We’ve been welcoming new members to our church community. The June, July and August newsletters will feature bios from our new members so our community can read and welcome these wonderful people to WUUC.
This newsletter will feature bios from Alexis Green, Carol Zumbrunnen and Dave Tauscheck, Andy Rosen and Elizabeth Gray. The July Newsletter will feature bios from Mark Rainey, Karen and John Somerville, and Becka Cormier. The August Newseltter will feature bios from Ryn and Drew Romanyk (and Alina), Rae Shepherd, and Annette and Dale Lowey. If you don’t want to wait for future editions you can see everyone bio at this linked document.
Alexis Green
Before moving to Washington in 2018, she lived in several different parts of the country, including upstate New York, Baltimore, Texas, and Portland. Music is what first drew me to this church, and you’ll often find her playing flute or singing in the choir. She works in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), enjoys the outdoors, and has two cats. She is so grateful to have found this wonderful community!
Carol Zumbrunnen and Dave Tauscheck
Carol and Dave both grew up in the Midwest, Dave in southern Minnesota, Carol in South Dakota and Minnesota. They have been Unitarians for over 35 years, and were married at Eastshore UU almost 35 years ago. They had left their Lutheran and Catholic upbringings years before.
Dave is a retired English and Social Studies teacher, Carol is a retired school counselor from the Renton School District. They enjoyed skiing or bicycling regularly when they were younger. Now they attend the Seattle Symphony regularly, walk, and participate in activities at their senior co-op in Bellevue. They have three adult children and seven grandchildren, all living in the area.
Andy Rosen
Andy’s witchy story keeps changing. When he moved to this neighborhood in 1996 with his Pagan high-priestess wife Marjorie, five‑year old son William, and his son’s aunt Shelley, Andy was pursuing a plan to inject Hollywood sensibilities into the Redmond software industry. Andy says if you want to hear the goddess laughing, you make a plan. Just eight years later, Marjorie had passed away, and all the household covens broke up.
Today Andy and Teri are a happy couple celebrating a multi-creed homestead that includes our friend Sonia Hoglander. Even though Sonia keeps her separate spaces and beliefs, the whole house appreciates the open‑minded and big‑hearted energy of the WUUC congregation that she introduced us to.
Elizabeth Gray
Elizabeth is a Seattle native who moved to Woodinville to live with her husband and wonderful stepsons. She is a lifelong bodyworker, has been a therapist, and has worked in hospice. Elizabeth loves to hike, sing well in the shower, and is refinding herself as a poet. She has been a Buddhist for 20 years; was raised Catholic, and practiced as a solo Wiccan growing up. Elizabeth was drawn to WUUC for the social justice opportunities, such as the Faith Action Network, and she has stayed for the warmth, community, wisdom, and friendship.
Your Grab & Go Kit can be a starter kit for home; add to it to be 2 weeks ready at home.
When a large disaster happens, it may take two weeks for resources to help us. You may be on your own! The following items are for your consideration and situation.
Food: If you have food allergies, plan ahead. The food distributed in emergencies is all prepacked.
Cooking: Camp stoves, barbeques, meals ready to eat ( MREs), dry and canned goods
Medications: Have an extra one month supply on hand
Water; I gallon per person per day (14 gallons) recommended. Water may be available early on.
Lighting: Flashlights and batteries, Camp lanterns, Light sticks, Solar lights
Pets: Pet food, medications
Sanitation: Plastic Bags, small buckets or trash cans, extra toilet paper
Shelter: Tent or waterproof tarp, sleeping bags/ blankets/pillows, Rain gear, Alternate shelter- van camper, RV
Food Safety; See this months church handout for details or choose the link at the bottom
Many of you had questions about next steps for emergencies and disaster following Michael Ervick’s sermon on Sunday, September 21.
We would like to suggest the following steps you can take.
Add your name to a signup list expressing interest in disaster training workshops. We will begin offering these hands on activities this fall.
Learn who your WUUC neighbors are. As a regular participant in WUUC activities you are in a “My People” group based on your address and geographic location. This information can be found in Realm, our church database. Log into e.onrealm.org, choose groups, then my groups, then My People…, chose the participants tab ( this will be list of who is in your group) and then map. You should see a google map with those WUUC members who live in your vicinity. If you don’t remember your password, realm will send a reset option. If you don’t know what email you provided us when you first attended or don’t have a realm account contact Marcia Sprang, msprang@wuuc.org, or talk with someone from membership and we will get you connected.
We welcomed multiple new members to our church recently. The May & June newsletter will both feature bios from our new members so our community can read and welcome these wonderful people to our community at WUUC.
Alison Sattler
Alison Sattler is a Seattle-area native who grew up in Queen Anne and Lake Forest Park. She currently resides in Lynnwood with her husband Andrew, whom she met through the Cascade Bike Club. She currently volunteers to help immigrants and refugees improve their English language skills–a longtime passion of hers. In addition, she works as a part-time nanny. She and Andrew love spending time with their intentional family (a mother and her two boys). Her other favorite activities include playing pickleball, hiking, biking, going for long walks, kayaking and playing board games. She enjoys being amongst kind-hearted people, which she’s found in this community!
Eli and Lily Taylor
Eli grew up nearby in Lynnwood, Washington. He now lives in Snohomish with his spouse, his daughter Lily, and their dog Betty. Eli and Lily first came to WUUC in the summer of 2024, looking for a safe and supportive spiritual community for Lily to grow up in. We were warmly welcomed, and Lily immediately asked if we could keep coming back. Eli keeps busy working as a data analyst, attending online courses for a doctorate in data science, and also working part-time as a registered nurse. He enjoys nature and gardening, reading, board games and video games, and anything science-fiction related. As a family we also enjoy learning taekwondo together.
We welcomed multiple new members to our church recently. The May & June newsletter will both feature bios from our new members so our community can read and welcome these wonderful people to our community at WUUC.
Denise and Kip Wyatt, Zachary Frazer
Kip and Denise moved here from Baltimore a little more than 11 years ago, and their nephew, Zachary, joined us about 2 years ago from Wisconsin. Denise has been a practicing UU since her early 20s, and Kip, the son and grandson of Methodist ministers, began to attend the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore with Denise when they started dating. Zachary was asked to check out the WUUC on our first visit and then decide from there, and well, he has a round badge! Kip is a master finishing carpenter who currently works at Emerald’s Heights as a project manager and Denise has been practicing labor relations for more years than she wants to admit, and is currently the Employee and Labor Relations Manager at Community Transit. Zachary is in search of what his next steps look like, work or school.
Denise and Kip enjoy camping with thier 1962 Scotty Serro and trying out new cast iron recipes, while enjoying the great outdoors and new sights. They have recently purchased a used sailboat and updated their kayaks so we’re hoping this is the year of water! In spare time Kip likes to play guitar and make stuff, while Denise is gardening, quilting, or crocheting. Zachary is the resident gamer. And their house is filled with furry love – with two blue heelers.
Susie Smyth
Susie was raised in Southern California. She became interested in occupational therapy in eighth grade when she took an aptitude test suggesting OT. Susie specialized in the early intervention program with high risk infants and toddlers from birth to three, seeing the children within their homes within her private practice. When Susie’s son, Scott, and daughter, Alexi graduated from high school, Susie’s and her husband Jack were free to move away from the busy So Cal area to Humboldt County in northern California, where she continued in the Early Intervention Program. Many years after Jack’s death Susie met and married Ray Tucker and returned to southern California. When Ray retired, they moved to Corvallis,OR. Following his death, Susie’s children wanted her to be closer to them, so she moved to western WA last fall. Her claim to fame: the summer Susie graduated from high school, she was Mickey Mouse at Disneyland!
Anne and Wayne Pair
Anne Pair grew up in central California nourished by her congregational church’s youth group and handbell choir, before moving to Ohio and then the east coast for school and to start her career in education. When she moved to Washington state in 1995, she joined the handbell choir at the university Congregational church, but exchanged her bells for drums when she married Wayne in 2002. Anne retired from her job as a school psychologist in 2023, to devote more time to her daughters, Charlotte and Lucy, creative writing, music, writing get out the vote postcards and gardening. In 2024, chagrined at the result of the presidential election, Anne and Wayne attended a service at WUUC, where Anne’s writing and Wordle buddy, Pamela Denchfield attends. The service was both calming and restorative, and she and Wayne have been attending ever since.
Wayne Pair was born in Atlanta, GA and grew up in Houston, TX. He studied Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. Right after college in 1987, Wayne moved to the Seattle area to escape the heat and see some real mountains. In 2002 Wayne married Anne and they have two daughters who light up their life everyday, Charlotte(20) and Lucy(16). Wayne retired from a career in the IT industry in 2015, and used his newfound time to get more deeply involved in music. Wayne enjoys composing music and playing both piano and upright bass. Wayne and Anne attended their first service at WUUC just after the 2024 election and have really enjoyed the like-minded and welcoming congregation.
Erin and Tristan Tidwell
Erin is a Puget Sound native. Her household includes her two kids, Aurie (pronounced: arr-ee) (19) and Tristan (15), three cats, and a tortoise. She has bachelor’s degrees in history and East Asian studies, and masters degrees in international studies and Teaching. She works as a lead technical writer and content designer for a software company. Outside of work, Erin writes fiction and spends a copious amount of time volunteering with Snohomish County 4-H’s technology program.
Tristan is a freshman at Innovation Lab High School in Bothell. He’s active on his school eSports team and in his 4-H robotics team. He also shows his cat in 4-H. He’s into Pokemon, Star Trek, and DnD
Laura Hume
Laura moved to Washington from Texas in August to be close to her kids — a Freshman at University of WA and a Junior at Western Washington. She has been a consultant in the Talent space for over 30 years, and she just started a new job with Kyndryl (a big tech firm that was a spin-off of IBM.)
When she isn’t helping employees become rockstars at their jobs, she is likely buying furniture for her new unfurnished rental in North Redmond or walking her two mini-bernedoodles while listening to trashy books on Audible.
