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Corinne Schild was awarded a scholarship grant from the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI Inc. Schild of Valley Cottage is the granddaughter of former special agent Charles O. Davis. She is a recent graduate of Nyack High School and will attend Hope College in Holland, Mich. History scholar
Marc Spencer Appel was named a finalist in the Gilder Lehrman History Scholars program. Appel from West Nyack was one of 45 finalists who was chosen to meet with history scholars during a one-week program in New York City. Appel is a student at Yale University. Alston graduates
Daniel J. Alston has received a degree in Culinary Arts from the Art Institute of New York City. He is from Valley Cottage. Fouda graduates
Rana Fouda graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.
New school: Action!
A professional film crew equipped with state-of-the-art high-definition cameras was shooting a scene for a short film recently at a Near West Side studio. Amidst the organized chaos, 19-year-old Dan Miskovic helped with lights, props, whatever the crew needed. He was getting hands-on experience as part of the curriculum of a new college that officially won't open for a few weeks -- Flashpoint: the Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. The school will prepare students to work in the relatively high-paying film, video game, recording and animation fields. Running the show is Chicago serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman, with a background in entertainment and technology businesses and, in recent years, in education as he led a turnaround at Kendall College, the Chicago culinary school.
Culinary artist
Chicago's loss has been Parsons' gain. Native son Taylor McCoskey has been putting the skills he learned at Chicago's Le Cordon Bleu culinary school and a four-star Italian restaurant to use at The Breakfast Nook and Bakery. For the past couple weeks, The Breakfast Nook has been open from 6 to 8 p.m. Fridays for dinner and McCoskey develops a three- to four-item menu of traditional Italian dishes. Owner Lee Ellis said the dinners have been so successful, the restaurant will start serving dinner Saturdays starting this week. "It's a nice additive. It's something special that we wanted to do for the town," Ellis said. "It's really paid off. A lot of people like it." McCoskey said he starts planning his meal early in the week and reads cookbooks for inspiration.
Dinnertime dash: Recipes, tips for speedy school-night meals
With the older of her two sons just off to kindergarten, Robin Miller may be new to the school-year drill, but she's more than ready for the daily challenge of fitting healthful, home-cooked dinners into a busier-than-ever schedule. When her boys were still in diapers, she was developing "Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller," a wonderfully practical and appealing cooking show that debuted two years ago on The Food Network. This spring, Taunton Press published a companion cookbook. If you find Rachael Ray's hyper-perkiness grating and Paula Dean's butter-intensive recipes too rich, Miller may be just the ticket. She has a relaxed, upbeat manner that manages to convey both encouragement and calm. And with a master's degree in nutrition, she puts health front and center.
PROBLEMS AND PET PEEVES
The place was an Italian restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and the time was summer, a hot, muggy, buggy summer in my college years. I had three months to kill in a strange, unwelcoming environment, and I missed my school friends in upstate New York and my ole Jersey home. So I waitressed six nights a week, came in early to help with prep and counted the days till I flew back north. The restaurant's owners originally were from New Jersey, as it turned out, and the food was the same circa-1970s-in-Jersey Italian food I knew from back home. I thought I'd been a good waitress � organized, efficient, accommodating � in my previous school-days' stints, but by Day Three, I'd ticked off the hostess who ran the floor show. She was a big-haired blonde named Karen who, as she told everyone, was just touching down in Jax for a brief spell.
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