Zack Bacon
Zachary Bacon has been involved in the financial industry for 30 years as an investment banker and hedge fund manager and is currently CEO of Hampton Capital, a financial advisory firm. He is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina and the Columbia University School of Business.
Zack is the father of four children, one launched, one at the University of Virginia and two of whom will be graduating from St. Bart's Community Preschool in May, 2010. Zack was originally a parishioner at St. Bart's in the mid-eighties before moving to North Carolina in 1987. He has been a parishioner at St. Bart's since moving back to New York in 1995. His brother Louis Bacon was married in the chapel at St. Bart's in 1985.
Zack previously served on the board of trustees of World T.E.A.M., an organization promoting the non-able-bodied through sporting activities, is active in fund-raising for the University of North Carolina and is on the board of advisors of St. Bart's Community Preschool.
Zack was born in North Carolina, currently lives in Manhattan with his twin sons, and enjoys sports and outdoor activities in his time off.
Carole Bailey French
My late husband, Bill, and I joined St. Bartholomew’s in the fall of 2001. Together we served on the Annual Fund Committee. After he died, in January 2005, I was asked to join the Vestry where I am a member of the Audit, Building and Governance Committees and, with Richard Bayles, Co-Chair The Campaign for St. Bartholomew’s. I am also on the Board of the Center for Religious Inquiry.
Bill and I were first drawn to St. Bartholomew’s by its music programs. In 2001, St. Bart’s could still afford radio advertising, which is how I first heard Bill Tully speak about the next day’s 11AM service, on WQXR, one Saturday afternoon in late September. We attended the next morning. I don’t remember the exact topic of Bill’s sermon, but I do remember that he began by pointing out certain key words in the day’s readings whose meanings in each of the four ancient Gospel languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin), varied somewhat. From that intriguing start, he then proceeded to draw from the readings--some of them philosophically abstract, others downright opaque--lessons and comforts and encouragements that spoke directly to New Yorkers’ practical anxieties and emotional and spiritual concerns in the weeks immediately following 9/11. We were captivated and decided that very day that we would become full members.
St. Bartholomew’s continued to challenge us both to grow spiritually. It also introduced us to an array of fascinating people, many of whom have become cherished friends. Today, Bill’s ashes are interred in the Columbarium where his family likes to think he is able to hear all the marvelous music emanating from above.
As my own connection to St.Bartholomew’s deepened, supporting it in any way I can also become a civic commitment. For me, it is impossible to imagine the city block north of the Waldorf-Astoria being occupied by anything other than our landmark buildings. The church’s colorful dome, its Byzantine-Romanesque facades, its stained glass windows and medieval portals, its café umbrellas on the Parish House terrace and its flowering gardens are a gift not just to us, but to all New Yorkers and to all visitors to this great city. Standing as they do amidst a soaring forest of glass and steel, our landmark buildings create an oasis of calm, a breathing space, a physical as well as symbolic refuge from the otherwise unrelieved bustle and roar of midtown Manhattan.
As Capital Campaign Co-Chair, it has been thrilling to see how many fellow parishioners have stepped up to the challenges that occupying such an extraordinary site imposes upon us. Recognizing that beautifully restored and preserved structures are just that, empty spaces, it is also heartening to see how many have remained faithful stewards of the Annual Fund even as we have set out to raise millions for buildings preservation. In my view, having to shoulder those dual responsibilities is what sets us apart as a parish, what makes us uniquely burdened but also uniquely rich in stewardship opportunities and, as such, uniquely privileged. cal Episcopal Church for 22 years and then, for a number of reasons, we began to church shop. That’s when Bill Tully took over! We’ve been with St. Bart’s for over 8 years. Bill and other priests have enlarged my understanding, and this growth has been both helpful and exciting. I’ve done my best to stir up questions since I’ve been on the Vestry, and I believe that questions and doubt are part of becoming a faithful witness to our faith.
Laura Norwalk Bendelius
Occupation: Founding Partner, Strategic Image Partners, LLC, a company that works with both individuals and corporations on how to develop a professional image in the workplace and in life. She has recently become Business Development Manager for The Worth Collection, LLC. She has been in the retail and fashion industry for more than 10 years. Prior to founding her business, she was a Director of Medical Affairs at Oxford Health Plans.
St. Bartholomew's Church: Joined approximately 10 years ago. Married husband Greg Bendelius in the church in May 2008; Parish Council Member from 2001-2007; co-chair 2005-2007, usher since 2003, table leader, Life at St. Barts, table leader, Alpha, member of the 20/30s group, member of the marketing team for the Career Assistance Center, breakfast feeding program volunteer 2001-2002.
Community Affiliations: Volunteer, New York Junior League, currently co-Chair, 2008-2009 Annual Fund and Member, 2008-2009 Nominating Committee, The Choral Society of Grace Church (soprano), Yale School of Management Alumni Association, and member, Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Healthcare Industry. Previously founded NSOvation, the young benefactors of the National Symphony Orchestra, in 1991, and founded Friends of High FiveTickets to the Arts in 1998.
Kathleen S. Breiten
Like many who work on Park Avenue, I was weary of the struggles at work one morning and decided to go to the noontime service at St Bart's. I loved the quiet setting for the Eucharist, the heartfelt homily and the warmly welcoming people who were there. Taking time out of my day to go to church actually made me more productive the rest of the day. I returned and found myself drawn to St Bart's by the people and the programs designed to deepen my faith. I attended the Alpha course and joined several of the book studies including the one Bill did on Marcus Borg’s book The Heart of Christianity. It is important to me that St Bart's is a place that nurtures my spirit in community. The beautiful music, the inspiring sermons, the Sunday forum, the many services, the bible studies, CRI, and all the opportunities to meet interesting people have helped me to grow in my understanding of what is truly important in life. Through my association with St Bart's I have gained a better sense of balance which I think is so important to me and to many others who work in this high pressured City of ours.
St Bart's is also important to me and to our New York community for its ministry to the homeless and the needy. It dedicates more effort to outreach than any other church with which I have been involved. I have met people at St Barts who are inspirations to me in all their efforts to help others in need.
Like many people, I started out about 10 years ago donating at the end of the year when there was a matching challenge grant. Eventually I realized that St. Bart's meant more to me and that I should make a serious financial commitment to match the significant benefits that St Bart's was providing to me. I increased my annual support significantly and began pledging. I never thought I could live without the funds, but I have found that God provides and the more I give the more I get from the commitment.
I have been on the Annual Fund team for about 6 years. In 2007 I was the co-chair of the Annual Fund and was co-chair of the 2008 AF until being asked to be the Treasurer of St Bart's. In 2007 I was elected to the Vestry and have been on the Planning and Budget Committee and the Compensation Committee. I also attend the Audit Committee meetings. I was the co-chair of the Leadership Phase of the Capital Campaign. As Treasurer I review the purchases, receipts, reports and sign checks among other things. My background as a CPA, a financial controller and Managing Director at two large banks has prepared me for this position.
I live in Manhattan and consult part time now. My husband, David, died suddenly in July 2005 and I am grateful to St Bart's for all the support and love I have received. My son and his family, including three terrific grandchildren live near Ithaca, NY where I also have a country house. My daughter and her husband live in the UK where I had a lovely vacation this summer.
Mildred C. Brinn
Mildred Brinn, a member of St. Bartholomew’s Church since 1968, is the President and Director of L & L Foundation, Tatiana Piankova Foundation, and Marcelle White Foundation. She serves on the boards of the American Ballet Theatre; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y.; and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Additionally she is a member of the Lenox Hill Hospital Advisory Board, the Metropolitan Opera President’s Circle, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Capital University, she was the Vice President/Senior Associate of Golightly & Co., International, a management consulting firm.
Among her many roles at St. Bart’s, Millie has served several prior terms on the Vestry, as the Honorary Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign, and a member of the Development Committee. She was a founding member and remains active on the St. Bartholomew’s Preservation Foundation.
Millie’s passionate support of St. Bart’s over the years has had a defining influence on her faith journey. Her commitment to the continued vitality and ministry of this parish is without question and she welcomes the opportunity to serve the parish as a member of the Vestry in these challenging times.
Michael Thomas Duffy
Michael Thomas Duffy is the Managing Director for Victory Education Partners, a national organization that supports charter schools, which is headquartered in NYC. Michael assumed this role after having served for three years as Director of the Charter School Office for the New York City Department of Education, under the leadership of Chancellor Joel Klein. In his current job he is focused on the launch of a new charter school—The Great Oaks Charter School—in Newark, in the Fall of 2011.
For over 10 years Michael has worked to build public charter schools: he was the Executive Director of the City on a Hill Charter Public School, a small college-prep high school in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston; he also helped to launch the MATCH Charter High school in Boston, leading that school’s capital campaign.
Michael’s efforts in education grew out of his work in the civil rights movement. In 1991 Massachusetts Governor William Weld appointed him as Chairman and Commissioner of the state civil rights commission. He later served as co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign, the national gay and lesbian civil rights organization. He has worked on political campaigns, beginning in 1987 when he was Finance Director for former Congressman Christopher Shay’s first Congressional campaign.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College, Hartford, Michael received a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is now in the process of settling into a new home in Carnegie Hill with his partner Patrick Derosier. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Michael was officially received into the Episcopal Church when he lived in Boston and was a member of Trinity Church.
Stephanie P. Foster
Stephanie Foster was a Director of the U.S. Private Client Services division of Deutsche Bank. She joined the firm in 2005 and has 18 years of investment experience. She advised families, endowments and pension funds; and specialized in investment management and advisory services including portfolio risk management and portfolio construction.
Previously, she spent six years with Lehman Brothers Inc. Private Client Group where she built an advisory practice focused on equity, fixed income and structured solutions. Stephanie started her investment career in 1992 as an Equity Research analyst with CIBC Oppenheimer where she focused on the gaming and media sectors.
Stephanie joined St. Bartholomew’s, where she was both baptized and confirmed, in 2008. She and her husband John were married in the church on September 26th, 2009. Stephanie co-chaired the Parish Life Project Leadership Committee.
She was born and raised in Locust Valley, New York and has lived there and in New York City throughout her life. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University and lives in midtown Manhattan with her husband John.
Morihiko Goto (五藤盛彦）
Mori Goto first experienced the "radical welcome" at St. Bart's on Christmas Eve 2006 when, on the steps of the church, Bill Tully invited Mori to join the 4pm service, notwithstanding Mori's reservations about not being a Christian. Mori was raised in Tokyo in a family where generations of his mother's ancestors have been the ministers overseeing a reformed Buddhist temple continuously since the mid-15th century. Mori was baptized at St. Bart's on September 16, 2007 by Bill Tully and reaffirmed by Bishop Roskam on April 27, 2008.
Morihiko Goto has worked on Wall Street for over 27 years and is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Goto Capital Markets, Inc., a FINRA Licensed SEC Registered investment bank that underwrites investment grade securities. Prior to launching his own firm, he had held senior positions at several firms including Managing Director of RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Company. Mori holds a B.A. in Economics from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, where he was elected a member of Honors Seminar of Professor Michihiro Ohyama. Mori also has an MBA double major in Finance and Money & Financial Markets from Columbia Business School which he earned in an accelerated 16-month program.
Mori lives on the Upper East Side and enjoys playing jazz guitar, the NY Philharmonic, travel, skiing as well as his numerous charitable pursuits. These include serving as a Member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of Crossroads Community Services, Inc., a 501 (C) (3) community service corporation affiliated with St. Bart's, volunteering in the Crossroad's Homeless Shelter, and preparing dinner and staying overnight in the shelter to provide host and security services. He has served on the Listening Church Committee and regularly participates in Cleaning and Greening. Mori is also a Delta Society-registered Therapy-Pet handler and he brings his registered therapy dog Ellie the Toy Poodle to local nursing homes on a monthly basis.
He has a daughter, Lisa, who graduated from the Brearley School and Bowdoin College, taught at a private nursery school in Tokyo and is on her way to graduate school. She joins Mori at St. Bart's for holiday services and has also volunteered at the shelter.
Dulcie Mapondera 
Dulcie is currently a lawyer with the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund in New York, and has served the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1996 – 2005) and Khartoum, Sudan (2005-2007). She started her career in the private sector with Mobil Oil in her native Zimbabwe, and for thirteen years also worked as a part-time radio announcer with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
Dulcie has been attending St. Bartholomew’s since moving to New York in October 2007. She has been involved in the Parish Life Project, the 2010 Stewardship campaign and the recent fund-raising effort for Mpawa Village, Malawi, and is a regular lay reader.
Prior to St. Bart’s, Dulcie was a member of Emmanuel Church, Geneva, which is part of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe. She served on the vestry, was a member of the 2000 and 2005 search committees and a leader in establishing the healing ministry at Emmanuel.
While studying law at the London School of Economics, Dulcie was a student representative in the University of London Chaplaincy, which serves the Anglican community within the University of London colleges.
Liza Page Nelson
Liza Page Nelson has attended services at St. Bart’s since 2000. She has participated in reading groups, in “Life 101” and “Explore” classes, and has served as an usher since early 2010. She serves on the Board and three Board committees of Crossroads Community Services, Inc., the 501(c)(3) organization that operates the soup kitchen, pantry and shelter for St. Bart’s Community Ministry. She also volunteers to prepare food for the soup kitchen. Liza embraces the “radical welcome” of St. Bart’s that is manifest in offering the Eucharist to all, in the beauty of the liturgy and music, in the ushers’ greetings, and in the clergy’s consistently intelligent sermons and conversations that speak to the mind and open the heart. Liza would be honored to make the commitment to serve St. Bart’s and our community as a Vestry member.
Liza’s career has focused on healthcare-related businesses for some 30 years, including nearly 12 years in venture capital investing as a Managing Director with Investor Growth Capital and 10 years as an executive with the global pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Prior to Pfizer, Liza was with The Boston Consulting Group and venture capital firm Warburg Pincus. Liza’s experience includes operating and managerial leadership, business development, strategy, marketing, finance and investments. She has served as a board director for more than 15 years, including audit, compensation, finance and governance committees, sometimes as committee chair. Liza now works as an independent consultant and remains affiliated with Investor Growth Capital as a Venture Partner. She currently serves on the board and audit committee of a private pharmaceutical company and on the Clinical Advisory Committee of a medical research foundation.
Liza earned her BA in Economics at Wesleyan University and her MBA at the Yale School of Management and is an active alumna of both schools. She and her husband David Shotland live on the Upper East Side.
Alex Norton
My wife Ashley and I have been members of the St. Bart’s community since the spring of 2000. We were immediately attracted to the open, inclusive and accepting community and we continue to be drawn to the atmosphere of warmth and friendship fostered by the clergy and shared throughout by the members of the parish.
We regularly attend the 9:00am Sunday morning services with our three children, Alexander, Vanessa and Camilla who actively participate in the Children, Youth and Family ministry. We are grateful for the unique and inspiring spiritual message that we receive during the services and we have made St. Bart’s our spiritiual home in New York City.
I currently serve on the Vestry and as a Co-Chair of the Planning and Budget Committee, together with Carl Contiguglia and as a Co-Chair of the 2008 Annual Fund, together with Katherine McHale.
We are proud to be a part of the St. Bart’s community which reflects the wonderfully diverse city that we live in. Over time, I have been asked to serve in several church leadership roles, and this important work has deepened my Christian faith and has allowed me to support St. Bart’s ministry work and its generous community service. Working closely with the clergy staff and my fellow vestry members, I have seen how much St. Bart’s can make a difference in the both the city and the world we live in.
Please help sustain St. Bart’s ministry and community service by making or renewing your pledge to the Stewardship Campaign.
Allison Rutledge-Parisi
I've been a member of St. Bartholomew’s since February 2002, along with my husband Dr. James F. Marion (formerly on the Vestry and Warden from 2008 to 2010) and my two daughters, Molly and Ella Marion. My involvement has been primarily with the Children Youth and Family Ministry as a Sunday School Teacher, and one of the many organizers of the Christmas Play and Holy Week Workshop. Jim, Molly, Ella and I also spent 4 years serving every Saturday in the Feeding Program and remain strong supporters of the Community Ministry. We love St. Bart's "big tent" congregation, its beautiful music, and the amazing St. Bart's clergy, who have helped us both individually and as a family in countless ways.
In my non-church life, I'm Chief Administrative Officer at Kaplan, Inc., a global educational service company, where I oversee compensation, talent management, human resources, and organizational structure. Prior to joining Kaplan, I was an attorney with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, specializing in intellectual property. I clerked for Judge Robert W. Sweet in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Graduated from Columbia Law School and Yale College.
Before embarking on all these professional activities, I spent most of my twenties working as an actor and in between acting gigs, made ends meet working a wide range of jobs, from teaching adult literacy to photographer's rep to cleaning houses.
Richard L. Reinhold
Richard L. Reinhold became a St. Bart’s parishioner in 2009; prior to that he had been a parishioner at St. Thomas Church for many years. Rick was raised Roman Catholic and was received as an Episcopalian in 1990. He grew up and lived in Buffalo until the early 1980s. Before moving to New York City, Rick served in the United States Treasury Department's Office of Tax Legislative Counsel in Washington.
Rick has practiced as a tax lawyer for over 30 years. He is a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and head of the firm's tax department. He holds the J.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an A.B. from Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences. He teaches part-time in the Graduate Tax Program at the NYU School of Law.
Peter Sullivan
Peter Sullivan is a committed Christian. He and his wife, Mary Krueger, joined St. Bart's in 2007 after they moved to New York City from California. While in California, Peter and Mary were actively involved with All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills for 18 years. At All Saints', Peter twice served on its Vestry, was its Junior Warden, chaired its Stewardship, Finance and Building Committees and served on a discernment committee. During his tenure on the Vestry and Building Committee, All Saints' restored its worship space and rebuilt its Parish House. Despite their long tenure in California, Peter and Mary are not new to New York City, having lived here previously from 1970-1981. Peter and Mary live on the Upper Westside. They have adult twin daughters who also live in New York City.
At St. Bart's, Peter and Mary are both members of St. Bart's-at-Home groups. Peter is a coordinator of the Leadership Circle program which is refocusing St. Bart's community outreach efforts. The program seeks committed Parishioners who will support these needed efforts with their time and treasure.
Professionally, Peter is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, an international law firm. He practices antitrust law and is Co-Chair of his firm's Antitrust Practice Group. Peter graduated from Columbia College (AB 1974) and Fordham Law School (JD 1977). Peter has been on the Board of Directors of the Westside Center for Independent Living, an organization dedicated to integrating disabled persons into the community. Peter likes to bike, take long walks with his Norwich Terrier, Oliver, read and travel.
Douglas Tanner
My wife Carol and I moved to New York City in 2004 and began to shop around for a church among the Episcopal Churches in the City. Twenty years earlier we spent three years in New York City, and I served on the Vestry of St. Michael’s on the Upper West Side. Since we settled on the Upper East Side this time to be near our daughter’s school, we focused in this area. After a couple of years of sampling, we chose St. Bart’s, attracted by the intelligent sermons from Bill Tully, the amazing music program shepherded by Bill Trafka and the warm environment created by the parishioners. When I was asked to consider joining the vestry this early 2009, I felt humbled and pleased to be able to contribute to this great institution.
The Episcopal Church has been part of our family’s lives forever. I have moved for business several times, and as a result Carol and I have lived in seven cities in our over 30 years of marriage, and we have always been a part of an Episcopal parish (Okay, for our nine years in Hong Kong we made due with the Church of England!). I have found religion to be a stabilizing force in our moves and an opportunity to meet people who like me are trying to address our complex world and grow in our faith. I have always been active in church life in one way or another, whether as a choir member and acolyte in my youth, as a member of the Vestry (Church Council for the Church of England), Sunday School teacher, men’s group member or simply enjoying the company of other parishioners with our children as they grew. It is a privilege and challenge to be involved in a church with as much history as St. Bart’s, with as beautiful, large and complex a physical facility, and with as many programs and ways it contributes to the community.
Carol and I have three children, two through college and in the early stages of spreading their wings as adults, and the last in college. We love New York and the offerings and challenges of an urban environment. We are still getting to know members of the parish here, and it is a joy to do so.
I am currently on the development committee of the vestry, attempting to assist in these trying financial times and allow St. Bart’s to return to a position of being able to offer the best programs and resources to the community. We challenge ourselves to give generously to all charities, but especially both to the annual fund, to support the church’s basic mission, and to the capital campaign for St. Bart’s, to maintain and restore the grandeur of the building we have inherited.
I practice law as a partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, currently the head of the securities practice. I grew up in Palo Alto, California, and received my undergraduate, MBA and JD degrees from Stanford University. After this parochial start, I have bounced between, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. I met my wife Carol in our freshman dormitory at Stanford, and not surprisingly we are very active in Stanford activities.
