Officers, Committee Members & Representatives

Officers of the Meeting
(1 year terms)
Co-Clerk | Debby Churchman |
Co-Clerk | Rebecca Nelson |
Recording Clerk | Amanda Nadeau Mayer |
Treasurer | David Miller |
Assistant Treasurer | Martha Solt |
Financial Coordinator | |
Recorder | Barbara Briggs |
Special Positions
(1 year terms)
Librarian | ||
Historians | Chris Wickham | Hayden Wetzel |
Administrative & Maintenance Staff
Administrative Secretary | Barbara Briggs | |
Event and Rental Manager | Brian Lutenegger | |
Property Manager | Ken Orvis | |
Youth Program Coordinators |
vacant |
Board of Trustees
(Six year terms run through the years specified)
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2025 |
Virginia Avanesyan | Dan Dozier | Elaine Wilson (Co-clerk, 2021) | |
Robin Appleberry | William Foskett | Chris Wickham (Co-clerk | |
Mark Haskell (co-clerk 2020) | Bruce Kellogg | ||
Martha Solt | |||
Faith Williams |
Standing Committees
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(3 year terms run through the years specified)
Child Safety Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Virginia Avanesyan, Clerk | Chris Mitchell | |
Ken Forsberg | ||
Tom Yonker | ||
Ex-officio members: Michael Beer, Youth Program Coordinator | ||
Ex-officio member: Shannon Hughes, Clerk, Religious Education Committee (through 2019) | ||
Finance & Stewardship Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Bill Foskett | Dan Dozier, Clerk | |
John Bluedorn | Neil Froemming | |
Jennifer Jenkins | Merry Pearlstein | |
Grant Thompson | Dante Bucci | |
Ex officio member: David Miller, Treasurer (through 2020) | ||
Ex-officio member: **, Financial Coordinator | ||
Ex-officio member: Barbara Briggs, Administrative Secretary | ||
Healing and Reconciliation Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Ken Orvis, Clerk | ||
Janet Dinsmore | ||
Ylene Larsen | ||
Zoe Plaugher | ||
Hospitality Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Juanita Cribb-Wade | Andrea Bryant | Bill Parker-clerk (1 yr) |
Kathy Lipp Farr | Greg Robb | |
Susan Nelson | ||
Valerie Graff | ||
Library/Records & Handbook Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2021 |
Judy Hubbard | Lucy Norman | Gene Throwe (clerk, 2020) |
Ana Rodriguez | Frank Weiss | Mark Kawar |
Bill Parker | Chris Wickham | |
Elizabeth Nyman | ||
Mary Lou Schram | ||
Abby Thomsen, emeritus | ||
Patrick Lynam, emeritus | ||
Ex officio member: Michael North, Librarian (through 2019) | ||
Ex officio member: Elizabeth Nyman, Liaison member from Records and Handbook | ||
Marriage and Family Relations Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Carrie Mitchell | Diane White | Gray Handley, |
James Bell - Clerk | Danielle Carnes | |
Petra'Rahim Carnes | ||
Beth Cogswell | ||
Membership Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Robert Farr, Clerk | Arlene Lutenegger | |
Gray Handley | Beth Cogswell | |
Judy Hubbard, Recording Clerk | ||
Kathy Lipp Farr | ||
Ministry and Worship Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Sabrina McCarthy, co-clerk | Joe D'Antonio | Amit Pandya |
Joe Izzo | ||
Tom Yonker | ||
Ann Herzog | ||
Jean Capps | ||
Nominating Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Martha Solt, Clerk | Todd Harvey | Gene Throwe |
Megan Telfar | Joe D'Antonio | Michael Beer |
Joe Izzo (starting Jan 2021) | ||
Jim Bell (starting Jan 2021) | ||
Ex officio member: Rebecca Nelson (Young Adult Friends Co-convenor) | ||
Peace and Social Concerns Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Elaine Wilson, Co-Clerk | Steve Chase | Chris Kearns-McCoy |
Gerry Fitzgerald | Barbara Briggs, Clerk | Jim Fussell |
Chad Dobson | ||
Beth Cogswell | ||
Ex officio member: Jean Capps, American Friends Service Committee Liaison (through 2019) | ||
Ex officio member: Elaine Wilson, Friends Committee on National Legislation Liaison (through 2019) | ||
Personal Aid Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Tom Libbert | Mary Melchior, clerk | |
Hayden Wetzel | Greg Robb | |
Personnel Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Bill Strein, Clerk | Chris Kearns-McCoy | |
Ed Hustead | ||
Ex-officio: FMW Co-clerks Debby Churchman, Rebecca Nelson | ||
Property Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Matt Higgins | Merry Pearlstein (co-clerk to 6/21) | Ken Forsberg, co-clerk 2021 |
James Bell | Todd Harvey, co-clerk 2021 | |
Jose Woss | ||
Jay Harris | ||
Ex officio member: Ken Orvis, Property Manager | ||
Ex officio member: Event and Rental Manager | ||
Ex officio member: Finance & Stewardship committee member | ||
Records and Handbook Committee (Merged into Library/Records & Handbook. See above.) | ||
Religious Education Committee | ||
Term expires end of: | ||
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Allen Fawcett, Co-Clerk | ||
Jacob Ritting, Co-Clerk | ||
Rob Vaughn | ||
Marissa Yeakey | ||
Susi Remold | ||
Julie Johnson | ||
Ex officio members: Youth Program Coordinator (vacant), Virginia Avanesyan, Child Safety Committee |
Special Committees
(unspecified term length unless indicated otherwise)
Garden Committee | |||
(one year term) | |||
Mark Haskell, Clerk | |||
Bruce Kellogg | |||
Gene Throwe | |||
Mary Jane Simpson (D.C.) Scholarship Fund | |||
Terms expire end of 2019: | |||
JE McNeil | Barbara Monahan | Anne Kendall, Clerk | |
Abby Thomsen | Bill Strein | ||
Search Committee (One year term, October to September) | |||
Joe Izzo | Jim Bell | ||
Ex officio member: Rebecca Nelson Presiding Clerk (through 2020) | |||
Ex officio member: Barbara Briggs, Administrative Secretary | |||
Capital Improvement Task Force | |||
(no specific term specified) | |||
Neil Froemming, Co-Clerk | C.J. Lewis | ||
Merry Pearlstein, Co-Clerk | Ylene Larsen | ||
Ex officio member: Ken Orvis, Property Manager | |||
Capital Campaign Committee | |||
(no specific term specified) | |||
Byron Sandford | Susan Griffin, Co-Clerk | Meg Greene, Co-Clerk | |
Mark Haskell | Merry Pearlstein | Neil Froemming | |
Ylene Larsen | Susan Nelson | Elise Storck | |
Dante Bucci | |||
Committee Structure | |||
Meg Greene | Chris Wickham | Todd Harvey, clerk | |
Beth Cogswell | |||
Harrassment, Ad Hoc | |||
Elaine Wilson, clerk | Zoe Plaugher | ||
Betsy Bramon | Gray Handley | ||
Greg Robb | |||
Liz Pomerlau | |||
Hunger and Homelessness Task Force | |||
Gray Handley | Brad Green | Steve Brooks, Co-clerk | |
C.J. Lewis, Co-Clerk | Betsy Bramon | ||
Information Technology | |||
Neil Froemming, Clerk | Katie Breslin | Brian Lutenegger | |
Andrew Hall | Brad Green | Daniel Dozier | |
C.J. Lewis | Mackenzie Morgan | Bill Foskett | |
Ex-officio member: Barbara Briggs, Administrative Secretary | |||
Ex-officio members: Ken Orvis, Property Manager | |||
Pastoral Care Working Group | |||
Marsha Holliday | Sabrina McCarthy (clerk) | David Etheridge | |
William Parker | Liz Pomerleau | Emilie Schmeidler | |
Roseanna Stanton | Gene Throwe | ||
Race, Taskforce (under Peace and Social Concerns Committee) | |||
David Ethridge, clerk | Debby Churchman | ||
Working Group on Clearness Committees | |||
Petra-Rahim Carnes, clerk | Barbara Briggs | Danielle Carnes | |
David Etheridge | Gray Handley | Marsha Holliday | |
Ken Orvis | William Parker | Emilie Schmeidler | |
Roseanna Stanton | |||
Sustainability and Climate Action Taskforce | |||
Brian Lutenegger | |||
Young Adult Friends | |||
Rebecca Nelson, co-convenor | Joe D'Antonio, co-convenor |
Representatives to Other Organizations
(One-year or three-year terms, expiring in year indicated)
Quaker Organizations |
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Meeting Liaisons | |||
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - 2 year term through 2019 | Ylene Larsen | ||
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee - unspecified term | Blair Forlaw | ||
Friends Committee on National Legislation - 1 year term through 2019 | Elaine Wilson | ||
Friends United Meeting - 1 year term through 2021 | Sabrina McCarthy | ||
Right Sharing of World Resources - 1 year term through 2019 | Karen Grisez | ||
Interfaith Council of Metro Washington - unspecified term | Chad Dobson | ||
Friends Non-Profit Housing, Inc. Board - 3 year term | |||
Dan Dozier | |||
School for Friends Board (3 year term, July-June) | |||
Through June 2019 | |||
Michael Cronin | |||
William Penn House Board - 2 year term | |||
Vacant | |||
Non-Quaker Organizations |
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Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2-D - 1 year term | |||
Michael North | |||
DC Council of Churches (Representative to Annual Meeting) | |||
Susan Meehan | |||
Tom Yonker |
Grant Thompson |
Megan Telfair |