Laura          Tom                 Pat                   Mike

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Tom Threlkeld

President

• Retired professional engineer with 37 years of experience in electric power generation. I consider electric power a gift from God to be shared with all humanity.

• Volunteer firefighter, ambulance squad, Birthright and Hospice

• 10 years as a Junior-High Catholic catechist. I love the hard questions.

• Leader of faith sharing groups and church mission program

Mike Stefanik

Secretary

• Retired after more than 32 years in a number of programs for the poor and disabled (Massachusetts Welfare, New York State Commission for the Blind).  He has viewed his employment as an opportunity to live the Gospel.

• Volunteered to work with prisoners, visited those living in nursing homes, and instructed converts (RCIA).

• Facilitator for Called To Be Church.

• Always found radio to be an effective means of communication.  

Laura Threlkeld

Director

• Retired nurse after almost 40 years, caring for people in a burn unit, neurosurgery unit, rehabilitation unit, head and neck cancer unit.  I have seen suffering and much joy.

• Last position as the staff in-service training  coordinator in a Catholic nursing home. 

• 3 years as catechist of elementary school age children.

• Worked with different groups in our church and cooked for the soup kitchens.

• Feels a calling for Catholic Radio and the support it can bring to others and to me. 

Pat Stefanik

Director

• Retired teacher after 31 years within the Catholic school system in a number of locations throughout the Northeastern United States – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Long Island, Albany.

• Instructed converts (RCIA), has worked with feeding the homeless (Schenectady City Mission), has encouraged pregnant young ladies to keep their babies (Birthright).

• Local representative for Called To Be Church.

• Pat and Mike have both been involved in a number of efforts to evangelize. Both have conducted faith sharing groups in their home.  

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 A conversation with the board

In the Fall of 2008 the board of Pax et Bonum met in the home of Mike and Pat and recorded a conversation intended to introduce us to you.  We hope you will find some time to listen, perhaps after reading the news grab a fresh cup of coffee, relax and listen.  It will take abour 5 minutes to down load on broadband.  If you have dial-up Internet provider it will take a long ...long time.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Here's a brief written summary on each of us.