Marriages
Daniel “Dan” Cooper Scarborough ’91 to Dala Kim Hood on June 18, 2011 at the Warwick Yacht and Country Club in Newport News, Va.
Timothy “Tim” Key ’02 to Melanie Robak on June 27, 2010 at West Manor in Lynchburg, Va. Tim is a regional director with ExploreLearning in Char- lottesville, Va. The couple resides in Palmyra, Va.
Melissa Allen ’04 to Umberto Binetti on June 26, 2010. The couple resides in Sterling, Va.
Cira Pace ’05 to Michael Malta on June 12, 2011 in Block Island, R.I. The couple honeymooned in Anguilla, British West Indies. They both work for Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut. Tricia Rokicki ’05, Nicole Cologne ’06, and Jennifer Bunty ’05 were in the wedding party. The couple lives in Bethel, Conn.
Brandon Davis ’06 to Amanda Diver ’07 on August 14, 2011 in Andover, Mass. The couple resides in Bradford, Mass.
Corey White ’06 to Raphael Esparza ’06 on September 2, 2011 in Marriottsville, Maryland, at Historic Waverly Mansion. The bridal party included Vanessa Kostopulos Quick, Kimberly Wilson, Jillian Fox Powell, and Meghan McLellan, all classmates from 2006. The couple resides in Burke, Va.
Evan Ibbitson ’07 to Katherine “Kate” Stover ’08 on July 9, 2011 in Elkridge, Md. The couple honeymooned on a cruise ship to the southern Caribbean. They reside in Cockeysville, Md. with their puppy, Barnaby.
Margaret “Maggie” Menze ’07 to Christopher “Blake” Moore ’07 on April 9, 2011 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Charlotte, N.C., with a reception at the Marriott SouthPark. The couple honeymooned in Barbados. They currently reside in Charlotte, where Blake is a graphic designer and Maggie is an elemen- tary school teacher who recently received her master’s degree in elementary education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Catherine Claydon ’09 to Robert Mills ’09 on November 20, 2011 at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The couple resides in Morrisville, N.C.
Mallory Rison ’09 to Sean Sutherland ’09 on October 15, 2011 at St. James the Less Episcopal Church in Ashland, Va., followed by a reception at The Dominion Club in Glen Allen, Va. The couple met their freshman year at LC. Included in the wedding party were maid of honor Carter Maxey ’09 and bridesmaid Jessica Woodworth ’09, best man Casey Sutherland ’11, and groomsmen Jason Early ’08 and Anthony Pavia ’08. The couple honeymooned in Jamaica. Mallory is employed as a middle school special educator by Alexandria (Va.) City Public Schools and Sean is the owner and operator of Rosemont Landscaping and Lawn Care. They reside in Alexandria, Va.
Helping in Haiti by Shannon Brennan alumni profile
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hortly after the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, Heather Maurer ’93 saw a news segment
about a woman giving birth in squalid conditions. Because the baby was breach, the healthcare worker trying to help her panicked and walked away, saying she had never attended a breach birth. Heather, on the other hand, knew she had to do
something. She got in touch with friends who were midwives and emergency medical technicians and was soon coordinating an effort to raise money, supplies, and volunteers to send to the devastated island nation. “Before you knew it, we had a boatload of supplies,” she said. That work led Heather and six friends to co-found
Mother Health International and create a free-standing birth center in Jacmel, a city on the coast about three hours from Port-au-Prince. Heather was intimately familiar with the work of midwives, having worked for Midwifery
Today, a quarterly publication based in Oregon. She is also a trained doula, an aide who helps women during labor and birth. More importantly, she had given birth to her daughter Daisy with a midwife in a freestanding birth house in Alexandria, Virginia. “Her birth was the most empowering experience of my life,” she said. Heather had come
to believe that “women have given over their power to doctors and obstetricians,” and succumb to the fear of birth. “In 90 percent of births these interventions are not necessary.” Heather served as unpaid executive director of Mother Health International for a year,
guiding the work from her home in Vienna, Virginia. The birth center dome they built in Haiti is earthquake-resistant and can withstand Category 2-3 hurricanes. The organiza- tion is in the process of identifying land to buy for a permanent clinic and also in the process of training three Haitian women in midwifery. The only paid workers are Haitians. Last June, Heather finally got a chance to go to Haiti for two weeks, serving as a doula
and helping out wherever needed: cooking, cleaning, gardening, and distributing vitamins for prenatal care. Heather has since stepped down as executive director but continues to help with fundraising and in-kind donations for the birth clinic. Mother Health International has now merged with Earth Birth Women’s Health Collective, which does similar work in Northern Uganda. Heather did all her volunteer tasks while working full time as senior marketing and business
development manager for the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, d.c., and caring for her now five-year-old daughter, Daisy, and two stepchildren, Mariah and Boman, with her husband, Noah Raskin. Heather has had a varied career since leaving lc, and she credits that spirit of adventure
to Dr. David Lipani, professor of English, who taught her to jump into life and examine it. “I didn’t get the best grades in his class, but I learned the most from him. I didn’t want to just skim through life. I wanted to dive in.” When she graduated with a degree in communication studies, Heather had an interview
for a job at The Washington Post. She blew it, however, when she left the “l” out of the word “public” in her cover letter. She said that ended up being a good thing. She became a flight attendant and lived in Saudi Arabia, where she fell in love with an Italian, and subsequently spent seven months on the Amalfi Coast of Italy. While the guy didn’t last, the experience topped what The Washington Post could have offered, she said. Heather went on to get her master’s degree in public communications at American
University, where she was also director of special events and continuing legal education, setting the stage for work at two law firms. She encourages young people to “get in the stream” and see what life has to offer.
That’s advice she follows herself. “I want to get to the purpose of why I’m here this time around,” she said.
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