St. John’s Vestry
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OFFICERS
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Chuck
Silva
Senior Warden
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s Member since 2012
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Albany International Corp., Retired
J.D., Cornell Law School; A.B., Harvard College
Ken Slover
Junior Warden
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s Member since 1996
Partner, Capstone Mechanical
B.A., Susquehanna University
Kelly Boston
Treasurer
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s Member since 2014
Head of Global Portfolio Management Office (PMO), Global Engineering, Lonza Biologics, Inc.
MBA, B.S., New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University)
Tom Gruen
Clerk
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s member since 2011
Professor of Marketing, Paul College of Business, University of New Hampshire
Ph.D., MBA, Indiana University; B.A. Gordon College
AT-LARGE
Katherine Birch
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s Member since 2018
Board Certified Applied Behavior Analyst
M.Ed., Lipscomb University; B.A., University of Alabama
Robin Burdick
Kittery, ME
St. John’s Member since 2002
School teacher and administrator, Retired
M.Ed., University of New Hampshire; B.S., Plymouth State University
Travis Downs
Dover, NH
St. John’s Member since 2018
Dealer Sales Manager, Formax
Colby College
Kenneth J. Hale
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s member since 1992
Member Services & Resource Manager, Gather
J.D., Franklin Pierce School of Law at the University of New Hampshire; B.A., Architectural History, Syracuse University
Brenna Jantzen
Kittery Point, ME
St. John’s member since 2022
Learning Specialist, Tufts University Schools of Medicine (Maine track) and Veterinary Medicine
M.A. in Counseling, Wake Forest University; B.A. in English, Mount Holyoke College
Bobby McPherson
Eliot, ME
St. John’s member since 2012
Retired line worker, Active Call Driver and Firefighter, Eliot Fire Dept.
Diploma, Marshwood HS
Sally Murphy
New Castle, NH
St. John’s member since 1979
Investment Management and Sales, Retired
MBA, Boston University
Mary Proskow
Stratham, NH
St. John’s member since 2023
Musician, Retired
DM, Northwestern University
Cathy Robbins
Dover, NH
St. John’s member since 2023
Retired; Faculty, Simmons College; Financial Management, Massachusetts General Hospital
MBA in Healthcare Management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in History, Douglas College at Rutgers University
THANKS TO OUR OUTGOING
VESTRY MEMBERS
Gerry Simpkins
Junior Warden
Kittery, ME
St. John’s Member since 1998
US Navy, Retired
Michael Rainboth
Portsmouth, NH
St. John’s Member since 2003
Civil Litigation Attorney, Rainboth, Murphy & Lown, P.A.
J.D., Suffolk University School of Law; B.S. University of New Hampshire