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Volunteer Corps Alumni
WESTMORELAND VOLUNTEER CORPS MEMBERS
FROM 1985 to 2007
1985-86
Prof.Wendy Urban (husband Russell Mead and 2
children) worked at Luther Place Bethesda Day Shelter, She teaches
history at Bard College in NY. Nan Cormier (husband
Christopher Connelly and 3 children) served at the Center of
Concern. She is Vice Chancellor for University Advancement at
U.Mass. in Boston. Rev. Ann Lutterman-Aguilar (husband
German Aguilar) was at the Office for Church and Society of the
UCC. She is Director and professor at the Global Education
Center in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Rev. Janet MacLean worked
at Samaritan Ministry. She is a pediatric chaplain at the
Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL. She and her son Samora live in
Forest Park, IL. Rev. Janice Morikawa Ogoshi (husband Rick and
son) was at Bread for the City. She is a UCC minister in Honolulu.
1986-87
Amy Hausknect Reed worked at the Arms Control
Agency. She served as a WVC Board member before moving to
Gresham, Oregon, where she is a Director of Human Resourcers. Diana
Schryver was at FLOC Foster Home Program. She is a social
worker. Mike Moe (wife Diana and 3 children) worked at
Bread for the World. He died when a bowhead whale flipped over
his boat in Baffin Bay in 1995. There is an article about him in
the October 2006 “Outside” Journal. Karen Lee (husband
Jim Brown and 3 sons) was at the St. John’s Development Center.
She is Director of SEEC, supporting people with developmental
disabilities in Silver Spring, MD. David Leitzke worked
at Anchor Mental Health Assoc. He now works for the Minneapolis
Blood Bank.
1987-88
Rev. Mark Abernethy (wife Christine and 3
children) worked at Samaritan Ministry. He is a UCC minister in
South Windsor, CT. and Moderator-Elect for the Conn.
Conference. Nancy Light (husband Chris Fichtel) was
at OCIS. She works for the Nature Conservancy in Rockland, ME. Prof.
Martha Mensendiek was at the Calvary Women’s Shelter. She is
a Professor of Social Work at Doshisha University in Kyoto,
Japan. Rebecca Morton Veccione and husband John and 2
children live in Falls Church, VA and she is presently a stay-at-home
mom. Rev. Tina Squire, was at IONA house working with the
elderly. She is now Acting UCC minister at Tombstone,
Ariz.. She and husband David Paige and 2 children live in
Sierra Vista, Arizona.
1988-89
Ann Dinwiddie (husband John Penn) worked at
Sasha Bruce Youthworks. She died of a brain tumor in 1991.
Thom Blonski (wife Caroline) was at IONA House services for
the elderly. We have not located him. Alicia Hooker
(Analisa Madron) was at Calvary Women’s Shelter.
Denise Rozell worked at OCIS. She is an attorney for Easter
Seals in Washington, DC. Rev.Tim Lewis Winslea was
at St. John’s Development Center. He and his wife Elizabeth and
their son live in Portland, Or, where he is a pastor.
1989-90
Melissa Conrad (husband Wyatt Harris) served at
Sasha Bruce Youthworks. We have not located her. Leslee
Eddy was at Calvary Women’s Shelter. We have not located
her. Rev. Kristin Fishbaugh (husband M. Looney) worked
at Interfaith Impact. She serves at an Episcopal church in
Buffalo, NY. Rev. Melanie Green was at
Caracen. She and her husband, Anil Oomen, (WVC, 1990-91) and
children live in Eugene,OR. where she is a UCC minister. Anne
Jowaisas was at St. John’s Development Center. She is doing
child care in Richmond, VA.
1990-91
Jim Mook Bridgman, served at
Interfaith Impact He and his wife, Carrie Mook and
son live in Springfield, VA and he works at the Alliance for
Nuclear Accountability, Peace Action. Susie Bruce worked
at IONA House. We have not located her. Anil Oomen
worked at Community Family Life Services. He
(wife Melanie Green and 2 children) teaches in an elementary
school in Eugene, OR. Rev. Heather DeVoe Miner (husband
David and daughter Rachel) worked at Montgomery County
Community Ministry Friends in Action program. She is the
Associate UCC pastor in Corona Del Mar, CA. Craig
Sottolano worked at Bethany Day Shelter. We have not located
him.
1991-92
Carin Bringelson worked at Sasha Bruce.
She and her partner have 1 daughter. She is working for
TeachingBooks.net in Madison, WI. Amy Kehret
was at Interfaith Conference. She and her
husband Stephen Cassiday live in California. We have not heard
from her. Cindy Quanbeck Goke worked at St. John’s
Development Center. She and her husband Brian Goke (also WVC
1991-92, who worked at Samaritan Ministry) were missionaries
in Thailand, and then were working in Minnesota. We have not
heard from them. Cheryl Pace Mackian worked at
Foundry Housing. She and her husband and daughter were living in
Willis, VA. We have not heard from her.
1992-93
Meg Bryant Knarr worked at Community Life
Services. She and her husband and 3 children live in
Parkton MD. Jennifer Carroll Endo was at Samaritan
Ministry. She and her husband Eric and 2 sons live in Arlington,
VA, where she is Director of Arlington Housing Corp. Anne
Holliister Mennengs served at Bread for the City, Zacchaeus.
She and husband James live in Chicago, where she is a psychiatric
social worker at the South Central Community Agency. Heather
Torrence Mattson served at St. John’s Community
Services. She and husband Chris and son Maxwell are in Billings
Montana. Heather is a Grants administrator at the MSU
Billings. She is also a freelance writer. Dr.Elizabeth
Weaver was at Columbia Road Health Services. She and husband
Chuck Anderson and daughter Claire live in Falls Church, Virginia,
where she is a family practice physician in Fairfax.
1993-94
Melinda Bogardus, who worked at Columbia Road
Health Services, is a nurse practitioner. She is working for Planned
Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA. Dr. Stephen Lee served
at AIDS National Interfaith Network. He is a doctor and public
health official in San Diego, where he lives with his wife Ivey and
daughter. Scott Phillips worked at the D.C. Service
Corps. He and his wife Marcie are members of Westmoreland UCC,
and he has served on the WVC Board. He is now with USAEP
Operations. Kim Thornburg was at Sasha Bruce. She
and husband Faud Raja and 2 children live in Falls Church, VA.
She has been the development director for D.C. Heads Up program. Elena
Wiens Paine served at Samaritan Ministry. She and husband
Reggie and daughter live in Miami, FL.
1994-95
Mathew Cyr, who worked at Interfaith Impact for
Justice, and the AIDS Interfaith Network, lives in Southborough, MA. He
now works at his family’s business near Boston. Kristin Dunn
Thomason was at Montgomery County Community Ministry. She
lives in Falls Church, VA. Dr. Lisa Mills Dwelle served
at Pregnancy Aid Center. She and her husband Dr. Todd Dwelle and
their 2 sons live in Pebble Beach, CA, where she is a family practice
physician. Ali Neal worked at Samaritan
Ministry. She lives in Arlington, VA. Liza Schwartz
was at Community Family Life Services. We have not located her.
1995-96
Kristin Arbutiski served at Zacchaeus Free
Medical Clinic. She is a social worker. Brian Bilko
worked at Bread for the City. We have not located him. Shaan
Hamilton was at Sasha Bruce. He and his wife Laura Waxman and
child live in St. Paul, MN, and he is working on a new light rail
transit in the Twin Cities.. Laura Harms Rozales was at
Calvary Women’s Services. She and husband Erik and daughter are
in Arlington, VA, where she works with former WVC’er Jennifer
Carroll Endo at the Arlington Housing Corps.
1996-97
Tony Banout was at Samaritan Ministry. He
has worked in Central America, and on related issues. He and his
wife Julie Kult recently moved to Chicago. Alicia
O’Donnell, who worked for the Virginia Council of Churches Refugee
Resettlement Program, is Manager of External Relations for the
Internnational Republican Institute/ Ann Rader Hayes was
at Columbia Road Health Services. She and her husband Edgar and 2
children live in NY. She works for Youth Ministries for Peace and
Justice in the Bronx, and has started a Freedom Farm for young
people. Alicia Wilson, served at Bread for the
City. She is Director of La Clinica Pueblo in D
1997-98
Kristi Medley worked at Samaritan Ministry.
She is a teacher at the Christian Family Montessori School in Mt.
Ranier, MD. Dr, Amanda Hornbuckle Humiston was at
Zacchaeus Free Medical Clinic. She and husband Kevin and
baby girl live in Kansas City, MO. She is in private ob/gyn
practice. Rev. Lori Smallwood McKinley served at SOME
Housing. She and husband Bryan and daughter are in Ohio, where
she is a UCC minister. Sean Yu worked at Columbia Road
Health Services. He is Program Coordinator for Tobacco Control
Initiatives in the MD Health and Hygiene Department in Baltimore.
1998-99
Karen Clontz Cunningham (husband John) served
at Bread for the City. She earned her MSW in 2001 at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore. She works at the Child and
Family Services Agency in DC, in the “In-Home Reunification Unit, with
children in and out of foster care. . Kim Iden worked
at Caracen. She is an attorney. Rachel Hackenberg
Jolango , who was at Sasha Bruce, entered Princeton
Seminary in 2004. Rev. Sara Olson Dean served at Capitol
Hill Group Ministry. She and her husband Alex and son live in
Phoenix, AZ, where she is a Methodist minister. Dr. Daisy Wynn
was at Pregnancy Aid Center. She and her husband Sean Barney (who
was injured in Iraq in the summer of 2006) live in Philadelphia,
where she is a resident in family practice medicine.
1999-2000
Samantha Ruckert served at SOME’s Jeremiah
House. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2006 and
is now living in Laurel, MD. She works as a Mobile Crisis Specialist
for the Anne Arundel County Crisis System. Deanna Eberle
Allen (husband Kenneth) who worked at Bread for the City, is a
social worker in Oakland, California working as an MSW in a Buckelew
Programs doing groups/case management/independent living skills with
adults in supportive housing. Betsy Jordan Bell was at
Zacchaeus Free Medical Clinis. She and her husband were stationed
in Japan. Dena Springer (husband David Novick) , worked
at Pregnancy Aid Center. She is a pediatrician in Manhattan. She
was married Sept. 2, 2007. Elizabeth Sceinfeldt Davenny
served at Sasha Bruce. She was married in January
and is now an attorney in Boston.
2000-2001
Pam Homiak was at Pregnancy Aid Center.
She has a Masters in Public Health from the U of MD, and is now working
on a BSN program at Johns Hopkins to become a Labor and Delivery nurse
with hopes of becoming a certifvied nurse midwife. Karen
Straub Cowie, who worked at Bread for the City, has a little
boy, and is a clinical manager at Collaborative Health Partners in
Powell, OH. Lauren Baker Askew, (husband Chuck)
served at Sasha Bruce, She is taking time to be at home with son
Charliie, 2, and 7 month-old Norah while her husband serves a as Campus
Minister in Myrtle Beach, SC, Nelson Bransil was at Zaccaeus
Free Medical Cliniic, and is now working in homeopathic medicine in
Washington, DC.
2001-2002
Dr. Karla Fredrick was at Bread for the
City. She studied at Washington Medical School in St.
Louis. Dr. Megan Husingh worked at
Pregnancy Aid Center and attended Illinois Medical School.
Eliabeth Hartnett, who worked for AIM, Action in
Montgomery, is a social worker. Beth Stefanchik served
at the Montgomery County Mobile Medical Center and studied homeopathic
medicine in NY. Alberto Valladares, who served at
Bethesda Cares, is a consultant for Bearing Point in Arlington, VA.
2002-2003
Hannah Brown (formerly Giffin) worked at Bread
for the City. She is now a pastor at the Mayflower UCC in
Minneapolis. Rebecca Harviston, who served at Bethesda
Cares, works at the Oregon Food Bank in Portland. Abby
Lenhart served at Bread for the City Free Clinic. She is
an intern in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins. Erin McKay was
at Montgomery Mobil Medical Center. She is studying osteopathic
medicine in Long Island. Beth Rogers-Witte, who
served at AIM, Action in Montgomery, spent a year working for
Mercy Corps in southern Sudan and is now completing work for Master’s
degrees in International Development and Public Health at George
Washington University and is working at international development NGS’s
in the area.
2003-2004
Jill Rauh served at Caracen and Center for
Concern. She is in graduate school in International Affairs
at George Washington University. She was working in an Education
for Justice Project for the Center for Concern. Andrea
Reischel, who worked at Emmaus Service for the Aging, is a social
worker in Janesville, WI. Carolyn Emigh was at Samaritan
Ministry. She is the Associate Director in the Gervase Program of
International Fellowships at Georgetown U and is finishing a
Masters in English Literature. She served on the 2004-05 WVC
Board. Chris Winterbottom worked at Pregnancy Aid
Center. Kim Jones was at Sasha Bruce. She works at
the Church of our Savior Good Shepherd Ministry After School Program in
Washington.
2004-2005
Molly Sundheimer was at Pregnancy Aid Center.
She is at Indiana University School of Medicine, interested in women's
health thanks to her experiences at Pregnancy Aid Center. She
lives in Indianapolis with her husband Ross, whom she married in July,
2006. Ann Brouwer was at the Montgomery County Mobile
Medical Center and continued there for another year. She received
her BSN degree from Georgetown University in December 2007 and will
work as an RN in the Emergency Department of the Virginia Hospital
Center in Arlington, VA. Reese Abbene served at the DC
Rape Crisis Center and is now teaching in southern California. Logan
Fitzpatrick was at Bread for the City. She is finishing a
Masters in Environment and Natural Resources/International
Studies at the University of Wyoming, and hopes to return to Wrumqi
Xinjiang, China, where she studied the adaptation of the Muslim Turkic
minority youth to living in the Chinese state. Samantha
Gallo worked with teen mothers at Sasha Bruce. She is now with the
AmeriCorps-Vista program at Dickinson College serving as a liaison
between the Office of the Provost and their Student Life Office,
coordinating service-learning courses for the professors. She
advises a group of 8 first-year students in a non-credit seminar
entitled "Leadership for Social Justice", and accompanied them on a
service project at a school in Jamaica in January.
2005-2006
Marissa Gunn served at Bread for the City.
She is a law student at Howard University. Lauren Hare was at
DC Rape Crisis Center. She is working
in fundraising for Catholic inner-city elementary schools in the Bronx.
Katelyn Macrae worked for Bethany Women’s Center in N
Street Village. She now works for Preble Street in Portland,
Maine, a homeless services agency, and is applying to attend seminary
beginning in 2008. Laura Sauder was at Bethesda Cares,
and is now studying for a Masters in Divinity in Toronto. Valentine
Woods Breitbarth was at Bread for the City and continues there as
the Volunteer and Resource Officer in the Development Department. She
is also working part-time on a Master of Public Health degree in Global
Health at the George Washington University. She was married October 13,
2007, to Tim Breitbarth.
2006-2007
Julia Clark served at the Arlington, VA, office
of Samaritan Ministry, and continues there as the lead caseworker for
the office. She is now a case worker for them. Rachel Cloud
was at DC Rape Crisis Center . She is working in Colombia on a
Christian Peacemakers Team. (See a copy of a recent letter from her on
our website.) Johanna Heilman served at SOME (So Others
Might Eat and is continuing there full time as case manager at Anna
Cooper House, a single-room occupancy (SRO) housing facility for
formerly homeless adults. Joni Podschun was at
SOME. She has stayed on there as an Advocacy Associate. Claire
Kelleher-Smith worked at Bread for the City. She now works at
the Southern Arizona Mental Health Corps in Tucson and is presently on
their Urgent Response Team.
2007-2008
Samantha Brewer serves at the Bethany Women’s
Center of N St. Village. Alanna Copenhaver serves at the
Arlington Office of Samaritan Ministry, John Forrest Douglas
at Bethesda Cares, Alexis Herman at D.C. Rape Crisis
Center, and Cadie Keefe at Bread for the City NW.
Last updated Wednesday,
February 20, 2008
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