Board of Directors

Sue Baldauf
Sue Baldauf is a Social Worker with more than 30 years experience in Massachusetts human services, starting with work with runaway girls in the 1970s at Interfait Shelter Care Facility in Boston working with fellow Board member Geroge Whitehouse. Her work has focused on adolescent, family, and substance abuse issues, and she has extensive experience providing home-based parent aide services in the 1980s at Community Counseling Center in Milford, MA. Currently Sue works for local government in Bedford as Director of Youth and Family Services. The department provides counseling, community education, resource and referral, and youth empowerment services.

Andrew C. Culbert
Andrew C. Culbert is a Partner in the law firm of Masterman, Culbert & Tully LLP, where he specializes in corporate law, with an emphasis on international entities and investment groups doing business in the United States.Mr. Culbert received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire (1966) and J.D. from The National Law Center, George Washington University (1969). He is a member and former Secretary of the Boston Bar Association, and is a member of the Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, where he has served and participated in numerous committees and association activities. In addition, Mr. Culbert has been active and served in various capacities with numerous charitable and civic organizations, including the Tuckerman Coalition, a non-profit advocacy group for women and children; the American Heart Association; and the Anti-Defamation League. He is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Social Law Library, the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry and the New England Legal Foundation. Mr. Culbert is a Trustee and former president of The Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation, a charitable foundation which provides funding for cancer research. Mr. Culbert is married with three children and resides in Scituate, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Kendrick
Elizabeth Kendrick, LICSW, ACSW, a licensed clinical social worker, has been a member of the Board of Directors of Bethany Union since 2002. Professionally, she has worked for many years in the field of adoption and foster care and in medical social work. In addition to Bethany Union, she volunteers with several organizations in the Boston area that serve the needs of families and individuals. Liz is a member of First Church in Boston, one of the founding churches of Bethany Union, and represents First Church in Boston on the Bethany Board.

Rachel R. Keyo
Vice President
Rachel R. Keyo is a Corporate and Blue Sky Paralegal. Her responsibilities focus on assisting attorneys on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance. Rachel has assisted attorneys with a wide range of clients, both domestic and international, on their day-to-day operations, acquisitions, divestitures, structuring and financing of various business transactions. She is a 1994 graduate of Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts.

She has been on the Board of Directors of Bethany Union for Young Women since May 2001. She lived at Bethany Union while attending Northeastern University. While a resident, she held the positions of Resident Assistant, Director's Assistant and Corporate Member.

Nicole Meyer
Secretary
Nicole Meyer is a former resident of Bethany Union for Young Women. While there from 1991-1996, she studied Mass Communications at Emerson College. Now residing in Los Angeles, California, she has worked in the entertainment industry for ten years. She has been involved in television and feature films, as well as community theater. Nicole has been on the Board of Directors of Bethany Union since 2004.

Sandra Mitchell, CFRE
Sandi is a certified fundraising executive with over 30 years of experience in not-for-profit fundraising, marketing and management with several prominent New Hampshire organizations and as a consultant to scores of nonprofits in northern New England.

She has been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals for 20 years and has served in several positions on the Board of Directors of the Northern New England Chapter. In addition, Sandi is a co-founder, 26-year member, and has held various offices on the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Council on Fundraising. She was a member of New Hampshire’s statewide “blue ribbon” panel on Ethics in Philanthropy and lectures frequently on a wide range of topics at regional conferences and seminars.

In her home community of York Harbor, Maine, Sandi serves on the Site Design Review Committee, the Development Committee of the York Land Trust, and is a volunteer with the York Public Library Association.

James Staton
Treasurer
James Staton had a career of over 30 years in senior management positions in healthcare organizations, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass General Hospital and the New England Healthcare Assembly. He is active in Belmont-based volunteer organizations including the Belmont Historical Society and is a member of the Board of Registrars. Jim served the UU Urban Ministry as a board member for 26 years and as a staff member for 5 years. He currently serves as a Regional Coordinator for the UU Service Committee and as the Mass Bay District chair for the UUA Annual Program Fund. He has degrees from the University of Virginia and Duke University and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Rev. Karin Tanenholtz
Rev. Karin Tanenholtz was ordained to the Unitarian Universalist (UU) ministry in 1990. She earned a M. Div. from Andover Newton Theological School, a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University, and a B.S. in Education from Ohio University. Karin has served as a Unitarian Universalist Chaplain at Wellesley College, a parish minister in Saugus, MA, and as a UU Mass Bay District Administrator. Since 2003, her focus has been as a Spiritual Director. Currently, she is an affiliated Community Minister with First Parish in Framingham where she chairs the Adult Religious Education Council and develops and teaches adult programs for First Parish and other UU churches.

George G. Whitehouse
President
The Reverend George G. Whitehouse was appointed Minister-at-Large by the Arlington Street Church ("ASC") under the Reverend Jack Mendelsohn in 1969.  He attended Northeastern University and Harvard Divinity School and was ordained by Arlington Street Church.  Since 1969 he has represented ASC in many social outreach programs involving students, children, families and several Juvenile Criminal Justice start-up programs. 

George is currently on the Board of the Bethany Union for Young Women, the Unitarian-Universalist Women's Heritage Society, and The Tuckerman Coalition, a consortium of Unitarian-Universalists advocating for legislation affecting families and children living in poverty, as well as Parents Helping Parents (formerly Parents Anonymous). He has also been the resident Campanologist at ASC since 1961.