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Penny Swart

6/11/2020

 
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Penny Swart (Carolyn) was raised in Ohio. She graduated from Bowling Green State University and taught English, writing, and American Lit in Livonia, Michigan where she met and married Bill Swart.  

In 1967, the Swarts moved with children Steve and Laura to Mt. Pleasant, where Bill taught in the Math Department at CMU.

Penny was active in the League of Women Voters of  Mt. Pleasant and served as Education Chair for the League of Women Voters of Michigan. She sold residential real estate for Mt. Pleasant Realty and co-owned Coldwell Banker Summit Realtors, in Mt. Pleasant.

Penny served as Treasurer in the first incarnation of the Mt. Pleasant Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Sarah O’Bryan

11/5/2017

 
November 5, 2017
I am transgender. I am a person. There's a lot of things to know about me, but instead of telling you here I'd rather you get to know me in person. I'm unique, special, and there's nobody else like me. I'm also an introvert, so don't expect me to open up immediately.
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Joelle Casteel

11/1/2017

 
November 5, 2017
Never a "person in the pew" to use Meg Riley's story; ask me and I'll tell it to you. A girlfriend's moms told me about UU years before I was able to step into my first UU church. I have many different connections to the UU world, including being the only voice on the Facebook page for Leather & Grace UUs For BDSM Awareness. I understand my world through multiple identity labels – including but not limited to Bipolar, Autistic, Bisexual, Polyamorous, Demi-romantic, Noetisexual. My cradle UU daughter led me from Norse paganism to atheism, which I stepped from to humanism- the question is irrelevant. And she did ask me to write hers – I'm an author after all – but I told her she could handle a few sentences.

Joelle Casteel
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Joelle Casteel - doing ASL for 'meet'

Ethan Kolek

2/24/2016

 
Ethan Kolek & Tamatha Gaumnitz, UUFCM members
Ethan Kolek

Terri Robbie

2/24/2016

 

George Lentz

2/24/2016

 
George Lentz, UUFCM Member
George Lentz

Leslie Hildebrandt

2/24/2016

 

Brigitte Bechtold

10/27/2015

 
October 11, 2015
​I was born in Germany and raised in Belgium to a German mother and a father with Belgian, Dutch, German and Swiss ancestry. I came to the United States in the sixties, experiencing some of turmoil of the civil rights movement. Following my undergraduate and MA degrees, I earned a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. My two children, Erika and Arnout, arrived during my graduate school years, and grew up respectively to become a physician and automotive engineer. Four of my five grandchildren now live overseas, and Erika recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

I became an economics professor at CMU in 1981 and switched my teaching to sociology after a decade. This reflected a growing need to conduct research and work in areas related to social justice. I currently teach courses in racism and inequality, gender issues, social justice in the global society, and human trafficking. The opportunity to teach such courses makes it difficult for me to think about retirement any time soon.
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Even though I was pretty much raised in an atheist environment, I have been attracted to the UU Fellowship for several years because of its freedom of thought and emphasis placed on social justice  and the struggle to end poverty. The welcome extended by the Fellowship to the Central Michigan Sangha, of which I am a member, has encouraged me to start attending the Fellowship Meetings and formalize my membership.
Brigitte Bechtold, UUFCM member
Brigitte Bechtold

Christopher Harvey

10/27/2015

 
October 11, 2015
I was born and raised in the area. I grew up in Shepherd the youngest of 5. I've always been a lover of nature, of art and the written word. Because of this, I love to be in nature, to paint and do other types of art and to read and write myself. I am an eternal optimist and I love to make people laugh. Currently I live in Mt. Pleasant with my husband T.J. while planning our wedding for June of next year. I am also going back to school to become a Medical Assistant with a strong possibility of going into nursing at some point in the near future. I also love the little adventures that life always seems to bring!"
Christopher Harvey, UUFCM Member
Christopher Harvey

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