Candidates Elected at the 176th Diocesan Convention
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Lay Alternate Deputy
to 2009 General Convention
Standing Committee
Trustee of the Diocese
Diocesan Council
Oversight and Audit
Committee
Rock Point Board
Brookhaven Trustees
Rock Point School
Trustees
Clergy Alternate Deputy to 2009 General Convention
(Four elected)
Note: Alternate Deputies are ranked by the number of votes received.
The first alternate in each order attends the Convention. In the event
an elected deputy is unable to serve, the alternates move up in order,
with the first alternate serving as a deputy and the second alternate
attending the Convention as an alternate.
CA-1 The Rev. Reid Farrell is rector at Holy Trinity, Swanton. He is a member of Diocesan Council and of its Executive Committee, the Cathedral Chapter and the planning team for the upcoming Capital Campaign. He was Clergy Alternate Deputy #4 to the 2006 General Convention.
CA-2 The Rev. Linda M. Maloney is priest in partnership at St. Matthew’s, Enosburg Falls, and has served as dean of the Northwest Deanery.
CA-3 The Rev. Carole Wageman is associate rector at Trinity, Shelburne. She serves with the group developing the diocesan Resource Center and as an alternate member of the Ecclesiastical Court. She served on the task force that led to the creation of two groups of the Commission on Ministry and chaired the Committee on Christian Formation from its inception, helping to shape its initial work.
CA-4 The Rev. Jud Pealer is rector at St. Paul’s, Windsor and part-time chaplain at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He serves on the Committee on Christian Formation and the Resolutions Committee. He was Clergy Alternate Deputy #3 to the 2006 General Convention.
Lay Alternate Deputy to 2009 General Convention
(four elected)
LA-1
Steven J. Smith, a vestry member and administrative warden at
St. James’,
Arlington, is treasurer of the diocese and a member of the diocesan Insurance
Committee. He serves ex officio on Diocesan Council and the Oversight and
Audit Committee. He is the former executive vice president of the Episcopal
Church Pension Group (CPG) and has attended two General Conventions in
that capacity.
LA-2 Scott A. Paul, a member of St. Michael’s, Brattleboro, serves on Diocesan Council and on the St. Michael’s vestry. He chairs the parish Stewardship Committee and is a past senior warden. He attended the 2006 General Convention.
LA-3 W. Duncan Tingle, a member of St. John’s in the Mountains, Stowe, is a retired school principal. He is a member of the Standing Committee, the Commission on Ministry Committee on Discernment and chair of the parish discernment committee to seek a new rector. He is president of the board of the Laraway School for children with special needs. He is a graduate of the Diocesan Study Program and has been involved in parish and diocesan leadership for many years.
LA-4 Mary Carlson, a member of St. James’, Essex Junction, is retired from the University of Vermont. She chairs the Ecumenical Lunch Bunch, a ministry among five churches in Essex Junction, and is a former board member of the Cathedral Square Corp. She has chaired St. James’ Sole Mates and the Outreach Committee and co-chaired the recent rector discernment committee.
Standing Committee
(One clergy and one lay member to serve to 2013)
The Rev. H. Paul Brannock-Wanter is rector at St.
Luke’s, Chester, and
a member of the Ecclesiastical Court. He is a past member of Diocesan Council
and served on the Commission on Ministry in his previous diocese.
C. Elizabeth Van Dyk, a member of Zion Church, Manchester, is retired from a career of administrative and university teaching. She currently serves as vice president of the board of the Southern Vermont Council on Aging.
Trustee of the Diocese
(One member to serve to 2015)
Stephen A. Reynes, a member of Christ Church, Montpelier, is an attorney
and partner at Primmer, Piper, Eggleston & Cramer. He is a member
of Diocesan Council and its Executive Committee and a former member of
the Rock Point and Bishop Booth Conference Center boards. He has also
served as senior and junior warden and vestry member at Christ Church.
He is a graduate of the Diocesan Study Program, a participant in the
Education for Ministry (EFM) program and part of an active baptismal
ministry discernment group at Christ Church.
Diocesan Council
(Four at-large members to serve to 2010)
The Rev. Victor Horvath is a priest/preacher
member of the Ministry Support Team at Immanuel, Bellows Falls, and an
administrator at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. He is a current member
of Diocesan Council, the Committee on Discernment of the Commission on
Ministry and the Nominating Committee. He has served on the Standing
Committee and as a vestry member.
The Rev. Scott B. Neal is rector at St. James’, Arlington, and a former long-time member of St. Mary’s, Northfield, where he served as choir director. He also served on the diocesan Music and Liturgy Committee.
Veronika Travis is a member of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, and a Web site project manager. She is a lay eucharistic minister and a member of the Committee on Christian Formation of the Commission on Ministry. As a former member of St. Michael’s, Brattleboro, she was a member of the parish’s Outreach Committee, a planner of mission trips and chair of the Christian Formation Team. She has experience in budgeting and planning and has worked in customer support for an Episcopal publisher.
Sarah Benton is a member of St. Michael's, Brattleboro. She has served there as a vestry member, junior warden, youth group co-leader, lay eucharistic visitor, lector, head usher, and financial counter. Sarah has also been Leader of senior high week at Rock Point Summer Camp.
(Two Youth to serve to 2009)
No youth were nominated.
Oversight and Audit Committee
(One clergy and one lay member to serve to 2011)
The Rev. Peter D. MacLean, a retired priest who attends St. Andrew’s,
Colchester, is a current member of the Oversight and Audit Committee.
He has served as a member of the audit team for several congregations.
Cynthia Watters, a member of St. Stephen’s, Middlebury, and librarian at Middlebury College, is completing her first term on the Oversight and Audit Committee. She is a past treasurer at St. Stephen’s.
Rock Point Board
(Three members to serve to 2011)
Laurel Broughton, a member of Trinity, Shelburne,
is a retired lecturer in English at UVM. She is a current trustee of
the diocese and has previously served on the Rock Point Board, the
Rock Point Task Force and as part of the diocesan strategic planning
process.
Travis S. Lamberton, an artist, is a member of St. John’s in the Mountains, Stowe, who serves the parish in many capacities, including the Building and Grounds Committee (St. John’s has just completed a new church building), the Pastoral Care Committee and the Altar Guild, as a eucharisitic minister and in the areas of hospitality and stewardship.
The Rev. Craig Smith is rector at Trinity Church, Shelburne, and a member of the Dispatch of Business Committee. He has served three terms on Diocesan Council, been a member of the Stewardship Committee, as a director and staff member of the Rock Point Summer Conferences and as president of the Brookhaven Board.
Brookhaven Trustees
(Three members to serve to 2011)
Howard D. Clarke is a member of St. Paul’s, White River Junction.
He is a current member of the Brookhaven Board and has been involved
in several mission trips to Honduras.
The Rev. Diana G. Collins is a deacon at St. Mark’s, Springfield. She is a member of Diocesan Council and serves as chaplain to the Brookhaven Board. She a past chair of the board and a member of the advisory board of the Latin American Mission and Bible Institute in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Sue Rogers is a Chelsea resident who works in the local public school. She is a past member of the Brookhaven Board.
Rock Point School Trustees
(Four members to serve to 2011)
Marylen Grigas, an English teacher, potter and poet
who lives in Burlington, has devoted much of her life to education and
working with students with special needs. She has taught at RPS for 31
years.
Barbara Grimes is general manager of the Burlington Electric Department, a member of the United Way Board and the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce. She is a former school board member and served two terms in the Vermont Legislature as chair of the Education Committee.
Lindsey Huddle, an attorney, is a member of St. James’, Essex Junction. She is a current member of the board and the diocesan Canons Committee, and a former member of the Diocesan Council, St. James’ vestry and delegate to Diocesan Convention.
The Rev. Canon Tanya R. Wallace is canon educator at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, and a current member of the RPS board. She is a deputy to the 2009 General Convention and chair of the Committee on Discernment of the Commission on Ministry. She previously served on Diocesan Council.
