Elizabeth Bouldin-Clopton (secretary)
Elizabeth is another newcomer to both TJMC-UU and the board and also serves as the membership chair. She is an avid chess player and reader, and never misses a U.Va. men's soccer team home game. Elizabeth is engaged to marry Mary Bouldin-Clopton in April of 2005. She is an accountant, and now co-owns Blue Ridge business Services with Mary. Elizabeth is the mother of three mostly grown children, who come home at irregular intervals with their friends to do alarmingly large mountains of laundry and eat all the food in the house. Undoing racism, working to achieve equal rights for LGBT persons and helping people with addiction issues are also areas of involvement.

Elizabeth Breeden (member at large)
Elizabeth Breeden is the mother of 5 children, all of whom have graduated from RE at TJMC-UU. She has taught all of the age groups in RE and is currently on the Remembrance Garden Committee, UUppity Women, Closet Committee, Food Pantry and (hopefully) PACEM. She thought that her job as manager of Biscuit Run Studios was retired, but David, her husband, is now painting at such a furious rate that she has been sucked back into the work.
She is also President of ArtInPlace and on the board of On Our Own and the
Mental Health Association.

Lois Brown (vice president for administration)
Lois is the mother of four adults who grew up in this church: Mara, Deya, Darin, Alissa, and she is the grandmother of two. She is a retired special education administrator for Albemarle County schools. She is an active volunteer, including work with Region 10, the Senior Center, and Play Partners. She also serves as a guardian for a young woman with special needs. Lois enjoys travel, reading, and bridge. She has been a part of TJMC-UU since 1974.

Shelly Canterbury (treasurer)
Shelly is relatively new to the church but already very active in church leadership. In addition to serving as treasurer, she has agreed to co-lead the church canvass. She is involved in corporate finance and is an adjunct professor and also the mother of two grown children, Ryan and Leslie Schaeffer. She loves to read and hike but not at the same time and enjoys best of all hanging out with her family.

Ruth Douglas (member at large)
Ruth is an avid hiker who loves to walk in the temperate deciduous woods such as found in our Blue Ridge Mountains. She is interested in natural history, wildflower identification and house repairs. She is a retired faculty member and administrator of PVCC. In addition to serving on the board of the church, she is a member of the finance committee and the stewardship committee and has recently volunteered to co-lead our upcoming canvass for the second year in a row. She also volunteers for VNPS.

Nick Laiacona (member at large)
Nick is a relative newcomer to the church. He has been attending service since 2002. He is active in the Soulful Sundown group in church and in the past has volunteered as a mentor for Computers4Kids. He has been a Charlottesville resident since 1994, working in the computer software industry. He currently works at U.VA. as a senior programmer in the Media Studies Department. Nick likes to hike and to scuba dive, but not at the same time.

Doug Loyd (member at large)
Doug started coming to our church early in 2002 and immediately felt at home here. He is a former United Methodist minister with a Ph.D. in religion; he grew up in Texas but has also lived and studied in Iowa and in Germany. Early in his career he served as pastor of a local church, and a college chaplain; for nearly twenty years he worked in the field of computer support and he recently retired from U.Va., where he was a computer systems senior engineer. At TJMC-UU, he has been co-leader of a covenant group and a member of the worship associates (you might have heard his sermon, "Roping the Wind," this summer). Doug is married to Josie Loyd; together they have six daughters and seven grandchildren.

Josie Loyd (President)
Has been a member of TJMC-UU since the early 80s and has served in various capacities including chair of the publicity committee, member of the RE committee, and teacher of many, many RE classes (including three separate youth groups). She is married to Doug Loyd and is the mother/stepmother of six women and the grandmother of seven (two boys and five girls). She would rather garden than do just about anything else, though throwing things away comes in a close second. She is director of communications for the engineering school at U.Va. where she designs and writes promotional and fund raising materials.

Bonnie Sheppard (member at large)
Bonnie has been a member of our church since 1973. She is the mother of six kids and the grandmother of 8. She loves to garden and to camp and travel, particularly with her husband Bill Spurgin. She is active in SUUSI (our southeast summer gathering in Virginia) and is retired from the center for electron microscopy at U.Va.

Kurt Wassenaar (Vice President for Programs)
Kurt Wassenaar has been a member of TJMC-UU since 1999. Kurt is an architect and former U.VA. faculty member. In the last few years he has worked in starting new technology businesses and is currently the Executive Vice President and CTO for Medical Automation Systems in Charlottesville. Kurt was Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, a member of the Building and Grounds committee, a member of the Program and Staff task force, and when time permits, a member of the Choir. Kurt loves to sail, ski, hike and paint. He is also the devoted father of Kia his 6 year old daughter.

Mary Beth Wiley (member at large)
Mary Beth began attending TJMC-UU in 1998 and joined in 2002. She represents TJMC-UU for the Interfaith Action for Homeless Children, a group that began and continues to help fund the Salvation Army Preschool program. She currently serves as a co-convener of the Welcoming Congregation Task Force. Mary Beth lives with her partner, Leslie McFaden, in Advance Mills, where she loves to garden and just be outdoors. She is an avid reader. Her daughter Sarah, 20, lives in Seattle where she is a nanny. Mary Beth is a physical therapist working in home health.