About Our Organization
SEYM is a community of 25 constituent Quaker Meetings & Worship Groups in Florida, southeast Georgia, eastern South Carolina, and Managua, Nicaragua. We are affiliated with Friends General Conference and Friends World Committee for Consultation.
As a Yearly Meeting, we gather once a year for our Yearly Meeting Gathering & Annual Sessions, as well as Fall and Winter Interim Business Meetings and a June Executive Committee Meeting. Our work is done year-round.
All personnel, except for Office Staff, are volunteers from our constituent Meetings and Worship Groups.
“A yearly meeting is formed by monthly meetings in a region so that a larger group can undertake matters of common concern and mutual support, can communicate with each other, and can act as a unit. The yearly meeting ties all of us to the wider Quaker fellowship. In meeting for worship with a concern for business and other forums, Friends come together in annual and interim sessions for the assessment of the life of the Society of Friends, the conduct of business, spiritual refreshment and commitment, and the renewal of the ties of friendship.”
—SEYM Faith & Practice
Personnel
Yearly Meeting Clerk
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Interim Business Meeting (IBM) & Executive Committee (EC) Clerk
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Yearly Meeting & Interim Business Meeting Assistant Clerk
- under discernment
Recording Clerk, Yearly Meeting:
- Dan Vaughen (Orlando/DeLand)
Recording Clerk, Interim Business Meeting/Executive Committee Meeting:
- Liz Dykes (Gainesville)
Assistant Recording Clerks:
- IBM and EC: Dan Vaughen (Orlando/DeLand)
- YM: Liz Dykes (Gainesville)
Treasurer:
- Joel Cook (Palm Beach/Treasure Coast)
Membership Recorder:
- Ed Lesnick (Orlando)
Young Adult Quakers Clerk:
Young Friends Clerk:
Young Friends Recording Clerk:
Executive Committee & Interim Business Meeting Clerk:
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Yearly Meeting Clerk:
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Assistant Clerk:
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach)
Recording Clerk, Yearly Meeting:
Recording Clerk, Interim Business Meeting & Executive Committee:
- Liz Dykes (Gainesville)
Treasurer:
- Joel Cook (Palm Beach)
Membership Recorder:
- Ed Lesnick (Orlando)
Young Friends Clerk:
Trustees Clerk:
- Neil Andersen (Tallahassee)
Archives Clerk:
- Bill Rapp (Lake Wales)
Earthcare Clerk:
- Brian Humphrey (Ft. Lauderdale)
Faith & Practice Clerk:
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
Finance Clerk:
- Peter Schmidt
Gathering Clerk:
- Vicki Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Gathering Registrar:
- Andrea Hoskins (St. Petersburg)
Half Yearly Meeting Clerk & Registrar:
- Brian Olson, Clerk (Miami)
- Rosiland Kirupavathy, Registrar (Orlando)
Ministry on Racism Co-Clerks:
- Kathy Hersh (Miami/DeLand WG)
Nominating Committee Clerk:
- Ed Lesnick
Peace & Social Concerns Clerk:
- under discernment
Publications Clerk:
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
Worship & Ministry co-Clerks:
- Jan Dahm (Tampa)
- Lisa Erazmus (Tampa)
- Richelle Ogle (St. Augustine)
Youth Committee Clerk:
- under discernment
Yearly Meeting Secretary (ex-officio):
- Susan Wade (St. Petersburg)
Trustees
- Neil Andersen, Clerk (Tallahassee)
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach)
- Chris Laning (Orlando)
- Mike Flanery (Clearwater)
- Liz Dykes (Gainesville)
CAPP Coordinator:
- Cheryl Demers Holton (Gainesville/Deland)
CAPP Trainers:
- Cheryl Demers-Holton (Gainesville/DeLand WG)
CAPP Review Committee
- Cheryl Demers-Holton, CAPP Coordinator (Gainesville/DeLand WG)
- Susan Wade, SEYM Secretary (St. Petersburg)
- Vicki Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Archives
- Bill Rapp (Lake Wales)
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
- Neil Andersen (Tallahassee)
Earthcare
- Brian Humphrey, Clerk (Ft. Lauderdale)
- Jim Koopman (Ft. Myers)
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa/DeLand)
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach/Treasure Coast)
- Mike Flanery (Clearwater)
- Hollyn Green (Savannah)
Faith & Practice on sabbatical
- Phoebe Andersen, Clerk
Facebook page:
- Mike Flanery (Clearwater)
Finance
- Peter Schmidt, Clerk
- Shawna Doran (Gainesville)
- Steve Donachie (Miami)
- Carl Hersh (Miami)
- Neil Andersen, ex-officio as Trustees Clerk (Tallahassee)
- Joel Cook, ex-officio as Treasurer (Treasure Coast)
- Susan Wade, ex-officio as YM Secretary (St. Petersburg)
Half Yearly Meeting
- Brian Olson, Clerk (Miami)
- Rosiland Kirupavathy, Registrar (Orlando)
- Beverly Ward, Co-Food Coordinator (Tampa/DeLand)
- Kathy Hersh, Co-Food Coordinator (Miami/DeLand)
- Asma Roshi (Orland)
Ministry on Racism
- Kathy Hersh, Clerk (Miami)
- Minerva Glidden (Orlando)
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
- Susan Taylor (Tallahassee)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa/DeLand)
- Jane Westberg (Miami)
- Cindy Kwalwasser (Orlando/DeLand)
- Jean Larson (Gainesville)
- Wendy Geiger
- Katie Green (Clearwater)
- Asma Roshi (Orlando)
Nominating
- Ed Lesnick, Clerk (Orlando)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
- Shawna Doran (Gainesville)
- Brian Olson (Miami)
Peace & Social Concerns
- Karen Putney (Tampa)
- Helen Fox (Ft. Myers)
- Peter Harrell (Gainesveille)
- John Heimburg (Orlando/DeLand)
- Warren Hoskins (Orlando)
- Mercedes Soca (Havana WG)
- Cece Yocum (Tampa)
- Phil Stone (Clearwater)
Publications
- Phoebe Andersen, Clerk (Tallahassee)
- Steven Riddle (Orlando)
- Vicki Carlie (ex-officio)
Worship & Ministry
- Jan Dahm, Co-Clerk (Tampa)
- Lisa Erazmus, Co-Clerk (Tampa)
- Richelle Ogle, Co-Clerk (Orlando/St. Augustine WG)
- Clara Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine WG)
- Eduardo Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine WG)
- Nancyrose Logan (Sarasota)
- Cheryl Demers-Holton (Gainesville/Deland WG)
- Joel Cook (Palm Beach/Treasure Coast WG)
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
- Ann Jerome (Orlando)
Yearly Meeting Gathering
- Vicki Carlie, Clerk (St. Petersburg)
- Andrea Hoskins, Registrar (Tallahassee)
- Brian Olson, Gathering Program Coordinator (Miami)
- John Heimburg, Bookstore (Olrando/DeLand WG)
- Kasper Ronning, Young Adult Coordinator (Orlando)
- Susan Wade, SEYM Secretary, ex-officio (St. Petersburg)
Youth Committee
- Jennifer Mendoza (Sarasota)
- Cece Yocum Gathering Activities (Tampa)
- Kathy Hersh (Miami/Deland WG)
- Mariah Doran Gathering Activities (Gainesville)
- Lewis Kirvan Gathering Activities (Gainesville)
- Amanda Farrar (St. Augustine WG)
- Asma Roshi (Orlando)
- Evelyn Schwalb (Orlando)
American Friends Service Committee Corporation, AFSC/Philadelphia
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
Friends Committee on National Legislation – FCNL/William Penn House
- Karen Putney (Tampa)
- Eileen Zingaro (Clearwater)
- Dianne Langan (St. Petersburg/St. Augustine)
- Ian MacDonald (Tallahassee)
Friends General Conference, FGC Central Committee
- Dan Vaughen (Orlando)
- Susan Wade (St. Petersburg)
Friends World Committee for Consultation – FWCC
- Clara Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine)
- Eduardo Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine)
- Nancyrose Logan (Sarasota)
- Joel Cook (Palm Beach/Treasurer Coast)
Friends Peace Teams
- Cecelia Yocum (Tampa)
- Shawna Doran (Gainesville)
Florida Council of Churches
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Concerns – FLGBTQC
- Under discernment
Palmetto Friends Gathering
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
- Neil Andersen (Tallahassee)
Quaker Earthcare Witness
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa/DeLand)
Quaker House
- Seth Moody (St. Augustine)
Quaker United Nations Office – QUNO
- Liz Jenkins (Orlando)
FUM General Board Observer:
- Eduardo Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine)
- Ellie Caldwell, alternate (Palm Beach)