On May 17, we held our full membership meeting to elect our officers and committee chairpersons for the next year. We met in a different world than our last meeting in November. Physical distancing has separated us, but we have stepped up and are working together to keep ourselves socially connected. We have successfully moved to an online platform for our offerings, and our membership meeting was no different.
We used Zoom, which has a polling feature; after a little trial and error we were able to quickly gather votes. We successfully voted in our slate of nominees after passing a constitutional amendment to, upon majority vote of the Board of Trustees and membership, allow the term of office for a Board member to be extended for one additional year.
We had several unfilled openings for committee chairs and Perry and Beth Stein generously offered to fill the open positions of Building Chair and Ethical Education Chair. Thank you Perry and Beth! Our leaders for next year:
Board of Trustees
President: Susan Lesh
Vice President: Eric Sandhusen
Secretary: Aimee Kass
Treasurer: Linda Bennett
Committee Chairs
Building: Perry Stein
Finance: Lucy Lettis/Esther Sandrof
Membership: Ron Schwartz/Ed Gross
Platform: OPEN
Social Action: Anne Wallman
Ethical Education: Beth Stein
Adult Education: Silvia Acosta
Family Programming: Mary Lavelle/Joanna Ebert
Communications: Terri Karp
Festivals: Alan Berger
Social Affairs: Diane Koszarski
Youth Activities: OPEN
I am so thankful for you, my Ethical community. These past two months have been difficult, and we are probably going to be in this for a while, but I am glad to be going through this with you.
Susan Lesh, president
