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There are 14 parish members who make up our vestry. Five of those members serve as officers - Senior and Junior Wardens (3-year term), Treasurer, Asst. Treasurer and Clerk (1-Year term). All other vestry members serve for two years. The biographies below were either written by the subjects or are derived from profiles written about them.

Vickie Ancona, Clerk, 455-4183 (days), vwa[at]ams.org
Vickie has been a member of Trinity Church since 1996, and has served as Clerk of the vestry since 2007. She is an active participant of the Discernment Committee and a long-time member of the choir. Vickie works at the American Mathematical Society in the Production Department. She is married and has a son.

Gail Anderson

Scott Avedisian
Warwick Mayor Avedisian is a lifelong member of Trinity Church. He has served the Diocese as a Member of the Committee on Resolutions (1999-2002), Ecclesiastical Trial Court (2002-2010), Honorary Chairman, Vice President, and Member of the Board of Episcopal Charities (2004 – 2011), Diocesan Council 2007-2010, and The Standing Committee 2009 – present. He is currently the President of The Standing Committee and Chair of the Oversight Committee for the selection of the 13th Bishop of the Diocese. He received the Bishop Higgins Award from Episcopal Charities.

Bill Baddeley Junior Warden, 467-4163, wrbaddeley[at]computer.org
Bill and Jackie Baddeley joined Trinity in January of 2004. Bill has served on the vestry since 2005, and as junior warden since the summer of 2006. As junior warden Bill looks after the property and systems of the church, and is always looking for volunteers to keep Trinity’s buildings safe and welcoming. A computer scientist by profession he also helps out with the church’s computer systems.

Patty Cottrill

Sandy Demarinis, Treasurer

Linda Deming

Jessica D'Entremont

Nancy Dorsey 732-4046 or trinitypaw [at] gamil.com
Born and raised in Connecticut, she moved to Rhode Island in 1982 and became a Trinity parishioner in 1985. She and her husband, Peter, live in Warwick. Nancy previously served on the Vestry in 1999, when she accepted the Bishop’s Jubilee Challenge, and worked with Dot Lane to lead the West Bay Deanery’s Airport Chapel project, completed in 2008. She has worked on Trinity projects including the development of the Holst Memorial Garden, Coffee Hour coordinator, President of Happy Hollow Board, Social Outreach and Episcopal Charities. Currently, she is on the Prayer Chain committee and co-chairs our new Godly Play program with Donna Manchester. She has served on several Diocesan committees, currently on the Episcopal Charities board. Nancy is a pediatric occupational therapist in the Warwick Public Schools, and works privately as a consultant for people with visual impairments.

Susan Halvarson, Assistant Treasurer
Susan is a lifelong Episcopalian and attended St Davids in Cranston during her youth. Susan has a busy family life with three children who keep their parents running at all times. She is the Executive Director of Administration and Finance at Cardi's Furniture (where she has made her career since starting there right after college many years ago).

Rev. Marsue Harris, interim rector
Marsue has been at Trinity for the past year and a half to help us discern and shape our future. She has served in 9 Rhode Island parishes as the Interim or Priest in Charge during the past 29 years. At Trinity we recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of her ordination to the priesthood. She was the Protestant Chaplain at the ACI for 13 years and worked in Soledad and San Quentin prisons in California as the director of a social service agency before coming to Rhode Island in 1982. She wrote a religion column for the Providence Journal for 18 years. Church members and those alienated from institutional religion found it spoke to them. Her preaching ties Scripture and daily events to the spiritual life. Folks describe her as down to earth and easy to talk to. Marsue’s Scottie, Fergus, and Westie, Abbey, attend church and coffee hour regularly along with her husband, Robin Porter. She can be reached through the church office or at this website. She is happy to entertain questions and visits. Please call.

Donna Manchester

Ed O'Hara
Ed returned to Trinity several years ago after a thirty-year hiatus. He and his family joined Trinity back in the early fifties. He was confirmed and married here. Ed returned to Trinity in 2009 and was elected to the vestry in January 2011.

Stephan Sloan, Senior Warden, (work) 454-3130, stephansloan[at]msn.com
Lara, Stephan, Bobby and Quentin Sloan have been members of Trinity Church since 2005. Stephan is a lay reader and Senior Warden. Stephan works in Providence with broadcasters and internet media companies, Lara works harder at home with three young children.