Stover Family Welcomes
By Pedro Rolon Burt
Professor Maria Stover gave birth
to her second baby on Friday, April 17
at 1:32 a.m. His name is Elias Michael
and he joins Addison, Stover’s
12-year-old daughter.
It has been a long wait for Addison,
since she was already embracing the
idea of having a baby brother long
before Elias was born.
“She calls it ‘my brother,’
so she’s already embracing the
idea,” Stover said, “Probably
being a single child for so long,
she just thinks this is something
cool so she is actually very, very
excited and very supportive.”
The pattern continues, as Stover
said. In her family the first child is
always a girl and the second one a boy.
Maria Stover has a younger brother
who has two children, the first a girl
and the second a boy.
Stover’s husband—Mike—has
been very excited with the fact that
they were having a baby boy. Stover
said that he was already talking about
the jam sessions they will have and
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how they will share the race car
collection he owns.
When it came to deciding the name
for Elias Michael, Stover said that
it was not easy. It wasn’t as easy as
their first experience with Addison,
when her husband picked a name and
they both agreed on the first try and it
wasn’t discussed any more. This time,
they struggled.
“We wanted something to
work in both cultures, which is
not very easy, that’s one of the
hardest things,” Stover said, “I
mean there’s a lot of names that
could translate, but, you just
have to find, I’ll say, the right
ring to it.”
Stover said that her 12-year-old
daughter also voiced her opinion
during the process. Addison suggested
that he should be named Preston after
her favorite blogger.
Now, with Elias Michael on board,
Stover had to take a maternity leave,
and for the first time in her career
she did not finish the semester. Kathy
Menzie, Regina Cassell and Frank
Chorba filled in for her in Advanced
Media Lab, Visual Communications
and Media Literacy.
Photos courtesy of Maria Stover
In the fall, Stover will return to campus
to teach Visual Communication, Media
Literacy, Internship and Independent
Study.
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