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Pendle Hill's Trustees Consider Three Candidates for Director
The three finalist candidates for Director of Pendle Hill visited the campus February 14-19. Pendle Hill's Board of Trustees is now in a process of discernment. Once an offer to a candidate has been made and accepted, the name of the new Director will be announced to the public.
Each candidate submitted an extensive resume, from which the following information has been gleaned:
Lauri Perman earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. From 1988 to 2002 she was employed by Penn State University, State College, PA, in several faculty and administrative positions, including Assistant Dean of Schreyer Honors College and Associate Head of the Department of Sociology. From 2004 to the present, she has served as Presiding Clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) and has been a member of BYM’s Program Committee, Trustees Committee, and Supervisory Committee. She has also been a member (ex officio) of the Friends General Conference Central Committee and has attended in 2004, 2005, and 2006. She was a delegate to the FUM Triennial in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2002 and served as Clerk of the ad hoc Committee for Gender and Sexual Diversity Concerns of Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 2004. Her extensive involvement with State College Meeting, State College, PA, includes the clerkship of six committees since 1988. Her fundraising experience includes regular meetings with Penn State’s largest donors between 1997 and 2002. She has published professionally in sociological publications and has also written numerous articles for the BYM Interchange.
Lloyd Lee Wilson received a master’s degree in Management from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently serves as Director of Institutional Research, Registrar and Assistant Professor in Accounting and Religion at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC. He also is President and CEO of Cedar Grove Consulting, LLC in Woodland, NC, a management consulting and software development service he runs with his wife. The firm serves nonprofit organizations and charities and specializes in full-service automated fund accounting. Lloyd Lee Wilson’s service to Friends includes three years as General Secretary of Friends General Conference (1982 to 1985) and six years as Clerk of the Yearly Meeting of Ministry and Oversight of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) (1997-2003). He is a founding member of the board of directors of Quaker Ministries, Inc., Norfolk, VA; Norfolk Quaker House, Norfolk, VA; and New Dominion Housing, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA. His publications include Wrestling with the Faith Tradition: Collected Public Witness, 1995-2004 and Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order.
Gordon K. Davies and Elizabeth S. Brinson, husband and wife, served together during 2004-2005 as Resident Friends at Wellington Friends Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, where they offered hospitality and educational programs. Gordon Davies earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Yale University. From 2002 to 2006 he was Director of the National Collaborative for Postsecondary Education Policy. He served as Monitor of the Louisiana Higher Education Desegregation Settlement Agreement from 1995 to 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, Boulder, CO, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the National Center for Higher Education and Public Policy, San Jose, CA, which publishes a state-by-state report card on higher education every two years. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, Roanoke, VA, and chaired the Audit Committee from 2001 to 2004.
Betsy Brinson received a Ph.D. from Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH.From 1998 to 2002 she was Director of the Kentucky Civil Rights Project and raised over $100,000 for documentary film production. From 1993-1998 she was Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Center for the Advancement of Generalist Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond, VA. Her professional experience also includes service as Program Director of the National Board of the YWCA of the USA in New York City and work with AIDS patients and in AIDS education, including service as Executive Director of the Central Virginia AIDS Services and Education. She worked with the American Civil Liberties Union for twelve years, including as North Carolina State Director and Virginia State Director. She published articles in Friends Journal in 2004 and 2006 and has served on the Board of Directors of Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, and other organizations.
