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Gilbert King
Gilbert is a native of Charleston and has been a member of Calvary Episcopal Church from the cradle. He was confirmed at Calvary well over fifty years ago. He has been a senior warden, member of the vestry, an acolyte, a choir member and held several voluntary and leadership positions in the church and community. Among these was ten year commitment as a voluntary Guardian ad Litem.
Gilbert is a graduate of South Carolina State University and has a MA degree in counseling and guidance from SC State University and a MA degree from Webster University in Human Resources Development. He is a retired Career Development Counselor for the navy.
Melinda Lucka
Melinda was brought up in the Presbyterian Church; she wasreceived into the Episcopal Church in 1987. Melinda is a member of Grace Church,Charleston, where she served on thevestry from 2004-2007. She has taught Sunday School at Grace since 1995,for young children,youth, and most recently for an adult Emmaus Program in 2008. Melindahas been a member of the St. Augustine choir, and currently serves on the Saving Grace fund raising committee.
Melinda graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1979, with degrees in Urban Studies and Religion. She went to law school in 1987 after having worked as an Urban Planner in the public and private sectors. She practices law in Mt. Pleasant,with a small group that specializes in the area of Land Use and Environmental Law. Melinda has taught a Land Use Law class as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston since 1994, andfor the past 10 years, on apart time basis, has served as prosecutor for misdemeanor criminal charges for theCity of Charleston.Melinda and her husband have two teenage sons and an adult daughter.
Betsy Luke
Betsy is a native of South Carolina and has been an active member of St. Paul’s, Summerville, for 38 years. She has served the parish as Director of Christian Education, financial secretary, parish administrator, and as a member of the Altar Guild, vestry, and the ECW.
She has been a delegate to the Diocesan Convention and served on Diocesan Council. At the Diocesan level has been active in Christian education, Cursillos, and was President of the ECW. She represented South Carolina as a delegate to the ECW Triennial meetings in 1997 and 2000. Currently Betsy chairs the Department of Social Ministries, and is a mentor in the University of the South’s School of Theology Education for Ministry program.
A graduate of the College of Charleston, she is Executive Director of Meals on Wheels of Summerville, Inc., and serves as a member of the Summerville Race Relations Committee.
A native of Queens, New York, Barbara moved to Charleston, S.C. from Asheville, N.C. seven years ago, and is a member of Grace Church, where she chairs its Discernment Committee. She held parish, diocesan and provincial leadership positions in Asheville, and served on the National Episcopal Standing Commission on Stewardship and Development. A deputy or alternate to five General Conventions, she was elected to the National Executive Council in 1997, and chaired its Audit Committee. For the last 10 years she has served as the Treasurer of Province IV.
Barbara is a graduate of St. Lawrence University, and is a Certified Public Accountant. She ran her own accounting firm in Asheville where she was a leader in various community organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Women’s Organization. She is currently employed in a manufacturer’s rep firm as CFO and CIO. She and her husband have two grown children and six grandchildren.
Born in upstate NY, Dave moved to Charleston with wife Barb form Asheville NC ten years ago and is a member of Grace Church. He is active at Grace as co-chair of the Discernment Committee; he also ushers and is a chalice bearer. In the diocese of Western NC for 20 years Dave served as Warden, Diocesan Executive Committee and other capacities. In Charleston he is a volunteer Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children and enjoys golf for recreation.
Dave graduated from St. Lawrence U and has an MBA from the U of Rochester. He founded a rep firm and has served as CEO for more than 20 years. Both grown children are active in the business and Dave enjoys with Barb having four grands in the Charleston area.
Dolores J. Miller
Originally from New Jersey, Dolores has lived in Delaware and Maryland, and is now a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Florence, SC. She has served the church through an extensive number of leadership positions. Her parish work includes service as vestry member, junior warden, and senior warden and a Diocesan Convention delegate; she has chaired the Diocesan Council Department of Finance and served on the Camp St. Christopher Campaign Steering Committee. At the Provincial level she has been a long-time member and officer of the Altar Guild; nationally she has been a General Convention deputy from South Carolina, a member of the National Altar Guild Association and the Episcopal Women’s Caucus.
Dolores attended Averett College in Danville, Virginia, and has held administrative positions at Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD; Francis Marion University, Florence, SC. She served staff to the State College Board of Trustees which had oversight of Francis Marion, the College of Charleston and Lander College. In addition, she has provided volunteer service to many community and regional social service and educational organizations.
Lynn A. Pagliaro
Lynn has been an active Episcopalian for more than 40 years in the dioceses of Newark, Maryland, Western New York, Cleveland and Connecticut. He is currently a member of Grace Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He has served on vestries, as senior warden, and has chaired search, outreach, finance and worship committees. He is a member of the Kanuga Board of Visitors.
A graduate of Clarkson University and The University of Rochester, Lynn spent 25 years in corporate management. For the past 20 years he has lived in Charleston and been a partner in Citadel Capital Group, providing financing and management consulting services for regional businesses and non-profit organizations. He has been President of the Kiawah-Seabrook Exchange Club and Sea Island Habitat for Humanity. He has also served on boards of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, John Carroll University and The Nichols School.
Jonathan Poston
A member of St. Michael's Church in Charleston, Jonathan formerly served as a member of its Buildings and Grounds Commission, and chaired the Churchyard subcommittee and the Church Guides. He also has been an usher.
Jonathan received a BA from the University of Richmond, an MA in Early American History from the College of William and Mary, and a JD from the University of Richmond, and has studied architectural conservation in England. He has held positions related to historic preservation at Goucher College and Mary Washington College, and is still professionally active in the field.
Widely published in the field of historic preservation, Jonathan holds or has held leadership positions in many community organizations, including Friends of the Charleston County Courthouse, Preservation Action, and Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, the South Carolina and American Bar Associations, and the Junior League of Charleston Community Advisory Board.
Marilyn Powell
Marilyn Powell was born in California, grew up in Hawaii. She attended University of South, Sewanee, St. Luke’s School of Theology, Sewanee, and is a graduate of EFM. She was ordained to Vocational Diaconate in 1985 in Diocese of Tennessee. She has served at St. James, Sewanee, Otey Memorial Parish, Sewanee, Church of Our Saviour, John’s Island, St. James, Charleston, and is currently deacon at St. Stephen’s, Charleston.
Marilyn has also served as delegate to several conventions in Diocese of Tennessee, is co-founder of Mid-Cumberland Mountain Ministry, Grundy County, Tennessee, and founder of Magdalene House of Charleston. She is community board member of Charleston Center.
John Sands
John moved to Murrells Inlet, SC in 1999. A cradle Episcopalian, he and his family are members of Holy Cross Faith Memorial Episcopal Church of Pawleys Island. He currently serves as Senior Warden and Chairman of the Building Committee, positions he also held at his former church in Virginia. In addition, he serves on the boards of Baskervill Housing Development and the Smith Medical Clinic, both outreach ministries of Holy Cross Faith Memorial.
John holds degrees from Trinity College (CT), the University of Delaware, and George Washington University, and has spent the past thirty years in museum administration.
Scott Shaffer
Scott was confirmed fifty years ago in the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina. A member for over thirty years at St. Helena’s-Beaufort, he has served as Sunday school teacher, co-chair of ad hoc committees, diocesan convention delegate and for several terms as vestry member and warden. More recently, he has been serving as warden for St. Mark’s Chapel, a Beaufort house church.
After earning his Ph.D. from Emory University in clinical psychology, Scott joined the Navy and served two years as a psychologist at Parris Island during the Vietnam era. After that, he established an independent practice of clinical psychology. He has been president of the South Carolina Psychological Association and the South Carolina Association of Professional Psychologists. A diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychologists, Scott serves as an examiner for that board.
In addition to church and professional related responsibilities, he has participated in numerous local community endeavors. Currently, he is a board member of the Friends of Caroline Hospice, an organization he chaired for five years.
Colton M. Smith
Colton was born and grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of the South and the General Theological Seminary he was ordained. He served congregations and worked in the Diocesan office in Mississippi for 30 years. He participated on various committees in the Diocese and was a deputy to General Convention three times.
He moved to South Carolina in 1991 to serve as Rector of The Church of Our Saviour, Johns Island. Again he served in various capacities within this Diocese before retiring from full-time ministry in 2001. He and his wife, Angela, attend St. Stephen’s Church, Charleston. They have three adult children and four grandchildren.
Charles Sturm
Charles Sturm (Charlie) was born and raised in Detroit. He received an undergraduate degree in Sociology at Wayne State U. in Detroit. He attended Bexley Hall Seminary in Gambier, Ohio, graduating in June, 1961. He was ordained to the priesthood January 6, 1962 and served in various parishes and missions in the Diocese of Michigan until his retirement in December, 1992. He has volunteered with Caribbean Ministries and worked in Trinidad (1993-94) and in St. Kitts in 1995. He lived in Escondido, California (1996-2003) and has lived in Summerville, SC since July, 2002. Charlie attended St. Paul’s in Summerville, served as interim Vicar at Holy Family in Monck’s Corner (2003-2005) and presently is assisting in St. George’s, Summerville.
Jan Van Norte
Raised in the Presbyterian Church, Jan was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1987. She is a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Charleston, where she serves on the Vestry, is co-chair of the Outreach Committee, and a member of the Flower Guild.
Jan is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Tennessee, and has spent 28 years as a clinical social worker in the areas of child welfare, adolescent pregnancy, and adoptions. She has worked with the Florence Crittenton Programs in Knoxville, Tennessee and in Charleston, where she was the Clinical Director. She currently serves on the Florence Crittenton Board of Directors. Jan was a founding member of the McKinney Task Force, a coalition of non-profit agencies that formulated the re-use plan for the Charleston Navy Base. Jan works as a Certified Adoption Investigator, assessing and preparing prospective adoptive families.
Steve Ward
A resident of Seabrook Island, Steve attends Grace Church in Charleston. A life long Episcopalian, he has served several parishes, including the vestry of Emanuel Church in Geneva, Switzerland, prominent because the corner stone was laid by President Grant. He was a member of the Men and Boys Choir of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Westfield, NJ, and a vestry member at St George's Anglican Church in Singapore. Recently he has been active in the Church of Our Saviour on John’s Island as a lector and Eucharistic Minister, member of the Communications Committee, and the Church Insurance Coordinator.
During the 33 years Steve worked for Cargill, Incorporated, he spent 26 living outside the United States, mainly in Asia, where he was President of Cargill Asia Pacific. Having retired from Cargill, he now, with his wife, runs a consulting business, Global Connections, and is Executive Director of the South Carolina World Trade Institute and Honorary Trade Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the Southern United States.
Steve is a graduate of Wake Forest University, and holds a graduate degree in International Economics and Trade from the American Graduate school of International Management.
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