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Frederic
B. Burnham, Flat Rock, NC
In January 2005, Dr. Frederic B. Burnham became senior fellow for
program and conference of the Institute for Servant Leadership at
its new location in Hendersonville, N.C. He will be responsible
for writing and editing the Institute's newsletter, "Turning
Point," conceiving and coordinating the annual conference in
2006, fund raising in conjunction with the board of trustees, and
collaborating on a new strategic direction for the Institute.
Dr. Burnham retired in October 2003 as director of Trinity Institute,
a program for the continuing theological education of clergy and
laity sponsored by the Parish of Trinity Church, New York City.
He was educated at Harvard College (physics), the Episcopal Divinity
School (theology), Cambridge University, England (philosophy), and
The Johns Hopkins University, where he received a PhD in the History
of Science. He also holds an honorary degree from Hobart and William
Smith Colleges. He writes and lectures on the intersection between
religion
and culture.
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Martin Darby,
Greenville, SC
Martin Darby is presently Managing Director of Coates Inks, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Sun Chemical Corporation. Coates is a manufacturer
of printing inks for the Flexible Packaging Market.
Martin was born, raised and educated in England. Following graduation
from the University of Aston in Birmingham, he joined the Coates
organization at their central research laboratories south of London
and became Technical Manager of one of their Operating Divisions.
This position took him to various parts of the world introducing
novel ink technology and offering application advice, not only to
Coates locations worldwide but also to their customers.
In 1978 Martin moved to the United States where he enjoyed a brief
tenure with a printing company in the Midwest. While there he served
in the capacity of Market Development Manager and had responsibilities
for product management. In 1981 he resumed employment with Coates
Inks at their newly established US headquarters in Greenville, South
Carolina. He assumed the role of Managing Director in 1986. He attributes
the growth and development of Coates to the practice of servant
leadership in the workplace.
In June of 2006 Martin plans to retire from Coates to assume the
role of Executive Director of The Bennett J. Sims Institute for
Servant Leadership. Presently, he Co-Chairs the Board with The Rev.
Maggie Harney. His leadership role will be expanded to that of teacher
as he joins with others to present small group workshops on the
theory and practical application of servant leadership.
In line with his servant principles, Martin has given significant
time to his community. He served on the Board of The Meyer Center
and has been active in the local United Way efforts. Within his
church community, he recently chaired a committee to install a new
pipe organ and is active in a number of current projects and activities.
Martin and his wife Loretta currently reside in Greenville, South
Carolina.
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Katherine Avery, Atlanta, GA
Katherine Avery joined the Board of Trustees in the fall of 2006. She was very moved after attending the Annual Conference in 2006 and was very excited and honored to get more involved.
Currently Katherine is the Director of Program Development at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Before moving to Atlanta, she was the Volunteer Coordinator at St. Paul’s Chapel, a part of Trinity Church Wall Street, in New York City. St. Paul’s Chapel was a 24/7 relief center for all volunteers working in Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. She devised, coordinated and organized a 5000 person volunteer operation for nine months. For her work after 9/11, she was awarded a Certificate for Outstanding Achievement by the New York State Senate, a Letter of Proclamation for “unselfish, compassionate, and dedicated efforts” at Ground Zero from the Mayor of Spartanburg, S.C., and selected by CNN as one of ten “Heroes of Ground Zero” commemorating the one year anniversary of 9/11/01
She was educated at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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Alan
F. Blanchard, New York, NY
From April 1991 to June 2004, Alan F. Blanchard served as President
of the Church Pension Group (CPG), which provides pensions and related
educational and advisory services, life insurance; property and casualty
insurance, medical coverage, and publishing services to the clergy,
lay employees, and institutions of the Episcopal Church. Under his
leadership, CPG’s assets grew from $1.5 billion to over $7 billion.
More than $2.5 billion were added to the fund’s reserves for
future clergy pensions and related benefits. In addition, CPG substantially
increased benefits for plan members, improved flexibility in benefit
delivery, established a major wellness/personal development experience
(CREDO), expanded medical assistance, and offered significant assistance
to parishes and dioceses. In occupying what he often called
“the best job in America,” Alan brought to CPG the excellence,
dynamism, and vibrancy of New York’s finest institutions.
He assembled an outstanding management team and together they built
an exceptionally well-managed non-profit organization. CPG’s
team leadership and its balancing of a demand for excellence with
an adherence to compassionate Judeo/Christian values led to such
recognitions as the Corporate Citizen Award of the Episcopal Charities
Foundation of the Diocese of New York and four honorary doctorates
for Alan (University of the South, General Theological Seminary,
Virginia Theological Seminary, and Berkeley Divinity School of Yale).
His 30-year career prior to joining the Church Pension Group reflects
his long-standing interest in professional excellence and the advancement
of the public good. In the for-profit sector, his career includes
extended periods at both McKinsey & Company, the management
consulting firm that Fortune has called “the Rolls-Royce of
its industry,” and Goldman Sachs, widely recognized as one
of America’s top financial institutions.
He served for briefer periods at Pershing & Company, Inc., Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., and Latimer Management Company, an
investment and financial planning firm he co-founded. His for-profit
board memberships have included the Mariner Funds Group of Marine
Midland Bank, Goldman Sachs Money Markets, Inc., Pershing &
Company, and Latimer Management, Inc.
Prior to CPG, Mr. Blanchard’s service in the not-for-profit
and government sectors included three years as Executive Director
of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Senior Aide to
U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits, the Office of Presidential Personnel
during the Reagan transition, and the U.S. Navy (Line Officer/Officer
of the Deck - USS Intrepid; Flag Lieutenant and Aide - U.S. Antarctic
Operation). These positions included designing and executing solutions
to complex management issues, and selecting, deploying, and motivating
a highly energetic and talented professional staff.
His not-for-profit board positions have included Diller-Quaile
School of Music, Abbott Academy Association, Berkeley Divinity School
at Yale, New York Diocesan Investment Trust, and 10 CPG affiliated
organizations.
Alan spent his childhood in University Park, Md., a suburb of Washington,
D.C.
He was educated at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, and
attended Yale
University on a Navy Reserve scholarship, graduating with a B.A.
in Economics (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude). After naval service,
he earned a master’s degree in industrial management from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is married to the former Ann Scott Elliott, with whom he has
three children. He is a member of St. Bartholomew’s Church
in Manhattan and numerous service and social organizations in New
York City, Stonington, Connecticut and Mountain Lake, Florida.
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Frank A.
Butler , Topsfield, MA
Frank Butler, now retired, was President of Eastman Gelatine Corporation,
Peabody, MA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak. He has had
a long relationship with The Church of the Saviour in Washington,
DC, serving on the Board of Ministry of Money for 20 years. He was
Chair of the Board for about 7 years and helped lead workshops around
the country. He has also been affiliated with Faith At Work for almost
40 years and served as Board Chair for 5 years. He was a bank director
and served on many not-for-profit boards. Frank and Ruth
have been married for 47 years, had three children (Peter, Pamela
and Patricia. (Peter died at the age of 40 after a 10-year struggle
with Hodgkin's Disease.) They have three grandchildren -- Shannon,
Jamie and Terry John. The Butlers currently attend Trinity Episcopal
Church in Topsfield, where Frank is a past Senior Warden.
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The Rev.
Margaret Ferris Harney, Atlanta, GA
Maggie Harney is the founding director of Mary & Martha's Place,
a center for spirituality and ecology established in 1994. MMP provides
conferences, workshops, book studies and rituals that support spiritual
growth, ecological consciousness and social justice. Maggie's work
at MMP combines her interests in Celtic spirituality, group spiritual
direction, teaching and creating rituals. MMP is located at St. Dunstan's
Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where she also serves as priest
associate. Maggie entered the ordination process in 1982
when Bennett Sims, founder of the Institute, was Bishop of Atlanta.
She received the Masters of Divinity from Candler School of Theology
at Emory University in 1988 and served in the Diocese of Atlanta
as chaplain at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, interim rector
at St. Dunstan's Church and assistant rector at St. Matthew's Church.
Maggie has been married to Tom Harney for 34 years. They have two
adult daughters.
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The Rev. Posy Jackson, Galveston, Texas
For the past six months, Rev. Posy Jackson has been researching national trends in spirituality, writing spiritual formation curricula and developing an organizational plan for a possible Spirituality Center for the Diocese of Texas. She serves as Assisting Clergy at Grace Church in Galveston.
Posy was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Bradford College in Massachusetts and The Parsons School of Design in New York. She started a graphic design company, Jackson Graphics, which provided services to Time, Inc. and Esso and art direction for the primary Campaign of Senator George McGovern in New York, before founding The Museum of Holography in 1976. She served as Executive Director of the Museum for seven years and then left New York to live with her husband and - during school vacations - her three step-children, on a trawler. During the next few years, she worked as an arts management consultant and Director of the Holography Project for the Shearwater Foundation. The family settled in Great Exuma, Bahamas, where Posy became involved with the lay aspects of church life, including the Soup Kitchen at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in George Town. This work led her to found Our Father’s Business, an NGO that provides food, clothing and housing for the elderly and indigent on the island.
In 1989, Posy followed a call to ministry, leaving the Bahamas to attend seminary at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX. She graduated in 2001 with an MDiv and served as Assistant to the Director of the Community of Hope, a lay chaplain formation school at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, before accepting the Executive Directorship of the William Temple Episcopal Center in Galveston in 2002. Posy was ordained a Priest in the Diocese of Texas in 2003. Since that time, she has served as the Diocesan Jubilee Officer and Spiritual Director for the Christian Leadership Council of the Diocese, as well as Episcopal Chaplain for the University of Texas Medical Branch, a 10 hospital complex located in Galveston that serves the indigent in the state. She has been involved in interfaith work both at UTMB and with the Ministerial Alliance in Galveston, and sits on the Diversity Board and the Ethics Board at UTMB. In 2003, she co-founded Gleanings from the Harvest, a multi-faith food bank for Galveston County.
During her tenure at the William Temple Episcopal Center, Posy was responsible for creating spirituality and healthcare programs and providing spirituality retreats. She has led Christian formation programs at Grace Church and, as a graduate of the Diocesan Spiritual Direction School, FIND, does spiritual direction in the Galveston area. She lives in a historic home with her Labrador puppy, Tigger, and visits her six grand-children along the eastern seaboard as often as possible.
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The Rev.
Zelda M. Kennedy, Los Angeles, CA
A native of the Bahamas, Zelda Kennedy currently resides
in Pasadena, California, and works as a Senior Associate for Pastoral
Care at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Zelda relocated to Pasadena
from Charlotte, North Carolina, where she served as an Assistant
Priest at Saint Patrick's Church in Mooresville. Prior to that,
she worked as a chaplain at Griffin Hospital in Derby Connecticut,
as well as an intern at Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Pittsboro,
North Carolina and at Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in New Haven,
the oldest Black Episcopal congregation in that city. Within the
Diocese of North Carolina, Zelda served on the Committee on Christian
Education and Formation, Committee for Clergy Wellness, Penick Village
and The Summit Boards, the Absolom Jones Initiative and the Diocesan
Mission Strategy Committee.
Zelda is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Seminary,
where she received her M. Div. At Yale, Zelda served as Chapel Minister
for Ecumenical Services, Head House Resident at Berkeley, Coordinator
of the Parks-King Lecture (in honor of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.), Coordinator of Seminarians Interacting, Chair
of Organization of Black Episcopal Seminarians and Research Assistant
for Dr. Gilbert Bond. She attended Fisk University for two years
and received her undergraduate degree from the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Prior to accepting her call to the ministry, Zelda worked for the
City of Durham's Human Resources Department where she was Organizational
Manager responsible for recruitment and selection, employee relations,
employee services and organizational development. She has also worked
for Chase Manhattan Bank.
Zelda is a widow with one daughter.
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The
Rev. Timothy Patterson, Greensboro, NC
The Rev. Timothy Patterson currently serves as Rector of Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church in Greensboro, NC. He is a graduate of both Duke
University and Duke Divinity School. After a six year career as
a counselor on an in-patient psychiatric unit, Patterson completed
his Basic unit and Residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at Duke
Medical Center, and then went on to complete the certificate in
Spiritual Direction from the Center for Christian Spirituality at
General Theological Seminary in New York.
Ordained in 1989, Patterson served first
as Assistant to the Rector at Holy Trinity, Greensboro and was called
as Rector in 1994. He co-founded the Servant Leadership School of
Greensboro in 1992 and has served as primary teacher for the past
ten years. Patterson was recently awarded the 2001 Leadership Medal
by Leadership Greensboro in recognition of his work in establishing
both the Servant Leadership School and the Guilford Regional Interfaith
AIDS Network.
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Charles H. (Chet) Tisdale, Atlanta, GA
Chet Tisdale is a partner with the law firm of King & Spalding in Atlanta. He has practiced environmental law and mediation since 1973. Chet is a member of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. He is active in civic work, having served on the following non-profit boards and committees: Clean Air Campaign, Chair of the Board, 2002-2005, currently Vice Chair; Emory Alumni Association, Chair of Nominating and Leadership Committee 2003-2006; Emory Law School Council, 2001-2005; Metro Atlanta Chamber Environmental Committee, 2001-2005; Board of Directors of Research Atlanta, 2000-2002; Board of Directors of the Georgia Conservancy, 2000-2005; and the All Saints Church Public Policy Committee.
Chet is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Emory Law School. He is a lifelong Episcopalian. His father was Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Decatur.
Chet is married to Martha Eskew. Martha teaches leadership and does executive coaching. Martha has been active in the Institute for Servant Leadership for several years. Chet and Martha have four children.
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