Earlham Board of Trustees

Lavona Bane	Deborah Miller Hull	Sara Jane Kellum Ryan
Louise Beede	John W. Loose	John Scarlett
Douglas C. Bennett	Fredrick McClure	Marion Shore
Robert J. Bresler	David Matthews	Penny Sitler
Daniel Wayne Carter	Morris Mills	David Stump
Barbara Risen Gottschalk	Raymond Ontko	Brent D. Taylor
Diana Hadley	Vaughn Peebles	Catherine Melinda Tinsley
Peggy Ann Hollingsworth	Karen Lowry Reed	John G. Young

Honorary Lifetime Trustees

C. Robert Bell	Thomas A. Gottschalk	P. Gerald Mills
Mary Birenbaum	Eugene Mills	Mark Myers
Landrum R. Bolling	Howard Mills	Gwendolyn Weaver

Earlham School of Religion Board of Advisors

Mary Ann Downey	Brent McKinney	Sara Jane Ryan
Alice Gilbert	Betsy Meyer	Sue Settlage
David Hadley	John Norris	Marty Smith
Jack Kirk	Diane Randall	Thomas Taylor
Susan Kirkpatrick	Norval Reece	Patricia Thomas
Howard Macy	Joseph Roher	Clarice Warrick
Keith Mardock

Board of Advisor Bios

Patricia C. Thomas

I grew up in the Religious Society of Friends in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Ann Arbor Meeting is a large, FGC unprogrammed meeting.  I was the first Junior Clerk for Green Pastures Quarterly meeting and remained active in LEYM until my husband and I moved to Colorado in l968.

Kirby and I have two sons, Kevin and Aaron both of whom are married and have produced 7 grand sons!  Kirby died of cancer in January 1995, while I was working as Campus Minister at Wilmington College (WYM).  In October 1998, Doug Woodmansee and I were married under the care of Campus Friends and Highland Friends Meetings.  Doug is a professor of biology at Wilmington College and we live on his family farm, he is the 7^th generation on this land.

I have served FWCC as representative and as Associate Secretary in London.  I am currently presiding Clerk of our Yearly Meeting Ministry & Counsel, where I am clerking the Task Force to update Faith & Practice as well as Clerk of Campus Friends Meeting, and presiding Clerk of the ESR Board of Advisors.

I have a BA from the University of Michigan ’64, and a M. Min. degree from ESR ’90.

Alice Gilbert

I am originally from Norwich, New York and currently reside in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. I received my B.A. from Swarthmore College and attend London Grove Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

I’m married to Philip Gilbert and have three children, Esther, Elizabeth and Thomas.

My hobbies include computers, travel and reading.

Ann Kendall

I grew up in Richmond, Indiana.  My home now is Indianapolis, where I live with my husband, Sid Crane.  Sid was born in Africa to missionary parents and lived in the Congo for 17 years prior to coming to the states to attend college.

I graduated from Earlham College and went on to law school but did not finish my law degree.  I married, Rick Kendall and moved to Illinois where I taught fourth grade for 10 years.  We adopted our first child Mike, a student from my class, and then a second son Tom.  They have given us four grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Their father passed in 1992.

My meeting is First Friends in Indianapolis and Western Yearly Meeting.

My hobbies are reading and traveling.

Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Meyer

I grew up in Pennsylvania.  When I was 20, I joined the Religious Society of Friends, and I have been a Friend all my adult life. I majored in mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA, and went to law school at Boston University (“BU”).  I met my husband Scott at BU, and we were married at Plymouth Meeting during our third year of law school.  My husband, a West Point graduate, was in the Army back then, and his career took us to Tennessee (where I practiced law and public accounting and earned my CPA certificate, and where our daughter Sarah was born) and then to Washington DC.  The Lord works in mysterious ways, and by making me a Quaker military wife, the Lord taught me to get along with people even if I don’t agree with them.

We settled in the Washington area, eventually moving to the Maryland suburbs.  Once Scott’s military commitment was fulfilled, he worked for the Justice Department and now works for a corporation.  I worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for ten years but retired when Sarah became a teenager and needed more attention.  Now, my daughter is grown and on her own, and I am the director of domestic affairs of the household, taking care of husband and cat.

For the past 15 years or so, I have been a part of the leadership of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program, which enriches the spiritual live of Friends through retreats, local spiritual community, readings and individual practices.  I have served the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting as Clerk and on committees and have recently begun to serve Baltimore Yearly Meeting as the Clerk of Interim Meeting.  A while ago, I received a leading to devote myself to the Psalms, and I started committing them to memory.  After nine years, I was able to learn them all, and now I recite Psalms to myself when I run in the mornings.  I volunteer at the National Zoo as a Large Mammal Interpreter (talking to visitors about the elephants and hippo) and as an elephant behavior watcher.  I am grateful for God’s many blessings, the greatest of which is the presence of the Lord in my life, molding me and forming me according to the Divine will.  And the Lord is not finished with me yet.

Sue Settlage

I was raised in Whittier, California (born in Indiana) and left this boring “bedroom community” to get B.S. and Master of Education degrees, then teach in the Los Angeles City Schools.  Rob & I returned to raise our three daughters. I worked 29 years as a Master Docent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  I am active in the Whittier community, including serving on the city’s Cultural Arts Commission and currently chairing the Whittier Public Library Foundation Board of Directors.  I am a founding member of the Hospice House Guild and the Whittier Cultural Arts Foundation.  I presently am Presiding Clerk at First Friends Whittier, having served as Clerk of the Meeting on Ministry & Oversight and Nominating Committees, and on the Spiritual Life, Christian Education, and Personnel Boards, and the Friends School Committee.  I served on the Policy Committee of the Friends Committee on National Legislation from 1998-2005, and currently clerk the Annual Meeting Planning Committee.  I worked on the steering committee when First Friends Whittier hosted the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Quiet Helpers exhibit in 2001.

My husband Rob is a retired physician, active in AFSC, and our youngest daughter, Amanda, will be a senior at Whittier College in 2008-09.  I spend a lovely portion of my time traveling east—where our middle daughter, Chrysanthi Leon, is an assistant professor at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, and our oldest daughter, Rachel Gonzalez, is a clinical faculty fellow at the Baltimore University School of Law—visiting our three grandchildren.

Susan Kirkpatrick

I was born and raised in Noble County, Indiana.  Albion is my   hometown.  My father and grandfather were farmers, as were most of my   uncles.  I grew up in a home where my mother's role was to make a great house and keep the "home fires burning".

My husband, Ralph and I now live on a farm in Grant County, Indiana. In fact we live on the Kirkpatrick family farm (Kirkpatricks here for over a hundred years).  Ralph grew up here near Fairmount.  I am a retired registered nurse.  I have a BS degree in nursing and an MA degree in nursing education.  A part of my career included teaching BS- degree nursing students at Indiana Wesleyan University (then Marion College).  The last part of my career, I was director of Health Services at Anderson University, Anderson,IN.  Ralph is professor emeritus at Ball State University where he taught biology.

We have two sons.  Lindley is city manager for McCall, ID.  McCall is a resort community in the mountains about 100 miles north of Boise. His wife is the CFO for the local hospital.  He and his wife have 3 children, a son and two daughters.

Shane, our younger son, is associate professor at Anderson University teaching in the Religious Studies Department.  He and his wife also have 3 children, a son and two daughters.  His wife was recently named director of a pre-school that will open in August, 2008.

We belong to Back Creek Friends Meeting, Fairmount, a part of Indiana Yearly Meeting.  I have served a presiding clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting for 6 years.  I will complete that responsibility at our up-coming yearly meeting sessions, 2008.

Keith Mardock

I was born in Wichita, Kansas July 27, 1936.  My first wife, Joyce Pickering and I spent 2-1/2 years in Christian service work in East Africa.  We arrived in Kenya 6 months after Independence, which was an exciting and hopeful time for everyone.  My son, Kirk was born just 2 months after our arrival.  Having spent my life in construction and teaching industrial education my training adequately prepared me to accept a position with the Operations and Industrial Department in Kenya, which included a sawmill, electrical system, water system, carpenter shop, auto garage and eighty employees.

After returning from Kenya, I entered ESR in 1973 part/time until 1975 when we moved to Richmond to become a full time student until graduating in 1977.  I received my B.S. from Friends University, and my M.Min. from ESR.

I was divorced in 1979 and remarried Myrna White in l988.  The last 23 years in Iowa have been the happiest time in my adult life.  After attempts in the corporate world and several pastoral positions, I received a call to Hesper Friends Meeting in 1985, where I continue to minister today.

I have two children; A son, Kirk who is an Industrial Technology teacher in Maryland, and a daughter, Jayne, who is a Legislative Director for the American Kidney Foundation in Washington DC. I also have two stepdaughters, three grandchildren and 6 step-grand children.

I served for 18 years on the William Penn University Board of Trustees. I have served in several positions representing Iowa Yearly Meeting, and volunteered many days designing and building new cabins and the retreat center at Camp Quaker Heights.

My hobbies include working in my shop, and building and repairing things.  I sing with the Decorah Chorale and have sung in choirs for the last 58 years, and I played football for 4 years.

Brent McKinney

I’m originally from Surry County, North Carolina and am married to Brenda who is a Physician’s Assistant. We have three children, Mamie, Bryson and Leah. Mamie is married with one child, Bryson is married and Leah is a senior at Guilford College.

I am a transportation engineer and received degrees from the following institutions: Wingate College, ASCE; NC State Univ., BSCE; and Purdue Univ., MSCE.

I am a member of Pine Hill Friends Meeting and Surry Quarter, NCYM.

My hobbies include farming and traveling.

Clarice Warrick

I grew up in Jay County, IN and presently reside in Richmond, IN. My husband is deceased, and I have one daughter, two step-daughters (one is deceased), one step-son, and eight grandchildren. I am a graduate of Reid Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, and Earlham College – Registered Nurse. I am retired from Reid Hospital after 30 years, mostly in Infection Control.

I am a member of West Richmond Friends Meeting (IYM).

My hobbies include reading, music, volunteering for church, Achieva, and Rock Solid Petra Project.

Diane Randall

I grew up in Omaha, NE and moved to Connecticut in 1986.  I live in West Hartford, about 1 mile from the meetinghouse of Hartford Monthly Meeting where my family is very active.  We are members of New England Yearly Meeting.  I am married to Roger Catlin, who writes about TV for the local newspaper.  I have 3 children:  Alex Mustonen, 26 years old, and architect living in New York City; Lillie Catlin, 16 years old, and a junior in high school, and Nora Catlin, 12 years old, a 7^th grader.

I work as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Strong Communities, a non-profit organization that develops policy and advocates for solutions to homelessness, affordable housing and effective community development.  We work with elected officials at the state, federal and local levels and convene forums, discussions and meetings to advance our mission.

Most of my time is occupied by work, family and Quaker meeting activities, which, most of the time - bring me joy.  As time permits, I also enjoy cooking, reading, walking outdoors and yoga.

David Hadley

I married Ruth Eleanor Ault on October 23, 1954 and adopted a son, John Milton Hadley, and a daughter, Mary Jane Maraga Hadley.  I have four grandchildren, Candice, Garrett, Tracy and Ivan.

I left a Family Practice Medical Office to go to Kaimosi Hospital in Kenya, East Africa through the Friends United Meeting Board on Missions, returning to Kenya several times from 1956-1969. I’m currently County Health Officer/Administrator for the Hendricks County Health Department in Danville, IN.

I’m a member of  Plainfield Friends Meeting, Plainfield, IN, and Western Yearly Meeting.

My hobbies include playing piano, walking, reading, and visiting with family and friends.

Howard Macy

My wife, Margi, and I have two children, Nathan and Hannah. I received a BA from George Fox University; MA from the Earlham School of Religion; and Ph.D from Harvard University.  I’m currently a Professor at George Fox University.

I was a high school junior when I chose to pursue being in full-time Christian service rather than being a band director.  I had no idea, of course, of the twists and turns of the path that followed.

My eager discovery of the Old Testament in seminary and my love of teaching eventually led me to university work, which I have enjoyed now for over 20 years.  Along the way, I’ve also served as youth and Christian education worker and as a pastor.  As a Friends minister, I still see my teaching as a way of supporting the work of the church.

My love of both the Psalms and the Prophets blends well with a strong secondary interest in Christian spirituality, a subject that I get to teach in a variety of ways at George Fox.

 These subjects also support my work in worship, both in teaching and weekly planning activities.

My current research and writing is about humor and the spiritual journey.  It explores how we experience and use humor and how that relates to Christian maturity.  It also explores how to recognize and interpret humor in the Bible.

I am a member of Newberg Friends Meeting.

I also enjoy sports (basketball, bicycling, etc.), music (brass ensemble, choir, etc.), photography and going to the Oregon coast as often as possible.

Jack Kirk

I grew up in Newton Square, Delaware County, PA, 3 miles from where family settled in 1684.I was pastor of Fairfield Friends Meeting (WYM), New Garden Friends Meeting (NCYM), Bakersfield Friends Church in California (SWYM), Archdale Friends Meeting (NCYM), and Greensboro First Friends Meeting (NCYM). I have also served as Program Director of Quaker Hill Conference Center, Co-pastor at University Friends Meeting (M-AYM), Field Secretary of FUM, and Editor of Quaker Live Magazine.

I’m a member of Greensboro First Friends Meeting, Greensboro NC and NCYM.

I was fortunate enough to marry Janet Kay Agan of Plainfield, IN on September 4, 1960. We met at Earlham College.  We have a daughter, Jennie Kirk Stegall and son, Chad Lewis and five grandchildren Kylie, Tanner, Hannah, Sam and Seth.

My education began at West Chester, PA Friends School, Westtown School (1955). I was a philosophy major at Earlham College (1959). Our 1956-57 Tennis Team was elected to the Earlham College Athletic Hall of Fame. I received an MDiv. from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN with an emphasis in Church History. I’m currently retired and live in Greensboro, NC.

I spend as much time as possible by the ocean, either on the Carolina Coast or the Jersey Shore, reading novels and history; hanging out with grand children, being a fanatical fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles and Indiana University basketball.  I also enjoy bird watching, small growth groups in local meetings, competitive games and sports, movies and plays and seeing Quakers recover their original comprehensive vision and fire.

Joe Roher

I was born and reared in Salem, Ohio.  I have lived the last 24 years in Friendswood, Texas.  Therefore, I consider myself a Texan.  I am married to Sally who has recently retired from serving as a counselor in public schools.  We have two sons, Thad and Nathan.  They are both married and live in Friendswood.  We are blessed with 5 grandchildren.

I graduated from Malone College, received the Master of Divinity degree from United Theological Seminary, and Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew University.  I have served as pastor at First Friends Church of Canton, Ohio, and Assistant Superintendent of Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region.  I pastured Friendswood Friends Church for 21 years and have been Pastor Emeritus for the past 3 years.

Presently, Sally and I are involved in retreat ministry.  The focus of this ministry is in the area of Spiritual Formation with an emphasis on silence and solitude.  We spend a month at Twin Rocks, a camp and retreat center for Northwest Yearly Meeting.  We also spend a month with Baptist Pastors and wives in San Antonio, Texas.

John Norris

I grew up in Amboy, IN and still reside there today. I have a B.A. from Manchester College and currently work as an insurance agent. My wife, Carolyn and I have three children and we are members of Amboy Friends Meeting, Indiana Yearly Meeting.

I am a runner and play baritone horn in a community band, and am a Forever Scouter, Boy Scouts of America.

Marty Smith

I grew up in Indiana, near Indianapolis, and now reside in Moorestown NJ. I am married to Bill Smith (Hometown: Van West OH), and we have 2 children and 5 grandchildren. I have an MS in Early and Middle Childhood Education from Ohio State. I lived 2 years in Kenya.  My first child was born in Nairobi.  At 55 years I survived a brain aneurysm and brain surgery to correct. I am a member of Moorestown Meeting, PYM, and my hobbies include tennis and calligraphy.

Mary Ann Downey

I grew up in a close-knit family and Southern Baptist church community in Asheville, NC.  The religious education there of Bible reading, memorizing scripture and singing hymns is still a foundation for my spiritual journey.  I came to Friends through demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and working with the AFSC as an intern at Shepherd Pratt Hospital, in Towson MD. I am currently part of the Traveling Ministries Program of FGC, a member of Atlanta Friends Meeting, Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting, served as clerk of Atlanta Friends Meeting and clerk of the Ministry and Worship Committee.

I was part of a group at Earlham College who worked under a grant from the Kellogg Foundation with Monteze Snyder to create Building Consensus: Conflict and Unity and with Tracye Peterson on Friendly Consensus: Speak, Listen Unite for teen students. Currently, I'm Director of Decision Bridges, and offer a Quaker perspective to groups of adults and students (Quaker and non Quaker) on building community, resolving conflict and facilitating meetings, where consensus building or a search for Spirit-led unity is desired.  I'm interested in the ministry of writing for Friends, served on the Board of Trustees for Friends Journal and have published essays in the Journal on my struggle with faith. 

I hold a BA, MED and MSW from the University of North Carolina.  I'm married to Bill Holland and have a daughter and granddaughter. I enjoy cooking, yoga, visiting national parks and hiking. See www.decisionbridges.com for more information.

Sara Jane Ryan

I grew up in Camby, Indiana, a small community southwest of Indianapolis.  My parents were Jim and Roberta Kellum.  I have 2 sisters.  My father’s family came to the Fairfield area from New Garden Meeting in North Carolina in 1821.  My mother’s family was from North Carolina also, but they settled at Lost Creek Meeting in New Market, Tennessee.

In 1961, I married Larry Ryan.  We have three children.  Our seven grandchildren live nearby and provide many activities for us to attend.  We live in a historic home built in 1872 by my great, great uncle and aunt, Noah and Hannah Kellum.

I attended Earlham College, and completed my college work at IUPUI.  I retired from teaching third grade in Mooresville Schools in 2001.  Larry is retired from teaching at Indiana University School of Dentistry.

East Tennessee is our second home.  We enjoy spending time in our home in Vonore.  When there, we participate in the Friends meetings in the area (Friends Meeting of Ballplay and Friendsville Meeting).

We Are members of Plainfield Monthly Meeting in Western Yearly Meeting.  I am one of WYM’s representatives on the Earlham Board of Trustees.  I am a trustee liaison to the ESR Board of Advisors.

Thomas Fuller Taylor

I grew up in Glenview, IL, where my parents, Lewis and Margaret Taylor (both Earlham College Graduates), were part of the small group of Friends who started Evanston Meeting during the 1930’s.  Nancy Emmons (EC, ‘63) and I (EC, ’59) were married in Nancy’s home meeting, Florida Avenue, Washington, DC in 1963 and lived in Richmond during 1962-64 while I taught Music at Earlham. We then moved to Evanston IL, where I completed my PhD in Musicology. After teaching for a year at IU in Bloomington, we moved to Ann Arbor, MI and a position in the Musicology Department at the University of Michigan School of Music.  Here, we reared two children, Jen and Clarke.

In 1985, we answered the call to work for the world family of Friends in London, England, where I served the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) as Associate Secretary (1986-91) and General Secretary (1992-97) and Nancy served as warden (resident Friend) of Sutton Friends Meeting (Britain YM) and worked for Quaker Peace & Service. In 1998, we moved back to Ann Arbor and resumed active membership in Ann Arbor Friends Meeting (Lake Erie YM). 

I have served LEYM, clerking Ministry & Nurture and Nominations, Recording Clerk, and clerking the Policy Committee of Friends Committee for National Legislation as well as on the International Programs Executive Committee of AFSC. 

My hobbies include international walking holidays (which often puts me back in touch with Friends in different parts of the world), playing the piano, gardening, canoeing, and two lively grandchildren who live just around the corner.