Executive Committee

President – Ms. Karen Patterson

president@ecwnational.org

Past Involvement in Church:

Past Member and Chairman, Outreach Committee, St. Mary’s

Past Member and Past President, Standing Committee, Diocese of  Southwest Florida (Council of Advice to Bishop)

Deputy/Alternate, General Convention, Episcopal Church, USA, representing Diocese of Southwest Florida (7) …read more

First Vice President – Ms. Patricia Wellnitz

firstvp@ecwnational.org

I am a cradle Episcopalian, baptized, confirmed and married at St. Mary’s-Holly Episcopal Church, a small county church north of Rushville, Nebraska. My husband Jerry and I have two sons and six grandchildren. I manage the laboratory at Gordon Memorial Hospital, a twenty-five-bed critical care hospital. I work with five lab technicians that handle the lab work for the hospital, two rural health clinics, and two nursing homes. I have taught Sunday school and Bible school since I was in high school and been a member of St. Mary’s Altar Guild and ECW since I was 20 years old. I have served on the vestry as warden, secretary and treasurer many times over the years. I am a lay reader and lay Eucharist minister.   …read more

Second Vice President

The second vice president position is currently vacant. The position is expected to be filled at the Triennial 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Secretary – Ms. Samar Fay

secretary@ecwnational.org

Samar was born into an Air Force family at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. They moved around the South, to New York state, to Germany, and to Aurora, Colorado, where she went to high school. She studied international relations at Vassar College, spending junior year abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, and graduated in 1968. She earned an M.A. at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. …read more