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Annual Meeting, January 21
The Annual member meeting of St. Paul’s Cathedral begins in the Great Hall following the 10:30 am Eucharist, Sunday January 21, 2007. Lunch will be provided. There will be an election of Chapter members from a slate of six candidates, the presentation of the Bishop Robinson Crosses, and the distribution of the annual reports of the organizations which make up the life and ministry of St. Paul’s.
Adoption of the draft St. Paul Cathedral By-Laws will be one of the actions of the annual meeting this year. During 2006 a special by-law review committee worked to prepare a revised set of by-laws. Copies of the draft by-laws are on the website and posted on one of the campus bulletin boards.
Special, brief reports will be made by Treasurer Guin Kerstetter on the audit report. Jack Lentz will report on 2006 finances. We will hear from Ken Tranbarger on the current Master Plan for St. Paul’s, plus the Senior Warden’s Report by Jim Greer and the Dean’s Report from the Very Rev. Scott Richardson.
Cathedral Day Eucharist, January 28
Every year in January on the Sunday nearest the Feast of our Patron, St. Paul we celebrate Cathedral Day. The 10:30 Eucharist this year includes the installation of four new Canons. To become a Canon of the Cathedral a person must be nominated by the dean and elected by the Chapter to become a canon at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
At the installation ceremony the new canons will receive their purple cassocks and be seated. This year Dean Richardson will install the Rev. Dorothy Curry, the Rev. Milton Collins, III, Ms. Christine Spalding, Cathedral Administrator and Mr. Brooks Mason our full time, head Verger. Here is a little about these dedicated cathedral members.
Brooks Mason came to St. Paul’s Cathedral in June of 1994, from West Virginia. Since that time, he has served in various volunteer assignments in the cathedral community. Brooks has also completed the four-year University of the South’s Education for Ministry course, served four years on Chapter, and became a member of The Fellowship of Saint John the Evangelist of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Diocesan delegates at last year’s Convention elected Brooks to a three-year term on the Diocesan Council in 2006. Mason recently completed his first semester coursework at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Claremont and is an aspirant in the Diocesan’s Discernment Process for Ordained Ministry. In September of 2005, Brooks became the full time verger at the cathedral. He works under Canon Allisyn Thomas. Among his responsibilities as Head Verger, Brooks is responsible for planning and carrying out all of the liturgical ministries at the cathedral which encompass the Sunday and daily masses, the Daily Office, all special services, weddings and funerals.
Christine Spalding is a cradle Episcopalian, and has been a member of St. Paul’s for 10 years. Prior to joining the staff, she served as the Cathedral’s coordinator for Episcopal Relief and Development, as a Daily Office Officiant, as a Sacristan and as a member of the Finance, Investment and Peace & Justice Committees. She served three years on the Chapter Nominating Committee, one of them as Chair.
Her professional experience includes more than 25 years in banking and financial services management. She was a vice president with First Interstate of Bank’s retail operations and with Bank of America’s housing services division. She was educated at University of New Orleans and at the University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Bank Management.
Christine is president of the San Diego Chapter of the National Association of Church Business Administrators and has attended the national organizations annual conferences since joining the Cathedral staff. She is in year two of the Education for Ministry Program.
Her current committee commitments include Finance, Endowment, Legacy Society and Buildings and Grounds. She is a member of the LLC overseeing the Cathedral’s Master Plan. As Administrator, her responsibilities include finance and accounting, information systems, personnel, operations management, hospitality and facilities management. She and her husband, Robert, reside in Hillcrest.
The Rev. J. Milton Collins is a retired Captain in the United States Navy Chaplin Corps. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. His ordination as a Deacon and Priest was at Sts. Peter and Paul Episcopal Cathedral in Washington D.C., better known at the National Cathedral. He served two parishes in Southern Maryland. Milton became an active duty chaplain in the United States Navy. Chaplain Collins retired from the Navy with more than thirty years active service. He was the command chaplain at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Marine Corps base Camp Butler (which includes all Marine Corps bases in Japan); aboard the USS Constellation and at Roosevelt Rhodes, Puerto Rico. After retiring from the Navy, Chaplain Collins served at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in University City; St. Bartholomew, Poway and was interim rector at Saint Ann’s, Oceanside. He currently volunteers as chaplain for the All Saints Cemetery Association.
Milton speaks Spanish and assists Canon Mary Moreno Richardson at the Misa en Espanol and helps teach children at Dorcas House how to play the guitar. As one of the Canons for Pastoral Care, Milt, as he is known by his friends, visits cathedral members when hospitalized or in health care facilities. He has been a valuable addition to our clergy members here at St. Paul’s.
The Rev. Dorothy R. Curry is a graduate of the University of Washington Drama School. Before becoming a priest Dorothy was a wife, mother, Fair Housing Activist, elementary school teacher, and an active layperson at St. James Episcopal Church in Fremont, CA.
She attended the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, graduating in 1982. After ordination, Dorothy was Assistant to the Rector at St. Edmond’s, Pacifica and Christ Church Portola Valley in the diocese of California. Dorothy has the distinction of being the first woman rector in the diocese of California when she was Rector of Holy Trinity, Episcopal Church in Richmond, CA. From 1996 to 1999, Dorothy was Pastoral Associate, Christ Church North Brixton and South London, England. She returned to California and the diocese of San Diego where, from ’99 to ’05, Curry was Pastoral Associate at St. Andrew’s, Encinitas. She was named a Priest Residentiary St. Paul’s Cathedral in the Fall of 2005. Since being at St. Paul’s, Dorothy has been in charge of the Lay Eucharistic Minister program at the Cathedral. She is a member of the Dorcas House Committee and regularly visits the foster home in Tijuana, Mexico. Most recently she is part of a team from St. Paul’s helping interested kids there learn to play the guitar.
Dorothy says, “In 2001 & 2002 I became the proud Grandmother of Grant and Helena. The richest part of my ministry, as a lay person, deacon and priest has been my connection with people of all ethnicities, genders and orientations, particularly with those who are in pain and need. “
Following the Cathedral Day Eucharist at 10:30, there will be a reception in the Great Hall to honor this church family, our new canons and new Sub Dean, Canon Allisyn Thomas.
