The legal profession has lost one of its most eloquent and learned members and Pacific Palisades has lost one of its oldest residents with the passing of Raoul D. Maga’a, who died of heart failure on January 16 at the age of 95. When he was four, Raoul came to California with his family from Coyoacan, Mexico during the Mexican revolution. The family settled in Berkeley, where Raoul attended UC Berkeley (Class of 1932) Boalt Hall School of Law. He was admitted to the California Bar Association in 1936 and continued in active practice (with a hiatus for service as an infantry private in the U.S. Army during World War II) for the next 64 years. He finally went on inactive status at the age of 90. Raoul was universally admired and respected by his colleagues, his opponents and the judiciary before whom he practiced, both for his abilities as a trial lawyer and his absolute, unwavering integrity. Among the many honors awarded him were a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; a Fellow, President and Dean of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; 1963 California Trial Lawyer of the Year and, most recently, induction into the first class of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles Hall of Fame. Raoul wrote and edited a number of legal and medical texts, some of which remain in use today, including a four-volume work authored with his dear friend Leo Gelfand, M.D., J.D., for the Courtroom Medicine series entitled ‘The Low Back’ and numerous articles for the journal ‘Trauma’ of which he was also an editor. In 1951, Raoul and his wife Eugenie moved their family from Cheviot Hills to a house on Maroney Lane (near upper Las Pulgas) that had been built for screen actress Virginia Bruce, who would later become the first honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades. The Maga’as purchased the house from singer/actress Deanna Durbin. ‘When we first moved here our neighbors owned cattle and sheep, and mountain lions used to cross our backyard to get to them,’ said Raoul’s son Brian, who attended Marquez Elementary, Paul Revere Middle School and Palisades High and now lives in the Highlands. ‘In 1955, someone offered to sell my father 200 acres of land behind his house and he turned him down thinking they would never develop there,’ Brian remembered. ‘Two years later, the bulldozers showed up.’ Though he was raised in a Spanish-speaking household by parents who never fully mastered the English language, Raoul was a gifted and memorable speaker. Lawyers and judges now in their 60s and 70s still regularly recount talks given by him when they were in law school. Walter Ely, a Judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, once described an argument that Raoul gave in a case as sounding ”like a cascade of honey flowin’ over a bed of rose petals.’ Raoul loved poetry, and up to the week he died he would recite passages from poems and plays he had not read since college. He was self-effacing, polite and incapable of sitting down if a lady was standing. Once, in New York, a woman dropped some change on the sidewalk and when he leaned down to pick it up and return it she stomped on his hand, assuming he was trying to steal it. Professor Bernard Witkin, author of the standard reference work on California law and procedure, told Raoul over dinner: ‘You and I are both professionally modest, but you have an ostentatious humility!’ Raoul is survived by Eugenie, his wife of 69 years; his sister Elsa Love; his daughters Danielle and Martine; his sons Carlos, Brian and Robert; and his numerous grandchildren, friends, acquaintances and admirers. He was preceded in death by his brother Ismaelito, his sister Isabel Scheville and his son Alexander. At Raoul’s direction, there will be no services. To those who knew him, please keep him in your hearts, your thoughts and your prayers.
Calendar for the Week of January 25
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 Monthly Chamber of Commerce mixer, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., hosted by Marie Courchesne-Ryan, M.D., 910 Via de la Paz, Suite 203. Public invited. Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m., Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. Public invited. Dr. Steve Wolf, author of ‘Taming Your Anger,’ will conduct a free workshop designed to help participants gain control over their harmful words and actions, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Wolf has been a clinical psychologist in West L.A. since 1986. A special edition Chautauqua program, ‘Scottish Hearts Moved by Nature,’ a celebration of the works and inspiration given us by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, 7:30 p.m. in the dining hall in Temescal Gateway Park, Sunset at Temescal Canyon Boulevard. Admission is free, but parking is $5. (See story, page 14.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 An open house at 11 a.m. for families interested in the preschool program (ages 2-5) at the Palisades Jewish Early Childhood Center, 15601 Sunset. The Center is accepting applications for September 2007. Contact: (310) 454-7781. The Theatre Palisades production of Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ featuring local resident Martha Hunter as Amanda, plays at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Haverford. The show runs Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. through February 18. Tickets: (310) 454-1970. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 A benefit event, featuring author and teacher Eliot Cowan, a fully initiated shaman in the Huichol tradition, at a noon talk and evening benefit dinner at 6 p.m., followed by a fire ritual in Temescal Gateway Park. Admission: $25 for the talk and $100 for the evening event. Proceeds benefit the Blue Deer Center, a nonprofit retreat organization founded by Cowan. Author Gloria Koenig will sign ‘Iconic L.A.: Stories of L.A.’s Most Memorable Buildings,’ 1 to 4 p.m. in the meadow at the Eames House, 203 Chautauqua. (See story, page 13.) SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Congressman Henry Waxman will address the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club, 1:30 p.m. in the Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. The public is invited to hear his annual report to constituents. MONDAY, JANUARY 29 The Palisades-Malibu YMCA Seniors Month concludes today with a Fitness Forever class from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., free fitness instruction from noon to 2 p.m., and a free seminar on estate planning at 12:45 p.m. at Aldersgate on Haverford. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 First meeting of the Palisades Environmental Network group, hosted by Palisades Cares, 7 p.m. in Janes Hall at the Palisades Presbyterian Church, corner of Sunset and El Medio. Public invited. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 Palisadian Dr. Joseph K. Perloff will speak on ‘Goethe as Scientist,’ 7:30 p.m. at Villa Aurora in Paseo Miramar. Tickets are $10. (See story, page 14.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Benita Eisler, an acclaimed literary biographer from New York City, signs ‘Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand,’ 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. Her books sheds new light on the first woman in Europe to become a best-selling novelist. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Paul Revere Charter Middle School’s winter musical production, ‘Wheels,’ written and directed by teacher Joshua Roig, plays tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. (See story, page 12.) ‘Predators of the Night,’ a two-hour full moon hike that will explore the role of mountain lions, bobcats and coyotes in the local ecosystem, 7 p.m. in Temescal Gateway Park. Bring water and a jacket; flashlight optional. Meet in the front parking lot. Parking is $5. Rain cancels.
Imaging Early Santa Monica
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
The skeletal frame of the McClure Tunnel opens a rich chapter in the history of Santa Monica with subchapters on the transportation, architecture and layout of the city. This one, simple black-and-white photo tells us much about the familiar curving tunnel that propels westbound drivers into the brilliant light of the Pacific Ocean. Indeed, the wide, single-span, reinforced bridge and tunnel combination reveals the complex engineering that was associated with WPA-designed projects. Completed in 1939, it started life as the Palisades Tunnel, but became the McClure Tunnel 30 years later, when the legislature named the structure after Robert E. McClure, editor and publisher of the Santa Monica Evening Outlook. This photo is just one of 4,200 images, each with its own story, that reside in the image archive at the Santa Monica Public Library and are available online for the curious to view. The work–collecting, sorting and writing the accompanying text–has been in the hands of Palisadian Cynni Murphy, image archives librarian, for the past 26 years. When Murphy came to the library, the collection consisted of about 1,500 photos, which, she admits, had been acquired eclectically: some from donations, others from various city departments. The image archive consists of photographs, slides, postcards and maps?all intended to create as complete a visual history of Santa Monica and the region as possible. That history has been captured by local photographers, including Harry Frantz Rile, who documented Santa Monica history from 1885 to 1915; Adelbert Bartlett, a commercial photographer who worked in the area from the early 20th century through the 1940s, and Jack Hageny, who did a lot of work for the Parks and Recreation Department. When the Museum of Flying closed in 2002, its treasured photographic collection was donated to the Santa Monica Library. This month, the Pacific Palisades Historical Society and the Santa Monica Public Library signed an agreement to transfer the Palisades? regional collection, including 3,300 photographs and negatives, bound copies of every newspaper from 1928 to 1964, original founder documents, movie films and videotaped living histories of Palisadians, from a storeroom in the Palisades Methodist Church to the museum?s image archive. Considered a win-win for both institutions, the agreement is one that will give the historical society a safe, accessible, local site for its collection, and the library a comprehensive record of the history of Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica Canyon. When Murphy arrived at the Santa Monica Library, the photo collection in the old library was housed in an interior room, which, while not specifically designed for such a purpose, insulated the images from outside humidity and temperature changes. In the new library, which opened last year, a room was designed to accommodate the archives. The 11-by-16-ft. archival storage room maintains an average temperate between 68 and 72 degrees and relative humidity of about 50 percent to ensure that the photos neither mold nor become brittle. Steel cabinets house the photographs, which are enclosed in inert plastic envelopes with acid-free boards, open to allow air to circulate. ?Most of the photos that are more than 100 years old were of a basic size, what today we?d call 5-by-7,? Murphy says. ?Some are 12-by-12 aerial photos, and then there are maps, which are stored in specially designed bins.? Murphy is an amateur photographer who has transformed her home into a black-and-white photo gallery, displaying her interest in the details of architectural monuments, while photos of her two sons and grandchild perch on the mantel and side tables. Murphy?s path to her specialty would be the envy of any art history major. After she graduated from the University of Utah in 1973, she was offered an internship at the university?s Museum of Fine Arts, where she worked with the Natacha Rambova/Rudolph Valentino archive. In 1975, she returned to Los Angeles to pursue a master?s degree in library and information science with a specialty in art and museum libraries, and wrote her thesis on the work she was doing at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she had also secured an internship. She planned an exhibition of primary sources on the history of the Villa dei Papiri, a first-century Roman country house, which was the prototype Getty used for his own villa in the Palisades. She deepened her knowledge of the technical aspects of photography by completing the occupational certificate in photography at Santa Monica College. ?I wanted to physically know how photos are made–their structure–and I was particularly interested in conservation and preservation,? she says. She then secured a job at the Santa Monica Public Library in a part-time position before assuming her present position. Hers is a job that combines the careful patience of an archivist and the curiosity and dogged investigative focus of a scholar. Her photographic triumphs, she says, are not necessarily the obvious, popular photos, like the Muscle Beach record by Russ Saunders, a photographer and body-builder in the 1930s and ?40s. She loves to find photos that piece the history together. ?I think that some of the things that city departments unearthed are very interesting, like the building of the McClure Tunnel, or the recent acquisition of the grading of the arroyo in the 1920s and building the bridge that goes between Santa Monica Place and the Main Street area. The day-to-day, year-to-year projects that the city does, and the documentation, are very interesting. I have tide studies that were done in the 1950s, or the Santa Monica Pier that someone had in their files. ?The collection is used for a variety of reasons,? Murphy says. ?Sometimes I have real estate developers who want to see the slope of a hillside. Two years ago, I got some things donated by the city that showed the landslides on PCH. I recently got an image of the planting of the trees on San Vicente Boulevard. ?The images create a compelling visual narrative of local history and often provide a more personal history and specific perspective to an era with its detailed analysis of time and place.? You can access the Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives from www.smpl.org. Click on Image Archives.
’13’: The Most Awkward Age
Not many people want to re-live their teenage years: hormones raging over the latest crush, zits popping up here and there at the most inconvenient times. Just the thought of being so uninhibited, and yet so self-conscious and vulnerable, is enough to make me wince with embarrassment. Thankfully, the new musical comedy ’13,’ about growing up and figuring out who you are, is not painful to watch, even if it does stir a few memories. It’s actually one of the most entertaining shows I’ve seen in a long time, largely because of the inventive staging and talented cast of teenagers, who deliver an energetic and polished performance from start to finish. ’13,’ with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (‘Parade’) and book by children’s author Dan Elish, tells the story of Evan Goldman, whose mother moves him from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, just before he is about to turn 13. Confused and dislocated, Evan thinks he can improve his situation–socially and emotionally–by inviting all the popular kids to his bar mitzvah. Directed by Todd Graff, ’13’ is fast-paced, and the young actors–themselves in throes of teenage life–don’t miss a beat. The spirited musical feels like a modernized combination of ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ and ‘The Wonder Years,’ though not quite as deep as the latter. Even the setting might be a take on Sweet Apple, Ohio, where rock star Conrad Birdie turned his biggest fan Kim McAfee’s world upside down. And certainly, the cleverly choreographed cell phone scene in ’13’ is a contemporary play on the famous telephone/gossip scene in ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’ Evan, played by Ricky Ashley, is sort of a Kevin Arnold (‘The Wonder Years’) character in that he likes the idea of being popular but he has more in common with the less-cool kids. Evan’s journey towards manhood is greatly affected by his relationships with two of these offbeat friends–the sweet, toyboyish Patrice (Sara Niemietz) and the geeky Archie (Tyler Mann). Archie has muscular dystrophy and uses his handicap to blackmail Evan into getting him a date with head cheerleader Kendra (Emma Degerstedt). Niemietz’s mature and beautiful voice awes the audience during her solo ‘What It Means To Be A Friend,’ while Degerstedt dances with grace and sophistication. As Evan, Ashley sings with ease and is often center-stage, leading a dance number, but in an understated way, clearly working as a team with the rest of the cast. All 13 performers have a chance to shine and are always ‘on,’ making quick costume changes and engaging the audience in a fun, interactive production. A six-piece live teenage rock band, set up in a ‘garage’ on the upper level of the set, adds to the lively atmosphere. In one of the best scenes, the band plays behind a screen onto which a film is projected. Some of the ’13’ cast members act out the horror film ‘The Bloodmaster’ in front of the screen, creating a 3-D moving picture. Meanwhile, Evan and his friends sit in red movie-theater seats on the ground level of the stage, facing the audience but presumably ‘watching’ the film that we see play out above them. While there is no doubt about the artistry of this production, the oversimplified story doesn’t quite fit the bill. Though Mann does a good job mastering Archie’s awkward movement on arm-brace crutches, his illness isn’t really dealt with beyond the physical–he can’t dance and he falls down towards the end of the play, which arouses Evan’s sympathy. We don’t really learn much about his disease or what he’s going through. Some of the dialogue, also, is a little forced, such as when Evan tells Patrice, ‘Thank you for being honest, for telling me how you feel. I’m just figuring it out.’ This seems a bit too ‘grown-up’ for a 13-year-old, although some of the young actors portraying these characters seem mature beyond their 14 or 15 years. The show runs through February 18 at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave. For tickets ($55 to $65), call (213) 628-2772 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org.
PTC Juniors Ace Whittier Tourney
Several junior players from the Palisades Tennis Center advanced deep into their respective brackets at the Whittier tournament last weekend. In the Boys 12s, nine-year-old Eduardo Nava advanced to the third round after a first-round bye and a 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Maxwell Cancilla of Huntington Beach. Also in that division Robbie Bellamy beat William Chiu, one of the top-ranked players in San Diego, 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, in the second round, then dominated Jake DeVries, the 29th-ranked player in Southern California, 6-1, 6-0 in the third round. In the Boys 14s, Alex Baetig beat Benito Romeo of Laguna Beach 6-3, 6-3 in the first round. In the same age group, Connor Treacy was awarded a first-round bye, then beat Kendi Hansen 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 in the second round. Walker Kehrer, the Palisadian-Post’s Athlete of the Year in 2006, picked up where he left off. He beat Thomas Carillo of Riverside 6-1, 6-1, beat Mizuki Shibahara of Rancho Palos Verdes 6-0, 6-1 in the second round and beat David Masciorini of Dana Point 6-2, 6-0 in the third round.
Claire Felson’s Art Bubbles Up with Passion
Palisadian artist Claire Felson describes her art as both inner and outer, referring not to the manner in which she works as much as to her impulses. She is interested in the subtlety of Japanese art while being passionate about politics and the environment. Felson is exhibiting her work in the Gallery Chauvet in Hollywood with an opening reception on Saturday, January 27, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the gallery, 1948 Canyon Dr. The gallery spaces are assembled inside a Craftsman-style house. ‘I’ve separated my work into three categories,’ Felson says. ‘In the living room are the environmental and political paintings.’ Combining realism and calligraphy, she portrays environmental areas that are at risk. Dead fish drift across the hull of a trimaran in ‘Rising Acidity.’ In ‘going, going, gon,’ a large bee flies at the viewer and is blocked by a screen of pesticides. In the dining room, Felson has grouped pictures that reflect her continued exploration of the environment, and portraits, united by her strong use of purples and cerulean blue. Figurative paintings, hanging in the boudoir, show the influence of her six years restoring antique Japanese painted screens and her affinity for Japanese art. Working from models, she frequently incorporates sections of Japanese scrolls, wallpaper and calligraphy together with acrylic paint. Felson was raised in San Diego, attending Catholic schools through high school. She was an English major at San Diego State University and taught for two years before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1965, where she earned her BFA. Her major was ceramics, which in later years she would call upon for special commissions. One from Barbra Streisand and James Brolin was a chess set, with the king and queen cast in their image. For many years, Felson and her husband Jack directed the Forest Farm Camps, a summer camp for kids, in Marin County, where they lived and raised their three children. The purchase came about in a casual way, Felson says. ‘The former owner said to us, ‘If you like camping and kids, you might want to look into this.’ We bought the place and built our house by hand, which featured an indoor campfire pit highlighted in Sunset magazine.’ Six years ago she returned to painting full time and has exhibited in Los Angeles and Lucca, Italy. She and Jack have lived in the Palisades for the last three years, where one of her three children and her grandchildren live.
Palisades Pacesetters
Sophomore opposite hitter C.J. Schellenberg had 23 kills and three aces to lead the 14th-ranked University of Southern California men?s volleyball team to a 24-30, 30-19, 30-27, 30-24 upset of No. 9 Long Beach State last Wednesday in its inaugural match at the Galen Center, USC?s new on-campus arena. Named the All-CIF Division I Player of the Year at Loyola High in 2005, Schellenberg had 271 kills, 14 aces, 83 blocks and 103 digs in 29 matches as a freshman for the Trojans last season. Corinne O’Brien continued where she left off last year in artistic gymnastics by winning a silver medal in the Level 9 all-around competition at last weekend?s Whitlow Sanddollar Invitational, held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida. The 13-year-old Palisadian, competing against gymnasts from 132 gyms across 30 states, placed second in floor exercise with a 9.45 score, second in the uneven bars with a score of 9.0 and third in the vault with a score of 8.925. O?Brien trains at All Olympia Gymnastics Center and attends Windward School in Santa Monica. Fresh off of her fourth consecutive state championship last year as a level 8 gymnast, she was a Palisadian-Post athlete of the year in 2006. Jon Sebastian is among 104 of the best high school basketball players in Southern California to be nominated for the 2007 McDonald?s All-American team. A 6-4, 195-pound senior forward, Sebastian has 49 points, 31 rebounds, 11 assists and five steals in 18 games this season. He was also a wide receiver on the Wolverines? football team in the fall, catching 32 passes for 489 yards and 10 touchdowns in 13 games. Palisades High senior Bryan Greenberg, the reigning City Section champion in the pole vault, began the track and field season by reaching a personal best height duying last week?s USTA All Comers Meet at Cal State Los Angeles. Greenberg vaulted 14-6, shattering his previous mark of 13-0 set last year while winning the Rotary International Meet and duplicated at the Western League finals. On January 6, Jamie Greenberg, Bryan?s younger sister, won the pole vault in the junior high age group at the USTA All Comers Meet at Cal State Northridge. A seventh-grader at Paul Revere, Jamie?s winning vault was a personal-best 7-0. She went on to take first place in her age group in the long jump with a personal best of 11 feet, nine inches.
Leslie Dam and Ryan Harter Exchange Vows
Leslie Elaine Dam and Ryan Scott Harter exchanged wedding vows on September 2, 2006. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Harter, Jr. of Pacific Palisades. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Marjorie A. Dam of Pasadena and Mr. Lawrence W. Dam of Santa Barbara. The sunset ceremony and reception were held at the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades. David Armstrong, former youth minister of St. Matthew’s Parish, officiated at the double ring celebration. The bridegroom, who attended St. Matthew’s Parish School and Harvard-Westlake School, graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He is vice president of investments and development at CIM Group, a real estate development company based in Hollywood. The bride attended Valentine and Huntington Schools and San Marino High School. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Washington. She is a recruiting manager with White and Case, LLP in Los Angeles. The groom’s best man was Mathew Hand of Pacific Palisades. Groomsmen included Kevin Gaunt, Ryan Flynn, Dave Johnson, Timothy Weld and brother-in-law David Orgain. The bride was attended by her sisters, Sharon Dam and Linda Dam, who shared maid of honor duties. Bridesmaids were Courtney Rodgers, Michelle Sutantyo, Michele Conrad and the groom’s sister, Ashley Orgain. After a honeymoon in French Polynesia, the newlyweds are at home in the Hollywood Hills.
Soccer Squads Kick into Second
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
When the season began, the Palisades High women’s soccer team figured to take a few games to get used to life without striker Lucy Miller, the school’s all-time scoring leader, who graduated last June. Heading down the homestretch of the season, the Dolphins’ only apparent flaw appears to be its ability to finish, as was the case Monday in a 0-0 tie at Fairfax’a game Palisades dominated from the opening whistle. ‘It’s been a strange year,’ forward Kelly Mickel said after she and her teammates peppered the Lions’ goal with shots, only to settle for a draw in the end. ‘Losing a player of Lucy’s caliber was tough but we’ve come together. We work on finishing in practice and we’re string our passes together well. Some games we score a lot and other times we struggle but we’re playing well.’ Palisades had no trouble scoring against Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, a magnet school new to the Western League. The Dolphins netted 12 goals and followed that win with a 6-0 shutout of Westchester last Thursday at Stadium by the Sea, in which Laura Goldsmith scored twice on shots from outside the penalty area and Erin Newman scored twice on breakaways. Kate Rosenbaum and Erika Martin each added goals. ‘It seems like sometimes we start really late,’ Goldsmith said. ‘Sometimes in the first half we’re not first to the ball. It’s frustrating because we’re working hard and not always seeing positive results.’ Despite not having lost a game, the Dolphins (7-4-4 overall, 4-0-4 in league) find themselves in second place in the tightly-grouped league standings. Palisades had a bye on Wednesday and travels to Venice next Monday before hosting Hamilton on Wednesday. The Dolphins tied both teams in the first round of league play. Boys Soccer The Dolphins fell behind in the third minute of Monday’s Western League game against Fairfax and needed a goal by Osbaldo Garcia in the 51st minute, assisted by Matt Strangeway, to salvage a 1-1 tie at Stadium by the Sea. The tie moved Palisades (7-3, 6-2) into a share of second place in league. The Dolphins defeated Westchester 2-1 last Thursday on a pair of goals by David Linares. On Sunday, Head Coach David Williams leaves for Mayorca, Spain, where he will be heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko’s nutritionist for his upcoming fight in Manheim Germany in March. Assistant Coach Dave Suarez will coach the Dolphins in Williams’ absence.
Wedding Bells Ring for Steinert and Lenchak
Brenna Steinert exchanged vows with Emil Lenchak, Jr. on August 5 at the Ritz-Carlton, Reynolds Plantation, Georgia. Friends and family enjoyed three days of golf and parties at the resort on Lake Oconee. The bride is a graduate of Marlborough School, American University, and Catholic University Law School. She practices international trade law in Maryland. The bridegroom is a graduate of Penn State and is an engineer. The couple resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
