Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Cox Family


Pictured are four generations of the Cox family. Gerald and Dolores moved to The Stayton in Ft. Worth in 2011. Their 36 years with Exxon Mobil included seventeen years in Libya and Malaysia. They missed spending time with their grandchildren and are making that up with their great grandchildren: Claire, Emma Kate and Jude Graham, Weston and Tyler Cox, and Drew McLaren.

Son Gerald Jr, a TCU graduate, has practiced dentistry in Ft. Worth for 36 years. Grandson Jason and his wife Kyla are also Ft Worth residents. Jason and younger brother Joel are with BNSF Railway.  Granddaughter Jennifer Graham lives in Waco with her husband Robert, a staff member at Baylor University. 

Daughter Jan is a graduate of Northwestern where she met and married an Australian, Keith McLaren. They live in Melbourne where Keith is a professor at Monash University. Grandson Ross McLaren, an employee of Hunt Oil Co, lives in Dallas with his wife Lisa, of D Magazine.  Grandson Matthew McLaren (not pictured) is with IBM in Melbourne.


Monday, August 13, 2012

Donatella Trotti

Donatella Trotti was born and raised in Varese in northern Italy, where her mother, father and sister still live.  Following her passion for cooking she opened Nonna Tata in 2006, a tiny trattoria in the Southside, specializing in handmade pastas and a cuisine that combines the earthiness of her grandmother's Genoa with the creaminess of the Alps, all dishes based on family recipes.  In 2010 she was the winner of The Top chef competition in Fort Worth.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The Eichenholz Family


Dr. and Mrs. Phil Eichenholz are pictured here with their children Billy, Jeffrey, and Kelly.  Phil is the co-founder and CEO of NorthStar Anesthesia, an anesthesia management company based in Arlington, Texas.  NorthStar provides management services at hospitals in 6 states.

Phil earned his undergraduate and medical degree from Duke University.  He completed an Anesthesia residency at University of California, San Francisco and an Internal Medicine residency at UT Southwestern.  He also completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. 

Cindy graduated with a degree in Economics from Boston College.  She was previously a mortgage banker.  She serves on the SMU Catholic Campus Ministry Board and is actively involved in raising their children.

Phil and Cindy have been married 22 years, have a son Billy (21) who is a senior at University of Pennsylvania, a son Jeffrey (19) who is a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, and a daughter Kelly (16) who will be a junior at Episcopal School of Dallas.  Phil and Cindy enjoy traveling and spending time with their family and friends.

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Davis Family

Featured here are Mark and Lisa Davis, with their 9-year-old son Ethan and daughter Regina, soon to turn 21.  An 18-year fixture in local talk radio, Mark has just begun a new show as morning host weekdays 7-10 AM on KSKY, now known as 660 AM The Answer. He is heard nationally on Friday mornings as guest host on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America." He writes a weekly op-ed column Wednesdays for the Dallas Morning News and appears regularly on KDFW Fox 4 and WFAA, Channel 8.  Lisa manages their home and cares for Ethan, who will start fourth grade in the fall.  She is also planning to start a small business. They met at Texas Motor Speedway and are preparing to celebrate their tenth anniversary in September

The Cardarelli Family


Drs. Roberto and Katie Cardarelli are featured here with their two sons, Cristiano (6) and Luciano (2).  Roberto is a family medicine physician practicing at Lone Star Medical Plaza in Parker County and as well as director of the Primary Care Research Center with the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) in Fort Worth.  Born and raised in San Francisco, Roberto attended medical school at UNTHSC and completed his family medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.  Katie received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and is associate professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Community Health at UNTHSC.  The couple met in graduate school and live now in Aledo, where Cristiano attends Stuard Elementary and Luciano aspires to be just like his big brother.