

She started attending RDT’s community school classes in 1997 and has taken Modern, Ballet, Prime Movement, and Grey Matters. She also combined her passions for dance and birding by publishing Feathered Friends: Scottish and English Country Dances with Ornithological Connections. She has taught SCD at all levels from elementary school to university.

After training in Scotland and Canada, she received the Teacher’s Certificate of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. However, her answer to “What do you do?” was always “I’m a Scottish Country Dance teacher who happens to write medical software.” After many years of ballet and folk dance she discovered Scottish Country Dancing and by the third lesson had decided that she needed to become a teacher. in computer science and embarked on a career of writing medical software.

Her senior project, Mobbing behavior in Black-Capped Chickadees in response to a stuffed Great Horned Owl, turned her into a life-long birder.Īfter holding various lab jobs she earned a M. in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College. Her childhood was the usual round of ballet and piano lessons and choir rehearsals she choreographed her high school’s Gilbert and Sullivan productions of Gondoliers and Ruddigore. Martha was born in Connecticut and lived there until she and John married and moved to Salt Lake City.
