Lay Leadership

Vestry Class of 2021. Dick has been coming to St. Martin’s since the late 80’s; Marj Little and he were married here in 1991, and their daughter Lilly was baptized here in 2000. Dick has been a long–time choir member, singing in both the Chancel and Parish choirs. He spent several years as a youth group leader. The highlight of that experience was the pilgrimage to South Dakota in 2012. Dick has had a long career practicing medicine in the Philadelphia area, most recently on the staff of Chestnut Hill Hospital. He will be retiring in July and looks forward to spending more time with friends, family, and St. Martin’s.

Vestry Class of 2021. Al Good and his wife Jane have been members of St. Martin’s for over 20 years as regular attendees of the (prior) 9:00 service. Al joined the Parish choir with his daughter and has been there from the beginning. Music is a huge part of Al’s life and he loves to share his God-given gift with his friends and family wherever he can. Al was also very involved with coaching sports for his kids, so he signed up for teaching Sunday School for 5 years and thoroughly enjoyed learning and teaching the 1st & 2nd graders. Al has always had a strong interest and comfort in fundraising, so he has served on the Stewardship committee for the last 5 years. He hopes to continue helping Stewardship and Planned Giving to grow and prosper in years to come. Al has been in the financial services business for over 24 years and has three children, Madeline, Wyatt, and Rosalie, who all attended St. Martin’s and also sang in the Parish choir. Al is extremely honored to serve on the vestry and looks forward to helping St. Martin’s wherever he can.

Vestry Class of 2021. Raymond "Skip" Lynch came to St. Martin’s in 1970 at the recommendation of the minister in Rye, New York who officiated at his wedding to his wife, Whim. His two children grew active in the church, particularly Daphne who sang in the choir. Whim, meanwhile taught Sunday school with Phoebe Griswold. As an architect, Skip has been involved in a number of properties projects for St. Martin’s, including the conversion of the choir changing room into the Mary Chapel, the rewiring of the Parish House, maintaining the boilers, and the renovations at Hilary House. He has previously served on Vestry and also ushers at the 9:00 services. Skip looks forward to rejoining the Vestry at this time of anticipated improvements to our campus.

Vestry Class of 2021.

Cathy Glazer is a member of the class of 2022 on St. Martin's Vestry. Cathy is an active member at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She is the leader of the Greeting Ministry and can be found most Sundays welcoming newcomers and visitors. She also participates in two Bible Studies and is part of the Biblical Studies Leadership Team. She also is a member of the Hospitality Committee, Friends of the Columbarium and helps out the team who vacuums the hassocks. She also regularly participates in SUPPER at St. Martin's. Retired from the commercial paper industry, Cathy likes to spend time gardening and traveling. She and her husband Gary live in Chestnut Hill and they have two grown children and four teenage grandchildren.

Vestry Class of 2022. Thomas Queenan is the SVP and COO for PIDC where he is responsible for providing leadership and management over all aspects business operations that includes accounting & financial reporting; business strategy & performance measurement; information technology and data management; human resources; legal services and loan portfolio management.

For the last 25 years, Thomas has worked as a senior and executive officer in finance and business operations for educational institutions, healthcare provider networks, consulting and municipal government.

Prior to joining PIDC, Thomas was the Vice President of Finance and Administration at Dickinson College and Chief Financial Officer at the Milton Hershey School and School Trust. He is also the former Associate Vice President of Treasury at Temple Health; an investment banker; and investment advisor. He has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Syracuse University; and a master’s degree in urban planning from Columbia University. Mr. Queenan is a Certified Treasury Professional and a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Thomas and his wife Kay are native Philadelphians and have resided in the Chestnut Hill community for the past 20 years.

Vestry Class of 2022. Adenike Webb has been a parishioner at St. Martin’s since 2007. Her love of music led her to serve on the Chancel Choir and as musician at the worship.together service. A lifelong Anglican with experiences worshipping in Trinidad, Jamaica, and the United States, Adenike has seen the Church to be God’s way of drawing people of all backgrounds into life-sustaining communion. Her passion for music and connecting with others extends into her professional life as a music therapist, and she recently completed her Ph.D. in music therapy at Temple University.

Vestry Class of 2022. Alan has been a St. Martin's parishioner since 2014. He is a regular at the 8 a.m. service where he serves as acolyte, lector, and intercessor as needed. He is a Stephen Minister and is completing his third year of Education for Ministry. He has a strong interest in environmental and theological issues. He is a professional software engineer. He and his wife Leni have lived in Mt. Airy since 2004. They have three adult children and two grandchildren.

Vestry Class of 2023. Justina is grateful to be serving on the vestry of St. Martin's. She began to attend the worship.together service with daughter, little Barbara, in 2012, occasionally staying for the 11:15 service (with help from childcare in the undercroft) to hear husband John Wentz sing in the Chancel Choir. These days, the 10:30 service finds her leading Children’s Chapel or sitting quietly alone in the pew while daughter acolytes or joins her dad in the choir. She has been serving on the Becoming Beloved Community leadership team since 2016 and she is generally interested in and supportive of all St. Martin's ministries for children, youth, and family. Professionally, she works with historic buildings in Fairmount Park, and therefore highly regards the architectural space for worship, as well as the challenging stewardship for the physical plant the church undertakes. In 2018, she and her family followed the magnetic pull of Mt. Airy and moved from Abington in order to be closer to church and church family. This Justina's second term on Vestry.

Vestry Class of 2023. Harry has been an active member of St. Martin’s ever since he and his wife Sandra were married by Bob Tate 19 years ago. Harry currently serves as an usher, greeter, and lector during 10:30 Sunday services, and is also trained as a Stephen Minister. From 2005 to 2009, Harry was a vestry member and in the year that followed served on the Discernment Committee charged with recommending the vestry’s call to Jarrett as new rector. Harry moved to Philadelphia in 1972 and has worked as a newspaper editor, a software developer and, currently, a marketing writer for an asset management company. Strictly for fun, he noodles on the guitar as part of a local jazz quartet and can be heard playing bass during the annual Bluegrass Mass. Harry and Sandra reside near Schwenksville. For his second go-round on the vestry, Harry hopes to contribute his maturity, experience, and communications skills to the continued growth of St. Martin’s and looks forward to upholding the work of the clergy, staff, and lay leadership.

Vestry Class of 2023. Anne is a rising senior at SCH Academy. She was born in Philadelphia, lives in Glenside, and plays piano and harp, volleyball, basketball, and golf. She enjoys hanging out with her friends, babysitting, and petsitting. Anne has been attending St. Martin's for about 8 or 9 years, and has made a lot of friends here. She enjoys attending youth group meetings with her peers, babysitting for church events, attending SUPPER, and serving as an acolyte. These responsibilities build her connections and relationships with fellow parishioners. Anne enjoys being part of a community that continuously grows with diversity and new faces.

Vestry Class of 2023. Barbara has been a member of St. Martin's for over 15 years. She has chaired the forum committee, co-led youth pilgrimages to South Dakota, and sat on the community engagement committee. Barbara and her husband have been raising their sons (16 and 21) and building our spiritual lives while trying to manage the pressures of our professions, kids' lives, and other family relationships. Barbara is an attorney with a specialty in public transit transactions, with 30 years of hands-on experience leading government projects. She has found that the keys to her success have been respect and listening to each other so all can better understand our differences and find a common way forward. Barbara’s favorite hobby is taking long walks/hikes to settle her soul and following it up with coffee and laughter with a friend. Barbara has been blessed with the many wonderful people in her life she has met through services, activities, and prayer at St. Martin's, and she is honored to serve on the vestry.

Vestry Class of 2023. A lifelong Episcopalian, Paula joined St. Martin’s a few years ago after moving to Mt. Airy. She gets excited about bringing people together to enrich their sense of community at St. Martin’s. Paula is also committed to maintaining this safe, inclusive, and compelling environment in which her boys are thriving. This is Paula's second term on vestry.

James (Jim) Fairburn was born in Washington, D.C., but as a member of a military family (USMC), he moved frequently while growing up, including 2 years in Tokyo, Japan, which influenced him profoundly. He received a BA in Sociology with a minor in Art from Allegheny College in 1972 and then moved to the Philadelphia area in 1973. He took a job as Administrator at Philadelphia Center for Older People (now Philadelphia Senior Center) where he worked from 1974-1985. In 1987, Jim graduated with an M. Ed. from Temple University (Tyler School of Art) and subsequently worked for Norristown Area School District, 1988-2010. He served primarily as a middle school Art Teacher, but also as an elementary classroom teacher for three years. He has been retired since June, 2010.

In the fall of 2016, with the troubling election noise and then the catastrophic outcome, Jim was in search of a new church home. During his residency in Chestnut Hill (1987-97) he had attended St. Martin’s occasionally, but gravitated elsewhere. Then in 2016, unhappy in his church situation, a friend, Judy Howard, strongly urged him to give St. Martin’s another try. The rest, as they say, is history.

Jim says, “The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields offers a meaningful synergy of spirituality and activism, as a church should but often doesn’t. The clergy, staff, and parishioners have always been welcoming and affirming. It has been a joy to be involved in so many facets of this parish over the past 4 years (SUPPER, lector, Eucharistic ministry, greeter, gardener, POWER LOC, and choir).”

“I look forward to a new chapter in my involvement with The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields as a member of the Vestry as the parish faces a host of new challenges in the days ahead.”

Carol Horne Penn has attended St. Martin’s since 2010 when she and her family moved from Wyncote to Chestnut Hill. She has been an active member of our Properties Committee and in 2019, agreed to chair the committee. Carol was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Her love for, and ultimate move to Philadelphia stems from annual Thanksgiving sojourns with her family to celebrate with her beloved favorite uncle and aunt each year. She is currently the Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Relations for Clemens Construction Company. Prior to Clemens, Carol was the Deputy Director with Community Legal Services and held significant senior leadership positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Water Department.

Carol resides in Chestnut Hill with her husband of 32 years, Kenn. Together they have two daughters, Jeanne, age 25, a graduate of Hamilton College, currently working and residing in Singapore and Jessie, age 21, a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania. Carol serves on the Boards of the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Philadelphia Chapter, the Fairmount Park Conservancy, and Community Design Collaborative. In 2014 she received the Women of Distinction Award from the Barristers Association of Philadelphia. Carol is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Drexel University.

Emily Law moved to Germantown with her husband, Richard, in 1996. Their children are Nigel (22) and Imogen (17). Emily is a freelance editor and was baptized at St. Martin’s in 2005. What drew Emily to St. Martin’s was its warm welcome to her as a stressed mother with young children; singing in the choir has been an ongoing joy. She says, "Serving on the vestry to help St. Martin’s continue as a welcoming, faithful community would be an honor."

Tom Sibson started his career as a CPA working for one of the large public accounting firms. Since then, he has been a financial leader for three different organizations. Currently he is the Chief Financial Officer for LEARN Behavioral. Learn Behavioral is a leading national network of providers serving children with autism and other special needs. Prior to this, he was the Chief Financial Officer for BAYADA Home Health Care.

Tom has been married to Laura Sibson for 26 years. Laura is a writer and author of young adult fiction. Their children are Zach (23) and Mitch (20). Zach is a senior at Eastern University and Mitch just completed his second year at NYU.

When asked why he wants to serve St. Martin’s, Tom wrote, “Since we moved to Chestnut Hill in 2015, joining St. Martin’s shortly thereafter, Laura and I have found the community to be warm, mission-led, and spiritually fulfilling. Having the opportunity to give back to St. Martin’s and help to sustain its mission and place in the community as a safe, open, caring, and active place to worship and serve would be an honor.”

Tom is running for a second 4-year term on Vestry. He was appointed to the vestry in 2018 to fulfill the remaining two years of a resigning vestry member’s term. Tom was appointed to the role of Accounting Warden by the Finance Committee in April, 2020 and is currently working alongside outgoing Accounting Warden, Bob Allen.