NEW MEMBERS

HUU added eight new members on the weekend of June 5th. Please greet them warmly as you meet them. We’re the richer for their company on the journey.

Rory DePaolis and Annie Hogan

Rory DePaolis is a professor at James Madison and has been a Harrisonburg resident for 13 years, the past ten practicing raja yoga. Rory is the father of 2 talented young men, Joshua and Caleb.  He spends much of his time playing with infants in his language acquisition lab, reading, or enjoying family and friends.

Annie Hogan is a doctoral student at James Madison and also works part-time as an Audiologist in Fishersville.  While she was raised in the Midwest, Annie moved to the area from North Carolina in 2008.  If she had any spare time, it would be spent in the garden, eating or cooking/baking, biking around town, or working on her most recent crafty project.  Instead, she is in the beginnings of a dissertation and is often found approaching unsuspecting people in a shameless attempt to recruit research subjects.   In Rory’s opinion, she is also stark raving mad.

Annie and Rory will marry at HUU later this summer. [Read more…]

Jeremy Baxter

Jeremy recently went into business for himself with a Coffee Notes franchise. He is a Navy veteran who lives in Dayton with his wife, Jessica Martinkosky; they have just purchased their first home.

Sue Ganey

Sue, who joined in September, has lived in Harrisonburg for more than fifteen years. She works in database management for TSSI and has pitched right in at HUU, joining the Caring Circle.

Joni (“Johnny”) Grady

Joni writes: I was born and (mostly) raised in Texas and attended Rice and the Univ. of Texas in Austin. I worked as a school librarian for 21 years.  We have a daughter Megan, who lives in Luray with her  husband Alan and their 5 year old daughter Sophia, a son Ross who lives in Durham NC with his partner Maggie, and a foster daughter Rebecca, who lives in Greenville SC.  I love to travel, weave, read mysteries, and play “Queen” with Sophie.

Les Grady

Les says: I was born and raised in Arkansas.  I attended Rice University, where I met Joni, and Oklahoma State University, where I received my Ph.D. in environmental engineering.  I taught and did research on wastewater treatment at Purdue University for 13 years and Clemson University for 22 years before retiring in 2003 and shifting my academic interests to climate change.  I like to read and travel, and I look forward to getting back to working with glass once we are in our house.

Michael Quayle

Mike writes: Mike was born in Upper Michigan and raised by his grandmother and father. His career includes nearly 20 years as a United Methodist pastor, social work, self employment in a florist shop and tea room, and teaching. He is a high school English teacher at Minnick Education Center here in Harrisonburg.  Mike is also a member of Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church in Lexington. He is the father of two girls, 25 and 23 years old and a son, 26 years old, and grandfather to one girl who is 4.  Mike enjoys cooking, antiques, gardening, floral arranging, travel, music, and reading.

Richard Wolf

Richard says: Work in diverse areas of human formation has been the life-path for Richard Wolf, who recently moved from Rochester NY to Franklin WV.  He has been on a lifelong spiritual quest in pursuit of consonance.  Following many years of church ministry, Richard found a spiritual home in Unitarian fellowship, appreciative of the absence of dogma and focus on justice and right-relation.  Family, writing, gardening, and travel complement his professional life as a teacher with Pendleton County Schools.