Don’t argue with Christmas miracles ~ December 22, 1988
David Heiller SATURDAY, DEC. 17—A Christmas miracle in the making: Dee Zuk sits with nine children in the church pew, nine children under the age of six. At the front of the church, older kids are saying their parts for the Christmas program. They giggle and stammer and push and read from parts that they should have memorized. Director Mary Cronin leads them along, like Mike Ditka on the sidelines with the Chicago Bears, urging them to cooperate. But Dee Zuk has those nine children lined up as quiet as the proverbial church mice which inhabit Faith Lutheran Church. “Do you have a Christmas tree?” Dee asks. “I have two trees, one upstairs and one downstairs,” Laura Horton answers, sitting on the right hand of Dee the Teacher Almighty. “Do you have a dog?” she continues. My son, Noah, answers that he has two, Ida and Binti. Noah and Malika with their cousin Sarah during a family Christmas. These were little kids at the time of this performance! Extra cu...