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Wardens and Officers
The Wardens and other officers share in leading the parish and Vestry. Each Warden and Officer is responsible for taking care of their particular area of responsibility. The Senior Warden, for example, is often called the "Rector's Warden," and the Junior Warden, "the People's Warden." The Wardens and other officers are members of our parish elected by the church membership. They work in tandem with the Vestry and Rector to implement a vision and oversee the church's activity and welfare.
Vestry
The Vestry is the governing board of the church. It consists of the Rector, the four officers and 12 members of our parish elected by the church membership. The Vestry is particularly responsible for the care of church finances and buildings. The lay members of the Vestry and the Rector work in tandem to create a vision and oversee the church's activity and welfare.
Warden/Vestry Bios
Robert E. Cowden III, Senior Warden
Bob Cowden first came to Trinity in the mid-1980s, and remains drawn here by worship “that sustains and inspires, and by ministries that are grounded in faith and a shared sense of thanksgiving.” Bob has served as Clerk and member of the Vestry, member of the Vestry Budget and Audit Committees, chair of the Outreach Committee, member of the Staffing Committee, and as co-chair of the Rector Search Committee. A partner at the law firm of Casner & Edwards LLP, Bob lives in Newton with his wife, Martha.
Joan Stephens Hadly, Junior Warden
Joan Hadly has been a member of Trinity Church since 1996, has been a member of the Vestry for the past year, and sings in the Parish Choir. Joan has been involved in DOCC, reading the Daily Office, and participated in the Capital Campaign Planning Task Force, Adult Education Committee, the church trip to the Holy Land in 2000. She has recently begun a new professional assignment as Campaign Director of Cape Cod Health System, after a year of donating her time and training and development skills to Mercy Ships International. Previously, Joan was Chief Development Officer at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Joan raised two children, Courtney and David II, and is a proud grandmother to Nathan. She lives in the Back Bay.
Stephen J. Hendrickson, Treasurer
Steve Hendrickson first attended Trinity 15 years ago. He was a member of the Vestry from 1999-2003, and has served as Trinity’s Treasurer since June 2003. He has also served on the Stewardship Committee, several Capital Campaign Committees, the Budget Committee, the Audit Committee, the Endowment Investment Committee, and the Art & Architecture Committee. He is the retired founder of Christian Book Distributors and Hendrickson Publishers.
Gary Sandison, Clerk
Gary Sandison is a Special Assistant to the Mayor of Boston. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Parish Profile Committee. He has served on the Vestry and on several committees including Personnel, Planned Giving, Discernment, and Urban and Justice. He is a Lay Eucharistic Minister, lay liturgist and serves as Chair of Special Services, coordinating clergy and lay ministers. A past DOCC facilitator, Gary also serves as an Acolyte Mentor. He has been attending Trinity since 1987 and lives in the Back Bay.
Ronald E. Akie, Vestry
Ron Akie first came to Trinity in 1998 and has been co-chair of the Trinity Boston Counseling Center Advisory Board, and has served on the Trinity:Next Strategic Planning Committee, the Capital Campaign/Special Gifts Committee, the Rector Transition Committee, and has participated in DOCC. He co-founded a strategic consulting company focused on the knowledge industry, Knowledge Solutions LLC, and he also teaches and serves as Director of the School of Business at Mount Ida College in Newton. He serves on the board and as treasurer of Community Research Initiative of New England. He lives in the South End with his partner.
Alexandra A. Burke, Vestry
Alexandra Burke is a managing director of Wells-Fargo Commercial Capital's customer development and loan production program. A life-long Episcopalian and the daughter of a retired Episcopal priest, she has been attending Trinity since 1997. Alex has served on the Urban and Justice Steering Committee and as Trinity's trustee on the Nehemiah Homes Trust, and presently serves as a member of the Grants Committee. Alex has served on several clergy search committees, is a DOCC graduate, and served as a small group facilitator in the Gospel of Mark study. She lives in the South End.
Barbara A. Dortch-Okara, Vestry
The Honorable Barbara Dortch-Okara is a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, an adjunct professor of law at Boston University Law School, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Divinity School. Barbara has attended Trinity since 1992, and has participated in the Center for Faith in the City explorations, taught fifth grade in church school for four years, and traveled to Greece on "St. Paul's Journey" with Rev. Barnwell. She has been an active participant in the Rodman Ride for Kids' Team Trinity, which her husband, Ebi Okara, has led for the past 10 years. Their son, Preye, attends church school. The Okaras live in Canton.
Elizabeth M. Feldmann, Vestry
Betsy Feldmann started coming to Trinity when her family moved to the Back Bay in 2005. She has participated in Trinity's Honduras mission, led fundraising and activities planning efforts for Yearwood House, helped with the annual canvass, and served on the Urban and Justice steering committee and Homelessness Task Force. She is married and has three children.
Douglas Orr Fitzsimmons, Vestry
Doug Fitzsimmons and his wife Judy have been coming to Trinity since 2001. Doug is a member of the Trinity Choir and has served on three discernment committees and the Befriender program, as well as on Trinity’s mission trips to Honduras and New Orleans. He has also served on the board of The Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. During the summer months he is a member of Trinity Church in Castine, Maine, where he has served on a search committee.
Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., Vestry
Amos Hostetter is Chairman, Pilot House Associates, L.L.C. and was the Co-founder, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Cablevision, Inc. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of WGBH, and a Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Amos lives on Beacon Hill with his wife Barbara, and has been attending Trinity for five years. The Hostetters have a son, Tripp, and their two daughters, Caroline and Elizabeth, have participated in the youth Honduras mission trips.
Peter Lawrence, Vestry
Peter Lawrence and his family first came to Trinity in 1999 at the invitation of parishioners Laurie Buchta and Cheryl Cummer. The Lawrence family particularly values the many personal relationships they have forged and the opportunities that Trinity has provided to engage in lay ministries such as Stewardship and Children’s Ministries. Peter, a member of the Stewardship Committee since 2004, became co-chair of the committee last year. He is an executive in a biotechnology company that is developing therapies to treat cancer. He also serves as Vice Chairman and board member of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Peter lives in Back Bay with his wife, Pam, and their children, Jane and Clair.
Jeffrey S. McCormick, Vestry
Jeff McCormick is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Saturn Asset Management, a Boston based venture capital fund and private equity firm. Jeff runs marathons to help raise research funds for Dana Farber Cancer Center. At Trinity, he has served on Capital Campaign Committees and was also involved in the Center for Faith in the City planning efforts. Jeff was on the planning committee for visitor programs (now called Art & Architecture), now chaired by his wife Christine. The McCormicks have been attending Trinity since 1996. They live in the Back Bay with their children, Kristen, Aidan, and Jacqueline, who are in nursery and church school.
Marva F. Nathan, Vestry
Marva Nathan became a regular at Trinity in 1997 when she found that the Sunday sermons were providing spiritual nourishment as she sought guidance in her own life. The camaraderie of parishioners and the ability to “ask troubling questions and to find lasting answers” have kept her coming back over the past ten years. She has served on the Grants Committee and Urban & Justice Steering Committee, and more recently helped shape Trinity’s direction as part of the Parish Profile and Rector Search Committees. She works in Medicare and has lived in Jamaica Plain since 1984. She has three adult children and three grandchildren.
Geoffrey W. Smith, Vestry
Geoff Smith works with LTI Ventures Leasing and lives in Beacon Hill. He has been attending Trinity since 1999 and has been involved here in many capacities. In addition to serving as chair of the Grants Committee, Geoff also serves on many other committees: Budget, Urban and Justice Steering, Adult Christian Formation Steering, Beyond Racism, and the DOCC Working Group. He has also facilitated Inquirers', DOCC, and Mark and Matthew Gospel study classes.
Jacquelyn S. VanderBrug, Vestry
In 1998, Jackie VanderBrug came to Trinity with her now husband Brad Johnson because “it was a place we could agree on.” Over the years, she’s found that it’s “our community—where we walk with others who help us live out our faith.’ Jackie served as co-chair of the Parish Profile Committee and on the Rector Search Committee, was a founding member of the Faith on Tap group, and has participated in Christian Pathways, DOCC, and the Staffing Committee. A consultant with Criterion Ventures and Good Capital, she is involved in launching and growing social ventures. Jackie lives in Somerville with her husband and their son, Schuyler.
Paul A. Zintl, Vestry
Paul Zintl is the Chief Operating Officer for Partners in Health and for the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. Paul has been a parishioner since 1995. He has served on the Adult Formation Committee and Capital Campaign Planning Committee, and he now serves on the Vestry, Investment Committee, and the Search Committee. He lives in Brookline with his wife, Lisa Frost, a radiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and their two young sons, Sam and Bob, who attend our church school.
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