The Vestry is pleased to present the following nominees for election to St. Clare’s Vestry. Outgoing and continuing Vestry members are listed below.
Eligible voters are 16 years of age or older, in the congregation at least 6 months, and faithful in worship, working, praying, and giving for the spread of the kingdom of God.
Sarah Barbrow
I’m Sarah Barbrow! My family – John, Henry, and Nicholas, and my parents David and Wendy, and I moved (in the case of my immediate family, back) to Ann Arbor in the summer of 2023 from Massachusetts. Our plan was to shop around for churches that summer, though that did not go quite as planned: when we showed up in August to St. Clare’s to check out our first church on the list, we decided we were done shopping. I have loved the welcoming community here, the services, our kids’ experiences at church school, and (of course) the music and the Wednesday Night Cantible Choir 🙂 Last year, I was lucky enough to start teaching our youngest kiddos in our Children’s Chapel. In my outside-of-church life, I’m a librarian at U-M, I like to bake pies and bread, and I enjoy volunteering at our kids’ school. I really find great joy in building community through working on common goals (I was on the PTO at our school in MA and loved that experience), and I’d be honored to do that and give back to St. Clare’s by serving on the Vestry.
Kim Dolan
I discovered and began attending St. Clare’s a month prior to the arrival of Rev. Anne, Myles and Isaiah. Previously I was a 25-year member of Scio Community Church. With that many years, one is not able to escape being asked to serve in just about every facet of church life, which I might add, I joyfully did! I grew up in New England and attended college in Boston. With a career in retail, I was transferred around quite a bit. In 1990 I landed in Ann Arbor where I unpacked my last moving box. I eventually traded the brutal hours retail demanded for a franchise consultant position with Molly Maid. I retired in 2024 after many years. I did not hear about Jesus until midlife. Not wanting to waste any more time, I became a student of all things related to faith. I love studying theology, history, tradition, and culture. Currently I work with our elementary age kids in church school. I volunteer with the crew at the Back Door Food Pantry, and I volunteer a few mornings a week in a kindergarten class at the Perry Early Learning Center. I live in Ypsi where you will find me walking my collie Junia through snow, rain and heat, as the postal service’s unofficial motto states.
Joan Nuxoll
I am a rather new member of St. Clare’s, because I only moved to Ann Arbor in the summer of 2022. During my husband’s military career we moved as a family many times, and through that experience we learned that finding community in church is a wonderful way to feel at home in a new city. Now when I walk in the door at St. Clare’s I am so happy to see familiar faces and worship with people who have become my friends. I would like to serve in this parish as a way of investing in a wonderful church and repaying the members for their friendship. I have been a “church lady” for most of my life. I grew up Lutheran, converted to Catholicism when I married, and then asked St. Clare’s to adopt me as an Episcopalian two years ago. I have been the Administrator to a military parish of 700 families on a military base in South Korea, served on school boards and parish councils, led prayer groups, taught Baptismal preparation classes, was a speaker at women’s conferences, was the secretary for the Vestry at an Episcopal Church in Idaho during the pandemic, and basically just had a casserole under one arm for the past 50 years. In my former professional life I was a counselor to inmates at a minimum security prison in Idaho, and then worked for the Idaho Supreme Court as director of an addiction recovery program in the prison system. My current job is as a House Mom in a sorority on the UMich campus which has given me fourteen years of experience in building maintenance and avoiding plumbing disasters. This job leaves me with a considerable amount of free time (I told Jesus I would like to be on his Disciple Retirement Program) but I see now that I am way too occupied with afternoon bridge games and computer solitaire. I would like to apply myself to some more worthy causes which I know exist in abundance at St. Clare’s. As long as the knees hold up I would like to be of service.
Jackie Sproat
My family became aware of St. Clare’s through good friends and we joined about fifteen years ago. I was especially drawn to the congregation because of its shared space and community service programs with Temple Beth Emeth. Social justice, human rights and ecumenicism are very important to me, as is family. My Husband Scott and I have been married for 29 years and have two grown daughters. I have an MSW and work for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services overseeing Medicaid behavioral health and developmental disability services. I enjoy cooking, traveling and spending time outdoors, appreciating the beauty of God’s creation.
Outgoing Vestry Members
Many thanks to those who are completing their terms on the Vestry at our upcoming annual meeting in January: Peter Millar, Ann Putallaz, Debra Stevens, Cathy Stone.
Continuing Vestry Members
Term ending at our annual meeting in 2026: Barbara Beaton, Mac Dick, Susan Jones Draffen, Vera Schwankl
Term ending at our annual meeting in 2027: Lucia Cooper, Mark Davis-Craig, Loren Jackson, Barbara Scoville
Nominees for Delegates to Diocesan Convention
Kate Morris Curtin, Matt Evett, Vickie Hatt, David Laurance, Janie Little, Eileen McMyler, Cathy Stone
We send three delegates to Diocesan Convention. The three nominees who get the most votes will be considered our delegates, the others will be our alternates, ready to step in if one of the delegates cannot serve.
Nominee for Genesis Board
Abram Wagner (this term begins in June 2025)