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The Clergy & Staff
The Rev. William McD. Tully
RECTOR
The Rev. William McD. Tully has been rector of St. Bartholomew's since September 1994, and his passion for its mission and his work is undiminished.
Bill is a native Californian, educated in the public schools and a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles. His first professional call was to journalism; he edited the college paper, became a copy boy and then local reporter at the
Los Angeles Times, and his first full immersion into New York life was as a student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He then learned more about the city as a community worker for its Model Cities program, and while there it was an "underlying call" that turned him toward ordained ministry and study at the General Theological Seminary.
After ordination in 1974, he served as Curate at the Church of the Epiphany, Manhattan; associate rector at St. Francis Church, Potomac, Maryland; and then as rector of St. Columba's Church, Washington, DC. The people and mission of St. Columba's taught him about church growth, Christian hospitality, and hope for the future of the church.
Working with a dedicated group of leaders and an enlarged clergy and professional staff, Bill has led the growth and renewal of St. Bart's, which had entered the 90s in a size and state too diminished to do effective ministry in its location. "It's a great time to be the church, and to be St. Bart's," he says. "Our Episcopal/Anglican tradition offers a home for an increasing number of spiritual seekers who want meaning and community and who aren't afraid of growth, of commitment, and of a thinking faith."
In other words, he loves his ministry and is always eager to meet and work with others who have found a home and a ministry at St. Bart's.
What a "rector" is and what this rector does: In the Episcopal system, the rector is the chief pastor and preacher in the parish, and is authority for the liturgy and sacraments. In institutional terms, he is a member of the Vestry, the church's legal and fiduciary body. In broad terms, he is expected to lead with vision and to craft a strategy for mission and a viable and transparent operating plan for the church's business.
Bill Tully's direct phone: 212 378-0251
Email: tully@stbarts.org
 The Rev. Buddy Stallings
VICAR
Assuming his position as Vicar on Monday, April 14, 2008, the Reverend F. M. “Buddy” Stallings is the newest addition to the clergy at St. Bartholomew's Church. Ordained to the priesthood for 15 years, he has served parishes in Mississippi and New York, most recently as the Rector of the Church of the Ascension on Staten Island. After almost ten years at a large parish in Jackson, MS, St. James’ Episcopal Church, he was the founding director of the San Francisco based non-profit, the KRB Group, from which EveryVoiceNetwork, an online community of progressive churches, and Via Media, a curriculum for evangelism in the 21st Century derived. Shortly after the events on 9/11 Buddy followed a long held dream of returning to New York City. For the past six years, he has lived and ministered on Staten Island.
Buddy holds degrees from Mississippi College, The University of Tennessee, and the General Theological Seminary with additional post-graduate work completed at the Florida State University. Prior to becoming a priest, he was the Executive Vice President of the Waverley Group, a national firm, which owned and operated nursing homes and retirement centers throughout the United States. Functioning as its principal operating officer, he was responsible for annual revenues of more than a 100 million dollars.
His passionate belief about the church is that it exists at a critical crossroad within our culture, offering an increasingly secular society the opportunity for meaningful discourse about what truly matters in the world and in our journeys as human beings. Concerned with questions about the relevancy of our worship and particularly with how it engenders within us the desire to bring about the Realm of God on earth now, Buddy’s conviction is that the Eucharist, our common worship, provides the best chance we have for transforming the world one person and one community at a time.
A proud father and grandfather, Buddy is a “southern expatriate,” who found his home of choice, New York City, as a young man on his way home from a summer in Europe. Visiting that August in the mid-70’s in the midst of a garbage strike, Buddy was “smitten – go figure” and has never really wanted to live anywhere else!
Buddy Stalling's direct phone: 212 378-0215
Email: stallings@stbarts.org
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The Rev. Tom Ehrich
DIRECTOR OF CHURCH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Tom Ehrich is the founder of Morning Walk Media Inc. (www.morningwalkmedia.com), a web-focused publisher of materials for congregational development, faith formation and education. His Church Wellness Project is a “best practices” guide to nurturing congregational health. He leads Church Wellness workshops around the world. (See www.churchwellness.com.)
Tom’s daily “On a Journey” meditations reach a worldwide audience (See www.onajourney.org). He began writing them in 1993 while serving as an Episcopal pastor in Charlotte, NC. He had previously served parishes in Indiana and Missouri. Prior to seminary, Ehrich was a staff reporter for
The Wall Street Journal. In 1995 he moved on to writing and publishing, forming Journey Publishing Company, and to business consulting in the area of enterprise software implementations.
Tom’s weekly newspaper column is syndicated by Religion News Service to more than 100 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He is the author of three books, most recently “Just Wondering, Jesus,” published by Morehouse. His next book, to be published by Morehouse in 2008, will be “Church Wellness.” He has written three quarterly editions of
Forward Day by Day.
Tom and his wife Heidi, a teacher of English as a Second Language, are the parents of three sons (ages 28, 26 and 16).
Tom Ehrich's direct phone: 212 378-0209
Email: ehrich@stbarts.org
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The Rev. Bruce Forbes
HONORARY ASSOCIATE
The Rev. Bruce W. Forbes has been on the clergy staff of St. Bartholomew’s since 1964, undoubtedly a record of sorts.
Bruce was born in the far reaches of western New York, where he went to the same public school for twelve years. Then on to the University of Michigan, where he received his bachelor's degree in French. He then continued his education at Harvard, where he received a master's degree in Romance Languages.
Almost immediately thereafter he joined the Foreign Service and was sent to Palermo, where he perfected his Italian for five years. A short stint in Prague followed. Bruce found himself among the expendables when the Communist government ordered a drastic cut in U.S. personnel. He drove on into Paris and offered his services at the Consulate. He then began eight years in that city, the latter part of which was spent as an employee of the American Express.
It was during this period that he received a call to enter the priesthood of the Episcopal Church. He had been involved in various ministries at our cathedral church in Paris, then a hurried trip back to the states to meet with the Bishop of Western New York, who accepted him as a postulant. He enrolled at the General Theological Seminary and entered the three-year program, emerging with a master's degree in divinity.
His bishop assigned Bruce as curate at St. Luke’s Church in Jamestown, New York. Ordination to the priesthood followed after six months. After 2 1/2 years he was called to St. Bartholomew’s by the then rector Terence J. Finlay.
Thus Bruce’s odyssey to St. Bartholomew’s. After various ministries he has become chiefly involved in pastoral work among the elder members of the parish and those in the hospitals. He has baptized the children of those at whose marriage he has officiated and perhaps even has prepared for confirmation.
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The Rev. J.D. Clarke
DEACON
The Rev. John David Clarke was a parishioner at St. Bart's before he joined the lay professional staff as Director of Community Ministry in 1994. It wasn't long before he and others noticed that he was already doing the classic work of the diaconate, the servant ministry of the church. After completing EFM (Education for Ministry) he entered the discernment process for ordination. He was ordained a permanent deacon May 19,2001.
J.D. was born and grew up in New England, where he began his life long association with the Episcopal Church. He was a boy soprano at St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston and graduated from The Lenox School for Boys in Lenox Mass. He received an AA degree from Boston University and a BS in Public Administration from The University of Arizona. He spent 20 years as an actor/stage manager in Arizona and New York.
Before Joining St. Bart's he was a member St. Clement's Church in Manhattan where he was on the vestry and worked in their community outreach program. Now ordained, he continues his work as Director of Community Ministry, overseeing our year-round shelter, feeding programs, food pantry and directing and recruiting more than 150 volunteers who serve others through these programs. |
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The Rev. Lynn Sanders
ASSOCIATE
The Rev. Lynn Sanders joined St. Bart’s in 1988, and was active in a variety of lay ministries here while enjoying a career in business and management consulting. Following her ordination as priest in the Diocese of New York in 2004, she served a parish in Austin, Texas, where she discovered how much she loved the holy and challenging work of pastoring. Lynn recently joined the staff of St. Bart’s, where she delights in sharing the sacramental, preaching, teaching and pastoral ministries that nourish this faith community.
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Rabbi Leonard A. Schoolman
DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS INQUIRY™
Rabbi Leonard A. Schoolman became the director of The Center for Religious Inquiry™, a unique interreligious adult education program at Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York, in April 1999. Rabbi Schoolman was previously the founding director of the Center for Theological Studies at Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in Houston, which served as a prototype for the program at St. Bart's.
The Center for Religious Inquiry based on the premise that there are few opportunities for religious seekers who can study their own and other religious traditions in a safe and non-judgmental environment. Courses at CRI, which generally run four weeks in duration. are taught by academics of sterling reputation and highly developed teaching skills. Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, and Union Theological Seminary are some of the institutions whose faculty have participated in CRI programs since its inception in the Fall of 1999.
Rabbi Schoolman serves on the board of the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation, and on the board of the Stimulus Foundation, publishers of Stimulus Books. He is also the president of the New York Chapter of the American Composers Forum and a former member of the forum's national board.
Rabbi Schoolman was the national director of program for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now Union for Reform Judaism), the central agency of Reform Judaism in the United States and Canada, for 18 years. He served congregations in Los Angeles, Miami and St. Paul, Minnesota.
He was the administrative editor of
The Torah: A Modern Commentary, published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Rabbi Schoolman is the author of numerous books and articles.
He was educated at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he was ordained a Rabbi. He earned a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters degree, a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters there, and a Doctor of Divinity was conferred on 1988. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
PROFESSIONAL LAY STAFF
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Joan Asher
BOOKSTORE MANAGER
Joan Asher grew up in Massachusetts where she was raised in the Episcopal Church. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University with a B.A. in English she moved to New York City. Her first job was in advertising working for the fashion director at Wells, Rich, Greene when Mary Wells painted the Braniff planes colors and dressed the flight attendants in Pucci. She worked for a licensing/merchandising firm and then joined Celanese Fibers Marketing Company where she had 18 different jobs over 15 years in fashion, sales, marketing, retail, and management. After leaving Celanese she formed her own independent textile sales agency. In early 1996 she read in Crossroads that St. Bart’s was looking for someone to start a bookstore. She volunteered and with Co-chairman, Ann McClellan, established the Book & Gift Shop/Visitor’s Center in the Narthex. She currently manages the store, does all the buying, and oversees the volunteers who staff the store 7 days/70 hours per week. She is on the Board of Directors of the Episcopal Booksellers Association, a group of over 85 Episcopal booksellers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Linda Flynn Bayer
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND EVENTS
Linda Flynn Bayer has been a member of St. Bartholomew’s Church since 1988. She has served on the Rector Search Committee, Parish Council, Lay Ministry, Development, Annual Fund, and Hospitality committees, She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and, attended the Ohio State University as a voice major with a Bachelor of Music degree, she has been a model in NYC for over 25 years with the Ford Modeling Agency, and appeared in many soap operas, commercials, sit-coms, and dinner theater. In 1995 she joined the staff of St. Bart’s, part time, as Special Events Coordinator. This has expanded into a more than full time position as Director of Marketing & Events. The largest undertaking, so far, has been the Café. This entailed writing an RFP and interviewing vendors to manage it. Other duties include the renting of our various spaces, keeping the wedding records, and helping brides with necessary arrangements.
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Wendy Boyd INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER
Wendy Boyd manages the day-to-day operations of the network resources and services while providing technical support to the staff to meet their work objectives. She has a key role in the development and implementation of a plan for the improvement and growth in technologies at St. Bart’s.
Prior to joining the staff, Wendy served for 12 years as systems manager for the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center. Wendy is a graduate of Utica College of Syracuse University with a BA in journalism, and she also holds a JD from Fordham Law School.
Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN'S, YOUTH & FAMILY MINISTRIES
Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Ph.D. serves as director of Children's, Youth & Family Ministries at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York. This involves directing the Sunday School and Family Chapel programs, the Youth Group, Childcare, CY&F Planning Team, seasonal family events, and serving as chaplain to the on-site Preschool. She is currently involved in adapting the Godly Play curriculum for use at St. Bart's and is a member of the Children and Family Ministries committee for the Diocese. Prior to coming to St. Bart's, she served as lay Minister for Christian Formation at St. James's Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was responsible for lay leadership formation and coordination of parish ministries.
Kathy's doctoral work in Theological Ethics at Boston College focused on developing a method for engaging Christians in lifestyles defined by mercy. She holds a Masters in Theological Studies from Boston University, a B.A. in Music/Literature from Smith College, and a certificate in International Mission from the Boston Theological Institute. She is on the advisory board of Children at Worship: Congregations in Bloom, a non-profit that focuses on liturgical renewal.
Having had vocal training for many years, Kathy enjoys incorporating music into her work with children and families. She is currently writing a daily devotional book for Christians desiring to face and deepen their understanding of their participation in racist structures and other oppressions. Her essay,
10 Lessons in Ten Days: Suffering and Liberation on the Merciful Way, a theological reflection on her missionary experience in Honduras, was published in Sewanee Theological Review. Other pieces appear in the edited volumes,
Living Water and
Race and Prayer. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Mark (also on staff at St. Bart's), and son, Mark Anthony, who achieved enlightenment at age 3 and remains patient with his parents.
Alan L. Chisholm
PSYCHOTHERAPY & SPIRITUALITY INSTITUTE
Alan is a Pastoral Psychotherapist who has been in practice for over 35 years. His journey has taken him from an undergraduate major in Physics, to seminary and 15 years in parish ministry as an Episcopal priest, to training and certification in Pastoral Psychotherapy.
He has been director of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute office here at St. Bartholomew’s since 1993, and has been associated with PSI and its predecessor, CHDC, since 1975. In addition to an active practice of individual and couples therapy, he offers premarital counseling using the PREPARE inventory. He has offered a workshop in marital enrichment, and for two years led the Between Jobs Support group at the church.
Among his special interests are working with people struggling with depression, in Twelve Step recovery programs, in helping people work through blocks to growth, and in facilitating more connected communication with couples. Envy and shame are two powerful forces that interest him, as well as the challenge of managing hate in relationships.
Alan is a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Certified Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
Michael Collins
VERGER
Michael Collins, Verger, came into the Episcopal Church while an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. His original attraction was the singular personality and engaging, if not heretical, theology of Bishop James Pike, the then unofficial chaplain to Berkeley.
After earning degrees in philosophy at Berkeley under the direction of Paul Feyerabend and John Searle, he went on to study at Stanford under Donald Davidson. Following an unexpected path, he became the president of the international division of a major US distillery, and then a vice president of Grey Advertising in New York, and a partner in a San Francisco agency.
In 1995, he was encouraged to become active in the liturgical life of St. Bart's by his friend, the Rev. Denver Hart, in the early days of Bill Tully's rectorship. Serving in a volunteer role, he began by helping orchestrate most services, and scheduling our then relatively small number lay ministers. With worship at the center of all we do and are, our growth mandated more devoted attention, and Michael joined the staff as full-time verger in 2001. Working closely with the clergy staff in liturgical planning, he now trains and coordinates almost 200 lay ministers including acolytes, Lay Eucharistic Ministers. lectors and daily office officiants. If it happens in the church, Michael will usually be right in the midst of things. Being our verger is his last, and most rewarding, calling.
He is married to Catherine Collins, a former vestry and current CRI board member, and their daughter, Emily, an acolyte and lector, was baptized here.
Millard Cook
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE RECTOR
A native of the Beech Mountain Community of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Millard came to St. Barts after a varied and colorful past in which he served in ministry, as an educator, and as a technical support trainer and technician for relational databases. Along the way he earned a B.A. in history (Appalachian State University) two masters degrees in theology (M.A. in Systematic Theology and the M.Div. from St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA) and two masters degrees in history (M.A. and M.Phil. in Early Modern European history from Fordham University). For 15 years Millard was a Benedictine monk of St, Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe (the oldest Benedictine monastery in the US) and served for 12 years as a Roman Catholic priest (mostly in the Archdiocese of New York). A dedicated student of Romance languages, he earned minors in French and Spanish and after high school lived for a semester in France. He was worked hard to maintain his fluency in conversational French and Spanish. Millard has been a parishioner of St. Bart's for almost three years and describes the day that he was received by Bishop Catherine Roskam as one of the most meaningful experiences of his adult life. Millard is the son of Janice Storie Davis and the younger brother of Jackie Miller and Debbie Nobles-all of NC. He is a proud uncle of three nephews and of six great-nephews and nieces. Millard is an avid amateur photographer, reader, and music lover (everything from Southern Gospel to Pop Latino).
Petunia Dey
DIRECTOR, SUMMER CAMP
Petunia Dey joined the St. Bart's staff full time in September of 2004. She has worked at Summer at St. Bart's for 9 years and became the Director in June of 2005.
Petunia was born in Guyana, South America, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She came to the United States upon starting high school, and is a graduate of Hunter College. After working at a non-profit after-school program during college, Petunia developed a passion for teaching. Before joining the St. Bartholomew community, she worked as a Kindergarten and Nursery teacher in the NYC private school system.
She now wears two hats here at St. Bartholomew's. While directing the summer camp, Petunia is also a staff member of the St. Bartholomew Community Preschool. She was also recently married at St. Bart's and has gone from Petunia Dey to Petunia Chmiel. Petunia says, "when I joined St. Bart's, I really felt like I was being welcomed into an extended family and I hope to make the families that come to the Camp and Preschool feel the same way."
Roz Dimon
MANAGER OF COMMUNICATIONS
Much of Roz's spiritual instruction and imaginative offerings are transmitted via a Mac G4. As for boundaries, she prefers not to notice them, often mixing commercial with fine, new with old, art with design. An artist who has exhibited her work internationally, she also created RDA Design, a successful web design consulting boutique. A former Art Director for the Wall Street Journal Online, she is an artist with a producer's cap. Her motto is to bring creativity to business and business to creativity. Faith is the glue.
For Roz, meaningfulness comes from harnessing her 24/7 imagination to the digital medium to cross boundaries, inspire others and promote change. One of her recent works is Pale Male: A Pilgrimage, a patent-pending new form of online storytelling which is both icon and interactive story in the format of a contemporary spiritual journey. A southerner turned New Yorker, Roz is a graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, where she studied new techniques while immersed in classical drawing and painting, including Study Abroad in Italy.For more on Roz, visit artstory.net and dimonscapes.com.
Dennis T. Durney
DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES
Married with two boys, three grandchildren and 1000 extended family members at Saint Bartholomew's.
Dennis's career began thirty-six years ago with New York Telephone Company. Over the years he held a number of key security positions. As Operations Director in charge of building security, he developed and implemented one of the first major access control systems in the country, which maintained a database of over fifty thousand card users in over seven hundred locations throughout the state of New York.
After leaving NYNEX he accepted a senior management position with Strategic Security and Communications, Dennis worked closely with a number of federal law enforcement agencies on the security of airports and federal properties. He also developed building security strategy for the U.S. Customs and Federal Aviation Administration at John F. Kennedy Airport during Operation Desert Storm.
Over the last fifteen years Dennis has been Director of Facilities for Saint Bartholomew's Church. Formerly of the Marriott Corporation, Dennis was asked to be a member of Bill Tully's new team in 1994. He was happy to accept this unique position.
Dennis notes: "I have had the privilege of working for the congregation and staff at Saint Bart's. Over the years this has been my greatest challenge. I have been maintaining the facilities with an undersized staff without the necessary funds to maintain this great place where everyone works for the good of the community. I am looking forward to being a part of restoring the buildings to their excellence."
Rose Lawson
DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL & ADMINISTRATION
Rose Lawson serves as Bart’s Assistant General Manager and first joined the staff in 1998. Rose’s duties include human resources, benefits, insurance, and systems and telecommunication issues. In addition to assisting the General Manager, she is responsible for supervising administrative staff. Rose grew up in the Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama and has been a member of St. Bart’s since 1993.
Rose studied engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in non-profit management from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Prior to her position at St. Bart's, Rose was Director of Finance and Administration at the International Longevity Center of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She also served for eight years as Manager of Administration at the Media Studies Center at Columbia University where she directed finance and human resources for the research institute and administered operating and capital budgets of $10 million annually. Earlier positions she has held include Marketing and Communications Coordinator for Printpack, Inc. in Atlanta and Copywriter/Production Assistant for the NBC television affiliate in Montgomery.
Rose served as president of the University of Alabama Alumni Association’s Greater New York Chapter, and her volunteer activities have included Habitat for Humanity work projects, the American Red Cross and the Legal Aid Society. She is a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America and a former member of the New York Junior League. She and her husband, David Knudson, were married at St. Bartholomew's in 2002, and they have one daughter, Ellie, born in 2005.
Veronica Leone
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
Veronica Leone, Development Associate, joined the staff in June 1980 working for the Community Club. One of her first projects involved computerizing the entire parish mailing list. She has been working in the Development Office since 1995, and her main duties include updating the database and working on the Annual Fund. Ronni and her husband live in Mamaroneck.
Sr. Mary Lois, OSH
Community Ministry Volunteer
Sr. Mary Lois, OSH, is a member of the Order of St. Helena, a monastic religious community in the Episcopal Church. She has been on staff at St. Bartholomew's since 1995 working with the Community Ministry group. Community Ministry administrates the parish's outreach programs to the needy.
Mary Lois is a native of Savannah, Georgia. She spent many years in law and government before her call to religious life. In 1991 and entered her community at its mother house in the Hudson Valley. While a novice she worked in the soup kitchen at St. Patrick's Church in Newburg, New York, which operated Monday through Friday. Seeing the need to provide meals to the needy on weekends she established the soup kitchen at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Newburgh to operate on Saturdays and Sundays.
The desire to serve others grows out of Mary Lois' life of prayer. She serves her community as a member of its Board of Directors and Leadership Council. She loves her work at St. Bart's because it gives her a way to meet very basic needs most of us take for granted. Working with a dedicated group of volunteers she sees food distributed and necessary administrative work is done to keep St. Bart's outreach programs running.
Jane Moffett
Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute
Jane Moffett, PhD is a psychotherapist and has been on the staff of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute at St. Bartholomew’s since 1999.
Jane has been in the mental health field for more than thirty years. She holds her doctorate in clinical social work from New York University as well as a master’s degree in Dance-Movement Therapy from Goddard College. As a psychotherapist, ,Jane holds New York State’s highest level of professional certification. In addition, she has her certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Washington School of Psychiatry.
Jane works with individuals experiencing a variety of difficulties, most often related to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, bereavement, relational difficulties or trauma. She works with couples in premarital therapy and in couple’s therapy. Jane’s dual background as a psychotherapist and dance-therapist makes her sensitive to a range of mind-body issues impacting upon a person’s mental health, from illness to stress-related problems. Many who come for treatment with Jane are at a crossroads in their lives, seeking a more satisfying life, which is also in keeping with their spiritual journey.
Natalie Pena Palmer
ATHLETIC FACILITY COORDINATOR
Born and raised in Central New York, Natalie Pena Palmer obtained a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Purchase College. She has worked in the aquatics field for over fifteen years, specializing in instruction for infants and toddlers as well as special needs students. Currently, she serves as the Athletic Facility Coordinator for St. Bartholomew’s, managing contracts for the gymnasium, pool, Dance and Karate Studios. She has started a swim school at St. Bartholomew’s and looks forward to growing numerous recreation programs here at St. Bart's.
Therese Ragen
Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute
Therese Ragen, Ph.D. has a master’s degree in counseling for professionals in religion from Loyola University, a doctorate in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and a postdoctoral certificate in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from New York University. She has worked in parishes and hospitals as well as in private practice for over twenty years. Therese does individual psychotherapy with adults and has a particular interest in working with twenty and thirty year olds in consolidating their personal, relational, and vocational identities. She also has a background in training lay ministers. Therese is a member of the American Psychological Association and its Division of Psychoanalysis.
 Beth Ralston
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Beth Ralston has recently been promoted to this newly created position in the Church. Prior to this she was Executive Administrator and Assistant to the Rector since 1998. If you need information that you can’t find anywhere else, chances are she knows where to send you. Feel free to ask her.
 Dolly Rios
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
Dolly Rios's role as Director of Finance involves maintaining the finances in good order and reporting the results of both support and programmatic activities to the Planning and Budget committee in a timely and accurate manner. The committee in turn reports the results of their meetings to the Vestry which is fundamental to their decisions making process. It is also the role of a DOF to ensure that both internal and external communications are in place to satisfy the transparency policies of the Church. Internal communications are carried out by making the people in charge of programs aware of what goes on, financially, in their program. External communications are possible through having timely audits.
Dolly recently returned to St. Bart's in January of 2007 after leaving in February of 2003 to pursue her public accounting career, which included working for several mid-market cpa firms. Her vast experience in auditing and nonprofit accounting is complimented by her degree (June 1998-magna cum laude) from Bernard Baruch College. She is currently licensed to practice public accounting in the State of New York.
Veronica Shea
DIRECTOR, ST. BART'S CENTRAL
After working part-time at various jobs at St. Bartholomew's since 2002, Brooklyn native Veronica Shea joined the full-time staff in mid-April 2006 as Director of St. Bart's Central.
Veronica earned a B.A. in Spanish and Communications from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She spent her junior year abroad in Madrid, Spain, where she became fluent in the Spanish language. This led her to a 16-year career in international media representation for a small firm in Manhattan, specializing in U.S. advertising sales for newspapers and magazines in Central and South America. As vice-president of the company, she traveled to such diverse lands as Paraguay, Malaysia, Jamaica, Miami and Kansas City to meet with publishers and set up representation agreements.
As a member of the St. Bart's Players, she has appeared both on stage and off, as co-chair of the group, and currently as the chair of the marketing committee. She has pursued a career in voice-overs since 1998, and her voice can be heard on local TV and radio commercials as well as on numerous voicemail systems in both English and Spanish. Her voice is featured on the St. Bart's Central outgoing message.
Her experience in sales and customer service is especially helpful in her newest "role" at St. Bart's Central. One of the original staff members of SBC, as St. Bart's Central is known in interoffice "lingo," Veronica enjoys welcoming parishioners and visitors alike and making them aware of all of the activities and events offered at St. Bart's.
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