Class Notes
Robert Cope, Judy Benner Cope ’70, Luke Tarvin, Rachel Cope Tarvin ’03, Rebecca Cope ’07, and Tyler Cope. Randy Restrepo ’05 and his fiancée, Lauren Nicole Witchey.
2004
2006
Justine Korkor and Elie Sarraf were married in June 2013. They reside in Irvine, CA. Justine has been a piano teacher for Jacobs Music School in New Jersey and California Music Studios in Encinitas. She received her bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Rowan University.
Ani Klaus De Moraes is launching a nonprofit food business incubator in Washington, D.C. The incubator will serve minority populations surrounding the Adams Morgan neighborhood by offering commercial kitchen space and programming that will help underserved entrepreneurs start and grow their food businesses.
2005
Jolene Lucille Spatucci, daughter of Rebecca Machlus ’08.
Lindsay Wolf presented a live reading of her first original pilot, “Punched In The Face,” in December at the Improv Olympic West Loft Theater in Hollywood, at Cake Batter’s First Annual Funny Women Festival in Hollywood.
2003 Rachel Cope married Luke Tarvin at Pocono Lake Preserve, PA on September 14, 2013.
SPRING 2015
Shaina Machlus works with The Trade Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping young women around the world who are victims of sex trafficking and abuse. Shaina spends time in Siem Reap, Cambodia teaching teenage prostitutes how to style hair as a business, in order to help them buy their way out of the brothels where they are forced to work. Shaina visited MFS in September, and The Trade Foundation was the beneficiary of the November 2014 Faculty/Staff Dress Down Day Fundraiser. Randy Restrepo is engaged to Lauren Nicole Witchey. Randy graduated from Villanova in 2009 with a B.A. in criminal justice and again in 2010 with a master’s degree in criminal justice, law, and society. The couple is planning a Fall 2015 wedding. They are both employed by the federal government and reside in Ellicott City, MD. Cornell Woodson is now the Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion at Cornell University.
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2007 Anni Weisband appears in two films premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: I am Michael, which stars James Franco, and Tangerine, in which Anni has a supporting role.
2008 Rebecca Machlus gave birth to a baby daughter, Jolene Lucille Spatucci, on September 7.
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