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You can take the girl out of Vienna, but you can`t take Vienna out of the girl.
Dr. Maria Piers, professor and former dean at the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, became ill during a reception in the Chicago Yacht Club at Monroe Street welcoming James Garbarino as new president of the institute. She was taken to a nearby hospital (though she`s up and around now).
Even as the paramedics were carrying her down the club`s stairs on a stretcher, she reassured her colleagues in her charming Old World way: ”I just wanted to be interesting.”
