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{yootooltip title=[paige getty] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} paige gettyReverend Paige Getty

Paige has been minister at UUCC since 2003. A native of Savannah, Georgia, she earned her bachelor's degree at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and her master's degree in Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. She and her spouse, Graham, are the devoted parents of Hallie, a preschooler who is already an active participant in the congregation. In the decade since her ordination, Paige's ministry has taken her to the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego and the Shawnee Mission UU Church in Overland Park, Kansas. She is happily settled here in Columbia, where she looks forward to a long and healthy ministry devoted to transforming lives and the world, one moment at a time.

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Reverend Paige Getty
Minister
{yootooltip title=[maureenharris] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} Maureen Harrismaureenharris

Maureen filled the newly-created role of Executive Director beginning in October 2008. Prior to becoming Executive Director, she served as UUCC’s Youth Director for two years. During that time, she also served as Executive Director of the UU Legislative Ministry of Maryland. She is a graduate of Princeton University, with a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Her spouse Bill and their two young children are active members of the congregation. Upon their first visit to UUCC, they knew immediately that they had found their spiritual home.

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Maureen Harris
Executive Director

{yootooltip title=[noimage] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} noimageCarla Miller

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Carla Miller
- Director
Lifespan Growth and Learning

{yootooltip title=[noimage] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} noimageLisa Kehle

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Lisa Kehle - Youth
Director
Lifespan Growth and Learning
{yootooltip title=[noimage] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} noimageJill King

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Jill King
- Childcare
Coordinator

Lifespan Growth and Learning

{yootooltip title=[tombenjamin] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} tombenjaminTom Benjamin, PhD.

Tom has been music director at UUCC since 1989. In addition to having led music programs in UU congregations for more than 35 years, Tom is a charter member of the UU Musicians Network, he serves on its national Board and various task groups, and serves as a mentor to UU composers. He has written music for, and guest-conducted at, dozens of UU churches nationally.
Tom has received degrees from Bard, Harvard, Brandeis and Eastman. He has composed works for all media, including symphonies, concertos, oratorios, cantatas, six operas and much choral and chamber music. Over 60 of his works have been commercially published and several are commercially recorded. He is author of two books on counterpoint, and is co-author of three music theory texts. He has won prizes in a wide variety of composition contests here and abroad and has received numerous awards, grants and commissions. Also active as a clarinetist and choral conductor, Dr. Benjamin taught for many years at the National Music Camp (Interlochen), the University of Houston School of Music, and has just retired from teaching theory and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he chaired the Department of Music Theory.

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Tom Benjamin, PhD.
Director of Music Ministry

{yootooltip title=[michaeladcock] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} michaeladcockMichael Adcock, DMA

Michael is a native of Virginia. He received his musical training at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he earned a master's, artist diploma and doctorate in Piano Performance. As winner of the 1998 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Dr. Adcock has cultivated a versatile career as both soloist and frequent chamber music collaborator.
He has won many awards, including prizes in the Washington International Piano Competition, and Kosciuscko Chopin Competitions of Chicago and New York. Dr. Adcock made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1998. In the summers, Dr. Adcock is on the artist roster of the Musicorda (MA), and Sarasota (FL) music festivals. A faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music since 2002, Dr. Adcock makes his home in Washington, DC.

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Michael Adcock, DMA
Associate Director of Music Ministry
{yootooltip title=[tommonroe] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} tommonroeTom Monroe

Tom is a general/vocal music teacher and choral director in the Howard County Public School System. Tom has a background in choral and instrumental music, having experience with a variety of ensembles in both.
He teaches privately and performs on saxophone, flute and clarinet. Tom has a degree in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Maryland and is currently working toward a Master of Music Education degree from Towson University.

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Tom Monroe
Director of Youth Music

{yootooltip title=[patfort] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} patfortPat Fort

Pat Fort has been a lifelong UU. She was born in Texas, grew up in Missouri attending All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City, but has made her home in Columbia and been an active member of UUCC since 1981. She and her husband, Peter, have two grown daughters, both graduates of the UUCC Lifespan Growth and Learning program.
Pat has had several careers: as an elementary school teacher, as administrator of a small non-profit organization promoting parental involvement in public schools, and as a mainframe programmer. She is very excited to be serving UUCC in this capacity since it has been such an important part of her life for so many years.

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Pat Fort
Bookkeeper
{yootooltip title=[noimage] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} noimageKelly Lundgren

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Kelly Lundgren
Congregational Secretary
{yootooltip title=[bobbycoons] width=[550] display=[inline] sticky=[0]} bobbycoonsBobbi Koons

Bobbi graduated from Radcliffe and JHU School of Hygiene and Public Health and defended her psych dissertation at Michigan State University. She taught Psychology and also began the first nursery school and daycare center in Athens, OH, home of Ohio University.
She also began the first clinic for college students returning from the counter culture. Later, in this area, she started a telephone service for children home alone in Baltimore City. She has worked at UUCC since around 2000, invited by Lee Summerville to "help out" on Sunday mornings.

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Bobbi Koons
Sunday Coordinator