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We are pleased to introduce Chantilly Life, our new electronic newsletter. We plan to publish quarterly and feature people and events that capture the quality of life we are so fortunate to enjoy in our beautiful community. Homeowners are encouraged to submit information about special events in their lives as well as ideas for newsletter features.
Your Communications Team: Meg Boland, megboland92@gmail.com; Jeff Cohen, jeffcohencreative@gmail.com; Karen Connell, karenjconnell@hotmail.com
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Pool life and pool social events highlight each summer in Chantilly. David Bard, Linda Crown, and Sue Hergott plan the events and are supported by a host of resident volunteers who help set up and clean up as well as contribute homemade goodies for all to enjoy! Enjoy the photos below taken by David Bard at this year's Wine and Cheese and BBQ parties.
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Shelly Mandel &
Arlene Singer
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Barb Sucherman, Helayne Marland, Amy Young, Erin Young & Stacy Flake | | |
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Mike Einisman
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Meg Boland
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Jay Hergott, Mike & Louise Shulkin & Karen Connell | |
Shirley Botón & Esther Poteshman | |
Adrienne Sadoff & Natalie Riegel | |
Vickie Block & Marilyn Revesz | | |
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Harvey Hergott & David Bard | |
Always plenty of delicious food | |
Sue Hergott, Arlene Levin, Marilyn Revesz & Hillary Kraus | |
Heidi Sabitt & Harvey Hergott | |
Helayne Marland, Stacy Flake & Marci Adilman | |
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Olivia & Irit Hotle, Linda & Yves Jeanty, Art & Lynn Kosner,
Adam Randolph, Zach & Evan Hotle & Wylie Randolph
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Karlo, Tessa & Juan Salazar | |
The Hotle Family....Irit, Zach, Olivia & Evan | |
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There’s something new in the Hood. Make a point of going to the southeast corner of the complex – where the two Calais Circles meet – and take a look! There sits Pig, generously on loan to Chantilly’s Sculpture Park by Sid Rosenberg.
In 1989, Sid’s wife, Natalie Rosenberg, commissioned John Kearney to sculpt “Pig” for Sid. She ordered “Pig” because Sid started his trading career in the 70s at Chicago’s Mercantile Exchange by trading live hogs. He then began to collect pigs in all sizes, shapes and forms. According to Ellen Mazza, Sid’s daughter, also a Chantilly resident, at one point the family had over 1000 decorative pigs in their home!
John Kearney (1924-2014) was an American artist, renowned for his animal sculptures made of car bumpers. During his career, Kearney was based out of Chicago and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Many of his sculptures are displayed outside of public buildings in the Chicago area as well as in other cities around the country. There are two pieces outside City Hall in Highland Park. Chicago installations include two life-size horses in the Chicago Park District, goats in multiple neighborhoods in the City, a moose on Michigan Avenue, and a life-size gorilla at the Museum of Science and Industry. Kearney learned his welding skills as a World War II U.S. Navy sailor while performing underwater repair of naval vessels.
Kearney also has been part of the lives of other Chantilly residents. Jeff Cohen’s first bachelor pad after graduating from college in 1967 was in the basement of a building in Chicago owned by John Kearney! Jeff recalls waking up periodically to horrendous crashing sounds in the back yard – car bumpers in large quantities being delivered for Kearney’s work! He also recalls Kearney’s curiosity about his social life. Apparently, Kearney could access Jeff’s apartment from his kitchen and often did so, unannounced and usually when Jeff had a date, on the pretense of asking if he needed anything! Jeff and Kearney remained friends for many years.
Marilyn and Guy Revesz encountered Kearney in 1981 at the Old Town Art Fair in Chicago. They were fascinated by his work and bought one of his many life-size goats. It sits just inside the entrance of their home on Chantilly Blvd.
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Our Celestial Globe - at Night. | |
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Chantilly has been gifted a historically significant sculpture titled “Solar Globe” by acclaimed Chicago-based artist, William Conger. A painter and educator, Conger is known for a dynamic, subjective style of abstraction descended from Kandinsky, which consciously employs illogical, illusionistic space and light and ambiguous forms that evoke metaphorical associations. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and the Roy Boyd and Zolla/Lieberman Galleries in Chicago have long been home to his work.
The globe was created for the Cool Globes Exhibition, which premiered in Chicago at the Field Museum in 2007. The exhibit featured 125 5-foot-diameter globes decorated with solutions to climate change by recognized Chicago, national and international artists. The initial exhibit far exceeded expectations, with millions of people viewing the globes, and spurring interest from cities around the world. Since 2007, the exhibit has traveled to four continents, and text translated into 9 languages. Currently, 26 Cool Globes are on display at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center Park in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Wendy Abrams, environmental activist, established Cool Globes as a non-profit organization in 2006. Wendy, a Highland Park resident, and the niece of Chantilly resident Helen Siegel, gifted the Globe to us in honor of Helen. It is now located at the north end of the complex on Concorde Circle for all residents to view and enjoy.
The purpose and historical significance of “Solar Globe” have inspired several Chantilly residents to make financial contributions to enable the permanent installation and maintenance of it in our community. Additional contributions in any amount are welcome. Checks should be made to “Chantilly Townehome Association” and sent to Braeside Condominium Management Ltd., 790 Estate Drive, Suite 100, Deerfield, IL 60015. Please specify that your contribution is for the Globe Project. All donors will be recognized.
The Outdoor Art Committee unanimously supports the Globe Project. We are extremely grateful for the enthusiasm and support already demonstrated by many in the community. Committee members are Rick Schwab, Chair, David Bard, Jeff Cohen, Karen Connell, Barbara Gottesman, Marilyn Revesz, Mary Schwab, Barbara Sucherman, Louise Shulkin, and Patrick White.
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Marilyn Revesz, Jeff Cohen, Karen Connell, Mary Schwab, Barbara Sucherman, David Bard, Wendy Abrams, Helen Siegel, Rick Schwab and Barbara Gottesman welcome the Solar Globe. | |
John Gordon & Bill Salvato | |
Music, computers, gardens, and art are all part of the active lives of John Gordon and Bill Salvato. They met at age 24 and have spent 47 years together. John served in Viet Nam where he earned a Purple Heart. He worked for ITW as a tax manager during his professional life. Bill is a graduate of the Art Institute and taught Special Education in the Chicago Public Schools. He is a visual artist who loves working with kids in creative ways. He is also a self-described “computer freak”. Both Bill and John have performed with the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus for many years. In addition to having met “so many wonderful people” since moving to Chantilly, Bill and John, both plant lovers, are thrilled with the gardening opportunities their patio offers. Already, they are volunteers on the Patio and Plant Health Committees. | |
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DJ, cook, gardener, reader, businessman, Antennian “Tenny” DeCarlo co-owns his Chantilly home with his uncle, Earl Caldwell. His daughter, Arice, and niece, Xendrey, live with him. Tenny said, ”I didn’t realize how many prior connections I had until I got to Chantilly! Lori Weiskopf was my baby sitter, Amy Young my gym teacher, Leslie Randolph and Diana Smith and Genvieve Jeanty went to school with me!” Tenny’s DJ talents are already part of our summer Pool Parties. Tenny also owns and manages the RTE Insurance Agency as well as Royal T. Enterprises and FLOW Entertainment for Entertainment and DJing!
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Joe Comaty & Claire Advokat | |
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Claire Advokat and Joe Comaty moved to Chantilly in June of this year after living for 32 years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Former residents of Oak Park, they returned to the Midwest to escape the humidity, storms, and hurricanes of the Deep South. Joe and Claire both are Ph.D. psychologists interested in the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain. They met in New York City and married in 1978. In 1989, they moved to Baton Rouge to continue their work in neuropsychology. Claire taught in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University until she retired in 2012. Joe is a clinical and medical psychologist (i.e., he can prescribe drugs) and is still professionally active, including doing volunteer work for two psychological associations, the APA and ASPPB. Together, Joe and Claire authored four editions of Julien's Primer of Drug Action in collaboration with Robert M. Julien, MD. Science isn’t the only area of interest for this couple. Joe, a pilot, is working on instrument certification; he also takes golf lessons. Claire is an avid nonfiction reader and is taking piano lessons in retirement via face time since her teacher lives outside Washington, D.C.!
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Gramus
Wow! This book totally blew me away! It had been recommended to me by several people whose opinions on books I value. I dismissed them because it really wasn't the type of novel I would typically read. Then my daughter gave it to me as a birthday gift and she told me she honestly never wanted it to end and was sad when it did. I wasn't enthralled with anything I was reading at the time so I decided to give it a try.
I am so happy that I did!
Lessons in Chemistry is unlike anything I've ever read. The main character, Elizabeth Zott , is a scientist, a chemist really, in the 1960's, when chemistry, like most careers, was a very male dominated field. When I was a teenager in the 60's, I knew many nurses and teachers and one female doctor but most of the women in my life were stay-at-home moms.
Most hadn't even finished high school because they had to get jobs to
help support the family.
Elizabeth Zott's career and goals as a chemist defined her. She really believed she could make a difference. She was also a daughter, sister, significant other, mother and friend, but being a scientist was her passion - her purpose for being. There is great sadness and profound joy in this book as well marvelous humor. There are obstacles and horrific events perpetrated by people (mostly men) around Elizabeth that would have broken most people but Elizabeth has resiliency,
a brilliant mind and a strong sense of self. After every fall
she picks herself up and gets on with it.
The book is so prescient about women's roles in society, the obstacles they face, the indignities, the preconceived notions and the outright discrimination. One is constantly learning while reading this book.
I purposely did not include specifics here because I would like you to come to this beautiful book like I did - maybe a little skeptical, not exactly excited and willing to put it down if I found myself wandering.
I am so very glad I read it; it is one of my favorite books
probably of all time
and like my daughter,
I was sad to have it end.
Gayle Cohen
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We would like to remind everyone who uses the Little Library to please slide the doors all the way closed and engage the lock. Unfortunately we've had to throw away almost a dozen books because they were water damaged.
The doors are not leakproof so please lock securely
after you peruse the collection.
Thank you so much and enjoy the books!
Gayle Cohen & Connie Powell
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Claire Advokat and Joe Comaty on the recent birth of the first grandchild in the Advokat Family.
Ed and Rhonda Herbert for 55 years of marital bliss!
Lenny Kay for honorable mention in the Highland Park News for her work with dementia patients.
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Gloria Zieve on the occasion of her 95th birthday!
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