Alternate Deputies to General Convention and Provincial Synod – Lay

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JAMES N. BLAIR, ESQ.

43 Krom Road, Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Parish: Christ the King, Stone Ridge
Occupation:  Retired attorney

Church Positions: Parish: Choir, 1987 – ; Stewardship Chair, 1990 – 2009; Vestry, 1991-1997; Capital Campaign Chair for Cong. Giving, 2002, Long Range Planning Committee, 2008-; Building Committee Chair, 2010-. Diocese: Member, Council of the Diocese, 1993-2002; 2010- ; Member, Budget Committee, 1994-1996; Member, Congregational Support Plan Committee, 2002-2008; Member, Convention Planning Committee, 2009 – ; Member, Convention Resolutions Committee, 2010-

Community Positions: Director and Treasurer, 600 West End Ave. Owners Corp. (70 Unit Cooperative Apartment Corporation) 1980-2009; Director and Treasurer, New York Flute Club Inc. 2002-2006, 2008-2009. Member, Hudson Valley Property Tax Reform Task Force, 2004-. Member, Advisory Committee on Civil Practice to the Chief Administrative Judge (NY), 1995-; Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of New York State Bar Association, Executive  Committee 1989 -2011 ,  Chair of CPLR Committee, 1991-1995; Committee on the CPLR of the New York State Bar Association, 1995 – ; Legal Consultant, Rondout Valley Food Pantry, 2009-; Trustee, Rondout Valley Central School District, 2011-.

I have been active in my parish in the northern end of our diocese for many years. For most of those years my family and I lived in the Upper West Side of Manhattan during the week while my wife and I worked in Manhattan and our daughter attended school, most notably at our Cathedral School. I have also been active in the affairs of our diocese for many of these years. I appreciate the extraordinary diversity represented by our diocese and its members – in geography, economy and culture – and it is this reflection of our diocese that I would bring to General Convention.

General Convention will consider a wide range of business, much of it of great importance to the future of our church, and spread over hundreds of separate legislative resolutions. It will include gender equality and same gender issues, our relationship with the wider Anglican Communion and financial issues made all the more pressing by a shrinking financial base.  They will call for passionate advocacy of our beliefs and careful discernment as to how today’s resolutions will play out tomorrow.  My legal experience and financial background would be useful resources for the New York delegation as it represents our diocese in working through this large agenda in a very short period next summer.

MS. LOUISE BOZORTH

25 East End Avenue, New York, NY 10028
Parish:  Epiphany, Manhattan
Occupation: Retired Educator

Church Positions: 2003-Present: The Church of the Epiphany – Choir Member and Eucharistic Lay Minister; Vestry member 2010 to present.  2003-2010: The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine – President, Society of Regents.  2010 to present. Member of the Board of Trustees 2003-2009; serving on Development and Strategic Planning Committees. 1999-2003: House of the Redeemer – Member, Board of Trustees; duties included developing programming at the House, working on database design and personally publishing newsletter and postcards promoting programs. 1980-1996:Saint James the Less, Scarsdale – Warden, Vestry Member, Director of Christian Education, Choir Member; worked with Ward Dreshman & Reinhardt Inc., a fund raising firm, to launch and complete a capital fund drive.

Community Positions:  2001-Present: Leopold Schepp Foundation – Member, Board of Trustees. 2002- Present: Union Settlement House – Member, Advisory Committee. 1997-1999:The Brearley School – Member of the Alumnae Board. 1994-96: Mt. Vernon Music School  – Member of the Board of Directors.

My vision for the Alternate Deputy to the General Convention is to be prepared, if called upon, to vote on the resolutions presented to the Convention for consideration.  If elected, I would study carefully before the Convention all the issues each resolution raises and seeks to address.  I would support our denomination’s progressive understanding of Christ’s call to us and  be open to the Holy Spirit as I listened and examined the matters put before the Convention.  It would be a great pleasure and honor to be chosen to serve.

MR. DAVID G. BULLOCK

101 Milton Road, Rye, NY 10580
Parish:  Christ’s Church, Rye

Church Positions: Diocesan Trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of New York; Christ’s Church Rye, NY Warden, Vestry Member; Member Rector Selection Committee; Member Outreach Committee; CC choir and CC Lay Eucharist Leader; Christ’s Church Nursery School; Senior Trustee; Bishop Tharp Business and Technical Institute of the Diocese of Haiti (Les Cayes, Haiti) Senior Board Member; Vice President of the BTI Foundation (501 C- 3) for the Haiti business School Community.

Community Positions: Biotechnology Foundation of Philadelphia (a non-profit biomedical research institute that develops vaccines grown in plants). Board Member and Former Chairman; Member Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee; former Trustee Rye Historical Society, Rye, NY.

I have been a lifelong Episcopalian. My work experience is in the global financial markets as a consultant, investment banker and investment manager. My work until 2001 has been on the local level. Since then, I have devoted a significant portion of my time to global volunteer efforts and outreach ministry. While I have a special passion for Haiti, my desire is to pursue outreach ministry broadly to change the inequities for the poor and the disadvantaged both locally and internationally.  The last three years as a Trustee has been an outstanding experience, and I would like the opportunity to continue this work as continuity in these difficult times is an important element for this body.