Bethesda Magazine - July/August 2020

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The Promise of Medicine

Dawn Harris ’13 RN, BSN, is an assistant nurse manager at Holy Cross Hospital.

When she decided she wanted to make a difference in her community, she knew exactly what she wanted to do, and she knew just where to go to receive the education and training she required.

A proud Montgomery College nursing alumna, Dawn is also a generous donor and foundation board member.

An Essential Investment

In the years to come, this moment will be one we all remember. This moment like no other. When as a worldwide community, we all had to stop in our tracks. We were forced to consider everything that truly matters to us and to society. Our aspirational goals, our long-term plans, and our wildest dreams were temporarily grounded. And all that mattered was what was essential

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ON THE COVER 88 stuck at home

A wedding, a bat mitzvah, a new baby, daily chaos, too many Zooms, and some unexpected family bonding. With little warning, local residents had nowhere to go, so they tried to make the best of it. We checked in with 12 of them in April and May to see how the pandemic was affecting their lives.

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Meg Breitenbach and Kennedi, who was born on March 5

FEATURES

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ruff times

Let’s face it: During the dog days of COVID-19, we’ve all needed cheering up. For some, that meant bringing home a new furry friend. We asked people to tell us about the pets they added to the family during the pandemic, and the adorable photos came rolling in.

MASON

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‘Miracle Man’

When Mike Lavorel developed a rare infection, likely from something he ate, it didn’t look like he would survive. Less than a year later, the Bethesda dad was coaching soccer again—and adjusting to challenges he never expected.

BY EUGENE L. MEYER

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Beach Memories

With many summer plans still up in the air, six local families reflect on why Bethany, Rehoboth, Dewey and Ocean City are so important to them

BY CARALEE ADAMS

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Bethesda Interview

Brothers Roberto and Riccardo Pietrobono, who own Olazzo, Gringos & Mariachis and Alatri Bros., talk about the stress of the pandemic, pivoting to takeout, and how they’re handling the county’s phased reopening

BY DAVID HAGEDORN

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Restaurateurs and brothers Riccardo (left) and Roberto Pietrobono

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176 | BE WELL

How the pandemic is changing the way a Chevy Chase pediatrician connects with her patients

178 | ON THE CUSP OF A CURE?

Jeff Galvin believes his Rockville cell and gene technology company has found a breakthrough treatment for people living with HIV

198 | WEDDINGS

At a resort in Cambridge, Maryland, a Potomac couple’s waterside celebration included a sand ceremony and a packed dance floor

207 | PETS

A cat named Beckett has made himself at home at a local senior living community

208 | OUTTAKES

Chil Kong, artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC

A WEEK LIKE NO OTHER

I’M WRITING THIS ON Saturday, June 6, at the end of a week like no other in our community. We were already living through a pandemic when the death of George Floyd during a police arrest sparked protests across the nation.

Late on Sunday night, May 31, I got word of looting in Friendship Heights, D.C., near the Montgomery County line. By the time I got there to help with our coverage, things had settled down, but county police cars with lights flashing lined the border.

On Monday, June 1, the first day of the first phase of Montgomery County’s “reopening,” I walked around Bethesda Row in the early afternoon to get a glimpse of what the start of a return to normal looked like.

I quickly realized that normal was a long way off.

I was heartened to see diners sitting at outdoor tables and enjoying a leisurely lunch on a beautiful spring day. It was the first time in 11 weeks that restaurants in the county could serve patrons on their premises, albeit outdoors only.

But in many cases the diners’ conversations mingled with the sounds of buzz saws cutting wood and hammers pounding nails. Workers at the Apple store on Bethesda Avenue were just about finished boarding up the storefront windows. Around the corner at Pampillonia Jewelers on Bethesda Lane, employees in business attire were doing the best they could to cover the store’s windows with plywood. The windows of other merchants were boarded up, as well.

Some merchants told me they were concerned that a protest planned for the following day in Bethesda might turn violent (it didn’t), and others feared that looting the previous night less than 2 miles away in Friendship Heights might be a harbinger of things to come in Bethesda (it wasn’t).

I stopped at Mon Ami Gabi, and the scene inside the popular eatery said it all. Some staff members were preparing for the 65 dinner reservations that had been made for reopening night, while others hurriedly cleared bottles from the bar in case there was looting.

On Tuesday, more than 2,000 people by my count participated in the protest in the parking lot of the Bethesda library. Organized and led by local high school students, it was peaceful and inspiring. Hundreds of the protestors then marched through the streets of Bethesda, with a police escort, for several hours.

On Wednesday, the news broke that a biker on the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda had accosted a group of young people who were putting up flyers about the death of George Floyd. A video of the incident on the trail was viewed millions of times online, and Twitter users wrongly outed two “suspects,” one a Bethesda businessman and the other a former county police officer. Neither man had anything to do with the incident.

On Friday, Park Police arrested a 60-year-old Kensington man who later issued an apology, saying, “I am sick with remorse for the pain and fear I caused the victims on the trail, and online.”

By the time you’re reading this, I hope we all have begun returning to some of the comforting routines of our lives. But I also hope that we all realize that we can’t and shouldn’t simply go back to the way our lives were before the pandemic and George Floyd’s death. The really hard work is just beginning. And I am confident that we as a community will embrace the challenge. I know I will.

As a company, we are examining how we cover people of color and issues of race and diversity in Bethesda Magazine and Bethesda Beat. In this space in the next issue, I will address the changes we’re going to make in our coverage.

THE CLASS OF 2020 missed most of the attention and pomp that are usually accorded to graduates. In this issue, we are excited to publish a special advertising section that gives the graduates at least some of the recognition they deserve. The section consists of ads recognizing individual graduates, ads from private schools, and ads listing every MCPS high school graduate. David and Mikel Blair of Potomac purchased ads for the 12 high schools in the county with the highest percentage of students from low-income families. MCPS bought the ads for the other schools. The North Bethesda Middle School PTSA also purchased an ad listing the NBMS eighth grade graduates. The section begins on page 31.

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KARI MASON

LIVES IN: Gaithersburg

IN THIS ISSUE: Designed the “Ruff Times” story after she collected submissions from local residents on their new pets during the pandemic. “It was so much fun to hear the stories of readers getting their beloved pets. I know the love and joy my new little guy, Waf es, has brought me. In this time with all of the gloomy news it was so nice to cover a story about people having excitement, joy and happiness brought to them by their new pets.” She also designed layouts for several other stories in this issue.

WHAT SHE DOES: She joined Bethesda Magazine as a graphic designer in January after earning a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in integrated design from the University of Baltimore.

PUPPY LOVE: “Waf es is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel. He has a lot of spirit for such a little guy. He bounces through the yard like a little bunny rabbit. His name was coined by his dad, Jason Fisher, who, months before we got him, decided that any breakfast food would be a perfect name for a dog, and Waf es was our favorite.”

MIKE UNGER

LIVES IN: Baltimore

IN THIS ISSUE: Wrote about how people are occupying themselves during their coronavirus quarantines. “The ways people are reconnecting with their families and coming up with creative ideas to spend their time (and entertain their young children) during this bizarre and unsettling time is inspiring.”

WHAT HE DOES: He’s a senior contributing writer for Baltimore magazine and the editor of Towson University’s alumni magazine.

WHAT HE MISSES MOST ABOUT THE PRE-CORONAVIRUS WORLD: “Going to Orioles games, music festivals, and bellying up to a bar. And hugging my mom.”

WHAT HE’S READING: “Last Call is a terri c history of Prohibition, which, judging by the over owing recycling bins I see in my neighborhood every week, most people are happy isn’t the law of the land these days.”

HIS QUARANTINE TV RECOMMENDATION: Rewatch The Sopranos. “It’s just as captivating, but the second time around you’ll notice its sharp sense of humor as well.”

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CHANGING DIRECTION

Artistic Director Chil Kong is putting his spin on Adventure Theatre MTC

BY AMY HALPERN

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Chil Kong, Adventure Theatre MTC’s artistic director, on the set of The Snowy Day

CHIL KONG HAS COME a long way from the 8-year-old boy who arrived in the U.S. from South Korea in 1976 and grew up in a trailer park in Woodbridge, Virginia. The son of a father who was a machinist and a mother who worked as a janitor, he graduated from Virginia Tech in 1991 and was awarded a full scholarship to study musical theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston. He went on to direct theater productions in Boston, San Diego and Seattle (and serve as an artistic director in Boston and Seattle) before co-founding the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles in 1999. When the theater company closed 10 years later, he stayed in L.A. and directed two feature films, three television pilots and several short films.

Last August, he became the artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC, which was founded in 1951 and has been a fixture of Glen Echo Park since 1971. Eight months into his new post, when the coronavirus forced local theaters to abruptly shut their doors, Kong took Adventure Theatre online, streaming weekly live play readings and other events on Facebook. We caught up with Kong at the theater’s headquarters before the pandemic—and again by phone in May—to ask him about growing up in the Washington, D.C., suburbs and what’s in store for the area’s longestrunning children’s theater company.

You grew up about an hour south of the Bethesda area. What was that like? I was a Southern boy, including the twang. I’m a fairly tall Asian. I think I broke a lot of stereotypes because of the way I talked, and physically I was different from what people expected an Asian man to be. Woodbridge back then was a very black and white community, and both communities didn’t know where to place me.

Your parents brought you and your two younger sisters to the U.S. to give you all a better life. They were blue-collar, but they wanted you three to become doctors or lawyers or accountants. How did you end up in theater?

I got to high school and said, ‘Where are all the girls?’ and saw that a lot of girls were in choir, and choir was a thing that seemed like fun. Choir got me to a place where I was able to vocally express things that I wasn’t able to say. That started my slippery slope into the arts.

What was your first professional directing experience?

It was in Boston at the Chinese Cultural Institute, which is no longer there. My first show was in 1995. It was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—Tennessee Williams—and I didn’t get the production rights because I didn’t know I needed to do that. I was super young. A lawyer representing the estate of Tennessee Williams came to the show—apparently to shut it down. But he liked the show so much that they let me run it for, like, three weeks. I was really lucky.

When did your parents get comfortable with your career choice?

It wasn’t until I was [an] artistic director in Seattle. It was 1998. There was some big announcement in the Chosun Ilbo [the major South Korean daily newspaper] because I was the first Korean American artistic director at the time. I sent a copy to my parents—not thinking about how important it was—and my parents finally understood what I was doing. That was the turning point for them—seeing it in their language.

What drew you to children’s theater? I had been creating musicals that my son couldn’t see—too much violence or death or bad language. At the same time, I was tired of taking my son to children’s

shows that I couldn’t enjoy. I wanted to be part of a company that allows me to share a collective experience with my son, my family, and see stories that all of us can enjoy.

You’d like to produce more shows based on original stories and to work with more local writers. Any other changes in store?

I want for Adventure—as a theater company—to be more multigenerational as opposed to being purely focused on the kids. I was fortunate in that I saw a lot of amazing family theater in Seattle, and I saw a lot of possibilities of how theater can inspire not just children but also their parents and grandparents, sort of the Pixar model.

Any upcoming projects you can share?

We’re developing a musical right now about a math monster—a metaphor for why girls don’t generally like math—and it’s a really fun piece that’s being developed by two local women about how you can overcome whatever issues you have. We’re about two years away from producing that.

What do you love most about Adventure Theatre?

I love that at Adventure, the kids get to influence the way the actors onstage tell the story, because [the kids] are reacting with visceral laughs and it’s contained within the storytelling. We are a funnel for all the theater in the D.C. area. If children don’t see theater before a certain age, they don’t go to the theater as adults. So if I want to preserve this craft, I have to make sure I’m taking care of the audience here and showing them really great stories.

In mid-March 2020, theaters across the region were ordered to close. What happened next?

We were doing The Snowy Day and it was tracking to be our highest-grossing show in a while. We had to stop in the middle of the run and cancel our next show, Lyle the Crocodile. Interestingly, the theme of Lyle is how to deal with something strange happening in your life. Anyway, we were able to start immediately producing two hours a week of live, online theater and making it available to everyone for free. My experience in TV and film helped us ramp up quickly. We were trying to take the proactive approach of giving moments of joy to people until they can go to the theater in person again.

What’s been the reaction to the online content?

The viewership has been really strong. And we can see kids commenting and clapping throughout the performance— lots of hug and love emojis.

You have a wife and 8-year-old son. Have they been with you throughout the COVID pandemic?

No, we have a place in New York City and my wife and son are there. I was planning to go up near the end of March, but there were emergencies here I had to address and then New York issued its shelter-in-place order. My wife and son are fine, but I’m here with my parents at their home in Woodbridge. My room in their house looks like the control deck on the Star Trek Enterprise, with my five monitors and all my production equipment.

Any plans for your wife and son to relocate closer to Adventure Theatre?

I’ve been looking for places in Rockville. Everything I want for my future is here. We’ll keep our place in New York, though. My wife [Erin Quill] is a Broadway performer—her career is just as important as mine. n

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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FAMILY SUPPORT ORDERS

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SPREADING KINDNESS

A new book by a Potomac mother and daughter offers kids 52 ideas for how to make the world a nicer place

BY CARALEE ADAMS

CARRIE FOX AND her daughter Sophia have taken turns writing in a shared journal most nights for more than two years. As they pass it back and forth, Carrie often poses a question to 10-yearold Sophia.

One night last year she asked: “If we wrote a book, what would we write it about?”

That was around the time Sophia was noticing incidents in the news and at school that she says were “mean.” Sophia suggested a book about kindness and wondered: “What if the world had no mean in it?” They made a list in their journal of things to do that would feel the opposite of mean—and then started doing them.

That led the Potomac residents to write Adventures in Kindness, released in May by Mission Partners Press, a

division of Mission Partners, a communications firm in Bethesda; Carrie, 42, is the founder and CEO. The book was illustrated by Nichole Wong Forti, Sophia’s aunt.

“We hope after someone reads the book, they are a kinder and nicer person,” says Sophia, a rising fifth grader at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville.

The 170-page paperback contains 52 ideas for acts of kindness that kids can do for their families and others, as well as things that benefit their health and mind. The adventures are designed for kids ages 7 to 12, who sometimes don’t meet the minimum age requirements to volunteer at local charities, Carrie says.

Adventures in Kindness explains how to organize a neighborhood book swap, make care kits for the homeless, and

spread joy with painted kindness rocks. There are at-home activities, such as creating a family gratitude list or taking a challenge to limit shower time in order to save water. At the end of each section there are prompts and space for readers to write about the experience.

“We loved the journaling process so much we thought it might be fun for kids after they finish an activity to sit down and reflect on it,” says Carrie, who also set up a website (adventuresinkindness. com) where kids can share their adventure experiences, earn a decal or button and join the Adventures in Kindness Kids Club.

Carrie and Sophia began writing the book last summer, often working on a laptop they’d bring to the Flower Child restaurant in Rockville. They’d brainstorm ideas over macaroni and

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Carrie Fox and her daughter Sophia geared their book of kindness activities toward kids ages 7 to 12.

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cheese, and then go online to find resources. Sophia added notes that appear throughout the book. Following an entry about how to organize a bike drive, Sophia wrote about handing down her first bicycle to her little sister, who was excited to get it.

Many of the projects were tested at the Fox home with Sophia’s dad, Brian, her sister, Kate, 6, and with Sophia’s Girl Scout troop, which Carrie co-leads.

e scouts made pet toys to donate to an animal shelter and did a community adventure in which they interviewed older women about their life experiences.

e troop also took on a project in which the girls listed what they saw as problems in society (homelessness, pollution) alongside their vision for an ideal world. One girl whose father is in the military prompted Carrie and Sophia to add projects to support service members. For their efforts, the 13 Girl Scouts were named as founding members of the Adventures in Kindness Kids Club and given “KIND IS COOL” T-shirts.

Jackie Felsenfeld, co-leader of the troop, says, “What I really like about the book is the projects are all achievable.

ey are all things you can do rather easily, but can really make a difference.”

In April, Carrie and her daughters completed the book’s family fitness adventure while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, running or biking at least a mile every day for 26 days—as if they were participating in a marathon.

“I think now it is going to be helpful that there is a kindness book to keep people positive and not focus on the bad,” Sophia says.

Adds Carrie: “Despite the time we are in—or maybe because of the time we are in—it feels like this is the right moment to push this out. Finding things to keep us connected, even when we can’t be socially connected, that’s my hope for the book—that it’s something that pulls us together.” ■

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Ellen Oh’s latest adventure book, The Dragon Egg Princess (HarperCollins, March 2020), is about a boy who helps magical forest creatures save the world from evil and in the process finds out that he is magical himself. Aimed at ages 8 and older, the story takes place in a fantastical kingdom that incorporates Asian mythology and culture. “Books should reflect the makeup of the world that we see around us,” says Oh, who co-founded the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books. “I try to make sure that the stories I write do just that. And there is no reason that a fantasy book set in a made-up world shouldn’t be as diverse as the real one.” The Bethesda resident says her three kids influence her writing, from fleshing out plots and dialogue to reading her books before they are published.

BOOK REPORT

BY CARALEE ADAMS

You don’t have to be rich and famous to have a story to tell, says John Feinstein, veteran sports writer for The Washington Post and the author of 42 books. Feinstein, 63, who lives in Potomac, spent the winter of 2018-2019 capturing the drama of lesser-known collegiate basketball players and teams for The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season (Doubleday, March 2020).

The experience reminded Feinstein of what he loved about being a young sports journalist: “I much prefer walking into a 5,000seat gym knowing that everybody in the building is going to be emotionally involved in the game than a 20,000-seat arena where you are blasted with corporate ads all night and half the people are there to tell the office the next day they were there.”

Milly Bennett, one of America’s first female war correspondents, has long been a fascination of Silver Spring author Carrie Callaghan Based on research from an archive of Bennett’s letters, Callaghan wrote Salt the Snow (Amberjack Publishing, February 2020), focusing on the spunky yet vulnerable reporter’s 1930s quest in Moscow to discover why her young Russian husband had been arrested by the secret police. “When we look at something that has happened in the past, we can understand how people were—which is in and of itself a bit of a comfort,” Callaghan, 39, says of her second book of historical fiction. “There are so many different ways to live a life. The more you understand the different paths, the more freeing you feel about your current path.”

Jim Kleiger has written three professional books for mental health practitioners during his 40 years as a clinical psychologist, most of that time in Bethesda. His first novel, The 11th Inkblot (IPBooks), was released in February. The story follows a character who is broken down from the trauma of World War I and journeys to Zurich, falling under the spell of Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, who invented the Inkblot Test in 1921. There are 10 standard images used in the test, also known as the Rorschach Test, in which subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analyzed. “The idea of an 11th inkblot is sort of a metaphor as something that represents uncertainty—and it’s a concrete theme in the story,” says Kleiger, who lives in Olney.

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READING LIST

The top-selling books in our area. Data is based on books sold at Politics and Prose’s Connecticut Avenue location in Upper Northwest D.C., and online from April 29 to May 13, 2020.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Paladin, David Ignatius

2. All Adults Here, Emma Straub

3. Little Family, Ishmael Beah

4. Big Summer, Jennifer Weiner

5. The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead

6. Weather, Jenny Of ll

7. The End of October, Lawrence Wright

8. Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler

9. Afterlife, Julia Alvarez

10. Sea Wife, Amity Gaige

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Pelosi, Molly Ball

2. OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy Is Supposed to Work, Ben Sheehan

3. Had I Known: Collected Essays, Barbara Ehrenreich

4. Manifesto For a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World, Jacqueline Novogratz

5. What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share With Us the Secrets to a Happy Life, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue

6. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino

7. Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty, Iris Krasnow

8. What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why, David Allen Sibley

9. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson

10. Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator, Jung H. Pak

PAPERBACK

1. Normal People, Sally Rooney

2. Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Jean Silberstein

3. The Overstory, Richard Powers

4. Circe, Madeline Miller

5. The Plague, Albert Camus

6. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

7. Known By Heart: Collected Stories, Ellen Prentiss Campbell

8. The Pleasure Plan: One Woman’s Search For Sexual Healing, Laura Zam

9. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, Ruth Reichl

10. Wow, No Thank You. Essays, Samantha Irby

CHILDREN’S

1. The One and Only Bob, Katherine Applegate

2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel), Suzanne Collins

3. Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo

4. Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle Series, No. 2), Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

5. Lift, Minh Lê

6. Ahimsa, Supriya Kelkar

7. We Dream of Space, Erin Entrada Kelly

8. Packs: Strength in Numbers, Hannah Salyer

9. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (Pandava Series, No. 3), Roshani Chokshi

10. Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, Richard Scarry

A special section celebrating this year's graduates

Twelve of the MCPS high school ads are sponsored by David and Mikel Blair of Potomac. The other 14 high school ads are sponsored by MCPS. The ad listing the North Bethesda Middle School graduates is sponsored by the NBMS PTSA.

High School Graduates

Eden Anderson

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: Take a gap year. Then go to college and major in art.

We are very proud of you, Eden, and love you very much. Mom, Dad, Simon, and Natasha (Ronnie and Leo)

Kathleen Bittman

Hometown: Chevy Chase Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Post-Graduation Plans: Katie is heading to Boston College to study psychology

Congratulations Katie! We are so proud of you and all that you have accomplished! Love, Mom & Dad

Kalab Bumbaugh

Hometown: Rockville

Wheaton

Post-Graduation Plans: Awarded the Gund Family Scholarship at the Cleveland Institute of Art

We are so proud of you and may God continue to bless you. With all our love, Mom, Dad and Jadon

Neda Alai

Changuit

Hometown: Bethesda

Walter Johnson

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Oregon, Pre-Vet Medicine

Be happy and do what you love. Only one man in a thousand is a leader—the other 999 follow a woman! Love you, Your Fam

Faith Chrisler

Hometown: Washington, DC

Barrie School

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study psychology and social work on a pre-law track

You are more than I imagined a daughter would be. Continue to share with the world your intelligence, humor, kindness, and compassion. Love, Mom

Sophia DiFrank

Hometown: Bethesda

Walter Johnson

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Louisville, women's rowing

Sophie, we are so proud of you and so excited for everything you will accomplish in life. Go Cards! Love, M, D, S & J

Nikka Givpoor

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Maryland School of Engineering/Bio-Engineering

Congrats Nikka. We are so proud of you. Can't wait to celebrate!! Love you, Mom, Dad, Kiana, Teddy

Alexa Goldstein

Hometown: Bethesda

Walter Johnson

Post-Graduation Plans: Northwestern University

We are so incredibly proud of you! Your amazing outlook on life lls us with joy! Love Mom, Dad and Sari

Jeremy Golub

Hometown: Rockville

Thomas S. Wootton

Post-Graduation Plans: To attend Union College in Schenectady, New York in the fall

Congratulations on your graduating from high school. So proud of you. Now on to your next conquest. Love, Mom and Dad

Salina F.

Koran S.

Huy N.

Dominic B.

Weihan Z.

Jewdel S.

Rachel Y.

Trinity K.

Faith C.

Matt S.

Senior Portraits by Freed Photography

Atticus Goodenow

Hometown: Garrett Park

Walter Johnson

Post-Graduation Plans: SCAD, fall 2020

We are SO proud of you Atticus! We love you and are so excited to see what this next chapter brings. Love, Moms & Dad

Michael Haramis

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Maryland, Robert Smith Business School

We are proud of the young man you have become and are excited for the future! We Love You, Mom, Dad, Irene and Steven

Kevin Harper

Hometown: Kensington

St. John's College High School

Post-Graduation Plans: Kevin plans to study lm at Towson University in the fall.

Congratulations Kevin! We are so proud of you! Much love, Mom and Dad

Kathryn Henley

Hometown: Gaithersburg Home School

Post-Graduation Plans: Kathryn will be attending Loyola University Maryland to study psychology.

Happy graduation! You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Proud of you! Love, Grandma

Taylor Kelly

Hometown: Kensington

Walter Johnson

Post-Graduation Plans: Studying economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

Congratulations to you and the entire class of 2020! We love you and are so proud! xo Mom, Matt, and Nolan

Monyette King

Hometown: Bethesda

Walt Whitman

Post-Graduation Plans: Attending Penn State with a focus on business/criminology/foreign languages

With all my love and life, Mother, Family and Friends! May the Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you in all your plans. Shine Bright Lady.

CHARLES E. SMITH

Aishlinn Kivlighn

Hometown: Potomac

Thomas S. Wootton

Post-Graduation Plans: Columbia University, political science

Aishlinn, we are so proud of your achievements and the amazing young woman you are. Love You, Mom, Dad, Emma and Uli

Daniel Levy

Hometown: Potomac

Montgomery Blair

Post-Graduation Plans: Major in physics and mathematics at the University of Maryland

Congratulations Daniel! Wishing you success and happiness. We are very proud of you. With love, Mom, Dad and Catherine

JEWISH DAY SCHOOL CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2020

The list below reflects the extensive variety of colleges and universities where the Class of 2020 has been accepted and will attend in the fall (matriculation indicated in bold).

James

College of

(2) New

University (2)

Northeastern University

Northwestern University (2)

Nova Southeastern University

Oberlin College

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Oxford College of Emory University

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Pennsylvania State University

Pratt Institute

Radford University

Rhodes College

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick

Salisbury University

San Diego State University

Savannah College of Art and Design

School of Visual Arts

Skidmore College

St Bonaventure University

St Olaf College

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Stetson University

Syracuse University (2)

Temple University The New School The Ohio State University (2) The University of Alabama

The University of Arizona

The University of Edinburgh

The University of Tampa

The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Towson University

Tufts University

Tulane University of Louisiana (5)

University of British Columbia

University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara

University of Central Florida

University of Chicago (2)

University of Colorado

Boulder

University of Delaware

University of Denver

University of Florida

University of Hartford

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Mary

Washington

University of MarylandBaltimore County

University of Maryland-

College Park (13)

University of Miami

University of MichiganAnn Arbor

University of Oregon

University of Pittsburgh (2)

University of Rochester

University of South

Carolina-Columbia

University of South Florida

University of Southern California

University of Toronto

University of Vermont

University of Virginia (2)

University of WashingtonSeattle

University of WisconsinMadison

Ursinus College

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Washington College

Washington University in St Louis (4)

William and Mary Yeshiva University (Stern College for Women)

Max Mevorah

Hometown: Rockville

Thomas S. Wootton

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Vermont, environmental science

All the dreams I had for you are all the things you are. You were once my little boy, and now, a rising star! Love, Mom

Danielle Miller

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: University of Wisconsin

Congratulations!!!! We are so proud of you. Mom, Dad, Ethan, Jordan and Sammy

At GISW, we are very proud of our Class of 2020 who graduated with the High School Diploma and the German International Abitur!

Claire Frances O'Halloran

Hometown: Gaithersburg

Quince Orchard

Post-Graduation Plans: Heading down to The University of Alabama. Roll Tide!

Claire, you bring such joy & laughter to life. We love you & are so proud of you. Congrats! Your O’Family. Joshua 1:8-9

Michael C. O'Halloran, Jr.

Hometown: Bethesda

Walt Whitman

Post-Graduation Plans: Heading to Auburn University. War Eagle!

Mikey, we are all so proud of the man you have become. We love you! Mom, Dad, KK, Gracie and all the O's. Psalm 37:23

Manolo Blaufuß

Demetrius Dubrey

Julian Hill

Alejandra Isasi Nalvarte

Jannis Kemper

Lea Krömer

Maximilian Lütz

Lani McCall

Paul Mohr Martinez

Roxana Loyola Daiqui

Sabina Mästle

Damian Molineus

Tim Peter

Sebastian Pichardo

Giuliana Raspanti

Carlo Renner

Ferdinand Rother

Constanza Sabejano

Mariana Trujillo

Tyler Wagner

Moritz Weiler

Enrico Zollino

Sarah Olego

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: Montgomery College for a year and then to University of Colorado Boulder

Congratulations! We love you! Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad and Matthew

Kenneth Poerstel, Jr.

Hometown: Bethesda

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: Towson University

Work hard, enjoy life and remember, we are always here for you. We love you so much! Mom, Dad & Christina

Jake Rosen

Hometown: Potomac

Winston Churchill

Post-Graduation Plans: Studying business at the University of Wisconsin

Continue to follow your passion and keep smiling! Your dreams are within reach! We love you! Mom, Dad and Dylan

Matt Shingleton

Hometown: Bethesda

Barrie School

Post-Graduation Plans: An Eagle Scout, and will attend Guilford College to study environmental studies

It was a long road, but you worked very hard and you made it. We are so proud of you. Love, Mom and Dad

2020

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Trinity Jenkins

Matthew D’Eredita

Roan Tamang

Hilina Holmes

Nicolas Chhina Kiran Borzillary

Jewdel Simon

Hometown: Silver Spring Barrie School

Post-Graduation Plans: Bowie State University in the fall

Dear Jewdel, congratulations on the milestone achieved! You've undoubtedly set yourself up for success in life. Congratulations. Love, Dad

Sophia Trone

Hometown: Potomac

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Post-Graduation Plans: Williams College, environmental sciences

We are so proud of you. May you achieve every success in life. Congratulations and God bless you always. Love, Mom & Dad

Michael Walters

Hometown: Bethesda

Bethesda-Chevy Chase

Post-Graduation Plans: Michael plans to attend the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University

Congratulations on your graduation from B-CC! We are so proud of you! We love you very much! Mom, Dad and Matthew

Madison Welborn

Hometown: Kensington

Edmund Burke

Post-Graduation Plans: Headed to Chapman University to study lm production

Congratulations to you Madison. You made it, you did it! Everyone is so very proud of you and all of your accomplishments! Love, Mommy

CONGRATULATIONS and BEST WISHES to the STONE RIDGE CLASS OF 2020!

“Our world is waiting to be shaped by your compassion, creativity, care, ingenuity, and character. Right now, we need you more than ever. You will change us all for the better, and we are ready to be changed by you.”

Maria Shriver, Stone Ridge Class of 1973 (from Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper)

Empowering leaders to serve with faith, intellect, and confidence.

Middle School Graduates

Kylie Austin-Vaias

Hometown: Kensington North Bethesda

Extracurricular Highlights: Hip-hop dance, volleyball, tennis & swimming—all around athlete/ super kid!

Congrats Kylie! The Sky is the Limit! - Love Your Family

Andrea Ciconte

Hometown: Kensington

Holy Redeemer School

Post-Graduation Plans: St. John's College High School

Hope you'll always nd yourself happy and full of big, crazy dreams for your future. With love, Grandmom and Grandpop

Pierce Goodenow

Hometown: Garrett Park

Tilden

Post-Graduation Plans: Heading to WJ in fall 2020!

Pierce, we are so proud of you! Good luck in high school! We love you, Moms and Dad

Congratulations

CLASS OF 2020 8TH GRADERS

“DeChantal becomes a part of who you are for the rest of your life.”

Catholic education in the heart of Bethesda since 1953

Introducing St. Jane de Chantal’s 60th Graduating Class

LILLY AQUINO • MICHAEL BLACKSTONE • CAITLIN BROWN

DAVID CAO • KEVIN EMERSON • JOE FLYNN • GREY GIBSON

RILEY GOZYCKI • GIANNA GRECO • RACHEL HUTKO

EMILIE JABBOUR • ELIZABETH JACOBS • ALESSIA JONES

JESSICA KHOURY • MARY KATE KUMMER • CAROLINE LENNON

JENNIFER MAXWELL • KATIE McCABE • DECLAN McGUIRE

TAIGH MEROLA • LUCIANNA MEZA-CUADRA • SYDNEY MICHAEL CAILYN NESS • CHARLEY NOAH • OWEN O’KEEFE • REILLY PABLO

MICHAEL PAVLOU • ALEXANDER PAYNE • SOPHIA PIMENTA

MEAGHAN QUIRK • CIARA RATTANAVONG • DANIEL RHOE

MADDIE RYAN • ARION SALIM • MAKENNA SCHOEN

TYLER SINGLETON • NOOR SISSOKO • MORGAN SKIBO

ANNA VANSANT • BRETT WALL • KIRI WEBER • ALEXANDER WENG

SEBASTIAN WENG • THOMAS YAVINSKY

WASHINGTON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

You have faced uncertainty and challenges with grit and grace. You are passionate, creative, and optimistic, and we are confident you will make important contributions to your new communities.

Christchurch • Dyrløkkeåsen Skole (Norway) • Field • Holy Child • Holy Cross

Georgetown Day School • Georgetown Prep • Good Counsel • Landon

Madeira • National Cathedral School • Sidwell Friends • St. Albans

St. Andrew’s • Stone Ridge • St. John’s • St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes

Walt Whitman • Washington International School • Winston Churchill

Theo Maisel

Hometown: Kensington

North Bethesda

Post-Graduation Plans: Attending Walter Johnson High School/ playing on NBMS basketball team

Congratulations Theo! We are so proud of you and we love you! With love, Mom and Dad and Emmie

Brady Sobel

Hometown: Clarksburg

Hallie Wells

Post-Graduation Plans: Attending Poolesville High School next year

With much love and pride, Emah and Poppy

Ethan Ta

Hometown: Gaithersburg

Tilden

Academic Highlights: Ethan has achieved Honor Roll all three years.

Congratulations, we're so proud of you! Love, from your Dad and Mom

College Graduates

Grace Dellapa

Hometown: Rockville Elon University

College Highlights/PostGraduation Plans: 4-year D1 Track/XC Athlete; Plans to use marketing degree in event planning

Congratulations Grace! We’re so proud of everything you’ve accomplished and can’t wait to see what comes next. Love, Mom, Dad and Sarah

Michael Harding

Hometown: Bethesda

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Post-Graduation Plans: Residency in Family Medicine/Preventative Medicine at Johns Hopkins

Congrats on winning the Public Health Service Surgeon General's Award for the Class of 2020!

John-Paul Harper

Hometown: Kensington Ave Maria University

Post-Graduation Plans: JP plans to nish his masters in theology at Ave Maria this fall.

Congratulations JP! We are so proud of you! Much love, Mom and Dad

Sean Lê

Hometown: Germantown

Towson University

Post-Graduation Plans: Sean will be attending University of Baltimore School of Law in the fall.

We are so very proud of you, Sean! To in nity and beyond! Love, Mom, Dad, Mr. Mike, Dylan, Julia, and Danielle

Andre Penzes

Hometown: Potomac University of South Carolina

Post-Graduation Plans: Andre plans to start his career in real estate nance

Andre, the whole family is very proud of you and your achievements at USC. Congratulations! Love Mom and Dad

Madeleine Abate

Abdelrahman Abdullah

Feben Abebe

Sirak Abraham

Nicole Abriol

Terry Adams II

Asif Aghayev

Nithia Akineza

Arjun Akwei

Arianna Albiar

Grace Albus

Ruth Alemu

Maryam Alizahi

Arial Alston

Nicolas Altamar

Richard Amaya

Emily Anchecta

Sebastian Antoine

Avi Armoza

Talia Armoza

Vivianna Arnold

Nahom Asrat

Andrew Atienza

Rachel Auerbach

Wongelawit Ayele

Rachel Bachmann

Beatrice Bailey

Nicholas Baker

Annabel Baniak

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020 BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL

Daniel Castro

Curtis Chambers, Jr.

Dionne Chase

Ruth Cherubet

Yael Chiappori

Carter Child

Kessler Clarke

Cooper Clendenin

Adam Cohen

Susan Collard

Emma Corcoran

Dasia Cornelio

Emilia Corvino

Daisy Costello

Fiona Crane

Paige Cross

Stefanie Cruz Lemus

Ana Curic

Luciette Daignault

Mina Dakovic

Jacob Danegger

Jacobo Dantus

Isabel Danzis

Sonya Davidson

Elijah Davis

Mario De Leon

Olivia Deelen

Muse Degu

James Deigan

Edwin Barillas Vasquez

Reed Barmada

Jaiden Barry

Chase Batchelder

Natan Bato

Lilly Behbehani

Robert Bell

Livia Benjamin

William Benzmiller

Samaya Bernardo

Liam Berry-Drobnich

Christopher Blake

Juliana Blayney

Maximillian Block

Graham Blondes

Cordelia Blumberg

Monique Boateng

Anthony Bonilla

Ana Borgstede

Grif n Boswell

Noah Bowers

John Branthover

Jaan Kristjan Brennan

Sophie Bresnicky

Collin Brown

Daniel Brown

Maclaud Bucknor

Molly Busis

Benjamin Byman

Ashley Byrnes

Dixy Caballero Carranza

Joseph Caiazza-Blum

Aldair Carbajal

Sara Carter

Lucas Carvalho

Gricelda Castellon Orellana

Willow Frohardt

Robert Fusting

Catherine Gaffney

Joshua Garber

Rafe Garcia-Hidalgo

Cristina Garrido Martinez

Grzegorz Gebski

Jacob Gee

Hana Genana

Emma Gold

Jessica Gomez

Jacqueline Gonella

Julian Gonzalez

Harold Goodman

Erin Gray

Jason Grayer

Dylan Greenhouse

Natasha Greenstein

David Grigolia

Michael Griminger

Andrew Griner

Friso Grolleman

Collin Grove

Prem Grover

Eva Gubitz-Hess

Jason Guevara

Graham Gusterson

Uri Guttman

Katherine Haas

Mikiyas Derso

Brian Des Roches

Willem DeValk

Amelia Dewell

Julmy Diaz

Christopher Doherty

Liam Donovan-Jenkins

Javeen Douglas

Frederic Duch Clerici

Natalia Dunn

So a Dutton

Samantha Ebongo-Bayehe

William Eddy

Trey Edelstein

Joseph Eisenberg

Lucas Eliot

Max eld Emil

Eva So a Esposito

Ingy Ettefa

Ava Evans

Destiny Evans

Emma Fairbanks-Lee

Greta Farkas

Aidan Farley

Raquel Feldman

Elise Fiala

Melyssa Flamenco

Benjamin Floyd

David Folivi, Jr.

Tyler Ford

Emily Fox

Alana Frankel

Adrian Freeman

Marie Friauf

James Friebert

Zachary Friedman

Genesis Justo

Mak Jusufbegovic

Maya Kagan

Eli Kales

Thierry Kalonji-Ditunga

Rachel Kamis

Amir Kane

Charles Kannapell

Nathnael Kassahun

Jessica Katz

Emma Kaufman

Maissa Kobele Keita

Fiona Kelleher

Abigail Kessel

Rakesh Khanna

Iman Khosrodad

Layan Khreisat

Mohammad Siddiq Khwaja

Ephrata Ki e

Marisa Kiley

Pyeonghwa Kim

Kyle Kingsberry

Chloe Kirk

Adia Kirkham

Jenna Kirsh

Aaron Knishkowy

Maheder Kore

Noah Kostant

Yasmine Kotb

Mahan Haghighatian

Carla Hahn

Lilinaz Hakimi

Yehoshua Halle

Caroline Hallmark

Lydia Hamilton

Irene Han

James Hansgen

Grace Harrington

Bryce Hartigan

Cameron Hauver-Reeves

Dorothea Hegwood

Mary Heintz

Albert Henriques

Ashley Henson

Joseph Herlihy

Graham Hillmann

Anna Hirst

Lauren Hodges

Caroline Holland

Anna Horton

Beatrice Houston

Thomas Hugonnet

Fiona Huxley

Michaela Ianaki

Damith Imbulana Liyanage

Ryotaro Ito

Sierra Jacobs

Sormeh Jaribion

Jan Jasinski

Joseph Jepsen

Vivian Jibrin

Kimberly Joly

Ethan Jose

Audrey Joyce

Jemma Junor

Kande Mande

Luke Manganello

Christopher Marcellino

Michelle Marlin

Zachary Martel

Natalie Marti

Fabio Martinez Arriola

Jeovannie Martinez Arriola

Camila Martinez Martinez

Owami MasiyandimaMlotshwa

Edward Mastal

Gavin May

Nathan Maya

Samuel Mbah

Meredith McCallum

Colin McCarragher

Madeleine McCollum

Hassan McDuf e

Makala McElroy

John McMahon

Finian McMurray

Elizabeth McNamara

Grant McNavage

Liam McNeely

Lilah Meekins

Jonathan Mejia

Milton Mejia Gomez

Erika Mejia-Garcia

Natalia Kotynska

Alhassane Kouyate

Jonah Kuhl

Simone Kulinski

Kristian Ladegaard

Ajay Lang

Bowie Lanter

Aranza Lara Arizpe

Carl Emil Lauridsen

Alexandra Lavrova

Frances Leadman

Lily Lebowitz

Kate Lee

Abigail Leff

Nouriel Leichter

Mattias Lenz

Samuel Lerner

McKinley Lettre

Stef Lewis

William Lewis

Lane Lieberman

Samuel Lieppe

Noa Liungman

Eve London

Willy Lopez

Lance Lorenzo

Sean Loughlin

Anas Louguit

Marguerite Lucas

Veljko Lukovic

Mohamed Mabrouk

Ian Macel

Murdo Macleod

Charlotte Maddrey

Mikolaj Majewski

Jacob Mancuso

Estefanos Mekene

Jaelyn Mendoza

Kelvin Menendez

Efrata Mengstu

Luca Merotto

Jack Merritt

Isabel Messinger

Brian Mikolajczyk

Alison Mills

Lucas Minc

Zara Mistry

Grace Mitchell

Maureen Mitchell

Vennessa Mithraratne

Aidan Mof tt

Olivia Mof tt

Abdulhakim Mohammed

Madeline Molyneux

Bitta Momeni

Kathleen Monahan

Camilo Montoya Campos

Andrea Morales

Benjamin Moran

John Morton

Eve Moulin

Charles Mowry

Deborah Mulitz

Solomon Murdock

Michael Murray Cordero

Bruno Nacipucha

Byron Navarrete Membreno

Zulma Navarro Paredes

Mareike Nebel

Semhal Negussie

Andrew Nguyen

Rachel Niebler

BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL

Bella Noumba

Olivia Ohrenstein

Andrew Olsen

Bela Omoeva

Griffin O’Neal-Freeman

Christopher Orellana-Lemus

Stefan Ostojic

Celia Ottinger

Emmanuel Ozegbe

Arzu Pahl

Christopher Pallansch

Chloe Palmer

Nicholas Pangaro

Tobias Pasternak

Oliver Patrick

Michael Payne

Thomas Payne

Eric Peek, Jr.

Jordan Peele

Tionna Pendergrast

Fabian Persaud

Laetitia Pharaon

Makenna Phillips

Sara Piccirillo

Christian Pinkard

John Porter

Tara Presnall

Aleasa Purce

Isabella Purvis

James Quirk

Nicholas Radley

Jennifer Rains

Kristen Raisner

Dinuka Rathnayaka

Mudiyanselage

William Raymond

Julian Recio

Amelia Rehrig

Hayden Renaghan

Christina Reynolds

Leilah Ridore

Clara Rigaux

Margaret Riley

Meaghan Riley

Jade Rivas Garcia

Anna Roberson

Nicholas Roberson

William Rodman

Abraham Rodriguez

Gonzalez

Joe Rosa

Dante Rota

Kylie Rowan

Asher Rubin

Clive Ruiz

Stephen Ruiz

Natalie Ryan

Larissa Sakaria

Isaac Salas

Aapo Salo

Leoni La Luz Santiago Fink

Jacqueline Saulnier

Alexander Savov

Daniel Scales

Rebecca Schiffman

Elizabeth Schnorrenberg

Lyric Schools

Gabrielle Schumacher

Natalie Schwartz

Jared Sealy

Tofiq Sediqi

Alexander Seidman

Leo Seidman

Kana Seiki

Sofia Sergi

Michael Abakah

Bonsa Abbas

Sideeg Abdulla

Jawara Abdullahi

Jessica Abebe Auza

Adonay Abera

Jitu Abera

Zoe Abramson

Eldan Abreu Otañez

Sydney Acuff

Abenezer Adane

Abem Addis

Hanna Addis

Toluwalope Adetayo

Feyisara Adeyeri

Laviru Adikari

Betel Adimasu

Prince Adjei

Kirubel Admaw

Daniel Shapiro

Jeremy Shide

Emmett Siegel

Daniel Silva

Parker Silver

Myles Simmons

Christian Simpson

Michail Siokis

Sydney Skalka

Henry Smith

Sage Smith

Alanna Smith-Miller

Ava Solomon

Noah Solomon

Emma Sonneveldt

Armin Soroosh

Sarah Spain

Jonah Sparling

John Spillane

Gracie Spurney

Martin Stan

Emelia Stanley

Gabriella Stein

Stephanie Stein

Katie Stevenson

Eleanor Strickland

Arthur Sullivan

Mateo Suter-Shannon

Lucien Swatland

Katrina Taylor

Maxwell Taylor

Emma Teichert

Joel Teklu

Samuel Tercyak

Kale Tesfaye

Hanna Teshome

Dana Tessler

Parker Theis

John Thibault

Emma Thomson Jacobs

Ethan Tiao

Veera Torhonen

Natalie Toth

Clara Toujas-Bernate

Eva Touma

Koby Truskey

Rediet Tsegaye

Ezra Tuchband

Dylan Tucker

Arda Tukenmez

Rachel Udell

Sebastian Valencia

August Van Der Werf

Peter Van Iterson

Samantha Van Zoeren

Nicole Vanderzon

Jesus Vasquez Gamez

Karina Vasudeva

Jose Villamayor

Maria Villegas Guevara

James Vincent

Emma Volkers

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020 WINSTON CHURCHILL HIGH SCHOOL

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James Adams

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Abhinav Yedla

Nicholas Yirenkyi

Joanna Yoo

Dany Zamat

Jennifer Zamora

Olivia Ziegler

Felicity Zin

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Andrea Albayero Serrano

Diego Alberto

Allyson Alderton

Angello Alvarez

Austin Ambush

Trevor Anderson

Jasmine Andoh-Thompson

Marisa Anthony

Artur Atakhanov

Junior Baires

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Leyli Valladares

Alexander Vargas

Blossom Vasco

Alyssa Vasquez

Alexandra Vaughn

Henry Vega

Angy Velasquez-Madrid

Anthony Ventura

GAITHERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL

Estaphanie Vidalon

Jean Brice Vigan

Elizabeth Villa-Alba

Sadie Villarreal

Jessica Villatoro Garcia

Alina Vozna

Ezra Watson

Jelani Watties

Michael Wetzel

Darby White

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Nya Williams

Shevaughne Wilson Zaria Wilson

Da’Jha Winters

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Giselle Zapana

Kevin Zapol

Selvin Zelaya

Robel Zenebe

Congratulations Graduates! —David & Mikel Blair

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020 WALTER JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL

Ricardo Abuabara-Angarita

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Martin Ackermann

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Naya Adamyan

Oyindamola Adeniji-Adele

Paul Adkins

Hannah Ajibola

Baderul Deen Al Saghrji

Afnan Lutf Al-Kebsi

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Arturo Alipio

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Judith Altneu

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Emilie Boulanger

Alexander Bove

John Bowers

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Aijua Bowman

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Kate Burk

Marc Burlina

Bjorn Busk

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Heymi Cardona

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Fernando Carrillo Pinto

Gerson Carrillo Pinto

Isaac Carton

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Christopher Castro

Eilis Cawley

Azel Chalid

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Angelina Ciccarello

Sophie Clarke

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Jacob Coffey

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Alexander Coleman, Jr.

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Patrick Connelly

Aidyn Connor

Sean Cooper

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Rachel Crone

Lucas Cufre

Morgan Danco

John Danco

John Danter

Holly Darby

Rebecca Davids

Zoe Davidson

Ricardo De Abreu Alvarez

Samuel DeBrandt

Jack DeCraene

MacKenzie DeGraeve

Luis de Melo Rezende

Carlos Delgado

Defne Demirer

Carol Demitz

Michael Deniel

Terry Dickerson, Jr.

Sophia DiFrank

MacKenzie DiLima

Khadydiatou Diouf

Amadomo Dolo

Faith Donegan

Christopher Dorrer

Mia Dorrien

Lakaila Douglas

Maria Jose Dousdebes

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Delaney Dunigan

Sewa Eagle Hawk

Kamran Eisenberg

Morgan Elman

Karen Endo

Wakako Endo

Shannon Engel

Jessica Enright

Aaron Epstein

Dennis Erickson

Christopher Escobedo

Abiel Eyassu

Hannah Fairweather

Maram Faragallah

Chloe Farago

Fernando Farell

Sebastian Favela

Alec Federman

Ilana Felsenfeld

Pedro Fernandes Lourenco

Yasmin Fingerman

Miguel Flores

Matthew Flynn

Eleanor Flynn

Jaydan Fogo

Joshua Forburger

Mikel Fornwald

Louis Fortin

Adrian Franco

Christian Franke

Christopher Frazier

DeVoncye Freelon

Elyana Furman

Joseph Galicia

Jackson Garcia

Enrique Garcia

Oscar Garcia Sorto

Ilias Gatos

Sirac Gebrehlasse

Kelly Gentilo

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Jack Gillespie

Lucas Gillespie

Natan Glazer

Jacob Goldberg

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Amber Golden

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Dessire Gonzales

Emely Gonzalez

Atticus Goodenow

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William Goudie

Julia Grafstein

Kayla Grande

Malina Grande

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Ethan Greeley

Michael Greene

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Justin Lawson

Jenny Le

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Seo Jin Lee

Samuel Leff

Maxwell Levy

Skye Levy

Tova Levy

Erich Lewis

Matthew Lewton

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Nicholas Licata

John Linde

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Stanislav Litvak

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Elisa Pierpaoli

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Haris Pikis

Damir Pimenov

Kevin Pineda

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Jan Poch

Lara Pontes Damasceno

Nadine Poole

Owen Porter

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Trent Powell

Anton Preslopsky

Eli Priesman

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Elizabeth Quinn

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Adi Rand

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Gretchen Roa

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Alex Rojas

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Jonathan Rotman

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Anna Runci

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Adam Shtika

Thomas Wolfson

Jacob Woods

Bradley Woodside

Bethelehem Wossene

Sophia Wu

Eric Yang

Dror Yaniv

Jaden Yates

WALTER JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL

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Michaela Yee

Christopher Yue

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Rafael Zardo Matias

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Alexis Zayas

Melody Zeng

Tony Zheng

Jonathan Zhou

Zukang Zhou

Lucas Zolan

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

JOHN F. KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL

Alexandra Bonilla

Ingrid Bonilla

Jason Bonilla

Merary Bonilla-Sosa

Brandon Bransford

Jayden Brown

Marly Bully

Danny Aguilar Medrano

Tatyana Akomeah

Julian Alarcon Gabriel

Adriana Alas Gonzalez

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Rami Alhijazeen

Rodrigo Almeyda Gutierrez

Aaron Alonzo

Omolara Aluko

Isaac Alvarado

Marvin Alvarez

Ashley Amaya

Bryan Amaya

Katherine Amaya

Ivan Amaya Gutierrez

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Christopher Andrade Berrios

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Jennalyn Arcilla

Angie Arevalo-Callejas

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Alejandra Armindo Martinez

Griselda Ascencio Amaya

Sophia Andrea Averion

Brian Aviles

Daiyana Ayala

Peyton Baggett

Tommi Baker

Amari Bangura

Xiomara Barragan

Abel Barrios Solis

Ledy Batista Abreu

Steven Beguy

Felix Bello

Jose Belloso Escobar

Alvin Beltran

Asucena Beltran Martinez

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Katia Calix-Mejia

Brandon Campbell

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Jefferson Canjura Castillo

Maynor Cantarero

Esly Cardona Ulloa

Terrele Carey, II

Eduardo Carvalho Lemos

Erik Castellon Alfaro

Yorjelis Castro Pinto

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Carlos Castro Sanchez

Danilo Cativo

Daniel Centeno

Diana Centeno

Noemi Cerriteno

Salieu Cham

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Raul Cortez Linares

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Janiya Couser

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Daniela Cruz-Portillo

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Tabitha Dorr

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Elaine Fekadu

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Yanelee Felicien

Thomas Ferguson

Nora Ferguson

Cristofer Ferru no

Ayantu Feyissa

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Bryan Garcia-Aparicio

Halle Gibson

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Nicole Grant

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John Guevara-Ventura

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Michael Andrei Hernandez

Everado Hernandez Munoz

Roberto Hernandez Valle

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Janiya Hill

Kyle Phillip Hipol

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Hugo Iberri Jr.

Christian Iglesias-Majano

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Abigail Jackson

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Timothy Lacy

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Dianna Lopez-Reyes

Faith Lowry-Johnson

Mary Machado

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Cindy Marquez-Ramos

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Nicholas Montano

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Shola Montoute

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Cherno Njie Jr.

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Robert Nunez-Reyes

Kingsley Nyarko

Chisom Okorie

Catherine Orellana

Rocio Orellana

Belen Ormaza-Estrada

Arath Ortiz Anderson

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Luis Padilla

Ndode Palle

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David Pazmino

Justin Peguero-Portillo

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Paola Perez Troche

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Karina Pineda

Yaquelin Pineda Claros

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Makalia Porter

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Brenda Quinteros-Segovia

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Collen Abram

Jordan Aguilar

Ana Ramirez Garcia

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Nayeli Rivas Martinez

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Allan Rivera-Benitez

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Maria Rojas Granados

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Saydi Romero-Morataya

Icela Rosa Navarrete

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Tatiana Rubio

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Aaliyah Samuels

Sara Sanango

Mark Sandoval

Jocsan Santamaria Antunez

Veronica Santos

Hannah Santos

Fernanda Sato

Donnell Savoy

Cameron Scott

Miguel Segovia

Najma Shire

Davis Shrestha

Natan Silveira Dos Santos

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Jalen Smith

Tatiana Sollod

Jakari Statom

Awad Tambal

Danica Tchamologne

Lorena Tchouwa Sakisa

Yanet Tekleab

Stacia Thompson

Nathaniel Tinbite

Ariana Tirakis

Liam Tobin

Nahom Tolera

John Tondo

Future Tonya

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Jonatam Torres Alvarez

Mariame Toure

Thong Minh Tran

Andy Trejo

Jacob Trimble

Meribeth Tubera

Joshua Turner

Alessandro Valeri

Indris Vasquez

Luis Velasquez

Kevin Vasquez Ramos

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Yefry Vilcapoma Poma

Beyra Villagran

Danny Villalobos Guerra

Jeffrey Villatoro

Jesus Virula-Rivera

Jose Viscarra Membreno

Dylan Wallace

Jessica Ward

Jeremiah Washington

Jade Waters

Milidu Weerasingha

Kirubel Whawariat

Casaan Whitney

Christopher Williams

Kesean Wilson

Nuhamin Wolde

Jarue Worthy

Su Myat Yadana

Keilyn Zapata Sanchez

Jose Zavala Franco

Marry Ziar

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

COL. ZADOK MAGRUDER HIGH SCHOOL

Jovani Aguirre-Ramos

Tyler Ahmed

Nanayaa Akuffo

Emily Albines

Muhammad Ali

Nicholas Allan

Cody Allen

Jonathan Amaya

Jason Amaya

Kelly Amorim

Chloe Antoniacci

Jonah Antonoff

Martin Sebastian Apilado

Melvin Araniva Zelaya

Julio Arce Guerra

Oscar Arevalo

Arianne Eunice Arizala

Samantha Aronson

Christopher Asamoah

Eileen Assatourian

Juliet Auville

Nicole-Chelsea Badobre

Arian Baghi

Christopher Baker

Tezion Baker

Zolu Barclay

Arthur Bardizbanian

Malik Barry

Elizabeth Barski

Hailey Bartolomeo

Zena Baryoun

Jeremiah Baxter

Jordan Baylin

Jacob Benda

Jose Benitez

David Bennett

Ruth Beyene

Kaz Bidinger

Diego Bigelow-Gonzalo

Zachary Bocus

Hazel Bonilla

Hanna Bourcier

Samy Boussoufa

Naomi Bridgeman

Anas Brim

Jeremy Brooks

Abriana Buonassisi

John Burgess, Jr.

Kyle Burriss

Arieta Cajthaml

David Campbell, Jr.

Diana Canas

Maria Jose Cano Torres

Emma Caplan

Omar Carrillo Velazquez

Kevin Carroll

Luca Carroll

Hector Castaneda

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Juan Castillo

Abigail Castillo

Carlos Castillo Flores

Adilson Castillo Fuentes

Camila Castro

Madelyn Ceely

Estefany Chavez Medina

Michael Chopra

Bria Clark

Justin Clark

Michelle Clavijo

Joseph Cocci

Mikaela Columba

Kiara Cooper

Josue Cordon Juarez

Juan Cortez

Jason Cortez Vallejo

Travis Crandall

Lesly Cruz

Ashlin Cruz

Vincent Cutino

Dylan Dadisman

Ashleah Dailey

Drew Dameron

Mason David

Ginanus Dessalegn

Garen Diarbi

Leslie Diaz

Charley Diaz

Ivan Diaz Davalillo

Sophia DiCandilo

Brian Do

Edward Dorsie

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Christine Pang

Rachel Pang

Andre Pannell

Ethan Parcelles

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Morgan Pinckney

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Jared Pines

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Derek Romano

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Neena Singh

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Christy Tran

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Jenny Castellanos-Romero

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Hayley Cheek

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Maria Cordon-Gutierrez

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Jarrell Correia

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Mauricio Cruz Bermudez

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Deisy Cueva-Juica

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Shayla Cullen

Harmela Daniel

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Jordy Diaz Marquez

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Van Do

Ashlee Dominguez

Francisco Echeverria Woo

Charles Edwards

Abigail Ekamou

Rivka Hillman

Zion Hollins-Drew

Daria Hollrah

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Evander Howard, Jr.

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Ayalew Fantaw

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Roger Flores

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Angel Martinez Contreras

Selena Martinez Diaz

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Valent Martinez-Cruz

Jay Hutchins, IV

Raymond Ingram

Rainin Jackson

Jordan James

Joseph Janampa

Babacar Jobe

Jourdan Jones

Jake Juzenas

Gabriella Kamga Tagne

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Jonah Kearns

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Gabriel Keesing

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Matthew Kidd

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Hunter Kimble

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Luis Laguna

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Hailey Lazo

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Robert Lehrfeld

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Cameron Luchie

Isaiah Lugo

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Jason Maharajh

Katherin Manchame Pena

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David Manzano

Jason Manzon

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Claudia Maravilla Diaz

Charlie Marquez-Argueta

Jacqueline Marquez-Castro

Anthony Martinez

Gabriel Martinez-Lopez

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Marjorie Mata Hernandez

Giselle Matamoros

Eva McLaughlin

Israel Meharu

Nathalie Mejia

Abenezer Mekonnen

Jonathan Melendez

Reynaldo Melgar Torres

Franklin Mendelsohn

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Anthony Mercedes

Luis Merino Molina

Natnael Merso

Louisena Mertus

Simon Meskel

Santos Meza Meza

Amani Miles

Viviana Milian

Ashely Milner

Maliyah Mitchell

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Reveca Molina

Isabella Molinari

Alex Monge-Herrera

Angel Montejo

William Monterrosa

Moises Monterroso Rauda

Leona Montvillo

Marlone Moodie

Elizabeth Morgan

Andresen Morrison

Andrew Moser

Helena Moulou

Mariana Murillo Gomez

Andrew Nguyen

Annie Nguyen

Lynn Nguyen

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Elder Nolasco Castro

Geovany Nolasco Nolasco

Anthony Nugussu

Luke O'Neill

Ashley Oblitas

Jose Ocon Martinez

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Joel Padro Green

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Joel Pereira

Jose Pereira Chavez

Erik Perez Elena

Yoselin Perez Ixcot

Kevin Perez Lopez

Bonifacio Perez Osorio

Nia Peters

Christopher Peterson

Victoria Penate

Oscar Pineda Garcia

Alison Portillo Argueta

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Derek Pyle

Carlos Augusto Queiroz

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Nicolas Quintana

Wilfredo Ramirez-Guevara

Brenda Ramos Diaz

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Nathan Read

Denise Reyes

Vanessa Reyes

Kevin Reyes Canales

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Yoselin Rivera Recinos

Jennifer Rivera-Lopez

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Nadia Robles-Osorio

Alison Rojas

Rebecca Romero

Frank Romero Cayo

Ashley Rosa Garcia

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Kenia Ruiz Chavarria

Kayla Ruiz-Martinez

Abner Russom

Jordan Sales

Stacy Salgado-Medina

Juan Salinas

Kessy Sambou

Ya'Rose Sambou

Jose Sanchez

Byron Sandoval Martinez

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Firas Abdelgadir

Sara Abdul-Hamid

Lillian Abiey

Amaya Santiago

Samantha Santoro

Anthony Santos

Brayan Saravia

Ibrahim Savage, Jr

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Joseph Scott

Aniya Sebens

Bereket Sega

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Brandon Sosa

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Malik Stephenson

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Noam Straus

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Delina Tekle

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Alejandra Turcios Acosta

Franklin Turcios Najera

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Joan Urias-Guardado

Brandon Vanegas

Elias Vargas Canaviri

Daniella Vasquez

Esmeralda Vasquez

Jesus Vazquez

Natalie Vazquez Hernandez

Jessica Vega

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Jessica Villatoro

Jocelyn Villatoro-Ticas

Allan Vo

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Yocheved Walls

Selam Wehabe

Anna Wertz

Molly Whitlock-Jones

Sophia Willis

Elizabeth Wilmarth

Kelly Woozley

Allyson Zadravec

Meheret Zeleke

Ruth Zeleke

Graduates! —David & Mikel Blair

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020 PAINT BRANCH HIGH SCHOOL

Maame Akua Adarkwa

Aden Addis

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Oluwatobi Adedoyin

Hebron Admassu

Kevin Agbedi

Wisdom Agbeyome

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Brianna Agwo

Amir Ahmed

Adekunle Akinshola

Amie Alami

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Eyoel Alebachew

Aaron Alem

Mohammed Ali

Jordan Alphonso

Jacqueline Alvarado

Joseph Amaechi

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Danielle Anane

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Kelly Anokwu

Leah Anteneh

Lydia Anteneh

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Nana Asante

Adal Asfaha

Chloe Ashby

Tiffany Asong

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Taiylor Bailey

Hiwot Balemlay

Hana Vanessa Bandeira Batista

Oluwatofunmi Baruwa

Danaeja Beckwith

Justin Bekkam

Tigist Belayneh

Lawaun Benjamin, Jr.

Kevin Bentum

Melvin Bentum

Yael Beshaw

Mike Bisrat

Aryanna Blake

Ayanna Blake

Camile Bokro

Nelanne Bolima

James Bolton

Dania Bonaiuti

Eunice Bonilla

Flor Bonilla Dubon

William Bonsu

Stepheny Bounkhong

Ashley Brevard

Mosiah Brooks

Jabria Bruce

Aanya Brunson

Samira Bueno

Jaeden Burke

Alana Campbell

Giodona Campbell

Russell Campbell III

Erica Campos

Dinora Canisalez

Autumn Carmichael

Nathanael Carranza

Mikayla Carroll

Jordan Chadwick

Wilfried Chamani Gouayou

Bobby JR Chaney

Samiryah Chaney

Carnal Chaney Jr

Abhilasha Charuvilla

Sergio Chaupard

Henry Chavez Mendez

Keyshawn Chestnutt

Collin Clark

Sean Clark

Jamia Clayton

Alyssa Coleman

Ethan Collins

Stefany Cordova

Abraham Coroma

Marc Crespin

Neyah Curry

Fatou Dabo

Christina Dao

Gerald Davis

Kylan Davis

Ivy De Souza

Eleni Debebe

Hannan Delil

Kirubel Demissie

Sosena Dereje

Libin Devadas

Zoputa Difini

Austin Diggs Jr

Nehedgie Dijon

Lilian Dinh

Cheikh Diop

Kevin Do

Samuel Doku

Sophie Dor

Christopher Douglass

Nikquel Doyle

Kaya-Rae Dunbar

Kumar Ealom

Richie Em

Dora Enyime

Abenezer Ephrem

Denzel Esambe

Yaira Escobar-Santamaria

Bethlehem Eshetu

Norlan Espino Sical

Araya Evans

Rachel Fadaka

Victoria Fasheun

Naila Faustin

Demara Felder

Yonis Ferrufino

Diana Figueroa

Carly Flores

Isabella Flores

Ashley Flores Gamez

Franck Fotso Gouayou

Nadia Fox

Marcella Galvez

Lauren Gantman

Jacobo Garcia Jimenez

Feben Gashaw

Betelhem Gebru

Shaniyah Generette

Emmanuela Geneste

Jasmine Germain

Nigus Getahun

Mikyas Gezahegn

Yaphet Ghebru

Ida Giorgis

Noiell Gojam

Gabriel Gomez

Karla Gomez Ortiz

Carlos Gomez Rivera

Jennifer Gonzalez

Angela Gracias

Xavier Graves

Elshaddai Green

Nhamiyia Green

Kamron Gresham

Elijah Grooms

Carlos Guardado-Eagle

Emely Guerra

Yabsira Gugsa

Zarina Guzman

Danny Ha

Caleb Habtamu

Jarod Hackenberg

Ajuani Hall

Amyr Hall

Sultan Hall

Alexander Harrison

Tariq Hassan

Caleb Heifetz

Daryl Henry, Jr.

Sushmita Heralal

Naomi Hermenegildo Melo

Chelsie Hernandez

Christian Hernandez

Christian Hernandez

Schemaiah Hernandez

Yanahi Hernandez

Maira Hernandez-Ramo

Shamari Hines

T'Nae Hinton

Zabian Hood

Myles Hunter

Nathannule Hutton

Dante Huynh

Karissa Hylton

Isaiah Idowu

Yavella Ingram

Leena Injeti

Daniel Iremiren

Khadijatu Jabbie

Fatima Jadama

Kassim Jah

Alieu Jaiteh

Fatoumatta Jawara

Gladys Jean

Jamal Johnson

Lanelle Johnson

Shane Johnson

Je'ana Jones

Enirah Joseph

Maclaure Joseph

Jose Joya

Mass Kah

Leher Kakkar

Ashley-Tatiana Kalou

Badiatu Kamanda

Abdul Kamara

Mohamed Kamara

Sydney Kamara

Finda-Kadie Kaminjah

Katy Kane

Ruth Kapangala

Edmund Kargbo

Lanice Kear

Fikra Kelifa

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Marie-Anne Kemajou

Brandon Kesseh

Ayana Khan

Faisal Khan

Saif Khan

Mariamawit Kidanemariam

Grace Kim

Matthew Kiras

Dan Kiriella

Nsereko Kiwalabye

Jean-Thierry Klassou

Trinity Klock

Tyrese Knight

Ayomide Komolafe

Erin Koranteng

Joshua Koroma

Emmarah Kouadio

Erin Krizmanich

Sena Kwami

Jacqueline Lai

Marly Langlois

Lauren Lawrence

Tram Le

Eugene Lee

Sarah Lee

Angel Lloyd

Michael Lokougna

Daniel Lopez-Reyes

Benedict Lukubama

Gonzalo Machado

Craig Mackel

John Mai

Angel Maiga

Udayveer Makkar

Julia Mamana

Bryanna Mananga

Nicole Mariona

Christina Marshall

Aaron Martin

Brianna Martinez

Maya Masis

Shawn Massillon

Ismael Mbengue

Alonzo McBryde

Soncheree McCampbell

Destiny McPherson

Matthew Medina

Jessica Medrano

Katie Melgar

Alexis Mensah

Douglas Mercado

Markayla Merchant

Abel Mesfin

Sunshine Messi Benoit

Ingrid Mfabo Yopa

Adonia Michael

Ridjy Michel

Ruth Mideksa

Amy Mishra

Amir Mohamed

Joshua Mohammed

Ysaiahs Mohammed

Camilia Moore

Dante Moore

Myles Mosely

Xavier Mouapi

M'Ballu Musa

Rose Marika Mwansa

Giovanna Natty

Caitlyn Neils

Tristan Ngamo

Sophie Ngom

Ashley Nguyen

Colin Nguyen

Darrin Nguyen

Kevin Nguyen

Lee Nguyen

Viet Nguyen

Kapsalla Ngwa

Rohan Nigam

Brandon Njoroge

Aaron Nolasco

Jennette Nolasco

Priscilla Nornoo

Brian Noutchang

Chanhsyriphone Noynola

Joshua Nwoga

Chigozirim Nwogu

Kelvin Nyame

Michaela Obeng

Mablean Oben-Tiku

Brendan O'Bryan

Destinie Odiana

Choice Ogba

Jedidiah Ogboi Gibson

Ngozichi Ogugua

Ama Okrah

Oluwatoofe Oladoja

Oladapo

Yusupha Oliver

Justin Omekwe

Oscar Orori

Brianna Osafo-Dedey

Michael Osei

Chukwumdi Osuji

Julian Pagan

Anjali Panickar

Amie Panneh

Michael Parchment

Travon Parker

Om Pathak

Jahan Patwary

Nicolas Paul-Chan

Tai-Shaun Payne-Newton

Alejandro Pena

Brian Penate

Jade Penson Arredondo

Melanie Pino Gonzalez

James Plunkett

Madeline Plunkett

Paige Plunkett

Salma Portillo

Joseph Vermon Quaye

Nathan Quinn

Jhoana Quinteros

Reshma Ramnaris

Malik Rashad

Jessie Ren

Arsema Retta

Seth Rhoads

Camila Rivera

Sean Roberts

Luana Rojas Zurita

Cinthya Roque Blanco

Claudia Rosa Rivera

D'Shawnee' Ross

Samira Rouba

Briana Rowlette

Joana Rubio Sanchez

Beniam Sahilu

Sarah Salazar

Adam Salik

Shanta Sampong

Lidet Samuel

Daryl Samura

Olivia Sanders

Andrew Savage Jr.

Journie Savoy

Nathaniel Schneller

Lilly Schweiss

Isis Scott

Yanet Seifu

Joshua Sekyere

Grant Sellman

Miqueas Serpas

Absat Sesay

Teniola Sessi

Dhuha Shah

Habiba Sheriff

Naazeen Shirazee

Jordan Shorter

Azan Siddique

Jagjit Singh

Onna Skodrianis

Julian Smith

Laylah Smith

Kidus Solomon

Vanessa St Juste

Aaliyah St. Jules

Cynthia Stewart

Jadalya Stroud

Jocelyn Sturge

Paul Ebenezer Suresh

Leila Tambwe

Veronica Tassie

Xavier Taylor

Nadia Techwei

Tewodros Tefera

Kirubell Tesfahun

Ruth Tesfamariam

Isaiah Thames

Joash Thomas

Julius Thomas

Scott Thompson

Vanesa Tirado

Ariel Torres

Peter Totangi

Kelly Tran

Vincent Tran

Stephanie Tsitsiwu

Nicole Ude

Akunna Udoye

Cindy Umanzor Villat

Tiffany Ung-Chang

Hillary Vargas Valdez

Clarissa Varona Ceren

Amy Velasquez

Maria Villalta

Kelly Villatoro

Julia Vital

David Vo

Jason Voh

Jacob Wade-Hayes

Maya Walker

Oniker Walker

Meleah Wallace

Ayannah Watson

Phillip Wedge

Israel White

Samira White-Walton

Anthony Wiggan

Daniel Williams

Kaitlin Williamson

Mya Wills

Tori Wills

Jeremy Wilson

Anthony Wright

Taylor Wright

Dominic Ximinies

Francesca Yanga

Jonathan Yebiyo

Jedla Yeli

Beverly Yirenkyi

Asyer Yonas

Meron Yonas

Rosalie Youmbi

Promise Young

Andy Zacarias

Mekseb Zewongiel

Mario Zuniga Cruz

Congratulations Graduates! —David & Mikel Blair

Amani Abbey

Islah Abdulmalek

Aaron Aben

Aneesh Acharya

Amol Agrawal

Hisham Ahmad

Sydney Allentuck

Samuel Allgood

Sofia Allison

Rohan Aluka

Aziza Amani

Remy Anderson

Joseph Arida

June Barash

David Barkdoll

Meera Barochia

Juan Barron

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Jesus Harrigan

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Mahliet Admasu

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Hernan Alvarado Chavez

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Noah Martin

Benjamin Martinez

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Erin Oberholzer

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Elizabeth Oliver

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Zoe Paidas

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Raquel Parada Ramirez

Seorin Park

Jason Parker

Elzbieta Pasternak

Jaylyn Pereira

Paige Perez

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Adam Pfeiffer

Duc Chu Phan

Edlyne Pierre Louis

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Carlos Ramirez

Mariely Ramirez

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Diego Ramirez Munoz

Felipe Ramos Hernandez

Varat Ransibrahmanakul

Noor Raza

Kelsey Reed

Trevor Reeves

Alexandra Remond

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Anna Roberts

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Megan Rocha

Alan Rodriguez Alvarenga

Jacob Rogers

George Roman

Giselle Rosales

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Elan Rosenberg

Nicolas Rossi

Mackenzie Rounds

Jonathan Roux

Kelly Rowan

William Rowe III

Evan Rubinstein

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George Saliba

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Sahar Afnan

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Gloria Sanchez Quintanilla

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Michael Sipper

Olivia Smith

Gianna Smith

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Mark Smith Jr.

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Riley Sylvester

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James Taylor III

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Robentz Timogene

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Ngoran Yao

George Yiallouros

Eden Yosef Abebe

Sophia Young

Michael Zhao

Danny Zheng

Johnathon Zibragos

Tabitha Zolnerowich

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SPRINGBROOK HIGH SCHOOL

Monisha Ascension

Kelvin Ashby

Fatima Aslam

Robin Austin

John-Pierre Avila

Marioli Aguilar-Estrada

Rafat Ahmed

Oyindamola Akinkugbe

D'Lonte Allen

Kevin Alvarado

Nelson Alvarez

Heidi Amaya

Katerine Amaya

Erick Amaya Melendez

Meybelin Amaya Mendez

Bemigbar Amsalu

Nardos Andebo

Anjali Annavarapu

Abdoul Anounkou

Divine-Joy Anyanwu

Christopher Appiah

Clara Appiah

Jerry Aragon Soto

Kevin Aragon-Buezo

Jaime Argueta Gonzalez

Sebastian Arias

Justin Arias

Fidelia Arrey

Tisean Aryee

Brianna Ayafor

Brianna Ayoub

Yasin Badaway

Lyric Baker

Raevon Baleikasavu

Eesha Bandivadekar

Matthew Banh

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Megan Barnes

Christopher Barreda

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Kirsi Batista Disla

Matthew Bauer

Richard Bautista

Garrett Bayaca

Tanhoha Bellande

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Nega Berki

Victorine Besong Achem

Prince Bihai

Liam Bikamba

Xavion Black

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Naomi Blalock

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Joel Castillo, Jr.

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Damari Chavez

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Hector Chica Guevara

Kelly Chicas

Natalie Chicas-Henriquez

Kelvin Chirino

John-Andrew Chong-Karouni

Carlos Choppin

James Chowdhury

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Sophie Cisse

Jason Claros Ortiz

Malik Coleman

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Justin Cook

Kamari Covington

Mark Crear

Cristian Cruz

Adon Cruz

Maria Jose Cruz Gonzalez

Ashlie Cummings

Jack Dang

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Marie Desir

Jaylen DeSouza-Gillespie

Kayla Desruisseau

Melat Desta

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Milford Doherty

Gabrielle Dowery

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Hieu Duong

Tamba Ebba, II

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Hanyah El-Hage

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Emmanuel Ephraim

Kelly Escobar

Nathan Eskender

Steven Espinal

Josue Espinosa Sanchez

Keven Esquivel Vargas

Jonathan Estrada

Stephanie Estrella

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Yohana Fuentes Andrade

Julie Futrowsky

Christopher Gamarro

Enoch Gambrah

Angeles Garcia

Randy Garcia

Erika Garcia Gonzalez

Jony Garcia Pineda

Madelin Garcia Gonzalez

Madeline Garcia Umana

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Elshalom Gebremichael

Liliana Gersten De Montelongo

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Anthony Glen

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Kevin Gomes

Anthony Gomez

Zenayda Gomez Amaya

Christopher Gonzales

Gerardo Gonzalez Alvarado

Jason Gonzalez-Loza

Jepherson Granados Galvez

Vladimir Granados Rios

Brian Granby

Darren Green

Ryan Gruner

Melissa Guardado Portillo

Julyssa Guerra

Andres Guerrero

Brian Gutierrez-Morales

William Gyimah

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Chandler Havely

Achsha Hembrom

Jeffrey Hernandez

Melissa Hernandez

Moises Hernandez

Brenda Hernandez-Villeda

Carlos Hernandez Lazo

Erick Hernandez Molina

Helen Hernandez Ramos

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Jason Holman, Jr.

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AnnaLena Hunter

Laila Hussain

Diana Huynh

Elgar Iglecias, Jr.

Sandra Ihougan

Nicolas Iscoa

Destiny Jackson

Susheel Jacob, Jr.

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Sydney Jaffe

Jasmine Jaime

Dassaeve Jean

Pierre Jean

Arthlynn Jean Pierre

Samuel Jeffries

Isaiah Johnson

Carl Jones

Lauren Jordan

Jeizen Feliz Jose

Rubin Joseph

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Heran Kassaye

India Kelly

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Mahilet Kiros

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Henly Kong

Sophia Koufos

Frank Kouadio

Folly Kouevi-Setekpo

Kidus Kumbi

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Cameron Kyle

Christopher Labady Jr.

Alexis Lakey

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Hazel Mary Lewis

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Aryss Lindsey

Elijah Lindsey

Isaiah Lindsey

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Jocelyn Luna

Allison Ly

Gabriela Majano

Sandy Maldonado-Lopez

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Benilda Martinez

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Brian Martinez Otero

Kenia Martinez Cruz

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Samir Matin

Karla Mayorga

Malik McPherson

Tyler McPherson

Joshua Medina-Mercado

Dorian Medley

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Alexander Meier

Ali Mejia

Aaron Melendez

Cristian Melendez Rivera

Henry Melendez-Alvarado

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Carmen Mendoza Moreno

Surafel Mengist

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Bethel Mesfin

Tyler Metallo

Naresh Miller

Dean Mills

Carlos Morales

Liseth Morales

Andy Morales Chacon

Griselda Moreno Cuellar

Aidan Murphy

Matthew Murphy

Jereme Musgrove

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Alexa Neely

Brook Nega

Armon Nettey

Christina Ngo

Carmelle Nguessan

Daneil Nguyen

Kevin Nguyen

Richard H. Nguyen

Richard Nguyen

Steven Nguyen

Thien-An Nguyen

Emmanuel Nicolai

Patrick Njoya JR

Kevin Nomenyo

Abril Naomi NoriegaHernandez

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Maureen Nunyi

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Jailene Osborn

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Isaias Pastor

Unnati Patel

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Ashley Peralta

Edwin Peralta

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Prerona Pereira

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Denior Perez Salvador

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Julio Perez Barrera

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Cristian Quijada Cabrera

Christian Quinonez

Jennifer Ramirez

Marjori Ramos

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Jose Reyes Jr.

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Brayan Rivas

Emely Rivas

Luis Rivera

Laura Rodaz Ramos

Bianny Rodriguez

Diana Rodriguez

Julia Rodriguez

Adriana Rodriguez Mejia

Julio Rodriguez Ramos

Maybelline Rodriguez Gomez

Anthony Rojas

Brendan Rojas

Brian Romero

Lesly Romero

Amanda Romero Rosales

Selvin Romero Carranza

Khairi Ross

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Chinua Sabater

Edith Salazar Argueta

Christopher Salmeron

Biniam Samson

Sajratu Samura

Heather Sanchez

Javier Sanderson

Brianna Sanidad

Lianis Santiago Mendez

John Senderling

Mohamed Sesay

Alazar Seyoum

Omar Shah

Sayfore Sieh

Kam'ron Simmons

Katerina Singh

Amanuel Sisay

Randy Solla Ovalles

Eyob Solomon

Lediya Solomon

Michael Solomon

Miles Solomon

Jade Soto

Dafne Soto Quezada

Maximos Spanou

Madelyn Spotts

Jordan Staggs

Rowan Staples

Ethan Stratton

Joshua Stroheker

Mahir Sudad

Kadia Sy

Wilson Tabi

McKenzie Tayloe

Yassine Tayo Tadem

Joshua Tcheuffa

Yeabsera Tesfaye

Saron Tewodros

Michelle Thomas

Christopher Tompkins, Jr.

Bryan Torres

Anthony Toruno

Dat Tran

May Tran

My Tran

Theo Truong

Hanock Tsegaye

Mbonge Tutuwan

Eliu Umanzor Alvarez

Jaime Valencia Hernandez

Angeles Vasquez

Edwin Vasquez Chavez

David Vazquez-Salinas

Kevin Vega Ajucum

Emily Velasquez Rodriguez

Maribel Vigil

Joe Vo

Djim Wade

Mikayla Wadley

Wengeal Wake

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Matthew Wesley

Xavier Williams

Breanna Willis

Horatio Wilson, Jr.

Redeit Woldebirhan

Noah Woodley

August Yetter

Andy Zamora

Thaily Zavala Aguilar

Ashlee Zavala Guzman

Luladye Zewdu

Paulos Zinabu

Blessen Abalo

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N'Bone Deborah Abalo

Maryam Abbas

Alex Lewis Abernethy

Khalil Agboola

Cintia Aguilar

Angel Agyei

Precious Agyekum

Daniel Agyemang

Runey Nana Agyenim Boateng

Lloyd Jason Aikoo

Elias Albarracin

Emmanuella Alhassan

Damaris Alvarenga

Guevara

Caroline Alvarez

Ariana Alvarez Serrano

Adriana Amaya

Elias Amaya

Ronny Argueta Argueta

Luis Armenta Valencia

Adaly Asencio Veza

Jason Assemian

Ovais Aulakh

Hervin Ayala

Lingeshwaran Babu

Amadu Bah

Isatu Bah

Jennyfer Baires

Tharoon Balaguru

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Michael Bangit

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Isis Barnes

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Gerson Benitez Mercado

Andrea Benitez-Diaz

Christian Bergman

Alice Beri Njamnsi

Bethel Biniam

Briana Bittings

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Patricia Castellon Bonilla

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Dylan Castillo

Leonel Castillo

Rinoa Castillo

Francisco Castillo Diaz

Kathy Castro

Quinton Cauldero

Jose Cedillo Monge

Eleymi Cerna Ramos

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Ziella Chambers

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Cristian Chavez Saravia

Ana Chicas Martinez

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Josue Claros Hernandez

Christopher Clayton

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Kimberly Contreras

Kobe Copeland

Katelyn Crespo

Andres Cruz

Ariel Cruz

Beatrice Cruz

Edwin Cruz

Joanna Cruz

Selvin cruz

Catelin Cruz Gamez

Evelyn Cruz Quintanilla

Ismael Cuevas

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Saurya Acharya

William Agan

Keah Sharma

Adam Shaw

Jolie Sherman

Hayden Shinaberry

Michael Shively

Linxuan Shu

Boyd Sibert IV

Harrison Sikes

Alexander Silber

Victoria Silvani

Ethan Singer

Aron Sipos

Emma Sitrick

Elizabeth Sklaire

Anjeli Smith

Brett Smith

Siena Smith

Wesley Smith

Katherine Snedeker

Oliver Snow

Elizabeth Snyder

Caroline Snyder

Bani Sodhi

Joseph Sola-Sole

Stephanie Solloso

Jasper Solnik

Bennett Solomon

Ethan Sonnenreich

Graham Soofer

Isobel Sowells

Theodore Spear

Eva Stallard-Wilder

Eliza Starr

Nathan Steighner

Clayton Steiner

Rony Stephan

Abigail Sternfeld

Henry Stoner

Mary Stratakos

Rachel Straus

Samuel Strent

Alexander Sukhenko

Peter Sullivan

Quinn Sullivan

Victoria Sullivan

Meenakshi Sundrum

Maya Svec

Alexandra Sweat

Nuri Tadayon

Samuel Tarlov

Olivia Tello

Marie-Alix Thiollet

Charles Thomas

Magnus Tjoervason

Neo Toborek

Tiffany Tran-Nguyen

Lukas Troost

Sebastian Turkewitz

Meghana Upadhya

Alexander Van Nieuwkoop

Isabelle Van Nieuwkoop

Irina VanDe Hei

Maurice VanLowe

Alexandre Veloso

David Villani

Christopher Vogel

Sophia Wahl

William Walker

Vivian Wan

Chengzhe Wang

Katherine Wayman

Alexander Wechsler

Joshua Weinberg

Madison Weisskopf

Yulan Wen

Madeleine Wenger

Natalie Wheeler

Morgan White

Hunter Wills

Carson Wine

Aaron Winegrad

Patrice Winkler

Kortez Winzor

Shane Wong

Jose Wray

Jack Wright

Boyang Xiao

Yichen Yang

Christopher Yeo

Min Yeung

Britney Yomi

Dylan Yoon

Damonte Young

Jonathan Young

Anna Yuan

Jarrett Zak

Taha Zarrami

Zachary Zeldow

Angel Zhang

Sharon Zhang

Jerry Zhao

Richard Zhao

Lee Jaden Gil Yu Kang

Zhou

Nathaniel Zitner

Gabriel Zwillinger

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020 THOMAS S. WOOTTON HIGH SCHOOL

Nadirah Ball

Rachel Barger

Katherine Barnett

Sam Bashiri

Christopher Agyapong

Fatima Ahmed

Haala Ahmed

Osagie Aimiuwu

Jesse Alkon

Abigail Altman

Auva Amirmokri

Fnu Amreen

Michael Andia

Allison Arner

Michael Auth

Daniel Avnaim

Eliyambuya Baker

Guadalupe Balangero

Anna Baldwin

Hubert Bayigamba

Blake Behrens

Bethanya Belete

Sivan Bennaim

Yousra Benslimane

Alexis Bentz

Charlotte Bergel

Evan Berger

Nethaniel Berhane

Noah Bezzam

Ashna Bhatia

Mahee Bhatt

Maia Bhundia

Rachel Binder

Benjamin Bloch

Leah Bloshteyn

Julia Bogart

Cristobal Bonnefoy-Campu

George Bossert

Nina Bouchard

Nikolaos Bourazanis

Catherine Brick

Colin Brick

Taylor Brown

Shawn Bryan

Andrew Bryant

Molly Burns

Keyandra Butler

Preston Butler

Joshua Cai

Jonathan Camberos

Feroz Campbell

Gianmarco Campero

Hunter Cance

Douglas Cantor

Jay Capitelli

Daniel Caputo

Chelsea Casseus

Amy Chai

Angie Chan

Darren Chang

Selina Chang

Nour Charfi

Allie Chen

Andrew Chen

Anna Chen

Ben Chen

Eric Chen

Heather Chen

Ryan Chen

Spencer Chen

Zeming Chen

Zisheng Chen

Angela Cheng

Kenny Cheung

Yu-Chiao Chiu

Yu-Hao Chiu

Daniel Cho

Minseo Cho

Justin Choi

Harry Chu

Sona Chudamani

Paul Chung

Kendall Clark

Thomas Clark

Daniel Cohen

Zane Cohen

Scott Collinson

Elena Colliver

Lauren Colliver

Charles Cornfield

Taleen Cubuk

THOMAS S. WOOTTON HIGH SCHOOL

Rebeca Cuevas-Hernandez

Alyssa D'Arpa

Timothy Dai

Franklin De Jong

Ashleigh Denoon

Bhuvan Devarsu

Ruma Dewal

Edward Dolan

Kathryn Dolan

Teriano Douglas, Jr.

Katherine Driscoll

Eli Dross

Josie Dunn

Emily Duong

Aakash Dutt

Aviya Edery

Enejo Egharevba

Ava Ehrlich

Emily Eichberg

Amalie Eig-Tassiello

Madeline Eisenfeld

Sophie Elfasi

Demi Ellenbogen

Pamela Elubiaozor

Gregory Ensign

Patrick Erickson

Rafael Espina

Saira Faisal

YuTong Fan

Juliana Fang

Larry Feldman

Ruonan Feng

Macy Fewell

Kathryn Fineblum

Alexa Folk

Grif n Ford

John Ford

Kwabena Frimpong

Benjamin Fritz

Anastasiia Frizner

Erin Frost

Evangeline Fulton

Mana Gammi

Tara Gammi

Benjamin Ganelin

Elaine Gao

Stephanie Geng

Lily Gesiskie

Mina Ghaly

Gabriella Giro

Shahrukh Gizabi

Jacob Glazier

Molly Gleicher

Simon Glueck

Aryan Godha

Monica Godnick

Or Goldshtein

Bailey Goldstein

Arina Golikova

Jeremy Golub

Darius Govender

Max Greenfeld

Bennett Greenspun

Kadian Grif n

Jessica Grinspoon

Ujjaini Gurram

Charbel Hachem

Samantha Haendler

Omar Hafeez

Mohammad Hajjar-Nejad

Lamis Hamdan

Akash Harjivan

Rebecca Hartman

Noah Hasan

Muhammad Hashmi

Vivian Herlehy

Alyson Herman

Julia Herman

Aniyah Hester

Samuel Hicks

Janice Hong

Dylan Horkan

Katherine Hoyle

Elizabeth Hsieh

Sean Hu

Kayla Huang

Wan Si Huang

Samuel Huie

Chloe Hum

Rachel Huo

Simon Huynh

Mohamed Ibrahim

Mia Ikeda

Rai Inocencio

Christian Ison

Rhea Iyer

Blossom Jaimes Montano

Sae Ra Jang

Xiaojun Jia

Evan Jiang

Mingjie Jiang

Hanna Jin

Mathew Kaddu

Ralph Kadji-Tedjeu

Michael Kamadinata

Rimsha Kamal

Srigananadh Kanipakala

Hari Kannan

Alexa Kantor

William Karis

Joan Kariuki

Lilah Kauff

Rebecca Kauff

Pardiss Kaviani

Za r Kazi

Leah Kellert

Olivia Kerben

Shawdi Keshavarz

Paniz Khajoee

Parmida Khajoee

Baranie Khant

Ryan Khodayari

Mike Brian Kiarie

Catherine Kim

Chan Kim

Jonathan Kim

Josiah Kim

Kelly Kimbis

Giselle Kiriacos

Aishlinn Kivlighn

Danielle Klein

Tobias Kleinman

Alexander Kolb

David Kolb

Sahithi Kondam

Ivan Kong

Matthew Kopsidas

Benjamin Kotler

Meghana Kotraiah

Amy Kraft

Aviva Kram

Anthony Krieger

Senthoor Krishnaraju

Daniel Kuang

Kristin LaMonaca

Michelle LaMonaca

Sarah LaMonaca

Liliyana Lam

Andrew Lazzaro

Luan Le

Bryan Lee

Eesan Lee

Hana Lee

Janice Lee

Jonathan Lee

Nadia Lee

Samuel Lee

Laraib Leghari

Joshua Levine

Max Levine

Reuben Levine

Sarah Levine

George Z. Li

George Li

Martin Li

Michelle Li

Tina Li

Jessie Lian

Cheryl Liao

Amelia Lieske

Belinda Lin

Madison Linn

Ilan Linshitz

Brian Liu

Daniel Liu

Grant Liu

Joanne Liu

Patrick Liu

Tina Liu

Jessica Llewellyn

Amber Locatis

Daniella Locatis

Luca Lostao

Zhengze Lu

Anastasia Lukyanov

Jack Lvovsky

Chiu Yin Ma

Samantha Magazine

Anjali Maheshwari

Zain Majumder

Oumar Makalou

Jason Marshak

Saba Maruf

Benjamin Mash

Michael Mashima

Alexander Matheus

Arden Matikyan

Erich Mayne

Devin McFarland

Chase McGraw

Evan McLaughlin

Matthew Mei

Carlos Andres Mendez

Ibanez

Ryan Mendries

Maxwell Mevorah

Andrew Meyer

Francis Meyer

Hannah Mikowski

Benjamin Miller

Mason Miller

Sophia Miller

Kavya Mishra

Andrew Misovec

Omar Mohamed

Eshaan Moorjani

Lainey Morris

Jack Moskowitz

Ian Mullinax

Luis Murcia

Allyson Nalibotsky

Tina Nasle-Sohrab

Sean Newell

Diane Ngako Tiago

Kent Ngo

Allison Ni

Aileen Ning

Nanditha Niranjan

Arian Nyandjo

Dylan O'Halloran

Tasnim Obaied

Brett Olsen

Melvin Orellana Hernandez

Emily Osman

Grace Osman

Yasmin Ozdemir

Camila Pacheco

Jennifer Palma Molas

Meryem Pamuk

Krish Panchal

Diego Pantelis

Nicole Parent

Samir Patankar

Arnav Patra

Christos Pegklidis

Chrysoula Pegklidou

Jessica Penry

Surya Perla

Gabriel Pernie

Kyarah Pete

Leybson Persin

Emma Peters

Panagiotis Petropoulos

Bryant Pham

Eric Pham

Zuri Phillips

Peter Pietri

Stephanie Povich

Matthew Price

Nathaniel Price

Michael Pugh

Richard Quispe Nina

Kavya Rajaram

Andrew Ram

Rathna Ramesh

Nimisha Rangachar

Sarah Rashid

Andrew Ratcliff

Sean Raynor

Divya Reddy

Vikram Reddy

Cong Heng Ren

Andrea Resplandy

Farah Reyal

Jordan Reyer

Andrew Reynolds

Ariana Rezaiyan-Nojani

Anthony Ricciardella

Hamza Rizvi

Antonia Roach

Melanie Roberts

Shannon Roberts

Joya Robinson

Buel Rodgers

Madison Rodgers

Gennesis Rodriguez

Anne Rong

Hope Rosner

Stephen Rosov

Anthony Rospigliosi

Jack Rothenberg

Robert Rozental

Jordan Rubin

Daniel Rudden

Sami Saadaoui

Alec Sabes

Mustapha Saidykhan

Aneesa Salahuddin

Ismail Samia

Mitchell Santomartino

Behnam Sari

Nicole Sarria

Haley Scheinberg

Mainee Schleret

Casey Schuler

Michael Schwartz

Keith Scott

Naomi Seiler

Keely Sellman

Jehoon Seo

Amir Shad

Sabrina Shah

Emily Shao

Joel Shapiro

Ilya Shchelokov

Michelle Shen

Emily Sherman

Erik Sherman

Lauren Sherr

Joy Shi

Andrew Shim

Anna Shin

Nataraj Shivaprasad

Ethan Shulman

Victoria Shumakovich

Iman Shumburo

Allena Shustikoff

Mia Silver

Marisa Silverman

Brooke Simon

Iqroop Singh

Keiran Singh

Mollika Singh

Mridul Singh

Ritik Singh

Riya Singh

Yuvraj Singh

Benjamin Skopets

Ashley Slud

Elysse Soberano

Amitis Soltanian

Ceth Solwazi

Sarah Song

Sanley Sory

Owen Sotak

Olivia Speck

Vipulan Sritharan

Orly Strauss

Allan Sun

Maylee Sun

Sunaina Sunda

Jade Tai

Natalie Tai

Aneesha Tamang

Snehal Tamot

Richard Tan

Albert Tang

Annie Tang

Kelly Tang

Susanna Tavenner

Daniel Taylor

Ryan Tchanga-Mvete

Carter Tegen

Sonali Tele

Aman Thanvi

THOMAS S. WOOTTON HIGH SCHOOL

Daijah Thompson

Claire Throckmorton

Mikhail Timonin

Konstantin Tomashevsky

Melanie Tommer

Ryan Tommer

Abigail Toney

Diego Torrez Renjel

Halle Troadec

Lyndall Troxell

Larissa Tsai

Yang Yang Tsai

Alison Tse

Kareef Ullah

Nicole-Antoinette UrbinaRuiz

Michael Urman

Benjamin UscamaytaAlvarado

Ivan Vakatov

Aly Abdelmoula

Zachary Abramson

Angelica Acton

Madison Adams

Kitoyi Adeniji-Adele

Arshia Ahmadi

Lara Ahmed

Oceane Akati

Emily Akpebu

Alex Alexiev

Ian Alves

Manuel Amdur

Ari Andelman

Vaniala Andriamalala

Rissel Anog- Alba

Gideon Aronovich

Katerina Arvanitis

Gisela Attah Hayford

Erik Austegard

Kylie Austin-Vaias

Makenna Aylward

Angel Badiola Garcia

William Baker

Pamela Baldizon

Devon Ball

Katherine Barnett

Julia Barreto

Sarah Beebe

Barkot Belay

Johanne Benedict

Pia Berg

Sylvie Bergoffen

Miriam Bernstein

Tomas Berti Arcay

Allison Berube

Sreya Bhattacharyya

Nathaniel Binantoro

Su ya Van Gieson

Ryan Van Meter

Nessa Vandi

Shrikar Vasisht

Genesis Via

Pranav Vijay

Caesar Wain

Mia Waller

Conor Walsh

Jonathan Wang

Shimiao Wang

Shiteng Wang

Kyle Wasserman

Erde Wei

Timothy Wen

Sean White

Olivia Wiley

Ian Wolfe

Angela Wong

Henry Woolley

Miranda Wright Aleksander Wroblewski

Victoria Wu Bowen Xiang

Isaac Xie

Anyao Xu

Dan Xu

Emma Xu

Jean-Pierre Xu

Sophia Xu

Julie Yang

Catherine Yazhuk

Alexander Yeh

Jennifer Yeh

Sydney Yen

Camryn Yi

Matthew Yu

Rebecca Yuan

Evelyn Yuen

Tate Yuen

Mei Yuzuki

Samaa Zaman

Kevin Zeng

Alex Zhang

Ava Zhang

Corwin Zhang

Daniel Zhang

Eric Zhang

Tim Zhang

Alexander Zheng

Daniel Zhu

Xiaozhuo Zhu

Charles Zmuda

Dev Zoks

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

NORTH BETHESDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Sunjay Bista

Robert Bistle

Charles Blessing

Jordan Block

Vance Bonior

Guilherme Bonzi Teixeira

So a Boussouf

Rylee Bowie

Trevor Bowie

May Boy

Darby Bray

Carol Brewer

Kamen Broadway

Dylan Brown

Ursula Brueggeman

Lucas Bruno

Nicholas Buhlman

Charlotte Bull

Anthony Burns, Jr

Elouan Cabrera

Dominic Caguay-Etheridge

Aysa Caicedo Saleh

Claire Cain

Henry Capitos

Robert Carey III

Daniel Carneiro

Toby Carr

Sebastian Castaneda Nique

Leah Castillo Lopez

Bianca Castillo Martinez

Christopher Chace

Kevin Chace

Gael Chavez Hernandez

Maya Cheeseboro

Yu-Hsuan Chen

Alba Chinarro Vadillo

Sawyer Chism

Madaline Chomas

Catherine Chong

Ho Seong Chung

Noah Clash-Drexler

Aubrey Colwell

Alana Cooper

Sabrina Courtis

Margaret Cullen-Ising

Chelsea Cuneo

Jj Cuneo

Moustapha Dakono

Zachary Dankowicz

Thomas Dash

Mary DeBrandt

Emma DeLong

Elizabeth Delp

Julia Dennis

Gabriele Di Carluccio

Noah Diamond

Sarah DiFrank

Christopher Donadio

Caden Donahue

Devin Dorsey

Amelia Doukouris

James Doukouris

Jackson Doyle

Miles Draper

James DuBose

Aleah Duggan

Austin Dumayas

Victoria Dziasek

Graham Eckert

Ruth Elman

Sara Elster

Kai Erickson

Lyle Erickson

Nahom Estifanos

Ian Fagan

Reese Fainbraun

Gillian Fannon

Mariano Ferreira Rebolledo

Beza Fikru

Lydia Finegold Swift

Sean Finn

Lilliana Fisher

Elizabeth Fogg

Emily Foley

Bryan Frazier

Rebecca Freda

Casey Gaines

Daniel Gallagher, IV

Gabriel Garcia

Sadie Garcia

Emmett Gardner

Quinn Garrett

So a Garzon

Federica Gavelli

Soliana Gidey

Carly Gilder

Grant Gilman

Ava Goldberg

Micah Goldstein

Sari Goldstein

Ignatius Graham

Ashley Gray

Trey Greenwald

Ahmed Gugssa

Irem Gunduzhan

Mireya Gutierrez-Micallef

Matthew Hachey

Suzanne Hancock

Amira Handwerker

Eli Hardwick

Matias Hazbon

Teke Helms

Cristopher Hernandez

Ava Heydarian

Ada Hillman

Ian Hochman

Spencer Holt

Ashlyn Holtzapple

Jackson Holzman

Susanna Hubacker

Clara Hunter-Williams

Omar Husain

Ansar Hussen

Elisa Hussey

Logan Innerst

William Isola

Mary Grace Jackson

Sina Jafari Naja

Lucas Jaho

Aja'na Johnson

Nia Johnson

Benjamin Joseph

Chloe Jun

Peter Kahrl

Alex Kallmes

So Kaminishikawara

Elliot Kaminski

Benjamin Kaplan

Said Karama

William Karasik

Lilian Kebede

Sean Kelley

Aiden Kelly

Geoffrey Kemp

Kourosh Khadjenouri

Rifa Khan

Max Khatchadourian

Ethan Khoo

Benjamin Kim

Jihyung Kim

Olin Kimball

Cade King

Cecilia King

Alex Klein

Brendan Klotz

Oscar Knox

Alistair Kohler

Alex Koscelnik

Frank-Eli Kpetigo

Sophia Kral

Nina Kwitowski

Emerson Labovich

Olga Lahteenmaki

Aryana Lausten

Leora Leavey

Gabriel Lecellier

Laszlo Lecellier

Theo Leroy-Themeze

Anthony Levri

Alexander Levy

Shira Levy

Tina Li

Ethan Lieberman

Jared Lieberman

Simon Lifshitz

Mariam Lin

Emma Lindsey

Samuel Liu

Josseph Loachamin

Pacheco

Valyn Long

Ian Lopez

Amelia Luna

Omar Luna

Rose MacDermott

Greta Magary

Theo Maisel

Karisma Mangal

Dennis Mangan

Juliana Marciano

Panayoti Marmaras

NORTH BETHESDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

William Marshall

Erik Martinez

Emma Matalia

Ava Matheson

Cole Matsuzaki

Reagan McGuire

Evelyn McKaig

Patrick McKaig

Ava McKnight

Sven Meacham

Timothy Membreno

Rodriguez

Tariq Merchant

Mary Mercurio

Mckenna Merz

Maxwell Meytin

Acclesia Michael

Catherine Millholland

Dylan Minnick

Zahra Mohseni Cheraghlou

Evie Mood

Allison Morales

Healey Morgan

Samantha Mouyard

Torben Mucchetti

Kendall Murphy

Minato Nakai

Tejas Neethalia

Mariam Nersesyan

Philip Newman

Tammy Nguyen

Daouda Niang

Adena Nielsen

Nano Nikuradze

Moyuka Nishiumi

Mackenzie Norris

Dylan Notley

Dyllan Ntwari

Maggie Onufrock

Katie Orellana

Rishav Panigrahi

Nikoletta Papaevangelou

Fermina Pareja Plada

Csilla Parkanyi

Inti Pary Mamani

Nimai Patel

Clara Peck

Jasmin Perez-Sales

Audrey Perra

John Phillips

Lillian Pickett

Alex Pineda

Nikeyla Pinnell

Aisla Pinto

Audrey Pioli

Emma Pioli

Suryan Plenz

Mandela Pocrain-Keller

Keira Poersch

Alejandro Pollo

Zachary Pomainville

Haili Powell

Adam Pyott

Kimia Rahnama

Daniel Rakis

Kamila Ramirez Mendoza

Sophia Ramos

Mackenzie Raue

Ava Redmond

Caitlin Regan

Frans Rejsjoe

Harry Resnik

Thomas Richardell

Dylan Richardson

Katherine Ring

Samantha Rosenberg

Eden Rosenblatt

Charlie Rosenheim

Eliot Rudd

So a Rue i

Jai Saini Cabana

Raphael Salamon

Adam Sall

Cecilia Saltzman

Gabrielle Sanchez

Eduardo Sanchez Martinez

German Sanchez Martinez

Henry Saybolt

Isa Schaefer-Fortier

Sophia Schechner

Hillevi Schine

Noah Schneider

Lucy Schrot

Michael Schuppuis

Elias Schurgin

Karthik Shankar

Samuel Sharp

Grant Shimkaveg

Hannah Shroff

Amanda Simensky

Adam Simon

Marco Sinobad

Ely Snow

Thomas Spindler

Nishtha Srivastava

Gavin Steahly

Adrien Stevens

Carrie Stone

Beckam Stoner

Rylan Stoner

Rowan Streaker

Abigail Subbian

Yuriko Sugita

Fannie Sukhumparnich

Azret Sultanov

Timothy Swartz

Adrian Taborga

Aria Tahmasbi

Jeffrey Tan

Nathan Tang

Theodore Tasikas

Nathan Tegegne

Jason Termini

Andrew Thomas

Colin Tierney

Beteal Tilahun

Prince Nelly Tinong

Noh Tolossa

Caleb Topalian Davies

Davis Torrero

Janelly Torres

Alexander Tran

Sydney Trent

Niya Tripathi

Emily Tucker

Yuma Usui

Jocelyn Vasquez

James Vassell

Indie Viriyakul

Chiara Visconti

Grace Volchok

Bereket Wame

Radiet Wame

Jayson Wandell

Zoe Warren

Natalie Watson

Sarah Watson

Felipe Wattenbach

Haseley

Aidan Watts

Justin Weeda

Dylan Weintraub

Schuyler Weirshousky

Robert Wells

Jason Weng

Bradley West

Claire Weston

Riley Williams

Nolan Wilson

Blythe Windle

Rachael Wolfson

Jasmin Wu

Linnea Wurdack

Emily Xie

Alexander Yeung

Sarah Zaidi

Nicholas Zampardi

Anna Zucconi

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

MCPS SPECIAL SCHOOLS & ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS

Andrew Philip Acharia

Noah Foster Barnett

Alassan Brown

Francisco Luis Castillo Diaz

Aiko Desiree Chavez Yanez

Lidia Margot Chicas-Argueta

Justin Michael Collins

Amber Victoria Cosby

Jorge Anshawn Vondeh Davis

Torrance Edward Dawkins, Jr.

Imari Jabree Daye

Daniel Jon-Tay Everton Donaldson

Jasmin Elizabeth Gonzalez

Nevaeh Angelica Hayes

Rashawn Alonzo Henry

Samiah A'Queen Holmes

Zyeina Vernell-Deniese Jackson

Marcus Arthur Lange

Taina Genine Lopez

Alonzo Jerome Lyles

KeShawn Devonta McCormick

Shackwon Shaco Milligan

Jeremy Alexander Monllor

Tyrique Kiawni Patterson

Arly Rodriguez

Bryan Santos-Mejia

Donnell Nathaniel Savoy

London Shef eld

Caleb Aidan Thorpe

Malik Rayshaun Walker

Tyrique Y. Whit eld

Denville Anthony Whyte

Timothy James Wilcox

Javon Euston Bryant

Marissa Lynne Ford

Jessica Erica Tolson

Riley Dillon Young

MCPS

TRANSITIONS

Tatyana Asantwaa Akomeah

Myzuri Zeniah Ayers

Preston John Bieber

Liam P. Bonny

Brittney Ann Bratcher

Kaelyn Nicole Carter

Diamond LaShawn Davis

Laura Andrea Lida

Anthony Robert McBryde

Dawna Ariona Mickens

Gerard Joshua Novembre

Macie Marie O'Brien

Amilcar Quintanilla Lemus

Prince Michael Rabb-Cutchember

John Michael Replogle

Ebony Nicole Russ

Olivia Rose Smith

Kiona Tacoma Strange

Mahtab Alieh Teymourian

Daniel JiaJun Xu

Hunter Leonard Bailey

Janel Beckford

Francesco Salvatore Bella ore

Samuel Charles Fratantoni

David S. Harris

Sebastien P. Jean-Philippe

Jordan Cristiano Jones

Mert Yigit Karadag

Lillian Keys

Oswaldo Antonio Menendez

Carl Stephane Merizier

Dominic Francisco Joseph Radich

Carla Giselle Ramirez

Lesly Jasmin Rojas

Thomas Andrew Wingate

Adom Kwesi Antwi

Drew Maxwell Benden

Heber Christian Berry

Mitra Bohora

Shaa J. Burki

Nehemie Elizabeth Dorvil

Thomas Jessee Ferguson

Alazar N. Fitsum

Ivy Noam Gilat

Alfonzo Deonte Gresham

Enzo Joel Guevara

Katharine Anne Hanlon

Mayein La Chayim Jackson

Adam Kupfer

Steven Javier Mendoza

Dominguez

Robert E. Miller, Jr.

Tyler Gerald Morningstar

Prentiss Alvin Jalen Morris, Jr.

Ike Felix Nweke, Jr.

Michael Stephen Pfeifer

Vanessa Marie Rojas

Shiekh Ahmad Bamba Sakho

Miguel Angel Segovia

Bidhan Shrestha

Carlos A. Sobrino

PLACEMENT

Kyle Becker

Joshua Cubert

Jason Howlin

Kathryn Hsin-Yuh Huang

Cedric Kengni

Austin Kim

Philiph McDonald

Zachary McFarland

Marquise Powers

Matthew Simpson

Courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools

Sylvia Jane Schneer

stuck at home

A wedding, a bat mitzvah, a new baby, daily chaos, too many Zooms, and some unexpected family bonding. With little warning, local residents had nowhere to go, so they tried to make the best of it. We checked in with 12 of them in April and May to see how the pandemic was affecting their lives.

AS TOLD TO MIKE UNGER

Kristin Richards and Jeff Braden

bethesda

KRISTIN: We met in February 2016. It’s a bit of a long story, but we were both dating other people. Not seriously, but it took a few months of being friendly and slowly deciding if we wanted to pursue it or stay with the people we were dating. We officially got together in June 2016.

JEFF: We’ve always wanted to do a trip around the world. Last year we traveled to 22 countries over the course of nine months.

KRISTIN: One time we were in Zambia and he asked, ‘What would be your perfect engagement?’ I was like, ‘This safari seems pretty good.’ We were in a car alone, there was a magical

sunrise, there was a professional photographer there.

JEFF: I picked up the ring in Tanzania in June. I had a few plans for the engagement process, and that was going to take a little time. Our last big spot was Antarctica.

KRISTIN: You only get 45 minutes on land each time you do an excursion, so we were back in our little cabin. I’m a bit nontraditional, so he ended with, ‘I don’t know if getting down on one knee is part of an oppressive patriarchal institution of marriage, but it’s the only way I know how to ask: Will you marry me?’ s

The wedding was scheduled for May 24 [of this year]. We were going to have it in Leesburg, Virginia. We invited over 200 people.

JEFF: We kind of knew it wasn’t going to happen, but we were very resistant. We finally sent out the postponed save the date on March 30.

KRISTIN: All your venues and vendors really want you to just pick a new date. But I will be in the Foreign Service. Because the State Department can send me abroad at any point, and we don’t know when, we couldn’t do that. We can’t recommit to November, we could be living in Thailand.

JEFF: We decided to just focus on what we could control. How do the two of us want to make our marriage special? It should mean something. We’ll worry about a big party later. Then it was just the technicality of: Where can you do this?

KRISTIN: We found out we could get an emergency license in Montgomery County. You could use an officiant of your choosing who gets certified online.

JEFF: When Kristin found out we could get Ginger, our [relationship] counselor, to officiate, that was the deciding factor. We’d been living in this house in Bannockburn since a year after we got together. There’s a magnificent oak tree out front, and we thought we could just do it here. I love this neighborhood; it’s very close knit, very communal. I was in charge of the outdoor preparations. On our runs and walks with the dog we realized there are so many flowers here. I loved the idea of surrounding ourselves in community, so I wrote a message on the neighborhood listserv that said, ‘If anybody wants to donate flowers, we’re looking for little clippings and we’re going to put them around us in a circle outside.’

We got over 100 comments back. I posted on a Thursday and we had people dropping off flowers nonstop. We were even getting bottles of champagne. KRISTIN: Like really nice champagne.

JEFF: We got cards from people we’ve never met.

KRISTIN: Since our broader global community couldn’t come to our wedding, our local community created our symbolic circle of support for us.

JEFF: We really wrestled with how to handle our families. I have two brothers that are local. Her family is in Michigan, my parents are in New Jersey. We’re very close to them and would have wanted them to be here, but we were trying to respect the [rule about] no gatherings [of] more than 10. We said if the people closest to us can’t be here, nobody’s going to be here.

KRISTIN: We got married on May 2. It was the most beautiful day of the year. Almost every house on the whole block

had people on their front lawns. You got chills right away. You felt supported and festive. Especially since we’re trying to start a family, I don’t know if I will fit into the dress the next time we get to celebrate with everyone, so I really wanted to wear it. My neighbor was going to be one of my bridesmaids. She already had her dress, so she wore it while she watched from across the street. The little girls next door got dressed up, too.

JEFF: Our dog, Moose, was the ring bearer. Some of my preparation for the wedding was to take him on a long run to make sure he was worn out.

KRISTIN: We put a little bed out there for him. He was half on it. When we were doing our vows, he gets up and

does the little twirl that dogs do when they’re getting ready to lie down, and he lies right on my train. It was awesome.

When we wrote our vows, we didn’t have to worry about people getting hot in the sun or wanting cocktail hour to start. We could say what we wanted to say to each other. It was so authentic and romantic. Jeff was my wedding planner, my florist. The whole wedding was a gift to me and symbolic of the work he’s going to put into our marriage.

JEFF: After the ceremony, there was this pregnant pause and then everyone started clapping and cheering

KRISTIN: We didn’t really intend to have a party. We bought a cake just for us so we could have a cake-cutting picture. And we bought champagne because Jeff really wanted a picture of us shaking up champagne and spraying it. But since all these people were there we said come share. So I went inside and washed my hands, and we used paper plates and plastic forks and we offered cake to everyone.

JEFF: It had like the feel of a block party. People moved from their lawns down to the street but still distanced themselves.

I have been married before. I don’t think you need to have gone through it before to know this, but perspective helps. Weddings are set up so you do certain things. You toss the bouquet. You do the first dance. You do these things because you’re supposed to do them. And you spend $30,000 because you’re supposed to spend $30,000. This was the exact opposite. It just felt really organic. We felt like people were thanking us just as much as we were thanking them. It made the community so happy.

KRISTIN: People needed it. This was everything we dreamed, but we didn’t know it. It was perfect.

kate mitchell

kensington

I’M AN ESOL teacher at Bayard Rustin Elementary School in Rockville, so I have class from 9:45 to 10:30, then again from 10:30 to 11:15. I either work in the kitchen or, if the kids are being particularly loud, I’ll go in the bedroom. I have three daughters. My oldest is Sydney, she’s 6. My daughter Rowan is 4, and Emmy is 2. Kids can be a little unpredictable. Rowan once took off her dress in the background of a [Zoom] meeting. She was changing into dress-up clothes while I was in the kitchen. It was just teachers, luckily. Emmy, in the middle of lessons, once said, ‘I

have poop.’ I was with kids but I don’t think they actually heard that. My husband, Ian, works for a division of Clark Construction. At night we go over our schedules for the next day. We have early risers, so the kids are up at 5:30. My husband starts working at 7. We usually eat breakfast and watch a couple episodes on Disney. Then we finish up my kindergartner’s math problems. At 8:45, Sydney goes up in the office with him and does her class until 9:30. She was fine logging into Zoom, but then she would have to watch an additional video, and that was a struggle. So often I watched the video and would teach her the main parts she needed to know. She misses school, but s

From left: Sydney, Ian, Rowan, Emmy and Kate

fortunately because she has younger sisters she’s been entertained.

In between, Rowan and Emmy are playing and occasionally I’m stopping my class and helping them with certain things. A lot of it is breaking up fights and disagreements about toys. There’s a lot of yelling and screaming and calling each other stupid—that’s the word right now in our family.

In the morning, I set them up with games and activities that hopefully will entertain them. When that doesn’t work and there’s fighting, it’s giving them their Kindle Fire or the iPad. They love watching videos of kids opening surprise packages and playing with toys. I’m not really worried about screen time, considering the circumstances. When we’re done with our day—when I’m logged off—then the screens are off.

As soon as I’m done with class, we either go outside or play something together just to give them lots of attention from us. We are playing more Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders than we ever have. One of the nice parts about all this is we’re all having so much more family time.

I hop back on at 1 because I do another live lesson for kindergartners and first graders. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays we have planning meetings in the afternoon. Between that we’re squeezing in laundry, dishes, dinner.

My 2-year-old is fascinated by my live lessons, so she often wants to sit on my lap during them. Since she started being home with her big sisters, she doesn’t want to nap anymore. Getting her to nap is a battle. And when she doesn’t nap, she’s a lot more clingy and sensitive.

Bedtime is around 7:30 or 8. I’m very tired after they go to bed. Even the bustle of picking up the kids, getting them home from day care, it’s not as exhausting as being at home because you’re constantly thinking, How am I

going to keep them entertained when I’m trying to teach? What am I going to do to wear them out so that I’ll have a little bit of downtime when I’m with my next group?

My husband and I will usually watch TV for a little bit after dinner and go over the next day. We just finished the Michael Jordan documentary, and we’ve been watching reruns of The Office and Parks and Rec. I don’t know why, but now my kids are getting up in the middle of the night again.

Every day is exhausting and you think it must be Thursday. Nope, it’s Monday. We just keep reminding ourselves that we have jobs; we are healthy; there are worse situations we could be in. Trying to put things in perspective always helps.

Courtney Keeler

bethesda

I CONSIDER MYSELF AN only

parent. I’m divorced, but I have been the only person in both my children’s lives for the last 19 years.

My son, Khary, who’s 22, is autistic. He’s very emotionally immature. He doesn’t really understand what’s going on with this pandemic. He knows he has to wear a mask and gloves. He sees the numbers spiking on TV, but he doesn’t understand what the numbers represent. He’s tracking statistics without knowing the meaning behind it. He attends Montgomery College, where he’s working toward a degree in computer programming and gaming.

trey zaslav

Darnestown

I’M IN SECOND GRADE at Jones Lane. It’s been weird because a normal school day would be six hours long, but Zoom is only 45 minutes. I try to keep looking at the screen, but it’s hard.

Right now we’re learning about the past, like the Wild West. I learned that their transportation was horses and trains. I miss that I can’t see my friends and talk to them. At school, there’s recess and I can play with my friends. In the classroom, we’re not really allowed to talk that much. Lunch is when we really talk. At school every Friday I buy lunch. It’s pizza. I like cheese and pepperoni, and I like sausage but they don’t have sausage.

When I’m not doing schoolwork, I play on my Xbox and watch wrestling videos. I love WWE. My favorite wrestler is Roman Reigns. I play WWE 2K20, which is a new one. My brother’s name is Drew. We’ve been fighting and getting along. We get in arguments. I say one thing about the WWE and he says it’s wrong. We pretend to be wrestlers and wrestle each other every night. We made a big fort a few weeks ago.

I don’t do sports right now, which is the worst part. I played flag football, soccer and baseball. I also used to watch sports. My favorite sport to watch is football. I like the Giants and the Browns because Odell Beckham Jr. is

Right now they’re doing Zoom and conference calls for classes. We’ve also taken to doing some learning on the computer. He struggles with reading comprehension, so we’re looking for ways to do more visual learning, which is a lot of what we’ve had to do through this pandemic. He also loves doing puzzles and playing games like Sudoku. My daughter, Kaitlin, is 19 and has ADHD and anxiety. She also suffers from PTSD. She was hit by a car on her way home from school when she was a freshman in high school. She’s also at Montgomery College. She’s going to be an art major. She paints, she draws, and she’s recently gotten into graphic art. She does portraits of people. I think she’s coping with her anxiety through trying to help give back. She sells some of her art to family and friends, and she’s been using that money to make

my favorite player. My favorite sport to play is soccer.

Being with my family has been kind of fun. e best part is that I’m not busy during the week. We get to go to bed later than usual, like 9:15 or 10, and I’ve been waking up really late, like 8:30. I play with our dog, Georgie. He does a lot of funny stuff. He takes my mom’s clothes and tries to rip them up.

e coronavirus is spreading, so we have to do social distancing, and now we’re on lockdown. I’m not scared of it because it’s in the air, it’s not a person. I’ve been washing my hands a lot.

I usually get my hair cut, but we can’t now. is is maybe the longest my hair has ever been. I don’t like it— it keeps getting in my face. My mom did the back and it got really messed up.

I started to write a book called ‘I Survived the Coronavirus.’ I’ll read the first part.

‘It was a normal day in the world. People at restaurants, work, casinos and stuff. But in China people are having bat stew. e bats have viruses, bad viruses, and the people got it and it started to spread, but America was fine for a little while. ere was a boy named Trey. He lived in Maryland. He knew about it and he knew he will not die because it barely affects kids. So he’s not worried about himself; he was worried about his grandparents because it really, really, really affects old people, like 70 and up.’

Courtney Keeler, standing, with Khary (holding the dog, Sasha Fierce) and Kaitlin

little packages with masks and sanitizers for frontline workers. We’ve been delivering them to Safeway and leaving them for Instacart workers and mail carriers.

My kids are polar opposites. My son rarely talks and prefers alone time, whereas my daughter is extremely high strung. She struggles with impulse control and she worries all the time. I don’t think she’s been sleeping as much. She asks me a lot of questions about what’s going to happen. Because we don’t know, I try to focus on what we can do to keep ourselves safe at this time.

It’s been a struggle trying to make sure one understands how urgent this is, and trying to keep one calm because she sees everything catastrophic going on around her. I’ve been trying to find that balance with the two of them. They have this way of working together. She helps him with his reading comprehension, and he helps her with her math.

I take things one day at a time. Sometimes I have to break it down to an hour at a time. I was more worried about my daughter, because my son will almost accept a new norm. I went up to her a couple weeks ago and said, ‘How are you doing so well?’ She said, ‘I’m watching you.’ I realized when she said this that she’s drawing from what I’m thinking and feeling and doing. There’s many nights that I’m up worrying, sometimes fearful, sometimes sad, but when I get up, I put this face on of hope.

I’ve always lived my life trying to find the silver lining in everything because I think it helps give me that attitude to make sure that I’m doing the best that I can for my family every day. I’m choosing to focus on the fact that this pandemic has brought out the best in a lot of people. I feel like it’s really giving me the opportunity to show my family that they can witness and then practice things like compassion, empathy and hope. Things like those really defy limitations. It doesn’t matter if you have a disability or a special need— that’s universal to everyone.

I AM A FREELANCE

writer and editor, so I’ve been working from home all the time anyway. I’m used to having very few distractions. We thought we were close to being empty nesters, but it has gone the other way.

Donna Moss bethesda

years ago. He was the most gentle, sweet little guy, so we nabbed him. It turns out he was a purebred affenpinscher. I don’t know why anyone would give him up.

Two of my sons are in college. Now we are fully on lockdown with them, our younger son, and our dog, Albie. I’d been coughing, so I’d been isolating from them for a few weeks. I took over the master suite and just stayed in there. I binged so many movies and shows. People would come say hi to me from the hallway—that was it. It seems like either isolating worked or it wasn’t coronavirus. I didn’t get tested.

At one point the family decided it was probably better if Albie did not come into my room. We didn’t know if the virus could live on his fur. Those were two very depressing days for me. He kept trying to sneak in, then one time the door was left open by accident and he came in and we just looked at each other and I was like, ‘I can’t kick you out.’

Albie is a rescue, we got him from the Humane Society in Rockville 11

When it was just the three of us, he spent most days in the bed sleeping. Then all of a sudden everyone’s home and he’s got this new life in him. He bounces around like a bunny rabbit. Before this, he would sleep either in my bed or my son Gabriel’s bed. Now we never know where he slept. He walks around sort of chatting with everybody, deciding where he’s going to spend that night. Nobody wants him because he tries to sleep tucked into you, and if you move over an inch, he takes that inch.

We have a fenced backyard, so before he would stand by the back door and we would let him out into the yard by himself. If the weather and the timing fit, after dinner he would get one lap around the block. Now he’s going on these hourlong adventures every single day. He spends most of it off leash. He takes a good long nap when he gets home. I think he’s going to be sad again when this is over.

PHOTO BY LIZ LYNCH

I HAD HEARD ABOUT the virus prior to having my daughter Kennedi on March 5, but it didn’t impact me until I was at the hospital. Holy Cross was like a ghost town. There were police in the lobby, there was almost no one in the cafeteria. It was eerie.

My uterus was rupturing, so it was a had-to-get-her-out-right-away type of thing. She was six weeks early. She ended up going to the NICU for 12

days. My last child was in the NICU and at least family got to come visit. This time, my other three children and my parents weren’t able to come see her; it was just me and her dad, Paul, in there.

It was harder emotionally for sure. You have your kids at home and you’ve got to spend your time in the hospital and they can’t come. I visited her every day, and when I would come home at

night we would do the full strip down and really scrub and clean and change our clothes. I was very nervous that I was going to bring something back.

Life now is difficult and chaotic. Trying to take care of the infant and help the other kids with their schoolwork every morning—it’s pretty intense. My parents own a home in Ocean City, so just to get away we came down here. It relieves a lot of stress just being by the ocean.

This is a totally different experience than with my first three kids. Now, when I go out to the grocery store or if the kids go outside to ride their bikes, it’s come in, completely change your clothes, scrub. I’m nervous and on edge. Always. I thought I would be so chill and relaxed, and now every two seconds if one of the kids touches her I’m like, ‘Did you wash your hands?’ I was never like that before.

I’m a CFO for a child care company. Most of our facilities are shut down, although we have some open for essential workers. I had a breakdown this morning because I was like, how am I going to start working when I am up all night with a baby? I’m constantly Cloroxing and cleaning and doing laundry. Between that and online schooling it’s going to be a huge battle. She did meet Paul’s mother. We took her outside and she stayed 6 feet away. That’s a moment when this hit me. Who would think the first time you’re going to meet your grandchild you’re not going to hold them?

I’m so used to having a baby and showing them off. But how can you not feel joy when you look at her little face? It’s the cutest thing in the world.

Meg Breitenbach Gaithersburg

From left: Tori, 11; Paul Hutcherson, Kennedi’s dad; Taylor, 7; William, 12; and Meg, holding Kennedi

John Sackett

Olney

PHYSICALLY, I

COULDN’T BE better as far as someone with cystic fibrosis goes. But my doctor said, ‘John, you need to understand that this is serious for you. You just need to hide. You need to go out of circulation.’

My wife goes grocery shopping, so even when we’re at home we’re distancing, which is not something you want to do with your wife. My son and his girlfriend live in the basement. I’ve always been cognizant of washing hands, but now when we get the mail we spread it out on the floor and we let it sit there for 48 hours and wash our hands afterwards. We wipe down the groceries as well. We have a long table—I eat at one end, and 6 feet down they eat at the other end. No physical contact whatsoever. It’s taxing.

I try to keep my spirits up. I still run a mile every day, early in the morning when there’s nobody out there. I’m lifting weights and doing pushups. I’m an amateur cellist, and that helps as well. I make sure I get enough sleep. I’m not as good at that as I should be.

Being on house arrest is frustrating. When you’re a leader you need to be yelling ‘Charge!’ from the front of the line, not from the back. [As chief operating officer of Adventist HealthCare in Gaithersburg], I stay in close contact with the hospital presidents who report to me. We have four hospitals in the system. We have well over 100 COVID patients. Most people are going to do just fine with it. A percentage of those get bad enough that they have to have a ventilator. If you can avoid it, you don’t want to put your patients on a ventilator because it’s so invasive to the lungs. We’ve had to think about what are we going to do if we have more patients than we do ventilators? We’ve

mapped out our process to make sure that it’s fair. If we ever have to do that, we will do that, but we won’t do it without a great deal of regret.

It’s painful, but doing your advance directive—even if you’re very young— is really important. In my case, if they know I’m going to die within the next 60 days, they should feel comfortable removing the ventilator from me right now. Don’t drag out the dying process. If families talk about it, it makes it so much easier for everybody.

Liat

Rockville

MY OLDEST DAUGHTER’S NAME is Aviva. It means “spring” in Hebrew. Her bat mitzvah was scheduled for April 18. She’d been studying to read the Torah for more than six months. She goes to Hebrew school on Sunday mornings, then she had to go to tutoring for an hour. She practiced most nights of the week to learn it.

Her birthday was March 18. She was supposed to have a sleepover, which was canceled. We had put a lot of things in place [for the bat mitzvah]. I’m a social worker, my wife is a counselor. We don’t make a whole lot of money, so we had been saving for a while. There was planning with looking at different venues, deciding to get a caterer, getting a DJ. Eighty people were invited. About half of

We don’t let any visitors into the hospital—you can’t have a loved one at the bedside. I really don’t think there’s a way to adequately talk about how sad that is. It tears caregivers up.

Our No. 1 priority is to ensure the safety of every caregiver that we have. They are true heroes—that is not an understatement. The last thing they want to do is take this virus home with them, so there’s a huge amount of stress. Who should they [be] most loyal to? As an employer, it’s my job to give them every indication that they’re going to be as safe as possible.

I’ve had to face my own mortality my whole life. I’m going to do my best to stay out of harm’s way, but if I ended up with COVID and my life ended, I’m comfortable with that. At some point, we all have to face death, and I have lived an incredible life. I’m thankful for every day I’ve had, but I’m not afraid of dying when the time comes.

those were kids.

We’re friends with the rabbi, so we talk to him all the time. First he thought it wasn’t going to happen at all, and then we thought we could do it by Zoom. He was amenable to it, but at first I was not. I felt like it wasn’t authentic enough. There’s something about being in the synagogue with everybody there that was important to me. But Aviva was like, ‘No, that’s cool. Let’s just do it.’

We all got dressed up and did it from the dining room. My mom had a portion to read, and she did it from her house in Riderwood, a retirement facility. My wife, Lisa, who is not Jewish, did the prayer for our country because it’s a portion you can do without being Jewish. My father, Fred Katz, is a

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Kathleen Wilks

Chevy Chase

I AM CHIEF marketing officer at Washington Fine Properties. Where I work, the men are in suits and ties, and we all wear dresses. I very quickly adjusted to pajama life, and I think my daughter Callie, after seeing me in pajamas for the entire week, said we need to do something about this. She suggested dress-up dinners with themes.

We’ll sit in the dining room and I’ll set a really pretty table. I’m very lucky that my husband, Jeff, loves to cook. I call him our Chef Jeff. Taco night is a big one. He’ll grill halibut or tilapia and we’ll have fish tacos. My daughter Courtney is not a big seafood person, so we always make sure to grill some

chicken for her. We’ll have avocado, guacamole, homemade sauces. And of course there are lots of cocktails. Jeff’s done margaritas—everything is homemade. Our other theme nights have been Caribbean or reggae. One time we actually wore beach cover-ups. Jeff and our son, Christopher, had on bathing suits and T-shirts. I don’t want to sound like an annoying perfect family because we are not. We might fight, but it’s usually between the siblings, trivial—‘I don’t want to watch your stupid show’—and quickly resolved. My husband had an idea that we would rotate among the five of us and we would pick a TED Talk, watch it together, then discuss it. It stimulates good conversation, which has been fascinating. We watch them after dinner. Sometimes the conversations are 10 minutes, and sometimes they’re half

ents were killed in the camps, so this bat mitzvah was a meaningful story of survival as well.

People were sweet enough to send me snapshots from Zoom, and I realized that I looked grumpy through the whole thing because I didn’t realize I

an hour. And then we have dessert. Callie presented one by the mother of Dylan Klebold, [one of the shooters] at Columbine. It was an interesting perspective about her as a parent being the mother of a person who caused all this heartache and her shame and embarrassment, and how she handled that. The reason that she chose it was because it was the first March in 18 years that there [hadn’t] been a school shooting.

My kids keep teasing me that I keep posting pictures using the hashtag #silverlining. I had a hard time when they went off to college because I love having them around. What’s so unique and special about this time is that even when the kids are home, they have all their friends and they’re busy. This is forced family fun. They’re all captive. I will cherish this time forever.

was being filmed. But it went off pretty well. There were probably 100 people logged on.

She did really well. She thought she made some mistakes, but fortunately most people don’t know what she’s reading anyway. She sang loudly and confidently. I’ve been to bat mitzvahs when you could barely hear somebody mumbling—but she belted it out. There couldn’t really be a party afterward, but we scheduled a surprise Zoom meeting at 4 p.m. for her and her camp friends. Some of her friends have made new dates for parties, but we have not. We’re going to wait and see. Her attitude throughout all of this was really good. She did ask if she would still get presents. That’s just where a 13-year-old is at. She is a kid that has struggled with depression and anxiety. She really took this on, which was amazing. It was a celebration of her. I’m so proud of her.

Holocaust survivor. He was able to attend the service precisely because it was on Zoom. He has bronchitis and is 92, and regardless of corona he cannot travel from his home in Baltimore. Aviva and Maya, my younger daughter, are his only grandchildren. His par-

From left: Lisa, Aviva and Liat Katz

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Sue Ducat

Chevy Chase

STAN AND I WOULD have been married 32 years in June. I was in my early 30s when we met, and had had my share of relationships. I had been in Washington about five years. I realized that above all I was looking for someone who didn’t take life as seriously as everyone else here seemed to. I wanted someone with a sense of humor, and he definitely had one.

He was 19 years older than me and was still working full time until the beginning of 2019. He was 86 and had some mobility issues. He had an accident in his office at the Department of Education, where he worked for more than 40 years. He suffered a spinal compression fracture that seriously immobilized him, and he was in a great deal of pain. He was sent to a rehab center. It was a long recovery. He needed a lot of support.

He was living at the Hebrew Home in Rockville in March 2019 and we determined it was the best place for him, so he stayed. He was a real people person, and being at the Hebrew Home gave him a new circle of people.

We made a good life out of it. I worked full time, but every day went to see him at 4:30 or so. By the end of 2019 he was more or less stable and we were able to get him out every couple weeks in his wheelchair. We went to an office holiday party, out to a restaurant and the Kennedy Center for his birthday, his daughter’s house for dinner. As much as he was frustrated by his limitations, he was determined to enjoy life.

When this started, the restrictions

on visiting got tighter and tighter. Starting on March 11, even immediate family members were no longer allowed to visit. Residents couldn’t visit each other’s rooms, they couldn’t have food together in the dining room. I figured this would really make him depressed, but he was still himself. We talked on the phone four or five times a day, but March 11 was the last time I saw him [in person].

April 8 was the first night of Passover. I organized a Zoom Seder. [Passover] was one of the highlights of Stan’s social life. He had tons of people over and led this amazing Seder that was way too long for everyone but himself. He sang songs with us and enjoyed it. [On the Zoom], he fell asleep after about 45 minutes. The next morning I got a call saying that he was running a fever. They thought it was a urinary tract infection. Nobody was terribly alarmed. They put him on the usual medication and the fever went away.

On April 14, I got a call at 7:30 saying he was having trouble breathing and running a fever. They sent him to Suburban, where they were giving him high-pressure oxygen and he was responding quite decently for a few days. But on the 18th a test came back showing that it was COVID. He started responding less well to the oxygen. There was really nothing they could do. He passed away on Monday the 20th.

I was not able to visit him at Suburban. At the very end, when death

was near, they offered one or two family members the chance to come. Our daughter went and was with him when he died. I was told that he was sleeping, and I felt it would be really traumatizing for me to see him again.

The funeral was three days later and only a very small number of the immediate family was allowed to be there, keeping distance, wearing gloves and masks. The rest of the family and friends were able to watch on Zoom. I don’t want to say it’s a benefit, but a lot of people who were on the funeral and shiva Zooms would probably not have been there because they either live far away or they can’t travel because of their own health impairments. That was one bright spot.

Of course, the disadvantage is that it’s all talk, no hugs. I’ve gotten a lot of outpouring of love and food, but the only time I’ve seen people is if we take walks together, and not everyone wants to do that.

I go up and down. I’m flooded with memories. In normal times I’d be going to synagogue daily, but now I’m tuning into a Zoom. It’s convenient—I don’t have to go anywhere, but it would be nice to be in a physical community, not just a virtual one.

Although in the last year I served as a caretaker as well, we still were very much partners and spouses. We talked about things that only he understood. I don’t have that person anymore. I lost my best friend.

Sue Ducat and Stan Cohen

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Sydney Skalka

Kensington

FRESHMAN YEAR YOU LOOK around and think, oh my gosh, I can’t wait for prom and graduation. Now it’s so much different. Every Monday they assign work for the week, and then we can turn it in anytime as long as it’s in before Friday. There’s optional Zoom calls for check-ins with teachers. It’s definitely less work than it would be if we were going into school. I’ve been saving it for the end of the week. I’d say it takes about an hour a day. My sleep schedule is messed up. Now I’ve been going to bed at 12:30, but at first it was like 2. I used to get up at 6:50 or 7, but now I’d say the average is 11.

I had just started my lacrosse season in the spring—I’ve been on the varsity team [at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School] for four years. When they first announced that school was closing, I was at lacrosse practice. The track kids were screaming because they were so excited. But when I heard we were closed for two weeks, the season is already so short, I realized that was over. I’m definitely super sad—I thought we had a chance to go undefeated this year, so it’s a bummer.

May 1 would have been Decision Day. That’s always been a tradition. All the seniors get to school early and they all wear their college shirts. It’s a way to come together and meet groups of kids who are going to the same school. It’s something that everyone looks forward to. Our school is trying to think of alternatives for all of this, so they’re launching an Instagram account and they’re going to do a post for everyone.

I’ve never been to prom. It’s definitely sad [that prom was canceled],

but I understand that we have to pay a small price to end this global pandemic. These events are so small on the greater scale, but it’s still disappointing. All the things you were looking forward to are not happening anymore.

Being a second-semester senior is the best time because [the workload] definitely chills out a lot. I had fun every single day at school being with friends, laughing. I miss seeing everyone. Every day we talk in our group chats—my main one is 12 girls. We’re all definitely on our phones more than we were when we were in school. We all had senioritis, so being home was nice at first, getting a chance to clean out my room and spend more time with my family.

I am getting anxious because I do want to see my friends and I don’t know how long this is going to last. I’m hoping we can spend time together before college. I’ve seen some friends when we did a drive-by for my friend’s birthday. We sat in our cars and talked in a parking lot from a safe distance. They just did a drive-by for my lacrosse senior night. That was cool to see everyone. The whole team drove by my house. The coach was in one of the cars and gave a speech. They gave me balloons and a shirt. Obviously no one had any idea this would happen. It’s crazy. Now we’re all at the point where it’s kind of like, it sucks, but we’ve accepted it. The next thing is: Are we going to start in the fall? Is college going to be different now? n

Clarity Amid Uncertainty Professional Q&A:

Professionals share insights on navigating this unprecedented time

Jeffrey D. Katz

Managing Partner

JDKatz, P.C.

3 Bethesda Metro Center Suite 500

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-913-2948

What type of estate planning can I implement now?

A: You can designate people to carry out your wishes in wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and healthcare powers of attorney – particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. These low-cost documents help to avoid expensive and time-consuming guardianship/ conservatorship proceedings.

Legal and technological advances now allow for virtual video consults with attorneys and remote execution of these documents from your home. Our team utilizes these cutting-edge tools to design and execute estate plans. We engage collaboratively with financial institutions, insurance companies and retirement plan administrators to ensure that assets flow as intended.

David Hurwitz

Private Wealth Advisor

CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, RICP®

Ameriprise Financial Services 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite #550 Bethesda, MD 20817

301-320-1459

www.DavidbHurwitz.com

Q: How can you help clients navigate these difficult times?

A: I can help people develop a plan by assessing their goals, evaluating their situation and providing specific advice on how to navigate the current climate. People often need someone to collaborate with to develop a strategy for their unique circumstance, simplify their lives by providing easy to understand options, and consolidate their assets under one roof. We also have systems, processes, infrastructure and technology to operate more seamlessly in today’s world. The only certainty is uncertainty, and while I can’t predict the future, I can help you prepare for it!

Investment advisory products and services are made available through Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, a registered investment adviser. Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC. Member FINRA and SIPC.

Andrew L. Schwartz

principal

Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong

Driscoll PC

301-838-3327

aschwartz@steinsperling.com www.steinsperling.com

Q: How do we calculate and use PPP loan proceeds to maximize forgiveness?

A: The Payroll Protection Program has provided a critical lifeline to businesses and their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, businesses must understand what costs are eligible for loan forgiveness, minimum usage requirements for the loan proceeds and important dates and exceptions regarding loan forgiveness. A few key considerations business owners should be aware of are opening a separate bank account for the loan proceeds, making sure they understand what documentation is needed and the timing of making payments.

Read details on these suggestions and more on issues affecting businesses and individuals in our COVID-19 Resource Center, steinsperling.com/covid19

Megan Wallace

Estate Planning & Probate Attorney

Wallace Law, LLC

4520 East West Highway, Suite 700

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-468-0603

www.WallaceLawLLC.com

Q: We are in a pandemic and I don’t have a will. Does my spouse inherit everything if I don’t have a will?

A: Interestingly, no your spouse does not typically inherit everything. Your spouse will receive any assets you own jointly, such as bank accounts and real estate, and any accounts on which your spouse is the beneficiary. However, if you pass away with assets in your sole name, and no beneficiary designation, then your assets pass according to the intestacy laws. If you have a surviving child or a surviving parent, then the spouse’s share varies. This can be surprising and detrimental to the surviving spouse.

Nathan Gendelman

President

The Family Firm

8120 Woodmont Ave., Suite 630

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-656-3999

FamilyFirm.com

Q: How can investors cope with economic upheaval and unstable financial markets?

A: The most fundamental principle of investing is that returns are unknown and prone to instability, particularly over a short time frame. Although it is asking too much of us to gleefully embrace this concept, a grudging acceptance of this truism is a necessity when trying to keep emotions out of the investing process. Periods of instability and market declines are inevitable; although, unfortunately, the timing will be unpredictable and the circumstances will be unique. Adopting a long-term financial plan that recognizes the inherent volatility of markets is the best way for an investor to cope with tumultuous times.

Jerry D. Truman Senior Vice President Financial Advisor

Truman Wealth Management

RBC Wealth Management

301-907-2745

Jerry.Truman@rbc.com

Q: Due to the market volatility should I pull my money out of the market or is it time to buy?

A: Truman Wealth Management starts every relationship with a Wealth Plan. Encompassed in that plan is emergency money (six months to two years of expenses) to ride out up and down markets. This helps our clients from being forced to sell.

People say to stay the course, but you need to be evaluating what you own and determine if there is an opportunity to add and/or make changes to upgrade your portfolio based on your circumstances.

Scott Puritz

Managing Director Co-Founder

Rebalance

4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814

650-396-3900

www.Rebalance360.com

Q: What changes should investors make to their retirement and investment accounts in response to the economic effects of COVID-19?

A: Reacting to current events, as alarming as they are, is far riskier than staying the course and sticking to your financial plan. Now, things do change. Your personal financial situation might be different today due to illness or employment changes for yourself or your family members. If so, the best strategy is to meet with your financial planner and adjust your long-term plan as needed. The goal here is not change for change's sake but to ensure that your original plan is still on track and still fits your needs.

T. Ryan Wilson Attorney

Law Office of T. Ryan Wilson 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 1100 Silver Spring, MD 20910 240-638-2721 TRW@RyanWilsonLaw.com RyanWilsonLaw.com

Q: What are key topics that will arise when I build an estate plan?

A: When I work with a client, I start with three basic questions:

1. What are the client’s goals? A good, comprehensive estate plan starts with the client’s ultimate goal. To give good directions, you have to know where you’re going.

2. What are the client’s future needs? A comprehensive estate plan includes planning for the client’s future needs.

3. What are the right planning tools to help the client meet their needs and achieve their goals? The answer always depends on the client’s goals and needs.

Lesley A. Moss

Esq., Principal

Oram & Moss, Chartered 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 500

Rockville, MD 20852

301-652-8600

www.OramMoss.com

Q: How do you maintain your residency while quarantined from home?

A: Many Washingtonians have multiple residences and have found themselves being quarantined away from their primary residence for various reasons. For example, many of our clients are concerned about getting back to Florida to meet the annual time requirement for Florida residency. While it will be argued that these are extraordinary times, it is important now more than ever to ensure that you have updated your estate planning documents and followed the other necessary steps to validate your intended residency despite your preferred place of quarantine. We routinely advise our clients accordingly.

Licensed in MD, DC, VA & FL

Gary Altman Principal Attorney

Altman & Associates

11300 Rockville Pike, #708

Rockville, MD 20852

301-468-3220

www.altmanassociates.net

Q: Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people think about estate planning?

A: The pandemic has served as a vital reminder that the time to plan for a crisis is before one occurs. Many people, especially those who have been avoiding estate planning, are realizing that they don’t have adequate protections in place for themselves and their families. There are legal documents that all adults 18+ should have, including a will, medical directive and power of attorney. These documents determine who will have the authority to make medical, financial, business and/or parental decisions on your or a loved one’s behalf in the event of sudden illness or incapacity. Call us. Let’s plan together.

Isabella C. Demougeot

Attorney at Law

JDKatz, PC 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 500

Bethesda, MD 20814

240-743-5410

Isabella@JDKatz.com

Q: How should you handle a contract dispute against your business?

A: Many contracts include “duty to mitigate” losses or damages. The question when dealing with an “act of god” or “force-majeure” clause is whether performance is impracticable or impossible. A good protocol to adopt is:

1. Analyze and critically evaluate the contract;

2. Review and understand the other side’s position;

3. Conceptualize options that mitigate your risk, harm and exposure; and

4. Design and evaluate solutions that may limit your damages and losses.

Litigation may be inevitable, but outcomes are often better when lawyers get involved earlier in the process. I routinely help businesses navigate this process.

Brett E. Cohen

Estate Lawyer

Cohen & Hertz, P.C. 7910 Woodmont Ave. Suite 1430

Bethesda, MD 20814-7047

301-913-0038

BECohen@SMAClaw.com

Q: Why is it important to make an estate plan?

A: In any aspect of estate planning, if you do not make a plan, then the government will. The government’s plan is unlikely to meet the needs of the people who are most important in your life. Because one cannot control when their estate will be probated, getting started now while healthy will allow you to control your estate. Planning now ensures your wishes will be followed even after you are no longer able to make those decisions.

Eric Jaffe CEO, Co-founder

Mosaic Wealth Partners

7529 Standish Place, Suite 345

Rockville, MD 20855

877-840-0770, x103 www.MosaicWP.com

Q: Should I change my investments in volatile markets?

A: Poor market performance near the beginning of retirement can challenge retirement dreams. But your assets need growth so they last throughout your retirement. Re-positioning assets during times of volatility can be risky. It’s important to consider your needs, wants and particular situation to develop a strategy that allows you to stay the course during volatile times. Diversification alone often isn’t enough. Other strategies like hedging during bumpy markets can be critical. Moving to the right strategy, even during a period of volatility, can be your best bet if you plan to stick with it for the long-term.

Securities and advisory services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network®, Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.

www.FSAinvest.com

Q: Is there a way to protect my investments from market shocks?

A: There are several tools to help investors manage market risk. But you need to know how and when to use them and when to stop their use, otherwise the cost of the tools can damage portfolio returns just as surely as a bear market. Exit triggers on each security you own can limit losses. Options can be used to protect portfolio positions. Inverse funds can be an effective hedge. Portfolio design can also limit exposure to the market. But understand their risks! Good trades need to outweigh bad trades.

Darla J. McClure

Principal

Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong

Driscoll PC

301-838-3284

dmcclure@steinsperling.com www.steinsperling.com

Q: What should I consider when bringing my workforce back during COVID-19?

A: As businesses are preparing to bring their workforce back to the office, they must balance the health and safety of their employees while maintaining operations. Employers need to consider a return of their workforce in a manner that 1) ensures their safety, 2) provides for safeguards and screenings allowed by law, 3) affords reasonable accommodations to those employees with qualified disabilities who may request reduced contact with others and 4) appropriately handles an employee’s request to continue teleworking because of the fear of COVID-19.

Read suggestions on these and other legal concerns affecting businesses and individuals in our COVID-19 Resource Center, steinsperling.com/covid19

Brian Lipton

CFP®, CPA, PFS, AIF®

McKinley Carter Wealth Services 9841 Washingtonian Blvd. Suite #380

Gaithersburg, MD 20878

240-813-1300

www.McKinleyCarter.com

Q: How can I achieve financial clarity in uncertain times?

A: In the iconic 1991 movie, City Slickers, Curly raises his index finger saying the secret of life is “one thing” — arguably, to take control and focus on your life.

As wealth advisors, our focus is to help clients choose financial clarity. Through in-depth discovery, robust assessments and regular conversations, together we create plans designed to weather any storm.

Of course, priorities can change. Opportunities and challenges evolve. By identifying and evaluating the changes in your life as they come, we help you to avoid “financial blind spots” and stay on track with your “one thing”.

Diane K. Kuwamura Principal Kuwamura

Law Group, P.A. 11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 500 Rockville, MD 20852 301-587-2241

www.klgestatelaw.com

Q: Why should I create an estate plan?

A: The importance of creating an estate plan cannot be over emphasized. Engaging in discussions about the fragility and finality of one’s life is never something someone looks forward to. Examining your wishes for your care during your lifetime and for the disposition of your assets at your death and memorializing those wishes in your estate planning documents is one of the greatest gifts you can give to your family. A complete estate plan will provide your family with the guidance they need to honor your lifetime and final wishes.

Elizabeth J. McInturff

Attorney at Law

JDKatz, PC 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 500 Bethesda, MD 20814 240-743-5410

elizabeth@jdkatz.com

Q: I received a summons/subpoena, what do I do next?

A: Being served a summons or subpoena may be unexpected or unwelcome, but do not ignore these court orders! A “summons” notifies you that a case has been filed against you and instructs how and when you must respond. A “subpoena” orders you to provide evidence. Both documents have strict timing requirements. Failure to respond may place you in legal trouble. After receiving a summons or subpoena, it is important to consult with an attorney to fully understand your rights and obligations. We can guide you through your next steps.

Ruff

Let’s face it: During the dog days of COVID-19, we’ve all needed cheering up. For some people, that’s meant bringing home a new furry friend. When we asked local residents to tell us about the pets they’ve added to the family during the pandemic, the adorable photos came rolling in.

COMPILED BY KARI MASON

Madden

Br d: Australian shepherd

Age: 2 months

Submi ed by: Gianna Giacalone

Town: Clarksburg

“We had been planning for a while to get a dog, but it just so happened that the timeline was moved up since we would be around more. It’s made it so much better. Madden likes to bite water as it comes out of the doggy fountain...it’s so cute!”

Wilson

Br d: Cavapoo

Age: 10 weeks

Submi ed by: Lisa Elling

Town: Bethesda

“He is keeping our kids busier outside instead of on screens. Things have a little more chaos, not that we needed that, but he is certainly stirring things up. Our rst dog, Lucy, is 10 and she is not a fan of Wilson. They were both outside and Lucy was behind a [lacrosse] bounce board, hiding, and Wilson charged at her and didn’t see the board. He bounced right off of it.”

Lucky

Br d: Goldendoodle

Age: 9 weeks

Submi ed by: Aanya Palety

Town: Bethesda

“We saw a picture of him and fell in love immediately. We drove all the way to North Carolina to bring him home that same day. It was a much needed change for my brother and me in an otherwise boring lockdown. He is a very proud dog. He leads the leash, grabbing it with his teeth, pretending that we are on the leash and he is pulling us when we are out walking.”

From left: Todd (holding Lucy), Spencer, Drew and Lisa (holding Wilson) Elling

Miss Bea

Br d: Dachshund

Age: 2 years

Submi ed by: Lydia Benson

Town: Spring Valley neighborhood of Upper Northwest D.C.

“Miss Bea was a rescue from Puerto Rico, where she had several litters of puppies. We’re thrilled that after being abandoned, living on the street and in various foster homes, she has now found her forever home with us. We have one dog that is a bit older and more quiet, and our other dog is full of energy. Miss Bea is a perfect blend of those traits.”

Tudder

Br d: Goldendoodle

Age: 4 months

Submi ed by: Emily Tempchin

Town: Bethesda

“My boyfriend and I actually picked up Tudder two days before we knew we would start [working from home]! Tudder continues to remind us both how important it is to take breaks from our computer screens, stand up, stretch it out, go for a puppy stroll, breathe some fresh air, and stop and smell every ower.”

Tempchin took Tudder to visit her boyfriend’s family in Ocean City, Maryland, in April.

From left: Lydia, Lida, Randy and Sophia Benson with Miss Bea

Mollie & Ceili

Br d: Labrador retriever

Age: 10 weeks

Submi ed by: Shau-Chi and Tania Tse

Town: Rockville

“Our last Lab passed two Christmases ago. Knowing we were home teleworking for an extended period and that our daughter was home from college due to the pandemic, we felt the time was right and we could give puppies plenty of attention and love. Mollie and Ceili are sisters. They are from a litter of only two, which is why they are large for their age.”

Milo

Br d: Cavapoo

Age: 9 weeks

Submi ed by: Mackenzie Peacock

Town: Chevy Chase

“Milo wakes up very early in the morning and is always so excited to take on a new day. He immediately starts jumping and prancing without a care in the world, except for when his next treat is! With his oppy ears and smile, he always makes us laugh. One night, Milo could tell we had received upsetting news, so he trotted over to me and plopped down on my feet to take a nap.”

Mackenzie with Milo

Mollie (left) and Ceili

Taco

Br d: Medium goldendoodle

Age: 9 weeks

Submi ed by: Adam and Rachel Salkovitz

Town: Rockville

“My wife and I got married in March right before the quarantine and needed something to make our Maryland honeymoon more exciting. Taco already has lots of toys. We keep them in a little bin in his play area. Instead of playing with his toys, Taco likes jumping into his bin and hanging out in there.”

FrankieBr d: Cockapoo

Age: 15 weeks

Submi ed by: Lisa Manfreda

Town: Kensington

“She may be tiny, but Frankie is the best hiker in town. Frankie comes everywhere with us, so she has hiked all over the DMV—Billy Goat Trail, Boulder Bridge Loop, Lake Bernard Frank, the list goes on. As long as the kids are still moving so is she!”

From left: Ryan, Molly, Annie and Jack Manfreda with Frankie

‘Miracle Man’

When Mike Lavorel developed a rare infection, likely from something he ate, it didn’t look like he would survive. Less than a year later, the Bethesda dad was coaching soccer again—and adjusting to challenges he never expected.

BY EUGENE L. MEYER

BY

PHOTO

LISA HELFERT

Mike Lavorel with his wife, Jennifer

IIT’S HIS FIRST DAY back. More than 11 months have passed since the last time Mike Lavorel walked into his office in Southwest D.C., across from the Mandarin Oriental hotel. As a crew works on remodeling the master bathroom of his Bethesda home, partly to make it easier for Mike to move around, he and his wife, Jennifer, are getting ready for their 35-minute commute into the city.

“ e big drama today is, will Mike’s pants fall down—and will he be able to do anything about it?” Jennifer says with a smile. He lost 65 pounds after he got sick, and he’s only gained some of it back, but he keeps putting off buying new clothes.

“Are we going to work?” Jennifer asks him. It’s 8:03 a.m. on Feb. 21, and her tone makes the question sound more like a command.

“Got everything you need? Snacks? Cellphone? Badge?” Check. Check. Check.

After joking that he’ll drive—he’s lost most of his fingers—Mike, 55, climbs into the passenger seat of the couple’s Ford SUV. His schedule at the office, where he works as chief information security officer for the CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Federal Employee Program, includes a morning meeting, but he’s used to that. He’s been telecommuting for six months, using a stylus and his damaged left thumb to tap out texts and emails, and to dial into conference calls. Aside from physical therapy three mornings a week, he’s spent the bulk of his days at home working, then watching some news, helping his sons with their homework, and conking out on the couch.

“ is ride seem familiar, honey?” Jennifer asks as they approach Ward Circle in Northwest Washington. ey commuted together before Mike’s illness— she’s a housing voucher policy specialist at the nearby U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)— but Mike would typically drive.

“Been awhile,” he says, “but yeah, it’s coming back.”

When they arrive at Mike’s building, he emerges from the SUV and his

wife gets out to say goodbye. As they embrace on the front sidewalk, Jennifer starts to cry. Upstairs, he’s greeted with hugs, balloons and a breakfast buffet. Holding back tears, he tells co-workers more about what happened to him and thanks them for their support. He will get through this day, on his prosthetic legs, because that’s what he does—he keeps going. But for a while, Jennifer didn’t know what was going to happen to her husband. Last year, Mike spent nearly two weeks in a coma and four months in four different hospitals after contracting a rare bacterial infection presumably from something he ate. At one point, doctors gave him a 3% to 5% chance of survival.

THESE DAYS, IN THE midst of the coronavirus pandemic, life doesn’t look much different for the Lavorels than it does for many families. Mike is back to working from home. Jennifer does the grocery shopping. ey go for walks every now and then, and one day they went to Brookside Gardens in Wheaton to enjoy the spring blossoms. Their kids—Nic, 13, and Jack, 17—have been sleeping late and trying to keep up with their schoolwork. For Mike, physical therapy ses-

sions now take place via Zoom.

“We were just getting back to normal when the quarantine hit,” Jennifer says.

In Mike’s version of what happened to him, he got the special oyster. “ e one with the prize,” he says. It was a Saturday night in March 2019, and the Lavorels went to dinner with friends in downtown Bethesda. Mike ordered a plate of raw oysters on the half shell as an appetizer for the table. Everyone had at least one. He ate three.

e next day, Mike and Jennifer went to Nic’s travel soccer game in Virginia. at evening, Mike began having chills. On Monday, he woke up with a fever and nausea. He called in sick and threw up all day. e couple thought it might be the flu or food poisoning.

By Tuesday morning, he had stopped vomiting, but his body ached. A pharmacist recommended Pedialyte to help with rehydration, but even after drinking

Mike with Jennifer in the intensive care unit at Suburban Hospital in May 2019

the liquid all day, Mike’s condition worsened. By early evening he’d become incoherent. He wanted water but couldn’t get the words out. Jennifer got ready to drive him the mile and a half to Sibley Memorial, the nearest hospital, but Mike couldn’t make it to the SUV.

She dialed 911, and at 7:46 p.m. an EMT unit left the Glen Echo Fire Department in response to a call for an individual having trouble breathing. The five-member crew, led by Lt. Victor Graves, a Rockville lawyer who volunteers there, arrived four minutes later and determined that Mike was in severe respiratory distress. Instead of going to Sibley, they took him to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, the only state-designated trauma center in Montgomery County. Jennifer drove herself, thinking Mike would have to stay overnight, and wondered how she would get her boys to their activities the next morning.

“I had no idea what I was in for, ” she says.

Jennifer arrived at Suburban’s emer-

gency department to find Mike on a gurney in the hallway. Then he was moved into a bay with a curtain, where a medical team worked to insert a breathing tube through his nose and into his trachea so his lungs would get oxygen. She could hear the urgency in the doctors’ voices. Someone gave her Mike’s wedding ring and a chair to sit on. Nearby, another patient was asking for food. Jennifer locked eyes with the woman, who was seated on a stretcher in the hallway.

“He is going to be OK,” the woman said. Jennifer began to cry.

After several tense minutes, a doctor emerged to tell Jennifer that the intubation, while difficult, had been successful. But Mike’s blood pressure had plummeted to 76 over 40. His heart rate was 160, far above normal, and his temperature was 103.3. He was showing signs of septic shock, which can lead to organ failure and death. To raise his pressure and get blood to vital organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys, the team employed three vasopressors, medica-

tions that stimulate contraction of the major arteries but may limit the flow to extremities. It’s a trade-off that ultimately can lead to necrosis—the death of skin and tissue—and amputations.

After more than two hours, Mike was moved to the intensive care unit. He would soon be placed in an induced coma and put on life support. But first the ICU physicians called in a specialist. The next day, Vasilios Pyrgos, an infectious disease doctor, asked Jennifer some questions: Had Mike been scratched by a cat? What had he eaten recently? Jennifer mentioned the oysters, and Pyrgos suddenly met her gaze.

“Oh,” he said, and stopped asking questions. Friends and family—including Nic (gray shorts) and Jack (red shirt)—welcomed Mike home from the hospital on Aug. 3, 2019.

KENT STREEB, A FRIEND

of Mike’s, flew in from California on Wednesday to see him and be there for Jennifer. Streeb had played matchmaker for the couple in 1993, when he and Jennifer were both temping for Ernst & Young, a professional services firm, in Tysons Corner.

Jennifer, a Detroit native with a master’s degree in city planning from the University of Michigan, had moved to the D.C. area in 1991 in search of housing policy work, but in the midst of a recession she took what she could get. For several years she worked a string of unrelated jobs that included copyediting for a magazine as well as writing and editing training manuals—before landing full time at HUD at the start of the Obama administration.

in front of the establishment late in the 19th century hangs in the Lavorels’ laundry room. Mike’s father, Warren, was a star ballplayer for a Yankees farm team in Modesto before pursuing a career in the Foreign Service, where he was deputy director general of the World Trade Organization. Mike’s parents divorced, and his mother, who lives in New Mexico, is retired from the State Department.

“I loved listening to his stories [about] growing up in Europe,” Jennifer says. “He has tons of friends, [he’s an] extrovert. I’m more of an introvert. …Opposites attract.”

Mike was born in D.C., but traveled the world because his parents were in the Foreign Service. He’s lived in the Philippines, Paris, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Geneva, where he attended high school and learned to ski. at led him to the University of Colorado. ere, he majored in economics and “minored” in skiing. When Mike went to Ernst & Young one day to help Streeb with a computer issue, he told his friend that he was impressed by Jennifer. She had a boyfriend, so Mike asked Streeb to let him know if that situation changed. Eventually it did, and Streeb made up an excuse for Mike to go to Jennifer’s condo, ostensibly to pick up some French books that Streeb needed.

“Kent said, ‘Just have some beer in your house,’ ” Jennifer recalls. Mike made her laugh, she says, and he liked her dry sense of humor. ey shared a passion for hiking and traveling, and both were drawn to France, where Mike’s family roots extend back to medieval times. One of his ancestors came to New Orleans in the 1850s and eventually wound up in Oakland, California, where the family operated Lavorel’s French Laundry. A picture of the clan

She and Mike dated for two or three years before marrying on June 20, 1998, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ey moved into Bethesda’s Crestview neighborhood a year later; Jack, their first child, came along in 2002, Nic four years later. Mike’s father died suddenly in 2011 from a heart ailment, and prior to Mike’s illness, that’s the only time Jennifer can recall her husband crying.

IN THE ICU, PYRGOS quickly made a presumptive diagnosis. Mike’s symptoms were caused by Vibrio vulnificus, a species of bacteria that can lead to life-threatening infections and necrotizing fasciitis, commonly referred to as a “flesh-eating disease.” e Vibrio bacteria, which can cause different forms of an illness called vibriosis, is found in brackish water and can inhabit raw or undercooked bivalves, including oysters. Mike had oysters twice that week. On March 28, he and three buddies went to the Washington Nationals’ season opener at Nationals Park in D.C., and then to a nearby oyster bar. e Saturday dinner in Bethesda was two days later.

With global warming, the bacteria has been migrating north, into the Chesapeake’s brackish waters, according to marine biologists and climate experts, and the Lavorels learned that the oysters Mike ate in Bethesda had come from Virginia Beach, at the mouth of the bay. (Pyrgos later speculated that the New England oysters Mike ate in D.C. were probably OK and not related to his illness.) People with healthy immune systems can usually eat oysters without any problems; no one else at dinner with Mike in Bethesda that night got sick. But Mike’s immune system had long been compromised by medicines he took for ankylosing spondylitis, a rare arthritic condition he’d had since the early 1980s. As a result, he’d had both knees and

From top: Jennifer helps Mike practice standing; Mike with sons Nic (left) and Jack at Duke for a University of Maryland soccer game in 2018; Mike’s birthday celebration with friends, where everyone wore shirts that read: “Who doesn’t want to be like Mike?”

hips replaced, his right ankle fused and had undergone neck surgery. His friends called him “Iron Mike” because of all the metal replacement parts. Naturally athletic, he walked with a slight limp.

“If there is anything wrong with [the] immune system, there is a high risk [of] developing an overwhelming infection with this organism,” Pyrgos says.

Routine blood tests performed at Suburban could have detected Vibrio vulnificus, Pyrgos explains, but it is often a matter of luck and timing—the bacterium is not chronically in the bloodstream, so there is only a 50% to 60% chance of detection. But from what Jennifer told him, and from Mike’s overall epidemiology, Pyrgos felt he had enough information to report what he called a “likely case of vibriosis.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are an estimated 80,000 cases of vibriosis in the United States each year, resulting in 500 hospitalizations and 100 deaths. e ill-

ness can also be caused by a wound infection after exposure to seawater. In patients with Vibrio vulnificus, about a quarter die; in those who develop sepsis, like Mike did, the death rate rises to 50%, with most dying within 48 hours of infection. Many people who have a Vibrio vulnificus infection require limb amputations. Pyrgos says he sees a case maybe once every five years. In 15 years at Suburban, Kimberley Kelly, the critical care nursing director who helped care for Mike, had never seen one. A rotating ICU physician who had initially told Jennifer, “We will pull him through this,” looked at his chart two days later and said, “I don’t like what I see.” To Jennifer, it felt like a betrayal. With Mike in a coma, Jennifer didn’t know what to say to the couple’s sons. Another physician had told her that there was a 20% chance that her husband would make it; she didn’t know that other doctors had given two of Mike’s friends a different figure—a 3% to 5% chance

of survival—and that they said they’d done all they could. Streeb told a mutual friend, “Can you believe that Big Mike’s getting taken out by a f*****g oyster?”

A hospital social worker advised Jennifer to tell the boys that their father looks scary, that he’s hooked up to a lot of machines and that they didn’t have to come see him if they didn’t want to. Nic, then a sixth grader at Westland Middle School, chose not to visit while his dad was unconscious. “Nic kept saying, ‘I’ll just wait and see Dad when he comes home,’ ” says Jennifer, 54. “You don’t want to say he might die in the hospital.”

On Thursday, two days after Mike was admitted to the hospital, Jack went to his father’s bedside. en a junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, he’d been focusing on schoolwork, and despite what he’d been told, he was unprepared for what he saw. His dad was unconscious, immobile, all hooked up to IVs and monitors. Crying, Jack put his hand on his dad’s

arm. A nurse told Jack that when he was talking to his father, Mike’s blood pressure went up, a good sign that suggested he knew his son was there. Jack told his dad he loved him, and that he knew he’d want to see him grow up.

Jack left the hospital determined to be strong for his parents. At home, he looked after Nic and learned that he actually liked to cook. But Nic was kind of lost, sad, keeping to himself, Jack says. Nic visited Mike when he was out of the coma, though still unable to speak.

While Mike was in the hospital, a circle of relatives, friends, and friends of friends rallied around the Lavorels. Rebecca Cooper Dupin, a close family friend, met with counselors at Westland and B-CC (who in turn spoke with the boys), visited Jennifer, and went to Suburban some nights so Jennifer could go home and rest. Dupin and another friend, Donna De La Cruz, posted updates to the CaringBridge website to keep everyone in the loop about

Mike’s condition. “Jennifer was so scared. We were all so scared,” Dupin says. With Mike in a coma, Dupin read to him from the newspaper. Jennifer had asked her to skip the bad news, so Dupin read him an article about spring cleaning. “For when you get out of the hospital,” she told him.

Early on Sunday, April 14, Mike awoke from the coma, but he had tubes everywhere and couldn’t talk. It was the middle of the night, and he was alone. He still remembers a weird dream he had just before waking. In it, he told people that he was a CIA agent working to unravel some conspiracy on the African continent. When he finally awakened, the room was dark, he was unable to lift his arms, and he thought he had been knocked out by the person who was after him. en he closed his eyes, concluded that it was just a bad dream and went back to sleep.

Later that morning, he woke up and his wife was with him. “You’ve been through a lot, Mike,” Jennifer told him.

“You’re probably wondering what’s happening to you. Don’t worry. We’ll let you know later. You have to rest.”

A few nights later, awake in the darkness, Mike spied a shadow at the door to his hospital room. It was a physician who happened to be in the emergency room when they brought him in, but wasn’t working on his case. Mike didn’t know it, but the guy had given him a 1% chance of surviving.

“I wanted to see the miracle man,” the doctor said.

MIKE’S CONDITION STABILIZED,

but his limbs were purple and black. A vascular surgeon had warned Mike and Jennifer that amputations might be necessary to prevent infections and a much worse outcome. e first amputation— Mike’s left leg below the knee—took place at Suburban on May 10. It wasn’t the missing portion of his leg that Mike noticed first; it was the excruciating pain

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he felt as the anesthesia wore off. “Help me! Somebody help me!” he yelled. A nurse tried different combinations of pain medications to ease his discomfort.

A friend recalls him saying later, “Good, I’m glad that one’s gone—that was the bad one.” Eventually, Mike would find out that he could walk faster on prosthetics than he had before. At one point, he told his sons, “Don’t take advantage of your dad because I’ll have iron legs in the future, and I’m really gonna kick your butt.” As Mike left Suburban on June 6, wearing a D.C. United shirt, 40 staff members lined the hallways. Music played in the background, the voice of Marvin Gaye singing “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

Mike was transported by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where doctors would decide what had to happen next. After each amputation, Jennifer says she held onto hope that it would be the last, until she learned it wouldn’t.

e second amputation—Mike’s right leg below the knee—required two surgeries at Hopkins in June. Amid his ordeal, Mike also contracted a potentially deadly MRSA infection three times—once at Suburban, again at Johns Hopkins, and right before he was discharged from D.C.’s MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he had been admitted on July 28 for kidney stones after about a month next door at the National Rehabilitation Hospital for occupational and physical therapy. Once Mike got home, it fell to Jennifer to administer IV antibiotics twice a day for two weeks for the MRSA.

Efforts to save Mike’s fingers were ongoing. Twice a day, nurses had soaked them in a saline solution, then rubbed off the dead skin, applied an antibiotic ointment, and put a cream on—a routine Jennifer continued once her husband was home. All of his fingers were bent, which made getting under the knuckles harder. Mike and Jennifer were actually relieved

when a doctor at Hopkins inspected Mike’s fingers at an appointment in late August and said, “Yup, they’re gonna go.”

“It was clarity,” Mike says. “Time to just focus on the next step. I said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ ”

ON SATURDAY, JULY 20, with Mike due home soon, five of his friends came over to build two ramps—one with reflectors from the curb to a walkway, another from the backyard into the house, both wide enough to accommodate his wheelchair.

Jon Lamb, who’d been going to baseball’s spring training in Florida with Mike every year since 2004, runs a landscaping company and organized the efforts. Jennifer was initially reluctant to accept the help, not wanting to take advantage of anyone, but she relented and Lamb recruited the rest of the crew—his brother, Mark, J.J. McCoy, Fritz Beuker and Dave Plant. e temperature hit 97

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degrees that day, and they worked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., stopping only for water breaks. “We just happened to pick the hottest day of the year,” says Plant, who also built a portable ramp at his home in Northwest D.C. so Mike could come over to watch D.C. United games.

roughout the ordeal, Jennifer hadn’t been sleeping in the couple’s bed. Instead, she slept on the couch in their small living room, waiting for Mike to come home from the hospital. On Aug. 3, he finally did.

Eight days later, Plant, his son Jackson and Steve Comer, another close friend, took Mike to a D.C. United game against the Los Angeles Galaxy—another milestone. He was still in a wheelchair, so they were seated in a handicapped area at field level. It was Armed Forces Day at the stadium. Mike was asked about the urinal in his bag as he went through the metal detector. A greeter handed him a program, noticed his missing legs and thanked him for his service. “ anks, but

I was not in the military,” Mike replied. “An oyster took me down.”

After a month at home, he began teleworking full time.

“Mike never complained,” Jennifer says. His response: “What’s the point?”

“I complained all the time,” she adds. Later, she catalogs her complaints: being tired, having to take Mike to the bathroom, having to give him showers. “I was exhausted, cranky. I should’ve done a better job of just being glad he was alive.”

Last fall, while still in a wheelchair, Mike managed to coach Nic’s recreational soccer team. He had help from an assistant coach, a young woman who happened to be an assistant medic in the Glen Echo Fire Department. Most of Mike’s time was filled with visits from nurses, physical therapy and work. But there was one major milestone: On Sept. 24, Mike got his prosthetic legs. “ ey felt heavy,” he recalls, “though they are lighter than normal legs. It was awkward,

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a foreign feeling.”

In December, Mike visited the Glen Echo Fire Department to see the crew that saved him. “I tried to talk with them [but] I started getting emotional,” he says.

“His body had been ravaged by a rare bacterial infection,” Lt. Graves recalls. “Yet there he was, bounding into the station, practically jogging, on prosthetics fitted just a few weeks earlier. …Mike came to the station to thank us, but the truth is each and every one of us want to thank him. We thank him for reminding us why we do our jobs.”

Mike says he tried to emphasize that his life depended on the decisions they made. “If they had taken me to the wrong hospital, I wouldn’t have made it,” he says.

ON JAN. 13, MIKE

is still telecommuting, working from the front room of the family’s single-story 1936 house off Western Avenue east of Westmoreland Circle. e house has been remod-

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eled twice since he and Jennifer bought it in 1999, and now it’s undergoing a third to help accommodate Mike’s mobility issues. A design firm remodeled the bathroom and declined to charge the family for its services. e plumber also refused payment.

With headphones on, Mike speaks to one of his network security managers, who asks about an upcoming surgery on his left thumb in preparation for a prosthesis. Skin will be grafted over the exposed bone. “It’s not major surgery,” Mike says. “It’s just a thing with my thumb—unless they cut my thumb off, and that’s a different problem.” e “thing” would take place two days later in an outpatient procedure at Washington Hospital Center.

Right now, he says, “I can open doors, I can go up and down stairs.” He lost four fingers on his left hand; the fingers on his right hand were removed just below the knuckles. He still has part of both of his thumbs. Eventually, with prosthetic fingers, he’ll be able to drive. On his prosthetic legs, Mike is close to his former height of 6 feet 2 inches and plans to get back on the ski slopes.

A few weeks later, on a Sunday morning, the Lavorels get a quiet table in the back at Compass Coffee in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C., where they often go for weekend outings. “We’re trying to get out and have fun, other than changing bandages and emptying urinals,” Jennifer says. She parallel parked right in front so Mike could manage the step from the SUV to the sidewalk.

“I am the chauffeur,” she says. “He’s going to start calling me Jeeves.”

Mike’s wearing shorts, with sneakers on his prosthetic feet. He orders a croissant and a cafe au lait, which he manages to lift almost effortlessly with his thumb and the stumps of his fingers. As Jennifer shares the details of the previous nine months, she occasionally tears up, and Mike hands her a napkin.

“[It] feels like we’ve just had [a] long pause,” she says. “[We] want to go back and travel again. …He’s doing really well. He puts his legs on by himself in the morning.”

Jennifer invited 300 people to their home for Mike’s birthday last September, and neighbors planned to block the street to accommodate the overflow. But he had fingers amputated just days earlier, so she instead hosted a dinner for 10. A few weeks later, Mike and six of his buddies celebrated at Lia’s in Friendship Heights. Riffing off the popular Michael Jordan “Be Like Mike” Gatorade commercial, they all wore T-shirts that read: “Who doesn’t want to be like Mike?”

MIKE FIGHTS BACK TEARS now

when he reflects on everything that’s happened, releasing emotions he kept in check at the time. He believes he is experiencing a form of PTSD.

“He has always loved life and friends,” Jennifer says. “He has always been up for a glass of wine or a beer with friends. None of that has changed. What is new is that now and then he becomes emotional. Something will remind him of what he

went through, or he will comment about what he imagines we went through, and he gets choked up.” He had that kind of reaction when he read an email from his mother-in-law recalling his unflagging positivity and his wife’s supporting role.

“ ere was a lot of pain,” Mike says. “But you think about it too much, you could end up in a bad place.”

Humor helps. On Feb. 29, at another D.C. United game, the temperature was in the low 30s, even colder with the wind chill. Mike wore shorts but a big heavy jacket. He made it down the 15 steep steps to his regular seat in Section 106 and joked that it was so cold he couldn’t feel his toes.

“Wait a minute,” he said, “I don’t have any toes.” ■

Eugene L. Meyer is a contributing editor for Bethesda Magazine and the author of Five for Freedom: e African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army.

beach memories

With many summer plans still up in the air, six local families reflect on why Bethany, Rehoboth, Dewey and Ocean City are so important to them

BY CARALEE ADAMS

Those ocean city summers

WHEN THE SIX COVELL kids were young, the fun of their Ocean City summers began when they made dramatic, feigned calls for help as their mom drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. “It was a tradition that I’m sure drove my parents crazy,” recalls 51-year-old Chris Covell of North Bethesda. As they reached the sections with vertical cables, “we’d yell ‘help, help!’ like we were trapped in a jail on the bridge until we reached open sky again.”

Beginning in the early 1970s, Mary Covell would pick up her kids on the last day of school, have them change into their play clothes in the car, and head directly to the family’s four-bedroom beachfront townhouse in Ocean City. They wouldn’t return to their home in Derwood until Labor Day. Her husband, Chuck, a homebuilder who is now retired, would join the family on weekends. “They jumped in the waves, dug holes in the sand, and went clamming and fishing,” says Mary, 79. She’d always befriend the nearby lifeguards and invite them to use the family’s house for lunch breaks. They became a “second set of babysitter eyes,” Chris recalls, and they’d often applaud when the kids looked to someone for approval after a particularly good boogie board ride.

Still, there were mishaps, like when Chris was 12 and got left behind at the waterslide

park on 63rd Street. She was deep into a Pac-Man game when she realized that her family was nowhere to be seen. Trying not to panic, she started walking toward home along the coastal highway. The family soon realized their mistake and turned around to pick her up. Then there was the time that 4-year-old Matt, the youngest sibling, was on a center console boat with his teenage brothers and friends when the hull cracked down the middle in the choppy ocean. One of their friends had to swim Matt ashore to safety, then they rushed to get the boat to

the marina before it completely sank. The summers included regular trips to the library, with required reading lists from St. Elizabeth Catholic School in Rockville. “I made them write book reports and present them every Friday so their minds wouldn’t go to mush,” Mary says. Chris remembers the summer of 1982, after the conclusion of

Above: A family outing on the Ocean City boardwalk

Below: Every summer there’s a Ping-Pong tournament, and the winner gets a trophy that is part Ping-Pong ball and part pink flamingo.

eighth grade, when she and her siblings were glued to MTV. Their mother looked outside on a sunny day and said: “No more. We’re done.” She unplugged the television and put it in the back of the station wagon, where it remained for the rest of the summer.

As teenagers, the Covells all had summer jobs: the old-time photo shop on the boardwalk; the beach stand that rented out umbrellas; the Good Humor truck. Chris and her twin, Kate Flaherty, who lives in Potomac, were both waitresses at Layton’s in Ocean City. “They were able to be independent much earlier—they didn’t need a ride,” Mary says of her kids. “They could get on their bike and go.”

These days, the family congregates at the same townhouse each year for several holidays. A competitive Ping-Pong tournament, complete with brackets, is a highlight of the Fourth of July weekend. The winner gets a “hideous” makeshift trophy that is part PingPong ball and part pink flamingo, according to Matt, 41, who now lives in North Bethesda. He met his wife, Seanna, who grew up in Ocean City, in 1998 while working as a dock boy at the Bahia Marina; she was a gas girl, fueling up boats. They now bring their kids (ages 2 and 3) to the beach most weekends beginning in the spring.

Over the last four decades, the family has had to board up the townhouse several times ahead of a hurricane. They brace each time for the possibility that their home won’t make it. But the house has always survived, losing only the front steps a few times to the waves. Although a few of the siblings now have their own beach properties, their parents’ original townhouse is the big draw for everyone to hang out together. Says Matt, “We all get along and clamor to do it again and again each year.”

“Camp Chaos”

WHEN CHARLES CARR KOONES

and Violet Ledig Koones were headed from Washington, D.C., to Atlantic City, New Jersey, on their honeymoon in 1931, they instead ended up staying in Rehoboth Beach. The couple loved the area so much that they purchased one of the first lots in Henlopen Acres a few years later.

The Koones family built a second, larger home named “Serendipity”—meaning good things found, but not sought after—in 1965 in the same development. That house was passed on to the next generation, Charley Kneller Koones, and his wife, Jane, of Bethesda, who enjoyed summers there with their six children.

“It was a place to test your boundaries,” says their son, Charlie Koones, 57, who grew up in Bethesda and

went to Georgetown Prep; his wife, Linda Grasso Koones graduated from Walt Whitman High School. The couple now lives in Los Angeles. The beach was where Charlie says he and his five sisters could roam freely—riding their first bikes and going to the boardwalk alone.

Friends came and went from the house—sometimes overfilling the dormitory (a large room with bunk beds that sleeps 10) and sneaking out at night to parties. Jane had a check-in sheet by the front door to keep track of the brood after she went to bed, but the house has lots of doors. “It was like a leaky sieve,” says Charlie, and kids signed in and out for

From top: The Koones’ week in Rehoboth Beach includes a crab feast; Charles Carr Koones with his sons Tony (left) and Charley outside the family home in the early 1940s; a family pyramid on the beach

one another. “Let’s just say it wasn’t a foolproof system.”

Now, the siblings and their families (about 25 people when they’re all there) squeeze into Serendipity every year for a reunion dubbed “Camp Chaos.” The family has organized scavenger hunts around town, and the kids put on their own “Rehoboth Idol” show for entertainment. The younger crew has kept up the tradition of antics in the dorm, playing late-night poker games and pranks on one another. The week also includes a crab feast, bonfire, intense games of beach bocce ball, and dance parties while making dinner, often to the sounds of Motown or Bruce Springsteen.

The noise generated from the sheer number of people in the house makes the week live up to its name. “With my sisters, talking over people is an art form. You can’t get a word in edgewise,” Charlie jokes. “The kids know it’s chaos—that’s their expectation.”

The family often gathers in Rehoboth Beach the weekend before Christmas for a quieter offseason visit. Charley, who died in 2012, and Jane, who passed away in 2015, are buried in a cemetery less than two blocks from the house. Last year, the six siblings were sipping coffee in the kitchen when they decided to put on their coats and take the short walk to Epworth Cemetery. After laying a wreath and saying a prayer, they started singing “Silent Night,” a favorite of their father’s. “It was a special spiritual moment where we were all together with the great tradition of love and family,” says Charlie’s oldest sister, Kris Veirs, 63, who lives in Bethesda.

Adds Charlie: “We were incredibly fortunate to have the parents we had. They have left behind this legacy that is incredible to me—of six kids who would rather be with each other than anybody else. That only happens when the parents make that happen.”

FunLAND, THrasher’s FRIES & MORE

SCHONFELD COULDN’T SWIM in the ocean during her first summer in Dewey Beach. It was 1962, she was 12, and the beach was full of nails and wood after a recent hurricane. She and her three younger brothers, who grew up in Bethesda, swam in a nearby lake instead, and enjoyed Funland, the amusement park that had just opened in Rehoboth Beach.

It was the first of many summers that she spent at her family’s beach home—later replicating some of the same activities with her two children after the house was passed down to her. “We have almost [a] mental checklist of the things we love to do. And if we don’t do it, we feel like the trip is not complete,” says Sandy, 69, of Potomac, who goes to the beach several times a year with her husband, Ed, 71. They are joined every summer by their two daughters, Diana, 36, and Laura, 39.

Funland—or “Un-Funland” as Ed calls it because of the noise, sticky floors and crowds—is always a must. Sandy recalls how happy the girls were when they were tall enough to ride the bumper cars and go into the haunted house. Diana and Laura

still play a competitive game of Whac-a-Mole every year.

Then there’s the seafood dinner at Big Fish Grill, a stop at Nicola Pizza for Nic-OBolis, and ice cream from The Royal Treat. “If we were outsiders, we would say it’s really tacky,” Sandy says of the boardwalk area in Rehoboth. “But it’s our tacky, so we are OK with it.”

Laura says the family has traveled extensively, but there is something comforting about returning to the beach. “It’s the only place in the world we can truly relax,” she says. Their house is in the quieter part of Dewey Beach, closer to Rehoboth and farther from the bars. “There’s something about doing the same things over and over. …It’s so familiar. The crazier the world gets, the nicer it is to go back and have a familiar place with happy memories.”

The family hasn’t updated the house much since it was built nearly 60 years ago—it still has its nautical décor and iconic knotty pine walls stained a light turquoise. “When we walk in the door, we can breathe a sigh of relief,” Sandy says. “It’s a retreat from our busy lives.”

SANDY

Ed Schonfeld and his daughter Diana last year

A Really Big Family Reunion

MUSIC OFTEN SPILLS OUT from the screened porch of Sue and Frank Deckelman’s rental home in Bethany Beach. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is among the favorites at the sing-alongs, where family members of all ages play guitar, banjo, violin, mandolin, flute and drums. “This is practically every night. And sometimes it doesn’t start until late,” says Sue, 81, who worries that they are disturbing the neighbors, although no one has complained yet. “We look out onto the sidewalk and sometimes people have stopped to listen.”

The Deckelman family’s annual beach getaway began in 1988, when the Chevy Chase couple had their first grandchildren. They wanted a place for their six daughters to gather as their families grew. And grow they did. Now, as many as 75 family members— including the Deckelmans’ 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, plus Sue’s siblings and their children—rent out seven houses within two blocks of each other for the last week of June. They’ve celebrated birthdays, engagements and new babies in Bethany Beach, and held “crab-uations” to honor new graduates. Last year, the youngest family member was a 2-week-old grandson, and the oldest was the 84-year-old patriarch, Frank, affectionately known as “Opa.”

It’s a big crew to vacation together, but it works, says Katie Grant, 56, the Deckelmans’ second-oldest daughter, who lives in Rockville. “My sisters are my best friends,” she says. Talk about the beach getaway starts in the fall, and rarely does anyone miss the family-oriented week that’s packed with tradition, but not strict schedules.

Mornings are for walks and eating doughnuts at Sue and Frank’s house. Parents with the younger kids head to the beach early with their wagons and toys to claim a spot for the rest of the family. There’s often some jostling for the shade, with the older relatives getting the coveted chairs under the umbrellas. Wiffle ball games can get competitive, leading to arguments and even ejections at times.

There’s also been some drama in the water. One young Deckelman grandson had a false tooth fall out while diving into a wave, and Sue’s sister-in-law Libby lost her wedding

ring in the ocean. Over the years, the Bethany Beach lifeguards have rescued several cousins who’ve ventured out too far. Once, one of the kids got caught in the waves after the lifeguards had left for the day, and an adult who was nearby ended up helping him. The scare prompted the family to ban swimming in the ocean unless the guards are on duty. When it comes to dinner, the men usually cook and the kids roam from house to house looking for the best menu—maybe tacos, spaghetti or Cajun fare. Sometimes the sisters and their husbands go out while the

older cousins watch the younger ones and take them to the arcade or Candy Kitchen. One night, several adults were watching a late NBA Finals game when one of Sue’s brothers decided to double-check that the grill on the deck was off. As he came back inside, he thought the screen door was open and accidentally walked through it, causing him to fall face down and take the frame with him. The loud crash woke several of the children. “Fortunately, he was not seriously injured,” Sue recalls, “so we were all able to laugh ourselves to sleep that night.”

Above: A family sing-along on the screened porch

Below: Ice cream in Bethany Beach

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Mother-Daughter Getaway

A MAP OF THE WORLD hangs in the Germantown home of Nelson and Ellen Robin with pins that mark all the countries they’ve visited with their daughter, Rachel. Among them: Thailand, South Africa and Italy. After their far-flung, sightseeingpacked adventures, Ellen and Rachel savor relaxing in Rehoboth Beach.

The Robins first went to Rehoboth Beach with extended family in 2001 when Rachel, their only child, was a baby. The beach vacations weren’t without their challenges. Ellen’s mother, Barbara Poris, ended up in the emergency room most years with issues related to her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Still, she didn’t want to miss out and kept joining the family at the beach each year until she passed away in 2014.

Ellen and Rachel, 19, kept the tradition going, making it a mother-daughter getaway at the end of every summer since 2009. (Nelson quickly determined that he wasn’t a beach person and opts to stay behind.)

To avoid traffic, the women drive to Rehoboth on a Monday, park their car at The Avenue Inn, where they stay, and walk everywhere for the next four days. “Everybody is very warm and friendly. We always see somebody we know,” Ellen says. The first stop after they arrive is The Ice Cream Store. They spend two full days at the beach, and often grab pizza at Grotto’s for lunch and eat dinner at their three favorite restaurants (Confucius, Henlopen City Oyster House and The Blue Hen). For several years they frequented a pottery store where they painted dolphin and seahorse figurines that are displayed at home alongside a bowl with seashells on it that’s

used to hold fruit and candy.

Another must: a photo of Rachel in front of the outdoor sign at The Coffee Mill. The first year, she was an infant in her stroller; in 2019, she was just getting ready to head off to the University of Maryland. Some of the photos are in albums, but most are digital, and Ellen and Rachel look at them on their television. “At some point we realized we had so many [photos at The Coffee Mill] that then

Clockwise from above: A young Rachel playing Whac-a-Mole at Funland; the family started taking a photo of Rachel in front of The Coffee Mill when she was a baby; in this photo from last summer, she was just getting ready to head off to college; Rachel and Ellen always stop for ice cream on their annual trip to Rehoboth.

it became something we’d go out of our way to do,” Rachel says.

Before heading to the outlet stores on the way home, their final beach treat is Funland, where they’ve played enough games over the years to win plenty of stuffed animals. But as Rachel has gotten older, some things have changed. “Now when we get the prizes, we find a cute kid to give them to,” she says, “after we ask their parents.”

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A thanksgiving Tradition

GABE ALBORNOZ PROPOSED TO his wife, Catherine, on the sand in Rehoboth Beach in July 2004. “He made a darling scrapbook of things we had done—with tickets and pictures,” recalls Catherine, 40. “He had tied a ring to the last page of the book.”

Catherine says she was surprised, although she suspected something when he showed up in Rehoboth with a new whiteand-tan-striped beach shirt and white pants, an outfit he’s kept and worn on a few anniversaries since.

After the proposal, the two ran around town to share the news with friends who were working at their summer jobs, and with Catherine’s grandparents, with whom she was staying. “It’s a very special place for us,” Gabe, 44, a Montgomery County councilmember, says of Rehoboth.

The Kensington couple’s parents both have beach homes in Rehoboth, providing places for Gabe and Catherine to stay with their four kids (ages 3, 7, 10 and 12). As a family, they bike and play miniature golf together. With grandparents as built-in babysitters, the couple often enjoys evening walks together and occasional date nights out at their favorite restaurants, including The Cultured Pearl for sushi.

Beach traditions have evolved for the couple over the years. Their extended family often comes to the beach for the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. Every year, Gabe and Catherine participate in an informal 5K run in downtown Rehoboth the Friday after Thanksgiving that the family started more than a decade ago.

The race goes back to when Catherine’s youngest sister, Seton Gardner, was in high school. The family usually ran in Bethesda’s YMCA Turkey Chase, but decided to spend the holiday at the beach. Wondering what they would do instead, her older sister, Grace Weisser, of Chevy Chase said, “It’s fine. We’ll just chase Seton,” explains Gardner, now 30, who lives in Kensington. As a joke, Gardner ran a 5K route with everyone behind her. The next year, Weisser gave her a full-body turkey costume that she’s worn every year since.

“It’s a scene. Kids are screaming: ‘Turkey! Turkey!’ all through the town. I’ve never been caught,” says Gardner, who usually hops on a bike to stay ahead of the runners. Last year she was pregnant for the race. Soon after the start, she dropped out, hid in the bushes and took a shortcut to the end. She always cheers at the finish line where people spill over to her parents’ house nearby for an outdoor party with Maryland crab soup.

The family invites about 50 friends and relatives to the private race—some are on

bikes or in strollers. Everyone who participates is asked to donate money to Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania, where Gardner’s grandmother went to school. The winners get gift cards to Grotto Pizza, a chocolate turkey and other swag donated by the university.

Recently, Gardner happened to mention to a co-worker that her family has this crazy Thanksgiving ritual at Rehoboth Beach, where she’s chased in a 5K. “You’re the turkey!” the woman said. “We always wondered what that was!” n

Caralee Adams is a freelance writer in Bethesda. COURTESY PHOTOS

Above: Seton Gardner dons a turkey costume for the family’s annual Thanksgiving run.

Right: Catherine and Gabe Albornoz during the summer they got engaged in Rehoboth

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A CONVERSATION WITH RICCARDO AND ROBERTO PIETROBONO

The brothers who own Olazzo, Gringos & Mariachis and Alatri Bros. talk about the stress of the pandemic, pivoting to takeout, and how they’re handling the county’s phased reopening

BY DAVID HAGEDORN | PHOTO BY VIOLETTA MARKELOU

ON THE MORNING OF May 15, the temperature was heading toward the mid-80s on the kind of sunny spring day when, in the before times, public spaces would typically fill with people jogging, strolling, window-shopping and gathering at sidewalk cafes to have lunch, sip cocktails or scroll through Twitter. Brothers Riccardo and Roberto Pietrobono would be getting ready for brisk Friday business at their five eateries: Olazzo in Bethesda and Silver Spring; Gringos & Mariachis in Bethesda and Potomac; and Alatri Bros. in Bethesda.

Instead, the restaurateurs were preparing for an 11 a.m. Zoom interview to discuss how things have been going since Gov. Larry Hogan shut down on-site dining in Maryland restaurants and bars on March 16 because of COVID-19.

Among the topics of conversation was the financial assistance that’s been provided to some restaurants through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Pietrobonos had received PPP funds for each of their five restaurants five weeks earlier.

Roberto, 48, and Riccardo, 42, are first-generation Americans—their parents, Renato and Iole, now divorced, are both from Alatri, Italy. The family lived in Wheaton until 1977, when they moved to Glenmont. Their older brother, 51-yearold Romano, is in construction. That came in handy—as did Renato’s trade, bricklaying—when renovating the five restaurants, saving them money that would otherwise have gone to outside contractors. Roberto caught the restaurant bug at 14, when he started working as a dishwasher at a restaurant near their house. He was a server for more than a decade at various restaurants, among them Mamma Lucia in Rockville and The Oceanaire Seafood Room in Washington, D.C. Riccardo was drawn to cooking as a kid because Jack Tripper, the main character on Three’s Company, was a

chef. When Roberto opened the first Olazzo, in Bethesda in 2002, he roped Riccardo into being the chef there.

Roberto has a hand in all of the decision-making for the businesses. He participated in the Zoom interview from the back steps of the family beach house in Ocean City, Maryland, where he’s building a basement apartment. “My dad has diabetes and is high risk, so he has been pretty much isolated [in Glenmont]. The apartment is a way for him to get out of the house and do something.” Roberto’s three-hour drive to and from his 16th Street Heights home in D.C. gives him the opportunity to listen to music and try, usually without success, to take his mind off the possibility that he’s going to lose everything he started 18 years ago.

Riccardo mostly oversees back-of-the-house operations for the two Olazzos. During the Zoom, he sat on the living room sofa in the Bethesda home he shares with his wife, Marissa, and their 10-month-old daughter, Everly. He got up that morning at 6:30, when Everly did, and took care of her until Marissa came down to feed her and start her workday, now from home, as a project manager for the State Department. Riccardo usually gets to Olazzo Bethesda around 12:30, but that day he had to go in early. “We don’t have a manager now. I had to be there for the seafood delivery. We don’t have a nanny anymore, so I come home when Marissa takes calls for work,” he says. Then his job is to play with Everly, whose current favorite pastimes are banging blocks together and doing housework. “She has a cloth and loves wiping stuff.”

After the mid-May interview, Bethesda Magazine spoke with Riccardo and Roberto again on June 4, a few days after Montgomery County began Phase 1 of its reopening, which allowed restaurants to offer outdoor dining if they followed certain guidelines, such as social distancing.

Riccardo (left) and Roberto Pietrobono at Alatri Bros. in Bethesda

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How did you get into the restaurant business?

Roberto: I was living in Huntington Beach, California, from 1998 to 2001 doing day trading, but also working as a server in a friend’s restaurant there. I came back to Maryland because I wanted to open a sushi place. But then I realized we should do what we know. We grew up eating pasta six out of seven nights a week.

Riccardo: I had been out to California to visit Roberto and started working in the kitchen of the restaurant that our friends opened with their mom. Roberto was best friends with the older brother, and I was best friends with the younger brother. A lot of their mom’s recipes are now on the Olazzo menus. When we opened Olazzo, I was still at the University of Maryland. I finished my B.S. in marketing while at the restaurant.

Do you own any of your restaurants’ buildings?

Roberto: Our family owns the building that Gringos Bethesda and Alatri are in. It’s one building divided into two restaurants. The landlord in Park Potomac is Foulger-Pratt. In Silver Spring, it’s Wolpoff Properties. At Olazzo Bethesda, we expanded next door, so there are two individual buildings and two different landlords, run by Conley Management. We own the restaurants, but have a partner, Marc Miranian, in the two Gringos & Mariachis. Marc, who’s a good friend, really runs a majority of the Gringos operations day to day. He’s the one keeping it together through all this.

How were things before COVID-19?

Roberto: A couple of the restaurants weren’t doing great. In Silver Spring, they were doing a big construction job for the last two years, so we basically had no parking there. Alatri took a little while to pick up business. We’ve never been the best at social media and promoting ourselves—we always depended on word of mouth— and never really did much advertising.

When did you become aware of the virus?

Roberto: In late January, I knew there was something going on. Half of our family is in Italy, and we were talking to them. It was coming in Seattle. It was a slow process, but you knew it was going to come. You were just hoping that you could stay open until it would be locked down. It was a nervous situation. We have family members in Italy who had the virus...that made it very real for us.

Did you start to prepare before Gov. Hogan closed restaurants on March 16?

Roberto: We were telling staff in those two weeks before the shutdown that we can shut down any day, so make sure you save your money. That was over two months ago, so nobody really knew the seriousness of it to that extent. Dr. [Anthony] Fauci on March 8 said you should not be wearing face masks.

Walk us through the shutdown.

Roberto: We furloughed most of the front-of-the-house staff right away. We were told it was better to do that because they could collect unemployment. Otherwise, you’re stringing them along and they’re not making any money. You become the shell of the company that you were because you’re taking off most of your staff to try and stay open, and you don’t have any income coming in because business is dropping off 80%, 90% the first week. Now it’s consistently about 70%. Obviously, you can’t support people like that, so you furlough them. That’s what many restaurants did. You look at [famed New York restaurateur] Danny Meyer—he shut down right away, and he has the best lawyers, so you think they know something you don’t know. You were just out there fending for yourself and being like a detective figuring out how to protect businesses and staff. Riccardo: [State officials] basically told us that day that at 5 o’clock [p.m.], you’re done with on-site dining. Takeout was still allowed. We were worried about the inventory. We ended up doing

a 30% discount to try to get rid of stuff. And [did] donations. There was a lot of uncertainty, and you didn’t know if you were going to be shut down completely at some point. Then distributors started cutting back on their delivery days, raising their minimums, and they were out of product. After the first couple of weeks doing takeout, I found myself going to [wholesale food supplier] Restaurant Depot often and limiting the menu as much as we could. But we’re getting used to it. Meat prices have gone up a lot. You just hope that the supply chain keeps coming. Maybe you have to double your order so you don’t wind up being out of something. When your business drops 80% and your food costs go up, that’s another problem. And it’s hard to get to-go packaging. You have to order a ton of it, and the suppliers don’t have it.

How many people were on the payroll before?

Roberto: Approximately 100 on the payroll among the five restaurants. Now it’s probably between 50 and 60. People are getting over $1,000 a week on unemployment, guaranteed until the end of July. Some people told me that collecting unemployment isn’t who they are—they want to work. Some people chose not to work because they’re looking out for their health or they have parents at home. Some people decided to take a break or might have been in school, so collecting unemployment was the right decision for them.

Did you experience anything like the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief as you processed the impact of this virus?

Roberto: Yes. The fact of the matter is, in four or five months you don’t know if it is going to reoccur. I personally have thought about walking. Up to four of my five restaurants. Just walking. Quitting. It’s not what I signed up for. Hire, rehire, this and that. It’s not what anybody signed up for, but it’s definitely not what I signed up for. I don’t want to run a grocery store. I signed up to open a restaurant. There’s [business interruption]

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insurance that we paid that at this point they’re not covering, and I’m not optimistic that they will.

How do you deal with the stress and maintain perspective?

Riccardo: I’m trying to deal with multiple restaurants and juggle the family life at home. My wife is scared that I’m going to get the virus at work and bring it home. It’s a lot of stress on everybody, but you can’t be stressed out in front of your child, you know, so having Everly—playing with her and taking care of her—is a stress reliever.

Roberto: Before all this, I was starting to get into spiritual health and meditation. I decided to start one new thing a week, like taking up salsa dancing and learning to play guitar, to keep my mind active and have less stress. And then [the virus] came. e idea of this virus affects your mental health. I want to get back

into those things I was doing to relieve the stress, but there’s no time right now.

You kept all five of your restaurants open by pivoting to takeout.

Roberto: We always had takeout. It wasn’t the biggest part of our business, but we’ve always had it. It may have been easier for us to shut down, maybe even collect unemployment ourselves. But you know what? ere are people who depend on the business, and remember, at the time there was talk of opening up on Easter. You just didn’t know. So if you can keep it going and maintain that continuity then that, to me, seems to be the best of a worst scenario.

You have a loyal clientele. Have they been helpful?

Roberto: Very. ey’ve been very generous with tips. If it wasn’t for that, we would not have been able to supplement

the income the servers, bussers and bartenders make. eir jobs changed to handling phone calls, taking [takeout] orders, packaging food. Before the virus, the hourly wage for tipped workers was around $6. We had to raise it to $15 to $20 an hour to make it worth people’s while to work rather than go on unemployment. But then the tips were so good that we could adjust that rate, because there’s no way we could have maintained that higher hourly rate indefinitely.

How have your landlords been?

Roberto: It’s still up in the air, to be honest with you, because of the PPP money. I’m not one to ask for anything, but a few have been a little bit more generous than others, say with rent abatement for a month. One said, ‘Pay what you can pay.’ Some haven’t done anything—no reprieve, no help. But you don’t know what’s going through

the landlord’s mind. You say, ‘You know, he should be giving a break,’ but being a landlord is its own business, too. If I’m in their position, do I do anything?

There are issues with the PPP… Roberto: Big issues. We’re in week five of [our] PPP, and not even the best accountant in the world knows what’s going to happen because they’re changing the laws all the time. Like right now, the new one they’re trying to pass will extend it to January. But people who have gotten the PPP were told they had eight weeks to rehire 75% of your staff, and 75% of the money had to be for payroll and the other 25% was going to your landlord and utilities. It should be used to cover being coronavirus compliant. The hand sanitizer things cost, like, 250 bucks each, for example. There’s another stress because I don’t want a loan. I’d rather not have it if I’m going to owe someone money. I

don’t really blame people; it was [a program] made overnight. But if they don’t change it, come July there is going to be a big catastrophe because that’s the only reason restaurants are open at this point.

You have been critical in the past of the county’s Alcohol Beverage Services department (formerly the DLC). How would you rate the service of ABS during the pandemic so far?

Roberto: I think they’ve been very helpful. They allowed carryout cocktails. They’re going to allow drinking [in] the streets. I appreciate that they’re trying to do that for us. We had our initial meeting about closing off the streets and having restaurant seating. You know what’s going to happen. There are going to be people sitting on the street, people are going to walk by and say, ‘Hey! I haven’t seen you in forever!’ What are you supposed to do? Walk on by? No. It’s

going to be people congregating. Then people will take pictures [and post them to social media] and say this is what’s happening, and then they’re going to get backlash for helping us out. But I need to expand our seating in order for us to survive, so there’s no right answer.

What else should government do to help restaurants stay afloat?

Roberto: More money needs to be paid out in PPP for it to have any relevance. At the very least, it needs to be extended. The county should give owners multiple tax breaks. Not just some chickens*** tax breaks—real tax breaks. The [ABS] should give licensees 50% off all purchases. Through this pandemic, their sales are going through the roof. Creating a big discount on liquor that would increase profits would give owners a light at the end of the tunnel, albeit a small one. The state needs to loosen

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What will reopening look like for you?

Roberto: We probably won’t reopen Silver Spring in the summer. at will be takeout for the foreseeable future. Potomac has [a] big outdoor space, and so do the Bethesda places if they open the streets. As far as specifics, it’s hard to plan when there aren’t guidelines, or they change all the time. We’re trying to look ahead. Customers will go where they trust the most. We got masks and gloves, but a face shield does a better job of covering everything, so we already have branded face shields. at sucks because a lot of these kitchens are really hot, with no ventilation.

Riccardo: ey get fogged up, too.

Roberto: Do dividers make people safer, or do they cause more germs? Until there is clarification, to chop up your

restaurant into plexiglass segments doesn’t make sense. I assume the first phase won’t have any bar seating. If there will be bar seating and it’s 6 feet apart, that would be three seats in our bars and it’s not worth it, so we won’t have any bar seating at all. What you have to do to outfit for reopening is very expensive. Riccardo: And is it worth it, all the money you’re going to spend to set up a restaurant to have six tables a night?

As people get comfortable, there could be social distancing issues…

Roberto: People are shaming restaurants. Like down in D.C., [people] posted pictures [of crowds] congregating outside Red Light and Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, but when you’re running on a shell of a staff and you have, say, two people taking orders, you can’t have people going outside and telling people to move. ey’re going to say, ‘F*** off!’ What are the

restaurants supposed to do? Tell grown people to move every five minutes? We’re running on 80% less than we were, so where are you finding these people to be like crossing guards? at’s not our job.

Have 18 years of experience given you an edge over other restaurants, in terms of staying open?

Roberto: We’re probably in a better position than a lot of restaurants. Say a restaurant just opened, spent a million dollars, which is normal, and they spent their whole life savings and they opened three months before this and all of a sudden they owe their landlords. And most of the landlords aren’t giving any breaks. You have personal guarantees on some of these leases. And some of these landlords are pretty vicious. ey’ll hold you to it, they’ll sue, and then not only are you going out of business now, you are under a personal guarantee for the extent

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of that lease, which puts you in an awful position. You’re destroying a livelihood forever. And you’re telling me you’re not going to have mental duress in that situation? I would think about jumping off a bridge myself. Sometimes you have to be thankful for the terrible position you’re in. People getting the coronavirus and dying are a lot worse [off].

As brothers, do you always agree?

Roberto: They always say working with your family is tough. If you get along with your partner every day, you’re in the minority, whether they’re family or not. You’re making the best of bad decisions. You have one of us saying, ‘Why not just shut it down?’ The other wants to stay open. But who’s to say the one that wants to shut it down isn’t right? Everyone has an opinion about everything. You can’t say who’s right and who’s wrong, but yes, it puts a strain on [the relationship]. It has made the business a lot harder to operate. Riccardo: You’re brothers, so you try to work through it the best you can. We argue more because we’re brothers, and we trust each other more because we’re brothers.

When you were allowed to offer outdoor seating in June, which patios did you open?

Roberto: Only the two Gringos & Mariachis locations. Because of table spacing, observing 6-foot distancing, it makes no sense for us to open the patios at the other restaurants. At Olazzo in Silver Spring, we’d only be able to have one or two tables for two and maybe two tables at Olazzo in Bethesda. Should I bring in a server for two tables? We combine the Alatri Bros. patio with the [adjacent] Gringos patio in Bethesda. With distancing, we have about 30 seats at nine tables there now. A little more than that at Park Potomac. We don’t seat parties over four people. Our policy is to do a 90-minute limit per table when we have a wait, which we haven’t had yet.

What precautions are you taking?

Roberto: The customers wear masks

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for the most part. Servers have to wear them, and gloves. Some staff wear face shields—that’s up to them. In the summertime, that will get hot for everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people passed out at some of these places. We offer single-use menus or a QR code to scan. We give the option of sealed plasticware or individualized silverware in paper bag wrapping. We offer plastic or glassware. We decided to do first come, first served—taking reservations doesn’t make sense with just nine tables.

How is it going?

Roberto: We’re trying to see what the demand is. Our friends with [reopened] restaurants in other states say it started out slow, but people become more comfortable going out. Right now, we are open from 3 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 9:30 on Saturday and Sunday, but our hours have changed, like, three times over the last two months. It hasn’t been that busy and we’re fine with that. We didn’t really promote it too much because we didn’t want to be overwhelmed. Plus, there were protests going on [after the death of George Floyd during a police arrest in Minneapolis]. A lot of restaurants were boarding up and not even opening, because nobody knew what to expect. We opened, and everything was fine. People are just happy to sit outside.

In this area, spring and summer rain has always been a problem for outdoor seating, but it’s another disaster when you have only outdoor seating. Roberto: Correct. e public is congratulating us like it’s a grand reopening. In reality, it’s more juggling staff, more unknowns. It’s like giving us crumbs, and we should thank [County Executive Marc] Elrich? For some restaurants, it’s no crumbs at all. It needs to open up. It’s the best of the bad answers. ■

Food writer and cookbook author David Hagedorn is Bethesda Magazine’s restaurant critic. e Bethesda Interview is edited for length and clarity.

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Say goodbye to that unsightly old ice chest and upgrade to a fabulous all-in-one drink station. The Cucina cooler stand features a built-in insulated cooler with a handy side duct to drain melted ice, a stainless-steel ice bucket, and an attached bottle opener. Choose from natural teak for $1,913, or four other finishes for an additional $451 or $459 at Country Casual Teak in Gaithersburg (301926-9195; countrycasualteak.com).

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Brighten up a porch or patio seating area with a classic striped pillow in fun summer colors. The double-sided cover is made of Sunbrella, a fabric that resists fading, mildew, stains and chlorine. The Newport outdoor pillow is available in two sizes, 18 by 18 inches and 24 by 24 inches, for $39.50 and $49.50, at Pottery Barn in Bethesda (301-654-1598; potterybarn.com).

3. NEAT SEAT

The Catherine settee, part of a new collection from Kingsley-Bate, blends two outdoor furniture staples. Extra-wide, all-weather wicker fiber wraps a solid teak frame and provides just enough give to be comfortable without cushions. It is 83½ inches long, 33 inches deep and 31 inches high, and retails for $890 at Offenbachers Home Escapes in Rockville (301-881-8565; offenbachers.com).

4. WHERE THERE’S SMOKE

If you like smoked wood flavor but don’t like hauling propane tanks, a pellet grill might be for you. Fueled by hardwood pellets, the Traeger Pro 575 has a temperature range of 165 to 450 degrees, and provides precise control so you can cook low and slow or hot and fast. WiFIRE technology enables you to control the grill from your smartphone. Find it for $799.99 at Strosniders in Kensington (301-933-2207; strosniders.com).

5. FLAME GAME

Don’t let mosquitoes ruin the outdoor fun and relaxation of an evening on the deck. Repel the pests with a hand-poured citronella candle in a decorative rustic clay pot. Made from soy wax and cotton wicks, the candle comes in two sizes—small, with a 20-hour burn time for $22, and large, with a 70-hour burn time for $98—at Terrain in Bethesda (240-345-9413; shopterrain.com).

6. GOOD TO GLOW

Light up the night and add instant ambiance to alfresco family meals with these simple string lights. The 11-foot garland of 10 frosted globe lights comes in three finishes—nickel, dark bronze or brass (pictured)—for $49 at West Elm in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose development (301-230-7630; westelm.com). n

Carolyn Weber lives in Silver Spring and frequently writes about architecture and

Possessions Prized

Local interior designers share their favorite personal pieces and spaces

BY AMANDA CHERRIN

A SOUVENIR FROM A once-in-a-lifetime vacation. e ultimate flea market find.

A mantel brimming with family pictures, children’s art and treasured heirlooms. Many of us have a belonging so beloved that we would go to great lengths to rescue it from harm, or a place in our home that tells a story so rich and meaningful that it helps to define our dwelling.

Interior designers spend their careers creating spaces where their clients can thrive, often scouring the globe for the perfect items, colors and textures to bring visions to life. But what treasures light up designers’ own homes? We spoke with six local decorators to learn the stories behind their favorite personal pieces and places.

Gene and Lauren Sachs and their daughter Liza (left) in their Mediterranean-inspired outdoor space

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When Erica Burns’ grandfather Robert served in Europe during World War II as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he wrote to her grandmother Letty about his daily life and missions, and to let her know he was safe. Three of those framed letters now grace the walls of his granddaughter’s 1954 colonial-style home in Bethesda’s Wood Acres neighborhood, where Burns lives with her husband, Ryan, and two daughters, ages 6 and 8. “I got the letters from my mother,” says Burns, who owns Erica Burns Interiors in Bethesda. “I thought they were really

cool, but I wasn’t sure what to do with them.” Her inspiration came while she was considering how to decorate a long wall in her living room. Burns says she wanted to fill the wall with a collection of related items instead of a large piece, and decided to hang the letters, which are displayed in antique gold-leaf frames. “I like a story,” says Burns, noting that her guests often take time to read the letters, which are written in cursive on Air Force stationery, and ask about their origin. “I was really close to my grandparents, and I like to be surrounded by things that remind me of my family.”

PHOTO BY STACY ZARIN GOLDBERG

Family Heirloom

An Outdoor Oasis

When interior designer Lauren Sachs built her contemporary home two years ago in Bethesda’s Bradley Hills neighborhood, she wanted to create the kind of outdoor living experience that she might find in Morocco or another country bordering the Mediterranean Sea. “The idea was to transport people from a typical Bethesda experience to someplace else—kind of like a vacation,” says the owner of Lauren Sachs Designs in Bethesda. “I’ve always been drawn to Morocco. I love the lighting, the furniture, the tile— I’m really drawn to the geometric elements and the intricate designs.” To create this style of ambiance, Sachs curated an outdoor living and dining area filled with nods to the

Mediterranean that are mixed among modern comforts, including space heaters and a flatscreen TV. The covered porch, which overlooks the pool deck, features an outdoor fireplace lined with black and white Moroccan tile, metal lanterns from Turkey that hang from the walls, and souvenirs from Sachs’ Mediterranean vacations, including tall black and tan baskets from Athens that hold potted palms, and an intricate metal side table from Tel Aviv, Israel. The porch has ceiling heaters that allow Sachs, her husband, Gene, and two daughters, ages 22 and 25, to enjoy the outdoor space from March through November. According to Sachs, the family uses the space to watch football games, host dinner parties or just enjoy the sunset—the way one might during an island getaway.

A Modern Makeover

“I love updating vintage pieces to make them feel current,” says Bethesda-based interior designer Marika Meyer. “I love to reimagine pieces in a fresh way.” During an October 2016 visit to North Carolina’s High Point Market, which bills itself as the world’s largest furnishings industry trade show, Meyer stumbled upon the perfect canvas: a pair of 1950s-era chairs in good condition from Hickory Chairs. Though a new set of chairs from the company would retail for thousands of dollars, Meyer scooped up the vintage pair for $200 and brought them back to Montgomery County to work her magic. To update the chairs, she swapped out their mustard velvet

fabric for a white and dark brown tribal print, adding fuchsia pipping to create contrast and a little edge. Now the chairs sit prominently in the living room of Meyer’s 1949 colonial-style Bethesda home, flanking a midcentury console to create a sitting area. The chairs quickly became family favorites—her husband often chooses to sit on one—and were treated to protect the fabric from stains left by the sticky fingers of Meyer’s 7- and 10-year-old sons. “[The chairs] make me so happy and really reflect my design aesthetic,” says Meyer, who founded Marika Meyer Interiors in 2007. “They are the first thing you see when you walk in the house, and they just bring a smile to my face.”

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MICHAEL VENTURA

One of a Kind

“I love, love blue and white,” says Bethesda-based interior designer Kelley Proxmire as she describes the many countries— France, China, the Netherlands, etc.—that incorporate the coveted color scheme into their designs, ranging from pottery to sculpture. Of the many blue and white pieces in her personal collection, Proxmire’s favorite is an 18-inchtall porcelain lion. Proxmire, who has worked as an interior designer for more than 20 years, purchased the lion for around $1,500 in the 1990s at a now-shuttered Georgetown shop that was owned by famed local interior designer Antony Childs. Though the lion’s origin is unclear, Proxmire speculates that it was created in Italy sometime during the 20th century. The lion, which has occupied many perches around her Italianate-style home in Bethesda, currently sits on a shelf in Proxmire’s foyer. It is surrounded by decorative blue and white china plates—purchased from local antiques stores and during her travels—that match the plate the lion holds in a paw. “I love one-ofa-kinds,” Proxmire says.

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KIP DAWKINS

Jodi Macklin happened upon her favorite piece of furniture during a routine buying trip to New York City six years ago. “It was in the front of the showroom and caught my eye immediately,” Macklin says of the 54-inch-square tufted leather ottoman she discovered at Suite NY, a designer furniture and home accessories store. “I loved the scale, texture and versatility of the piece.” Macklin purchased the caramel-colored ottoman for $6,500 to serve as the centerpiece of her contemporary family room, which she was redoing at the time to expand its functionality and seating capacity. Macklin, whose four children are ages 26, 24, 21 and 16, describes herself as “constantly entertaining,” hosting her large extended family for meals and Redskins games at her Cotswoldstyle home in Chevy Chase. “We’re 18 strong—and all local,” says Macklin, who owns Jodi Macklin Interior Design in Chevy Chase. Depending on the type of gathering, the ottoman, which is flanked by a coffee table and club chairs, provides extra seating or serves as a footrest or even a table for dining and playing board games. “ is piece is certainly very functional, while adding an unexpected element,” Macklin says. “It’s a more traditional piece, but its scale and surrounding make it less so.”

The AllPurpose Piece

PHOTO BY DEB LINDSEY

Jodi Macklin with her dog Chessie on the ottoman that serves many functions

“I love pieces that reflect someone’s personality—that’s what makes them special,” Bethesda-based interior designer Wendy Danziger says.

Danziger’s favorite place in her Bethesda townhouse is an 18-by-13-foot wall in her living room that features some of her most treasured items.

“It’s a place to display things that mean something to us,” says the owner of Danziger Design.

Most of the wall is dominated by a large cherry wood armoire that was purchased almost 20 years ago at Theodores, a home decor store in Georgetown, and currently stores Danziger’s china, serving pieces and linens. The armoire

shares the wall with a set of glass shelves made by River Glass Designs in Rockville that hold pictures of Danziger’s 11-year-old granddaughter and late mother and father, in addition to pieces she picked up while traveling abroad. Among the displayed souvenirs are a gold-plated metal sculpture of a man and woman that Danziger purchased in Greece, a decorative plate from Argentina that features a red and black picture of a fish, and an orange-frosted contemporary glass vase from Prague. Next to the armoire sits what Danziger says is a particularly special piece: a 2-foot-tall wooden pear painted “a wonderful red shade” that belonged to her late mother-in-law. n

PHOTO BY MICHAEL VENTURA

Wall of Wonders

Amanda Cherrin lives in Chevy Chase and is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated magazine.

The Comfort of Home Professional Q&A:

Professionals share insights on navigating this unprecedented time

Trent Heminger Mary Noone

Q: How have you changed your business practices to keep your clients safe?

A: Real estate has fully adapted to industry mandated safety requirements, never entering a property without gloves, masks and booties; and limiting clients’ exposure within each property. With these new standards, and inventory so limited in certain price points, sellers shouldn't be afraid to investigate a strategy on selling. We can limit showings and provide virtual opportunities to ensure safety protocols are met. For buyers, we offer virtual showings and 3D models well before ever entering a home in person.

Deb

Levy

Senior Home Lending Advisor | NMLS 481255

Chase 301-332-7758

Deb.Levy@chase.com

HomeLoan.Chase.com/Deb.Levy

Q: Is this still a good time to buy a home?

A: I firmly believe it doesn’t matter what the market or your friends are doing; It has to be the right time for you to buy a home. Life happens and housing needs change. Now is a great time to take stock of your financial situation and look at options. We recommend consultation appointments in which we discuss you and where you are relative to the financing and timing that will work best with the home you love. If you’re looking for mortgage or financing solutions, I’ll guide you every step of the way, from application through closing.

Bernie Mihm

Lanscape Architect

Co-Owner

Fine Earth Landscape

16815 Budd Road

Poolesville, MD 20837

301-972-8810

www.FineEarth.com

Q: How has Covid 19 affected outdoor improvement projects in the Bethesda area?

A: Having served tens of thousands of Bethesda-area clients for over 40 years, we have seen lots of ups and downs.

Although the first couple weeks of "stay at home” were slower than normal, the longer that people stayed at home, the more they thought about making their own home a more enjoyable place to be. The past month saw many Bethesda-area residents deciding to do swimming pools, stone or paver patios, and beautify their property with plantings. No one knows what the future holds but a lot more people are enjoying staying home this year.

Brian Maury

Amy Maury

Q: What’s happening to our Bethesda real estate market as a result of the pandemic?

A: There are unique opportunities for both buyers and sellers. Overall, fewer homes are being listed and sold. However, a seller’s market has developed at the lower half of the market due to the supply of homes for sale declining MORE than the demand from home buyers. We are seeing multiple offers and price escalations. For home buyers there are opportunities in both record low interest rates and negotiating leverage on upper-end properties where there is an oversupply at the top of the market.

Compass | 7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 920, Bethesda, MD 20814 | 301-304-8444

Compass is a licensed real estate brokerage that abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws.

Tony Calkins

Principal Broker

The Calkins Group

7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 500

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-798-9838

www.TheCalkinsGroup.com

Q: What about the market today makes it a good time to buy or sell a home?

A: Historically low interest rates, coupled with pent-up buyer demand (helped by the spring quarantine) are the primary forces driving buyers right now. Low inventory continues to help sellers, and prices continue to climb in much of the greater D.C. metro region. Opportunities exist right now, for both buyers and sellers, to take advantage of this unique market. The Calkins Group was an early adopter of Zoom and FaceTime in providing virtual tours and consultations, and continues to offer these to our clients. Call us today for a no-obligation consultation.

Daniel Carrero

President

House to Home Solutions 15745 Crabbs Branch Way Rockville, MD 20855

301-762-6621

www.HouseToHomeSolutions.com

Q: If I am considering a design-based project like a kitchen or bathroom this year, when should I start the process?

A: The short answer is "Now". Properly done design-based projects can take between 1-3 months for design & material selection plus an additional 1-2 months lead time for items such as cabinetry and fixtures before construction begins. In these current times, House to Home Solutions has two customized options to get the ball rolling. We have the capability to work with you remotely/virtually, and we have a thoroughly sanitized on-site design studio for private oneon-one appointments. Take advantage of being home to get the design process started.

Samantha Friedman

Samantha Friedman Interior Designs, LLC

301-529-1900

SamanthaFriedmanInteriors.com

Q: What are top priority renovations you’re seeing as people as living in their homes in new ways?

A: I think the greatest need will be for houses to function in multiple ways, and allow everyone to have their own space. Basements will be fi nished and redesigned for separate play areas or home gyms. Formal living rooms will be converted into home offi ces with multiple desks and comfortable seating areas for families to gather to do school work. People will lighten up their houses with paint, lighting and carpets. With people cooking more, kitchen renovations will be a priority.

Barbara Carnemark Nalls

Vice President

TTR Sotheby's International Realty 4809 Bethesda Ave. Bethesda, MD 20814 240-602-9035

www.BarbaraNalls.com

Q: Do you see any changes to the housing market coming out of the pandemic?

A: Yes, I do. I believe we’re going to see a shift of demand into the suburbs and even exburbs as we begin to recognize the productivity of part and full-time work from home, and commutes become correspondingly more manageable. People will begin looking for larger, more self-contained homes, with multiple home offices, swimming pools, lawns and play space, etc. Even if we don’t go back into quarantine, what we’ve lived through isn’t something we’ll soon forget.

TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, 301-516-1212. Licensed in DC, MD, VA

Bruce Wentworth

Q: Why choose design/build for home remodeling?

A: Wentworth’s architect-led design/build firm has a staff of 15 to provide design and construction from a single convenient source. In-house architects and interior designers translate your wishes into the perfect design solution with tantalizing design options. Ranging from kitchen remodels to whole house remodels, our construction crews use their superior carpentry skills to execute our sophisticated designs. Wentworth’s step-by-step process ensures you a fixed-price construction contract. Online virtual design presentations, product presentations and contract signings minimize the need for you to leave your home. We handle all the details to minimize the stress of home remodeling. Call today.

Phil Leibovitz

Mimi Brodsky Kress CEO and COO

Sandy Spring Builders

4705 West Virginia Ave.

Bethesda, MD 20817

301-913-5995

www.SandySpringBuilders.com

Q: Is now a good time to build?

A: This is an unprecedented time but based on our 40 years of experience, there will be opportunities. And we are fortunate that construction was considered “essential” throughout. Prices for material and labor should get better and when the industry is slow, we are more aggressive with our pricing.

It is our goal to pay our overhead, keep our talent and continue to safely build. This can create an opportunity to build for less.

We have found in the past that if we can ride the tide of the downturn, we are in a great position when the market turns better, and it will.

APRIL’S MOST EXPENSIVE

A peek at some of the area’s most expensive recently sold houses

SALE PRICE:

$3 million

LIST PRICE: $3 MILLION

Address: 5203 Battery Lane, Bethesda 20814

Days on Market: 3

Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE:

$2.6 million

LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION

Address: 5315 Wehawken Road, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 111

Listing Agency: Premier Properties

Bedrooms: 7

Full/Half Baths: 7/1

SALE PRICE:

$2.6 million

LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION

Address: 25 W. Irving St., Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 8

Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE:

$2.5 million

LIST PRICE: $2.5 MILLION

Address: 5226 39th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015

Days on Market: 63

Listing Agency: Century 21 Redwood Realty

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE:

$2.5 million

LIST PRICE: $2.5 MILLION

Address: 5519 Pollard Road, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 0

Listing Agency: Premier Properties

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE:

$2.4 million

LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION

Address: 6 E. Melrose St., Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 134

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties

Bedrooms: 7

Full/Half Baths: 2/2

SALE PRICE: $2.3 million

LIST PRICE: $2.5 MILLION

Address: 7080 Oregon Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015

Days on Market: 165

Listing Agency: McEnearney Associates

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE: $2.2 million

LIST PRICE: $2.2 MILLION

Address: 3615 Raymond St., Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 127

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

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SALE PRICE:

$2.1 million

LIST PRICE: $2.1 MILLION

Address: 5503 Albia Road, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 7

Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE:

$2 million

LIST PRICE: $2.1 MILLION

Address: 120 Quincy St., Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 1

Listing Agency: Evers & Co. Real Estate, A Long & Foster Company Bedrooms: 7

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE:

$2 million

LIST PRICE: $2 MILLION

Address: 7515 Marbury Road, Bethesda 20817

Days on Market: 23

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.9 million

LIST PRICE: $2 MILLION

Address: 5812 Highland Drive, Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 7

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 3/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.9 million

LIST PRICE: $2 MILLION

Address: 7900 Charleston Ct., Bethesda 20817

Days on Market: 166

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

SALE PRICE: $1.9 million

LIST PRICE: $1.9 MILLION

Address: 7402 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase 20815

Days on Market: 316

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 4

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.8 MILLION

Address: 6507 Callander Drive, Bethesda 20817

Days on Market: 35

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE: $1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.7 MILLION

Address: 3818½ Huntington St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015

Days on Market: 6

Listing Agency: Compass

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.9 MILLION

Address: 9026 Bronson Drive, Potomac 20854

Days on Market: 11

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.8 MILLION

Address: 10024 Kendale Road, Potomac 20854

Days on Market: 91

Listing Agency: Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty

Bedrooms: 6

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.8 MILLION

Address: 4712 Jamestown Road, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 8

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.8 MILLION

Address: 6014 Maiden Lane, Bethesda 20817

Days on Market: 14

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE:

$1.8 million

LIST PRICE: $1.7 MILLION

Address: 5422 Albia Road, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 6

Listing Agency: H.A. Gill & Son

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE: $1.7 million

LIST PRICE: $1.9 MILLION

Address: 4809 Fort Sumner Drive, Bethesda 20816

Days on Market: 46

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE: $1.7 million

LIST PRICE: $1.9 MILLION

Address: 8001 Carita Court, Bethesda 20817

Days on Market: 31

Listing Agency: Realty Advantage

Bedrooms: 5

Full/Half Baths: 5/1

Note: Some sale and list prices have been rounded.

REAL ESTATE TRENDS

20015 (Upper NW D.C.)

20832 (Olney)

20016 (Upper NW D.C.)

20850 (Rockville)

20814 (Bethesda)

20851 (Rockville)

20855 (Rockville)

20815 (Chevy Chase)

20816 (Bethesda)

20852

(North

20879 (Gaithersburg)

20853 (Rockville)

20854

20882 (Gaithersburg)

20886 (Gaithersburg)

20895 (Kensington)

20902 (Silver Spring)

20904 (Silver

20901 (Silver Spring)

20903 (Silver Spring)

20910 (Silver Spring)

Information courtesy of Bright MLS, as of May 15, 2020. The Bright MLS real estate service area spans 40,000 square miles throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. As a leading Multiple Listing Service (MLS), Bright serves approximately 85,000 real estate professionals who in turn serve more than 20 million consumers. For more information, visit brightmls.com. Note: This information includes single-family homes sold from April 1, 2020, to April 30, 2020, as of May 15, 2020, excluding sales where sellers have withheld permission to advertise or promote. Information should be independently verified. Reports reference data provided by ShowingTime, a showing management and market stats technology provider to the residential real estate industry. Some sale and list prices have been rounded.

Congratulations to the 2020 Winners of the Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazine

ESSAY AND SHORT STORY CONTEST

Essay Contest

1st Place Alicia Klaffky, Kensington, MD

2nd Place Daien Guo, Washington, D.C.

3rd Place Daniel Kinney-Spears, Chevy Chase, MD

Short Story Contest

1st Place Emily Ray, North Potomac, MD

2nd Place Devin Lucas, Bethesda, MD

3rd Place Julia Tagliere, Sandy Spring, MD

Essay Contest – High School

1st Place Natalie Marti, Bethesda Chevy Chase H.S.

2nd Place Caroline Vining, Stone Ridge H.S.

3rd Place Aneesha Mishra, Deerfield H.S.

Short Story Contest – High School

1st Place Elliott Wagner-Smith, Bethesda Chevy Chase H.S.

2nd Place Jonah Witte, Montgomery Blair H.S.

3rd Place Naomi Louie, Richard Montgomery H.S.

Essay & Short Story Honorable Mentions

Tara Davoodi, Natalie Edmonds, Tyson Fang, John Hardison, Rebekah Jacobs, Beth Kanter, Robert Karn, Andrew Lichtblau, Kaldun Nossuli, Cate S chultz, Julia Tagliere, Doug Wilkinson

THE ELM

4710 Elm St., Bethesda, MD 20814

LiveTheElm.com

BIO

Carr Properties is a privately held real estate investment trust that owns, manages, acquires and develops high-quality properties in Washington, DC and Boston. Insight Property Group is a Washington, DC-focused real estate company that specializes in residential and mixed-use development.

PROJECT

Opening in Fall 2020 as part of a master development, The Elm connects those craving a new approach to modern living with a residential destination that marries sophistication and comfort. Nestled around a blissful green park in the heart of downtown Bethesda, with unparalleled access to the Bethesda Metro, The Elm features stunning views of Washington, DC and beyond from the lushly landscaped rooftop deck and glass Skybridge, which connects two 28-story luxury apartment towers. An elevated backdrop for living, every inch of The Elm has been thoughtfully considered and designed for a life well lived. From sunset swimming and cocktail hours on the rooftop to spacious interiors and extraordinary access to local arts and music in the cultural heart of Bethesda, The Elm is where living takes shape. Look for early previews in Summer 2020.

WINCHESTER HOMES

North Quarter

5120 Longstone Way North, Bethesda, MD 20852 Sarah Echelberger & Steven Buterbaugh 240-802-8124 | WinchesterHomes.com

BIO

At Winchester Homes, we know what matters most about your new home—you. Our goal is to make every touchpoint along the way part of an experience that is as easy as it is exciting. You want that journey to start with thoughtful people who understand what “home” means to you. Your experience is on us.

THE PROPERTY

North Quarter is the epitome of smart elegance and sophisticated style. These 3-4 bedroom newly designed townhome residences boast open floor plans, fabulous kitchens, 2-car garages and contemporary finishes befitting of the North Bethesda scene. Choose a home with a roof-top terrace taking entertaining your guests to a whole new level. All townhomes feature our HomeSmart® home automation systems featuring Amazon’s Alexa®. Located along Randolph Road just off Rockville Pike, these new homes are surrounded by the area’s best shopping, dining, entertainment at Pike and Rose and easy access to Downtown D.C. via the nearby White Flint Metro. Don’t wait, move-in ready homes are available now. Make your move. Experience it… Now! Priced from the upper $500s

CRAFTMARK HOMES

Crown East Info@CraftmarkHomes.com | www.CraftmarkHomes.com

BIO

As a family owned company guided by our founder’s hands-on passion, we've been setting the trend for more than 27 years as a hometown builder. The luxurious living environments we create offer remarkable quality and architectural design, thoughtful indoor and outdoor living spaces, and the very best included features.

PROJECT

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Chevy Chase pediatrician Bertha Koomson, who moved to seeing most patients by telemedicine when the pandemic began, says she’s noticed changes in the reasons parents call for appointments. For more, turn the page.

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ONE OF DR. BERTHA KOOMSON’S favorite things about virtual visits during the pandemic is the way her youngest patients react to the computer. “Little babies always want to touch you on the screen,” says Koomson, a pediatrician at Capitol Medical Group in Chevy Chase. “It’s such fun when, say, a 6-monthold or a 9-month-old sees you on the screen, doesn’t know what’s happening, and then you wave and they break out into a smile and they’re all happy, interacting with you.”

In mid-March, Capitol Medical Group moved most appointments to telemedicine, set up a station for routine childhood vaccinations in an empty office space far from exam rooms, and staged a COVID19 testing site in the parking lot for pediatric and adult patients (the practice includes an adult medicine division). As of June 7, staff had performed 717 nasal swabs, with 30 positive results for COVID-19, mostly in adults.

Koomson sees patients virtually for well-child visits and encourages parents to schedule any necessary vaccine appointments for the following day. She worries that a lot of kids could be behind on their vaccines after the pandemic. “The biggest fear is an outbreak of one of the common childhood illnesses that we have been trying to prevent for so many years,” she says.

When something can’t be diagnosed without an in-person exam or lab test—urinary issues, some earaches—the patient is scheduled for an office visit. “We don’t see as many sick kids anymore. Everybody’s quarantined, so kids are not getting sick as much. And even with allergy symptoms and asthma symptoms that are [traditionally] pretty high at this time of year, we’re not seeing as many because kids are indoors.”

The lack of organized sports has meant fewer calls about twisted ankles or possible fractures, but there’s been an increase in other issues. “One of the things that I’ve seen an uptick of is tick bites,” Koomson

says. “[Families] are going for walks on trails and going in the woods.”

She’s also seen more mental health and behavioral concerns. “I saw at least three patients recently, schoolage children who have had new changes. In one, it was more temper, crying episodes. Some kids have refused to do their schoolwork at home. Another kid, the mother found some writing expressing sadness at not seeing her friends,” Koomson says. “We’ve had to talk about that a lot with them, and then also recommend therapies, and luckily therapists can do a lot of what they do virtually.”

Growing up in Ghana, Koomson knew from a young age that she wanted to be a physician like her father. He was a general practitioner at a hospital, and died when she was 6. “We lived on the teaching hospital campus so we had a lot of doctors and nurses around us. In those days, the status of a doctor was very important, and for me was something I wanted to aspire to,” she says. After finishing medical school in Ghana, she went to Toronto for her residency and a fellowship before moving to Los Angeles after marrying her husband, Koby. She worked as a pediatric emergency department physician for seven years, then relocated to D.C. in 1997, when Koby became Ghana’s ambassador to the U.S. (he’s now a business consultant). They moved to Bethesda in 2001. After working at a private practice in D.C. for 15 years, Koomson joined Capitol Medical Group in 2015. She has a 28-year-old son who is in law school in Louisiana. Her 25-year-old daughter lives in New York but has recently been working out of her parents’ house.

Koomson believes telemedicine, sanitizing and frequent handwashing are here to stay, and that the pandemic’s long-term impact on kids might include anxiety over their parents’ health or their own. She thinks some kids will have a hard time adjusting to changes at school, whether it’s smaller classes or modifications to activities. But once kids have routines, Koomson says, the stress and anxiety should fade: “Kids generally forget easily.” n

On the Cusp of a Cure?

Jeff Galvin believes his Rockville cell and gene technology company has found a breakthrough treatment for people living with HIV

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WHEN JEFF GALVIN was 13 years old, he came across a lone computer in the basement of Muzzey Junior High School in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was actually a teletype machine attached to a minicomputer. This was, after all, the 1970s. He doesn’t remember why it was there, but he got permission to use it and taught himself how to program. “My first love affair,” Galvin recalls. “My head exploded with the possibility that you had this thing that never got tired. You just fed it electricity.”

At 15, he was taking classes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in nearby Cambridge and teaching computer science to high school and college students on weekends. This may be starting to sound like Good Will Hunting, the 1997 film in which actor Matt Damon plays an MIT janitor who secretly solves complex equations on a classroom blackboard, but there’s a difference. “He was a math genius,” Galvin says. “I was a highly passionate, excited kid who had just seen the most amazing toy in history.”

In his 20s, Galvin was an early recruit

to Silicon Valley in those heady nascent days of the 1980s when it was fast becoming the high-tech Xanadu. His time in California included six years at Apple, but it was a visit to the National Institutes of Health in 2007 that took his career in a much different direction.

Now 61, he’s the founder and CEO of a Rockville cell and gene technology company, and he believes his company stands on the cusp of a medical breakthrough. Galvin’s team of molecular biologists at American Gene Technologies (AGT) thinks it has developed a gene

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therapy procedure that can cure HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1.1 million people are currently living with HIV in this country; the World Health Organization estimates that 75 million people across the globe have been infected with the virus since the AIDS epidemic began in 1981. About 32 million have died.

Galvin says he made HIV his target because a cure for the virus has remained elusive. People with HIV must take a daily regimen of medications that con-

trol infections and suppress the virus, but don’t eliminate it. Over time, these drugs can cause everything from nausea and fatigue to more serious conditions affecting the kidneys, heart and central nervous system, according to NIH.

He believes the gene therapy procedure AGT has developed, in which genes are transferred to modify cells or tissue through the use of viral vectors, could actually be a platform to cure any number of diseases.

“What can’t we cure with this?” Galvin says during a call to the head of a financial securities firm one afternoon in February. He’s seated at a large oval table in the AGT conference room with the phone on speaker.

Galvin spends much of his time wooing potential investors. What he brings to the task is his salesman’s personality: a bit over the top, a healthy dollop of bravado, and an inclination to push the envelope. And his company’s HIV treatment is getting a serious look—the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is determining whether the procedure is safe enough for human testing.

Galvin says the gene and cell therapy industry has been “exploding” in recent years, causing a slowdown in the regulatory process for those kinds of treatments. But AGT is hopeful that the FDA will approve the human clinical trials by this fall. “I can’t imagine we can’t cure almost everything in the world,” he says on the call. “We’re going to send chemotherapy and radiation the way of bloodletting and leeches.”

GALVIN IS A BALL of energy and nonstop talker. Politics. Facebook’s troubled relationship with privacy. He’ll opine as long as someone will listen and he doesn’t have a pressing appointment. He is 6 feet tall, has a genial smile and an eagerness to engage. And he burns with the passion of the committed.

“We’re down here in Rockville, Maryland. Lots of good opportunities down here,” he says during the pitch, which goes on for more than an hour. “Right

now [we have] the beginnings of what is turning into a revolution in pharmaceuticals...we’re talking about the creation of probably another $3 to $5 trillion industry over the next 10 to 15 years. I think this is bigger than the dot-com boom. I think it doesn’t have quite the same bubble. This isn’t the kind of thing that will all go off the cliff simultaneously like dotcom because there’s real science behind it. And if it works out, it can be monetized.”

Galvin is a cheerleader for Montgomery County’s growth as a hub for health technology. AGT is just off Interstate 270 at Exit 6B in the life sciences corridor, where it percolates among a cluster of tech, biotech and pharmaceutical companies, as well as educational centers. Branches of the University of Maryland and Montgomery College help incubate new startups. That’s the atmosphere that got AGT off the ground in 2008.

In addition to HIV, AGT is developing therapies for several types of cancerous tumors that affect the breasts, lungs and prostate. The company hopes that its work on a treatment for liver cancer will be approved for human clinical trials in 2022. The lab is also working on a gene therapy for phenylketonuria, known as PKU, a rare inherited metabolic disorder.

“There’s this great economic engine which is evolving that will make Maryland the next Silicon Valley,” Galvin tells the head of the financial securities firm. “I call it DNA Valley.”

Galvin, it should be noted, is not a scientist. He’s an economist by training, a 1981 graduate of Harvard University. He’s a computer prodigy by pedigree— his mother was one of the rare female computer software experts in the 1960s, and his father is an MIT-trained electrical engineer who did national security work.

Galvin has this thing about “disruptive technologies,” he says, systems that upend the old way of doing something and change the culture in a significant way. Like how Apple co-founder Steve Jobs simplified and popularized the computer mouse. Or how GPS changed the way we get from here to there. That’s how he sees

Galvin’s office at American Gene Technologies in Rockville is in the life sciences corridor, part of an area he calls “DNA Valley.”

AGT and gene therapy. “I’ve been through a lot of technologies: computers, software, the internet, apps, IT,” Galvin says. “So I understand how these technologies grow. Gene and cell therapies are bigger than any of those, and it’s much more emotional because it’s your health.”

He has a fluency in arcane subjects that aren’t connected to his own skills. This is Galvin’s explanation for how HIV infects a cell through a protein known as CCR5, located on the surface of white blood cells, and why AGT believes it has developed a defense: “One element of our cell product is the removal of CCR5 from the surface of CD4+ T cells. However...we have also added siRNAs against conserved regions of the vif and tat HIV genes for additional protection against R5 viruses as well as extending protection to CXCR4 versions of HIV.”

Here’s how he puts it in plain English: “We have removed the...‘door handle’ (CCR5) that HIV uses to get into cells. Most forms of HIV use that common surface protein in cells to infect the cell, but some forms do not need that handle. AGT has added specially designed genes to our HIV treatment that are capable of producing substances inside the cell that protect against several known ‘mutations’ of HIV that do not require that handle. AGT is the first company to provide this type of broad protection to the various known versions of HIV.”

HIV IS AN INSIDIOUS virus that infects a patient’s T cells, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight off

infection. In Montgomery County, 3,489 people were infected with HIV between 2009 and 2018, with 123 new cases in 2018, according to the Maryland Department of Health. AGT’s gene therapy approach modifies the HIV-specific T cells so they can resist infections and do their job of protecting the body from pathogens that cause disease.

AGT does this by using viral vectors; the viruses are “cracked open” to remove the bad genes and replaced with newly modified genes that will improve the cell. “Instead of a virus with the intention of infecting you and going to the next person, it’s been tamed to do only one part of that process,” says C. David Pauza, a molecular biologist and longtime researcher in gene cloning and HIV who serves as AGT’s chief science officer. “We put things in it we want it to deliver and it makes one infection and stops— and doesn’t go any farther.” According to Galvin, once HIV T cells are able to carry out their protective work as intended, HIV patients would eventually become permanently immune to the virus and hopefully have no need to continue taking antiretroviral drugs.

AGT’s concept is not new, according to Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “What has improved are the vectors,” he says. “It’s reasonable to continue to watch this.” What’s unknown, Dieffenbach says, is the human reaction. Once the therapy is tried on people, “what you don’t know is how this will actually behave.”

To Galvin, no risk, no reward. When he made public late last year that AGT was developing a cure for HIV, he was criticized by some in the HIV/AIDS community for peddling false hope.

Tami Howie, an attorney who represents tech and biotech companies, first met Galvin in 2017, when she was CEO of the Maryland Technology Council. “He is one of the rare people who epitomizes the convergence in tech and biotech,” she says. “He’s totally cutting edge.”

But messing around with the human genome can be fraught with risk. “We know there are viruses out there that get into your body and activate genes that do all kinds of good things and bad things,” Pauza says. “[One] good thing is a very old virus that’s in most of us that controls the efficiency of pregnancy in women. But then you can get other viruses that go in and they stimulate things to be made inappropriately and trigger horrible results.”

To Galvin, no risk, no reward. When he made public late last year that AGT was developing a cure for HIV, he was criticized by some in the HIV/AIDS community for peddling false hope. But Galvin has no regrets and is sympathetic to their concerns. “It’s reasonable to experience a gut reaction to the word ‘cure’ when humanity has been struggling against HIV for decades,” he says. “I don’t fault anyone for working to protect their community. We are always clear that we will only know for sure once we prove it in a human trial,” he says. He calls AGT’s work the “future of medicine.”

“It’s going to be typical that many of the diseases that strike you are going to be cured by gene and cell therapy,” he tells the prospective investor. “And we plan to lead that revolution because…we’re going to prove we’re the most efficient competitor in it by curing HIV this year.”

If he’s right, that would be seismic.

“Enormous,” Pauza says.

THE OLDEST OF THREE

children, Galvin didn’t get a lot of attention when he was young so he “tended to get into a lot of trouble,” he says. “I figured out how things worked early, so it was hard to lock me in the house.”

As a child, he’d come home with a bloody hand, having found a razor blade, or wander into a snowstorm looking for

twigs for the fireplace. His father, Aaron, says Galvin was “a handful” because his mind was so active. “We were on a firstname basis with all the emergency wards,” he says with a chuckle.

Galvin showed his entrepreneurial spirit early on, his father says. When he was 6 and the family’s house in Lexington was under construction, the boy collected dirt from the excavation site and sifted it through a window screen and into plastic bags. Then he pulled his little red wagon up and down the street, selling topsoil for 50 cents a bag.

Harvard didn’t offer a degree in computer science when he went there, so Galvin majored in economics and took all the computer classes he could. After graduation, he left for California to take a job with HewlettPackard, but he didn’t like the corporate culture and went to work for Apple. “Apple was more like me,” Galvin says. “It was in love with what computers could do.”

He stayed on the West Coast for parts of the next three decades. “Silicon Valley was on fire when I was there,” says Galvin, whose sister, Laurie, and brother, Mark, also pursued careers in the tech world. He describes the atmosphere there as a group of people with the “right ideas and…pushing things at light speed. There was such a clarity of vision and purpose. ...There was no limit on what we could do there.”

a curb, he awoke and was able to right the car. But it was a chilling experience.

“How lucky can you get?” Galvin says.

It was a fast life, though. As a marketing manager and later director of international marketing for Claris, an Apple spinoff, Galvin was always on the move: Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, New Zealand. While in Paris on a trip to show clients how to service Apple hardware, he fell asleep at the wheel while driving through a tunnel at 70 mph after having been up for three days. When he brushed

In 2001, after nearly two decades of 16-hour workdays, he decided he was done. At 42, he’d made investments in startups, real estate, software and internet companies. “I looked at my bank account and realized I didn’t have to work anymore,” Galvin says.

He bought a house on Maui and traveled between there and his home in San Carlos in Silicon Valley. He started dating, thinking he should settle down before he got too old. He and his wife, Cherry, married in 2004.

The couple enjoyed a carefree life in the tropics. But after five years, Galvin

was “bored out of my mind,” so they moved back to California. He decided to tiptoe back into the game by looking for a project where he could become an angel investor, someone who puts money behind a startup often in exchange for ownership equity. The word got out, and Galvin received a proposal from a postdoctoral researcher at a lab at NIH headed by Dr. Roscoe Brady, a renowned biochemist and pioneer in the treatment of enzyme deficiencies. Galvin visited the lab in 2007 and met Brady, who explained the science behind viral vectors. It was Galvin’s “eureka moment.”

“When I learned that there was a mechanism to update the DNA in a human cell, my head practically

In the labs at AGT, which are spread out over 11,500 square feet, microbiologists and other scientists work with T cells, viral vectors and other microscopic particles.

exploded,” Galvin says. He reasoned that if you look at a cell as the human body’s computer, and the DNA contained in the cell as the operating system, you could employ viral vectors to convert viruses into “updates” for the human computer and thereby correct defects.

“DNA is the instruction set for the cell,” Galvin says. “Your genes are just instructions to make enzymes and proteins that then react in the cell. Basically, your cell is an organic computer. You change the software, you change the cell.”

Brady was retiring and NIH was closing his lab. Galvin says NIH gave him the intellectual property, free of charge, on the condition that he continue the research. “I felt like he was close to making major breakthroughs,” Galvin says. So he hired two of Brady’s research assistants and signed Brady on as a scientific adviser. at’s how AGT was born.

In the early days, Galvin continued to live on the West Coast and funded the work out of his own pocket. His mother, Frayda, was suffering from Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She died in 2009 after battling the disease for 15 months. Knowing what she went through bolstered Galvin’s conviction that AGT’s work could help people. In 2010, he realized he needed to be in Rockville full time. Over the next few years, he received $1 million in grants from NIH, which was interested in innovative approaches to gene and cell therapies. Galvin says obtaining funding that way was easier than trying to lure investors, and he kicked in an additional $2 million.

AGT began as a small but determined undertaking. An early supporter was Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist who now heads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and became visible during the White House coronavi-

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rus briefings in the spring. He served as an adviser to AGT beginning in 2011 and subsequently chaired the company’s clinical advisory board for its HIV gene therapy program until 2018. By that time, AGT had been granted patents for its HIV therapy and had enlisted NIH as a research partner in its search for a cure.

“Fast forward to today,” Galvin says, “we have curative therapies for HIV.”

GALVIN’S DAY USUALLY BEGINS

“in my sweats,” he says, in the kitchen of his Rockville condo where he has a threescreen computer. He calls it “command central.” He can work uninterrupted for about three hours, and he’s usually at AGT by noon. He presides over a threestory warren of offices where employees handle regulatory affairs, marketing, finance and other administrative business. It’s in the labs, spread over 11,500

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Talking up AGT requires Galvin to travel a lot. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he was often on trains to Manhattan for meetings and dinners with prospective investors, and flying around the country for conferences and other events. But the world has new rules these days. Video conference calls and Zoom meetings have become the new way of doing business.

To relax, Galvin plays Xbox or watches e Simpsons. He enjoys how the show’s writers parody American culture.

“I can tell these people feel the same way about the world as I do,” he says. He also reads or catches up on the news. On his nightstand in February was Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, a New York Times bestseller.

His wife, Cherry, prefers warm weather, so she spends her winters at the couple’s home in Silicon Valley. ey got married “late in life,” Galvin says, and don’t have children. Cherry’s sister, a single mother, lived with the couple and in 2004 sent for her daughter, who was 6 years old and staying with her grandmother in Wuhan, China. Now 21, Galvin’s niece, Jesse, recently graduated from the University of Washington, where she majored in molecular and cellular biology. Interning at AGT during her high

school summers might have had something to do with that. “I love my niece like a daughter,” Galvin says.

Galvin says he’s having the most fun he’s ever had. Still, securing funding for new therapies and medicines can be a struggle if you’re not a pharmaceutical giant. Investors generally want a quick return, and human trials for a new drug or therapy can be costly.

“To be a successful entrepreneur and forging new territory, you get a lot of arrows in the back. A lot of people say ‘no way,’ ” says Drew Palin, a physician and chief innovation officer of Intellivisit, a Madison, Wisconsin, online medical diagnosis company. He’s also one of Galvin’s investors. “He has had to raise lots of nickels and dimes that allowed him to be a little more patient and persistent. …To do that, you have to have a lot [of] drive, a lot of personal passion and a way to survive.”

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AGT’s upside to venture capitalists, bluechip finance houses like JPMorgan Chase, big financial institutions like Citibank, and angel investors like Palin, he’s championing the promise of genetic engineering.

“I’m basically an evangelical person that is spending his entire day either connecting people with our mission and trying to engage them [in] some way to support it or propel it, or inspiring people to achieve greatness within the mission,” Galvin says.

Should AGT’s experimental HIV treatment work and eventually be approved for commercial sales, Galvin says it would likely be licensed to a large pharmaceutical company with global reach to ensure the product’s wide availability.

Galvin doesn’t have any idea how much the treatment could cost, but predicted it would be less expensive than what insurance companies now pay to cover the costs of daily antiretroviral treatments, medicine for the side effects and appointments with doctors. “He’s not chasing the dollar. He’s chasing every life he can save,” Tami Howie says. “He figures every minute he’s not working, people are dying.”

Galvin’s fundraising has pushed investments to $40 million, and his staff has grown to 30. His commitment to AGT, however, put a strain on both his marriage and retirement nest egg. “Both have survived and recovered,” he says, but it took “sustained engagement with high risk and giant potential downfall for me.”

Now he weighs the possibility that it all could pay off. “If we get a handful of cured HIV patients...I think the [National] Mall is going to look like the days of the AIDS quilt because these people have been suffering for so long,” Galvin says, “…and I think the emotional response is going to be quite profound.” ■

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standards and who continually further their education in orthodontics and health and safety.

Dr. Groisser is a strong believer in lifelong learning. Currently, there's explosive research and developments in orthodontics, especially in information technology. Digital scanning of the mouth and teeth, instead of traditional impressions, has yielded great accuracy as well as comfort in treatment along with digital x-rays and photography.

Dr. Groisser has been practicing in Montgomery County since 2003 and Washington County, Maryland since 2007. He enjoys spending time with his wife of 24 years and three daughters, along with playing tennis, golf, bowling and being a “Soccer-Dad and Theatre-Dad.” Initial consultations are complimentary and virtual appointments are readily available.

DC Pediatric Smiles

DEREK BLANK, DDS

Awards & Honors

“Best Pediatric Dentist,” Bethesda Magazine Best of Bethesda Readers’ Poll, 2019

DC Pediatric Smiles

5640 Shields Drive Bethesda, MD 20817

301-363-9026

Smile@DCPediatricSmiles.com www.DCPediatricSmiles.com

Welcome to DC Pediatric Smiles! Here, your child's dental visit is as fun as a trip to the beach. Our motto is simple: “Laugh. Grow. Smile.” Our families love the positive, encouraging experience we provide to kids of all ages. From your child’s first experience, you will notice our practice is unique. The all-star team at DC Pediatric Smiles is committed to providing children with a comfortable and approachable introduction to dentistry.

Step into our office and you will be immersed in the bright, clean, beach house vibe of coastal California. We are committed to creating the safest environment possible for your child's dental visit. As a bonus, we offer online, mobilefriendly forms, automated payment and reminders, curbside check-in, and let’s hear it for ample free surface parking! For busy parents, we understand convenience is key.

As a father of three young kids, Dr. Blank understands the importance of connecting with all patients to ensure their first impression of the dentist is positive.

In particular, patients with autism and children with unique medical conditions find a comforting home at DC Pediatric Smiles. As a board-certified pediatric dentist, Dr. Blank relies strongly on evidence-based training to care for patients. Parents play a key role in the practice’s team-approach to treatment. Ultimately, we all share the common goal of creating a lifetime of happy, healthy smiles!

from left:

sarah ford, pediatric dental hygienist

sydney coles, pediatric dental hygienist

meredith sellers, office manager

dr derek blank, pediatric dentist

elsy estrada, pediatric dental assistant

aned mollinedo, clinical manager

shae coleman, patient experience coordinator

not pictured:

allison ledesma, clinical outreach coordinator

(catching waves at surf camp during photo)

John J. Higgins

JOHN J. HIGGINS, DDS

"I have a particular interest in the restorative benefits of implant dentistry."

General and Cosmetic Dentistry

5648 Shields Drive Bethesda, MD 20814

301-530-8008

john_j_higgins_dds@yahoo.com www.johnjhigginsdds.com

Q: What brings you the most satisfaction in your work?

A: My staff and I have created a culture that allows us to treat patients in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere, while providing comprehensive care. Our day can best be described as one in which we greet old friends and establish new relationships

Q: What is the biggest challenge in your practice?

A: I enjoy treating patients and improving their health. This becomes a challenge because there is a link between oral health and general medical health. In many cases, patients will see us before they seek medical care. Bacteria in the mouth has been linked to diabetes, heart disease and low birth weight in pregnant women. As patients age, it is most important to maintain their oral health.

Q: What is the most significant change in dentistry during your career?

A: The most significant advance in dentistry that I have found is the ability to expose film digitally. This means reduction of radiation to the patient and I can use software to magnify and enhance the digital image. To keep ahead of the changes in my profession, I participate in three independent study groups. I have a particular interest in the restorative benefits of implant dentistry.

Jason A. Cohen

JASON A. COHEN, DDS

5530 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 560, Chevy Chase, MD 301-656-1201 | DrCohen@CosmeticDDS.com www.CosmeticDDS.com

Q: What brings you the most satisfaction in your work?

A: Our philosophy has always been to Treat Your Family Like Family— and that's not an empty promise! We want to provide the best dental treatment with all the care, skill and judgment we would want for our own families. We do this from start to finish—on the phone, in our office, throughout your treatment—we live our mantra every day. It’s very satisfying that our philosophy is such a win-win for everyone, our team and our patients. We see it in people’s smiles, in their wonderful feedback and when they bring their children and friends to us.

Q: What makes you different than others in your profession?

A: Besides our commitment to Treating Your Family Like Family, our team offers a calming, caring and gentle atmosphere that allows you to relax and enjoy your experience, as we preserve, protect and enhance your dental health.

Roya Pilcher

ROYA PILCHER, DDS

4910 Massachusetts Ave. Washington, DC 20016 202-237-2833 DoctorRoya@gmail.com www.DCKidsDental.com

Q: My kids are so nervous and scared around dentists – can you help?

A: Definitely. As a pediatric dentist, I've developed an approach that really works for families. It's called SAFE—Sequential Approach to Familarize and Engage. What it means is moving slowly with a child, at their own pace, so they're completely comfortable. Sometimes a first visit is coming in and only saying hi, or just sitting in the chair. I want kids to feel in control when they're in the office with me, so I'll give them choices: Which sticker do you want? What flavor toothpaste? This can help with toddlers as well as older kids. Parents are always involved and learning alongside their child, too, so a dental visit becomes a family effort.

PROFILES

Bethesda Spine & Posture

DANIEL KRAUS, D.C., CLINIC DIRECTOR

"We really want posture improvements to last and be life-changing for those we serve."

Bethesda Spine & Posture

4733 Elm St., 3rd Floor Bethesda, MD 20814

301-656-2435

BethesdaSpineandPosture@gmail.com www.BethesdaSpineandPosture.com

When your posture is off, so are many other aspects of your overall health and wellness," says Dr. Dan. "Chronic pain, headaches, loss of mobility… the list of problems can go on and on."

An Advanced Certified Fellow in Chiropractic Biophysics, Dr. Dan is an expert in posture correction and pain management. His practice uses tools like chiropractic biophysics adjustments, mirror image exercises, Active Isolated Stretches, physical therapies, deep tissue laser and many forms of traction—all of which can improve mobility, decrease pain and restore proper function.

Highly sophisticated posture improvement programs are tailored specifically for every member of the family. Located in the heart of Bethesda just off Woodmont Avenue, treatments target the underlying causes of asymmetrical postures, repetitive stresses and pain syndromes. Patients may have suffered a trauma, auto accident or a fall. Others might spend lots of time hunched over a screen or in a physically stressful environment. "Our best patients are looking to make long-lasting posture improvements for overall health and wellness," Dr. Dan says. "I work with people looking for pain management, but I also want my patients to truly understand the relationship between proper posture and proper function."

"We will always start with the least invasive treatments first and then graduate to more invasive therapies, if needed. We really want posture improvements to last and be life-changing for those we serve. Showing our patients, firsthand, how to maintain posture improvements is a big part of what we do."

Dr. Dan grew up in Silver Spring and is a graduate of the University of Maryland. He is Board certified in Maryland, and by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. He offers free consultations.

Anthony Iannarino

PT, DPT, CSCS, SITE DIRECTOR - BETHESDA

Rehab 2 Perform

6710A Rockledge Drive, Suite 120A Bethesda, MD 20817

301-798-4838 | www.Rehab2Perform.com DrIannarino@Rehab2Perform.com

Growing up as an athlete, Dr. Iannarino was always interested in how to reach optimal performance. As clinic director for Rehab 2 Perform in Bethesda, this passion has transitioned from the field to physical therapy. Anthony and his team find individualized solutions to help athletes and adults of all ages feel and perform their best. "We want to help everyone reach peak performance in whatever they're passionate about, whether going for an Olympic medal or picking up their grandchild."

Rehab 2 Perform looks more like a high-end gym than a physical therapy office, offering one-onone care tailored to specific goals and needs, from balance training to surgery recovery to athletic enhancement. Inc Magazine's “Best Workplaces for 2020” and “Fastest Growing Companies in D.C. Region.”

James Gilbert, MD

METRO ORTHO SPORTS THERAPY

7811 Montrose Road, Suite 340, Potomac, MD 20854 301-588-7888 | www.MostSportsMedicine.com

“Pain and injury should never stop you from living your best life,” says Dr. James Gilbert. “You don’t have to be an athlete to remain active.”

A board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, Dr. Gilbert performs orthopedic surgeries and regenerative medicine treatments. An expert in treating ACL injuries, meniscal tears, rotator cuff tears, elbow, foot and ankle injuries, and neck and back pain, he specializes in ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff repair, shoulder and knee arthroplasty, and cartilage and meniscal surgeries. Avoiding surgery is a major goal as he teaches patients about the link between a healthy lifestyle and avoiding injury.

Dr. Gilbert grew up in Montgomery County and attended Landon School, Amherst College, Princeton University and Georgetown School of Medicine. Dr. Gilbert completed his orthopedic residency at Duke University. He’s been head team physician for the DC United, Washington Freedom and Spirit soccer teams, and assistant physician and consultant for Duke Sports Medicine, the Dallas Cowboys, Professional Bull Riders and Special Olympics.

COURTESY

Potomac Audiology

GAIL LINN, AUD, CCC-A TRICIA TERLEP, AUD

“People are often in denial about hearing loss, and we like educating them, and helping them discover what it's like to hear again.”

Awards & Honors

“Best Audiologist,” Best of Bethesda Readers Poll, Bethesda Magazine, 2013, 2014 and 2016

Potomac Audiology

11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 105 Rockville, MD 20852

240-477-1010

www.PotomacAudiology.com

A highly respected leader in audiology, Dr. Gail Linn not only built a renowned clinic, but is also a speaker, former Director of Private Practice and Industry at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, and Treasurer of the Maryland Academy of Audiology.

A third-generation Washingtonian whose grandfather was second leader of the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Dr. Linn grew up in Beltsville and went to High Point High School. She leads four other top audiologists in her busy practice in Rockville and recently added office space for one of the most highly qualified and experienced teams in audiology. Carrying the latest in hearing aid and other device technology, Potomac Audiology can help with all aspects of hearing problems in patients of all ages.

One of the reasons they work so well with families is because they are one. Dr. Linn and Dr. Tricia Terlep are mother and daughter, and Dr. Terlep’s husband, Vince, is Director of Operations.

“People are often in denial about hearing loss, and we like educating them, and helping them discover what it's like to hear again,” says Dr. Linn. “We’re not just selling hearing aids—we’re helping people hear again and that's amazing. It can have a huge impact on someone’s quality of life and we see that every day.”

The practice offers thorough hearing evaluations, state-of-the-art hearing systems and unhurried, personalized care. Specialty care includes custom-made hearing protection for hunters, people who work in noisy environments, and in-the-ear monitors for musicians. Custom-made swim molds help children and adults prevent ear infections by keeping water from entering the ear canal.

“We can help anyone with hearing issues with the technology and tools we have available today,” said Dr. Linn.

LEFT TO RIGHT:

THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY

Wed, Jan 13, 2021

MAKING THE MUSIC ANAIS MITCHELL, DUNCAN SHEIK & SHAINA TAUB

Fri, Feb 19, 2021

PHILADANCO!

THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY

Thu, April 8, 2021

THAT GOLDEN GIRLS SHOW! A PUPPET PARODY

Thu, April 22, 2021

UKULELE ORCHESTRA

OF

GREAT BRITAIN

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS CHARLIE PARKER CENTENNIAL

Sat, May 1, 2021

JEFF GOLDBLUM & THE MILDRED SNITZER ORCHESTRA

Thu, May 13, 2021

Fri, April 23, 2021

OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS RHIANNON GIDDENS, AMYTHYST KIAH, LEYLA MCCALLA & ALLISON RUSSELL

Mon, March 15, 2021

AN EVENING WITH KRONOS QUARTET A THOUSAND THOUGHTS

Sun, April 25, 2021

L–R: Wynton Marsalis by Piper Ferguson, Philadanco! by Julieanne Harris, Kronos Quartet by Reed Hutchinson, Our Native Daughters by David McClister, Anais Mitchell by Andy Willsher, Jeff Goldblum by Pari Dukovic

etc.

Potomac couple Kristi Sherman and Aregay Wondwossen were married in a July 2019 ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Maryland. For more, turn the page.

BY LEIGH

WEDDINGS

Waterside

Wedding

At a resort in Cambridge, Maryland, a Potomac couple’s celebration included a sand ceremony and a packed dance floor

THE COUPLE: Kristi Sherman, 35, grew up in Potomac and is a graduate of Thomas S. Wootton High School. She is a regional vice president at Greenbelt-based real estate company Bozzuto. Aregay Wondwossen, 41, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and moved to Northern Virginia with his family when he was 9 years old. He is a project manager for construction at AvalonBay Communities, a real estate company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The couple lives in Potomac.

HOW THEY MET: The day Kristi moved into an apartment in Crystal City, Virginia, in 2013, Aregay was working the front desk. He was the building’s maintenance manager, and Kristi was starting a new job with the same real estate company, Bozzuto, as a property manager at a building nearby. “We ended up making a friendship through living in the same building and working for the same company,” Kristi says. But when Kristi

transitioned to another role and moved back to Maryland less than a year later, the pair lost touch. About four years later, their paths crossed when they found themselves working down the street from each other in Merrifield, Virginia. “There was a Dunkin’ Donuts in my building so he’d come get coffee and we’d chitchat and catch up,” Kristi says. “That grew to him courting me, if you will, and asking me on a date.”

THE

FIRST DATE: Aregay and Kristi met for lunch at Four Sisters, a Vietnamese restaurant in Falls Church. “I’ve always had a crush on her,” Aregay says. “It’s just that I didn’t have the opportunity to go full steam ahead and pursue her.” The date went well, and they continued to meet for lunch during the workweek, which quickly led to dinner dates. “After the first few dinner dates we were pretty much a couple,” Aregay says. A year into dating, Aregay introduced Kristi to his

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daughters, Yanet, now 13, and Hazel, 7. “I remember them just taking me by the hand,” Kristi says. “It was very sweet and made me feel very welcome.”

THE PROPOSAL: Aregay planned a weeklong vacation to Antigua in the spring of 2018. “He was getting me pumped up about it,” Kristi says. “He told me it would be the best vacation of my life and I would understand later.” One evening at their resort, Aregay took Kristi on a sunset walk on the beach. “I pretended that I found something in the sand,” Aregay says. He got down on one knee and showed her the ring, which he’d put in a shell case he’d found on Etsy. After Kristi said yes, they had dinner and champagne on the shoreline at a table set up by the resort staff. During the meal, the newly engaged couple called friends and family to tell them the news. “It was hard to get the words out with all the tears,” Kristi says.

THE WEDDING: Kristi and Aregay married on July 5, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Maryland. They had 133 guests. At their rehearsal dinner at the resort on July 4, the couple and their guests watched the town’s fireworks.

THE CEREMONY: The bride and groom wanted to include Aregay’s daughters in their special day and decided on a sand ceremony, in which each participant pours

a different color of sand into a vase to represent the growing family. The girls were also in the wedding party—Yanet was a junior bridesmaid and Hazel was the flower girl. Aregay’s mother passed away in February 2018, so the couple honored her by placing flowers and a plaque in her memory on a seat in the front row.

THE RECEPTION: Aregay and Kristi made their entrance to the reception in traditional Ethiopian wedding garb. “There was a his-and-hers cape that my dad brought from Ethiopia,” Aregay says. They had a nine-piece band, The Bachelor Boys, that played everything from funk to Motown. “They were a hit,” Kristi says. “The dance floor was packed the whole night.” After the bride and groom’s first dance, Kristi and her father kicked off a triple father-daughter dance, with Aregay and Yanet joining in, and Hazel dancing with Aregay’s father.

THE HONEYMOON: The couple spent six nights in the Maldives, an island nation in South Asia. On the way, they opted for an 18-hour layover in Dubai. They crammed in sightseeing and pool parties, then got a few hours’ sleep before getting on their connecting flight to the Maldives. They stayed on the island of Kedhigandu, where they had an over-water bungalow with a private pool. The newlyweds spent the rest of their trip swimming, snorkeling and relaxing. “After the hustle and bustle of the wedding, it was time to relax,” Kristi says. “And we did.”

VENDORS:

Boutonnieres and arch flowers, Monteray Farms; bridesmaids’ dresses and wedding gown, David’s Bridal; cake, Bay Country Bakery; catering, Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay; hair, Behind the Veil; makeup, Kara Waggoner Beauty; photographer, Manda Weaver; wedding coordinator, Belle of the Ball Events. n

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SUMMER GETAWAY JUST OUTSIDE YOUR BACK DOOR

Photograph by Anice Hoachlander

Private Schools

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Essential Information on Independent Schools

St. Jane de Chantal School

St. Jane de Chantal Catholic School is a Christ-centered educational community committed to meeting the individual needs of students through a flexible and innovative curriculum. Join us for our Open House November 11, 2020 from 9:00-11:30 AM.

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WES students learn how to innovate, create, explore, solve problems, and self-advocate. They have the mindset to ask, “How can I make a positive impact?” and the capacity to find and enact an answer.

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BY CARALEE ADAMS PETS

THE CHARMER

A cat named Beckett has made himself at home at a local senior living community

ONE

DAY IN FEBRUARY, as instructor Katherine Grover begins teaching seated yoga at Sunrise Senior Living of Bethesda, the six residents gathered take deep breaths and gently stretch. Beckett, a tricolor Maine coon, ambles among the chairs, getting a pat or two along the way. Eventually, the cat curls up behind a chair and falls asleep.

“It adds a feeling of home and makes this more casual,” Grover says of the cat, which sometimes plops down on her notes in the center of the room to make his presence known.

Bold yet friendly, Beckett has endeared himself to residents as the “house cat.”

He enjoys sprawling on furniture in the common areas and wandering into programs, sometimes upstaging the speaker. “He charms everybody he meets,” says Mimi Christenson, activities and volunteer coordinator at the Sunrise on Battery Lane. “He enjoys the freedom to do his own thing.”

Beckett, who wears a Boston Red Sox collar and was named after Josh Beckett, a former pitcher with the team, has free rein of the first two floors. He isn’t interested in sharing the space with canine visitors. “We’ve been trying to adopt a dog, but every time one has come close, Beckett has rejected him,” says Vanessa Spevacek, director of sales at the

pet-friendly facility. “This is his house.”

Beckett came to Sunrise in 2018 with a younger resident who stayed in assisted-living care for about a year while she recovered from surgery. The cat had once lived with the woman in New York City, where she walked him on a leash, earning Beckett a reputation of being fearless. When the resident moved out of Sunrise Bethesda, she couldn’t take the cat. Beckett had become such a part of the community that he stayed.

Having pets around brings a sense of purpose and joy to residents, Spevacek says, noting that several Sunrise facilities have a community cat or dog. “Animals really do contribute to the well-being of people at any age,” she says. “They have a very calming effect.”

Beckett, who is about 12 years old, isn’t much of a lap cat, but he’ll snuggle when someone picks him up, and he seems drawn to residents in need of attention, Christenson says. He regularly spends time with 93-year-old Catherine Davis in her second-floor apartment, and typically sleeps in her room. “From the first day we were there, Beckett came

cruising down the stairs and went over to my mother,” says Davis’ daughter, Cathie Kaplan. “I think it’s great. She has always been a very social person, and he brings her comfort. He’s got a real personality.”

Because Beckett wanders in such a large space, people with allergies aren’t bothered by him, says Christenson, who does take daily medication for her cat allergies as Beckett’s primary caretaker. Despite not being a cat person, Christenson enjoys making sure Beckett gets fed and groomed, goes to the vet, and makes the social rounds. “He’s why I come to work every morning,” she says with a smile.

When Paul Wilson’s wife, Barbara, came to Sunrise last fall to receive hospice care, Beckett found his way into her room. The door was kept open, and he stayed nearby for nearly a week until she died. At one point, Barbara, a catlover for years, said she wished Beckett would jump onto her bed. And he did. “I was moved by the fact that the cat was more than casually interested in my wife,” Wilson says. “He knows more than he says.” n

Catherine Davis with Beckett at Sunrise Senior Living

OUTTAKES etc.

When we put out a call to hear from families who got a new pet during the pandemic, dozens of Bethesda-area residents shared photos of the dogs they added to their household (“Ruff Times,” page 106). One submission stood out. Janet Voight of North Bethesda, whose 12-yearold daughter, Victoria Miro, had wanted a pet for a long time, brought home a pair of guinea pigs. Beau, pictured in the foreground, was more outgoing initially, but Gus is now the social one, pushing his nose through the cage as if to say hello. “These chipper guys have lifted our spirits,” Voight wrote. “They make lots of happy noises when they see us. Who knew they’d become so attached? OK, yes, I do realize they associate us 100% with food, but a little self-deception isn’t always the worst thing.” n