SSFS Community News: Spring 2012

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Alumni News

Christopher Buckstein and family welcome daughter Lacy.

Alina Zhukovskaya '97, Nutrition Designer and a Raw Vegan Food Chef

Kimberly Knudson '02 married Patrick Wetheville July 2010.

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science (or environmental science) so if anyone has a lead please let me know. If anyone's visiting Chicago feel free to contact me!”

Spring, MD. Jon’s graphite renderings embrace the narrative potential of portraiture, mythological inspirations and still life compositions. All are welcome to see this SSFS father-and-son’s beautiful work. Find Jon online at www. jonmort.com.

Christopher Buckstein, his wife Marie, and daughter Ella welcomed Lacey Alison to the family on October 2011.

1997 Alina Zhukovskaya is a Nutrition Designer and a Raw Vegan Food Chef. She teaches her clients how healthy foods can be the most fashionable and exciting accessories that are always in style. She helps her clients supplement their diets with juice detox programs in addition to personal chef services and cooking classes. She is a AADP certified Holistic Health coach and also holds a Certification from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, a Certification from Sprout Raw Food, a Bachelor's Degree in Design Marketing from Parsons School of Design and a Master's Degree in Public Communication from American University. Her website is LetYourselfBlossom.com.

1998 Amelie Davis finishing up the first year of a two-year post doctorate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is investigating the provision of ecosystem services in the City of Chicago and ways to modify urban landscapes so that they are more environmentally sustainable. She writes, “I am also searching for a tenure track assistant professor job in sustainability 30

2000 Eric Porter and his wife Michelle welcomed their daughter Caryo Elizabeth into the world on September 7, 2011, at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD.

2001 Oxon Hill High School History teacher Nathan Harrington invited SSFS Upper School teacher Eduardo Polón into his classroom to address his freshman classes on the topic of The Place of Sports in American Culture: Ethics in Athletics.

2002 Awaiting a beach wedding in Rehoboth, DE, with her fiancé Scott Bush from Ottawa, Canada, Lina Khouri currently works in Communications and Membership for a non-profit association in NJ. Congratulations to Kimberly Knudson who married Patrick Wetheville in July 2010. Jon Mort will be exhibiting “History and Other Dreams” with his dad, artist Greg Mort, until Friday, April 6 at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Silver

2003 While always a Marylander at heart, Gavin Maguire has finished his Military Police Captains’ Career Course and has settled in Ft. Hood, TX. As this was his 12th move in 4 years, Gavin is happy to be assigned to Ft. Hood for about 3 years. Congratulations to Emma Spitzer on her engagement to Andrew Klein, whom she met at Columbia University while they were earning their Master’s Degrees in Occupational Therapy. A July wedding is planned in Northampton, MA.

2006 Ellie Merritt is in the MBA program at Wesley College in Dover, DE. She is the assistant women’s lacrosse coach.

2007 Meghan Hiscock graduated from Kalamazoo College in June 2007. She had a summer internship with the Smithsonian Annual Folk Life Festival. Her mother, Linda Hiscock, reports SSFS Community News


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