This is a listing of all Pacific Yearly Meeting committees and personnel (officers, appointees, committee members and delegates) for the year 2019-2020, with updates through 19 March 2020. Links are given for those committees with a dedicated webpage on this site. The nature of the landing page varies by committee.
The date to the left of each name is the year the current appointment expires (at the end of that year’s annual session unless otherwise indicated). Each name is followed by the individual’s monthly meeting or worship group, and, in parentheses, the year of initial appointment. Committee clerk and delegation convener appointments are for one year. Vacant positions are indicated by an underscore __ next to the term-expiration year.
| PYM OFFICERS | |
|---|---|
| Presiding Clerk | 2020 Sandy Kewman, Grass Valley (2018) |
| Assistant to the Clerk | 2020 Sharon Gates, Orange Grove (2017) |
| Historian-Archivist | 2022 Jan Tappan, Orange Grove (2013) |
| Junior Yearly Meeting (teen) Co-clerks | Elinor Steffy, Sacramento (2018) Callum Standish, Berkeley (2018) Robin Johnson, Santa Cruz (2019) Santiago Myers, San Francisco (2019) (app’d by JYM) |
| Reading Clerk | 2020 Kim Lacey, Central Coast (2019) |
| Recording Clerks | 2020 Jim Anderson, Chico (2016) 2021 Raph Levien, Berkeley (2019) |
| Registrars | 2020 Lawrence Alderson, Orange County (2017) 2021 Brylie Oxley, Grass Valley (2019) |
| Statistical Clerks | 2020 David (DJ) Bloom, Appleseed (2018) 2021 Sherri Sisson, Orange County (2017) |
| Treasurer | 2022 Roy Allen, Berkeley (2013) (term through 9/30 of year shown) |
| PYM APPOINTEES | |
| Children’s Program Coordinators | Suellen Lowry, Humboldt (2019) Administrative Clerk _____________________ _____________________ (app’d by Children’s Program Com) |
| IT Administrator | _____________________ (app’d by Communications Committee) |
| Website Editors | George Mills, Palo Alto (2017) Arthur Kegerreis, Orange Grove (2019) Sharon Gates, Orange Grove (2019) (position formerly known as Web Coordinator) (app’d by Communications Committee) |
| Youth Programs Coordinator | Rebekah Percy, La Jolla and Orange Grove (2020) Interim appointment 3/23 through 8/31/2020 (app’d by YPCC) |
| PYM COMMITTEES | |
| Arrangements Committee | 2020 Jan Turner, Humboldt (2018) 2020 Kate Connell, Santa Barbara (2018) 2021 Ann Fuller, Santa Monica (2018) 2021 Emily Walden, Central Coast (2018) 2022 Bronwen Hillman, Mexico City (2017) Clerk 2022 Peni Hall, Strawberry Creek (2020) Ex Officio: Registrars |
| Children’s Program Committee | 2020 Vivian Carlson, Honolulu (2017) 2020 Suellen Lowrey, Humboldt (2019) Clerk 2021 Rhea Farley, Strawberry Creek (2020) 2022 Amy Blondel, Monterey Pen. (2019) 2022 Anita McCormick, Grass Valley (2019) Ex Officio: Children’s Program Coordinator, Youth Programs Coordinator |
| Communications Committee | 2020 Arthur Kegerreis, Orange Grove (2018) 2020 _________________ 2021 Lawrence Alderson, Orange County (2018) 2021 Kate Watkins, Santa Monica (2019) Clerk 2022 George Mills, Palo Alto (2016) 2022 Allison Kirkegaard, Claremont (2019) Ex Officio: Website Editors, IT Administrator, Assistant to the Clerk, Youth Programs Coordinator |
| Faith and Practice Revision Committee | (known as Discipline Committee when F&P is not under revision) 2020 Carl Magruder, Str. Ck. (2014) Co-clerk 2020 Laura Magnani, Berkeley (2016) Co-clerk 2021 Sue Scott, Inland Valley (2018) 2021 Ray Rischpater, Palo Alto (2020) 2022 Patricia Portillo, Sacramento (2016) 2022 Margaret Mossman, Berkeley (2019) 2022 Sarah Tyrrell, Berkeley (2018) IT Specialist Ex Officio: Historian-Archivist |
| Finance Committee | 2020 Sharon Shen, Berkeley (2015) 2020 Emma Castanedo, La Jolla (2017) 2021 Robert Levering, Santa Cruz (2018) 2021 Martha Hunkins, Humboldt (2019) Clerk 2022 Sherri Sisson, Orange County (2018) 2022 Doug Smith, Reno (2019) Ex Officio: Treasurer, Statistical Clerk |
| Holding Corporation | → see PYM Holding Corporation |
| Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) Committee (adult committee) | 2020 Sarah Armstrong Jones, Big Island (2017) 2020 Don McCormick, Grass Valley (2017) 2020 _____________________ 2021 Austin Stanion, Orange Grove (2018) 2021 David Ledderman, Orange County (2018) 2021 Dan Strickland, Orange Grove (2013), Clerk 2022 Evan Nelson, La Jolla (2019) 2022 Suzanne Doss, Orange Grove (2013) 2022 Bertha Pena, unaffiliated (2019) Ex Officio: Youth Programs Coordinator |
| JYM Ministry and Oversight Committee (teen committee, app’d by JYM) | Serenity Cordova, Santa Cruz Cassidy George, La Jolla Adam Kerr, Live Oak Langston Prince, Santa Monica |
| Latin American Concerns Committee | 2020 Patricia Portillo, Sacramento (2017) 2021 Graciela Martinez, Visalia (2018) 2022 Linda Rowell, Chico (2015 ) Co-clerk Appointed by Casa de los Amigos: Patricia Constantino, Mexico City (2016) Appointed by El Salvador Project: Hulda Muaka, Palo Alto (2019) Appointed by Guatemala Scholarship Program: Donna Smith, Redwood For (2014) Co-clerk |
| Ministry and Oversight Committee | 2020 Shan Cretin, Santa Monica (2017) Co-clerk 2020 Thistle West, Strawberry Creek (2017) 2020 Gail Eastwood, Humboldt (2018) 2021 Kylin Navarro, Berkeley (2015) 2021 Elena Anderson, Redwood Forest (2018) 2021 Eric Sabelman, Palo Alto (2019) 2022 Valerie Nuttman, Santa Cruz (2016) 2022 Jim Summers, La Jolla (2016) Co-clerk 2022 Jorge Morales, San Jose (2019) |
| Subcommittees of Ministry and Oversight | |
| M&O: Eldering Subcommittee | Mica Estrada, Strawberry Creek Gordon Bishop, Grass Valley Elaine Emily, Strawberry Creek Dorothy Henderson, Grass Valley, Co-clerk Valerie Nuttman, Santa Cruz Thistle West, Strawberry Creek, Co-clerk Carl Magruder, Strawberry Creek |
| M&O: Racial Justice Subcommittee | Marlene Coach-Eisenstein, Honolulu Mica Estrada, Strawberry Creek Laura Magnani, Strawberry Creek Carl Magruder, Strawberry Creek Deborah Marks, Strawberry Creek Juanita Mora-Malerva, Santa Cruz Maryanne Michaels, Redwood Forest Diego Navarro, Santa Cruz, Clerk Kylin Navarro Burger, Berkeley Bertha Peña, unaffiliated |
| M&O: Religious Education Subcommittee | Gail Eastwood, Humbolt, Convener Elena Anderson-Williams, Redwood Forest Sue Ellen Lowry, Humboldt (Liaison from Children’s Program) |
| M&O: Representative Support Subcommittee | Shan Cretin, Santa Monica, Convener Jim Summers, La Jolla Eric Sabelman, Palo Alto |
| M&O: Respectful Relationships Subcommittee | Thistle West, Strawberry Creek, Convener |
| M&O: Visiting Subcommittee | Visiting Subcommittee is currently fallow and has no members. |
| M&O: Worship Sharing Logistics Subcommittee | Kylin Navarro Burger, Berkeley, Convener Julie Harlow, Davis Claudia Kirkpatrick, Sacramento |
| Naming Committee | (also known as Committee to Nominate the Nominating Committee) 2021 George Gastil, San Diego (2019) Convener 2021 Amy Cooke, Grass Valley (2020) 2021 David Lederman, Orange County (2020) 2021 One Alternate, to be named (terms through end of RepCom of year indicated) |
| Nominating Committee | 2020 Julie Harlow, Davis (2017) Co-clerk 2020 Gail Thomas, Santa Monica (2019) 2020 Winnie Sunshine, La Jolla (2018) 2021 Sue Torrey, Central Coast (2016) Co-clerk 2021 Heather Levien, Berkeley (2018) 2021 Joe Magruder, Berkeley (2018) 2022 Trudy Friedel, Inland Valley (2019) 2022 Cody Lowry, Orange Grove (2019) 2022 Hulda Muaka, Palo Alto (2019) |
| Peace and Social Order Committee | 2020 Betty Guthrie, Orange County (2019) 2020 Linnea Hanson, Chico (2017) 2021 Graciela Martinez, Visalia (2017) 2021 Brian Johnston, Santa Monica (2018) 2022 Shannon Frediani, Santa Cruz (2016) Clerk 2022 Zae Illo (David Breitzman), San Francisco (2017) Ex Officio: SCQM Peace and Social Order Com Clerk (Arthur Kegerreis) one PYM AFSC Rep one PYM FCLCA Rep (Shannon Frediani) one PYM FCNL Rep (Robert Levering) |
| PYM Holding Corporation | 2020 Jennifer Carr, Las Vegas (2014) 2020 Sharlene Roberts-Caudle, Visalia (2014) 2021 Paul Harris, Redwood Forest (2018) 2021 Margaret Mossman, Berkeley(2018) 2022 Genie Stowers, Berkeley (2019) 2022 Stratton Jaquette, Palo Alto (2016) Ex Officio: Treasurer, Presiding Clerk (PYMHC appoints its own officers. Officers continuing from 2018-19 are: Clerk: Stratton Jaquette, Palo Alto Recording Clerk: Jeff Kroeber, San Jose Treasurer: Roy Allen, Berkeley) |
| Unity with Nature Committee | (Engaged in a discernment process) 2020 Andrea Beane, Santa Monica (2017) 2020 ___________ 2021 Lora Powell, Berkeley (2017) 2021 ___________ 2022 ___________ 2022 ___________ |
| Youth Programs Coordinating Committee | 2020 Ann Baier, Live Oak (2019) 2020 Chamba Cooke, Grass Valley (2019) 2021 ___________ 2021 Barbara Babin, Redwood Forest (2016) YPC Supervisor 2022 Melissa Lovett-Adair, Ctrl. Coast (2016) Clerk 2022 Kiernan Colby, Santa Cruz (2019) Youth members (nominated by YPCC, ap’v’d by PYM): 2020 Nathan Secrest, Redwood Forest (2019) 2020 Alvaro Alvarado, Sacramento (2019) 2020 Arianna Standish, Berkeley (2019) 2020 Natasha Herrera Hillman, Mexico Cty (2019) |
| REPRESENTATIVES | |
| AFSC Corporation | American Friends Service Committee Corporation 2020 Nancy Mellor, Sacramento (2012) Convener 2021 Ramona Hussey, Honolulu (2019) |
| Friends Bulletin Corp. (Western Friend) Board of Directors | 2020 Claire Gorfinkel, Orange Grove (2016) 2021 Jim Anderson, Chico (2015) Convener 2022 Nancy Wilkinson, Strawberry Creek (2019) |
| FCLCA | Friends Committee on Legislation of California (appointed by Peace & Social Order Committee) 2020 Shannon Frediani, Santa Cruz |
| FCNL | Friends’ Committee on National Legislation 2020 Klara East, Visalia (2017) 2020 Julia Thompson, Palo Alto (2017) 2021 Michelle Shields, Honolulu (2019) 2021 Allison Kirkegaard, Claremont (2019) 2022 Carolyn Levering, Santa Cruz (2016) 2022 Robert Levering, Santa Cruz (2016) Convener |
| FGC | Friends General Conference 2020 Heather Levien, Berkeley (2016) 20?? _________ |
| Friends Peace Team Coordinating Council | 2021 Gay Howard, Central Coast (2009) |
| FWCC Section of the Americas | Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas 2020 _________ 2020 _________ 2021 _________ 2022 _________ 2022 _________ |
| QEW | Quaker Earthcare Witness (normally appointed by Unity with Nature Committee, this year nominated by Nominating Committee) 2020 Patricia Constantino, Mexico City (2019) 2021 Yumi Kawano, Big Island (2019) |
| OBSERVERS | |
| Evangelical Friends Church Southwest | 2022 ______________ |
| FUM | Friends United Meeting (the next Triennial is in 2020) 2022 ___________ |
| RGAM | Reunión General de los Amigos en México 2020 Jorge Morales, San Jose (2019) |