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ST. JOHN'S LEADERSHIP - VESTRY
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Karl Boykin: Bio and pictures are not available at this time.
Sandra Bouchelion: Bio and pictures are not available at this time.
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Royce Daniels
 Royce was born in Pittsburgh PA and graduated from Westinghouse High in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he served in the USAF as a postal clerk in Japan. He is happily married to Ruby Daniels, and they have one daughter Darlene Daniels.
Royce is 61 years old and retired from the Government Printing Office in 1998 after 36 years of government service.
He has been an Episcopalian for 38 years, a conversion that took place during his first marriage to an Episcopalian. Royce was a member of St. Monica's Parish in Southeast DC for 36 years, and served on it's vestry for a total of 9 years. During his time there he was elected Junior Warden. He also served as a convention delegate, and a Lay Eucharistic Minister Volunteer at the Washington Cathedral for two years. Royce has been a LEM for some 25 years and served as the President of the Men's Club of St. Monica's for three years. Royce has trained Acolytes and LEMs, and has served as a speaker on special occasions in the church.
He is currently a LEM, the LEM Coordinator and just finished a course called Food Service Managers.
Royce Says: I will do all I can with Gods help to carry out the Mission statement of St. John¡¯s Episcopal Church. |
Gloria Simon
Gloria Simon is employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs in its Central Office Human Resources Service. Her tenure with the Department spans 30 + years, beginning in Philadelphia in the late 1960's.
Gloria has been a resident of Fort Washington,  Maryland since February 1995, and a member of the Episcopal Church since 1977. She relocated to the Baltimore/Washington, DC metropolitan area in June 1980, and attended Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia, Maryland, and St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, in Washington, DC.
Gloria attended the University of Maryland where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Government. She received a law degree, and a Master of Science degree with a major in Law, Justice and Society, from the American University Washington College of Law and the American University, School of Public Affairs, respectively. Gloria completed additional graduate courses at the American University, School of Public Affairs, with a focus in executive management.
She is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, as well as various voluntary bar associations such as the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, and the District of Columbia Bar Association. She is a volunteer with the DC Bar's Pro Bono Program which provides free legal services in the District of Columbia.
Gloria is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc,. Upsilon Tau Omega Chapter, Fort Washington, Maryland. She has held several appointed and elected positions in the sorority and its nonprofit organization, Southern PG County Community Charities, Inc. She also attended and completed additional graduate courses in the American University¡¯s School of Public Affairs. Gloria enjoys reading, traveling and her grandchildren.
Doug Tower: I am a Cradle Episcopalian, born in December, 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I lived in a middle class suburb called West Allis. I ran away from home once because my mother wouldn't let me play with my earthworms on the living room carpet. I proclaimed, if you don't love my worms, then you don't love me! Then I left, but I was back home in time for dinner. I rode my bike, played Cowboys & Indians, kick the can, caught fireflies in a Mason jar, and in general, bugged my older sister. Now I treasure the moments that I can spend with my Dad, my sister and her family at their lake cottage in Northern Wisconsin.
I went to University of Wisconsin right after high school where I played really hard and went to some classes. By Springtime I realized that this concept was not working out. I joined the Air Force and after a rather unpleasant trip to Texas (basic training), I was stationed in Oregon for two years and Colorado Springs for four years.Thenit was on to the Washington DC area where I spent the last fourteen years of my Air Force career.After retiring from the Air Force, I went back to school and graduated from University of Maryland with a Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Sciences at the age of 54. I am currently a contractor working at the Department of State in Rosslyn, Virginia as a systems analyst testing financially oriented software.
I came to St. John's in 1974 after two years at St. Timothy's in DC. Since then I have been Fair Chairman, a Sunday School teacher, choir member, Lay Eucharistic Minister, Acolyte, Vestryman (multiple times), coordinator of Christmas at the Creek and the Community Concert Series, Sexton, Junior Warden, Senior Warden, Incoming Treasurer (pledge clerk) and Outgoing Treasurer (check writer and bookkeeper). I dearly love singing in the choir and am enjoying the new digital organ with all of its expanded capabilities to enhance our services. I feel it is a critical part of our growth initiative.
Peter Ulrich:
The Ulrich Family came to St. John's in late 1969 in search of a place to baptize their daughter, Diana. The warm welcome and the charm of this historic place captured them and continue to hold them. Peter got immersed immediately into the life of the parish by offering to start a choir and to organize the repairs to and restoration of the old tracker organ that sits in the sanctuary today. This installment of the choir appeared at its first service in September of 1970 with Peter agreeing to lead and play the organ until a paid professional could be afforded. That didn't happen for about 20 years! Some of those original singers from 1970 are still with us: John Bowman, Betty Wylie, Ed Harris, Gwen and Jim Titus. For a small country church the choir did some remarkable things over the years. They performed many of the large choral works in the repertory including in  1985 the St. Matthew Passion on the 300th anniversary of Bach's birth, organized parish musicians into brass and woodwind ensembles at Easter sunrise services, sponsored concerts by local professional musicians especially on the restored 18th century organ and so forth.
Peter also got involved in the life of St. John's in other ways. On three occasions he served three-year terms on the Vestry. He also was Senior Warden during the period 1993-1995 and Junior Warden in 2002. The 300th anniversary of St. John's in 1992 was his responsibility and he led the various committees over the three years of planning leading up to the Tercentennial year celebration. He also has been chairman of the annual Country Fair on four occasions including the Tercentennial event. The refurbishment of Bayne Hall as we know it now was conceived at a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper by Peter and Luther Blair on the back of a napkin. They bemoaned the state of the cinderblock walls and unfinished windows and dreamed a little bit, pencils in hand. Peter turned these sketches into an artist's rendition that subsequently was used to guide architectural drawings for the project. Peter's wife of 41 years, Jeanne, has also been active as a vestry person and a portrait artist at the country Fairs. There are at least 200 charcoal and pastel portraits of kids hanging in homes in the area that were done at St. John's Fairs by Jeanne.
Peter is now semi-retired after a long career in physics research and engineering first at the Naval Research Laboratory, then for 10 years in private industry. Finally he spent 10 years at NASA where he managed many of the space science assets now performing in earth orbit, on the surface of Mars and about to enter the rings of Saturn on July 1. His second career as an artist is flourishing. He is doing both watercolors and oil paintings with success in both critical reviews and sales. Peter is very excited about the developments at St. John¡' in the past year. He senses a bright future in the energy and enthusiasm that has emerged recently. The current vestry is an excellent team and very enthusiastic about its role in shaping the future here. God really seems to be smiling on us all.
Our Children Peter and Diana were confirmed here and two of our four grandchildren have been baptized at St. John's. Our son Peter is a Navy test pilot at the Patuxent Test Center after two mid-East cruises in an F-14 squadron. Diana, who can claim responsibility for our coming here in the first place, is a working Mom of two beautiful children living in Oxfordshire England and doing research at Sharp Laboratories of Europe.
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ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - BROAD CREEK
Telephone: 301/248-4290