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Article updated: 8/16/2012 12:19 PM

Bugle takes Prospect High grad around world

Buglar also performs at Arlington Park

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Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz is now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler. The 25-year-old also sings the national anthem there and is entering her final year of a master's in music program at Yale University.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz, now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler, serenades an outrider horse in between races.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz is now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler. The 25-year-old also sings the national anthem there and is entering her final year of a master's in music program at Yale University.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

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Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz is now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler. The 25-year-old also sings the national anthem there and is entering her final year of a master's in music program at Yale University.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz is now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler. The 25-year-old also sings the national anthem there and is entering her final year of a master's in music program at Yale University.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

Prospect High School graduate Jean Laurenz is now in her fifth summer as Arlington Park's bugler. The 25-year-old also sings the national anthem there and is entering her final year of a master's in music program at Yale University.

Bill Zars | Staff Photographer

Jean Laurenz, Arlington Park bugler

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Jean Laurenz, Arlington Park bugler

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The endless hours Jean Laurenz spent cooped up rehearsing have helped propel her across the globe. The Prospect High School grad has played in Hong Kong, Colorado, Maine and Texas, helped run music clinics in South Africa and backed Kanye West. But she's most at home at Arlington Park, where the track bugler has become one of the track's most familiar (human) faces. "I just love it here," Jean said. "I'd love to have my summers off so I can keep doing this."