We, as the Vestry of St. Paul's Church, are very excited to both honor St. Paul's history and to embrace the challenges of the current community, as we move forward to effect positive changes for our parishioners, church and communities.
"The vestry is the legal representative of the parish with regard to all matters pertaining to its corporate property... The basic responsibilities of the vestry are to help define and articulate the mission of the congregation; to support the church's mission by word and deed, to select the rector, to ensure effective organization and planning, and to manage resources and finances." http://www.episcopalchurch.org/19625_15561_ENG_HTM.htm
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| Michael Duffy, Senior Warden, is the Music Librarian and Head of Branch Libraries at NIU. He has Master of Music degree in musicology from Northwestern University, Master of Library and Information Science from Dominican University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Western Michigan University. Michael enjoys listening to all kinds of music, and likes to play classical and occasionally jazz trumpet music. Michael began playing trumpet for St. Paul’s in 2007. Michael also plays trumpet with the DeKalb Municipal Band in the summers and enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife, Kristin and daughter, Nora. This is Michael's second year on the vestry.
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| David Anderson, Junior Warden, has been at St. Paul's since 1985 and was raised a Lutheran. He serves St. Paul's as lector, usher, coffee hour host, has been on the Vestry before and was also Senior Warden. David was the Chair on the rector search committee for the past two years. He is the Live Lobster Guy at the annual Lobster Boil. David retired in 2006 from a long career as a high school educator, AP and US history teacher, and department chair. He was the head coach of two state championship teams in basketball and track. He is currently University Supervisor of student teachers for the NIU History Department. He is married to Ellen Anderson.
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| Patricia (Pat) Brown, Treasurer, has been a member of St. Paul's Church since 1967. She is a "cradle" Episcopalian who grew up in a Chicago suburb and settled in DeKalb as an NIU faculty spouse. With an AB, and M Ed, she "recycled" herself after her daughter was grown, took accounting courses at NIU, and became a CPA. She has had an office in downtown DeKalb since 1980. Pat became Church Treasurer in January of 2010. She serves on the Altar Guild, the Endowment Committee, and has been a Vestry member, a member of a former Search Committee, and for at least five years has been Co-Chairperson of the Lobster Boil. Pat enjoys fishing, traveling, gardening and reading when not working. She is a member of the DeKalb/Sycamore Altrusa Club, the DeKalb School District Finance Advisory Committee, and served two terms on the DeKalb School Board in the '90's. Her daughter Laura works in Washington DC for the FAA as Deputy Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs.
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| Freyja Rasmussen-Johns is a lifelong DeKalb resident--she lives in the house she grew up in! She and her husband, Rick, have four adult children and two cats between them. She joined the St. Paul's choir in 2000, at the behest of the then-choir director, her mother Virginia Rasmussen, and found her church home at St. Paul's. She was on the rector search committee for the past two years. Freyja is also a member of the DeKalb Festival Chorus and she works in the NIU Biology Department.
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