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...Tessa C. Petrich ’07 starts off FM’s fashionable competition by apologizing for her outfit: “I woke up at 7:30 today and had to be at work by 7:45. I just threw on a pile of clothing.” But this lover of fashion and executive producer of Eleganza won’t let a series of setbacks and disadvantages hamper her during the contest...
...spectators gasped as model Anne E. Berndtson ’08 removed the jacket covering her dress, made by Tessa C. Petrich ’07, to reveal an exposed back accented by a heavy gold chain draped below her shoulder blades...
...dining hall to its current venue, the Bright Hockey Center. Last year the show drew an eye-popping 1,500 people, and this year, the show’s organizers hope to draw 2,000. “People that come keep coming back,” says Tessa C. Petrich ’07, one of the executive producers of Eleganza this year...
...Tessa's birth mom gave up her child under California's Safely Surrendered Baby Law, which lets parents avoid prosecution for abandoning their newborns if they leave the infants with staff members of emergency rooms or other approved places, including fire stations. Since 1999, 47 states have adopted similar laws permitting children to be relinquished, with age limits ranging from 3 days old in 16 states to 1 year in Missouri and North Dakota. In California the baby must be under 72 hours old, but a bill recently passed by the legislature would extend the deadline to 30 days. Governor...
...Somehow Tessa's birth mother found out about it. And giving up her baby gave the child a chance at a good life, at least in the eyes of Donna Leavitt, who with her husband Rob ended up adopting the girl: "I can't help but think that the safe-surrender sign at the fire station helped lead Tessa to us." The Leavitts would love for their daughter to meet her birth mom. But in most cases that is unlikely, since the law allows surrendering parents to be anonymous. "Many of these mothers do not like their babies," says Magnusen...