Board of Directors for Michigan Friends Center
The Michigan Friends Center is run by a volunteer Board of Directors who dedicate many hours during the year ensuring the success of MFC. They are all interested in hearing ideas and feedback about programs and your experiences at MFC.
Current Board Members
Karen Chalmer
As someone who feels that our
environment sustains us, I treasure the Friends Lake Cooperative
Community as a place where living simply and valuing the wealth of
the natural world are fostered. As a member of FLCC I came
to appreciate the resource that Michigan Friends Center provides
to the community. I think
it’s up to all of us to support the things that sustain us,
so here I am trying to do that.
[Email
Karen]
Claire Foley
Claire Foley has been an attender of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting
since 1997 and a member of Friends Lake Cooperative Community since
1998. She served as the Manager of MFC from 1998-2000 and was a member
of the Program
Committee for several years. She, along with her husband Scott and
son Ira, served as resident caretaker of Friends Lake Cooperative
Community during 1999 and 2000. She currently lives in Grass Lake
and works as a pediatric oncology nurse at Mott Children's Hospital
in Ann Arbor.
[Email
Claire]
Sheila Johnson
Paul Kubicek
Paul Kubicek has attended the Birmingham Friends Meeting since
2001. He is a professor of political science at Oakland University,
where he teaches classes in international politics. He hopes to contribute
to programs at MFC on religion and politics and conflict-resolution.
[Email
Paul]
Don Nagler
I am a member of Pine River Friends Meeting
in Mt. Pleasant; former member of Ann Arbor Meeting while I
was obtaining an M.A. in Sociology, M.D. at U of M, and during an
internal medicine residency at St.Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Practiced internal mediciine for 33 years in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
Co-directed American Friends Service Committee workcamps in
rural Mexico for two summers. Off and on director on MFC board for
10 years; interested in program development.
[Email Don]
Dale Osborn
Dale Osborn is a freelance writer by day, acoustic guitarist by
night; and he also happens to be the building manager of Michigan
Friends Center. A graduate of Michigan State University, Dale grew
up in Grand Rapids, but now resides in the town of Chelsea with his
wife Anne. Dale has been a member of Friend's Lake Community since
the late 1980s, loves to travel, eat Thai food--and still has all
his hair, despite the other affects with which ever-advancing age
is ravaging his body and mind.
[Email
Dale]
Nancy Paul
Nancy Paul is the Executive Director of Faith in Action,
Inc., a local emergency support agency, and a long standing member
of FLCC. She and her husband Jim raised four daughters in the Chelsea
community.
[Email
Nancy]