Nominating Committee
The Committee’s charge (as defined in the bylaws) is to nominate candidates to become Officers and Trustees of the Fellowship and present the slate in the notice of the Annual Business Meeting, which takes place each May. At the same meeting, the Fellowship votes on two new Board-nominated candidates to assume the three-year terms being vacated by the longest-serving members. The Fellowship’s Past President also serves on and votes with the committee (assuming that the Past President still resides in this area).
These are the current members of the Nominating Committee
John Lamb
Kristen Mitchell
Vicki Ruwitch
Su-Esta Scott
Sue Wood
Biographies of Members of the Nominating Committee
John Lamb
Term Expires 2011
John Lamb and his wife, Juli, came to Unitarian Universalism in 1998 because of their fondness for stained glass. During a visit to Boston in 1998, they wandered into the Arlington Street UU Church one Saturday to look at its stained glass windows. The greeter invited them to come to services the next morning, which they did. Upon returning to their home in Raleigh, N.C., they started visiting the local UU Fellowship and joined shortly thereafter. After moving to Boulder in the late summer of 1999, the Lambs joined the Boulder UU Fellowship, then meeting at the Masonic Hall in Boulder, and have been members ever since. John and Juli’s children have been in the Fellowship’s Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE) program for almost their entire lives. John has been involved with various aspects of BVUUF life through the years: the Board, Fellowship Singers, the committee that researched and executed the move from Boulder to Lafayette, and the Buildings and Grounds Committees, just to name a few.
Kristen Mitchell
Term Expires 2009
Kristen was born and raised near Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a relatively secular childhood, she discovered the Unitarian Universalist faith while in veterinary school at Michigan State University. She says:
“Feeling stressed and isolated during a grueling academic program, I took the advice of a long-time friend and visited the UU Church of Greater Lansing, where I soon felt a strong kinship. As I moved around in the coming years, I visited UU churches wherever I happened to be on any given Sunday.
When I relocated to Colorado in 2005 due to my husband’s career, I soon started attending the First Unitarian Society of Denver near Capitol Hill. Although I loved this church, the commute became diffi cult when my husband and I bought our first home in Erie and I began working as a small animal veterinarian in Brighton. That’s when I started attending the BVUUF, and I soon felt at home in this congregation.
I’ve enjoyed participating in the Adult RE Film Series, a Small Group Ministry, Circle Suppers, and Second Friday Discussions. The timing was right to form a Young Adults Group at the Fellowship, and I’ve made many close friends in this group. I’ve also found great pleasure in joining UUs from our Fellowship to prepare and serve meals at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. The Fellowship has become an important part of my life, being a source of close friends and also always reminding me to slow down, appreciate all of the blessings in my life, and take the time to leave my small mark on the world, hopefully making it a better place in some small way.”
Vicki Ruwitch
Term Expires 2011
The Ruwitch family moved to Colorado from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1952, and two years later, my husband, Joe, opened his veterinary practice in Boulder. We lived in Boulder for 25 years, I taught at Boulder High for 10 years, and we raised our 4 children, two of whom attended the old Unitarian preschool. We spent much of the next 14 years in rural Idaho. Joe died in 1993, I joined the Fellowship in 2004, and I’ve enjoyed being involved with the Care Coordinating Committee and the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA).
Su-Esta Scott
Term Expires 2011
Biography pending
Sue Wood
Term Expires 2010
Sue Wood joined the Fellowship in September 2000 as part of her healing, spiritual journey after cancer treatment.
She joined the choir and is now Chair of the Music Committee — a major joy in her life. Other activities seem to involve food. Sue can often be found making coffee on Sunday mornings and has been a member of many Auction sub-committees with food service or bake sale responsibilities. She co-chaired the farewell celebration for Catharine Harris, co-chaired food service for 8 visiting UU choirs who performed a concert at the Fellowship three years ago, and is currently co-chairing the committee to produce the first-ever Fellowship Cookbook. In addition, Sue serves food at the homeless shelter each year.
Sue was raised a Methodist, and with her family joined the Boulder UU Church in 1971. With 2 children in RE, she organized and taught the pre-school classes for 2 years. In her pre-retirement years, Sue taught and chaired the RN program at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, followed by part-time employment with the Colorado Board of Nursing where she reviewed all the Certified Nursing Assistant programs in the state.
Grandmothering two 3-and-a-half-year-old girls is a current passion.