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
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach)
Recording Clerk, Yearly Meeting:
- open
Recording Clerk, Interim Business Meeting:
- Liz Dykes (Gainesville)
Assistant Recording Clerks:
- Susan Wade (St. Petersburg)
Treasurer:
- Joel Cook (Treasure Coast & Palm Beach)
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 Co-Clerks:
- Brian Humphrey (Ft. Lauderdale)
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
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)
- Beeg Camarota, Registrar (Deland)
Ministry on Racism Co-Clerks:
- Wendy Geiger (Jacksonville)
- Susan Taylor (Tallahassee)
Nominating Committee Clerk:
- Ed Lesnick
Peace & Social Concerns Clerk:
- Phil Stone (Clearwater)
Publications Clerk:
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
Worship & Ministry co-Clerks:
- Jan Dahm (Tampa)
- Lisa Erazmus (Tampa)
- Richelle Ogle (St. Augustine)
Youth Committee co-Clerks:
- Cece Yocum (Tampa)
- Jennifer Mendoza (Sarasota)
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)
- Kody Hersh, (Orlando)
CAPP Review Committee
- Cheryl Demers Holton, CAPP Coordinator (Gainesville/Deland)
- Susan Wade, SEYM Secretary (St. Petersburg)
- Vicki Carlie (St. Petersburg)
- Kody Hersh (Orlando)
Archives
- Bill Rapp (Lake Wales)
- Phoebe Andersen (Tallahassee)
- Neil Andersen (Tallahassee)
Earthcare
- Brian Humphrey, Co-clerk (Ft. Lauderdale)
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach)
- Mike Flanery (Clearwater)
- Hollyn Green (Savannah)
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
- Gary Crosby (St. Petersburg)
- Catherine Price (Lake Wales)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
- Jim Koopman (Ft. Myers)
Faith & Practice on sabbatical until 2019
- 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)
- Jack Bradin, ex-officio as Assistant YM Clerk (Palm Beach)
- Susan Wade, ex-officio as YM Secretary (St. Petersburg)
Half Yearly Meeting
- Brian Olson, Clerk (Miami)
- Beeg Camarota, Registrar (Deland)
- Susan Wade, Food Coordinator
- Beverly Ward (ex-officio)
Ministry on Racism
- Wendy Geiger, Co-Clerk (Jacksonville)
- Susan Taylor, Co-Clerk (Tallahassee)
- Cheryl Demers (Gainesville)
- Kathy Hersh (Miami)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
- Jane Westberg (Miami)
- Jean Larson (Gainesville)
- Minerva Glidden (Orlando)
- Mainus Sultan (Savannah)
- Katie Green (Clearwater)
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
- Jean Larson (Gainesville)
- Cindy Kwalwasser (Orlando)
Nominating
- Ed Lesnick, Clerk (Orlando)
- Beverly Ward (Tampa)
- Shawna Doran (Gainesville)
- Brian Olson (Miami)
Peace & Social Concerns
- Phil Stone, Clerk (Clearwater)
- Cece Yocum (Tampa)
- Warren Hoskins (Tallahassee)
- Peter Harrell (Gainesville)
- Caroline Kaufman (Clearwater)
- John Heimburg (Orlando)
- Helen Fox (Ft. Myers)
- Karen Putney (Tampa)
- Mercedes Soca (Havana WG)
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)
- Eduardo Diaz (Orlando/St. Augustine WG)
- Ed Abraham (Miami)
- Nancyrose Logan (Sarasota)
- Cheryl Demers-Holton (Gainesville/Deland WG)
- Joel Cook (Palm Beach/Treasure Coast WG)
- Bill Carlie (St. Petersburg)
Yearly Meeting Gathering
- Vicki Carlie, Clerk (St. Petersburg)
- Andrea Hoskins, Registrar (Tallahassee)
- Brian Olson, Gathering Program Coordinator (Miami)
- open, Bookstore
- Kasper Ronning, Young Adult Coordinator (Orlando)
- Susan Wade, SEYM Secretary, ex-officio
Youth Committee
- Jennifer Mendoza, Co-Clerk (Sarasota)
- Cece Yocum, Co-Clerk (Tampa)
- Rachel Dellinger (Orlando)
- Mira Tanna (Orlando)
- Kathy Hersh (Miami/Deland WG)
- Jenn Ambrose (Gainesville)
- Rachel Dellinger (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)
- Pete Ackerman (Gainesville)
- Eileen Zingaro (Clearwater)
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)
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
- Jack Bradin (Palm Beach)
- Brad Stocker (Miami)
Quaker House
- Lynn Newsom (Bluffton, SC WG)
Quaker United Nations Office – QUNO
- Warren Hoskins (Miami)
FUM General Board Observer:
- open
- Ellie Caldwell, alternate (Palm Beach)