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.
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.
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.
Sheila Johnson
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.
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.
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.
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.
