Members of the
Board,
2009 - 2010
[10-29-09]
Co-Moderator (2009-2010): Bill Dummer
Bill is a 1966 M.Div. graduate of San Francisco Theological
Seminary. He served on the staffs of churches in Long Beach and Monterey,
California, where he was involved in both Christian Education and community
ministry. For 15 years he took a detour in rural mid-America, serving
churches in Nebraska and Kansas. In 1987 he returned to his home town of
Milwaukee as pastor of Calvary Church, which hosted the Witherspoon Society
Dinner at the 1992 General Assembly. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006, he
was an interim
ministry specialist, with a focus on community ministry and
congregational transformation. Since his retirement, Bill's major occupation
(besides gardening) has been his development of a partnership between
Milwaukee Presbytery and a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
Co-Moderator (2-year term):
currently vacant
Treasurer (2-year term): Darcy Hawk
Darcy holds a D.Min. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
and is a member of Pittsburgh Presbytery. He has been pastor of Gibsonia
Presbyterian Church since being ordained in 1984. He was previously employed
by The United Cerebral Palsy Association of Pittsburgh community living
program and having served on the board of Renaissance Center, a community
mental health provider. He chaired Pittsburgh Presbytery's committee on the
concerns of people with disabilities. Finding that physical barriers are
easier to remove than attitudinal ones, he welcomes the challenging
prophetic work of full inclusion of all God's people.
Secretary/Communicator (2-year term): Mitch Trigger
Mitch served as the Wareham intern at the 1995 General
Assembly in Cincinnati and has been a regular attendee at General Assembly
ever since. Mitch and his wife Sue have served as co-pastors in Indiana and
upstate New York and have been strongly committed to social justice issues
throughout their ministry. They are now co-pastoring (if that's a word) at
First Presbyterian Church, Rockaway, N.Y. Before entering into ordained ministry, Mitch
worked in the broadcasting field (radio & TV).
Membership Coordinator (2 year term)
Currently vacant
Members At Large (2-year terms):
Colleen Bowers,
a nurse who lives in Baltimore, MD, is one of three board members
representing Voices of Sophia.
Sylvia Carlson, a retired minister
in Redstone Presbytery, is active in her presbytery's partnership with
the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church.
Molly Casteel, who lives in Louisville, KY,
until recently held a position as
staff for women’s advocacy in the Racial Ethnic and Women’s Ministry
Program of the church.
Catherine C. Snyder is a life-long Presbyterian who has served
as chaplain to Mary Baldwin College, as associate of Blacksburg
Presbyterian Church, and as Presbyterian Campus Minister at Virginia
Tech since 1995. She feels blessed to serve in a ministry that has a
very long history of working for peace and justice. Since the mass
killings of April 16, 2007, she has been dreaming of living in a land
with strict gun control.
Sylvia Thorson-Smith
was born and raised a Lutheran in Anchorage,
Alaska, but she's been a Presbyterian all of her adult life. In the
1980s she served on COWAC (the Council on Women and the Church) and
staffed the 1988 GA report, "Pornography: Far From the Song of Songs."
She was a writer of the 1991 GA report, "Keeping Body and Soul Together:
Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Justice," and has written books on
human sexuality and LGBT justice. Sylvia is a founding member of Voices
of Sophia, an affinity group formed in 1995 to advocate the
theological/liturgical contributions of women and promote interconnected
activism on all social justice issues. She is retired from teaching
sociology, religious studies, and gender/women's studies at Grinnell
College and lives in Tucson, AZ, where she serves on the session of St.
Mark's Presbyterian Church, enjoys life with husband Mike Smith, and
cavorts with her 4-year-old airedale, Cocoa.
Ex-officio positions
filled by persons
named by the Board for particular functions
Communications Coordinator: Doug King
Doug has served as editor of Network News since 1993, has
since then become manager of the Witherspoon web site, and keeper of the
membership database. He taught for ten years at Satya Wacana
Christian University in Indonesia, then was chaplain and professor of
Religious Studies at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. He is now
retired, and lives in Woodbury, Minnesota.
Bookkeeper: Susan Robertson
Susan works nearly full-time as bookkeeper for a medical
practical in Eagan, Minnesota, and manages our financial records as
well.
G.A. Booth Coordinator: Vicki Moss
Vicki has played this vital role for some years, meeting and greeting
almost every soul wandering through the exhibit hall at each GA.
She served for some years as chaplain at Davis and Elkins College in
West Virginia, she is now serving as pastor of Ridgewood Presbyterian
Church in Ridgewood, NY.
