Volume 25, Number 1    April 2003

 

All-new team takes the helm of CTA Next Generation efforts

It was cold and blustery outside, but the warm feeling of celebration and the perspiration of hard work could be found indoors at the annual meeting of CTA's Next Generation Planning Committee Feb. 21-23 at a suburban Chicago retreat center.. Eight young adult leaders from around the country gathered with staffers Claire Noonan and Dan Daley to evaluate and plan outreach and activities. It was a special moment for the group, as 2003 marks the fifth anniversary of the Next Generation program. The committee's founders have all now turned over leadership to new members. Completing their commitment to the committee this year were: Laura Grindstaff of Columbia, Ill., Mary Hawk of Lincoln, Neb., and Laura Singer of Chicago. CTA is profoundly grateful for the ideas, energy and dedication which these three women and all of the original committee members shared so generously.

Continuing on the committee are Daniel Caron of Wheeling, W.Va., Carol Gabrielli of Portland, Ore., Bob Schmidt of Edinburgh, Tex., Nicole Sotelo of Cambridge, Mass., and Karon Van Antwerp of Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Joining them this year are three new members:

• Christa Kerber of Wynnewood, Pa., is a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in Philadelphia, and is active in CTA Philadelphia. She and her husband Scott are the proud parents of a new baby boy, Nicholas.
• Helene Marcy of Chicago is a senior welfare policy researcher at the Center for Impact Research, doing community-based studies of the needs of pregnant and parenting teens. Helene is a former Jesuit Volunteer. After a summer wedding, she and her husband will be moving to Connecticut.
• Michelle Scheidt of Chicago is project director at a South Side agency mobilizing the community for violence prevention and youth programming. She is a former Claretian Lay Missioner, and a board member of From Mission to Mission, supporting overseas missioners returning to the U.S. Michelle and her partner, Barb Crock, have belonged to CTA for seven years.