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Lincoln Park
High School
LPHS art students took first
and third honors in the 2003
Congressional Arts
Competition.
LPHS has the distinction of
having the most National
Merit Scholars of any Chicago
area high school, public or
private. The students were
selected from a national pool
of 16,000 semi-finalists.
Senior Nealan Laxpati is one
of twenty-six student athletes
named to the Illinois High
School Association's All-State
Academic Team. Selection is
based on grade point
average, participation in
sports and outstanding
citizenship.
Junior Vanessa Wells won
First Place and a $5,000 cash
prize in the national Adidas
Moves Essay Contest for
student athletes.
LPHS is one of twelve high
schools nation-wide to be
featured on the website of the
National Association of
Secondary School Principals
at www.nassp.org as an
example of successful high
schools that are showing high
achievement data, especially
when these schools serve
high poverty students and
under-represented minorities.
The website gives each
schools demographic data
and information about
programs that make it
possible for students to
achieve success.
Welcome New LCA Directors
Susan Burke has lived in
Lincoln Park for the past 30 years
and has been a member of Lincoln
Central Association for most of
those years. She lives in the 2000
block of North Howe Street. She
recently completed service as a
parent representative (her
daughter is now an adult) and then
a community representative on the
Lincoln Park High School Local
School Council. She serves on the
board of the Oz Park Advisory
Council and on the Children's
Memorial Hospital Community
Forum steering committee. She is
an Assistant Dean at Loyola
University School of Social Work at
the Water Tower campus. Susan
commented that our community
has always been lively and
evolving into a more nurturing
place. She has found it to be easy
to participate in ways that she can
give back to the community what it
has given her over the years.
Jennifer Davenport is a
native Chicagoan and lives in the
300 block of West Wisconsin with
her husband and two daughters.
She received a B.A. in political
science and history from Fordham
University in New York and her
J.D. from the John Marshall Law
School in Chicago. She began her
legal career as a prosecutor in the
office of the Corporation Counsel
for the City of Chicago. In 1995
she opened her own law firm,
where she has a general practice
serving corporate, litigation and
bankruptcy clients. She is also an
Administrative Hearing Officer for
the Village of Park Forest, where
she presides over local ordinance
violation matters. In addition, she
hears cases as an Arbitrator on the
Cook County Mandatory Arbitration
Panel. She is on the advisory
board of the Actor's Center
Chicago and a member of the U.S.
Women's Chamber of Commerce
in addition to Lincoln Central
Association.
LeeAnn Rechtin lives with
her husband Mike and daughter
Isabella in a townhome
development along the 1700 block
of Larrabee. Her immediate
LCA interests include increasing
membership, organizing social
events and improving
communication. Future goals
include creating a program
utilizing high school students to
help senior citizens with spring
cleaning, snow removal, etc. She
has lived in Lincoln Park since
1995, when she moved here from
her hometown of Dearborn,
Michigan. Since then, she has
been involved with the Sheffield
Neighborhood Association,
Wrightwood Neighborhood
Association, RANCH
Neighborhood Association and
Lincoln Park Conservation
Association in both volunteer and
professional roles, performing
duties centered on membership,
newsletter, and secretarial.
Anne Moore is a recently
appointed director, filling a vacancy
for a term that continues through
2003. She served as a director of
the Bauler Playlot Advisory
Committee and saw the fruits of
time spent fund-raising. Because
Lincoln Central is a unique urban
area, joining the Lincoln Central
Association board seemed to Anne
a useful way to help maintain and
preserve the vibrancy and charm
of the neighborhood. She has lived
on the 1800 block of Cleveland for
nearly twenty years, twice
rehabbing an historic property to
create a single-family home. Her
priorities include density and
transportation issues, parks, and a
range of neighborhood social
events, such as movie nights in the
parks. A graduate of Barnard
College and a prize-winning poet,
Anne is an independent writer,
contributing regularly to local and
national publications. She and her
husband Harry Dent have three
school-age children.
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