Board of Directors for Michigan Friends Center
The Michigan Friends Center is run by a volunteer Board of Directors who dedicate many hours during the year ensuring the success of MFC. They are all interested in hearing ideas and feedback about programs and your experiences at MFC.
Current Board Members
Karen Chalmer
As someone who feels that our environment sustains us, I treasure the Friends Lake Cooperative Community as a place where living simply and valuing the wealth of the natural world are fostered. As a member of FLCC I came to appreciate the resource that Michigan Friends Center provides to the community. I think it’s up to all of us to support the things that sustain us, so here I am trying to do that.
[Email Karen]
Jim Crowfoot
Jim Crowfoot, a semi-retired college professor, is committed to understanding the challenges of unsustainability – environmentally, socially, economically and spiritually. He tries through his teaching and living to help discover and implement individual and social changes that respect and nurture life. His efforts including those at MFC seeking to integrate science, spirituality and local knowledge. He is a Quaker and member of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting and lives in the Sunward Cohousing Community just west of Ann Arbor.
Dina Greenway
Dina is a longtime attender of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting; is an artist in clay and paint, and former art teacher. She knows her way around power tools and has never seen a wall she wouldn’t knock down—metaphorically or physically. She loves cats, jazz, writing, cooking up a storm, and getting into mischief. She reads a lot, plays in the garden, and looks for depth in all her connections. With interests in sustainability, spiritual growth, and connecting with nature, she is active on the programs committee. She also compulsively edits any draft she is handed.
Don Nagler
I am a member of Pine River Friends Meeting in Mt. Pleasant; former member of Ann Arbor Meeting while I was obtaining an M.A. in Sociology, M.D. at U of M, and during an internal medicine residency at St.Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. Practiced internal mediciine for 33 years in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Co-directed American Friends Service Committee workcamps in rural Mexico for two summers. Off and on director on MFC board for 10 years; interested in program development.
[Email Don]
Dale Osborn
Dale Osborn is a freelance writer by day, acoustic guitarist by night; and he also happens to be the building manager of Michigan Friends Center. A graduate of Michigan State University, Dale grew up in Grand Rapids, but now resides in the town of Chelsea with his wife Anne. Dale has been a member of Friend's Lake Community since the late 1980s, loves to travel, eat Thai food--and still has all his hair, despite the other affects with which ever-advancing age is ravaging his body and mind.
[Email Dale]
Nancy Paul
Nancy Paul is the Executive Director of Faith in Action, Inc., a local emergency support agency, and a long standing member of FLCC. She and her husband Jim raised four daughters in the Chelsea community.
[Email Nancy]
Steve Daut
Steve is finance director at St. Louis Center, a home for developmentally disabled children and adults. He has a long history of involvement in the Chelsea community. He has a degree in Geology from the University of Iowa, and has a keen interest in local foods, sustainability, and the natural world.