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Living the High Life®
Garrison Named Teacher of the Year
Former Model Operates Auto Plant Eugenie Uhlmann Jeffries (F -MIT)
Maria Fisher-Coleman and her father, Robert Fisher Jr., hold the High Life® Achievement Award trophy.
At 27, Maria Fisher-Coleman (EAAshland) is vice president of Bobby Fisher Distributing, a beer distributorship in Springfield, Ohio. During the Miller Brewing Company®’s National Sales Convention in Las Vegas in March, her company received the 2003 High Life® Achievement Award, an honor presented to less than five percent of all Miller® distributors. In an industry dominated by males, Maria says, she is especially proud of the accomplishment.
Decades of Research Produces Book A gift from her husband in 1961 led Sue Toops Studebaker (Q-Ohio State) to four decades of research and a book. Ohio Is My Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1800-1850 (Ohio University Press, 2002. ISBN 0821414534) documents Ohio needlework from the early 1800s and the young girls who used the art form to craft the state’s history. Sue’s interest in the handiwork was piqued when her husband, Richard, bought her an 1836 embroidery sampler.
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runs a Detroit, Mich., automotive electronics plant for Magna International Inc., a leading supplier of automotive systems. “I love the gritty world of manufacturing and the thrill of growing a business,” Eugenie says. The 1988 graduate modeled for Seventeen magazine in the 1980s.
Entrepreneur Opens Specialty Store
Kristen Hughes owns Lullaby Baby in Columbia, Md.
When Kristen Droter Hughes (G Towson) couldn’t find a single baby or children’s specialty store near home, she created one herself: Lullaby Baby in Columbia, Md. The eight-year marketing veteran learned firsthand about baby furniture, and the concept of supply and demand, while pregnant and planning a nursery. “There were simply no stores of this kind in [the area],” says Kristen. After leaving the corporate world to raise her infant son, Kristen earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. Three years later, she reentered the work force to fulfill a dream of owning a business. Lullaby Baby offers high quality nursery décor, children’s furniture and unique gifts and even provides an interior design service. Visit www.lullabybaby.com or call 410.997.8090 for more information.
Rebecca Garrison, center, is honored as 2003 Broken Arrow First Year Teacher of the Year. She is pictured with Park Lane Elementary principal Jean Brassfield, left, and assistant principal Carmen Boone.
Rebecca Garrison ( -Oklahoma), a first grade teacher at Park Lane Elementary in Broken Arrow, Okla., was named 2003 Broken Arrow First Year Teacher of the Year. Rebecca is a Broken Arrow legacy; she attended kindergarten through senior high school in the city, and her mother teaches third grade there. Rebecca says she chose teaching because of its variety: “You never know what the first graders are going to tell you.” Chef Is Recognized for North African, Moroccan Cuisine Born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco, Kitty Chandler Morse ( T-Wisconsin/ Milwaukee) has authored nine cookbooks on North African and Moroccan cuisine. Her most recent is The Scent of Orange Blossoms (Ten Speed Press, 2001. ISBN: 1580082696). One of her menus was featured in the January 2002 issue of Bon Appetit magazine, under the heading “Moroccan Cuisine: Best of the Year.” Her recipes have been featured in such publications as Sunset, Fine Cooking and the Washington Post. In addition, Kitty leads an annual culinary tour to Morocco and conducts cooking demonstrations in her family home, south of Casablanca. For more information, visit Kitty’s Web site at www.kittymorse.com.
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