VESTRY - All Saints Parish, Brookline MA

Term ends 2024: Honor McClellan, Eileen Sweeney, Kate Thibault

Kate McArdle Thibault has been an active member at All Saints since joining with her husband Jeff and son Luke (now age 17) in about 2005, shortly after moving to Brookline. Since then, two more children, Clara and Ben, now 13 & 11, joined the family and were baptized at All Saints. Kate grew up in the Catholic Church in Massachusetts, and when they married, Kate and Jeff blended their faith backgrounds, finding a home in the Episcopal Church (St. Bart’s, NYC, 1999). At All Saints, she has helped with Godly Play, supported her three Schola singers from Cherubs to High School and has served on the Rector search committee and nominating committee. Kate currently works as Managing Director of the Brookline Library Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the town library, leading fundraising, marketing and communications efforts and supporting its programs. Prior to her current position, and before she took time to raise the family, Kate worked in human resources at an investment firm and a software company in Cambridge and in NYC. Kate is a graduate of Wellesley College where she studied English and History. She can often be found taking long walks around Brookline with their golden retriever Leo and listening to a good book.

Honor McClellan — Honor has been at All Saints for eight years. She has been involved with choir, Guild Room art, Courageous Conversations, and recently, Daughters of the King. Growing up Catholic mostly in New York, but Lutheran during summers on her grandparents’ dairy farm in Michigan, followed most recently singing at a Methodist Church for 10 years, she has developed an interesting Christian palate. She says, “Thus far, All Saints seems most close to my spirit and soul.”
Honor received a B.S. in Physics & Math at Michigan State, married, worked at research, and subsequently earned a doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Univ. of Michigan. Moving to the Boston area in 1971, she taught graduate courses at B.U., Emmanuel College and Boston State, but did most of her teaching at what is now known as Lesley University, where she founded the Masters and C.A.G.S. programs in Counseling Psychology. She has since moved on to straight private practice, which continues.
Concurrently with her professional career, having and raising two daughters has been her joy. She is grateful that her daughters, their husbands and four grandchildren (sadly having lost a fifth) are close in proximity to give much comfort and company. “I feel blessed!”

Eileen has been a member of All Saints since 1997. She was raised in the Catholic Church but began exploring the Episcopal Church when she moved to Boston in 1990. Her two daughters, Mariel and Eliana, were baptized at All Saints and they sang in Schola and were active in the church school. Eileen sang in the choir from 1997 to 2002 and hopes to return to it soon; she also sings with The Seraphim Singers. Eileen has been active in All Saints’ ministry with B-Ready and B-Safe at St. Augustine/St. Martin since it began and has been on the Outreach Committee for almost 2 years. She was a teacher in Godly Play and in charge of the church nursery for many years. Eileen also served on the Nominating Committee for three years and was on the search committee when Becky Taylor was hired.
Eileen is a professor in the Philosophy department at Boston College (since 1990) specializing in Medieval philosophy, philosophy of language, and history of philosophy generally. She has also taught for many years in the service learning program at Boston College, the PULSE program, in which students fulfill core credit in Philosophy and Theology while working at social service agencies around Boston for the academic year.

Term ends 2025: Rob Blanton, Matthew Burfeind, Betsy Noecker

Term ends 2026: Ethan Avery, Jennifer Denton, Nancy Snudden

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