Meet the Clerks

Officers

Presiding Clerk: Sue Regen (NYYM)
Assistant Clerk: Rich Van Dellen (NYM)
Recording Clerk: Deborah Haines (BYM)
Assistant Recording Clerk: Kri Burkander (LEYM)
Treasurer: Stoph Hallward (SAYMA)
Assistant Treasurer: Herb Haigh (PFF)

Committee Clerks

Advisory: Rich Van Dellen (NYM)
Blue Book: Elizabeth Piersol Schmidt (PHLYM)
Christian & Interfaith Relations: Virginia Driscoll (PFF) & Dot Walizer (BYM) co-clerks
Committee For Nurturing Ministries (CNM): Beckey Phipps (NEYM)
Deepening (CNM Subcommittee): Kristi Estes (SAYMA)
Development: Merry Stanford (LEYM)
Discernment Planning and Priorities: Marian Beane (PFF)
Finance: Sally Weaver Sommer (LEYM)
Friends Meeting House Fund: Dick Steele (SCYM)
Growning (CNM Subcommittee): Trudy Rogers (PHLYM)
Long Range Conference Planning : Karen Stewart (PFF)
Nominating: Ernie Buscemi (NYYM)
Personnel: Frank Barch (PHLYM)
Property : Tom Unkefer (PHLYM)
Publications & Distribution: Warren Wilson-Reiner (SCYM)
Transforming (CNM Subcommittee): Jean-Marie Barch (PHLYM)

Sue Regen

Sue Regen: Sue Regen

Sue Regen is the Presiding Clerk of Friends General Confrence Central Committee.

Frank Barch

Frank BarchHello, Friends. I'm Frank Barch, Clerk of the FGC Personnel Committee. I have served on the committee for several years, most recently as the Assistant Clerk. I am a member of Schuylkill Monthly Meeting (PHLYM), sojourning at Valley Meeting (BYM), where I have served as Clerk, and am currently the Assistant Clerk. My wife, Jean-Marie Prestwidge Barch, and I experienced the joy of co-Clerking the 2005 Gathering in Blacksburg, Virginia, which is 2 hours south of where we now live in Harrisonburg, Virginia. I am a hospital-employed physician, practicing pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine, but I am also the Medical Director of the hospital's eight specialty-care practices, and have just finished serving four years as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine.

Jean-Marie and I have two sons, Seth and Keith. Between the four of us, we have attended all the Quaker institutions of higher learning east of the Mississippi: Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Earlham and Guilford Colleges. Keith is currently finishing his last semester at Guilford while Seth has graduated from Earlham and is living with us, working as a jeweler and photographer.

Beckey Phipps

Beckey PhippsBeckey serves FGC as clerk of the Committee for Nurturing Ministries.

She is a member of North Shore Monthly Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting. She is also a member of the FGC Committee for Ministry on Racism. Beckey carries a concern for adult religious education and spiritual formation. She completed the "On Being a Spiritual Nurturer" course of the School of the Spirit in 1994. In 1997 she received a Master's degree in Theology from the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, where her focus was Christology and Spirituality. She served as the coordinator of the Boston-area Quaker Studies Program for several years. With Margaret Benefiel, she co-authored a chapter on "Quakers and Social Transformation" in Mysticism and Social Transformation (Syracuse University Press, 2001).

Beckey and her partner, Tania, live in Massachusetts. In her free time she travels to their log cabin, which is situated on a beaver pond in northeastern Vermont. An avid student of theology, history, and literature, she is deeply interested in the Jewish roots of Christianity and the religious philosophy of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Stoph Hallward

Stoph Hallward is the Treasure of Friends General Conference.

Warren Wilson-Reiner

Warren Wilson-ReinerWarren serves as clerk of the Publications and Distribution Committee.

He is a member of Friends Meeting of Austin, South Central Yearly Meeting. He found his home in the Religious Society of Friends in 1987, and attended his first FGC Gathering of Friends in 1988 where he met his spouse, Bill Reiner. He has served as clerk for his monthly meeting and yearly meeting, as well as for Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns. his previous service on Central Committee was as a member of the Religious Education Committee.

He lives in Austin, Texas, and has worked at The University of Texas at Austin since 1974. His current position is senior systems analyst for The University Libraries. He and Bill married under the care of Friends Meeting of Austin in 1998. He has a passion for reading--particularly mysteries and history--and needle work. He especially enjoys communing with nature with Bill where together, they experience the presence of the Spirit.