson. “What
eration. With narrative evaluations college. Hampshire had so many ap- in thinking it would be easy and did we may not have realized is that more
instead of grades, no defined depart- plicants that first year, the New York not end up graduating.” of those pruned people may have been
ments, no faculty tenure and a flexible Times Magazine reported that it “was higher-income than we anticipated.”
curriculum, Hampshire offers its stu- one of the hardest schools in the coun- To boost retention, the admissions
dents unusual control over their edu- try to get into.” office designed a study to determine While taking more low-income stu-
cation. what predicted success at Hampshire. dents, Hampshire was also offering
But Hampshire was on shaky finan- It found that the most successful stu- more “merit” aid to academically strong
The campus is a Polaroid image of cial ground. Starting in the late 1970s dents were highly organized and will-
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upper-income students to lure them ness Officers found that though the middle,” explains former Hampshire spring, as tensions over racial justice
from competitors. “Parents would say, average tuition rate was $38,301, the president Nelson. “What we have in and sexual assault were rising on cam-
‘I’ve got an awfully nice offer from Bard. average amount that first-time fresh- higher education is exactly the same puses nationwide, Hampshire students
Is there anything you can do?’ ” says men paid was just $18,424. thing. Institutions with over a billion say there was a perceived lack of institu-
Matheson. “If you are potentially going in endowment are getting stronger tional support for students of color.
to get a student who might be able to Ironically, wealthier, more presti- and stronger as they can attract the
contribute $50,000 a year in tuition, that gious schools don’t have to give out as Anger over the college’s handling of
student is worth a lot. If you can get that Handwritten notes on “The Belonging Map,” an sexual assault sent students march-
student for $35,000, that’s still a very Hampshire College fourth-year student interactive art installation inside the R.W. Kern Center. ing across campus holding mattresses
good deal for the college.” Micael Sobel, 22, walks past a mural on campus. over their heads. Frustration bubbled
best students. ... And financially under- over when the administration failed
The combination of merit and fi- much merit aid because they’re more resourced institutions are going to get to replace the director of Hampshire’s
nancial aid cost Hampshire. In 2013, likely to get qualified affluent students weaker and weaker.” cultural center, a resource for interna-
the college’s average first-year student willing to pay a premium: Four percent tional students and students of color.
was paying 56 percent of the listed tu- of Hampshire’s new students paid full At the same time, elite colleges aren’t
ition price. By 2018, that was down to price in 2017-2018, but at nearby Am- accepting more lower-income stu- Amid the turmoil, Hampshire opened
40 percent. That contributed to a real herst College, U.S. News’s No. 2-ranked dents. The share of low-income stu- the Kern Center, a sustainable wood-
drop in net revenue. In 2013, Hamp- liberal arts college, 34 percent of new dents receiving federal grants at the and-glass building that runs on solar en-
shire’s net revenue from tuition, room, students paid the list price of $71,300, most competitive colleges stayed es- ergy. It was the first new building in years
board and fees was 3.3 percent higher according to the National Center for sentially flat between 2000 and 2014, on a campus sorely in need of something
than in the previous year. Revenue de- Education Statistics. going from 15 to 16 percent, while it beautiful. Most of the money for the
clined every year after that. By 2018, it grew from 46 to 59 percent at non- center came from donors who wanted
was 6.8 percent less than in the pre- Enrollment experts say that differ- competitive institutions, according to to support that project specifically, so
vious year, according to the financial ence has a lot to do with high rank. “As the Washington-based consulting firm it couldn’t have been used to refurbish
PowerPoint presentation. college prices exceed now easily $70,000 EAB. That’s surprising, given the explo- dorms, increase cultural center support
a year, parents are scratching their sion in the number of organizations staff or improve counseling services. But
It’s worth a pause here to explain heads going, ‘I don’t think it’s going to be that help these students access selec- students say the administration did a
how college pricing works. Like airline worth it unless my kid is going to go to a tive colleges. poor job of communicating that.
passengers, every student at a given school that everyone is bragging about,’
college pays a different price. Colleg- ” says Bob Massa, a former enrollment Also surprising is how hard it can be “People were feeling a financial cri-
es list high tuition prices hoping that manager at Johns Hopkins University for these students to get into elite col- sis on campus and being told that im-
enough students pay the top price to and Dickinson College who teaches at leges: Tatiana Poladko – co-founder portant things couldn’t happen, and
compensate for those who can pay the University of Southern California’s of TeenSHARP, a Delaware- and New then there was the Kern Center,” says
little or nothing. graduate school of education. Jersey-based nonprofit organiza- Emmett DuPont, a former member
tion that helps 100 underrepresented of Hampshire’s student government,
Depending on the state, needier This puts even more pressure on high-achieving students get into se- who graduated last year. Meanwhile,
students will usually pay less at a lib- schools just below the top. “In the U.S., lective colleges every year – says that then-Hampshire President Jonathan
eral arts college than they would at a income disparity is growing, and we her students typically apply to 15 to 20 Lash became seriously ill, requiring a
state flagship. It sounds counterintui- have fewer and fewer Americans in the of these colleges, and are happy to get leave of absence.
tive, but choosing a public school to accepted to one.
save money is actually a privilege for Responding to the leadership void,
the affluent. And since the 2008 re- “The bar has just gotten so much student groups called a community
cession, more well-to-do parents are higher,” Poladko says. “The line I get meeting. On April 19, 2016, Hampshire
choosing those schools. all the time [from admissions] is, ‘Our canceled classes and the entire student
pool of African American low-income body packed into the gym. One by one,
To compete, private colleges are first-generation students is deep.’ ” students took the microphone to share
then forced to offer merit aid to top personal and graphic stories of racism
students who don’t need the money. In 2016, as tuition market dynamics and sexual assault they’d experienced
Admissions professionals call the ten- were slashing Hampshire’s budget, the on campus; anger erupted between stu-
sion between giving grants to entice culture on campus was approaching a dents who felt unheard. “People were
affluent students and using the money crisis that made things even worse. That laying on the floor, sobbing,” recalls Du-
to increase diversity with need-based Pont. “It devastated the community.”
aid the “iron triangle.” And the pres-
sure is a factor for the whole sector: A Meanwhile, when DuPont gave ad-
survey of 405 private nonprofit four- missions tours, students would come
year colleges by the National Associa- over to tell prospective students ter-
tion of College and University Busi- rible things about the school. “They
would say, ‘Don’t come to Hampshire.
The administration is racist. They
don’t deal with sexual assault,’ ” Du-
Pont says.

The combination of bad public-
ity and sour mood didn’t help enroll-
ment. In 2016, Hampshire enrolled
1,333 students. By the spring semester
of 2019, the student body was down
to 1,120, and net revenue from tuition
and student fees was down 11 percent
from 2018, according to the financial
analysis Hampshire released.

The sad paradox is that, despite the
scandal, many first-generation stu-
dents of color thrived at Hampshire in
ways they might not have at bigger, less
personal institutions. Moreover, first-
generation students may be more will-
ing than their wealthier peers to take a

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flier on a school like Hampshire. Marlon part of what has made the college less as curious that the demand for greater to stop asking, ‘Does this feel like us?’ ...
Becerra, a 2019 graduate now at Har- expensive, but it’s also become less services and the complaints about ris- and ask, ‘What’s the right thing to do?’ ”
vard Law School, could have gone to a palatable to today’s students. ing costs tend to come from the same
more highly ranked school, but Hamp- quarter,” says Sewanee Vice Chancel- She’s talking about exploring things
shire’s collaborative spirit and lack of The next morning, in his office, lor John McCardell Jr., who has re- like partnerships with community col-
requirements fit his ideal college vision. Wingenbach explained what he thinks cently moved to increase his school’s leges, one-year certificate programs for
Hampshire must do to stay open. His nontraditional or returning students, or
Becerra says he followed the advice financial aid to meet the full financial integrating departments to reduce ad-
of his college counselor at Legal Out- Hampshire’s Division Free Bell need of less-affluent families. ministrative costs. She was recently on
reach, an organization that prepares hangs in the library portico. the phone with some of the Five Colleg-
underserved New York City students Hampshire students often ring To survive for another hundred years, es of Ohio, a consortium of selective pri-
for college and law school: “You need the bell as a celebration after experts agree, colleges will have to em- vate schools, discussing a possible joint
not to find the best college but the best completing their graduation brace more transformational change. program in Cleveland. “Those conver-
college for you.” requirements. “This is an inflection point in higher ed,” sations would not have gone very far
says Twillie Ambar of Oberlin. “We have 10 years ago, but to a person, everyone
That kind of decision-making is be- focus was on fundraising and keeping on that call said we need to get together
coming less common. “The market costs down by relying on a tiny faculty and talk about that,” she says.
punishes distinction,” says Michael – a prospect made easier by Hamp-
Roth, the president of Wesleyan Univer- shire’s inclusion in a consortium with In my last hour at Hampshire, I sat
sity. “If we’re going to have this rush to Smith, UMass Amherst, Mount Holy- with Devin Forgue in the student cen-
vanilla, that would be terrible. And I do oke and Amherst. ter above the gym as he drank a pro-
think you see some of that now when tein shake for lunch that he’d brought
high school seniors talk about getting I asked him why he had left a stable from home, where he’s living to save
into a very selective school: ‘I got into job and uprooted his family to take a money. We talked about his desire to
fill-in-the-blank and now my work is less certain job across the country. “If study in Japan and his crazy goal to
done.’ Because when you go to any of Hampshire can’t make it work, then broker a global deal on space research.
these schools, they’re kind of the same. what hope do we have for a student-
... It’s as if you had won a race, instead of centered progressive pedagogy? ... He knew there was a chance that
going to a school that has opportunities What hope is there for higher ed aside Hampshire might not make it. But he re-
you never knew existed.” from those really well-off students who ally felt the school offered his only path
are going to get this no matter where to realizing that dream. “If you have a
On the day before classes started in they go?” he replied. “If we can’t find vision that could be world-changing
September, hundreds of faculty, staff, a model that allows residential liberal or even just transformational for your
students, alumni and parents gathered arts colleges to survive within the con- personal journey,” he said, “Hampshire
in the gym to discuss how to save the straints of what students and families will back you up.” To do that for Forgue,
school. President Wingenbach rose to can afford to pay ... then [a] reckoning Hampshire may have to help transform
speak. “That decision not to take a full is really going to happen.” higher education first. 
class has taken that slow-moving chal-
lenge ... and turned [it] into a genuine Hampshire isn’t the only college try-
crisis,” he told the crowd. “And it’s one ing to solve this problem. The easiest
that we’re going to address and we’re first step is to aim to be more competi-
going to solve.” tive in a constricting market, adding
things like business majors, new gyms
In seven weeks, Wingenbach told and guaranteed paid internships.
the assembly, Hampshire would have Critics of higher ed like to point to its
to present its accreditors with a plan to obsession with facilities and fancier
prove its sustainability, cover a budget buildings – money they say inflates
shortfall, and recruit a freshman class the cost of college at the expense of
for fall 2020. To do that, he explained, what’s important. But asking parents
Hampshire would have to “show the to spend a lot of money on an educa-
world” that it is possible to provide tion is easier when you have the facili-
a liberal arts education with faculty ties those parents expect.
mentorship, accessible to anyone who
wants it regardless of income – with- “I’ve certainly heard that critique,
out a massive endowment. Put anoth- which comes, among other sources,
er way, Hampshire had seven weeks to from parents who think our counsel-
solve the central challenge to under- ing office is inadequately staffed or
graduate liberal arts education. the range of foods offered in our din-
ing halls don’t speak to special dietary
After Wingenbach’s speech, each ta- concerns or think our dormitories
ble in the room took an hour to brain- ought to resemble at least Hampton
storm. At one table, facilitator Naia Inns if not Ritz-Carltons. I’m not whin-
Tenerowicz, 22, a third-year student ing about that ... but it does strike me
with teal hair who uses a wheelchair,
laid out the goal. The group would go
through a set of questions to tease out
Hampshire’s best and worst qualities
and then produce a poster board of
what a new Hampshire could look like.
A discussion formed around the ques-
tion of how much structure Hamp-
shire needs. The course requirements
the college has added over the years
for first-year students are inherently
un-Hampshire and can be taxing for
faculty, but the students admitted
they’re necessary. Lack of structure is

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Vaping among high school students consider a new tax on e-cigarettes – a ous to young people. In other words, called tobacco taxes “the most cost-ef-
has risen 135% in just two years, and policy that’s long overdue. we should be doing everything we can fective solution for reducing tobacco
the government deserves more than to discourage young people from using use”: On average, every 10% increase
a little blame. E-cigarettes aren’t safe. It took a mys- these products, just as we discourage in tobacco prices cuts consumption
terious outbreak linked to 37 deaths to them from smoking cigarettes. by 4% (and by as much as 7% among
The Food and Drug Administration grab the country’s attention, but the teenagers, who are more sensitive to
has dragged its feet on regulation, dangers of vaping high levels of nico- Which makes it shocking that vap- prices).
and lawmakers have resisted reforms tine were already well-known. ing products aren’t taxed by the fed-
to make e-cigarettes less appealing to eral government. The nationwide decline in smoking
children. Government inaction has It’s addictive, it strains the cardiovas- has a lot to do with taxation: As the
jeopardized one of America’s great- cular system, and it’s especially danger- The World Health Organization has federal cigarette tax rose sixfold be-
est public-health achievements of re- tween 1990 and 2014, per-capita use
cent years: the drastic decline in teen fell by more than half.
smoking.
The Protecting American Lungs Act
One out of every five students in cleared an important committee last
Indian River County in grades six month and will face a full House vote.
through 12 now say they’ve tried vap- It would tax vape products at the same
ing, according to recent county-wide rate as cigarettes – adding $1.15 to the
surveys, and the number of children price of a Juul pod, a 20% increase over
vaping regularly is increasing rapidly the manufacturer’s retail price. That’s
– a trend local school and health of- a lower tax than most public-health
ficials are characterizing as a “crisis.” experts would recommend, but high
enough to make a dent in teen smok-
“The rates are very high in Indian ing rates.
River County – we are leading the
state,” said Carrie Lester, executive The proposal has bipartisan back-
director for the Substance Awareness ing. Some Republicans worry that
Center of Indian River County. “We’re tackling e-cigarettes is a political loser,
approaching epidemic status.” but recent polling and Republican-led
proposals in Arkansas and Kentucky
The issue is of such great concern suggest their fears are misplaced.
to the Indian River County School
Board that it recently became the first Other states and cities have passed
school board in the state to pass a bills raising the tax on tobacco prod-
resolution urging lawmakers to pass ucts with bipartisan support. The truth
stricter guidelines and oversight for is that well-designed tobacco taxes
electronic cigarettes. aren’t a partisan concern: They’re a
public-health necessity, supported by
“The board felt it needed to lend abundant research. 
its voice because this is a growing
epidemic and it’s not going away Finally, Washington seems to be
without an all-out effort,” said Board taking the threat seriously. It’s about
Chairman Laura Zorc. time.

But federal action also is required, This column contains reporting
and the House of Representatives and opinion by Bloomberg and 32963
can help put this right. It’s about to staff reporter Federico Martinez.

SHOULDER PAIN, Part II can result from an acute injury, degenerative
changes related to aging and/or chronic over-
Most shoulder problems are caused by tendon inflam- use. Rotator cuff tendon and biceps tendon
mation or tendon tears, instability, arthritis or frac- tears are usually caused by injuries. Sometimes
tures (broken bones). referred to as “pitcher’s shoulder” or “tennis
shoulder,” rotator cuff tendons can split or tear
COMMON CAUSES OF SHOULDER PAIN suddenly with injury or slowly over time as they
repeatedly rub against bone spurs. Tears also
 TENDON PROBLEMS occur in the labrum (the cartilage cuff around
� Tendon inflammation the socket that encircles the head of the upper
 Bursitis arm bone and holds it in the socket). The carti-
Excessive use of the shoulder can lead to in- lage can become brittle with age and fray. It can
flammation and swelling of the bursa which also tear due to injury.
are small, fluid-filled sacs that act as cushions  INSTABILITY (SHOULDER DISLOCATION)
between bones and soft tissues. When bursa If the head of the upper arm bone is forced out
between the rotator cuff (the muscles and of the shoulder socket due to sudden injury or from
tendons that cover the head of the upper overuse, the shoulder can become dislocated.
arm bone and attach it to the shoulder Shoulder dislocations can be partial or complete.
blade) and the outer end of the shoulder  ARTHRITIS
blade (the acromion) that’s attached to the There are 100+ types of arthritis. Osteoarthritis, the
collarbone become inflamed, subacromial most common kind of arthritis found in the shoulder,
bursitis can occur. Bursitis is also commonly causes pain, swelling and stiffness. It usually starts
found in patients with rotator cuff tendonitis. during middle age and typically develops slowly.
 Tendonitis Osteoarthritis is caused by chronic wear and tear
Most tendonitis is a result of inflammation on the joint and/or from sports and work injuries.
of the tendon, the cord that connects muscle The condition develops when cartilage cushions
to bone. Tendonitis can be acute as a result between the bones in the shoulder erode, causing
of an accident or injury or chronic due to bones to rub against each other. Other types of ar-
degenerative diseases. Shoulder tendonitis thritis can be found in patients with rotator cuff
is most commonly found in the four rotator tears, infections and/or inflammation of the joint
cuff tendons that cover the head of the upper lining.
arm bone and keep it in the shoulder socket  FRACTURES
as well as in one of the biceps tendons. Shoulder fractures occur when the upper arm,
A condition called shoulder impingement can lead shoulder blade or collarbone break. In older people,
to bursitis and tendonitis. This occurs when the arm breaks are usually a result of a fall; in younger people
is lifted away from the body. When the top of the broken bones are most commonly caused by con-
shoulder blade puts pressure on the underlying tact sports or motor vehicle crashes. 
soft tissues, the acromion rubs, or “impinges,” on
the rotator cuff tendons and bursa. Your comments and suggestions for future topics are
� Tendon tears always welcome. Email us at [email protected].
Tendon tears can be partial or complete. They
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This book is really two sepa- cret – George Blake.” to live with rich relatives in Cairo. He returned to Holland
rate stories. One is about a tun- The tunnel operated at the outbreak of World War II, became a courier for the
nel, the other about a traitor; one Dutch resistance, escaped through France and Spain to
embodies ingenuity, the other for 11 months before England where his mother had changed the family name
evil. But they intersect in Berlin the Soviets decided that to Blake, and enlisted in the British navy. His commander
during the depths of the Cold Blake was safe and they then “took a fateful step” and recommended Blake to the
War, when the West was petrified could score a propagan- Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. In 1948
that the Soviets would stage an da victory by disclosing he was assigned to the Korean capital, Seoul, and on July
unprovoked and undetected as- the excavation while 2, 1950, he was captured by North Korean soldiers and
sault. In “Betrayal in Berlin” author their new leader, Nikita spent three years as a prisoner of war. While in captivity
Steve Vogel quotes CIA chief Allen Khrushchev, was vis- he embraced the communist cause and offered to spy for
Dulles warning President Dwight the Soviet Union.
Eisenhower in 1953, “The Russians iting London in April
could launch an atomic attack on 1956. But in fact, as Why? The man who had once considered the priest-
the United States tomorrow.” the Post editorialized, hood had lost his faith, “so there was a vacuum in my
the Russians made a mind,” he later said. That vacuum was not just religious
That fear of annihilation moti- “grievous mistake” but political and personal. Was he Behar or Blake? Jew or
vated the United States and Britain by revealing the tun- Christian? Dutch or British or Turkish? He was an officer
to dig a tunnel from the American nel, which provided in the “hallowed SIS,” but “he deeply resented the class
sector of Berlin into the Soviet sec- clear “evidence that consciousness and snobbery he encountered” in British
tor, where the allies could tap into society, especially from the family of a girlfriend who ob-
key telephone lines that ran close to the tradition of Yan- jected to their romance. For Blake, writes Vogel, “declar-
the border and overhear the plans of kee resourcefulness ing allegiance to communism was akin to a religious con-
Russian military and intelligence of- and ingenuity is not a version.” A man without a country or a cause had found
ficers. Richard Helms, later the CIA myth after all.” More- a creed that filled the hole in his soul. “To betray, you first
director, called it “the most elaborate over, the informa- have to belong,” he once said. “I never belonged.”
and costly secret operation ever un- tion gleaned from
dertaken within Soviet-occupied terri- the wiretaps about Blake was eventually arrested in 1961 and after a brief
tory.” Costly and risky, but the stakes were enormous. As Soviet strengths and trial was sentenced to 42 years in prison,“the longest sen-
Vogel writes, “The Berlin tunnel was born of … despera- strategy “remained valuable for a decade tence imposed in modern British history, going back 150
tion.” and more,” noted Helms. years.” But on Oct. 22, 1966, he managed to escape with
This is a fascinating, fast-paced narrative, and Vogel is the help of three confederates who tossed a rope ladder
The Soviets were equally desperate. Their goal was to particularly well-suited to write it. A former foreign corre- over the prison wall. He eventually made his way to Ber-
counteract Western power and pressure, and they had a spondent for the Washington Post, he was born in Berlin lin and from there the KGB flew him to Moscow, where he
secret weapon – not a missile but a man, a highly placed in 1960, the son of a CIA agent, and “the city always held lives today at age 96.
British intelligence officer named George Blake who had a mystique for me,” he writes. For good reason. Cold War
turned against his country years before and was assigned Berlin was a divided city symbolizing a divided country, a “George never has any regrets,” his cousin insisted,
to take minutes at a top-secret meeting that outlined divided continent and really, a divided world. And the po- but this reader is not convinced. His wife and children
the tunnel project. He gave his Soviet handlers a copy of litical and military rivals that faced off there didn’t build left him, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the communist
those minutes and a “simple sketch” of the tunnel’s route. bridges of understanding. They built a tunnel, and later dream died. Berlin has been united for many years now,
a wall, which only aggravated their animosities instead of but Blake remains a man who never quite belonged any-
Here is the supreme irony at the core of this tale: The easing them. where and still doesn’t. 
Russians heard about the tunnel before it began, yet did If Berlin was a divided city, Blake was a divided per-
nothing to stop it. So few people were in the know that if sonality, who spent his whole life seeking a clear identity BETRAYAL IN BERLIN
Moscow tipped its hand, Blake would have immediately and never quite finding it. His father, Albert Behar, was
fallen under suspicion, and he was too valuable to risk a Turkish Jew who earned British citizenship by fighting THE TRUE STORY OF THE COLD WAR’S MOST
exposure. “In essence,” writes Vogel, “the KGB foreign with the Brits in World War I. His mother was a Dutch
intelligence directorate was sacrificing Soviet military, Protestant, and he was raised a Christian in Rotterdam, AUDACIOUS ESPIONAGE OPERATION
political, and scientific secrets to protect its own se- but after his father’s death, 13-year-old George was sent
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