The ECM Board

Canterbury is governed by the ECM Board. Current members are:

 

Dr. Anya P. Royce, President

Anya P. Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A native of Berkeley, she did her BA at Stanford University and her PhD at the University of California Berkeley. She does research, writes, and teaches about indigenous peoples of Mexico, especially the Isthmus Zapotec of Oaxaca with whom she has lived and worked for more than forty years, about dance and performing arts, looking especially at creativity, artistry, and meaning, and about building community across diversity. An Episcopalian by faith, she also practices a monastic rule as an Associate of the Order of the Holy Cross. Retreats at monasteries here and in Ireland restore and renew. Gardening, practicing tai chi, and writing poetry are other pathways to the heart.

Dr. Mary M. McMullen, 1st Vice-President

Mary B. McMullen is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in Education at Indiana University. She earned her BS in Physical Sciences at Michigan State University, but aft the birth of the first of her three sons, she became fascinated with child development. She returned to graduate school and earned her MS and PhD at Florida State University in Child Development. Mary studies beliefs and practices related to the care, development and early learning of young children, particularly infants and toddlers, and does so in different cultures and contexts throughout the world. She loves to travel and experience the world, but is happiest just spending quiet family time with her boys, her husband Rick, their two dogs, and two cats. Mary was baptized a Roman Catholic and received into the Episcopal Church as an adult over 25 years ago, a few years after she and her husband married and chose to raise their children as Episcopalians.

Ms. Emily Houlik-Ritchey, 2nd Vice-President

Emily is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Indiana University, working on a dissertation that investigates the representations of Christian and Muslim interaction in the literary texts of medieval England and Iberia. When she’s indoors when enjoys mystery novels and science fiction. When she’s outdoors, she enjoys hiking, bicycling, and softball. She completed her undergraduate degree at The University of the South.

Ms. Helga Keller, Recording Secretary

Helga Keller together with her husband Professor Howard H. Keller and their daughter Christiane moved to Bloomington and Indiana University in 1983. Helga has a background in public administration and foreign service. At Indiana University, Helga works in a research institute which brings together doctoral students from many different countries. In addition to her work, she is a volunteer in several organizations in the community of Bloomington and at Indiana University with a focus on art, literature and environmental education for young people. Helga joined the ECM at Indiana University because of the opportunities to participate in the Canterbury Fellowship on many different levels, including supporting postulants on their journey to ordination to priesthood; retreats under the guidance of nationally known leaders of the Episcopal faith, and projects that support the Episcopal Campus Ministries in the Diocese of Indianapolis.

Mr. Andrew S. Hoover, Treasurer

A native Hoosier, Andy has been a “number cruncher” for quite some time. He served as manager of budgeting for a property/casualty insurance company for many years. He also served faithfully at Trinity Church, Bloomington — on the Finance Commission (Chairman for three years) and for ten years assisted Sara Wood and counted the plate offering. However, his first and best experience was gained while achieving the status of grand prize winner of column addition races in Miss Hasting’s elementary school class!

Mr. Doug Horn

Growing up in an IU faculty member family, Doug is an alumnus of IU with a BA from Judson College. While from a fundamental evangelical background, he recently joined the Episcopal Church in response to its liturgical tradition and courageous spiritual attentiveness to a social agenda. He is involved in local business and government scenes and is dedicated to assisting Indiana University and Episcopal Campus Ministry in approaching their missions. From time to time you might see him on a community theatre stage throughout central Indiana.

Dr. Laurel Cornell

Laurel holds graduate degrees in demography and in landscape architecture. She is a faculty member at IU in three departments: Sociology, Fine Arts and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She grew up as a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and became an Episcopalian in 1988. She believes that the two faith communities, though located at opposite ends of the liturgical spectrum, have a lot in common. Both require that the congregation participate actively in the worship service, and both have a strong commitment to social justice. However, Episcopalians have music!

Ms. Rachel Kearney

Although Rachel is the only gardener ever known to kill Russian sage, she is “smarter than one would think.” After careers in law, banking, and university administration, Rachel recently realized a lifetime dream of being a public school English teacher. She is in her third year of teaching freshman and sophomore English. Rachel finds that her work with Mother Linda and the Episcopal Campus Ministry sustains, challenges, inspires, and grounds her.

Mr. William I. Tilghman

Bill worked as a professional musician and high-school music teacher and was a grad student at Penn State before coming to Indiana University Bloomington in 1993. After some years as a doctoral student in the Jacobs School of Music, he held jobs in technical support and academic records management, and he currently works for the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. In addition to spending time with his wife and pre-teen daughter, Bill enjoys reading about philosophy and religion and is by now thoroughly skeptical, not only of his own fundamentalist upbringing, but of anyone who thinks they know what the Bible says!

Mr. Thomas Wood

Tom holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University and Organ Performance degrees from the Jacobs School of Music at IU. Tom was a faculty member of the music school in the 1970s, founded an organ building firm in the 1980s, and retired in 2003. He then found himself hired once more by the school of music as their part-time curator of organs. The playing of organ gigs in college essentially led him on his spiritual journey. Raised in the Friends Church (Quakers), he acquired a meaningful approach to theological concepts, but found the worship expression to be un-fulfilling as a musician. While playing for several Lutheran Churches, he came to acquire a great fondness for the liturgy, but the stodginess of many Lutheran pastors (not all) didn’t always jive. Upon accepting a position in the Episcopal Church, he discovered this was a worshipping community where the theology was thoughtfully challenging and the worship invigorating. The basic concept of both Quakerism and Anglicanism is that God is a Mystery, and as such we don’t need to know all the answers. All we need to do is follow the examples of Christ and both renew ourselves and praise our Creator through the liturgies that have been handed down and ever renewed throughout the ages. For Tom, the Anglican mantra that our faith is based on Scripture, Tradition, and Reason puts all in perspective. He hopes that his faith journey that began in his college days may resonate with other students as they seek their spiritual paths.