NEWSLETTERS
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UPCOMING EVENTS
SUMMER FORUM SERIES 2008
Sundays June 29-Aug 24
During the summer months, instead of Sunday Services, we traditionally present a collective congregational project called the "Summer Forum Series" - forums, presentations, field trips, and other events.
This summer's schedule:
DATE
 TOPIC DETAILS
July 13
 REPORT ON UUA
GENERAL ASSEMBLY		 Kathy Santo, Tom Seluga, Harry Hicks, John Adrian report the news and share their experiences.
July 20
 A.E.D. HEALTH FORUM FAIR Learn how to use life-saving Automatic Electronic Defibrillators. Cyntia Wong and Kathy Santo.
July 27
 FINANCE/FUNDRAISING
BRAINSTORMING		 A creative session to come up with ways to solve our ongoing financial problems. Kathy Santo.
Aug 3
 PARSONAGE CLEANUP PARTY Getting the Parsonage ready for Susan and Alan. John Adrian leads. Pool party afterwards at Tom & Kathy's!
Aug 10
 THE LOST ART OF LETTER WRITING
 Joyce Mandel, Judith Hill. Bring pen and paper and discover, or re-discover, how much a simple letter can madn and do.
Aug 17
 POETRY AND MUSIC Bring songs, poems, instruments. John Bostrom et al.
Aug 24
 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM -
JEFF KOONS ON THE ROOF GARDEN		  Special installation in the most dramatic outdoor sculpture space in New York City. Margarita & Rona.
Aug31
 HEALTH AND NUTRITION Stanton Wadell. Insights and advice from a well-regarded expert.
OTHER NEWS
ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING

At the annual Congregational Meeting on June 8, the following Officers and Board Members were elected:

Officers 2008-09 (One Year Term)
President: Kathy Santo
Vice President: Marjorie Ramos
Secretary: Ruth Benson
Treasurer: Harry Hicks

Trustees
To June 2009
To June 2010
To June 2011
Mary Campbell
Brendan Spillane
Maureen Curran
Ralph Martel
Paola Suarez-Papp
Ann Kalil
Margarita Muinelo
Cynthia Wong
Kevin Clark

CHURCH CALLS REV. SUSAN KARLSON
AS SETTLED MINISTER
At a Congregational Meeting after the Sunday May 4 service, the Congregation voted to call Rev. Susan Karlson as our new Settled Minister. A champagne toast followed in the Parish Hall. Susan and her husband have now returned to Wilminton andGulfport, and will be moving into the parsonage on or around August 15th.

Brief bio of Rev Karlson
 Rev. Susan Karlson currently serves as the Consulting Minister for the Gulf Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (GCUUF) in Gulfport, Mississippi. Last year, the Metro New York District Chalice Lighter program supported GCUUF and that Chalice Lighter grant helped bring Susan to Mississippi this year. Prior to ministry on the Gulf Coast, Susan served as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wilmington in Wilmington, NC. She still resides half time in Wilmington with her husband, Alan Kindler, commuting to Mississippi the other half of each month. In Wilmington she serves as the Co-Chair of the Ministerial Roundtable, an interracial and interfaith clergy group whose purpose is to heal the wounds of racial injustice in the congregations, communities and personal lives of the clergy members. Susan also serves on the Board of Directors for the African American Heritage Foundation in Wilmington. She received her Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and Final Fellowship as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2006. Susan has a Master of Social Work degree and retains her license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia where she worked with children, adults and families recovering from child sexual abuse. She had a previous calling to ministry as an ordained minister of yoga.