Monday, September 24, 2012

The Knight Family



Sean and Jacque Knight are featured here with their three children, Kolby, Ryan, and Summer.
Sean is President and Owner of Sean Knight Custom Homes, and is a Certified Master Builder, and Remodeler with over 30 years of experience in the building industry.  Sean Knight has long been recognized as a premier builder in Fort Worth and surrounding areas, and has been the recipient of numerous awards for his work.
Jacque, who received a degree in Interior Design from Bauder College, works with Sean at Sean Knight Custom Homes, helping customer’s with their interior selections.
Sean and Jacque both grew up in Fort Worth, and have been married for 21 years.  They have three wonderful children, a son, Kolby (26), who resides in Lubbock, and owns a party bus rental company, a son, Ryan (19), a sophomore, studying Economics at Texas State University, and a daughter, Summer (17), a senior at Aledo High School.

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Rutledge Family


John and Laura Rutledge are the proud parents of four children, Meredith(22), Blake(20), Carley(18) and Grant(15).  John is a principal at Freese & Nichols and Laura is a busy mom and community volunteer.

When Carley was 16, she was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer that usually affects teens and young adults.   After Carley’s 11 months of treatment at Cook Children’s in FW and MD Anderson in Houston, family and friends started a foundation to raise awareness, fund research and improve the quality of care for this neglected cancer population.  There are more than 72,000 young adults diagnosed with cancer each year--and no new drugs or change in cure rates for this age group in over 25 years.

 The Carley J. Rutledge Sarcoma Foundation has held two fundraising “Gold Ribbon Games” kickball tournaments and on Thursday, October 11th, the 2nd Annual Going for Gold Luncheon will be held at Rivercrest Country Club.  Go to goldribboncure.org to learn more.

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Franco Family




Victoria Luperi and Andrés Franco met in Fort Worth 5 years ago. After dating for six weeks they realized they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together and got married (yes, that was quick).
They now live in Mistletoe Heights in a 1919 home with their maltese Beni. Victoria is the principal clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Andrés, its associate conductor. You can see them in action throughout Tarrant County and beyond.
Victoria was born in Argentina and moved to the US as a teenager. She has lived in Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Manitoba (Canada), and of course, Texas! Talk about a diverse upbringing! She attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Andrés was born in Colombia and moved to the US to attend graduate school. He is a horned frog and has lived on and off in Fort Worth for 12 years!
They love living here and will always remember Fort Worth as the city where they fell in love and married.

Friday, September 7, 2012

The Sohmer Family


Drs. Sara and Sy Sohmer are shown here with their daughters, Rebecca (seated) and Rachel, their son-in-law Mauricio Renzi and Rebecca and Mauricio’s son Jacob.  Sy is the President and CEO of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), a major botanical resource that resides in the only LEED Platinum building currently in Tarrant County.   He has a B.S. in Biology from the City College of New York, M.S. from the University of Tennessee (where he met Sara), and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii.  He taught at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, served as a Forest Officer for the Government of Papua New Guinea, and during his time as Assistant Director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu spent many months in the rainforests of the Philippines, Indonesia, and French Polynesia.  He was recruited to be Director of BRIT from the Agency for International Development where he was Senior Biodiversity Advisor. 

Sara is a native of East Tennessee.  She earned her B.A. in History from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, an M.A. in British History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D.in Intellectual History from the University of Hawaii.  She taught British and European history at TCU. 

Both Rebecca and Rachel grew up in Hawaii while Sy was with the Bishop Museum.  Rebecca works for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. after several years with the Brookings Institution.  She has a B.S. from Macalester College and an M.S. in geography from Syracuse University.  Rachel earned a B.S. in conservation biology at the University of Texas, M.S. in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently studying landscape architecture at Cornell University.

 

The Holmes Family


Dr. D. D. Holmes is pictured here with her daughter, Tiffany Derrick, husband Kirk; and sons Cody and Alex. D.D.'s husband Steve was not able to attend the photography session. D.D. , a PhD and CPA , worked in Fort Worth for Thomson Reuters and TCU. She is also a PriceWaterhouseCoopers alum and active in the Fort Worth Chapter of CPAs and Texas Society of CPAs. D.D. is a volunteer for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) working with kids in foster care.

 

Tiffany Derrick is a Licensed Professional Counselor in family counseling and an Intervention Specialist for Fort Worth ISD for 20 years; she addresses the social, emotional and mental needs of students so that they may be academically successful in the classroom.

 

Her husband Kirk works for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Together Tiffany and Kirk have worked to better the Fort Worth community.  Cody is a senior at Paschal High School and Alex is a sophomore the Texas Academy of Biomedial Sciences High School.  They enjoy wakeboarding at the lake and hunting at the ranch.