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Board members work throughout the year to formulate policy, plan advocacy projects, and assist in developing activities for the membership. Please feel free to contact any Board member with questions or ideas. Your input, enthusiasm, and creativity are the energy sources of our UURMaPA community.
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 Rev. Richard S. Gilbert, President
Rochester, NY
rsgilbert@uuma.org
Dick retired in June 2005 after serving congregations in Cleveland, Ohio; Golden, Colorado; Ithaca, New York; and for 32 years at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York. He authored the Building Your Own Theology adult religious education series, as well as Skinner House books on social action, economic justice and a book of meditations. Currently he is President of Interfaith Impact of New York State and is part-time Social Justice Coordinator for the St. Lawrence UU District. He lives in Rochester with his wife Joyce, enjoying their three grandchildren. |
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 Rev. W. Jim Eller, Vice-President
Midwest City, OK
wjimeller@gmail.com
Jim is a life-long Unitarian Universalist. He served in the parish ministry from 1980 until 2010. Jim worked with a number of our UU congregations and is the Minister Emeritus at All Souls UU Church in Kansas City. Jim is married to Jeannie Himes, a United Methodist minister serving a congregation in Oklahoma City. Jim is an avid sailor and outdoorsman. |
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 Jan Sammons, Secretary
Walnut Creek, CA
jansammons@gmail.com
Jan lives with her husband, David, in Walnut Creek, CA. David most recently served as interim in Golden, CO at Jefferson Unitarian Church, where Peter Morales had been Senior Minister. David retired in June, 2011. Jan retired in 2008, having been an educator for 38 years. She’s enjoying new activities at a level not possible in the years she held a full time job teaching. She’s been a UU since 1970, in Cincinnati, OH, Evanston, IL, and Walnut Creek, CA. Besides church work, she loves the family cats, and is head over heels involved in quilting. |
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 Kathleen Hunter, Treasurer
Derry, NH
kdhagd@mac.com
Kathleen is a retired lawyer who lives in New London, NH with her husband Alan Deale (Minister Emeritus of First Unitarian, Portland, OR). Beginning in 1983 she served seven years as the Executive Director of the Canadian Unitarian Council, providing the first professional leadership for the the CUC. She and her husband are the New Hampshire UURMaPA Caring Representatives. |
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 Rev. Paul L'Herrou, Caring Network Chair
Ipswitch, MA
paullherrou@gmail.com
Paul retired three years ago as an Accredited Interim Minister. He lives in Ipswich, MA with his spouse, the Rev. Sylvia Howe, who retired a year later, and two cats who have never known anything other than retirement. Paul and Sylvia share five children and four grandchildren. Paul was settled minister at Emerson UU Church in Canoga Park, CA, St. John’s in Cincinnati, and -- as Co-Minister with Sylvia -- in Boca Raton, FL. In addition, he served nine interim ministries and crafted the words of the Seventh Principle. They are now active lay members of the First Universalist Church of Essex, MA.
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 Chris Lilly Backus, Newsletter Editor
Bellingham, WA
chrisbackus@msn.com
Chris Lilly Backus has been a UU since 1976. She has served on the boards of the St. Lawrence District and New York State Convention of Universalists. Chris has been an outspoken voice within the UU Ministers Partners since 1980. She joined UURMaPA in 2004 and now compiles and edits Elderberries. She teaches and takes boating courses and is now serving as commodore of Semiahmoo Yacht Club. A retired healthcare executive, she lives with her partner, Andy Backus, in Bellingham, WA, where they now have time to enjoy their boat. |
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 Rev. Richard M. Fewkes, Member at Large
West Dennis, MA
dick_ellie@aol.com
Dick is Minister Emeritus of the First Parish in Norwell, MA. Since his retirement a decade ago
he has served two years in interim ministry at the First Parish Church in Bridgewater, MA and now offers occasional pulpit supply in the Boston area. His specialty is to impersonate, in period dress, the Rev. Theodore Parker speaking to his time and to ours. He has done this a dozen times or more. For the past three years he has served as the Ballou Channing UURMaPA Caring Network Representative. Dick resides on Cape Cod and is an active member of the UU Meeting House in Chatham, MA.
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 Rev. Anne Orfald, Member at Large
Peterborough, ON
aorfald@cogeco.ca
Anne has roots in the Universalist Church. She is Minister Emerita of the Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough, Ontario, the congregation she served for ten years, retiring in 2004. She has been the UURMaPA Caring Network contact for colleagues in Eastern Canada for five years, and in earlier years served as MSR and Good Offices person. Anne took up the French horn when she retired (plays with the New Horizons band) and sings with the Bedside Singers of Hospice Peterborough. She and Scott live in Peterborough and attend the fellowship there. They and their three children moved to Canada from Minnesota in 1972 and are dual citizens; they have six grandchildren.
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Rev. Ellen Brandenburg, Nominating Committee Chair
Salem, MA
ellen.brandenburg@gmail.com
Rev. Andrew C. Backus, Database Manager and Webmaster
Bellingham, WA
andrewbackus@msn.com
Rev. Elizabeth Strong, Historian
Ashby, MA
estrong110@comcast.net |
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