Reflections Magazine Issue #46 - Summer 1997 | Page 19

vices in San Diego, Cal., a dispute resolution business she started in 1996. She finds most satisfying the role of “neutral peacemaker as an alternative to litigation.” John White ‘87 recently opened his own podiatrist office in Cross Lanes, W. Vir., having received a DPM from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine and completed a surgical residency at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Elizabeth Faz Cote ‘87 is a juvenile probation officer in Adrian where she and her husband, Mark, live with their two daughters, Christina (2) and Nicole Elizabeth, born in November. Marcia McNulty Barnhart ’87/AFA lives in Toledo, Ohio. She and her husband, Tim, welcomed their first child, son Sean Patrick, in September 1995. Christina Lawrence ‘87 (Southfield) of St. Clair Shores was crowned “Ms. America Mom” in Orlando, Fla., in 1996, the first winner of a new national pageant sponsored by Child Watch of North America, an organization dedicated to the welfare of children. The pageant highlights women of grace, beauty and talent over the age of 40 demonstrating great devotion to family, children and community, according to an article in the Macomb Daily. As Ms. America Mom, Christina represents Child Watch at parades, speaking engagements and other events. A naturalized U.S. citizen who grew up in poverty in Berlin during the Communist siege, Christina works as an administrative assistant for an automotive supply company in Troy and dances in the annual Lake St. Clair Symphony Orchestra holiday performance of the Nutcracker. She and her husband, George, have two grown sons. Pat