Candidates Elected at the 2009 Convention
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Brookhaven
Trustees – Two
Members elected for 3-year terms, one to be appointed.
James
Kennedy, a member of St. Mary’s, Northfield, who has been
serving as president of the Brookhaven Board.
Linda
Runnion is a member of St. John’s, Randolph, where she has been
active in fundraising and many other parish activities. She is assistant to the
academic dean at Vermont Technical College, former chair of the Brookfield School
Board and assistant town clerk and treasurer in Brookfield.
(Nominee needed
for one unexpired term to 2010 to be filled)
Diocesan
Council -
Four At-Large Members elected for 2-year terms and one youth
representative elected for 1-year term (ages 16 through 20). One youth
position remains open for appointment.
Robert
Bowler is administrative assistant and member at Immanuel, Bellows
Falls. He also serves on the Stone Church Arts program staff, the worship
committee, and as a preacher, acolyte, and adult education leader. He
was part of the diocesan Companions Program in 2007-2009.
Barbara
Hoar, a retired teacher, currently serves as senior warden at St. Peter’s, Bennington,
and is a member of the Diocesan Convention Nominating Committee. She served on
Diocesan Council from 2002–2005, and she has been on the Bishop Booth Conference
Center Board.
Alan
Kittelson has been rector at St. Paul’s, Vergennes, since 2008. Prior to being called
to St. Paul’s, he served congregations in Maine (10 years) and Western
Massachusetts (10 years).
Judith
McManis, a liturgical artist and calligrapher, is a member of St. Paul’s Cathedral,
Burlington. She has served on St. Paul’s vestry and as junior and senior
warden at a congregation in Connecticut.
Cheyenne
Garland, youth member, is a member of St. James’, Essex Junction,
who attended the Episcopal Youth Event in 2008, and the 2007 Diocesan Convention.
She has also participated in Rock Point Summer Camp.
Ecclesiastical
Court – One
Clergy member for a 4-year term, one Clergy alternate member for a
4-year term.
George
Moyser, chair of the political science department at UVM, is
currently serving as interim Sunday supply priest at St. Luke’s,
St. Albans. He was previously rector at Calvary, Underhill.
Alfred
Stefanik (alternate) is a retired priest who has served congregations
in Vermont, Long Island, Hawai’I
and Massachusetts. He has served as supply priest during the transition period
for St. John the Baptist, Hardwick, and is chaplain to the retired clergy and
their spouses and partners.
Oversight
and Audit Committee – Two
members (1 Clergy and 1 Lay) elected to 3-year terms
Gary
Eley, a member and former rector at All Saints’, South
Burlington, is president of Eley Financial Management.
Carolyn
Fouts, senior warden at St. Luke’s, St. Albans, is current president
of the Trustees of the Diocese and a member of the Insurance Committee. She is
a former member of the Commission on Ministry and trustee of Rock Point School.
Rock
Point Board – Three
Members elected to 3-year terms and one filling an unexpired
term to 2011.
Alice
Daley, a member and former senior warden at St. Andrew’s,
Colchester, is completing her first term on the Rock Point Board, which
she serves as secretary. A school nurse, she also served as nurse for the
Rock Point Summer Camp.
Iris
Darling, a member of All Saints’, South Burlington, where she
serves as treasurer, has been vice-president of the Rock Point Board.
John
King, parking manager for the Burlington Police Department, is a member
of St. Andrew’s,
Colchester. He is a current member of the Rock Point Board and the Bishop Booth
Conference Center Program Committee as well as coordinator for the diocese’s
two annual silent retreats.
Beth
Garland (serving serve until 2011), a member of St. James’, Essex
Junction, works for Paydata Payroll Services. She chairs the Martha Society at
St. James’ and
is a eucharistic minister. She is a past senior warden/vestry member and served
four years as president of the Women of St. James’.
Rock
Point School Trustees – Four
members elected to 3-year terms
Frances
Farnsworth works at Middlebury College and is a member of St. Thomas & Grace,
Brandon, where she serves on the vestry. She is a current member of the
RPS Board. Her son is a RPS graduate.
Margaret
Mathauer, a long-time professional educator, is deacon at All Saints’,
South Burlington. Two of her adopted children were RPS students, and she has
continued to keep up with the school.
Barton
Merle-Smith works for NRG Systems and lives in North Ferrisburg.
Lisa
Simon is an administrative assistant who lives in Charlotte. She is
a current member of the Board.
Standing
Committee – Two
Members elected (1 Clergy and 1 Lay) to 4-year terms, 1 lay person
filling an unexpired term to 2010
Lee
Alison Crawford, priest-in-partnership at Trinity, Rutland,
is a member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, a deputy
to the last 5 General Conventions, a deputy to Provincial Synod, and
chair of the diocesan Global Reconciliation Committee. She has served
previously on the Standing Committee, Diocesan Council and as member
and chair of the Commission on Ministry.
Robert
Wertz, senior warden at St. Thomas & Grace, Brandon, has seen the
congregation through a recent transition in clergy leadership. He has held a
variety of management positions in the healthcare and hospitality fields. He
filled an unexpired term on Standing Committee and is a member of the Committee
on the Environment. Prior to joining The Episcopal Church 30 years ago, he was
an ordained Methodist minister.
(One lay member to
Duncan Tingle
(filling a term to 2010), a member of St. John’s in the Mountains,
Stowe, and a retired educator, is a former member of the Commission on Ministry
Committee on Discernment and the Rock Point Summer Camp Committee. Having served
three years, he says filling a one-year position would allow him to serve a full
tem.
Trustees
of the Diocese – One
member elected to a 7-year term
Ronald
Calise, a member of St. Paul’s, Vergennes, is a self-employed
investor. He is a current trustee and member of the Investment Committee.
Vermont
Ecumenical Council and Bible Society Trustee – One
person for 3-year term.
Peg
Hamlin, a member os St. James’, Essex Junction, returns
as a VEC trustee and a member of its Faith and Order Committee.
She is also associate ecumenical officer of the Diocese of Vermont and
has been active for many years in ecumenical activities in Vemront and
New England.
